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Jean-Louis Vignes
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jean-Louis Vignes (April 9, 1780 - January 17, 1862), or as he was known to his Mexican neighbors, "Don Luis del Aliso", was a French settler to the Los Angeles area during the Mexican era. He was the first commercial wine maker in California and one of the first men to import and plant European Vitis vinifera grapes in the state. A skilled cooper by trade and an adventurer and entrepreneur by choice, he arrived in the Sandwich Islands on July 6, 1827. After losing his business in Honolulu, he sailed to California and landed at Pueblo de Los Angeles in 1831. In 1850, Vignes was the largest wine producer in California.
Alvechurch F.C
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alvechurch Football Club is English association football club based in Alvechurch, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, currently playing in the Midland Football Alliance. They are affiliated with the Worcestershire County Football Association.
Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. The district was created in 2004 when it was merged with Edmonton-Highlands and Edmonton-Norwood.
Art glass
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Definitions of art glass can be as complex and contentious as definitions of what constitutes "art" and will inevitably include many refinements and exceptions. On the one hand "art glass" is not quite of the size, uniqueness and scope to be considered as "art" - unlike glass art - but on the other, was designed or has come to be appreciated more for its decorative excellence, artistic merit or design distinctiveness than for any possible or originally intended use.
Arkansas Army National Guard and the Korean War
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The history of the Arkansas Army National Guard and Korean War begins with the reorganization of the Arkansas Army National Guard following World War II. During this period, the Arkansas Air National Guard became a separate component of the Arkansas National Guard. The Arkansas Army National Guard provided Field Artillery and Medical units in support of combat operations in Korea.
The Micragirls
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Micragirls are an all-female Finnish garage rock trio formed in 2001. The characteristic sound of The Micragirls is based on primitive beat, howling organ, and fervent vocal performances. Along their career the band has developed from sheer fun-having towards more soulful musical expression. The group has a cult following both in Finland and abroad.
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-universe(s) Report is a non-fiction science book written by author Timothy Ferris originally published in 1997. In his book he provides a wide-range report of current research on cosmology, the study of the universe, and its trends going into the 21st century. He reports on theories about the possibility that our universe is one among many, the Big Bang theory, Black holes, the "expanding" universe, and a "curved" space. The book has twelve chapters with most of it exploring the Big Bang theory and the mass density of the universe.
Frank Atwood Huntington
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frank Atwood Huntington (August 9, 1836 – February 16, 1925) was an American inventor.
Long Island Handicap
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Long Island Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in November at Aqueduct Racetrack, in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. The race is for fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race the one and one-half miles on the turf.
List of defunct college football teams
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of universities in the United States that sponsored football at one time but have since discontinued their programs. The last season that the school fielded a football team is annotated in parentheses.
ApologetiX
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ApologetiX is a Christian parody band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The band was founded in 1992, and since then, has played in 44 states, released 17 studio albums, and built up a fan club that includes 45,000 people. The band is currently composed of J. Jackson on vocals, Keith Haynie on bass guitar, Jimmy "Vegas" Tanner on drums, Bill Hubauer and Todd Waites on keyboard, and Tom Milnes and Tom Tincha (a.k.a. "TNT"), both on lead guitar.
Melbourne tram route 109
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tram route 109 or simply The 109 is a public transport service in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs between a terminus in Box Hill and a terminus near Station Pier in Port Melbourne. The route runs along a light rail track between Port Melbourne and Southbank, using the Sandridge railway right-of-way, the first railway line in Australia, which was converted in 1987.
Keesler Air Force Base
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Keesler Air Force Base (IATA: BIX, ICAO: KBIX, FAA LID: BIX) is a United States Air Force base located in Biloxi, a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. The base is named in honor of aviator 2d Lt Samuel Reeves Keesler, Jr., a Mississippi native killed in France in First World War.
Battle of Windsor
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Windsor was a short-lived campaign in the eastern Michigan area of the United States and the Windsor area of Upper Canada. A group of men on both sides of the border, calling themselves "Patriots", formed small militias in 1837 with the intention of seizing the Southern Ontario peninsula between the Detroit and Niagara Rivers and extending American-style government to Canada. They based groups in Michigan at Fort Gratiot (present Port Huron), Mount Clemens, Detroit, and Gibraltar.
Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Describing the music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is difficult, due to vagaries surrounding the meanings of various terms. The country itself was formerly called Zaire and is now sometimes referred to as Congo-Kinshasa to distinguish it from the Republic of the Congo (or Congo-Brazzaville). In this article, Congo will refer specifically to the Democratic Republic of the Congo unless otherwise noted. Outside of Africa, most any music from the Congo is called soukous, which most accurately refers instead to a dance popular in the late 1960s. The term rumba or rock-rumba is also used generically to refer to Congolese music, though both words have their own difficulties and neither is...
Deventer
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Deventer is a municipality and city in the Salland region of the Dutch province of Overijssel. Deventer is largely situated on the east bank of the river IJssel, but also has a small part of its territory on the west bank. In 2005 the municipality of Bathmen (pop. 5,000) was merged with Deventer as part of a national effort to reduce bureaucracy in the country.
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