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Произведения автора582007
Mitsubishi RVR
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mitsubishi RVR is Mitsubishi Motors compact MPV introduced in 1991, with the second generation released in 2002, and a compact crossover which was introduced in 2010.
Barton Fink
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barton Fink is a 1991 American film, written, directed, and produced by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a movie studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie, the insurance salesman who lives next door at the run-down Hotel Earle.
Tropical Storm Barry (2007)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tropical Storm Barry was a rapidly-forming tropical cyclone that made landfall on Florida, United States, in early June 2007. The second named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, Barry developed from a trough of low pressure in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico on June 1. It tracked rapidly northeastward, reaching peak winds of 60 mph (95 km/h) before weakening and making landfall near Tampa Bay as a tropical depression. Barry quickly lost tropical characteristics after wind shear removed much of the convection, and early on June 3 it completed the transition into an extratropical cyclone. The extratropical remnants tracked up the East Coast of the United States, and were absorbed by a...
Richard Barre
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Barre (c. 1130 – c. 1202) was a medieval English justice, clergyman, and scholar. He was educated at the law school of Bologna, and entered royal service under King Henry II of England, later working for Henry`s son and successor Richard I. He was also briefly in the household of Henry`s son Henry the Young King. Barre served the elder Henry as a diplomat, and was involved in a minor way with the king`s quarrel with Thomas Becket, which earned Barre a condemnation from Becket. After King Henry`s death, Barre became a royal justice during Richard`s reign, and was one of the main judges in the period from 1194 to 1199. During the reign of King John, Barre was no longer employed as a...
Adelard of Bath
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (c. 1080 – c. 1152) was a 12th century English scholar. He is known both for his original works and for translating many important Greek and Arabic scientific works of astrology, astronomy, philosophy and mathematics into Latin from Arabic versions, which were then introduced to Western Europe. He is known as one of the first to introduce the Indian number system to Europe. He stands at the convergence of three intellectual schools: the traditional learning of French schools, the Greek culture of Southern Italy, and the Arabic science of the East.
Amshey Nurenberg
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Amshey Markovich Nurenberg (Russian: Амшей Маркович Нюренберг; April 17, 1887, Elisavetgrad - 10 January 1979, Moscow) was a Ukrainian, Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, art critic, and memoirist.
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a British politician, public speaker, former newspaper editor and hereditary peer. Formerly a member of the Conservative Party, Monckton has been the Head of the Policy Unit for the UK Independence Party since November 2010. He was Deputy Leader of the Party under Lord Pearson of Rannoch. He served in Conservative Central Office and worked for Margaret Thatcher`s Number 10 Policy Unit during the 1980s. He also worked for The Universe, The Sunday Telegraph, Today and Evening Standard newspapers.
Eritrean Railway
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Eritrean Railway is the only railway system in Eritrea. It was constructed between 1887 and 1932 by the Kingdom of Italy for the Italian colony of Eritrea, and connected the port of Massawa with Bishia near the Sudan border. The line was essentially destroyed by warfare in subsequent decades, but has been rebuilt between Massawa and Asmara. Vintage equipment is still used on this line.
Natalie Clifford Barney
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Natalie Clifford Barney (October 31, 1876 – February 2, 1972) was an American playwright, poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris.
Beowulf
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Sid Barnes
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sidney George Barnes (5 June 1916 – 16 December 1973) was an Australian cricketer and cricket writer, who played 13 Test matches between 1938 and 1948. Able to open the innings or bat down the order, Barnes was regarded as one of Australia`s finest batsmen in the period immediately following the Second World War. He helped create an enduring record when scoring 234 in the second Test against England at Sydney in December 1946; exactly the same score as his captain, Don Bradman, in the process setting a world-record 405 run fifth wicket partnership. Barnes averaged 63.05 over 19 innings in a career that, like those of most of his contemporaries, was interrupted by the Second World War.
Sid Barnes with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sid Barnes was a key member of Donald Bradman`s famous Australian cricket team, which toured England in 1948. The team went undefeated in their 34 matches; this unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned them the sobriquet The Invincibles. A right-handed opening batsman, Barnes was part of Bradman`s first-choice team and played in four of the five Tests—he missed one match due to injury—partnering the left-handed Arthur Morris.
Barnard`s Star
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barnard`s Star, also known occasionally as Barnard`s "Runaway" Star, is a very low-mass red dwarf star approximately six light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Ophiuchus (the Snake-holder). In 1916, the American astronomer E.E. Barnard measured its proper motion as 10.3 arcseconds per year, which remains the largest-known proper motion of any star relative to the Sun. At a distance of about 1.8 parsecs from the Solar System, or just under six light-years, Barnard`s Star is the nearest known star in the constellation Ophiuchus, and the fourth-closest known individual star to the Sun, after the three components of the Alpha Centauri system. Despite its proximity, Barnard`s Star, at a...
HMS Formidable (67)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Formidable was an Illustrious class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy during World War II. She was constructed by Harland Wolff, Belfast, and launched on 17 August 1939. An accident occurred just before the launch ceremony was to begin - the wooden cradle supporting the ship collapsed and the ship slid down the launchway while workmen were still underneath and around the ship. One spectator was killed by flying debris and at least 20 others were injured, however Formidable was not damaged. Because of the incident, Formidable was referred to as "The Ship That Launched Herself." She was commissioned on 24 November 1940.
Economy of Greece
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The economy of Greece is the 32nd largest in the world by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and the 37th largest at purchasing power parity (PPP), according to data by the World Bank for the year 2010. Per capita, it is ranked 33rd by nominal GDP and 31st at PPP according to the 2010 data.
Barn Swallow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. In Anglophone Europe it is just called the Swallow; in Northern Europe it is the only common species called a "swallow" rather than a "martin".
Gothic Christianity
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gothic Christianity refers to the Christian religion of the Goths and sometimes the Gepids, Vandals, and Burgundians, who may have used Wulfila`s translation of the Bible into Gothic and shared common doctrines and practices. Gothic Christianity is the earliest instance of the Christianization of a Germanic people, completed more than a century before the baptism of Frankish king Clovis I.
Mama`s Gun
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mama`s Gun is the second studio album by American recording artist Erykah Badu, released November 21, 2000, on Motown Records. Recording sessions for the album took place from 1999 to 2000 at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. Mama`s Gun encompasses such musical styles as jazz and soul, and it contains confessional lyrics by Badu, which cover themes of insecurity, social issues and personal relationships. The album has been viewed as a female companion to neo soul artist D`Angelo`s second album Voodoo (2000), which features a similar musical style and direction.
William Barley
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Barley (1565?–1614) was an English bookseller and publisher. He completed an apprenticeship as a draper in 1587, but was soon working in the London book trade. As a freeman of the Drapers` Company, he was embroiled in a dispute between it and the Stationers` Company over the rights of drapers to function as publishers and booksellers. He found himself in legal tangles throughout his life.
Farnese Atlas
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Farnese Atlas is a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of Atlas kneeling with a globe weighing heavily on his shoulders. It is the oldest extant statue of the Titan of Greek mythology, who is represented in earlier vase-painting, and more important, the oldest known representation of the celestial sphere. The sculpture is at the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale) in Naples, Italy. It stands seven feet (2.1 meters) tall, and the globe is 65 cm in diameter.
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