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Image and Reality of the Israel Palestine Conflict
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict is a book by Norman G. Finkelstein, first published in 1995. It is a study of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Finkelstein examines and scrutinizes popular historical versions of the conflict by Joan Peters, Benny Morris, Anita Shapira and Abba Eban. The 2003 revised edition offers an additional appendix devoted to criticism of Michael Oren`s 2002 bestseller Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
USS Cepheus (AKA-18)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Cepheus (AKA-18) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship named after the constellation Cepheus. She was one of a handful of United States Navy AKAs that were manned by Coast Guard officers and crew during World War II. She served as a commissioned ship for 2 years and 5 months.
Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pacific Ocean theatre was one of four major naval theatres of war of World War II, which pitted the forces of Japan against those of the United States, the British Commonwealth, the Netherlands and France.
Pacific Ocean Blues
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Pacific Ocean Blues" is a song written by Dennis Wilson and his cousin Mike Love. The title track, it was released as the ninth track on Dennis Wilson`s 1977 debut solo album Pacific Ocean Blue. The track, as with the rest of the album, was credited as being produced by Dennis Wilson and his close friend Gregg Jakobson. Dennis Wilson sings the lead vocals on this and every other track on the album.
Sopwith (video game)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sopwith is a sidescrolling shoot `em up created by David L. Clark of BMB Compuscience in 1984. It was originally written to run on the IBM PC under DOS but there was also a port made near the time of its creation for the Atari 520ST. More recent versions have been ported to even more systems. The game involves piloting a Sopwith biplane, attempting to bomb enemy buildings while avoiding fire from enemy planes and various other obstacles.
USS Celtic (AF-2)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Celtic (AF-2) was an Celtic-class stores ship acquired by the U.S. Navy for use in the Spanish-American War. She served again during World War I in the dangerous North Atlantic Ocean, delivering general goods and ammunition to American Expeditionary Force troops in Europe.
USS Centaurus (AKA-17)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Centaurus (AKA-17) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship named after the constellation Centaurus. She was one of a handful of World War II AKAs manned by officers and crew from the United States Coast Guard. She served as a commissioned ship for 2 years and 6 months.
Robert Dollar
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Captain Robert Dollar (1844—1932) was born in Falkirk, Scotland. The title "Captain" was honorary and he was called the “Grand Old Man of the Pacific". Both were bestowed after his entry into the shipping industry. Dollar became a lumber baron, shipping magnate, philanthropist; he was also a Freemason. His biography and an extensive introduction by him is contained within the book, "Men who are making the west 1923".
Rigs of Rods
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rigs of Rods ("RoR") is an open source,freeware, multi-simulation game which uses soft-body physics to simulate the motion and deformation of trucks. The game is built using a specific soft-body physics engine called Beam, which simulates a network of interconnected nodes (forming the chassis and the wheels) and gives the ability to simulate deformable objects. With this engine, vehicles and their loads flex and deform as stresses are applied. Crashing into walls or terrain can permanently deform a vehicle.
Xenopus
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xenopus (Gk., xeno=strange, pous=foot) is a genus of highly aquatic frogs native to Sub-Saharan Africa. There are 19 species in the Xenopus genus. They are known collectively as African Clawed Frogs or Platanna. The best-known species belonging to this genus is Xenopus laevis, which is commonly studied as a model organism.
USS Celeno (AK-76)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The USS Celeno (AK-76) was a Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. Named with a variant spelling of the star Celaeno in the constellation Pleiades, it was the only ship of the Navy to bear this name.
MapGuide Open Source
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! MapGuide Open Source is a web-based map-making platform that enables users to quickly develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services. The application was introduced as open source by Autodesk in November 2005, and the code was contributed to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation in March 2006 under the GNU LGPL.
Meritous
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Meritous is a freeware game made by Lancer-X/ASCEAI for the PC. It`s an "action-adventure dungeon crawl" about the psi user Merit who ventures into Orcus dome to correct the problems in the psi flow.
Rainer Bloess
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rainer Bloess is a member of Ottawa City Council. He represents Ward 2 - Innes covering some of the city`s eastern suburbs. He was originally a member of the city council of Gloucester, being elected to that council in 1994 on a cost cutting platform. He lives in the suburban community of Blackburn Hamlet. When Gloucester was merged into Ottawa in 2000 he ran for Ottawa city council and was elected after a strong challenge from a fellow Gloucester councilor. He has been nominated for city Councillor in the Ottawa municipal election, 2010.
Venersborg, Washington
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venersborg is a census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Washington, United States. The population was 3,274 at the 2000 census.
Pacific Oaks College
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacific Oaks College is located in Pasadena, California, United States. Pacific Oaks College is a higher education institution that has full part-time undergraduate and graduate students throughout Pacific Oaks` California campuses as well as online. Pacific Oaks` anti-bias curriculum has created strong efforts to challenge social injustice and point out issues related to social changes, human development, and child development.
Pacific Northwest tree octopus
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus is an internet hoax created in 1998 by Lyle Zapato. This fictitious endangered species of cephalopod was given the Latin name "Octopus paxarbolis" (which roughly means, "Pacific tree octopus" in Latin). It was purported to be able to live both on land and in water, and was said to live in the Olympic National Forest and nearby rivers, spawning in water where its eggs are laid. Its major predator was said to be the Sasquatch.
Star Control II
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is a critically acclaimedscience fiction computer game, the second game in the Star Control trilogy. It was developed by Toys for Bob (Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III) and originally published by Accolade in 1992 for PC; it was later ported to the 3DO with an enhanced multimedia presentation, allowed by the CD technology. The source code of the 3DO port was licensed under the GNU GPL in 2002. The game still enjoys a cult following.
XIRP2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xin actin-binding repeat-containing protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the XIRP2 gene.
Pacific Opera Victoria
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacific Opera Victoria is located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It performs four full productions per season at Victoria`s Royal Theatre accompanied by members of the Victoria Symphony. In their 2009/2010 season, Pacific Opera Victoria expanded to four productions per season and added Saturday matinees.
Pacific Overlords
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pacific Overlords are a supervillain team seen in the Marvel Comics universe. The team consisted largely of humans mutated by Doctor Demonicus.
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