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Произведения автора580880
German Australian
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! German Australians constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in Australia, numbering 811,540 or 4.09 percent of respondents in the 2006 Census. It is the sixth most identified ancestry in Australia behind `Australian`, `English, `Irish, `Scottish` and `Italian`.
Mason and Hamlin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mason & Hamlin is a piano manufacturer based in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Barbara Payton
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barbara Payton (November 16, 1927 – May 8, 1967) was an American film actress best known for her stormy social life and eventual battles with alcohol and drug addiction. Her life has been the subject of several books including Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story (2007), by John O`Dowd, and L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes and Bad Times (2005), by John Gilmore.
Law and order (politics)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In politics, law and order refers to demands for a strict criminal justice system, especially in relation to violent and property crime, through harsher criminal penalties. These penalties may include longer terms of imprisonment, mandatory sentencing, and in some countries, capital punishment.
Grady Little
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Grady Little (born March 30, 1950) is a former manager in Major League Baseball. He managed the Boston Red Sox from 2002 to 2003 and the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2006 to 2007. He was inducted into the Kinston, North Carolina, Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001.
Visbreaker
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A visbreaker is a processing unit in oil refinery whose purpose is to reduce the quantity of residual oil produced in the distillation of crude oil and to increase the yield of more valuable middle distillates (heating oil and diesel) by the refinery. A visbreaker thermally cracks large hydrocarbon molecules in the oil by heating in a furnace to reduce its viscosity and to produce small quantities of light hydrocarbons (LPG and gasoline). The process name of "visbreaker" refers to the fact that the process reduces (i.e., breaks) the viscosity of the residual oil. The process is non-catalytic.
Ruthenian Catholic Church
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ruthenian Catholic Church is a sui iuris (i.e., self-governing) Eastern Catholic Church (see particular Church), which uses the Divine Liturgy of the Constantinopolitan Byzantine Eastern Rite. Its roots are among the Rusyns who lived in the region called Carpathian Ruthenia, in and around the Carpathian Mountains. This is the area where the borders of present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine meet. The Ruthenian Catholic Church is in full communion with the Bishop of Rome who is spiritual leader of the 23 sui iuris particular churches which compose the Catholic Church.
Clear Skies Act of 2003
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Clear Skies Act of 2003 is a proposed federal law of the United States. The official title as introduced is "a bill to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution through expansion of cap-and-trade programs, to provide an alternative regulatory classification for units subject to the cap and trade program, and for other purposes."
Vast right-wing conspiracy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Vast right-wing conspiracy" was a conspiracy theory advanced by then United States First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1998 in defense of her husband, President Bill Clinton, and his administration during the Lewinsky scandal, characterizing the Lewinsky charges as the latest in a long, organized, collaborative series of charges by Clinton`s political enemies. The Starr investigation found that the Lewinsky affair had not been fabricated. The term has been used since, including in a question posed to Bill Clinton in 2009 to describe attacks on Barack Obama during his early presidency.
Greenstone, Ontario
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Greenstone (Canada 2006 Census population 4,906) is an amalgamated town in the Canadian province of Ontario. The area of the town is 2,780.56 square kilometres (1,073.58 sq mi), stretching along Highway 11 from Lake Nipigon to Longlac; it is one of the largest incorporated towns in Canada.
Stafford County, Kansas
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stafford County (standard abbreviation: SF) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 4,437. Its county seat is St. John. The county is named in memory of Lewis Stafford, captain of Company E, First Kansas Infantry, who was killed at the Battle of Young`s Point, Madison Parrish, Louisiana, June 7, 1863.
2011–12 CHA women`s ice hockey season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2011–12 College Hockey America women`s ice hockey season marked the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive ice hockey among College Hockey America members.
Garry Bjorklund
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Garry Brian Bjorklund (born April 22, 1951) is an American middle and long-distance runner. He represented the U.S. in the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 m. As a high schooler, he set a Minnesota state record for the mile run which lasted 39 years. At the University of Minnesota, he won the 1971 national championship in the six-mile run, and won numerous conference championships in various disciplines. Following his 1976 Summer Olympics appearance, Bjorklund became a marathon runner, and set a national age group record in 1980.
List of operas by Anfossi
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Pasquale Anfossi (1727–1797).
South Ossetian parliamentary election, 2009
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A parliamentary election in South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia recognised as an independent state by Russia and Nicaragua, was held in June 2009. According to the preliminary results, the highest number of votes went to the ruling Unity Party. Two opposition parties were not permitted to run out of concern that they might not be loyal to Eduard Kokoity, the President of South Ossetia.
The Secret Code (album)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Secret Code is Korean boy band TVXQ`s fourth Japanese studio album and their last studio album as a quintet, released on March 25, 2009. The album debuted at number two on the Oricon weekly chart.
1983–84 Honduran Liga Nacional
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A change in the rules took place in 1983-84, the championship was decided in 36 rounds without playoffs, Vida won its second title after finishing first this season.
Superior Courts of California
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Superior Courts of California are the superior courts in the U.S. state of California with general jurisdiction to hear and decide any civil or criminal action which is not specially designated to be heard in some other court or before a government agency. As mandated by the California Constitution, each of the 58 counties in California has a superior court.
Ice-T`s Rap School
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ice-T`s Rap School is a reality television show on VH1. It is a spin-off of the British reality show Gene Simmons` Rock School, which also aired on VH1.
Chordoma
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chordoma is a rare slow-growing malignant neoplasm thought to arise from cellular remnants of the notochord. The evidence for this is the location of the tumors (along the neuraxis), the similar immunohistochemical staining patterns, and the demonstration that notochordal cells are preferentially left behind in the clivus and sacrococcygeal regions when the remainder of the notochord regresses during fetal life.
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