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Genband
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! GENBAND is a privately held company which makes IP multimedia application and infrastructure products and solutions for fixed wire line, mobile, and cable network service providers. The company was formed in 1999 as General Bandwidth and since 2010 is headquartered in Frisco, Texas.
List of Magical Negro occurrences in fiction
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Magical Negro is a somewhat mystical supporting stock character in fiction who, by use of special insight or powers, helps the white protagonist get out of trouble. African-American filmmaker Spike Lee popularized the term, deriding the archetype of the "super-duper magical negro" in 2001 while discussing films with students at Washington State University and at Yale University.
The Floure and the Leafe
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Floure and the Leafe", is an anonymous Middle English allegorical poem in 595 lines of rhyme royal, written around 1470. During the 17th, 18th, and most of the 19th century it was mistakenly believed to be the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, and was generally considered to be one of his finest poems. The name of the author is not known but the poem presents itself as the work of a woman, and some critics are inclined to take this at face value. The poet was certainly well-read, there being a number of echoes of earlier writers in the poem, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, John Gower, Andreas Capellanus, Guillaume de Lorris, Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart, Eustache Deschamps,...
David Huebner
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Huebner (born 1960) is the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. He previously was an American lawyer based in Shanghai, where he specialized in international arbitration and mediation for the Los Angeles-based law firm, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. He is licensed as an attorney in both California and New York, and in the District of Columbia, and as a solicitor in England and Wales.
14"/50 caliber railway gun
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 14"/50 caliber railway guns were spare US Navy Mk 4 14 inch/50 caliber guns mounted on railway cars and operated by US Navy crews in France in the closing months of World War I.
2008 Thomas & Uber Cup
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 Thomas & Uber Cup was the 25th tournament of the Thomas Cup and 22nd tournament of the Uber Cup, the men`s and women`s team competition in badminton, respectively. It was held in Jakarta, Indonesia from May 11 to May 18, 2008.
Old Whaler`s Church (Sag Harbor)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! First Presbyterian Church in Sag Harbor, New York, also known as Old Whaler`s Church, is a historic and architecturally notable Presbyterian church built in 1844 in the Egyptian Revival style. The church is Sag Harbor`s "most distinguished landmark." Town boosters call the facade "the most important (surviving) example of Egyptian revival style in the United States," and "the best example of the Egyptian Revival style in the U.S. today.
Shoukri brothers
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! TheShoukri brothers are a pair of Egyptian-Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary members. Andre Khalef Shoukri was born in 1977, the son of a Coptic Christian Egyptian father and a Northern Irish mother. He was alleged to have taken over the north Belfast Ulster Defence Association (UDA) leadership. In July 2003 he received a two-year prison sentence for unlawful possession of a gun and received a nine year sentence for various crimes in 2007. Ihab Shoukri, who was the older brother by three years, died in 2008.
Shahrir Abdul Samad
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Datuk Seri Utama Shahrir Abdul Samad (born 22 November 1949) is the former Malaysian Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, a member of Parliament, and the former chairman of the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club (BNBBC). He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation, the largest political party in the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition. In Parliament — specifically the lower house of Parliament, the Dewan Rakyat — he represents the constituency of Johor Bahru in the state of Johor.
King Street (Roman road)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! King Street is the name of a modern road on the line of a Roman road (map. It runs on a straight course in eastern England, between the City of Peterborough and South Kesteven in Lincolnshire. This English name has long been applied to the part which is still in use and which lies between Ailsworth Heath (here), in the south and Kate`s Bridge (here), in the north. The old road continued to Bourne thence north-westwards to join Ermine Street south of Ancaster (here). This part of Ermine Street is called High Dike. In the south, King Street joined Ermine Street close to the River Nene, north of Durobrivae. The whole is I.D. Margary`s Roman road number 26. (Margary pp.232-234)
Peter Lorimer
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Peter Patrick Lorimer (born 14 December 1946 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former footballer who formed part of the much-admired and feared Leeds United team of the 1960s and 1970s.
Lord George Hamilton
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lord George Francis Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP (17 December 1845 – 22 September 1927) was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Underground Atlanta
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Underground Atlanta is a shopping and entertainment district in the Five Points neighborhood of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, near the intersection of the east and west MARTA rail lines. First opened in 1969, it takes advantage of the viaducts built over the city`s many railroad tracks to accommodate later automobile traffic. Each level has two main halls, still called Upper and Lower Alabama and Pryor Streets.
Julie Anne Robinson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Julie Anne Robinson is a British theatre, television, and film director perhaps best known for her work on British television. She earned BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for directing the first half of the BBC miniseries Blackpool. In 2009, Robinson completed work on her first feature film, the American Touchstone Pictures film The Last Song.
Floatopia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Floatopia is a social event that has taken place in Santa Barbara, California since 2004. Floatopia was originated in 2003 by UCSB students Yvonne Foletta and Christina Troutner. Between 2004-2007 it had a relatively small following maintained by UCSB club soccer members Chris Arreguin and Joe Ferreira. These years attendance usually maxed out with 500-1000 participants.
Sopogy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sopogy a solar thermal technology supplier was founded in 2002 at the Honolulu, Hawaii based clean technology incubator known as Energy Laboratories. The company began its research on concentrating solar thermal energy to produce steam and thermal heat for absorption chiller. The company has also developed applications that incorporate its solar collectors to generate electricity. Sopogy`s name origin comes from industry key words "SO" from Solar "PO" from "Power" and "GY" from "Energy and Technology" The company has a Research and Development team located in Honolulu, HI, with a Silicon Valley manufacturing facility.
Ritz Newspaper
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ritz Newspaper, colloquially Ritz Magazine, sometimes simply Ritz, was a British magazine focusing on gossip, celebrity and fashion. It was launched in 1976 by David Bailey and David Litchfield, who acted as co-editors. Published on newsprint and described by Litchfield as "the Lou Reed of publishing", it sold 25,000 copies a month at its peak in 1981. It ran for fifteen years, though at the beginning of the 1990s it lost readership to glossy titles such as Tatler. It closed temporarily in October 1988. Redesigned in A4 format on matt art stock paper by Art Director Tony Judge, it relaunched early in 1989 with funding from the property developer Neville Roberts, finally closing in the early 1990s.
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