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Jamestown, Saint Helena
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jamestown is the capital and historic chief settlement of the island of Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean. Located on the island`s north-western coast, it is the island`s port, with facilities for unloading goods delivered to the island, and the centre of the island`s road and communications network. It was founded when English colonists settled on the island in 1659; St Helena is the second-oldest remaining British territory, after Bermuda.
Clifford Odets
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 18, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, socialist, and social protester.
Autocannon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An autocannon or automatic cannon is a rapid-fire projectile weapon firing a shell as opposed to the bullet fired by a machine gun. Autocannons often have a larger caliber than a machine gun (i.e., 20 mm or greater). Usually, autocannons are smaller than a field gun or other artillery, and are mechanically loaded for a faster rate of fire. They can use a variety of ammunition: common shells include high-explosive dual-purpose types (HEDP), any variety of armour-piercing (AP) types, such as composite rigid (APCR) or discarding sabot types (APDS).
Golomb coding
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Golomb coding is a lossless data compression method using a family of data compression codes invented by Solomon W. Golomb in the 1960s. Alphabets following a geometric distribution will have a Golomb code as an optimal prefix code, making Golomb coding highly suitable for situations in which the occurrence of small values in the input stream is significantly more likely than large values.
Catron County, New Mexico
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Catron County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of 2010, the population was 3,725. Its county seat is Reserve. Catron County is the largest county, by area, in New Mexico.
2009 in Spain
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Events in the year 2009 in Spain.
Wald`s maximin model
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In decision theory and game theory, Wald`s maximin model is a non-probabilistic decision-making model according to which decisions are ranked on the basis of their worst-case outcomes. That is, the best (optimal) decision is one whose worst outcome is at least as good as the worst outcome of any other decisions. It is one of the most important models in robust decision making in general and robust optimization in particular.
Legal status of methamphetamine
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The production, distribution, and sale of methamphetamine is restricted or illegal in many jurisdictions.
United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina,...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States House of Representative elections of 2000 in North Carolina were held on 3 November 2000 as part of the biennial election to the United States House of Representatives. All twelve seats in North Carolina, and 435 nation-wide, were elected.
Ross Miner
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ross Miner (born January 24, 1991) is an American figure skater. He is the 2011 U.S. national bronze medalist, 2009 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist and 2009 U.S. Junior National Champion.
Southern Vectis route 3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Southern Vectis route 3 is a bus service operated on the Isle of Wight by Southern Vectis between Newport, Ventnor and Ryde. It also runs via Rookley, Godshill and Brading. The general daytime frequency of the route is every half-hour each direction, although in the evenings and on Sundays fewer buses run. Double-decker buses are normally used to operate the route.
2008–09 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! For the 2008–09 season, the 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam are participating in the German women`s Bundesliga. It is their 16th season in Germany`s major league in women`s football.
Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CCADP) is a not-for-profit organisation which was co-founded by Tracy Lamourie and Dave Parkinson of the Greater Toronto Area. The couple formed the CCADP, not only to speak out against the use of capital punishment around the world, but also in the hopes of educating and encouraging fellow Canadians to speak out against the occasional calls for a renewal of the death penalty within their own country (Canada abolished the death penalty in 1976) in addition to urging the Canadian government to ensure fair trials and appeals, as well as adequate legal representation, for Canadians convicted of crimes abroad.The CCADP website ccadp.org also quickly...
Theodore S. Westhusing
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Colonel Theodore S. Westhusing (November 17, 1960 – June 5, 2005), a West Point professor of English and Philosophy, volunteered to serve in Iraq in late 2004 and died in Baghdad from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound in June 2005. At the time he was the highest ranked American to die violently in Iraq since the start of the March 2003 United States-led invasion. He was 44 years old, married with three young children.
Jim Van Engelenhoven
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James L. "Jim" Van Engelenhoven (born September 9, 1943) is the Iowa State Representative from the 71st District. He has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 1999, when he was elected to represent the 95th district. In addition to winning re-election in general election challenges, Van Engelenhoven has won three primary elections (1998, 2008, and 2010), though he went one year (2004) without any primary or general election opponents.
Rough for Radio I
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rough for Radio I is a short radio play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1961 and first published in Minuit 5 in September 1973 as Esquisse radiophinique. Its first English publication as Sketch for Radio Play was in Stereo Headphones 7 (spring 1976). It first appeared under its current title in Ends and Odds (Grove 1976, Faber 1977).
FXhome Limited
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! FXhome is a visual effects and video software developer registered in 2001 by graduates from the University of East Anglia. Their current headquarters is at the Henderson Business Centre in Norwich, UK.
NBA Countdown
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NBA Countdown, is a weekly, thirty minute pregame show airing prior to each National Basketball Association (NBA) telecast on the American Broadcasting Company.
Molten Man
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Molten Man is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Universe. The character was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #28 (September 1965).
Rizon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rizon is a large Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network with an average of around 18,000 users. The IRC network itself is well known and ranks number 5 among the largest IRC networks. Rizon is popular with many anime fansubbing groups who work online, many of whom provide their content through XDCC via IRC bots in their distribution channels.File sharing of other copyrighted material such as Warez is also common in some channels on the network.
New Canadian Library
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The New Canadian Library is a publishing imprint of the Canadian company McClelland and Stewart. The series aims to present classic works of Canadian literature in paperback. Each work published in the series includes a short essay by another notable Canadian writer, discussing the historical context and significance of the work. These essays were originally forewords, but after McClelland and Stewart`s 1985 sale to Avie Bennett, the prefatory material was abandoned and replaced by afterwords.
Ron Wilson (ice hockey b. 1955)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ronald Lawrence Wilson (born May 28, 1955) is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey player and current head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the United States men`s national ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He is also the former head coach of the San Jose Sharks, Washington Capitals and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim of the NHL. Wilson holds dual citizenship of the United States and Canada.
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