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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paddie Bell (8 April 1931 – 3 August 2005) was an Irish folk singer and musician.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wok with Yan was a Chinese cuisine cooking show starring Stephen Yan. The show was first produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by the CBC at CBUT from 1980 to 1982. A second edition of the show was also produced in the early 1990s. The popular series was syndicated internationally in United States, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore for years.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venture to the Moon is a group of six linked science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in Evening Standard in 1956. The stories describe the first manned mission to the Moon in 1975, as a joint American-Russian-British mission, and are narrated in first person from the point of view of the British team commander. Despite the death described in the third story, they are written in a humorous vein. They are collected in The Other Side of the Sky.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A panic alarm is an electronic device designed to assist in alerting somebody in emergency situations where a threat to persons or property exists.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wokai is an organization that allows people to contribute directly to microfinance institutions in China, which in turn lend the money to entrepreneurs in rural China. It is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Oakland, with core operations in Beijing, supported by individual donors, corporate sponsors, fundraising events and grants.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint-Georges-de-Champlain (Canada 1996 Census population 3,929) is a community in the Canadian province of Quebec. Formerly a separate municipality in the Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie Regional County Municipality, it has been one of the seven sectors of the city of Shawinigan since the municipal amalgamation of January 1, 2002. Until 1919, Saint-Georges-de-Champlain was known as Village Turcotte.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wok racing has been developed by the German TV host and entertainer Stefan Raab: Modified Chinese woks are used to make timed runs down an Olympic bobsled track. There are competitions for one-person-woksleds and four-person-woksleds, the latter using four woks per sled.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Willie Dean McGee (born November 2, 1958) is a retired professional baseball player who won two batting titles and was named Major League Baseball`s 1985 National League MVP. McGee primarily played center and right field, winning three Gold Glove Awards for defensive excellence. McGee spent the majority of his 18-year career playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, helping the Cardinals win the 1982 World Series with his outstanding performance in Game 3 of that series. A four-time All-Star, McGee accumulated 2,254 hits during his career.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, took place on 30 November 1853 at Sinop, a sea port in northern Anatolia, when Imperial Russian warships struck and annihilated a patrol force of Ottoman ships anchored in the harbor. The battle was part of the Crimean War, and a contributory factor in bringing France and Britain into the conflict.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Road Trips Volume 3 Number 3 is a live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. Recorded on May 15, 1970, and released on June 14, 2010, it was the eleventh of the "Road Trips" series of albums, and the first to contain three discs instead of two.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Curlew (AM-8) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The third USS Curlew (AM-69/IX-170) was a Catbird-class minesweeper in the United States Navy during World War II.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ventricina is a delicatessen item commonly found in the Abruzzo Region of central Italy. It is most similar to what Americans refer to as "cold cuts". Traditionally made using relatively low grade, very fatty meat cuts pig and encasing them in the animal`s intestines or stomach while they cure. There are two principal types of ventricina: those of the area in and around the city of Teramo, and others coming from the area of Vasto.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wok of Waldstein was a Bohemian noble and a notable figure among the Hussites of Prague. In 1410 he received a congratulatory letter from John Oldcastle after a number of protests resulting from the burning of books written by Wycliffe. In 1412 he was the leader of a crowd that publicly burned papal bulls regarding intercession on the pillory of Prague, and he later protested against condemnation of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ventria Bioscience is a biotech company with a focus on human nutrition and human therapeutics. The company was established in 1993. The company`s core technology is a plant-based protein production system called ExpressTec. Ventria`s product pipeline is based on recombinant lactoferrin and lysozyme for use in medical foods, bioprocessing, cell culture and as a topical anti-infective. These proteins show promise as a supplement to oral rehydration therapy and to treat C.difficile infection because they inhibit C.difficile, but promote the growth of healthy gut flora. Ventria invites other researchers to have access to its recombinant human lactoferrin and recombinant human lysozyme through a...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yilgarn Craton is a large craton which constitutes the bulk of the Western Australian land mass. It is bounded by a mixture of sedimentary basins and Proterozoic fold and thrust belts. Zircon grains in the Jack Hills, Narryer Terrane have been dated at ~4.27 Ga, with one detrital zircon dated as old as 4.4 Ga.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Invasion of Algiers in 1830 was a large-scale military operation by which the Kingdom of France, ruled by Charles X, invaded and conquered the Ottoman Regency of Algiers. Algiers had been vassal of the Ottoman Empire since the Capture of Algiers in 1529 by Hayreddin Barbarossa.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Greco-Turkish War of 1897, also called the Thirty Days` War and known as the Black `97 in Greece, was a war fought between the Kingdom of Greece and Ottoman Empire. Its immediate cause was the question over the status of the Ottoman province of Crete, whose Greek majority long desired union with Greece. As a result of the intervention of the Great Powers after the war, an autonomous Cretan State under Ottoman suzerainty was established the following year, with Prince George of Greece as its first High Commissioner. This was the first war effort in which the military and political personnel of Greece were put to test after the war of independence in 1821.