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Photosensitive glass
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Photosensitive glass is a crystal-clear glass that belongs to the lithium-silicate family of glasses, in which an image of a mask can be captured by microscopic metallic particles in the glass when it is exposed to short wave radiations such as ultraviolet light. Photosensitive glass was first discovered by S. Donald Stookey in 1937
Alpura (company)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alpura is a Mexican dairy products company based in Mexico City, with milk producers from Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Puebla and Guanajuato. It was founded in 1972. Currently, Alpura`s products are sold in 27 states in Mexico and exported to the United States. Alpura produces 3 million liters and it offers more than 100 products. They distribute products to supermarkets all over Mexico. Alpura, a 100% Mexican company, is characterized by diversification of products.
Grande Commande
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The grande commande was a commission ordered by Louis XIV for statues intended to decorate the parterre d’eau of the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, as initially conceived in 1672. The commission, which included 24 statues and four groups, was ordered in 1674. Designed by Charles Le Brun from Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia, the statues were executed by the foremost sculptors of the day (Blunt, 1980; Friedman, 1988, 1993; Nolhac, 1913; Thompson, 2006; Verlet, 1985).
Susan Walvius
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Susan Walvius (born October 24, 1964) is the former head coach of the women`s basketball team at the University of South Carolina. Her best success came in the 2001 and 2002 seasons, where she went 25-7 and 23-8 respectively. In those two seasons, the Gamecocks went 19-9 in SEC play. The 2002 team made it to the Elite Eight for the first time in school history. On April 14, 2008, Walvius announced her resignation from South Carolina.
1975 World Aquatics Championships
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1975 World Aquatics Championships took place in Cali, Colombia between July 19 and July 27, 1975, with 682 participating athletes.
15th Wing
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 15th Wing (15 WG) is a wing of the United States Air Force at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. It is the airlift arm of Pacific Air Forces and United States Pacific Command and reports directly to the commander, Pacific Air Forces.
Dhiren Barot
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dhiren Barot (known under various aliases: Bilal, Abu Musa al-Hindi, Abu Eissa al-Hindi, and Issa al-Britani) (born December, 1971) is a convicted terrorist from the United Kingdom.
Mary Howitt
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mary Howitt (12 March 1799 – 30 January 1888) was an English poet, and author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly. She was born Mary Botham at Coleford, in Gloucestershire, the temporary residence of her parents, while her father, Samuel Botham, a prosperous Quaker of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, was looking after some mining property. Samuel had married his wife Ann in South Wales in 1796 when he was 38 and she was 32. They had four children Anna, Mary, Emma and Charles. Their Queen Anne house is now known as Howitt Place.
Coingate scandal
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Coingate is a nickname for the Tom Noe investment scandal in Ohio revealed in early 2005 in part by Toledo, Ohio newspaper The Blade. The Ohio Bureau of Workers` Compensation (BWC) invested hundreds of millions of dollars in high risk or unconventional investment vehicles run by people closely connected to the Ohio Republican Party who had made large campaign contributions to many senior Republican party officials.
Anlo Ewe
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ewe people are an African ethnic group of about 6 million people, inhabiting the southeastern part of Ghana from the Eastern shore of the Volta River to the border of Ghana and Togo known as the Volta Region; meanwhile, a majority of Ewe are also located in the entire southern half of Togo. They are a patrilineal society governed by a hierarchal, centralized authority. Their language (self-name Anlogbe) is a dialect of the Ewe language, itself part of the Gbe language cluster. The Ewe religion is centered around a supreme god Mawu and several intermediate divinities.
USS S-28 (SS-133)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS S-28 (SS-133) was a S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 16 April 1919 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 20 September 1922, sponsored by Mrs. William R. Monroe, and commissioned on 13 December 1923, Lieutenant Kemp C. Christian in command.
Health care industry
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The health care industry, or medical industry, is the sector of the economic system that provides goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, palliative, or, at times, unnecessary care. The modern health care sector is divided into many sub-sectors, and depends on interdisciplinary teams of trained professionals and paraprofessionals to meet health needs of individuals and populations.
Coon 2: Hindsight
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Coon 2: Hindsight" (originally titled "The Coon 2: Rise of Captain Hindsight") is the eleventh episode of the fourteenth season of animated television series South Park, and the 206th episode of the series overall.
Battle of Corpus Christi
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Corpus Christi was fought on August 12 to August 18, 1862, during the American Civil War. United States Navy forces blockading Texas fought a small land and sea engagement with Confederate forces in and around Corpus Christi Bay and bombarded Corpus Christi. Union forces defeated Confederate States Navy ships operating in the area but were repulsed when they landed on the coast.
List of AFC Wimbledon seasons
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! AFC Wimbledon is an English professional football club, currently playing in the fourth tier of English football, Football League Two. The club and its supporters consider it to be a continuation of the former Wimbledon Football Club, which announced its intention to relocate to Milton Keynes in August 2001. This move was approved in May 2002.
Heritage turkey
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A heritage turkey is one of a variety of strains of domestic turkey which retains historic characteristics that are no longer present in the majority of turkeys raised for consumption since the mid-20th century. Heritage turkeys can be differentiated from other domestic turkeys in that they are biologically capable of being raised in a manner that more closely matches the natural behavior and life cycle of wild turkeys. Heritage turkeys have a relatively long lifespan and a much slower growth rate than turkeys bred for industrial agriculture, and unlike industrially-bred turkeys, can reproduce without artificial insemination.
Motorbase Performance
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Motorbase Performance is an English motor racing team, founded in 2004 by former Production Saloon racer Dave Bartrum. They are best known for their British Touring Car Championship campaigns, which produced a first overall podium at the Snetterton meeting in 2008.
Public policy of the United States
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The policies of the United States of America comprise all actions taken by its federal government. The executive branch is the primary entity through which policies are enacted, however the policies are derived from a collection of laws, executive decisions, and legal precedents.
MV Ascension
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! MV Ascension is an American-flagged general cargo and container ship with a capacity of 4,152 metric tons deadweight (DWT). Built in 1993, the ship was originally a Russian timber carrier. She was bought by Sealift Incorporated in 1998 and has been providing a cargo liner service between Cape Canaveral, Florida and Ascension Island ever since.
Hell to Pay (The Jeff Healey Band album)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hell to Pay is the second album by The Jeff Healey Band. It was released in 1990, and was one of the top albums in Canada. In 1991 it was nominated for an "Album of the Year" Juno.
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