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The Hendre
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Hendre (meaning old home or the old town) is Monmouthshire`s only full-scale Victorian country house, constructed in the Victorian Gothic style. Built in the eighteenth century as a shooting box, it was vastly expanded by the Rolls family in three stages throughout the nineteenth century and is most famous as the childhood home of Charles Stewart Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce. The house is Grade II* Listed and is now the clubhouse of the Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club.
Natick Mall
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Natick Mall, formerly named the Natick Collection from February 2007 to July 2011, is a large shopping mall owned by General Growth Properties (GGP). It is located between routes 9 and 30 in Natick, Massachusetts and is adjacent to Shoppers World in Framingham, Massachusetts. Along with Shopper`s World, the Natick Mall helps form the heart of the regional shopping district known as the Golden Triangle. The 7 sq mi (18 km2) area is the second largest shopping district in Massachusetts outside of Downtown Crossing in the Financial District area of Boston.
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! CPH:DOX is the official name for the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, an international documentary film festival established in 2003 and held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. CPH:DOX has grown steadily ever since the beginning and is currently the biggest documentary film festival in Northern Europe.
Carlow County (UK Parliament constituency)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Carlow County was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and one MP from 1885 to 1922.
1975 Pacific typhoon season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1975 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1975, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Godalming (hundred)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Godalming was an ancient hundred in the south west of the county of Surrey, England. It corresponds to the central third of the current borough of Waverley and some parts of the current borough of Guildford.
Tri-state area
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There are a number of areas in the 48 contiguous United States known as tri-state areas where three states either meet at one point (a tripoint) or are in proximity to each other. The best known of the latter type is the New York metropolitan area. Another well known tri-state region is located where New York meets Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Ard Schenk
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adrianus "Ard" Schenk (born 16 September 1944) is a former speed skater from the Netherlands, who is considered to be one of the best in history. His first Olympic success came in 1968, when he won a silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics. Between 1970 and 1972 Winter Olympics, Schenk won three consecutive World Allround Speed Skating Championships. He won three gold medals at the 1972 Winter Olympics, becoming, along with Galina Kulakova of Soviet Union, the most successful athlete there. He was born in Anna Paulowna, North Holland.
Texas State Capitol
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Texas State Capitol is located in Austin, Texas, and is the fourth building to be the house of Texas government in Austin. It houses the chambers of the Texas Legislature and the office of the governor of Texas. It was designed originally during 1881 by architect Elijah E. Myers, and was constructed beginning 1882–88 by direction of civil engineer Reuben Lindsay Walker. A $75 million underground extension was completed during 1993. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places during 1970 and recognized as a National Historic Landmark during 1986. The Texas State Capitol building is 308 ft (94 m) tall.
You Are the Universe
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "You Are the Universe" is a song by Brand New Heavies, released in 1997.
Sumxu
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sumxu, Chinese Lop-Eared Cat, Drop-eared cat, Droop-eared cat, or Hanging-Ear cat, all names referring to its characteristic feature of pendulous ears, was a long-haired lop-eared breed of cat now considered extinct. The descriptions are based on reports from travellers, on a live cat taken to Hamburg by a sailor and on a taxidermy specimen exhibited in Germany. The cats were valued as pets, but was also described as a food. The last reported Chinese Lop-eared cat was in 1938. It is believed to be a mutation similar to that found in the Scottish Fold. The name Sumxu originally described the Yellow-Throated Marten, but a series of mistranslations caused the name to be applied to a variety of...
Non-innocent ligand
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In chemistry, a (redox) non-innocent ligand is a ligand in a metal complex where the oxidation state is unclear. Typically, complexes containing non-innocent ligands are redox active at mild potentials. The concept assumes that redox reactions in metal complexes are either metal or ligand localized, which is a simplification, albeit a useful one.
Foil imaging
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Foil imaging is a revolutionary printmaking technique developed at the University of Iowa by Professor Virginia A. Myers, with student research teams, in the late twentieth century. Enabled by the invention of the hand-held Iowa Foil Printer (IFP), it is a new art form derived from the commercial practices of foil stamping. Artists who work in this medium are able to utilize the same foil products as the foil stamping industry, whose output can be seen adorning wine bottles, mass market paperback books, wedding invitations, school supplies, and all manner of clothing (such as in MMA and hip hop fashions; witty t-shirts). Foil imaging can be used to create editioned prints or monos, and can...
List of airports in Burma
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of airports in Burma (Myanmar), grouped by type and sorted by location.
Dixmont State Hospital
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dixmont State Hospital (originally the Department of the Insane in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh) was a hospital located northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It closed in 1984.
Arbuthnot, Saskatchewan
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arbuthnot (also known as Westlake, Ville Bouvier) is a hamlet located in Glen Bain Rural Municipality No. 105, Saskatchewan, Canada east of Route 19. It was located in census Division No. 2. It was on mile 63 of the Canadian Pacific Railway right of way, southeast of Swift Current and in the NW section 9- township 10- range 7 west of the third meridian.
Lui Passaglia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lui Passaglia (born June 7, 1954 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former professional Canadian football player. Passaglia was the placekicker/punter for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League for a record-breaking 25 years (1976–2000) and scored more points in that time than any professional gridiron football player in history. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame, and the BC Lions Wall of Fame. Passaglia`s #5 jersey is one of eight numbers retired by the Lions. In 2003, Passaglia was voted a member of the BC Lions All-Time Dream Team as part of the club’s 50 year anniversary celebration. In 2006, Passaglia was voted one of...
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