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Произведения автора582007
William Henry Bragg
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE, PRS (2 July 1862 – 10 March 1942) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics. The mineral Braggite is named after him and his son.
USS Gherardi (DD-637)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Gherardi (DD-637) (later DMS-30), a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi.
Pituitary gland
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In vertebrate anatomy the pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland about the size of a pea and weighing 0.5 g (0.02 oz.), in humans. It is a protrusion off the bottom of the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, and rests in a small, bony cavity (sella turcica) covered by a dural fold (diaphragma sellae). The pituitary is functionally connected to the hypothalamus by the median eminence via a small tube called the infundibular stem (Pituitary stalk). The pituitary fossa, in which the pituitary gland sits, is situated in the sphenoid bone in the middle cranial fossa at the base of the brain. The pituitary gland secretes nine hormones that regulate homeostasis.
Nemesis at Potsdam
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nemesis at Potsdam is a 1977 book by the American lawyer and historian Alfred-Maurice de Zayas.
Tom Quad
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Great Quadrangle, more popularly known as Tom Quad, is one of the quadrangles of Christ Church, Oxford, England. It is the largest college quad in Oxford, measuring 264 by 261 feet. Although it was begun by Cardinal Wolsey, he was unable to complete it. Wolsey planned that it would actually be a cloister, and the supports required for this can be seen at short intervals around the quadrangle. The quad was finished when John Fell was Dean. The funds for the building of Tom Quad were found from the suppression of three Norbertine abbeys. It is dominated to the west by Tom Tower, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. On the east side is the entrance to Christ Church Cathedral and at the south-east...
Lirularia canaliculata
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lirularia canaliculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae.
Virtual Private LAN Service
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) is a way to provide Ethernet based multipoint to multipoint communication over IP/MPLS networks. It allows geographically dispersed sites to share an Ethernet broadcast domain by connecting sites through pseudo-wires. The technologies that can be used as pseudo-wire can be Ethernet over MPLS, L2TPv3 or even GRE. There are two IETF standards track RFCs (RFC 4761 and RFC 4762) describing VPLS establishment.
Franz Joseph, Marquis de Lusignan
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Franz Joseph, Marquis de Lusignan (23 June 1753 – 23 December 1832), a Spaniard, joined the Austrian army and fought against Prussian soldiers and Belgian rebels. During the French Revolutionary Wars, he played a significant role at the Battle of Rivoli in 1797 and became a general officer. He led brigade- and division-sized forces during the Italian campaign of 1799. In the Napoleonic Wars, he twice commanded a division and was so badly wounded in 1809 that he was forced to retire from the army. From 1806 until his death he was proprietor of the Lusignan Infantry Regiment.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (album)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is the eponymous debut album by the band of the same name, released in late 1976.
Yugoslav football clubs
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Prva Liga, operated by the Football Association of Yugoslavia, began holding national competitions in 1923. This spawned many new opportunities for teams to be organized, and prospective footballers looking to join. The boom began right after the First World War, and continued well until the break out of the Second World War.
Tom Shanklin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tomos George L. Shanklin (born 24 November 1979 in Harrow, London) is a former Welsh rugby union player who played Outside Centre for Cardiff Blues and Wales. He is Wales` most-capped centre. He played club rugby for London Welsh and then Saracens, before joining Cardiff Blues in 2003.
Robert Ginty
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Ginty (November 14, 1948 – September 21, 2009) was an American movie actor, producer, scenarist, and director of movies and TV series episodes.
Alcithoe jaculoides
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alcithoe jaculoides is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes. This species is found only along the coast of North Island, New Zealand.
USS Victoria (1855)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Victoria (1855) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
Premier Oil
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Premier Oil plc (LSE: PMO) is an independent British UK oil company with gas and oil interests in the UK, Asia and Africa. It is devoted entirely to the `upstream` sector of the industry - the exploitation of oil and gas - as opposed to the `downstream` refining and retail sector. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
Graeme Obree
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Graeme Obree (born 11 September 1965, nicknamed "The Flying Scotsman") is a Scottish racing cyclist who twice broke the world hour record, in July 1993 and April 1994, and was the individual pursuit world champion in 1993 and 1995. He was known for his unusual riding positions and for the "Old Faithful" bicycle he built which included parts from a washing machine. He joined a professional team in France but was fired before his first race. He has suffered from clinical depression and twice attempted suicide. His life and exploits have been dramatised in the film The Flying Scotsman. Obree created some of the most radical innovations in the history of bicycle design.
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