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British Rail Class 438
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The British Rail TC (Trailer Control) multiple units were un-powered fixed formations of 3 or 4 carriages with a driving position at each end of the set, converted by BR at York Works from locomotive-hauled Mark 1 carriages in 1966-1967 and 1974. The units built on experience gained from the prototype 6TC unit. In time the 3 car units (3TC, numbered in the series 3xx) were reformed into four car units (4TC numbered in the series 4xx) to match the rest of the fleet and later classified as Class 442. This was later changed to Class 491, under which they spent the majority of their working lives. Shortly before withdrawal they were reclassified Class 438 and the units were renumbered to 8001-8034.
Ergoline
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ergoline is a chemical compound whose structural skeleton is contained in a diverse range of alkaloids including a few psychedelic drugs (e.g. lysergic acid and LSD). Ergoline derivatives are used clinically for the purpose of vasoconstriction (5-HT1 receptor agonists—ergotamine) and in the treatment of migraines (used with caffeine) and Parkinson`s disease. Some ergoline alkaloids found in ergot fungi are implicated in the condition ergotism, which causes convulsive and gangrenous symptoms.
Moorgate
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Moorgate was a postern in the London Wall originally built by the Romans. It was turned into a gate in the 15th century. Though the gate was demolished in 1762, the name survives as a major street in the City of London. The street connects the City to the London Boroughs of Islington and Hackney, and was constructed around 1846 as one of the new approaches to London Bridge.
Southeast, New York
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Southeast is a town in Putnam County, New York, United States. The population was 17,316 at the 2000 census. The town is in the southeast part of the county. Interstate 84, Interstate 684, US Route 202, and US Route 6 pass through the town.
TeliaSonera
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! TeliaSonera AB is the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland. The company has operations in other countries in Northern, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Spain, with a total of 150 million mobile customers (2010). It is headquartered in Stockholm and its stocks are traded on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
Murry Hope
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Murry Hope (b. 1929) is an English woman writer, lecturer, psychic, healer, astrologer, numerologist, palmist, former lyric singer and universal occultist. She makes part of the staff composed by most popular authors from New Age and also performing as Wicca priestess. Her more than twenty books encompass branches of studies such as psychology, human consciousness, the future of planet Earth, witchcraft and singular subjects like the Sirius star system, its inhabitants and their influence over the Earth, especially at ancient times in Egypt and in the mythological city of Atlantis.
Duplex locomotive
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A duplex locomotive is a steam locomotive that divides the driving force on its wheels by using two pairs of cylinders rigidly mounted to a single locomotive frame; it is not an articulated locomotive. The concept was first used in France in 1863, but was particularly developed in the early 1930s by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the largest commercial builder of steam locomotives in North America, under the supervision of its then chief engineer, Ralph P. Johnson.
Murder of Jean Townsend
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Murder of Jean Townsend, (born c. 1933) is an unsolved murder case from Ruislip, in the county of Middlesex, England. Townsend was a 21 year old English woman who was murdered in September 1954. Despite an extensive police investigation, no one has ever been charged with her murder and the case remains unsolved.
Thomas S. Ricketts
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas S. "Tom" Ricketts (born May 23, 1963) is chairman of the Chicago Cubs, and the chief executive officer of Incapital LLC, a Chicago investment bank that packages corporate bonds for retail investors. He is also a director of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation as well as the son of Ameritrade founder J. Joseph Ricketts.Forbes estimate of the Ricketts` family wealth ($1 Billion), consolidated under J. Joseph Ricketts name, placed them at #371/ 400 on the Forbes 400 list.
Denmark–United States relations
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Denmark – United States relations refers to the current and historical relations between Denmark and the United States. Denmark has an embassy in Washington D.C. The United States has an embassy in Copenhagen. Denmark has a trade office in Atlanta, Georgia. and a consulate general in New York. Both countries are members of NATO.
Brazil–France relations
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Brazil and France enjoy a close bilateral relationship based on values shared by the two countries: promotion of democratic principles and human rights, strengthening of international law and multilateralism, promotion of the development and respect of social justice, preservation of peace and security, commitment to non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and to disarmament, protection of the environment and cultural diversity.
Ray Sansom
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ray Sansom (born July 11, 1962, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida) was a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing portions of Okaloosa and Santa Rosa counties from 2002 to February 21, 2010.
WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The WWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Semi Completo de WWA in Spanish) is a singles professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling based promotion World Wrestling Association (WWA) since 1989. In the 1990s the title was taken to Japan when reigning champion Gran Hamada returned to his home country. In Japan the title became one of 8 championships that made up the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) J-Crown Championship. When the J-Crown was broken up into individual titles the WWA World Light Heavyweight Championship returned to Mexico. Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately: it is instead won via a...
Charles Mower
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Drown Mower of New York was a noted yacht designer and author, and was at one time design editor of the Rudder magazine and a contributing author to Motor Boating magazine.
List of European number-one hits of 2006
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of the European Music & Media magazine`s European Hot 100 Singles and European Top 100 Albums number-ones of 2006.
Intermeccanica
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Construzione Automobili Intermeccanica (Torino, 1959 - ) is an automobile manufacturer, founded by Frank Reisner initially based in Italy but subsequently moving to Canada. It is currently headed by Frank`s son, Henry Reisner.
Nuke (Marvel Comics)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nuke (real name Frank Simpson) is a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Universe. The character first appears in Daredevil #232 and was created by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. Nuke`s most distinguishing feature is an American Flag tattooed on his face.
List of fictional locations in the Godzilla films
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of fictional Earth locations depicted in films of and tied in with the Godzilla series. Like most fictional universes, the world of the Godzilla films has been enriched by fictional locales ranging from small Pacific Islands to galactically distant nebulae.
Zelda Rubinstein
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zelda Rubinstein (May 28, 1933 – January 27, 2010) was an American actress and human rights activist, best known as eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the movie Poltergeist (1982) and its sequels, Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), and Poltergeist III (1988). Playing `Ginny`, she was a regular on David E. Kelley`s Emmy Award winning television series Picket Fences for several seasons. She also made guest appearances in the TV show Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996), as seer `Christina` and was the voice of Skittles candies in their long-running `Taste the Rainbow` ad campaign. Rubinstein was also known for her outspoken activism for little people and her early participation in the fight...
Julian Fellowes
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, DL (born 17 August 1949), known as Julian Fellowes, is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, as well as a Conservative peer.
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