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Deathstalker (series)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Deathstalker series of science fiction novels, by British author Simon R. Green, was written during the 1990s and early 2000s. Although referred to by a single name, the series consists of two major episodes (each dealing with a different member of the Deathstalker Clan), and other associated novels providing a backstory to the characters and events of the Deathstalker universe.
United Federation of Teachers
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most educators in New York City public schools. As of 2005, there were about 118,000 in-service educators and 17,000 paraprofessionals in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members. In October 2007, 28,280 home day care providers voted to join the union, sending the UFT`s total representation well past the 200,000 mark. It is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, the AFL-CIO and the Central Labor Council. It is also the largest member of New York State United Teachers, which is affiliated with the National Educational Association and Education International.
London Prize Ring Rules
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The London Prize Ring Rules was a list of boxing rules promulgated in 1838 and revised in 1853. These rules were based on those drafted by Britain`s Jack Broughton in 1743 and governed the conduct of prizefighting/bare-knuckle boxing for over 100 years. They were later superseded by the Marquess of Queensberry rules, the origins of the modern sport of boxing.
Massachusetts Comprehensive Permit Act: Chapter 40B
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Comprehensive Permit Act is a Massachusetts law which allows developers of affordable housing to override certain aspects of municipal zoning bylaws and other requirements. Is consists of Massachusetts General Laws (M.G.L.) Chapter 40B, Sections 20 through 23, along with associated regulations issued and administered by the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development. Chapter 40B was enacted in 1969 to address the shortage of affordable housing statewide by reducing barriers created by local municipal building permit approval processes, local zoning, and other restrictions. Its goal is to encourage the production of affordable housing in all communities throughout the...
Plantman
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Plantman (Samuel Smithers) aka Blackheath is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. The character first appeared in Strange Tales vol. 1 #113.
Hinton Rowan Helper
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hinton Rowan Helper (December 27, 1829 – March 8, 1909) was a Southern US critic of slavery during the 1850s. In 1857, he published a book which he dedicated to the "nonslaveholding whites" of the South. The Impending Crisis of the South, written partly in North Carolina but published when the author was in the North, argued that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders, and was an impediment to the growth of the entire region of the South. Anger over his book due to the belief he was acting as an agent of the North attempting to split Southern Whites along class lines lead to Southern denunciations of `Helperism`.
International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), earlier known as the international Spartacist tendency is a Trotskyist international. Its largest constituent party is the Spartacist League (US). There are smaller sections of the ICL (FI) in Mexico, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Australia, Greece, Poland and the United Kingdom.
National Association of College and University Residence Halls
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Association of College and University Residence Halls Incorporated (NACURH) is an international organization made up of eight regions. The eight regions cover the entire United States, Canada, parts of Mexico, Qatar, and Australia. NACURH is the largest student-run organization in the world, and brings together students who live in residence halls on college campuses to share ideas, resources, and best practices in order to improve their residential communities.
Samuel von Pufendorf
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Baron Samuel von Pufendorf (January 8, 1632 – October 13, 1694) was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist, statesman, and historian. His name was just Samuel Pufendorf until he was ennobled in 1684; he was made a Freiherr (baron) a few months before his death in 1694. Among his achievements are his commentaries and revisions of the natural law theories of Thomas Hobbes and Hugo Grotius.
Central dogma of molecular biology
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The central dogma of molecular biology was first articulated by Francis Crick in 1958 and re-stated in a Nature paper published in 1970:
Martin A. Armstrong
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Martin Armstrong (born November 1, 1949 in New Jersey) is the son of a lawyer and Lt. Col under General Patton in World War II. His full biography is on line. In short, Martin was encouraged by his father to get involved in computers during the mid-1960s. He completed engineering both in hardware and software but he returned to the gold business that he had begun while in high school to earn money for a family trip to Europe in the summer of 1964. He continued to work on weekends through high school finding the real world exciting, for this was the beginning of the collapse of the gold standard. Silver was removed from U.S. coinage in 1965 and by 1968 gold began trading in bullion form in...
2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League will be the 5th edition of the CONCACAF Champions League under its current format. The tournament is expected to begin in July 2012 and finish in April 2013. The winner will qualify as the CONCACAF representative at the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup.
List of Bellator events
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of events held and scheduled by Bellator Fighting Championships, a mixed martial arts organization based in the United States. The first event, Bellator 1, took place on April 3, 2009. Upcoming fights are italicized.
Pleurotomella
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pleurotomella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae.
U.S. Route 33 in Indiana
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! U.S. Route 33 (US 33) is a mainly two-lane U.S. Highway running through northeast Indiana. The highway travels from southeast to northwest.
La Balize, Louisiana
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! La Balize, Louisiana, was the first French fort and settlement near the mouth of the Mississippi River in what became Plaquemines Parish. The village`s name (also spelled La Balise) meant "seamark". Inhabited by 1699, La Balize was one of the oldest French settlements within the current boundaries of Louisiana. Historically and economically important for overseeing the river, it was rebuilt several times because of hurricane damage. The active delta lobe of the river`s mouth is called the Balize Delta, after the settlement, or the Birdfoot Delta, because of its shape.
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