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Willard InterContinental Washington
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Willard InterContinental Washington is an historic luxury Beaux-Artshotel located at 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. Among its facilities are numerous luxurious guest rooms, several restaurants, the famed Round Robin Bar, the Peacock Alley series of luxury shops, and voluminous function rooms. It is two blocks east of the White House, and two blocks south of the Metro Center station of the Washington Metro.
Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978–2001 (The Fiction Years)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Join the Dots: B-sides & Rarities is a box set of The Cure, released on January 27, 2004 by their former record label Fiction. (Elektra and Rhino co-released the compilation in North America). This box set is a four-disc compilation of B-sides and rarities, digitally remastered from their original tapes. The box set includes all B-sides by the band, apart from a number of remixes, as well a number of unreleased songs and songs that had been out of physical circulation for years. Many of the songs in the box set had not yet appeared on a CD release until this point. The box set also includes a booklet with track-by-track commentary and an extensive overview of the band`s history up to 2004,...
ISO 3166-2:RU
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ISO 3166-2:RU is the entry for Russia in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Linear independence
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In linear algebra, a family of vectors is linearly independent if none of them can be written as a linear combination of finitely many other vectors in the collection. A family of vectors which is not linearly independent is called linearly dependent. For instance, in the three-dimensional real vector space we have the following example.
Supplemental Instruction
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an academic support model developed by Dr. Deanna Martin at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) in 1973 that uses peer-assisted study sessions to improve student retention and success within targeted historically difficult courses. The SI program provides peer support by having students who succeeded in traditionally difficult academic courses (e.g., Organic Chemistry, Biology 101, Logic) help other students complete these courses. SI is a non-remedial approach that provides regular review sessions outside of class in which students work collaboratively by discussing readings, comparing notes, working together to predict test items, and sharing ideas...
Blakfish
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Blakfish were a mathcore band, also described as `death pop` by the NME, The band from Birmingham, England formed in the year 2000 after meeting and becoming friends at school, contrary to their frequent fabricated claims that they all met in juvenile prison.
John McMahon (cricketer)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John William Joseph McMahon (28 December 1917 - 8 May 2001) was an Australian-born first-class cricketer who played for Surrey and Somerset in England from 1947 to 1957.
1992 in British television
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of British television related events from 1992.
Centennial of the City of Toronto
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Centennial of the City of Toronto was celebrated in 1934. The celebrations included numerous events, exhibitions, and commemorations.
Fernando Remacha
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fernado Remacha Villar (15 December 1898 – 21 February 1984) was a composer, part of the Group of Eight which formed a sub-set of the Generation of `27.
Wing Commander (video game)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wing Commander (retroactively referred to as Wing Commander I or WC1) is the first, eponymous game in Chris Roberts` science fiction space simulation franchise. The game was first released for the PC (MS-DOS) on September 26, 1990 and was later ported to the Amiga, CD32 (256-color), Mega-CD and the SNES. In August 2006, GameSpot reported that Electronic Arts would also be porting the SNES version to the PlayStation Portable as part of EA Replay. It was released in the United States on November 14, 2006.
Ian Bostridge
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ian Bostridge CBE (born 25 December 1964) is an English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera singer and as a song recitalist.
Perpetual copyright
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Perpetual copyright can refer to a copyright without a finite term, or to a copyright whose finite term is perpetually extended. Perpetual copyright in the former sense is highly uncommon, as the current laws of all countries with copyright statutes set a standard limit on the duration, based either on the date of creation/publication, or on the date of the creator`s death. (See List of countries` copyright length.) Exceptions have sometimes been made, however, for unpublished works. Usually, special legislation is required, granting a perpetual copyright to a specific work.
Chemical Coast
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Chemical Coast is the section of Union and Middlesex counties in New Jersey. It is located along the shores of the Arthur Kill, a heavily used waterway of the Port of New York and New Jersey, across from Staten Island, New York.
1996 in rail transport
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1996.
Ernie Ladd
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ernest "Ernie" Ladd (November 28, 1938 – March 10, 2007), nicknamed "The Big Cat" was an American collegiate and professional football player and a professional wrestler.
Rib vault
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The intersection of two or three barrel vaults produces a rib vault or ribbed vault when they are edged with an armature of piped masonry often carved in decorative patterns; compare groin vault, an older form of vault construction. While the mechanics of the weight of a groin vault and its transmission outwards to the supporting pillars remained as it had been, the new use of rib vaults demonstrates the skill of the masons and the grandeur of the new ideas circulating at the introduction of Gothic architecture in the end of the eleventh century. This technique was new in the late eleventh century, for example in the roofs of the choir side aisles at Durham Cathedral. Ancestors of the Gothic...
Buckland, Massachusetts
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Buckland is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,991 at the 2000 census. The town shares the village of Shelburne Falls with neighboring Shelburne. The town center at Shelburne Falls is the western end of the Bridge of Flowers, a local tourist attraction.
Guillermo Fesser
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Guillermo Fesser (Madrid; 1960) is a journalist known for utilizing humor while reporting news on Spanish radio throughout his innovative program called Gomaespuma. It was perceived as a breath of fresh air among the serious media of the time and it was an instant hit. Fesser studied Journalism at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to study film at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Rape in English law
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rape is a statutory offence in England and Wales.
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