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Women`s Timber Corps
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Women`s Timber Corps (WTC) was a British civilian organisation created during the Second World War to work in forestry replacing men who had left to join the armed forces. Women who joined the WTC were commonly known as Lumber Jills.
Precision Attack Air-to-Surface Missile
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Precision Attack Air-to-Surface Missile (PAASM) is a weapon system currently under development by Raytheon which is designed to defeat armored vehicles, buildings, hardened bunkers and small naval targets. The missile uses technology developed for the Joint Common Missile (JCM) and Precision Attack Missile (PAM) programs.
Business Process Network
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Business process networks (BPN), also referred to as business service networks or business process hubs, enable the efficient execution of multi-enterprise operational processes, including supply chain planning and execution. A BPN extends and implements an organization`s Service-orientation in Enterprise Applications.
Pantha
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pantha is a fictional character, a superhero published by DC Comics. She first appeared in New Titans #73 (February 1991), and was created by Marv Wolfman and Tom Grummett.
Wandering Whistling Duck
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wandering Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arcuata) is a species of whistling duck. They inhabit tropical and subtropical Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands . There are three subspecies associated with this bird. D. arcuata arcuata (Indonesian Wandering Whistling Duck), D. arcuata australis (Australian Wandering Whistling Duck), and D. arcuata pygmaea (New Britain Wandering Whistling Duck).
USS Simon Newcomb (AGSC-14)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Simon Newcomb (AGSC-14/YMS-263) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II, and whose task was assisting in minesweeping and surveying coastal waters.
USS Silversides (SS-236)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Silversides (SS/AGSS-236) is a Gato-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the silversides, a small fish marked with a silvery stripe along each side of its body.
USS Silver Cloud (1862)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Silver Cloud was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
USS Silica (IX-151)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Silica (IX-151), a Trefoil-class concrete barge designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for silica. Her keel was laid down as SS Bauxite (T. B7-D1, MC hull 1331) on 5 December 1943 by Barrett Hilp, Belair Shipyard, San Francisco, California. She was launched on 31 December 1943 sponsored by Mrs. William O`Neill, and acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 8 June 1944 with Lieutenant Ormond A. Seavey, USNR, in command.
Women`s Spring Football League
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Women`s Spring Football League is a full contact Women`s American football league which began play in 2010. Five teams played the WSFL`s 2010 exhibition schedule, with twelve more joining for their first full season in 2011, and five more for 2012. Three of the league`s original 5 have since left, along with three others who were originally to play in 2011. There are now 22 teams in the WSFL, and 3 more joining for 2012-13, with the divisions being the 11-woman and 8-woman divisions.
Wandering Stars
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wandering Stars is an anthology of Jewish fantasy and science fiction, edited by Jack Dann, originally published by Harper Row in 1974. It represented, according to the book cover, "the first time in science fiction that the Jew - and the richness of his themes and particular points of view -- will appear without a mask." In his introduction, "Why Me?", Isaac Asimov discussed how many Jewish science fiction writers prior to that time had used gentile pen names in order to get published: "Many of the Jewish pulp writers, however, used pen names as a matter of sound business. A story entitled `War Gods of the Oyster-Men of Deneb` didn`t carry conviction if it was written by someone named Chaim...
Nackara, South Australia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nackara is a farming town in South Australia, 30 minutes drive east of Peterborough on the Barrier Highway. It was originally proclaimed `Tregu` but later changed to Nackara to match the `Hundred of Nackara` to which it belonged.
USS Sigsbee (DD-502)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sigsbee (DD-502), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee (1845–1923). Sigsbee was laid down on 22 July 1942 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.; launched on 7 December 1942; sponsored by Mrs. A. O. Fischer; and commissioned on 23 January 1943, Commander. Benjamin V. Russell in command.
Women`s Wear Daily
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Women`s Wear Daily (WWD) is a fashion-industry trade journal sometimes called "the bible of fashion." WWD delivers information and intelligence on changing trends and breaking news in the fashion, beauty and retail industries with a readership composed largely of retailers, designers, manufacturers, marketers, financiers, media executives, advertising agencies, socialites and trend makers. It is the flagship journal of Fairchild Publications, Inc. As of March 6, 2000, WWD`s circulation was 30,000 copies.
Robert Ethelbert Beattie
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Ethelbert Beattie (died May 5, 1925) was a Canadian politician and pharmacist. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Member of the Liberal Party in the 1921 election to represent the riding of Kootenay East and on February 9, 1922, he accepted an office of emolument under the Crown. He was defeated in the 1917 election as a Laurier Liberal.
Robert Estienne
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert I Estienne (Paris 1503 – Geneva, 7 September 1559), known as Robertus Stephanus in Latin and also referred to as Robert Stephens by 18th and 19th-century English writers, was a 16th century printer and classical scholar in Paris. He was a former Catholic who became a Protestant late in his life and the first to print the Bible divided into standard numbered verses.
Pantetheine
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pantetheine is the cysteamine amide analogue of pantothenic acid (vitamin B5). The dimer of this compound, pantethine is more commonly known, and is considered to be a more potent form of vitamin B5 than pantothenic acid. Pantetheine is an intermediate in the production of coenzyme A by the body.
Naciria
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! For the Sufi order of Tamegroute, Morocco see Nasiriyya.
Robert Eugene Fannin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Eugene Fannin is a retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1992.
Robert Eures
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Eures (dates of birth and death unknown) was a noted English cricketer of the mid-18th century. He came from Bexley in Kent and played for Kent county cricket teams as well as for All-England. He is known to have been a good batsman and he was frequently involved in single wicket tournaments which were very popular during his career and attracted high stakes.
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