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The Oaktree Foundation
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Oaktree Foundation is an Australian-based aid and development Publicly Limited Company run by young people aged 16 to 26. Internationally, Oaktree partners with developing communities to support quality educational opportunities for young people. In Australia, Oaktree focuses on educating and training young people to be effective agents of change, as well as lobbying for policy change through sustained, community-driven campaigns.
John Patten (representative)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Major John Patten (April 26, 1746 – December 26, 1800) was an American farmer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was an officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman, and a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Representative from Delaware.
Islands of the Midwest
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a partial list of islands of the Midwestern United States.
Gyroball
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A gyroball is a type of baseball pitch used primarily by players in Japan.
Reading Terminal Market
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Reading Terminal Market is an enclosed public market found at 12th and Arch Streets in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Over one hundred merchants offer fresh produce, meats, fish, groceries, ice cream, flowers, baked goods, crafts, books, clothing, and specialty and ethnic foods. Every space in the market is rented out; three of the vendors are descendants of original market merchants. The market is open every day of the week (regular hours: M-Sat: 8am-6pm; Sun: 9am-5pm). The Pennsylvania Dutch merchants (a small but significant minority) generally do not operate Sunday through Tuesday.
Third-party beneficiary
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A third party beneficiary, in the law of contracts, is a person who may have the right to sue on a contract, despite not having originally been an active party to the contract. This right, known as a ius quaesitum tertio, arises where the third party (tertius or alteri) is the intended beneficiary of the contract, as opposed to an incidental beneficiary. It vests when the third party relies on or assents to the relationship, and gives the third party the right to sue either the promisor (promittens, or performing party) or the promisee (stipulans, or anchor party) of the contract, depending on the circumstances under which the relationship was created. A contract made in favor of a third party...
1900 in literature
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The year 1900 in literature involved some significant new books and publications, as well as the deaths of several highly prominent writers, including among them the late Irish poet Oscar Wilde and the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Oneida, New York
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oneida is a city in Madison County located west of Oneida Castle (in Oneida County) and east of Canastota, New York, United States. The population was 10,987 at the 2000 census. The city, like both Oneida County and the nearby silver and china maker, takes its name from the Oneida tribe. Some members of the tribe are still concentrated in the municipal vicinity.
Strangers in Paradise
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Strangers in Paradise is a long-running, mostly self-published black-and-white comic book, written and drawn by Terry Moore. The series has reached its planned conclusion, finishing off in 2007 with issue #90 of volume 3.
William Martin Morris
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Martin Morris, DD (born 8 October 1943 in Brisbane) served as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba in Australia between 1992 and 2011. In May 2011, the Holy See removed Bishop Morris from pastoral care of the Diocese, attracting international press coverage.
SJI International
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint Joseph`s Institution International is an independent coeducational Catholic international school in Singapore with approximately 700 students aged 12–18. It was founded in 2006 and was the third "local international" school in Singapore, after Anglo-Chinese School International and Hwa Chong International School.
Biofortification
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biofortification is a method of breeding crops to increase their nutritional value. This can be done either through conventional selective breeding, or through genetic engineering. Biofortification differs from ordinary fortification because it focuses on making plant foods more nutritious as the plants are growing, rather than having nutrients added to the foods when they are being processed. This is an improvement on ordinary fortification when it comes to providing nutrients for the rural poor, who rarely have access to commercially fortified foods. As such, biofortification is seen as an upcoming strategy for dealing with deficiencies of micronutrients in the developing world.
German submarine U-101 (1940)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! German submarine U-101 was a Type VIIB U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. U-101 had a highly successful career.
Leaf (Israeli company)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Leaf previously a division of Scitex and later Kodak, but now a part of Phase One. Leaf manufactures high end (medium format) professional digital photography products. In 1991, Leaf introduced the first medium format digital camera back, the Leaf DCB1, nicknamed ‘The Brick’, which had a resolution of 4 million pixels (4 megapixels). As of January 2011, Leaf produces the Aptus line of digital camera backs, ranging from 22 to 80 megapixels. Until 2010, Leaf also produced photography workflow software.
No Future for You
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "No Future for You" is the second story arc of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight series of comic books, based upon the television series of the same name, and is written by Brian K. Vaughan. The storyarc would be reprinted in trade paperback under the publication of Dark Horse Comics on June 4, 2008.
Unity (comics)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Unity is a company-wide crossover story published by Valiant Comics in the summer of 1992.
Mo Williams
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maurice "Mo" Williams (born December 19, 1982, in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. After a successful high school career at Murrah High School, Williams attended college at the University of Alabama where he led his team as a freshman to a 27-8 record, and also shared an SEC regular season championship. After two solid seasons at Alabama, Williams entered the 2003 NBA Draft, and was selected as the 47th pick of the second round by the Utah Jazz. The following year he signed with the Milwaukee Bucks as a free agent. Williams was given the starting point guard position after...
Nikifor Grigoriev
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nikifor Grigoriev (c. 1885 – July 27, 1919) was born Nychypir Servetnyk in a small village of Zastavlia (now in the Nova Ushytsia Raion, Ukraine) was a paramilitary leader noted for numerous switching of sides and anti-Semitism. He was commonly known as "Otaman Grigoriev", as "Matviy Hryhoriyiv", "Matvey Grigoriev", or "Mykola Grigoriev".
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