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Sabotage (Stargate Universe)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Sabotage" is the sixteenth episode of military science fiction television series Stargate Universe. The episode originally aired on May 7, 2010 on Syfy in the United States, and on SPACE in Canada. The episode was directed by, Peter DeLuise who previously directed the two episode arc, Darkness and Light. It was written by Barbara Marshall.
United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina,...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1900 South Carolina United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 1900 to select seven Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. Five Democratic incumbents were re-elected and two incumbents were defeated in the primaries, but the seats were retained by the Democrats. The composition of the state delegation after the election was solely Democratic.
Euchre variations
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This article deals with variations on game rules and game terminology. For variations on game playing, see Euchre game variations.
W. Wallace McDowell Award
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The W. Wallace McDowell Award is awarded by the IEEE Computer Society for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contributions that fall within the scope of Computer Society interest. This is the highest technical award made solely by the IEEE Computer Society where selection of the awardee is based on the "highest level of technical accomplishment and achievement". The IEEE Computer Society (with over 85000 members from every field of computing) is “dedicated to advancing the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing technology.” Another award which is considered to be the "most prestigious technical award...
Thomas Henry Wyatt
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Henry Wyatt (9 May 1807 – 5 August 1880) was an Irish British architect. He had a prolific and distinguished career, being elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1870-73 and awarded their Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1873. His reputation during his lifetime was largely as a safe establishment figure and critical assessment has been less favourable more recently, particularly in comparison with his younger brother, the better known Matthew Digby Wyatt.
List of airports in Nova Scotia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a complete list of airports, water aerodromes and heliports in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Shahwali Shaheen Naqeebyllah
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shahwali Zair Mohammed Shaheen Naqeebyllah is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 834. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on June 1, 1976, in Khowst, Afghanistan.
John Leonard Orr
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Leonard Orr (born April 26, 1949) is a former fire captain and arson investigator for the Glendale Fire Department in Southern California and novelist who was indicted and later convicted for serial arson. Orr had originally wanted to be a police officer, but had failed his entrance exam; instead he became a dedicated fire investigator and career fire officer. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Los Angeles was plagued by a series of fires that cost millions of dollars in damages and claimed four lives. John Orr was found to be the cause of most of those fires. During his arson spree, Orr was given the nickname the Pillow Pyro by arson investigators.
James Dunlop
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James Dunlop (31 October 1793 – 22 September 1848) was an astronomer`s assistant who was hired by Sir Thomas Brisbane to work at his private observatory, once located at Paramatta (now named Parramatta), New South Wales, about twenty-three kilometres west of Sydney, Australia during the 1820s and 1830s. Dunlop was mostly a visual observer, doing stellar astrometry work for Brisbane, and after its completion, then independently discovered and catalogued many new telescopic southern double stars and deep-sky objects. He later became the Superintendent of Paramatta Observatory when it was finally sold to the New South Wales Government.
Michael Henrich
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Henrich (born March 4, 1980) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Henrich is currently a member of HC Asiago of the Serie A in Italy. An NHL first-round draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers in 1998, Henrich played several years of professional hockey in North America before moving to professional hockey in Europe. He has yet to make his NHL debut. Henrich holds the distinction of being the first Jewish player to be selected in the first round of the NHL draft.
Muscari
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Muscari is a genus of perennial bulbous plants native to Eurasia that produce spikes of dense, most commonly blue, urn-shaped flowers resembling bunches of grapes in the spring. The common name for the genus is Grape Hyacinth (a name which is also used for the genera Leopoldia and Pseudomuscari). Another common name is Baby`s Breath. A number of species are used as ornamental garden plants.
General Grievous
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! General Grievous is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, an antagonist in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. He was voiced by Matthew Wood. According to the Revenge of the Sith DVD, series creator George Lucas instructed his creative team to create a villain that foreshadowed Anakin Skywalker`s transformation into Darth Vader: the heavy breathing, the cyborg body, and his seduction into a malevolent faction.
Beauvoir (Biloxi, Mississippi)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Beauvoir is the historic post-war home and Presidential library of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, begun in 1848 at Biloxi, Mississippi. The main house and library were badly damaged, and other outbuildings were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005. Beauvoir survived a similar onslaught from Hurricane Camille in 1969.
Monroe, New Hampshire
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Monroe is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 788 at the 2010 census. The town is located along a bend of the Connecticut River, across from Barnet, Vermont. It was originally chartered as part of Lyman.
Israeli Peace Initiative
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Israeli Peace Initiative (IPI) was released on 6 April 2011 as a response to the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002. It was signed by roughly 40 people. Among the signatories are former Shin Bet chiefs Yaakov Peri and Ami Ayalon, former Mossad Chief Danny Yatom and former IDF Chief Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, General (Res) Amram Mitzna, former minister Moshe Shahal and Yuval Rabin, son of slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. While these are high up positions, many with security credentials, all 40 are considered to be affiliated with the political Left.
List of tributes to Hank Williams
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Williams tribute albums have been released by a diverse range of artists, including Connie Stevens, Floyd Cramer, George Jones, Glen Campbell, Freddy Fender, Moe Bandy, Ronnie Hawkins, Charlie Rich, Del Shannon, Sammy Kershaw, Trio Los Panchos, Roy Orbison and Hank Locklin. Some additional examples of albums recorded in Williams` honor include:
Al Hobman
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Allan "Al" Hobman (23 April 1925 – 21 September 2008) was a New Zealand professional wrestler, trainer and promoter. Hobman was one of the first homegrown stars to emerge from the Dominion Wrestling Union, and later Steve Rickard`s All Star-Pro Wrestling, during the 1960s and 70s such as Tony Garea, Peter Maivia and The Sheepherders. Hobman twice won the NWA New Zealand Heavyweight Championship from John Da Silva in 1960 and Steve Rickard in 1964 with a combined reign of nearly 6 years as champion. He and Rickard were also the first New Zealand Tag Team Champions.
Jimmy G. Shoalmire
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jimmy Gayle Shoalmire (July 23, 1940–July 31, 1982) was an historian of the American South originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, who specialized in Reconstruction and agricultural studies.
British Hero of the Holocaust
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The British Hero of the Holocaust award is a special national award given by the UK government in recognition of British citizens who assisted in rescuing victims of the Holocaust. On 9 March 2010 it was awarded to 25 individuals posthumously, and to two living people, Sir Nicholas Winton aged 100, and Denis Avey aged 91. The award is a solid silver medallion, and bears the inscription "in the service of humanity" in recognition of "selfless actions" which "preserved life in the face of persecution".
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