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Fred Williamson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fred "The Hammer" Williamson (born March 5, 1938) is an American actor, architect, and former professional American football defensive back who played mainly in the American Football League during the 1960s.
Viral hepatitis
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Viral hepatitis is liver inflammation due to a viral infection. It may present in acute (recent infection, relatively rapid onset) or chronic forms. The most common causes of viral hepatitis are the five unrelated hepatotropic viruses Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis D, and Hepatitis E. In addition to the hepatitis viruses, other viruses that can also cause hepatitis include Herpes simplex, Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, or Yellow fever.
Leucite
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Leucite is a rock-forming mineral composed of potassium and aluminium tectosilicate K. Crystals have the form of cubic icositetrahedra but, as first observed by Sir David Brewster in 1821, they are not optically isotropic, and are therefore pseudo-cubic. Goniometric measurements made by Gerhard vom Rath in 1873 led him to refer the crystals to the tetragonal system. Optical investigations have since proved the crystals to be still more complex in character, and to consist of several orthorhombic or monoclinic individuals, which are optically biaxial and repeatedly twinned, giving rise to twin-lamellae and to striations on the faces. When the crystals are raised to a temperature of about 500 °C...
Clement Clarke Moore
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American professor of Oriental and Greek literature at Columbia College, now Columbia University. He donated land from his family estate for the foundation of the General Theological Seminary, where he was a professor of Biblical learning and compiled a two-volume Hebrew dictionary. He is generally considered to be the author of the yuletide poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which later became famous as "T`was the Night Before Christmas".
Economy of Quebec
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The economy of Quebec, is diversified and post-industrial with an average potential for growth. Manufacturing and the Service sectors dominate the economy. The economy of Quebec is among the largest in the world ranked the 44th largest just behind Norway. Quebec is also ranked the 21st largest in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The economy of Quebec represents 19.80% of the total GDP of Canada.
Limerick (poetry)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A limerick is a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent. The form can be found in England as of the early years of the 18th century. It was popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century, although he did not use the term.
Simone Frintrop
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr. Simone Frintrop is a German software engineer and researcher within the field of cognitive computer vision. Her most notable achievement is developing a visual attention system for object detection and goal-directed search – VOCUS, applicable in robotics. After getting her diploma from the University of Bonn, http://www3.uni-bonn.de/the-university in 2001, she became a PhD student at Fraunhofer Institute AiS in St. Augustin. In 2005 she defended her PhD thesis and became a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer Vision and Active Perception Lab (CVAP), http://www.nada.kth.se/cvap/index.html at the Royal Institute for Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently she works as Senior Scientist...
Allosaurus
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Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility, usually referred to as the CMRR, is a facility under construction at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico which is part of the United States` nuclear stockpile stewardship program. The facility will replace the aging Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) facility. It is located in Technical Area 55 (TA-55) and consists of two buildings: the Nuclear Facility (CMRR-NF) and the Radiological Laboratory, Utility, and Office Building (RLUOB). The two buildings will be linked by tunnels and will connect to LANL`s existing 30-year-old plutonium facility PF-4. The facility is controversial both because of spiraling costs and because...
List of largest optical telescopes in the 19th century
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! List of largest optical telescopes in the 19th century, are listings of what were, for the time period of the 19th century large optical telescopes. See List of largest optical telescopes in the 20th century for the 1900s. The list includes various refractor and reflector that were active some time between about 1799 to 1901.
Academic rank in the United States
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Academic ranks in the United States are the titles, and relative importance and power, of professorships held in academia.
Israel–Spain relations
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Israel–Spain relations refers to diplomatic, cultural and economic relations between Israel and Spain. Israel and Spain have maintained diplomatic ties since 1986. Israel has an embassy in Madrid. Spain has an embassy in Tel Aviv, an honorary consulate in Haifa and a General Consulate in Jerusalem, which is regarded as diplomatic missions to the city of Jerusalem (including both West and East Jerusalem), Gaza and the territories of the Judea and Samaria Area.
2008 Stanford Cardinal football team
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 Stanford Cardinal football team represented Stanford University in the college football season of 2008–2009. The team`s head coach was Jim Harbaugh, who entered his second year at Stanford. The team played their home games at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California and competed in the Pacific-10 Conference. The Cardinal improved on their a 4-8 record from the 2007 season by going 5-7. After winning back the Stanford Axe from rival California in 2007 for the first time in five years, Stanford lost the Axe to Cal in the 2008 Big Game.
National Front (Colombia)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! National Front (Spanish: Frente Nacional 1958-1974) was a period in the history of Colombia in which the two main political parties; Liberal Party and Conservative Party agreed to let the opposite party govern, intercalating for a period of four presidential terms.
William Alington (architect)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William (Bill) Hildebrand Alington (born 18 November 1929) is a New Zealand Modernist architect, whose work has been awarded nationally, and recognised internationally.
Alfred B. Meacham
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alfred Benjamin Meacham (1826–1882) was an American Methodist minister, reformer, author and historian, who served as the US Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon (1869–1872). He became a proponent of American Indian interests in the Northwest, including Northern California. Appointed in 1873 as chairman of the Modoc Peace Commission, he was severely wounded during a surprise attack on April 11 by warriors, but saved from death by Toby Riddle (Winema), a Modoc interpreter,
Willets Point, Queens
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Willets Point, also known locally as the Iron Triangle, is the name currently applied to a neighborhood of Corona, in the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded by Northern Boulevard to the north, 126th Street and Citi Field to the west, Roosevelt Avenue and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park to the south and the Flushing River to the east. The IRT 7 Train stops at the Mets–Willets Point station near the southwest corner of the "Triangle", at Roosevelt Avenue at 126 Street. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 7.
Garden District, New Orleans
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Garden District is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Central City/Garden District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: St. Charles Avenue to the north, 1st Street to the east, Magazine Street to the south and Toledano Street to the west. The National Historic Landmark district extends a little further. The area was originally developed between 1832 to 1900. It may be one of the best preserved collection of historic southern mansions in the United States. The 19th century origins of the Garden District illustrate wealthy newcomers building opulent structures based upon the prosperity of New Orleans in that era. (National Trust, 2006)
Iuliu Maniu
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Iuliu Maniu (Romanian pronunciation: ; January 8, 1873 – February 5, 1953) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician. A leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, he served as Prime Minister of Romania for three terms during 1928–1933, and, with Ion Mihalache, co-founded the National Peasants` Party.
Russ Jackson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Russell Stanley "Russ" Jackson, OC (born July 28, 1936 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a former professional Canadian football quarterback. Jackson spent his entire 12-year professional football career with the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League. He is a member of the Order of Canada, the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, and Canada`s Sports Hall of Fame, and has been described as the best Canadian-born quarterback to play in the CFL. In 2006, Jackson was voted one of the CFL`s Top 50 players (#8) of the league`s modern era by Canadian sports network TSN, the highest-ranked Canadian-born player on the list.
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