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Game score
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Game Score is a metric devised by Bill James to determine the strength of a pitcher in any particular baseball game. To determine a starting pitcher`s game score:
Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector is an accessory, developed jointly by Nintendo and Buffalo Technology, which allows Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS and Wii users without a Wi-Fi connection or compatible Wi-Fi network to establish one via a broadband-connected PC. Inserted into the host PC`s USB port, the connector functions with Nintendo DS, Wii, DSi, 3DS permitting the user to connect to the Internet to play Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection games and various other online functionality. The product was the best selling Nintendo accessory to date, according to the official Nintendo site on 15 November 2007, but was discontinued in the same month until further notice. On September 8, 2008, Nintendo...
Wheeler`s delayed choice experiment
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wheeler`s delayed choice experiment is a thought experiment proposed by John Archibald Wheeler in 1978, and later confirmed. Wheeler proposed a variation of the famous double-slit experiment of quantum physics, one in which the method of detection can be changed after the photon passes the double slit, so as to delay the choice of whether to detect the path of the particle, or detect its interference with itself. Since the measurement itself seems to determine how the particle passes through the double slits, and thus its state as a wave or particle, Wheeler`s thought experiment has been useful in trying to understand certain strange properties of quantum particles. An implementation of the...
ERT World
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ERT World (formerly ERT SAT) is an internationally-broadcast Greek language channel run by Greece`s national broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT). Programming includes a mix of news, discussion-based programmes, drama, documentaries, entertainment shows as well as sports coverage including live games from Greece`s top soccer league- Super League Greece.
Allister Carter
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Allister "Ali" Carter (born 25 July 1979, Colchester, Essex, England) is an English professional snooker player, who lives in Tiptree. He reached the final of the 2008 World Championship, his first major final. Although he lost heavily to Ronnie O`Sullivan, this run allowed him to reach the top 8 of the rankings for the first time. Since then he has won two ranking events.
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones is an animated TV movie, featuring the first meeting between the characters from The Flintstones and The Jetsons. Made by Hanna-Barbera, it first aired on November 9, 1987, as part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series.
Henri de Lubac
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Henri-Marie de Lubac, SJ (February 20, 1896—September 4, 1991) was a French Jesuit priest who became a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, and is considered to be one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. His writings and doctrinal research played a key role in the shaping of the Second Vatican Council.
Richard A. Cohen
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard A. Cohen (born 1952) is an author and one of America`s best known conversion therapists. Cohen gives lectures and runs seminars and workshops on his ideas about the causes of homosexuality and how he and others have offered conversion treatment to homosexuals. Cohen claims to have converted himself and many others from homosexuality to heterosexuality; such individuals are sometimes referred to as "ex-gay".
Napoleon Hill
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich (1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill`s death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies). Hill`s works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933-36. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill`s hallmark expressions. How achievement...
Check valve
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A check valve, clack valve, non-return valve or one-way valve is a mechanical device, a valve, which normally allows fluid (liquid or gas) to flow through it in only one direction.
Crockery Township, Michigan
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Crockery Township is a civil township of Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 3,782.
Barathea (horse)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barathea (2 March 1990 – 14 May 2009) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, best known for winning the 1994 Breeders` Cup Mile at Churchill Downs. He went on to become a successful stallion.
Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, born on June 8, 1979, in Alamata, Ethiopia, is an Ethiopian public intellectual based in Addis Ababa. Weldemariam graduated summa cum laude with a Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies from the European University Center for Peace Studies, at Stadtschlaining, in April 2009, Austria, where he is also a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar. Besides, he is a Fellow of the Academy for International Business Officials, in Beijing, China. He received his LL.B degree from Addis Ababa University School of Law in July 2005.
Program for Torture Victims
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Program for Torture Victims (PTV) is a non-profit organization that provides medical, psychological, case management and legal services to torture survivors. PTV serves more than 300 victims of state-sponsored torture from over 65 countries annually.
Kingsley Green
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kingsley Green is a mental health and learning disabiity site located in Hertfordshire, England, just southeast of the village of London Colney. Located on Harper Lane, Shenley, Herts WD7 9HQ, it was known as Harperbury Hospital for 61 years and has been a fixture of the area`s mental health scene since 1928. It had two sister institutions, Shenley Hospital and Napsbury Hospital, within a few miles of its location.
Gidgee Gold Mine
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Gidgee Gold Mine is a gold mine in Western Australia, 82 km north of the town of Sandstone. The mine was, until recently, owned by APEX Minerals NL, but purchased by Panoramic Resources in February 2011. The mine is currently in care and maintenance.
Ellis Unit
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! O. B. Ellis Unit (E1, previously Ellis I Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison located in unincorporated Walker County, Texas, 12 miles (19 km) north of Huntsville. The unit, with about 11,427 square feet (1,061.6 m2) of space, now houses up to 2,400 male prisoners. Ellis is situated in a wooded area shared with the Estelle Unit, which is located 3 miles (4.8 km) away from Ellis.
Lip Service (TV series)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lip Service is a British television serial drama portraying the lives of a group of lesbians living in Glasgow, Scotland. Production on the series, which stars Laura Fraser, Ruta Gedmintas and Fiona Button, began in summer 2009 in Glasgow. The show debuted on BBC Three on 12 October 2010. The series will screen in Australia on the Showcase channel commencing 19th June 2011. A second series was confirmed with filming beginning on 30 May 2011.
List of The X Factor (UK) finalists
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The X Factor is British talent reality television series that first aired in 2004. As of December 2010, there have been seven completed series. The final round of the competition features a number of solo singers or vocal groups: nine for the first series, twelve for series two to six, and sixteen for series seven and eight. A total of 101 acts have reached the finals of their series.
Eartha Kitt discography
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This article contains the discography of American singer Eartha Kitt.
Kristyna Myles
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kristyna Myles (born 10 May 1984) is a British singer-songwriter who is currently based in Manchester. Originally from Leicestershire, she came into prominence after winning Busk Idol, a 2005 nationwide singing competition organised by BBC Radio 5 Live. Since winning, she has featured on albums by Chris de Burgh and Rick Guard, and has performed on television programmes such as Songs of Praise, Wogan Now & Then and Play It Again. She also supported de Burgh on nine dates of his European tour. In 2009, she was nominated for a MOBO award as part of gospel act DTWG : Desire To Worship God and signed a five-album deal to Decca Records in 2010.
1917 New York Giants season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1917 New York Giants season was a season in Major League Baseball. It involved the Giants winning the National League pennant for the first time in four years. The team went on to lose to the Chicago White Sox in the 1917 World Series, four games to two.
Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects is an animated television film made by Hanna-Barbera. It premiered at 7:00pm on November 19, 1995 on TNT, and was the final iteration of classic Quest. The film was a follow-up to the series The New Adventures of Jonny Quest (1986) and the earlier TV-movie Jonny`s Golden Quest (1993), with the same actors voicing Dr. Quest (Don Messick) and Race Bannon (Granville Van Dusen), and was made as part of a "Year of Jonny Quest" campaign. Jonny`s original voice actor, Tim Matheson, returned as the voice of 4-DAC. When the movie began, the alternate title was called Jonny`s Global Impact. The plot featured "creepy cyberbugs, techno-speak and computer-assisted info...
Food Network Challenge
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Food Network Challenge is a competitive cooking television series that currently airs on the Food Network. Each episode, professional chefs compete in a timed competition in their professional specialty. The winner receives a check for $10,000 and a gold medal.
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