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Jeff Adachi
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jeff Adachi (born 1959 in Sacramento, California) is the elected Public Defender of San Francisco, pension reform advocate, and a former candidate for Mayor of San Francisco.
Christine Nixon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christine Nixon APM (born 11 June 1953) was the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police between 23 April 2001 and 27 February 2009. After leaving Victoria Police, she was appointed chair of the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority in February 2009 until she stood down from the position in July 2010.
Greatest Hits (Billy Joel albums)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Billy Joel`s Greatest Hits is a collection released in two sets, 12 years apart. The first set, consisting of two discs, titled Volume I and Volume II, was released in 1985. The second, single disc titled Volume III was released in 1997. All songs but the last three on Volume III, "To Make You Feel My Love", "Hey Girl" and "Light as the Breeze" were written by Joel. "You`re Only Human (Second Wind)" and "The Night Is Still Young" are only available on the first set. The other songs appear mostly in order of their release dates and generally represent Joel`s most successful singles.
Medicine Hat Tigers
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Medicine Hat Tigers are a junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League (WHL) who play out of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Established in 1970, the team has won two national Memorial Cups, five WHL League Championships and seven Division Titles. The Tigers play at the Medicine Hat Arena. They have a sell-out streak at The Arena dating back 197 games (as of May 15, 2007). This streak ended on March 28, 2008 when a less than capacity crowd attended game five of the first playoff round.
Richard Tucker
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913–January 8, 1975) was an American operatic tenor.
Star Wars: Ewoks
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Star Wars: Ewoks (September 7, 1985 – December 13, 1986) is an American/Canadian animated television series featuring the Ewok characters introduced in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
G-suit
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A G-suit, or the more accurately named anti-G suit, is worn by aviators and astronauts who are subject to high levels of acceleration force (`g`s). It is designed to prevent a black-out and G-LOC (g-induced Loss Of Consciousness) caused by the blood pooling in the lower part of the body when under acceleration, thus depriving the brain of blood. Black-out and G-LOC has caused a number of fatal aircraft accidents.
Andrei Codrescu
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Andrei Codrescu is a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He was Mac Curdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until his retirement in 2009.
Bloomsbury, New Jersey
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bloomsbury is a Borough in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 870.
Aventine Hill
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Aventine Hill is one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built. It belongs to Ripa, the twelfth rione, or ward, of Rome.
1888–89 Notts County F.C. season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1888–89 season was Notts County`s first season in the Football League which had just been founded. Because of this Notts County became one of the founder members of the Football League. They finished in 11th position level on points with bottom of the table Stoke and were re-elected.
Air Boom
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Air Boom is a WWE professional wrestling tag team consisting of Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston, both of whom compete on WWE`s Raw brand where they are the current reigning WWE Tag Team Champions. Their team name "Air Boom" was voted upon by fans on WWE`s website. They have been noted for being funny and having good chemistry.
Jean-Claude Falmagne
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jean-Claude Falmagne (born 1934, Brussels, Belgium) is a mathematical psychologist whose scientific contributions deal with problems in reaction time theory, psychophysics, philosophy of science, measurement theory, decision theory, and educational technology. Together with Jean-Paul Doignon, he developed Knowledge Space Theory, which is the mathematical foundation for the ALEKS software for the assessment of knowledge in various academic subjects, including K-12 mathematics, chemistry, and accounting.
Nuremberg–Regensburg railway
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Nuremberg–Regensburg railway is a 100 km-long mainline railway in the German state of Bavaria that runs from Nuremberg via Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz and Parsberg to Regensburg. It is one of the main routes to Austria for passengers and a link for regional transport between the Nuremberg region and the major centre of Regensburg. It is also one of the major routes for freight traffic to Eastern Europe. The line was opened by the Bavarian Eastern Railway Company between 1871 and 1873.
The Prince of Homburg (play)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Prince of Homburg (German: Der Prinz von Homburg, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, or in full Prinz Friedrich von Homburg oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin) is a play by Heinrich von Kleist written in 1809-10, but not performed until 1821, after the author`s death. A performance during his lifetime was not possible because Princess Marianne of Prussia (wife of Prince William of Prussia), by birth a member of the Hesse-Homburg family, to whom Kleist had given sight of the work with a dedication, felt her family honour insulted by it.
Colt Ford
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jason Farris Brown (born in Athens, Georgia) known professionally as Colt Ford, is an American country music artist and former professional golfer. He has released three albums via his own Average Joe`s label, and has charted four singles on the Hot Country Songs charts. Ford has also written a theme song for Professional Bull Riders, and has worked with John Michael Montgomery, Montgomery Gentry, Cledus T. Judd, and Brantley Gilbert among others.
Hero-class patrol vessels
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Hero-class patrol vessels, previously the Mid-Shore Patrol Vessel Project, are a series of nine patrol boats currently on order from the Halifax Shipyards for the Canadian Coast Guard. Delivery is scheduled for 2011 through 2013.
Temple Beth Israel (Sharon, Pennsylvania)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Temple Beth Israel is a Reform synagogue located at 840 Highland Road in Sharon, Pennsylvania. Originally called House of Israel Congregation, it was founded in 1888 as an Orthodox congregation by Jews from Eastern Europe.
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, also known as Erie Canal National Historic Landmark, is a historic district that includes the ruins of the Erie Canal aqueduct over Schoharie Creek, and a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) long part of the Erie Canal, in the towns of Glen and Florida within Montgomery County, New York. It is the only part of the old canal that has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
Crux (comics)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Crux is an American comic book published by CrossGen Entertainment from May 2001 to February 2004. It was cancelled due to bankruptcy in 2004. Crux was one of the later titles that came first in a sort of second wave of Crossgen titles which included Sojourn and Brath. It detailed the exploits of six Atlanteans who were put into stasis and are awoken 100, 000 years later.
Derunta training camp
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Derunta training camp (also transliterated as Darunta) was one of the most well-known of many military training camps that have been alleged to have been affiliated with al Qaeda.
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