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111 (emergency telephone number)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 111 (usually pronounced one-one-one) is the emergency telephone number in New Zealand. It was first implemented in Masterton and Carterton on 29 September 1958, and was progressively rolled out nationwide with the last exchanges converting in 1988. In 2008, 111 celebrated fifty years of service.
Celanese
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE) is a Fortune 500 global technology and specialty materials company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. The company is a leading producer of acetyl products, which are intermediate chemicals for nearly all major industries, and is the world`s largest producer of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM).
John Cleland
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Cleland (baptised 24 September 1709 – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.
Rifle, Colorado
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The City of Rifle is a Home Rule Municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 6,769 at the 2000 census. Rifle is a regional center of the cattle ranching industry located along Interstate 70 and the Colorado River just east of the Roan Cliffs, which dominate the western skyline of the town. The town was founded in 1881 by Abram Mayfield, and was incorporated in 1904 along Rifle Creek, near its mouth on the Colorado. Rife Creek is named for an incident involving white trappers in the late 19th century. According to local lore, one of the trappers accidentally left his rifle along the creek, giving it its name.
USCGC Point Slocum (WPB-82313)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCGC Point Slocum (WPB-82313) was an 82-foot Point class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1961 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat. Since the Coast Guard policy in 1960 was not to name cutters under 100 feet in length, it was designated as WPB-82313 when commissioned and acquired the name Point Slocum in January 1964 when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet.
Death in custody of Gunasegaran Rajasundram
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gunasegaran Rajasundram (1977–16 July 2008) was a Royal Malaysian Police detainee who died in the police lock-up while under arrest for suspicion of drug possession. Coincidentally, his death was on the same day as Teoh Beng Hock`s body was found. The case of R. Gunasegaran is crucial to the discussion on police practices because it highlights several issues with the policing of Malaysia: the safety of whistleblowers, human rights during police custody, the procedures of inquests, and the practices of the police force. Understanding this case could bring us to find out what more could be done to better the policing system of Malaysia.]
Ethel Owen
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ethel Waite Owen (March 30, 1893 — February 16, 1997) was an American actress with a lengthy career on stage as well in radio and television. In her early sixties, during the mid-1950s, she had a well-remembered recurring role on television as Mrs. Gibson, Ralph Kramden`s sharp-tongued, interfering mother-in-law on The Honeymooners.
21st Legislative Assembly of Ontario
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 21st Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from August 4, 1943 until March 24, 1945, just prior to the 1945 general election. The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, formerly the Ontario Conservative Party, led by George Drew formed a minority government. The Liberals, having lost seats to both the Conservatives and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, fell to third place.
1999 UEFA Cup Final
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1999 UEFA Cup Final a football match that took place at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, on 12 May 1999 between Parma A.C. of Italy and Olympique de Marseille of France. Parma won the match 3–0. In doing so, Parma won their second UEFA Cup title and fourth European trophy, having previously won the UEFA Cup Winners` Cup and the UEFA Super Cup on one occasion each.
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate is a 2005 book published by Princeton University Press and written by William Ruddiman, a paleoclimatologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He has authored and co-authored several different books and academic papers on the subject of climate change. This book however takes a more controversial approach by challenging the common conclusion of climate scientists that human induced climate change began with the industrial revolution through the widespread burning of fossil fuels. Scientists often refer to this period as the “Anthropocene” and define it as the era in which humans first began to alter the...
Washington State Liquor Control Board
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Washington State Liquor Control Board is an administrative agency of the State of Washington. The Liquor Control Board is part of the executive branch and reports to the Governor. The Board holds a monopoly on the distribution of hard liquor because Washington is a control state. The Retail and Product Services Division operates all wholesale distribution and most retail sales of liquor. The Enforcement and Education Division has power to enforce alcohol and tobacco laws and inform the public about those laws.
Webster Hall
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Webster Hall is a nightclub located at 125 East 11th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, near Astor Place, in Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1886, its current incarnation was opened by the Ballinger Brothers in 1992. It serves as a nightclub, concert venue, corporate events center, and recording venue, and has a capacity of 2,500 people – including the club; 1,400 for the main stage.
Maxim Integrated
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) is a publicly traded company that designs, manufactures, and sells analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products. Maxim develops integrated circuits (ICs) for the industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Maxim has design centers, manufacturing facilities, and sales offices throughout the world. In 2011 Maxim had $2.47 billion in sales, 9,300 employees, and 35,000 customers worldwide.
California Coast Ranges
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Coast Ranges of California constitute one of the eleven traditional geomorphic provinces of California. They include several but not all mountain ranges along the California coast (the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains are not included). Physiographically, they are a section of the larger Pacific Border province, which in turn are part of the larger Pacific Mountain System physiographic division. UNESCO has included the "California Coast Ranges Biosphere Reserve" in its Man and the Biosphere Programme of World Network of Biosphere Reserves since 1983.
PAF (pickup)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! P.A.F. or just PAF is the world`s first humbucker guitar pickup, invented by Seth Lover in 1955 as an engineer for Gibson and began use in mass production guitars in 1956 or 1957. However Rickenbacker and Gretsch had developed humbucking pickups also. Rickenbacker released theirs in 1953 but discontinued it in 1954 because of the `distortion` it caused.
BAE Systems Land & Armaments
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! BAE Systems Land & Armaments is a subsidiary of BAE Systems Inc. and is responsible for the design, development and production of combat vehicles, ammunition, artillery systems, naval guns and missile launchers. It is the largest such company in the world. It was created on June 24, 2005, following the completion of BAE Systems plc`s acquisition of United Defense and its merger with BAE Systems Land Systems. The L&A group In 2007 BAE Systems acquired Armor Holdings adding to the size of Land & Armaments significantly.
Hanau
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hanau is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt am Main. Its station is a major railway junction.
Cornell Woolrich
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (4 December 1903 – 25 September 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.
Snow Treasure
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Snow Treasure is a children`s novel by Marie McSwigan. Set in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II it recounts the story of several Norwegian children who use sleds to smuggle their country`s gold bullion past German guards to a waiting ship. Published in 1942, it has been in print ever since. The book was made into a movie of the same name in 1968, directed by Irving Jacoby.
Elizabeth J. Feinler
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elizabeth Jocelyn "Jake" Feinler is an American information scientist. From 1972 until 1989 she was director of the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Her group operated the Network Information Center (NIC) for the ARPANET as it evolved into the Defense Data Network (DDN) and the Internet.
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