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Joachim Meisner
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joachim Meisner (born December 25, 1933) is a German cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is the current Archbishop of Cologne, serving since 1989. He previously served as Bishop of Berlin from 1980 to 1989, and was created a cardinal in 1983. He is widely considered to be Germany`s leading conservative Catholic figure.
Wild Rose (electoral district)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wild Rose is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988. It had been called a safe seat for the Conservative Party of Canada.
Battle of Morat
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Morat (also known as the Battle of Murten) was a battle in the Burgundian Wars fought June 22, 1476 between Charles I, Duke of Burgundy and a Swiss army at Morat, about 30 kilometres from Bern.
Wattstax
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wattstax is a 1973 documentary film by Mel Stuart that focused on the 1972 Wattstax music festival and the African American community of Watts in Los Angeles, California. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Documentary Film in 1974. It was also screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.
Ruth Graham
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ruth Bell Graham (June 10, 1920 – June 14, 2007), wife of the famous evangelist Billy Graham, was born at Qingjiang, Kiangsu, China as Ruth McCue Bell, the second of five children. Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. L. Nelson Bell, were medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles north of Shanghai. At the age of 13 she was enrolled in high school in Pyongyang, Korea, where she studied for three years. Ruth completed her high school education at Montreat, North Carolina, while her parents were there on furlough. She graduated from Wheaton College (Illinois) in Wheaton, Illinois.
H. E. Bates
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Herbert Ernest Bates, CBE (1905–74), better known as H. E. Bates, was an English writer and author. His best-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May, and My Uncle Silas.
Campbellsport, Wisconsin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Campbellsport is a village in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,016 at the 2010 census.
Maricopa, California
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maricopa is a city in Kern County, California, United States. Maricopa is located 6.5 miles (10 km) south-southeast of Taft, at an elevation of 883 feet (269 m). The population was 1,154 at the 2010 census, up from 1,111 at the 2000 census. Maricopa lies at the junction of Route 166 and Route 33. The Carrizo Plain is located to the northwest, and the enormous Midway-Sunset Oil Field, the third largest oil field in the United States, is adjacent on the north and east.
Madagascar women`s national football team
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Madagascar women`s national football team is the FIFA recognised senior women`s A team for Madagascar. The team has not played in a single FIFA recognised match, though they were supposed to have played in a Zambia hosted tournament in 2005. The country also has an under-20 team that was supposed to play in a 2010 under-20 women`s World Cup qualifier but withdrew before playing a single match. The development of a national team in the country is problematic because of issues found on the continent and on the island, specifically the lack of popularity of women`s football as a participation sport in Madagascar.
Stacy Erwin Oakes
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stacy Erwin Oakes (born May 19, 1973) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. She is currently a Democratic Party member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 95th District (map), located in Saginaw County, which includes the cities of Saginaw and Zilwaukee, in addition to the following townships: Bridgeport Township, Buena Vista Township, Carrollton Township, James Township, Kochville Township, Spaulding Township, and Zilwaukee Township.
2011 Western Saharan protests
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2011 Western Saharan protests began on 26 February 2011 as a reaction to the failure of police to prevent anti-Sahrawi looting in the city of Dakhla, Western Sahara, and blossomed into protests across the territory. They were related to the Gdeim Izik protest camp in Western Sahara established the previous fall, which had resulted in violence between Sahrawi activists and Moroccan security forces and supporters. The protests also purportedly drew inspiration from the Arab Spring and successful revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, though according to some commentators, the Arab Spring proper did not reach Western Sahara.
Dentsply
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dentsply International is an American dental equipment maker and dental consumables producer that markets its products in over 120 countries (factories in 21 countries). It is a leader in consumable dental products.
Limerick–Tipperary hurling rivalry
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tipperary–Limerick fixture has been one of the biggest clashes in Munster hurling history. This fixture has provided the closest and most exciting matches, including the three game saga in 2007, which Limerick finally won in the third game in Extra time by 3 points.
Mallett Antiques
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mallett Antiques is an antique dealers with galleries in London and New York and regularly exhibit at the International Fine Art & Antique fairs.
Coat of arms of Singapore
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The coat of arms of Singapore was adopted in 1959, the year Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire. The committee that created it, headed by then Deputy Prime Minister Toh Chin Chye, was also responsible for the national flag and the national anthem. At the centre of the emblem is a red shield bearing a white crescent and five white stars (representing various national ideals including multiculturalism), supported by a lion and a tiger (representing Singapore and Malaysia respectively); below them is a blue ribbon inscribed with Majulah Singapura in gold, Malay for "Onward Singapore". While the use of the coat of arms is restricted to the government, the symbol enjoys wide...
William Ranney
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Tylee Ranney (May 9, 1813 – November 18, 1857) was a 19th-century American painter, known for his depictions of Western life, sporting scenery, historical subjects and portraiture. In his 20-year career, he made 150 paintings and 80 drawings, and is considered the first major genre painter to work in New Jersey, and one of the most important pre-Civil War American painters. His work is on display in several museums across the United States. One of his contemporaries opined, "A specimen of Ranney is indispensable wherever a collection of American art exists."
Our Boarding House
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Our Boarding House was a long-running, American gag-panel comic strip created by Gene Ahern in 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association. Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs. Hoople, it drew humor from the interactions of her grandiose, tall-tale-telling husband, the self-styled Major Hoople, with the rooming-house denizens and his various friends and cronies.
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is the title of a song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album Life and Times, the song was a Number One pop hit for him, spending two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1973. Croce was nominated for two 1973 Grammy awards in the Pop Male Vocalist and Record of the Year categories for "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown".
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1959 British detective film produced by Hammer Films and directed by Terence Fisher.
2001 Six Nations Championship
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2001 Six Nations Championship was the second series of the Six Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-seventh series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. The tournament was marred by an outbreak of the highly infectious livestock disease Foot and mouth disease in Britain. As a consequence, there were severe restrictions on travel especially between Britain and Ireland and thus it was decided to postpone Ireland`s three fixtures against the home nations until the outbreak was contained. These games were then played in September and October. The eventual winners were England for the second year...
List of airports in New Hampshire
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of airports in New Hampshire (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Ian Porterfield
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John "Ian" Porterfield (11 February 1946 – 11 September 2007) was a professional footballer, and an experienced football coach who worked at both club and international level for almost 30 years. Up until his death, he was the coach of the Armenian national team. He has the dubious honour of being the very first manager to be sacked in the FA Premier League, when he was fired by Chelsea. He replaced Alex Ferguson as manager of Aberdeen in 1986.
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