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Daniel J. Arbess
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Daniel J. Arbess is a Partner at Perella Weinberg Partners and Portfolio Manager of the firm’s Xerion strategy. Xerion pursues investment themes and event-driven opportunities using a wide range of corporate securities and macro asset classes.
Stephen Schiff
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stephen Schiff is an American screenwriter and journalist. He grew up in Littleton, Colorado and began his writing career at The Boston Phoenix, where he became the chief film critic and film editor (succeeding David Denby), and hired and trained such critics as Owen Gleiberman and David Edelstein.
Tullio DeSantis
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tullio Francesco DeSantis (also known as Tullio DeSantis) is an American contemporary artist, writer, and teacher. His work is informed by ancient and contemporary philosophy, science, and the relationship between art and life.
List of songs in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s in Europe), is a music video game developed by Harmonix and published by RedOctane and Activision in 2007 for the PlayStation 2 console. The game is considered an expansion of the Guitar Hero series and is part of Activision`s goal to expand the series into genre or band-specific titles.Rocks the 80s was sold without a peripheral, unlike Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II which were sold in a bundle with a guitar controller.
Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour was a world concert tour by Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, joined by singer Paul Rodgers under the moniker of Queen + Paul Rodgers. The tour was Queen`s first since the Magic Tour in 1986, and the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury in November 1991. The band`s drummer Roger Taylor commented; "We never thought we would tour again, Paul (Rodgers) came along by chance and we seemed to have a chemistry. Paul is just such a great singer. He`s not trying to be Freddie." Bassist John Deacon also did not take part due to his retirement in 1997, however he gave the enterprise his blessing.
Louis McHenry Howe
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Louis McHenry Howe (January 14, 1871- April 18, 1936) was an intimate friend and close political advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He, along with Eleanor Roosevelt and Margurite "Missy" LeHand, was one of the few close associates who supported FDR throughout the most difficult stages of his personal and political recuperation after being afflicted by paralytic illness.
The Amulet of Samarkand
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Amulet of Samarkand is the first book in the Bartimaeus Trilogy written by Jonathan Stroud. It is well known for its liberal use of footnotes to voice the title character`s sarcastic comments, as well as story background.
Stormy Weather (novel)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stormy Weather is a 1995 novel by Carl Hiaasen. It takes place in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in South Florida, including insurance scams, street fights, hunt for food and shelter, corrupt bureaucracy, ravaged environment and disaster tourists.
Journey into Imagination with Figment
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Journey Into Imagination With Figment is an attraction which is contained within The Imagination! Pavilion at the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World and opened on March 5, 1983. It has been through three incarnations over the years, two of them featuring Figment, a small purple dragon, as a character. The ride features the song One Little Spark, composed by the Sherman Brothers.
Americanism (heresy)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Coined in the nineteenth century, in Roman Catholic use the term Americanism referred to a group of related heresies which were defined as the endorsement of the separation of church and state. It was thought that these doctrines were held by and taught by many members of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States of America in the 1890s.
Karl Kautsky
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Karl Johann Kautsky (October 16, 1854– October 17, 1938) was a Czech-German philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician. Kautsky was recognized as among the most authoritative promulgators of Orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895 until the coming of World War I in 1914 and was called by some the "Pope of Marxism." Following the war, Kautsky was an outspoken critic of the Bolshevik Revolution and its excesses, engaging in polemics with V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky on the nature of the Soviet state.
Ray Milland
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ray Milland (3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind (1942), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder (1954), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story (1970).
Vologodsky District
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vologodsky District (Russian: Вологодский район) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia.Municipally, it is incorporated as Vologodsky Municipal District. It is located in the center of the oblast and borders with Ust-Kubinsky and Sokolsky Districts in the northeast, Mezhdurechensky District in the east, Gryazovetsky District in the southeast, Poshekhonsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast in the southwest, Sheksninsky District in the west, and Kirillovsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 4,500 square kilometers (1,700 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Vologda. District`s population: 50,439 (2010...
The Sims Social
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sims Social is a Facebook addition to the Sims series of videogames. It was announced during EA`s 2011 E3 press conference. As with the original Sims games, this addition lets users create their own customizable characters. In this version, though, players use their characters to interact with those of their Facebook friends. The characters can develop likes or dislikes for other sims, creating relationships that are advertised on the users` Facebook pages Many previous users of the game The Sims Online consider The Sims Social to be a kind of Spiritual successor.
IUCN Protected Area Management Categories
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The enlisting of protected areas is the fundamental strategy being used towards the conservation of the world`s natural environment and biodiversity. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has developed the Protected Area Management Categories System to define, record and classify the wide variety of specific aims and concerns when categorising protected areas and their objectives. This categorisation method is recognised on a global scale by national governments and international bodies such as the United Nations and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Civil Identity Program of the Americas
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Created in 2007,the Universal Civil Identity Program in the Americas (PUICA) is the area of the Organization of American States (OAS) that is devoted to civil identity. It belongs to the Department for Effective Public Management within the Secretariat for Political Affairs.
2010 Ulster Rally
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 2010 Ulster Rally incorporating Rally Northern Ireland was held between 20–21 August 2010. The Rally HQ located in Antrim, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland and organised by the Northern Ireland Motor Club (NIMC) The 2010 Ulster Rally was the fifth round of the 2010 MSA British Rally Championship and the sixth round of the 2010 MSA British Historic Rally Championship.
Bolivian records in athletics
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The following are the national records in athletics in Bolivia maintained by its national athletics federation: Federacion Atletica de Bolivia (FAB).
Chiasso financial smuggling case
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Chiasso financial smuggling case began on June 3, 2009 near Chiasso, Switzerland (near the Swiss/Italian border), when Sezione Operativa Territoriale di Chiasso in collaboration with officers of Italian customs/financial military police (Guardia di Finanza) detained two suspects (who appeared to be Japanese nationals in their 50s) who had attempted to enter Switzerland with a suitcase in their possession with a false bottom containing what at first appeared to be U.S. Treasury Bonds worth $134.5 billion. The two possessed 249 U.S. bonds worth $500 million each (among other securities, they also had 10 "Kennedy bonds" denominated at $1 billion each); and the large denominations of the...
Troy Findley
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Troy Findley (born in Lawrence, Kansas) was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Kansas. He was appointed by Governor Mark Parkinson on May 14, 2009 and took office the following day. Findley previously served as chief of staff to Governor Kathleen Sebelius.
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