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Sundance Kid
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 – c. November 6, 1908), better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy`s Wild Bunch, in the American Old West. Longabaugh likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert Leroy Parker) after Parker was released from prison around 1896. Together with the other members of "The Wild Bunch" gang, they performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American history.
Dragon 32/64
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Dragon 32 and Dragon 64 are home computers that were built in the 1980s. The Dragons are very similar to the TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo), and were produced for the European market by Dragon Data, Ltd., in Port Talbot, Wales, and for the US market by Tano of New Orleans, Louisiana. The model numbers reflect the primary difference between the two machines, which have 32 and 64 kilobytes of RAM, respectively.
Ahmed Omaid Khpalwak
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ahmad Omaid Khpalwak, also spelled as Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, (1987? - 28 July 2011) was an Afghan journalist who worked for the Pajhwok Afghan News and as a freelance stringer for the BBC since 2008. Khpalwak was the third journalist frm Pajhwok to be killed in three years. He was the third BBC reporter to be killed in Afghanistan and the second BBC reporter to be killed in the War in Afghanistan.
List of the busiest airports in Turkey
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The tables below contain General Directorate of State Airports Authority of Turkey (DHMI) data from 2007 to 2009, on the busiest airports in Turkey by total passenger traffic, including information on international, domestic and transit counterparts. The data also shows total aircraft movements and cargo volume handled at each airport.
Composite baseball bat
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Composite baseball bats incorporate a recent advancement in the technology of aluminum baseball bats for high school and collegiate players. In general, composite bats are constructed with the same aluminum exterior as standard aluminum baseball bats, but have a "woven" graphite wall on the inside. Composite bats provide an advantageous swing weight, an improved trampoline effect, a lower bending stiffness, and a higher damping rate. Recently, composite baseball bats have come under scrutiny because tests performed by the NCAA during the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament showed that the majority of composite bats used during the championship failed the BESR test.
Monosaccharide nomenclature
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Monosaccharide nomenclature is a set of conventions used in chemistry to name the compounds known as monosaccharides or "simple sugars" — the basic structural units of carbohydrates, which cannot be hydrolysed into simpler units.
Skint & Demoralised
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Skint & Demoralised are a UK lyric-based alternative indie/pop act, fronted by 22-year-old Matt Abbott from Wakefield, West Yorkshire and produced by MiNI dOG from Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Newry Bosco GFC
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Newry Bosco GFC are a Gaelic Athletic Association gaelic football club from Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Palazzo Labia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Palazzo Labia is a baroque palace in Venice, Italy. Built in the 17th-18th century, it is one of the last great palazzi of Venice. Little known outside of Italy, it is most notable for the remarkable frescoed ballroom painted between (1746-47) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, with decorative works in trompe l`oeil by Gerolamo Mengozzi-Colonna.
Field gun competition
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Royal Navy`s field gun competition is a contest between teams from various Royal Navy commands, in which teams of sailors compete to transport a field gun and its equipment over and through a series of obstacles in the shortest time. The competition evolved during the first 6 years of the 20th century. The format, using walls and a chasm to negotiate, was held annually at the Royal Tournament in London from 1907 until 1999, apart from the periods during the World Wars. The "Inter-Port", or Command Competition was contested by teams from the Royal Navy annually, and was probably the most popular item at the Royal Tournament.
Half Hollow Hills Central School District
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Half Hollow Hills Central School District (#5) is located in Dix Hills and Melville, New York. The district includes parts of both Huntington and Babylon townships. The school district contains eleven schools (seven elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools). The current superintendent of schools is Mrs. Kelly Fallon.
Sherwood College
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sherwood College is a co-educational residential school in Nainital, Uttarakhand, India, serving grades 3 - 12.
Jack Nitzsche
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche (22 April 1937 – 25 August 2000) was an arranger, producer, songwriter, and film score composer. He first came to prominence in the late 1950s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and others. He also worked extensively in film scores, winning a song of the year Oscar in 1983 for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" (from An Officer and a Gentleman.)
Stephanie Mills
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stephanie Dorthea Mills (born March 22, 1957) is an American R&B and soul singer, and a former Broadway star.
Space Crusade
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Space Crusade is an adventure board game produced by Milton Bradley in conjunction with Games Workshop and was first made in 1990. While produced in the UK and available in some other countries including Finland, Ireland, France, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand, it was never sold in North America. In Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, it is known as Star Quest.
Lizard (album)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lizard is the third album by the British band King Crimson, released in 1970. It was the second recorded by a transitional line-up of the group that never had the opportunity to perform live, following In the Wake of Poseidon. This would be the first (and only) album to feature bassist/vocalist Gordon Haskell, apart from his appearance on the song "Cadence and Cascade" from the previous album, and drummer Andy McCulloch as official members of the band.
Deutsche Telekom
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Deutsche Telekom AG (abbreviated DTAG, English: German Telecom) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Europe. Deutsche Telekom was formed in 1996 as the former state-owned monopoly Deutsche Bundespost was privatized. As of June 2008, the German government still holds a 15% stake in company stock directly, and another 17% through the government bank KfW.
List of people from Quebec
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! List of famous Quebecers: citizens of the Canadian province of Quebec.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! La Pointe is a town in Ashland County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The town includes all of the Apostle Islands. There is also an unincorporated community named La Pointe on Madeline Island, the largest of the Apostle Islands (and the only one open for commercial development). The population was 246 at the 2000 census. Its name in the Anishinaabe language is Mooningwanekaaning, meaning "The Home of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker (see:Yellow-shafted Flicker)."
Aviation Traders
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aviation Traders Limited (ATL) was a war-surplus aircraft and spares trader formed in 1947. In 1949, it began maintaining aircraft used by some of Britain`s contemporary independent airlines on the Berlin Airlift. In the early 1950s, it branched out into aircraft conversions and manufacturing. During that period it also became a subcontractor for other aircraft manufacturers. By the end of the decade, it was taken over by the Airwork group.
Patrick Webb
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Patrick Webb (born March 10, 1959) is Dean for Academic Affairs of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.
Nikolsky District, Vologda Oblast
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nikolsky District (Russian: Никольский район) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia.Municipally, it is incorporated as Nikolsky Municipal District. It is located in the southeast of the oblast and borders with Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District in the north, Vokhomsky District of Kostroma Oblast in the east, Pavinsky, Pyshchugsky, Mezhevskoy, and Kologrivsky Districts of Kostroma Oblast in the south, Babushkinsky District in the southwest, and Nyuksensky District in the west. The area of the district is 7,476 square kilometers (2,886 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Nikolsk. District`s population: 22,417 (2010...
Alice in Chains personnel
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alice in Chains have undergone only two lineup changes since their formation in 1987, with guitarist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney remaining constant members. The first lineup change occurred in 1993 when Mike Inez replaced founding bassist Mike Starr; the second came in 2006 when William DuVall began filling in for original lead singer Layne Staley, who died four years earlier.
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