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Crime in St. Louis, Missouri
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Crime in St. Louis, Missouri increased from the 1970s through the early 1990s as measured by the index crime rate, followed by a decline in index crime rates through 2010. Despite decreased overall crime rates, homicide rates remain higher than the United States national average and higher than the average for urban areas. In addition, St. Louis has consistently been ranked among the most dangerous cities in the United States; however, these rankings are controversial and do not necessarily reflect the crime risk of the metropolitan area, due to the status of St. Louis as an independent city that is politically separate from St. Louis County.
Jack P.F. Gremillion
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jack Paul Faustin Gremillion, Sr. (June 15, 1914–March 2, 2001), was the Democratic attorney general of Louisiana from 1956-1972. He was a member of the Earl Kemp Long political faction. Though he opposed school desegregation, he was a party loyalist and was an elector for the John F. Kennedy--Lyndon B. Johnson presidential ticket in 1960. Kennedy and Johnson easily won Louisiana`s ten electoral votes that year.
192 (number)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 192 is the natural number following 191 and preceding 193.
ManKind Project
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ManKind Project (MKP) is a non-profit, educational organization, with the stated purpose to "support men in leading meaningful lives of integrity, accountability, responsibility, and emotional intelligence."
Starting lineup
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A starting lineup in sports is an official list of the set of players who will actively participate in the event when the game begins. The players in the starting lineup are commonly referred to as starters, whereas the others are substitutes or bench players.
Monadology
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Monadology (La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads.
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women`s hammer throw
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Women`s Hammer Throw event at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Athens Olympic Stadium August 23 and August 25. The qualification mark was set at 68.50 metres.
Taxpayer Bill of Rights
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Taxpayer Bill of Rights (abbreviated TABOR) is a concept advocated by conservative and free market libertarian groups, primarily in the United States, as a way of limiting the growth of government. It is not a charter of rights but a provision requiring that increases in overall tax revenue be tied to inflation and population increases unless larger increases are approved by referendum.
Interactivity
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the fields of information science, communication, and industrial design, there is debate over the meaning of interactivity. In the "contingency view" of interactivity, there are three levels:
Rogers Hi-Speed Internet
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rogers Hi-Speed Internet is a broadband Internet service provider in Canada, owned by Rogers Communications. Rogers previously operated under the brand names Rogers@Home, Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet, and Road Runner in Newfoundland. It is currently the second largest Internet provider in Canada, after Bell Internet by customer-count.
Highgate tube station
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Highgate tube station is a London Underground station on Archway Road, Highgate, not far from Highgate Village in north London. It is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line, between Archway and East Finchley, in Travelcard Zone 3.
Boomslang (music festival)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Boomslang: A Celebration of Sound & Art is an annual multi-venue music festival in Lexington, Kentucky, sponsored by the University of Kentucky`s college radio station, WRFL. The festival is an extension of WRFL`s mission to provide a platform for non-mainstream, non-commercial music and other programming not found elsewhere in the region, featuring a variety of artists from both the region and from around the world. Genres tend to be experimental in nature, but have included everything from alternative rock, post-rock, electronic, hip hop, punk rock, metal, and psychedelic rock bands. Other festival features have included dance performances, local craft booths, fashion and art installations,...
List of Olympic venues in basketball
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! For the Summer Olympics, there are 29 venues that have been or will be used for basketball. The first official venue took place outdoors under the auspices of the International Basketball Federation despite the fact the game was played indoors. Being played on tennis courts of clay, the final was held in a heavy rain which turned the courts into mud. Since those games, the basketball venues have been played indoors.
Office at Night
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Office at Night is a 1940 painting by the American realist painter Edward Hopper. It is currently owned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota which purchased the painting in 1948.
2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 FIA WTCC Yokohama Race of Italy was the third round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season. It was held at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, near Monza, Italy on May 23, 2010. It was the sixth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Italy. The two races were won by Andy Priaulx and Yvan Muller.
Katharine L Sharp
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Katharine L. Sharp (1865–1914) gained prominence as a pioneering librarian for her intense engagement with the library profession that spanned 19 years . Having founded the innovative University of Illinois Library School, she resigned from her position and left the library field as rapidly as she had entered it. She is remembered for ‘professionalizing’ the field of library science and for her considerable contribution to the standards of the discipline . In 1999, she was named in the American Library Association`s 100 leaders of the 20th century.
Astronomy in Chile
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chile can be considered the capital of Astronomy in the world, nowadays (2011) it gathers 42% of Astronomy Infrastructure and by 2018 will concentrate the 70% of the global infrastructure of telescopes. In the north of the country, the skies are clean and dry for more than 300 days a year. These optimal conditions have led the scientific world to develop the most ambitious astronomical projects in history of man kind, in the Atacama desert.
1968 Chicago White Sox season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1968 Chicago White Sox season was the team`s 68th season in the major leagues, and its 69th season overall. They finished with a record 67-95, good enough for eighth place in the American League, 36 games behind the first-place Detroit Tigers.
Stuart London
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This article covers the history of London during the Stuart period from 1603 to 1714.
Virginia State Route 20
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Virginia State Route 20 (SR 20) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs 89.79 miles (144.50 km) from U.S. Route 15 (US 15) in Dillwyn north to SR 3 in Wilderness. SR 20 is a C-shaped route that connects Charlottesville with Farmville (via US 15) in Southside Virginia. The state highway also links Charlottesville to Fredericksburg (via SR 3) by way of Orange County, within which SR 20 is the main east–west highway and intersects US 15 again in the county seat of Orange.
Against the Odds (novel)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Against the Odds is a science fiction novel by Elizabeth Moon. It is her seventh and last novel set in the Familias Regnant fictional universe. It does not fall in either informal trilogy (the Heris Serrano and the Esmay Suiza trilogies); fittingly it does not focus on any particular character, instead a more general, almost kaleidoscopic perspective of the upheaval in the Familias Regnant, and the rise to power of a new and more capable Speaker. It can be seen as a conclusion to the series, resolving or at least making a good start at resolving many issues and peoples and ending as it does on a memorializing elegiac note.
Levamisole
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Levamisole (marketed as the hydrochloride salt under the trade name Ergamisol) is an anthelminthic and immunomodulator belonging to a class of synthetic imidazothiazole derivatives. It was discovered at Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1966. Levamisole has been used in humans to treat parasitic worm infections, and has been studied in combination with other forms of chemotherapy for colon cancer, melanoma, and head and neck cancer. The drug was withdrawn from the U.S. and Canadian markets in 2000 and 2003 respectively, due to the risk of serious side effects and the availability of more effective replacement medications. The key side toxic effect of the drug is agranulocytosis, a severe depletion of...
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