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Dina Manfredini
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of supercentenarians from the United States. According to the GRG, there have been over 500 verified American supercentenarians (people from the United States who have attained the age of 110 or greater.) As of April 26, GRG lists 22 verified living supercentenarians. GRG lists people as living supercentenarians if their age has been "validated" and they have been confirmed to be alive within the past year. In addition, 5 American cases are considered "pending" and 34 "unverified." The oldest living verified supercentenarian from the United States is Besse Cooper, age &10000000000000115000000115 years, &10000000000000244000000244 days. The oldest person ever from the United...
Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sub-Saharan African music is characterised by a "strong rhythmic interest" that exhibits common characteristics in all regions of this vast territory, so that Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980) has described the many local approaches as constituting one main system. C.K. Ladzekpo also affirms the profound homogeneity of approach. West African rhythmic techniques carried over the Atlantic were fundamental ingredients of Afro-American musical genres such as blues, jazz, reggae and hip hop, and were thereby of immense importance in 20th century popular music.
Bawang Merah Bawang Putih
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (Malay and Indonesian for Shallots and Garlic) is a popular Malay Indonesian traditional folklore originated from Riau, Sumatra, about two siblings with opposite characters; one good and one bad, and an unjust step mother. The folklore shared the same theme and moral with European folktale Cinderella.
Lunar Saros 156
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saros cycle series 156 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon`s ascending node, 18 years 11 and 1/3 days. It contains 81 events.
Tracy Caldwell Dyson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tracy Caldwell Dyson, PhD (born Tracy Ellen Caldwell, August 14, 1969) is an American chemist and NASA astronaut. Caldwell Dyson was a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle Endeavour flight STS-118 in August 2007. She was part of the Expedition 24 crew on the International Space Station between April 4, 2010 and September 25, 2010. She has completed three spacewalks, logging more than 22 hrs of EVA including work to replace a malfunctioning coolant pump.
Urban Gothic
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Urban Gothic is a sub-genre of Gothic fiction, horror and television dealing with industrial and post-industrial urban society. It was pioneered in the mid-19th century in Britain and the United States and developed in British novels like Robert Louis Stevenson`s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Oscar Wilde`s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) and Bram Stoker`s Dracula (1897). In the twentieth century, urban Gothic helped influence the creation of the sub-genres of Southern Gothic and suburban Gothic. From the 1980s, interest in the urban Gothic revived with books like Anne Rice`s Vampire Chronicles and a number of graphic novels that drew on dark city landscapes, leading to...
Logan`s Run (TV series)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Logan`s Run is a 1977–1978 American CBS-TV series and a spin-off from the 1976 film of the same name.
Evidence management
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Evidence management is the administration and control of evidence related to an event so that it can be used to prove the circumstances of the event, and so that this proof can be tested by independent parties with confidence that the evidence provided is the evidence collected related to the event.
Auditing Standards Board
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the United States, the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) is the senior technical committee designated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to issue auditing, attestation, and quality control statements, standards and guidance to certified public accountants (CPAs) for non-public company audits. Created in October 1978, it is composed of 19 members representing various industries and sectors, including public accountants and private, educational, and governmental entities. It issues pronouncements in the form of statements, interpretations, and guidelines, which all CPAs must adhere to when performing audits and attestations.
Kids` WB Fun Zone
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kids WB Fun Zone is a themed area of Warner Bros. Movie World based on the Looney Tunes cartoons. The area was originally named Looney Tunes Village and was renamed in late 2007 when two new rides were added. At the same time, the Australian Kids` WB TV show began filming at the theme park.
Novarian series
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Novarian series is a sequence of fantasy stories by L. Sprague de Camp, published between 1968 and 1989. The series contains some of de Camp`s most innovative works of fantasy, featuring explorations of various political systems, an inversion of the "rags to royalty" pattern characteristic of much heroic fantasy, a satiric look at the foibles of humanity through the eyes of a demon, and a consistently wry and ironic take on conventions of the genre that plays out by taking them to their logical (or illogical) conclusions. Another singular feature of the series is its frequent use of folk tales integrated into the plot to painlessly convey something of the background and history of the...
HBL Pakistan
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! For other uses of "Habib Bank", see Habib Bank (disambiguation)
SLC24A5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sodium/potassium/calcium exchanger 5 (NCKX5) also known as solute carrier family 24 member 5 (SLC24A5) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC24A5 gene that has a major influence on natural skin colour variation. The NCKX5 protein is a member of the potassium-dependent sodium/calcium exchanger family. Sequence variation in the SLC24A5 gene, particularly a non-synonymous SNP changing the amino acid at position 111 in NCKX5 from alanine to threonine, has been associated with differences in skin pigmentation.
The Sooty Show
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sooty Show is a British children`s television series that aired on BBC Television from 1955 until 1967 when the BBC eventually cancelled The Sooty Show after Paul Fox, the then controller of BBC One at the time, cleared out some of the long running shows.
Playing It Straight
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Playing It Straight is a 2004 American reality show in which one woman spent time on a ranch with a group of men in an attempt to discern which of them were gay and which of them were straight. All of the men pretended to be heterosexual. The woman went on individual dates with the men, in addition to engaging in group activities with them. Over the course of the episodes, she voted to eliminate the men she believed to be gay.
Peter J. Barnes (respiratory scientist)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Professor Peter J. Barnes, MA, DM, DSc, FRCP, FCCP, FMedSci, FRS (born October 29th 1946) is a British respiratory scientist and clinician, internationally recognized for his research into the mechanisms and treatment of asthma and COPD . He is currently Professor of Thoracic Medicine at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Head of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital London.
Benedict J. Semmes, Jr
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Benedict Joseph Semmes, Jr. (8 April 1913–4 June 1994) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy. His career included service in World War II and the Cold War, command of destroyers, a lengthy tour as Chief of Naval Personnel, command of the United States Second Fleet, duty as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, and a tour as President of the Naval War College.
Reliance Broadcast Network
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Reliance Broadcast Network (formally Reliance Broadcast Network Limited, commonly abbreviated as "RBNL") is a subsidiary of the Indian Reliance Group of companies. Reliance Broadcast Network operates FM Radio stations and Television stations in India.
Wor Nanny’s a mazer
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wor Nanny`s a mazer is a famous Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by Thomas “Tommy” Armstrong, in a style deriving from music hall. It is regarded by many as one of the classics.
Gradiconus
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gradiconus is a proposed genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. This genus currently (November 2011) is still treated by some experts as an "alternative representation" of this group of species.
Sublime Text
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sublime Text is a cross-platform C++-based text and source code editor. The program was originally designed as a feature-rich extension of vim.
Travis Roy (soccer)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Travis Roy is a retired American soccer player who played professionally in the USISL and National Professional Soccer League. He was the 1998 NPSL Rookie of the Year.
Jaspidiconus
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jaspidiconus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
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