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Teuku Nyak Arif
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Teungku Nyak Arif (17 July 1899 – 4 May 1946) was an Acehnese nationalist and National Hero of Indonesia. He has been given the nickname Rencong of Aceh, after the traditional Acehnese weapon, for his bravery.
Macaroni (horse)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Macaroni (1860–1887) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from October 1862 to September 1863 he ran eight times and won seven races. In 1863 he won all seven of his races including the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, the Epsom Derby and the Doncaster Cup.
Stiftsgymnasium Melk
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stiftsgymnasium Melk (Melk Abbey`s gymnasium) is an Austrian Benedictine-run gymnasium in the Lower Austria city of Melk. The Roman Catholic school is set in the well-known monastery Melk Abbey. Founded in 12th century as an monastic school, it is also the oldest Austrian school still in operation.
Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar (German: Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar) (25 December 1696 – 1 August 1715) was a German prince, son by his second marriage of Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Despite his early death he is remembered as a composer and commissioner of music, some of whose concertos were arranged for harpsichord or organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, who was court organist in Weimar at the time.
Chard Junction railway station
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chard Junction railway station was situated on the London and South Western Railway’s West of England Main Line in Somerset, England. It was the junction of a short branch line to Chard. It was opened in 1860 as Chard Road and closed in 1966. An adjacent milk depot was served by its own sidings from 1937 to 1980. A signal box remains to control Station Road level crossing and a passing loop on the long section of single track railway between Yeovil Junction and Pinhoe.
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) is an organization dedicated to investigating and proving its allegation that the quantity of gold held and traded by the world`s central banks, international bullion banks and futures exchanges is significantly overstated and that a scheme analogous to the defunct London Gold Pool keeps the price of gold artificially low.
Eoghan Quigg
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eoghan Quigg (born 12 July 1992) is an Irish pop singer and occasional actor from Dungiven in Northern Ireland, who finished third in the fifth series of the British television music talent contest The X Factor in 2008. As a result of his X Factor success, Quigg was due to be signed by Simon Cowell, X Factor creator/producer and owner and CEO of Syco Records, but was instead signed to RCA after Cowell pulled out.
The Painted Man
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Painted Man (titled The Warded Man in the US) is a fantasy novel written by American writer Peter V. Brett. It is the first part of the Demon Cycle. It was first published by HarperCollins`s Voyager imprint in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2008, and was published in the United States under the title of The Warded Man in March 2009. It has been translated into German, Japanese, Polish, Czech, French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese.
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation in short (GHMC) earlier known as the MCH is the urban planning agency that oversees Hyderabad, the capital and largest city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the local government for the City of Hyderabad. Its geographical area covers most of the urban development agency the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA).
1969 College World Series
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1969 College World Series was played at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, NE from June 13 to June 20. The twenty-third tournament`s champion was Arizona State University, coached by Bobby Winkles. The Most Outstanding Player was John Dolinsek of Arizona State University.
Megatripolis
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Megatripolis was an innovative, underground London nightclub created by Encyclopaedia Psychedelica editor and founder of the Zippie movement Fraser Clark, partner Sionaidh Craigen and partners JJ and Bugsy as well as later Tribal Energy and a great many others. The club combined New Age ideology with Rave culture to create a vibrant, festival-like atmosphere presenting a wide variety of cross-cultural ideas and experiences. Club nights ran regularly on Thursdays from 1993 until 1996, being the focus of much of the Zippie movement. The club and its related activities also helped to popularise ideas such as cyberculture and the Internet between those years.
Loyalsock State Forest
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Loyalsock State Forest is a Pennsylvania state forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #20. On July 1, 2005, a reorganization of Pennsylvania State Forests in eastern Pennsylvania resulted in the creation of the "Loyalsock State Forest" and the elimination of the name Wyoming State Forest.
Running on Empty (album)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Running on Empty is the fifth album by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne. Released in 1977, the album reached #3 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart in 1978 and stayed on the charts for 65 weeks. The single for the title track, "Running on Empty", peaked at #11 and the follow-up single, "The Load-Out"/"Stay", reached #11 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart.
HudBay Minerals
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HudBay Minerals Inc. (TSX: HBM, NYSE: HBM) is a Canadian mining corporation. Founded as Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited (HBMS) it has been exploring and mining in Manitoba for over 80 years. Much of their history has centered around Flin Flon, Manitoba. HudBay Minerals now has operations in Manitoba, Ontario, Yukon and Guatemala.
Welcome to the Monkey House (album)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Welcome to the Monkey House is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. "We Used to Be Friends" was a popular single from the album, which later went on to be the theme song for the cult TV show Veronica Mars.
Willennium
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Willennium is Will Smith`s second solo studio album. It was released on the heels of Smith`s unprecedented success, Big Willie Style.
Jason Scott Sadofsky
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970 in Hopewell Junction, New York), more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist and historian of technology. He is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems. He is also the creator of a 2005 documentary film about BBSes, BBS: The Documentary, and a 2010 documentary film about interactive fiction, GET LAMP.
Maurice Prendergast
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maurice Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compositions and mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the philosophy of the group.
Stand-up roller coaster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A stand-up roller coaster is a roller coaster designed to have the passengers stand through the course of the ride. These roller coasters are very intense, and generally carry taller height restrictions than other rides.
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Draper Laboratory is an American not-for-profit research and development organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Draper focuses on the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy.
Lenapehoking
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lenapehoking is a term for the lands historically inhabited by the Native American people known as the Lenape (named Delaware by early European settlers) in what is now the Northeastern United States. Though it is sometimes said to be a word in the Delaware languages for this area, like much of the toponymy involving languages in the Algonquian linguistic group, there is some confusion about the meaning and history of the name. Much of this land is now heavily urbanized and suburbanized.
Monster (Michael Jackson song)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Monster" is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson featuring 50 Cent, released on Jackson`s first posthumous album Michael. The song was written by Michael Jackson, Eddie Cascio, James Porte, and its rap part was written by Curtis Jackson. Along with "Breaking News" and "Keep Your Head Up", the song was recorded in the Porte/Cascios` basement in 2007. These tracks have been controversial, with some of Jackson`s fans and family members doubting their authenticity. "Monster" achieved minor success, peaking at the bottom of UK official chart due to digital download.
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