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Women wearing pants
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Women wearing pants (trousers) were thought by some to be historically almost non-existent, apart from Amazonian women, but have become more commonplace since the advent of feminism in the middle to late 20th century.
Count Christian of Rosenborg
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Count Christian of Rosenborg, a former Danish and Icelandic prince (Danish: Prins Christian Frederik Franz Knud Harald Carl Oluf Gustav Georg Erik til Danmark) now Grev Christian af Rosenborg (born 22 October 1942), who was high in the line of hereditary succession to the throne of Denmark until the new right of females of the royal family to inherit the crown displaced his branch of the dynasty in favor of his cousin Princess Margrethe and her two younger sisters in 1953.He is also 1030th in the line of succession to the British throne.
Elvis Sinosic
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elvis Sinosic (born 13 February 1971 in Canberra) is a retired Australian professional mixed martial artist.
Electoral district of Balmain
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Balmain is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney`s Inner West. It includes the suburbs and localities of Annandale, Balmain, Balmain East, Birchgrove, Forest Lodge, Glebe, Glebe Island, Haberfield, Leichhardt, Lilyfield, Rozelle, White Bay; and part of Camperdown. It is currently represented by Jamie Parker of the Greens New South Wales.
Make Roads Safe
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Make Roads Safe is a global road safety campaign established with the aim of securing political commitment for road traffic injury prevention around the world.
DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, 547 U.S. 332 (2006) was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the standing of taxpayers to challenge state tax laws in federal court. The Court unanimously ruled that state taxpayers did not have standing under Article III of the United States Constitution to challenge state tax or spending decisions simply by virtue of their status as taxpayers.Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the majority opinion (his fifth on the Court), which was joined by all of the justices except for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who concurred separately.
Imperium: Augustus
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Imperium: Augustus is a 2003 joint British-Italian production, and part of the Imperium series. It tells of the life story of Octavian and how he became Augustus. Half the film takes place in the past (as Augustus explains to his daughter Julia how he became who he was) and the other half takes place in the later life of Augustus.
Military recruitment
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Military recruitment is the act of requesting people, usually male adults, to join a military voluntarily. Involuntary military recruitment is known as conscription. Many countries that have abolished conscription use military recruiters to persuade people to join, often at an early age. To facilitate this process, militaries have established recruiting commands. These units are solely responsible for increasing military enlistment.
Cahto people
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Cahto are a indigenous Californian group of Native Americans in the United States. Today they are enrolled as the federally recognized tribe, the Cahto Indian Tribe of the Laytonville Rancheria or a small group of Cahto are enrolled in the Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation.
Consultation (Texas)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Consultation served as the provisional government of Mexican Texas from November 1835 through March 1836 during the Texas Revolution. Tensions rose in Texas during early 1835 as throughout Mexico federalists began to oppose the increasingly centralist policies of the government. In the summer, Texans elected delegates to a political convention to be held in Gonzales in mid-October. Weeks before the convention began, settlers took up arms against Mexican soldiers at the Battle of Gonzales. The convention was postponed until November 1 after many of the delegates joined the newly organized volunteer Texan Army to initiate a siege of the Mexican garrison at San Antonio de Bexar. On November 3,...
Virtual band
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In music, a virtual band (also called a virtual group or cartoon band; also known as cartoon group) is any group whose members are not corporeal musicians, but animated characters. The music is recorded (and, in the case of concerts, performed) by human musicians and producers, while any media related to the virtual band, including albums, video clips and the visual component of stage performances, feature the animated line-up; in some cases (including all four of the Gorillaz albums, Gorillaz, Demon Days, Plastic Beach, and The Fall), the virtual band members have been listed as the writers and performers of the songs. Live performances can become rather complex, requiring perfect...
British Rail Class 67
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Class 67 locomotives are a class of Bo`Bo` diesel electric mainline locomotives which were built for the English, Welsh and Scottish Railway between 1999 to 2000 by Alstom at Meinfesa in Valencia, Spain with drive components (engine and transmission) from General Motors Diesel.
Phil Manzanera
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Phil Manzanera (born Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams, 31 January 1951, London, England) is a musician and record producer. He is the lead guitarist with Roxy Music. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour`s album On An Island and played in Gilmour`s band for tours in Europe and North America. He wrote and presented a series of 14 one-hour radio programmes for station Planet Rock entitled The A-Z of Great Guitarists and his instrumental album, Firebird V11, was released in 2008.
Cory Everson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Corinna Kneuer (born January 4, 1958), best known by her stage name Cory (or Corey) Everson, is an American female bodybuilding champion and actress. She won the Ms. Olympia contest six years in a row from 1984 to 1989.
Artane, Dublin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Artane, sometimes spelled Artaine (Irish: Ard Aidhin), historically Tartaine is a Northside suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Neighbouring districts include Coolock, Beaumont, Killester, Raheny and Clontarf; to the south is a small locality, Harmonstown, straddling the Raheny-Artane border.
Prudential plc
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prudential plc (LSE: PRU, NYSE: PUK, SEHK: 2378) is a multinational financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
List of monarchs of Mercia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Kingdom of Mercia was an important state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th. For some two hundred years from the mid-7th century onwards it was the dominant member of the Heptarchy and consequently the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. During this period its rulers became the very first English monarchs to assume such wide ranging titles as King of Britain and King of the English.
Assignment: Earth
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Assignment: Earth" is a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It was first broadcast on March 29, 1968, as the last original episode in the second season. It was repeated on August 9, 1968. It is episode #55, production #55, written by Art Wallace, based on a story by Wallace and Gene Roddenberry, and directed by Marc Daniels.
Tell Me on a Sunday
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tell Me on a Sunday is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black. A one-act song cycle, it tells the story of an ordinary English girl from Muswell Hill, who journeys to the United States in search of love. Her romantic misadventures begin in New York City, lead her to Hollywood, and eventually take her back to Manhattan.
History of electricity supply in Queensland
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Queensland being Australia`s second largest state in terms of physical area (Western Australia is the largest), achieving the early leaders` dream of providing electricity to every home entailed a considerable degree of pioneering, innovation, and commitment. Generation and limited distribution was initially the responsibility of local authorities. Queensland proved to be a pioneer in the supply of electricity, with the first public demonstration in Australia, the first recorded use for public purposes in the country, the first Parliament House in Australia and the first commercial operations in Australia all occurring in Brisbane.
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