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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ripon Cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds and the mother church of the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, situated in the small North Yorkshire city of Ripon, England.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ken MacLeod (born 2 August 1954), is a Scottish science fiction writer. MacLeod was born in Stornoway. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics. His novels often explore socialist, communist and anarchist political ideas, most particularly the variants of Trotskyism (MacLeod was a Trotskyist activist in the 1970s and early 1980s) and anarcho-capitalism or extreme economic libertarianism. Technical themes encompass singularities, divergent human cultural evolution and post-human cyborg-resurrection. MacLeod`s general outlook can be best described as techno-utopian socialist, though unlike a...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Revolution Analytics (formerly REvolution Computing) is a statistical software company focused on developing "open-core" versions of the free and open source software R for enterprise, academic and analytics customers. Revolution Analytics was founded in 2007 as REvolution Computing providing support and services for R in a model similar to Red Hat`s approach with Linux in the 1990s as well as bolt-on additions for parallel processing. In 2009 the company received nine million in venture capital from Intel along with a private equity firm and named Norman H. Nie as their new CEO. In 2010 the company announced the name change as well as a change in focus. Their core product, Revolution R, would...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Exercise Verity was a 1949 multilateral naval training exercise involving 60 warships from the British, French, and Dutch navies for the newly formed Western Union, the precursor to the Western European Union (WEU). A contemporary newsreel described this exercise as involving "the greatest assembly of warships since the Battle of Jutland."

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy contains the three books, Shiver (Released 1 August 2009), Linger (Released 13 July 2010) and Forever (Released 12 July 2011). The books follow Grace Brisbane and Sam Roth. Shiver is written from both Grace and Sam`s point of view. Linger is written from Grace, Sam, Isabel and Cole`s view point. Forever is written from Grace, Sam, Isabel and Cole`s point of view, with a small prologue from Shelby. The book series is based in the fictional town Mercy Falls. Author Maggie Stiefvater has said that the real town of Ely in Minnesota would be the closest in destination to Mercy Falls.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of properties and districts in Franklin County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vavuniya Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Vavuniya in Vavuniya District, Northern Province. The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka introduced the proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament. The existing 160 mainly single-member electoral districts were replaced with 22 multi-member electoral districts. Vavuniya electoral district was replaced by the Vanni multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Vavuniya continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1933 Pittsburgh Pirates was the debut season of the team that would eventually become the Pittsburgh Steelers. The team was founded after Pennsylvania relaxed its blue laws that, prior to 1933, prohibited sporting events from taking place on Sundays, when most NFL games took place. The new squad was composed largely of local semi-pro players, many of whom played for sports promoter Art Rooney. Rooney became the Pirates owner, paying the NFL a $2,500 fee to join the league. Except for a brief period in 1940 and `41, Rooney would remain the franchise`s principle owner until his death in 1988. The Rooney family has retained a controlling interest ever since. The team would take the field for...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rowan Companies, Inc. (NYSE: RDC), founded in 1923 and based in Houston, Texas, is an S&P 500 company which provides contract oil well drilling services and rigs, and manufactures equipment for drilling as well as for mining and timber industries. Rowan Companies is located at 2800 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 5450, in Houston, Texas. W. Matt Ralls is President, and Chief Executive Officer.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Midland College (MC) was established as an independent junior college in 1972 and held its first classes on campus in 1975. Since that time, the campus has expanded to a 704,752-square-foot (65,473.6 m2) main campus on 224 acres (0.91 km2) in Midland, Texas, United States - a county seat of over 100,000 people in the Permian Basin region of west Texas and southeast New Mexico. The school also has numerous `off-campus` locations in other parts of Midland, and in Fort Stockton, Texas, the Pecos County seat.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Anthony Proctor (born 3 October 1980) is a former English footballer. He was born in Sunderland, England.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Osteonectin (ON) also known as secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC) or basement-membrane protein 40 (BM-40) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SPARC gene.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bud Neill (1911–1970) was a Scottish cartoonist who drew cartoon strips for a number of Glasgow based newspapers between the 1940s and 1960s. Following his death, his work has attained cult status with a worldwide following.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Millrose Games is an annual indoor athletics meet (track and field) held on the first Friday in February in New York City. They will be held at the Armory in Washington Heights in 2012, after having taken place in Madison Square Garden from 1914 to 2011. The games were started when employees of the New York City branch of Wanamaker`s department store formed the Millrose Track Club to hold a meet. The featured event is the Wanamaker Mile.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John David Jackson (born January 19, 1925) is a Canadian–American physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A theoretical physicist, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well known for numerous publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely used graduate text on classical electromagnetism.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nicholas James "Nicky" Weaver (born 2 March 1979) is an English footballer who is a goalkeeper currently playing for League One club Sheffield Wednesday. Weaver is a former England under-21 international.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Garden Museum, formerly known as the Museum of Garden History, is based in the deconsecrated parish church of St Mary-at-Lambeth adjacent to Lambeth Palace on the south bank of the River Thames in London, located on Lambeth Road. The church originally housed the 15th and 16th century tombs of many members of the Howard family, including now-lost memorial brasses to Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (died 1524), his wife Agnes Tilney, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1545) and is also the burial place of Queen Anne Boleyn`s mother Elizabeth Boleyn, formerly Howard.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stena Line is one of the world`s largest ferry operators, with ferry services serving Scotland, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Norway, England, Wales, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. Stena Line is a major unit of Stena AB, itself a part of the Stena Sphere, a grouping of Stena AB, Stena Metall AB and Stena Sessan AB. Stena Line also owns the Swedish vessels of the otherwise German- and Danish-owned Scandlines.