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Packsaddle Mountain (Llano County, Texas)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Named after the saddle-like appearance provided by twin peaks, Packsaddle Mountain is a landmark hill that stands five miles southwest of Kingsland, Texas in eastern Llano County on State Highway 71 and is of interest to both historians and geologists.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN, around 8,500-5,500 BCE) represents the early Neolithic in the Levantine and upper Mesopotamian region of the Fertile Crescent. It succeeds the Natufian culture of the Epipaleolithic (Mesolithic) as the domestication of plants and animals was in its beginnings and triggered by the Younger Dryas. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic culture came to an end around the time of the 8.2 kiloyear event, a cool spell lasting several hundred years centred around 6200 BCE.
Toledo and South Haven Railroad
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Toledo and South Haven Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad that connected the Michigan communities of Lawrence, Hartford and South Haven. It filed for incorporation April 1, 1876 and was bought by Fred M. Steele and re-named the South Haven and Eastern in 1894. The railroad had considerable financial and legal difficulties from the start.
Youth Day
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Youth Day is a holiday dedicated to the youths of a country.
Walter Brooke
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Brooke (October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics".
Pocono Summit, Pennsylvania
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pocono Summit is a community or populated place (Census Class Code U6) located in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. Parts of Pocono Summit are located under the municipalities of Coolbaugh and Tobyhanna townships.
Ygo Gales Galama
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ygo Gales Galama (c. 1443 – 25 January 1492) was a 15th century Frisian warlord and Galama-patriarch.
Venod Sharma
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venod Sharma was a leader of Indian National Congress party from Haryana. He was a Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution at in the Narasimha Rao cabinet (inducted 1995).
USS Cornel (AN-45)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Cornel (AN-45/YN-64) was an Ailanthus-class net laying ship which served with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific Ocean theatre of operations during World War II. Her career was without major incident, and she returned home safely after the war.
Walter Bromley-Davenport
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lt.-Col. Sir Walter Henry Bromley-Davenport TD DL (15 September 1903 – 26 December 1989) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Social Democratic Party of Canada
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Social Democratic Party was a social democratic political party in Canada founded in 1911 by members of the right wing of the Socialist Party of Canada. these members were dissatisfied with what they saw as that party`s rigid, doctrinaire approach. As opposed to the Socialist Party of Canada, the SDP allowed minority language groups ample room for self-determination, which led to a perception that the ethnic groups were more dominant than the overarching SDP. When the authorities cracked down on ethnic groups during the 1918 wave of repression, many of these individual ethnic chapters were shut down.
Pocosin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pocosin is a term for a type of palustrine wetland with deep, acidic, sandy, peat soils. Groundwater saturates the soil except during brief seasonal dry spells and during prolonged droughts. Pocosin soils are nutrient deficient (oligotrophic), especially in phosphorus.
Raid on Alexandria
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Raid on Alexandria was a British victory during the War of 1812, which gained much plunder at little cost but may have contributed to the later British repulse at Baltimore by imposing delay on their main forces.
Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (S/CRS) is a United States Department of State Office that coordinates United States` governmental reconstruction and stabilization efforts in developing countries before, during, and after armed conflict.
Robert E. Cornish
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert E. Cornish (December 21, 1903 – March 6, 1963) was a child prodigy graduating from the University of California with honors at the age of eighteen and receiving a doctorate by the time he was twenty-two. He worked on various projects including one that allowed for reading newspapers under water with special lenses. In 1932 he became interested in the idea that he could restore life to the dead. The cornerstone of his plan consisted of a teeter board or see-saw that was used to get the blood flowing in the recently deceased patients. In 1933 he attempted to revive victims of heart attack, drowning, and electrocution with the teeter board, but had no success. Cornish decided to perfect...
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