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Cayuga, Ontario
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cayuga is an unincorporated community and county seat in the province of Ontario, Canada located at the intersection of Highway 3 and Munsee Street and along the Grand River in Haldimand County. Cayuga is about a 20 minute drive from Lake Erie and 30 minutes south of Hamilton and 115 minutes south of Toronto and consequently it has some cottages and recreational properties in the area. In the past there was some light industry. It has the local district detachment for the Ontario Provincial Police. It is also uniquely located among larger communities on both the American and Canadian sides of the border boasting television reception from Toronto, Buffalo, New York, Hamilton, Kitchener and Erie,...
Kenogami River
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Kenogami River is a river in the James Bay drainage basin in Thunder Bay and Cochrane districts in Northern Ontario, Canada, which flows north from Long Lake near Longlac to empty into the Albany River. The river is 320 kilometres (199 mi) in length and its name means "long water" in the Cree language. A portion of the river`s headwaters have been diverted into the Lake Superior drainage basin.
Alternative comedy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alternative comedy is a term that originated in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era, and typically avoids relying on a standardised structure of a sequence of jokes with punch lines. Patton Oswalt defines it as "comedy where the audience has no pre-set expectations about the crowd, and vice versa. In comedy clubs, there tends to be a certain vibe—alternative comedy explores different types of material."
Scientific realism
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scientific realism is, at the most general level, the view that the world described by science (perhaps ideal science) is the real world, as it is, independent of what we might take it to be. Within philosophy of science, it is often framed as an answer to the question "how is the success of science to be explained?" The debate over what the success of science involves centers primarily on the status of unobservable entities apparently talked about by scientific theories. Generally, those who are scientific realists assert that one can make reliable claims about unobservables (viz., that they have the same ontological status) as observables, as opposed to instrumentalism.
Grand Parade (horse)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Grand Parade (1916–1932) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from April 1918 to June 1919, he ran eight times, winning seven races and was never beaten at level weights. He was a leading two-year-old in Ireland in 1918, winning the Anglesey Stakes and the National Produce Stakes. In 1919 he won both his races and became the first black horse for 106 years to win the Epsom Derby.
Squash at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women`s team
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The women`s team competition of the squash events at the 2011 Pan American Games will be held from October 18 to 20 at the Squash Complex in Guadalajara, Mexico. The defending Pan American Games champion is the team from Canada (Carolyn Russell, Runa Reta and Alana Miller).
Doctor Octoroc
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Levi "Doctor Octoroc" Buffum is an American chiptune musician and pixel artist currently based in Philadelphia. Drawing influences from 80`s pop culture and beyond, primarily video games from console systems made by Nintendo, the artist initially gained notable Internet recognition in December 2008 with his chiptunes album of Christmas songs arranged in the style of different NES games, entitled 8-Bit Jesus.
Tim Black
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tim Black is a family planning pioneer and founder of Marie Stopes International in London. He served as chief executive of Marie Stopes International for 26 years, from 1976 to 2006.
Bekim Bala
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bekim Bala (born 11 January 1991) is an Albanian football player who currently plays for KF Tirana in Albanian Superliga. He can play in an attacking role in the midfield and also as a striker, his most preferred position is playing as a striker, and he has an eye for goal, scoring 17 goals in all competitions in the 2009–2010 season with Vllaznia.
Tropical Storm Mujigae (2009)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tropical Storm Mujigae (International designation: 0913, JTWC designation: 14W, PAGASA name: Maring) formed as a tropical disturbance during September 8, to the northwest of Manila in the Philippines it rapidly consolidated and was designated as Tropical Depression Maring later that day.
2010 V8 Supercar season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 V8 Supercar season was the fourteenth series in which V8Supercars have contested the senior Australian touring car series. It was the 51st year of touring car racing in Australia since the first runnings of the Australian Touring Car Championship, known today as the V8 Supercar Championship Series, and the fore-runner of the present day Bathurst 1000, the Armstrong 500.
Frank DiPascali
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frank DiPascali, Jr. (born c. 1956) worked for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC for 33 years and was a key lieutenant of Bernard Madoff. He referred to himself as "director of options trading" and as "chief financial officer". On August 11, 2009, he pled guilty to ten counts related to the Madoff investment scandal. He was denied bail before sentencing and immediately jailed. He has been represented by attorney Marc Mukasey, a son of former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey. Mukasey said that while Mr. DiPascali was “1,000 percent guilty”, he had believed—before the Ponzi scheme collapsed—that Madoff could somehow repay his clients.
2000–01 Football League Trophy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Football League Trophy 2000–01, known as the LDV Vans Trophy 2000–01 for sponsorship reasons, was the 17th staging of the Football League Trophy, a knock-out competition for English football clubs in Second and Third Division. The winners were Port Vale F.C. and the runners-up were Brentford F.C., both from the Second Division.
Sankaradi
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sankaradi (1924–2001) was an Indian actor. He was a veteran Malayalam comedian and character artiste, who had over 700 Malayalam films to his credit.
List of Maya Angelou works
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The works of Maya Angelou encompass autobiography, poetry, plays, screenplays for television and film, directing, acting, and speaking. She is best known for her series of six autobiographies, starting with the critically acclaimed I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), which was nominated for a National Book Award. Angelou did not write Caged Bird with the intention of writing a series of autobiographies, but critics have "judged the subsequent autobiographies in light of the first".
London (Samuel Johnson poem)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! London is a poem by Samuel Johnson, produced shortly after he moved to London. Written in 1738, it was his first major published work. The poem in 263 lines imitates Juvenal`s Third Satire, expressed by the character of Thales as he decides to leave London for Wales. Johnson imitated Juvenal because of his fondness for the Roman poet and he was following a popular 18th-century trend of Augustan poets headed by Alexander Pope that favored imitations of classical poets, especially for young poets in their first ventures into published verse.
J. E. Mainer
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! J. E. Mainer (July 20, 1898 - June 12, 1971) was an American old time fiddler who followed in the wake of Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers.
Richard Young (wrestler)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard "Rich" Young (born May 12, 1975) is an American professional wrestler and former professional football player best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment performing under the ring name Ricky Ortiz.
1986 Football League Cup Final
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1986 Milk Cup Final was a football match held on 20 April 1986 between Oxford United and Queens Park Rangers. Oxford won the match 3–0 to capture the League Cup — their first major honour. Trevor Hebberd opened the scoring in the first half, and Ray Houghton added a second. Jeremy Charles scored the third following up when John Aldridge had a shot saved by QPR goalkeeper Paul Barron. The match was played at Wembley Stadium in front of 90,396 spectators.
Melbourne Girls Grammar School
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Melbourne Girls Grammar School (also known as MGGS), is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in South Yarra, an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Bovernier
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bovernier is a municipality in the district of Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
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