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West Chicago, Illinois
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Template:Infobox Chicagoland municipality West Chicago is a city in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 23,469 at the 2000 census. It was formerly named Turner Junction after its founder, John B. Turner, president of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) in 1855. The city was initially established around the first junction of railroad lines in Illinois, and today is still served by the Union Pacific/West Metra service via West Chicago station.
Guyton, Georgia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Guyton is a city in Effingham County, Georgia, United States. The population was 917 at the 2000 census, although a 2008 estimate by the Census Bureau places the population above 1,900. Guyton is part of the Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is by Altman and Brian McKay from the novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton. The cinematography is by Vilmos Zsigmond and the soundtrack includes three songs by Leonard Cohen issued on his 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen. As one of Altman`s naturalist films, the director called it an "anti-western film" because the film ignores or subverts a number of Western conventions.
Summerfest
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Summerfest (also known as "The Big Gig") is a yearly music festival held at the 75-acre (300,000 m2) Henry Maier Festival Park along the lakefront in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The festival lasts for 11 days, is made up of 11 stages with performances from over 700 bands, and since the mid-1970s has run from late June through early July, usually including the 4th of July holiday. Summerfest attracts between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people each year, promoting itself as "The World`s Largest Music Festival," a title certified by the Guinness World Records in 1999.
Harry Marks
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Harry Hananel Marks (9 April 1855 – 21 December 1916) was a British politician and journalist, who founded the Financial News in 1884.
Viva Rio
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Viva Rio, a nongovernmental organization based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was founded in December 1993 to combat the growing violence in the city. The organization has expanded into a multinational organization with a goal “to promote a culture of peace and social development through field work, research and formulation of public policies” . Its mission statement is “to integrate a divided society and develop a culture of peace, integrating with civil society and public policies, working at grassroots and internationally through: designing and testing solutions to social problems, consultancies, advocacy, training, campaigns, communication” .
2003 OFC U-20 Championship
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2003 OFC U-20 Qualifying Tournament was held in Fiji and Vanuatu from December 7 to December 22, 2002 to determine the entrant into the 2003 FIFA U-20 World Cup. The match schedule was revised following the late withdrawal of the Cook Islands from Group A.
Middlesex Yeomanry
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron is a unit of the Royal Corps of Signals within the British Territorial Army.
Religious use of incense
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Religious use of incense has its origins in antiquity. The burned incense may be intended as a sacrificial offering to various deity or to serve as an aid in prayer.
London Buses route 120
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! London Buses route 120 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to London United.
Marsha Sharp
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Marsha Sharp (born August 31, 1952) is the former head coach of Texas Tech University`s women`s basketball team, the Lady Raiders. She retired after twenty-three years at the conclusion of the 2005/06 season.
Santa Ysabel Stakes
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Santa Ysabel Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the second week of January at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. A Grade III event, the race is open to fillies, age three, willing to race one and one-sixteenths miles (8.5 furlongs) on the Pro-Ride synthetic dirt.
Mike Pelfrey
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Alan "Mike" Pelfrey (born January 14, 1984, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio) is a starting pitcher for the New York Mets in Major League Baseball. He is a 6` 7", 230-pound right-handed groundball pitcher.
1976 NFL season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1976 NFL season was the 57th regular season of the National Football League. The league expanded to 28 teams with the addition of the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This fulfilled one of the conditions agreed to in 1966 for the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger, which called for the league to expand to 28 teams by 1970 or soon thereafter.
JetTrain
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The JetTrain is a Canadian experimental high-speed passenger train created by Bombardier Transportation in an attempt to make European-style high-speed service more financially appealing to passenger railways in North America. It uses the same LRC-derived tilting carriages as the Acela Express trains that Bombardier built for Amtrak in the 1990s and a similar locomotive. Unlike the Acela, which the United States required to be powered electrically by overhead lines (as are most other high-speed trains), the JetTrain was designed to use petroleum based fuel to power a diesel engine and multiple turboshaft engines for higher speeds.
Killa Sin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Killa Sin is considered the best-known member of Killarmy and is regarded as one of the most skilled Wu-Tang Clan affiliates.
POWER6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The POWER6 is a microprocessor developed by IBM that implemented the Power ISA v.2.03. When it became available in systems in 2007, it succeeded the POWER5+ as IBM`s flagship Power microprocessor. It is part of the eCLipz project, said to have a goal of converging IBM`s server hardware where practical (hence "ipz" in the acronym: iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries).
Walter Kasper
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Kasper (born 5 March 1933 in Heidenheim an der Brenz) is a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, having served as its President from 2001 to 2010. Kasper can speak German, English and Italian.
Bang & Olufsen
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bang & Olufsen (B&O, OMX: BO B) is a Danish company that designs and manufactures audio products, television sets and telephones. It was founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, whose first significant product was a radio that worked with alternating current, when most radios were run from batteries. In 2004, the company opened a factory in the Czech Republic where it employs approximately 250 staff producing mainly audio products.
Cadherin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cadherins (named for "calcium-dependent adhesion") are a class of type-1 transmembrane proteins. They play important roles in cell adhesion, ensuring that cells within tissues are bound together. They are dependent on calcium (Ca2+) ions to function, hence their name.
Colac, Victoria
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Colac is a small city located in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, situated approximately 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne on the southern shore of Lake Colac and the surrounding volcanic plains, approximately 40 km inland from Bass Strait. Colac is the largest city in and administrative centre of the Colac Otway Shire. At the 2006 census, Colac had a population of 10,857.
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