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IBM Future Systems project
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Future Systems project was a research and development project undertaken in IBM in the early `70s, aiming to develop a revolutionary line of computer products, including new software models which would simplify software development by exploiting modern powerful hardware.
Mont Pelerin Society
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mont Pelerin Society is an international organization composed of economists (including 8 winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences), philosophers, historians, intellectuals, business leaders, and others who favour classical liberalism. Its founders included Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper, Ludwig von Mises, George Stigler, and Milton Friedman.
Battle of the Nek
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of the Nek was a small World War I battle fought as part of the Gallipoli campaign. "The Nek" was a narrow stretch of ridge in the Anzac battlefield on the Gallipoli peninsula. The name derives from the Afrikaans word for a "mountain pass" but the terrain itself was a perfect bottleneck and easy to defend, as had been proven during an Ottoman attack in May. It connected the Anzac trenches on the ridge known as "Russell`s Top" to the knoll called "Baby 700" on which the Ottoman defenders were entrenched.
Artur Balder
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Artur Balder (born August 14, 1974) is a Spanish American filmmaker and writer.
Oliver Bevan
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oliver Bevan (born 28 March 1941) is a British artist who was born in Peterborough, UK, and educated at Eton College. After leaving school he spent a year in 1959-60 working for Voluntary Service Overseas in British North Borneo before returning to London to study painting at the Royal College of Art, where he became strongly influenced by Op Art and in particular the work of Victor Vasarely. Bevan graduated from the RCA in 1964 and had his first exhibition of Op Art-inspired paintings the following year. Optical, geometric and kinetic art then served him well until the late 1970s, when he moved to the Canadian prairies for a two-year teaching post at the University of Saskatchewan. By the time...
Petroleum refining processes
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Petroleum refining processes are those chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries (also referred to as oil refineries) to transform crude oil into useful products such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasoline or petrol, kerosene, jet fuel, diesel oil and fuel oils.
CFM Shadow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The CFM Shadow is a British ultralight aircraft designed in the 1980s. It is of high wing, pusher, pod and boom layout and seats two. About 400 have been built.
Eddy Blondeel
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lieutenant-Colonel Dr. (Dent.) Edouard "Eddy" Blondeel DSO (January 25, 1906 – May 23, 2000) was the wartime commander of the Belgian 5th SAS. After the war he was first C.O. of the 1st Regiment of Parachutists. He retired from the army in 1947 to work as an engineer with Wiggins Teape.
List of total Commonwealth War Graves Commission burials by country
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states; United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, established through Royal Charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces killed during the two World Wars. In this capacity, the Commission is responsible for the commemoration of 1.7 million Commonwealth servicemen and women in 150 countries worldwide.
1997 DFS Classic – Doubles
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elizabeth Smylie and Linda Wild were the defending champions but only Wild competed that year with Nathalie Tauziat.
2009 AFL Army Award
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Australian Football League celebrates the best act of selflessness or one percenter of the season through the annual AFL Army Award competition. The 2009 winner was Tom Hawkins of Geelong for his "brilliant smother followed by chase and tackle" in round 22.
Take a Girl Child to Work Day
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Take a Girl Child to Work Day is an annual corporate social investment event, held in South Africa since 2003. Companies involved organise for female learners (school pupils), usually from disadvantaged backgrounds, to spend the day at their place of work on the last Thursday of May. The initiative is organised by Cell C, a cellular service provider, and endorsed by the South African Department of Education. It has been called South Africa`s "largest collaborative act of volunteerism".
Tille trevally
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The tille trevally, Caranx tille (also known as the tille kingfish), is a species of large marine fish classified in the jack family, Carangidae. The tille trevally is distributed through the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific region, ranging from South Africa in the west to Fiji, Japan and Australia in the east. The species is best distinguished by its rounded, strongly convex anterior profile, with other detailed anatomical features also useful. The tille trevally reaches a maximum length of 80 cm and a weight of 7.2 kg. It is predominantly an inshore species, inhabiting coastal reef and lagoon environments, although has been recorded on deep offshore seamounts. It is a...
List of prestige dialects
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A prestige dialect is the dialect that is considered most prestigious by the members of that speech community. In nearly all cases, the prestige dialect is also the dialect spoken by the most prestigious members of that community, often the people who have political, economic, or social power.
1992 James Hardie 12 Hour
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1992 James Hardie 12 Hour was an endurance race for production cars staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia on 19 April 1992. Cars competed in six classes:
1. deild
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 1. deild is the second tier of football in the Faroe Islands, it was founded in 1942. The league is organised by the Faroe Islands Football Association.
Kyle Naughton
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kyle Naughton (born 17 November 1988) is an English footballer who plays as a right back for Norwich City on loan from Tottenham Hotspur.
Shaunaka Rishi Das
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shaunaka Rishi Das (born 18 February 1961) is the Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), a position he has held since the Centre`s foundation in 1997. He is a Hindu cleric, a lecturer, a broadcaster, and Hindu Chaplain to Oxford University. Education, comparative theology, communication, and leadership are his main fields of interest.
Donna Nelson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr. Donna J. Nelson is a professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma. Nelson performs research into and teaches organic chemistry and has also conducted research into ethnic and gender diversity among highly-ranked science departments of research universities.
Use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Use of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense is a 2003 report by The MITRE Corporation that documented widespread use of and reliance on free software (termed "FOSS") within the United States Department of Defense (DoD). The report helped end a debate about whether FOSS should be banned from U.S. DoD systems, and helped redirect the discussion towards the current official U.S. DoD policy of treating FOSS and proprietary software as equals.
Eli Terry
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eli Terry Sr. (April 13, 1772 – February 24, 1852) was an inventor and clockmaker in Connecticut. He received a United States patent for a shelf clock mechanism. He introduced mass production to the art of clockmaking, which made clocks affordable for the average American citizen. Terry occupies an important place in the beginnings of the development of interchangeable parts manufacturing. Terry became one of the most accomplished mechanics in New England during the early part of the nineteenth century. The village of Terryville, Connecticut is named for his son, Eli Terry Jr.
Florence Roisman
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Florence Wagman Roisman is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. She is best known for her work in low-income housing, homelessness, and housing discrimination and segregation. In the fall of 2006, Roisman was the Skelly Wright Fellow at Yale Law School.
Holmium(III) oxide
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Holmium(III) oxide, or holmium oxide is a chemical compound of a rare-earth element holmium and oxygen with the formula Ho2O3. Together with dysprosium(III) oxide (Dy2O3) holmium oxide is one of the most powerfully paramagnetic substances known. The oxide, also called holmia, occurs as a component of the related erbium oxide mineral called erbia. Typically the oxides of the trivalent lanthanides coexist in nature and separation of these components requires specialized methods. Holmium oxide is used in making specialty colored glasses. Glass containing holmium oxide and holmium oxide solutions have a series of sharp optical absorption peaks in the visible spectral range. They are therefore...
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