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1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an American Civil War era military regiment recruited in Oregon for the Union Army. The regiment was formed in November 1864. At full strength, it was composed of ten companies of foot soldiers. The regiment was used to guard trade routes and escorted immigrant wagon trains from Fort Boise to the Willamette Valley. Its troops were used to pursue and suppress Indian raiders in eastern Oregon and the Idaho Territory. Several detachments accompanied survey parties and built roads in central and southern Oregon. The regiment`s last company was mustered out of service on July 1867.
Mountain Farms Mall
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mountain Farms Mall is a one-story shopping mall in Hadley, Massachusetts, United States, with approximately 12 stores. It is located on Route 9, at 335 Russell Street in Hadley, Massachusetts, between Amherst and Northampton, approximately five miles east of Exit 19 off I-91. The mall is owned by S.R. Weiner and WS Development.
Terry Etim
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terence Lee "Terry" Etim (born January 11, 1986) is an English mixed martial artist and Thai boxer who trains with Team Kaobon and RFT. He is trained by Colin Heron and Marcelo Brigadeiro. Etim is a 2-stripe blue belt in Luta Livre under Marcelo Brigadeiro.
Stanley Evans
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stanley Norman Evans (1 February 1898 – 25 June 1970) was a British industrialist and Labour Party politician. He served very briefly as an Agriculture Minister in the post-war Attlee government but was forced to resign when he claimed that farmers were being "featherbedded". During the Suez Crisis, Evans broke from the party line and supported the Conservative government`s policy, which led his local association successfully to press him to resign from Parliament.
1932 New York Yankees season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1932 New York Yankees season was the team`s 30th season in New York, and its 32nd season overall. The team finished with a record of 107-47, winning their seventh pennant, finishing 13 games ahead of the Philadelphia Athletics. New York was managed by future Hall of Famer Joe McCarthy. A record nine future Hall of Famers played on the team (Earle Combs, Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Lefty Gomez, Tony Lazzeri, Herb Pennock, Red Ruffing, Babe Ruth, Joe Sewell).
Northern (genre)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Northern or Northwestern is an American and Canadian genre in literature and film made popular by the writings of Rex Beach and Zane Grey. It is similar to the Western genre but the action occurs in the Canadian North and typically features Mounties instead of, for example, cowboys or sheriffs. The genre was extremely popular in the inter-war years of the 20th century.
Susanna Reid
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Susanna Reid (born 10 December 1970) is an English journalist and presenter, best known for presenting BBC Breakfast.
William Lonsdale (colonist)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Lonsdale (21 October 1799 – 28 March 1864) supervised the founding of the official settlement at Port Phillip (later named Melbourne) from 1836 and went on to serve under the Superintendent La Trobe from 1839 to 1854.
Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sayed Rahmatullah Hashmi is a former envoy of the Taliban government in Afghanistan. `Sayed` is an honorific title that indicates lineage with the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Also known simply as Rahmatullah, he was once enrolled as a non-degree student at Yale University. In July 2006 it was announced that his application to pursue a bachelor`s degree had been rejected by Yale College via the Eli Whitney Students Program.
Abraham Darby I
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abraham Darby I (14 April 1678 – 8 March 1717) was the first, and most famous, of three generations with that name in an English Quaker family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution. He developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke rather than charcoal. This was a major step forward in the production of iron as a raw material for the Industrial Revolution.
Octomeria
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Octomeria (from Greek "eight part", referring to its 8 pollinia) is a plant genus belonging to the family Orchidaceae. The genus comprises about 200 species native to the Neotropics, mostly in Brazil.
John Tembo
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Zenus Ungapake Tembo (born September 14, 1932) is a Malawian politician and the President of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), the strongest opposition party in Malawi. Tembo comes from the Dedza District in central Malawi, and he is a teacher by profession. Since the 1960s he has been an important politician in Malawi, and he was a key figure in the regime of Hastings Banda (1964–1994). He has been variously described as "physically slight, ascetic, fastidious" and "cunning".
`Round About Midnight
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! `Round About Midnight is an album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It was his debut on Columbia Records, and was originally released in March 1957 (CL 949). The album took its name from the Thelonious Monk song "`Round Midnight".
Methodist local preacher
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Methodist local preacher is a lay person who has been accredited by a Methodist church to lead worship on a regular basis. Local preachers play an important role in the Methodist Church of Great Britain and other churches historically linked to it, and have also been important in English social history.
1923 in sports
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 1923 in sports describes the year`s events in world sport.
Nikky Finney
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26, 1957 in Conway, South Carolina) is an award-winning American poet, and the Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. An alumna of Talladega College, and author of four books of poetry and a short story cycle, Finney’s commitment to social justice and cultural preservation is revealed through the themes of her work. Her numerous honors include the 2011 National Book Award for Head Off & Split.
Fatima Besnaci-Lancou
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fatima Besnaci-Lancou,(1954 – present) is a French writer known for her work on Memories of harkis in France. Harkis were Algerian auxiliaries who fought for France during Algerian War (from 1954 to 1962).
William Harvey Gibson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Brigadier General William Harvey Gibson (16 May 1821 – 22 November 1894) was a Republican politician from Ohio and Brigadier General of the Union Army’s 49th Ohio Infantry of Volunteers during the American Civil War.
Dia Evtimova
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dia Evtimova (Bulgarian: Диа Евтимова) (born April 30, 1987) is a professional Bulgarian tennis player. On October 24, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 146 whilst her best doubles ranking was 275 on June 15, 2009. In 2010, she qualified for the Internationaux de Strasbourg where she was defeated by Maria Sharapova in the second round. In 2011, she qualified for the Gastein Ladies where she reached her first WTA quarterfinal, but there she lost to Patricia Mayr-Achleitner. She has also played for the Bulgarian Fed Cup team, with a current 10-10 record.
1990 Volvo International – Doubles
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mark Kratzmann and Wally Masur were the defending champions but only Masur competed that year with Pat Cash.
Penvellyn
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Penvellyn family is a fictional family introduced in HerInteractive`s Nancy Drew Adventure series` Curse of Blackmoor Manor. All references to actual persons, events or locales is used fictionally. If the family was real, however, their history would go something like this:
1901 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen`s Singles
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arthur Gore (winner of the challenge round) defeated Reginald Doherty (holder of the 1900 title) 4-6 7-5 6-4 6-4 in the final to win the Gentlemen`s Singles title at the 1901 Wimbledon Championships.
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