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Torcuato di Tella Institute
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Torcuato di Tella Institute is a non-profit foundation organized for the promotion of Argentine culture.
Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men`s 66 kg
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The men`s 66 kg tournament in judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held on August 10 at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium. Preliminary rounds were held at 12:00 pm CST. Repechage finals, semifinals, bouts for bronze medals and the final took place at 8:00 pm CST.
Composite monarchy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Composite monarchy (from Composite: Made up of separate elements and Monarchy: A state or nation with one supreme power) refers to one ruler of a unified kingdom which either governs each territory as if they were individual kingdoms, in accordance with local traditions and legal structures, or provides common rules for a diversity of territories. The latter approach would assume that the monarch ensures that a compromise on a common standard is achieved while the first assumes that the monarch rules each territory separately to avoid changing local power structure and avoid the conflict that might result from forcing immediate changes.
Application Portfolio Management
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! IT Application Portfolio Management (APM) is a practice that has emerged in mid to large size Information Technology (IT) organizations since the mid 1990s. Application Portfolio Management attempts to use the lessons of financial portfolio management to justify and measure the financial benefits of each application in comparison to the costs of the application`s maintenance and operations.
1963 World Sportscar Championship season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1963 World Sportscar Championship season was the 11th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It featured the 1963 International Championship for GT Manufacturers, which was contested in three engine capacity divisions and the 1963 International Trophy for GT Prototypes, which was contested in two engine capacity divisions. The season ran from February 17, 1963 to September 14, 1963 over 22 events.
History of the Jews in Slovenia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The small Jewish community of Slovenia (Slovene: Judovska skupnost Slovenije) is estimated at 400 to 600 members, with most living in the capital, Ljubljana. The Jewish community was devastated by the Shoah, and has never fully recovered. Until 2003, Ljubljana was the only European capital city without a Jewish place of worship.
Primal Scream tours
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The following is an incomplete listing of Primal Scream tours and itineraries.
Mankera
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mankera is the principal town of Mankera Tehsil, an administrative subdivision of Bhakkar District, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is situated about 320 kilometres west of the city of Lahore.
The Idiot`s Lantern
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Idiot`s Lantern" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on 27 May 2006.
Battle of Vittorio Veneto
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Vittorio Veneto was fought between 24 October and 3 November 1918, near Vittorio Veneto, during the Italian Campaign of World War I. The Italian victory marked the end of the war on the Italian Front, secured the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and was chiefly instrumental in ending the First World War less than two weeks later.
Mining in Japan
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mining in Japan is minimal because Japan possesses very few mining resources. Japanese mining was a rapidly declining industry in the 1980s. Domestic coal production shrank from a peak of 55 million tons in 1960 to slightly more than 16 million tons in 1985, while coal imports grew to nearly 91 million tons in 1987. Domestic coal mining companies faced cheap coal imports and high production costs, which caused them chronic deficits in the 1980s. In the late 1980s, Japan`s approximately 1 million tons of coal reserves were mostly hard coal used for coking. Most of the coal Japan consumed is used to produce electric power.
Arepa
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An arepa is a dish made of ground corn dough or cooked flour, popular in Colombia, Venezuela and other Spanish-speaking countries. It is similar in shape to the Salvadoran pupusa. Arepas can also be found in Panama, Puerto Rico and the Canary Islands.
Torsen
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Torsen (full name Torsen traction) is a type of differential used in automobiles. It was invented by American Vernon Gleasman and manufactured by the Gleason Corporation. Torsen is a contraction of Torque-Sensing. TORSEN and TORSEN Traction are registered trademarks of JTEKT Torsen North America Inc (formerly Zexel Corporation, formerly Gleason Power Systems). All Torsen differentials have their origin in the Dual-Drive Differential that was invented and patented by Gleasman in 1958.
Unearthed (talent contest)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia.
Bareilly College
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bareilly College, Bareilly(BCB) is a prime college of M. J. P. Rohilkhand University located in Bareilly, Utter Pradesh, India. BCB established in 1837. In 1837 the college began with 57 pupils and Mr. Rogers was its Head master and 1850 it was raised to the status of Government College.
La Junta Indians
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! La Junta Indians is a collective name for the Indians living near the junction (la junta) of the Rio Grande and Conchos rivers on the borders of present day Texas and Mexico. These people were first visited by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca in 1535. In the eighteenth century they mostly lost their tribal identifications and became part of the mestizo population of Mexico or joined other Indian groups.
Frank Bossard
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frank Clifton Bossard (1912 – 2001) was a British Secret Intelligence Service agent who provided classified documents to the Soviet Union in the 1960s. MI6 recruited Bossard in 1945, stationing him in Bonn, Germany, with a large entertainment budget. When Bossard returned to London in 1961, he found his lifestyle unsustainable without the budget, and fell heavily into debt. After profiling him, the Soviet Union sent an agent to him, offering money in exchange for pictures of interest to the KGB and the Kremlin. A Soviet double agent known as "Top Hat" in actuality Dmitri Polyakov, revealed Bossard`s actions to MI5, who arrested Bossard on March 12, 1965. Bossard was convicted and sentenced to...
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