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Elphinstone College
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elphinstone College is an institution of higher education affiliated to the University of Mumbai. Established in 1856, it is one of the oldest colleges of the University of Mumbai. It was exalted as a prestigious seat of learning during the British Raj and is generally observed for its vibrant alumni. It is reputed for producing several luminaries like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Pherozshah Mehta, and Jamshedji Tata. It is further observed for having played a key role in spread of Western education in the Bombay Presidency.
Curly
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ashishishe (c. 1856–1923), known as Curly (or Curley), was a Crow scout in the United States Army during the Sioux Wars, best known for having been one of the few survivors on the United States side at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He did not fight in the battle, but watched from a distance, and was the first to report the defeat of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. Afterward a legend grew that he had been an active participant and managed to escape, leading to conflicting accounts of Curly`s involvement in the historical record.
Austar
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Austar is an Australian telecommunications company. Its main business activity is Subscription Television but it is also involved with internet access and mobile phones. It was founded in 1994 under the name Community Entertainment Television (CETV).
James Lee Byars
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James Lee Byars (born April 10, 1932 – died May 23, 1997 in Cairo, Egypt in 1997.) was an artist specializing in installation sculpture and in performance art. His works include "The Death of James Lee Byars" and "The Perfect Smile".
Mercury Marauder
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mercury Marauder was the name of three different automobiles made by the Mercury division of Ford Motor Company. During the 1960s, the Marauder was introduced as the high-performance model of the full-size Mercury line; its Ford equivalent was the Galaxie. From 2003, the Marauder nameplate was revived as a high-performance variant of the full-size Grand Marquis. After lower than expected sales, the Marauder was discontinued at the end of the 2004 model year.
Hex (Discworld)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hex is a fictional computer featuring in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. First appearing in Soul Music, Hex is an elaborate, magic-powered and self-building computer housed at the Unseen University (UU) in the city of Ankh-Morpork
Drumline
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A drumline is a section of percussion instruments usually played as part of a musical marching ensemble. High school and college marching bands, drill and drum corps, drum and bugle corps, indoor percussion ensembles, and pipe bands usually incorporate drumlines; however, drumlines can exist independent of these ensembles. Drumlines call the stationary percussion within a marching ensemble the "front ensemble" or "pit." This also describes the area where those percussion instruments are set stationary on the field.
Janesville, Iowa
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Janesville is a city in Black Hawk and Bremer counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 829 at the 2000 census. Janesville`s population increased to 930 at the 2010 United States Census, an increase of 12.2%. It is part of the Waterloo–Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Mixed Martial Arts in Ontario
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in Ontario has been considered illegal until August 14, 2010, when the Ontario government announced that they would be moving forward to allow professional mixed martial arts in the province. This was seen as a sudden change in direction as the government has been reluctant to allow MMA events to be held. This paved the way for the largest regulated professional MMA event, UFC 129, which was held on April 30, 2011 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.
List of Atlantic Coast Conference national championships
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The list of ACC national champions begins in the Atlantic Coast Conference`s first full academic year of competition in 1953 and totals 120 NCAA-sanctioned team national championships. In the 2009-2010 academic year, ACC members won a total of six national championships including men`s soccer (Virginia), women`s soccer (North Carolina), men`s basketball (Duke), men`s ice hockey (Boston College), men`s lacrosse (Duke), and women`s lacrosse (Maryland).
Lymphocystivirus
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lymphocystivirus is one of five genera of viruses within the viral family Iridoviridae, and one of three genera within this family which infect teleost fishes, along with Megalocytivirus and Ranavirus. Lymphocystiviruses infect more than 140 freshwater and marine species, spanning at least 42 host families worldwide, causing the chronic, self-limiting clinical disease, lymphocystis. While lymphocystis does not cause mass mortality events like megalocytiviruses and ranaviruses, fish with lymphocystis exhibit grossly visible papilloma-like skin lesions which substantially reduce their commercial value. No vaccines are currently available for lymphocystis viruses.
Batticaloa Municipal Council
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Batticaloa Municipal Council (BMC) is the local authority for the city of Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka. BMC is responsible for providing a variety of local public services including roads, sanitation, drains, housing, libraries, public parks and recreational facilities. It has 19 members elected using the open list proportional representation system. The territory of BMC is commensurate with that of Manmunai North Divisional Secretariat.
1996 Panasonic German Open – Doubles
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wayne Ferreira and Yevgeny Kafelnikov were the defending champions but lost in the first round to David Rikl and Daniel Vacek.
Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), is the title of the United States Navy officer who commands the United States Pacific Fleet. Originally established in 1907 as a two-star rear admiral`s billet, the position has been held by a four-star admiral since March 19, 1915.
Book of Leinster (contents)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The following table of contents for the Book of Leinster is based on the diplomatic edition by R.I. Best and M.A. O`Brien. The contents are listed according to the folio number of the manuscript and the page and volume number of the edition. The names of poets assigned in the Book of Leinster are here followed by (ascr.) (for `ascribed`) and need not represent genuine authorship.
Martin Eisenstadt
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Martin Eisenstadt hoax is an elaborate scheme of filmmakers Dan Mirvish and Eitan Gorlin that involved the creation of a fictional "talking head", Martin Eisenstadt, who was quoted by numerous major news outlets (such as the Los Angeles Times and MSNBC), as well as countless blogs, all of which failed to verify his actual existence. "Eisenstadt" claimed to be the source of commentary about Sarah Palin in the wake of John McCain`s 2008 Presidential Campaign. Mirvish and Gorlin have since written a satirical novel called I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man`s (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans for Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 978-0865479142. The book was written under...
Rolf Hagedorn
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rolf Hagedorn (1919–2003) was a German theoretical physicists working at CERN. He is known for the idea that hadronic matter has a "melting point". The Hagedorn temperature is named in his honor.
1981 Detroit Tigers season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1981 Detroit Tigers finished in fourth place in the American League East with a record of 31-26 (.544) in the first half of the season, and in third place with a record of 29-23 (.558) in the second half, for an overall record of 60-49. They outscored their opponents 427 to 404. The Tigers drew 1,149,144 fans to Tiger Stadium in 1981, ranking 5th of the 14 teams in the American League.
1998 State of Origin series
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1998 Rugby league State of Origin series was the 17th year that the annual best-of-three series of interstate rugby league football matches contested between the Queensland and New South Wales representative teams was played under `State of Origin` selection rules. The return of Super League - aligned stars to Origin following the end of the game`s crippling civil war meant the stampeding Brisbane Broncos players were back - to the chagrin of the Blues.
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