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Shaikh of Uttar Pradesh
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Shaikh are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. They are part of the larger Shaikh community of South Asia. Quite a few Shaikh have immigrated to Pakistan, where they form an important element in the Muhajir community. Common surnames used by the community include Faruqi, Osmani, Siddiqui and Shaikh.
Cornell Big Red women`s ice hockey
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Cornell Big Red women`s ice hockey program represents Cornell University and participates in ECAC Hockey.
Goin` Back
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Goin` Back" (aka "Going Back") is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King in 1966. It describes the loss of innocence that comes with adulthood along with an attempt, on the part of the singer, to recapture that youthful innocence. The song has been recorded by many different artists, including Dusty Springfield, Goldie Zelkowitz, The Byrds, Elkie Brooks, Deacon Blue, Nils Lofgren, Freddie Mercury (on a Larry Lurex single), The Move, The New Seekers, The Pretenders, Diana Ross, Richard Thompson, Phil Collins and Bon Jovi as well as by Carole King herself.
Trent Richardson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Trent Richardson (born July 10, 1990) is an American football running back. He is in his junior year at the University of Alabama. As a true freshman with the Alabama Crimson Tide in 2009 he helped lead the Tide to an undefeated 14-0 season including a victory in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game.
2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic was the eighth and final installment of the Las Vegas Desert Classic, a darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was held in the evenings (GMT, morning local time/PST) between July 1 and July 5.
UEFA Euro 2008 broadcasting rights
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Broadcasting rights to the UEFA Euro 2008 football championship have enabled the tournament to reach more people across the world than ever before. Previously UEFA had sold the rights to the tournament through the European Broadcasting Union but for 2008 they worked through a sales agency Sportfive. Sportfive approached each market individually and was thus able to secure more for the rights due to strong competition between broadcasters.
There Is a Season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There Is a Season is a four-CD box set by the American rock band The Byrds that was released on September 26, 2006 by Columbia/Legacy. It comprises 99 tracks and includes material from every one of the band`s twelve studio albums, presented in roughly chronological order. In addition to the four CDs, the set also includes a bonus DVD featuring ten clips of The Byrds lip-synching their hits on television programs between 1965 and 1967. Upon release, the box set failed to reach the Billboard 200 chart or the UK Albums Chart.There Is a Season supplants the band`s earlier box set, The Byrds, which was released in October 1990.
Alan Turing Building
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Alan Turing Building, named after the mathematician and founder of computer science Alan Turing, is a building at the University of Manchester, in Manchester, England. It houses the School of Mathematics, the Photon Science Institute and the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (part of the School of Physics and Astronomy). The building is located in the Chorlton-on-Medlock district of Manchester, on Upper Brook Street, and is adjacent to the new University Place. While under construction the project was known as AMPPS : Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics and Photon Science. The building was shortlisted for the Greater Manchester Building of the Year 2008 prize, which is awarded by the...
Joseph Patrick Hurley
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joseph Patrick Hurley (January 21, 1894—October 30, 1967) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of St. Augustine from 1940 until his death in 1967. He also held diplomatic posts in Europe and Asia.
List of birds of Kiribati
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of the bird species recorded in Kiribati. The avifauna of Kiribati includes a total of 74 species, of which 1 has been introduced by humans, and 3 are rare or accidental. 2 species listed are extirpated in Kiribati and are not included in the species count. 11 species are globally threatened.
Intesa Sanpaolo
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group resulting from the merger between Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI based in Turin, Italy. It has clear leadership in the Italian market and a minor but growing international presence focused on Central-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (77% of the bank`s revenue (96.3% from Europe) and 86% of all loans to customers come from business in Italy). When it was formed in 2007 it overtook Unicredit Group as the largest bank in Italy with 13 million customers and $690 billion worth of assets. By 2010 its assets had grown to $877.66 billion 26th highest among all of the world`s companies.
Cristian Bucchi
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cristian Bucchi (born 13 February 1977 in Rome) is a retired Italian football striker. He was best known for his goal-scoring ability in Serie B during the peak of his career.
Anglo-Saxon charters
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Anglo-Saxon charters are documents from the early medieval period in Britain which typically make a grant of land or record a privilege. The earliest surviving charters were drawn up in the 670s; the oldest surviving charters granted land to the Church, but from the eighth century surviving charters were increasingly used to grant land to lay people.
Sigrid Schultz
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sigrid Schultz (January 5 (or January 15 according to Wisconsin Historical Society), 1893 – May 14, 1980) was a notable American reporter and war correspondent in an era when women were a rarity in both print and radio journalism.
Ben Liebrand
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ben Liebrand (Dutch pronunciation: ) (born 27 September 1960 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands) is a dance music DJ. He has produced artists such as Forrest and MC Miker G & DJ Sven and remixed tracks by artists such as Salt N Pepa, Sting, TLC, Fun Fun, Tavares, Bill Withers, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Rick Astley, SWV and Phil Collins. He has also charted on a number of occasions under his own name, one of which being Ben Liebrand`s version of "Eve Of The War".
William Bliss Baker
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Bliss Baker (November 27, 1859 – November 20, 1886) was an American artist born in New York City who was just beginning to hit his stride as a landscape painter in the Realism movement when he died at his father`s house at Hoosick Falls, New York at the age of 26 due to a back injury received while ice skating several months earlier.
Celtic fusion
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Celtic fusion is an umbrella term for modern music which incorporates influences considered "Celtic," or Celtic music which incorporates modern music. It is a syncretic musical tradition which borrows freely from the perceived "Celtic" musical traditions of all the Celtic nations, as well as from all styles of popular music; it is thus sometimes associated with the Pan-Celtic movement. Celtic fusion may or may not include authentic traditional music from any one tradition under the Celtic umbrella, but its common characteristic is the inspiration by Celtic identity.
Fun House (The Stooges album)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fun House is the second album by American rock band The Stooges. Though initially commercially unsuccessful, Fun House developed a strong cult following and, like its successor (1973`s Raw Power), is generally considered integral in the development of punk rock.
Eamon (video game)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eamon, sometimes known by the longer title The Wonderful World of Eamon, is a computer adventure game created by Donald Brown and released for the Apple II in 1980. The game is a text adventure similar to other early titles like Adventure (1976) or Zork (1980), though with many role-playing elements not available in other interactive fiction.Eamon software is non-commercial and is freely available in the public domain.
Humacao, Puerto Rico
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Humacao (Spanish pronunciation: ) is a city in Puerto Rico located in the eastern coast of the island, north of Yabucoa; south of Naguabo; east of Las Piedras; and west of Vieques Passage. Humacao is spread over 10 wards and Humacao Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city). It is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Great Western Railway Power and Weight Classification
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! From 1920, the cab side of Great Western Railway (GWR) steam locomotives bore a letter on a coloured disc, which enabled staff to quickly assess the capabilities of locomotives without the need to check tables of data. The letter showed the power classification, and the coloured disc showed the weight restriction. This system continued after the GWR became the Western Region of British Railways.
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