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Произведения автора582007
Dominique Moceanu
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dominique "Domi" Helena Moceanu (born September 30, 1981 in Hollywood, California) is an American gymnast who was a member of the Olympic Gold medal winning 1996 U.S. Women`s Gymnastics team in Atlanta (the "Magnificent Seven").
Mary Lou Retton
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mary Lou Retton (born January 24, 1968) is an American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist. She was the first female gymnast from outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title, after 14 Eastern Bloc countries boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Tom Pettit
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Thomas "Tom" Pettit (born April 23, 1931, Cincinnati, Ohio; died December 22, 1995) was a television news correspondent for NBC from the 1960s through 1995. During most of that period, he filed reports for NBC Nightly News (as well as the preceding Huntley-Brinkley Report) and served numerous times on the panel of Meet the Press. He served as one of NBC`s floor reporters at the political conventions in 1972, 1976, and 1980.
Sofia Ionescu
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sofia Ionescu-Ogrezeanu(25 April 1920 - 21 March 2008) was a Romanian neurosurgeon and is considered one of the first female neurosurgeons in the world.
Nadezhda Yakubovich
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nadezhda Yakubovich (Russian: Надежда Якубович; born February 24, 1954 in Narutovichi, Brest) is a retired female javelin thrower who represented the Soviet Union during her career. She is best known for twice winning the gold medal in the women`s javelin throw event at the Summer Universiade.
Wang, Austria
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wang is a municipality in the district of Scheibbs in Lower Austria, Austria.
Okolehao
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Okolehao is an alcoholic spirit whose main ingredient is the root of the Ti plant. Okolehao is also called `oke` by the Native Hawaiians whose ancestors were the first to make it prior to contact with western explorers, missionaries, and seamen. Okolehao started out as a beer and when distillation techniques were introduced by English seamen, it was distilled into a high proof spirit. Hawaiians discovered that if you baked the ti root a sweet liquid migrated to the surface of the root. They did not know that chemically, the heat changed the starch in the root to a fermentable sugar. The baked root was then soaked in a vat of water which dissolved the sugar and fermentation began to take place....
USS Syren (1803)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Syren (later Siren) was a brig of the United States Navy during the First Barbary War and the War of 1812 until being captured by the Royal Navy in 1814.
Tom Pemberton
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Pemberton (born 1969) is an English chef who cofounded the Hereford Road restaurant off Westbourne Grove, London. He was previously Head Chef at the celebrated St John Bread and Wine in Spitalfields, which is most notable for its use of offal and often neglected cuts of meat. Most of his dishes are traditional British cuisine or variants of such.
Nadgaon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nadgaon is a village in Bodwad taluka in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra state in India of Khandesh province. The village is 55 kilometres from Jalgaon city. President of India Pratibha Patil is a native of Nadgaon. She was the candidate of UPA and Indian left for election to President of India in 2007.
Robert Frampton
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Frampton (1622-1708) was a bishop of the Church of England and later a nonjuror.
PK2 (file extension)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The .PK2 file extension is used by Silkroad Online, a MMORPG developed by Joymax. Even though it is similarly named and used, this file format is incompatible with the file formats used by the Quake engine. The .pk2 file extension is used primarily for video games and CD+G Karaoke Files.
Robert Frankenberg
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert J. "Bob" Frankenberg (born 1947) is an American computer engineer and business executive who served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Novell, Inc. from 1994 to 1996.
Michael Okpara
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Iheonukara Okpara, (December 1920-December 17, 1984) was a political leader and Premier of Eastern Nigeria during the First Republic, from 1959 to 1966. Dr. Okpara was, at 39, the nation`s youngest Premier. He was a strong advocate of what he called "pragmatic socialism" and believed that agricultural reform was crucial to the ultimate success of Nigeria.
USS Swivel (ARS-36)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Swivel (ARS-36) was an Weight-class rescue and salvage ship acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her task was to come to the aid of stricken vessels.
Robert Franklin Bratton
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Franklin Bratton (May 13, 1845 – May 10, 1894) was an American politician.
National Information Standards Organization
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is a United States non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic and library applications. It was founded in 1939, incorporated as a not-for-profit education association in 1983, and assumed its current name in 1984. Todd Carpenter was appointed Managing Director of NISO in 2006.
USS Sweet Brier (1862)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sweet Brier (1862) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
USS Swatara (1873)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! As part of the Secretary of the Navy George M. Robeson`s plans to overhaul and modernize ships of the Navy, the first USS Swatara was taken to the New York Navy Yard in 1872, ostensibly for "repairs". In fact, the "repairs" constituted construction of a new ship, for Swatara was given a new hull and unused machinery which had been in storage since 1865. Embodying only certain fittings and equipment from the first ship, the second Swatara was launched on 17 September 1873 at the New York Navy Yard and commissioned on 11 May 1874, Capt. Ralph Chandler in command.
Robert Francois
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Joseph Francois (born May 14, 1985 in Highlands, Texas) is an American football linebacker for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He was signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Boston College.
USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90/CVHA-1/LPH-6) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. Though not the last of the class to be built, she was the last Casablanca class hull to be scrapped.
USS Swasey (DE-248)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Swasey (DE-248) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.
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