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Belizean Creole people
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Belizean Creoles, locally known as Kriols, are Creole descendants of English and Scottish (the Baymen) log cutters, as well as Black African slaves brought to Belize. Other small minorities include Creoles and the Miskito from Nicaragua, Jamaicans, and other West Indians who assisted in the logging industry. These varied peoples have all mixed to create this ethnic group. Kriol was historically only spoken by them, but this ethnicity has become synonymous with the Belizean national identity, and as a result the Kriol is now spoken by about 75% of Belizeans. Found predominantly in urban areas such as Belize City, this group is also found in most coastal towns and villages, and in the Belize...
For Want of a Nail (novel)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga, is an alternate history novel published in 1973 by the American business historian Robert Sobel. The novel depicts an alternate world where the American Revolution was unsuccessful. Although it is fiction, the novel takes the form of a work of nonfiction, specifically an undergraduate-level history of North America from 1763 to 1971. The fictional history includes a full scholarly apparatus, including a bibliography of 475 works and 860 footnotes citing imaginary books and articles; three appendices listing the leaders of the Confederation of North America, the United States of Mexico and Kramer Associates; an index; a contemporary map of the...
S.F. Sorrow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! S.F. Sorrow is the title of the fourth LP by the British rock group The Pretty Things, released in 1968.
Andrew Prine
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Andrew Lewis Prine (born February 14, 1936) is an American film, stage, and television actor.
Axl Rotten
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Brian Knighton (born April 21, 1971) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Axl Rotten.
Economy Act
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Economy Act of 1933, officially titled the Act of March 20, 1933 (ch. 3, Pub.L. 73-2, 48 Stat. 8, enacted March 20, 1933; 38 U.S.C. § 701), is an Act of Congress that cut the salaries of federal workers and reduced benefit payments to veterans, moves intended to reduce the federal deficit in the United States.
David Berg
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Brandt Berg (18 February 1919 in Oakland, California, United States - 1 October 1994 in Portugal), frequently known by the pseudonym Moses David, was the founder and leader of the New Religious Movement formerly called Children of God, now called "The Family International".
The Seeds of Death
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Seeds of Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 25 January to 1 March 1969. It is distinguished as the second appearance of the Ice Warriors.
Madison River
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Madison River is a headwater tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 183 miles (295 km) long, in Wyoming and Montana. Its confluence with the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers near Three Forks, Montana form the Missouri River.
Direct product
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In mathematics, one can often define a direct product of objects already known, giving a new one. This is generally the Cartesian product of the underlying sets, together with a suitably defined structure on the product set. More abstractly, one talks about the product in category theory, which formalizes these notions.
List of magic museums
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There are nineteen notable (all but one are publicly accessible) museums concerning magic, magicians and magical apparatus.
2011 in Singapore
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Events in the year 2011 in Singapore.
DD68 Redux
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The DD68 Redux "68 Desert Duck Redux" or just "Redux" is a Nelson-based pump-action paintball marker produced by Steve Brett at Von Kampen Corporation and based on the late David Loo`s DD68 Desert Duck.
Oregon Iron Company
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Oregon Iron Company was an iron smelting company located in what is now Lake Oswego, Oregon. The company was established in 1865, and in 1867, became the first company in the United States to smelt iron west of the Rocky Mountains. The company failed after a few years, but was reorganized as the Oswego Iron Company in 1878, and again as the Oregon Iron and Steel Company in 1883. With the addition of a larger furnace, this last incarnation of the company prospered, reaching peak production in 1890. By 1894, however, pressure from cheaper imported iron combined with the effects of the Panic of 1893 forced the company to close its smelter. The company continued to operate a pipe foundry until...
NBA Live 10
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NBA Live 10 is the 2009 installment in the NBA Live series, developed and published by Electronic Arts. Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic is the cover athlete. It was released on October 6, 2009. This is the final game to be known as NBA Live. Next year the NBA Live series changed its name to the NBA Elite series.
1984 1000 km of Monza
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1984 Trofeo Filippo Caracciolo was the opening round of the 1984 World Endurance Championship. It took place at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy on 23 April 1984.
Durham County (TV series)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Durham County is a one-hour Canadian dramatic television series produced by Back Alley Film Productions Ltd. and Muse Entertainment Enterprises. It stars Hugh Dillon as Mike Sweeney, a homicide detective who finds that moving back home comes with trouble and danger.
The Boys` Brigade in the United Kingdom
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Boys` Brigade is the largest Christian uniformed youth organisation in the United Kingdom. Its British headquarters are located at Felden Lodge, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Companies in other countries may have their own national headquarters. In 2008, they celebrated their 125th anniversary.
George Bogle (diplomat)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! George Bogle (1746–1781) was a Scottish adventurer and diplomat, the first to establish diplomatic relations with Tibet and to attempt recognition by the Chinese Qing Empire. His mission is still used today as a reference point in debates between China and Tibetan independence activists.
Bell 429
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bell 429 is a light, twin-engine helicopter developed by Bell Helicopter and Korea Aerospace Industries, based on the Bell 427. First flight of the Bell 429 prototype took place on February 27, 2007, and received type certification on July 1, 2009. The Bell 429 is capable of single-pilot IFR and Runway Category A operations. The Bell 429 costs approximately US$5 million as of early 2010.
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