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Man or Muppet
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Man or Muppet" is a song from Disney`s 2011 musical film The Muppets, written by singer-songwriter Bret McKenzie. Performed by the film`s main characters, Gary (Jason Segel) and Walter (Peter Linz), the song also features Bill Barretta and Jim Parsons portraying the contrasting identities of Gary and Walter, respectively. The song was published by Fuzzy Muppet Songs and released by Walt Disney Records on November 22, 2011, as part of the film`s soundtrack.
Russell Johnson (acoustician)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frederick Russell Johnson (September 14, 1923 - August 7, 2007), a world renown architect and acoustical expert. Johnson was the founder of Artec Consultants Incorporated in 1970. Nicknamed the "guardian of the ear" by Jean Nouvel in 1998 and an "acoustic guru" by others, Johnson was best known for works that included technical designs for the Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Centre in the Square in Canada, Pikes Peak Center in Colorado, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in Canada and the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in Florida.
Mark Staniszewski
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mark Staniszewski; also known as Mark Stan (b. Aug. 1973) is Long Island`s first dual black belt in both Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Judo; and a Martial Arts Hall of Fame inductee.
Around the Hainleite
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rund um die Hainleite is a classic cycling race which is based around the German city of Erfurt, Germany. Since 2005 it is part of the UCI Europe Tour, being organised as 1.1 race. It is the oldest cycling race still running in Germany, first held in 1907.
Matt Wieters
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Matthew Richard Wieters (born May 21, 1986) is a Major League Baseball catcher for the Baltimore Orioles. Wieters was drafted 5th overall in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft. Wieters played college baseball for Georgia Tech, and his agent is Scott Boras. Wieters is a tall athletic hitter, standing 6 feet 5 inches tall. His ability to hit for power from both sides of the plate has drawn comparisons to Jorge Posada and Jason Varitek.
Goonda
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Goonda is a term in Indian English, Pakistani English, and Bangladeshi English for a hired thug. It is not merely a colloquial term but is also defined and used in various laws, generally referred to as Goonda Acts.
Jawbreaker (Windows Mobile game)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jawbreaker is a port of SameGame for the Pocket PC bundled with the Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 operating system for PDAs. The operating system, and thus the game, was officially released on April 7, 2003. The game itself was developed by oopdreams software, Inc.Jawbreaker is officially listed as one of the "Core Applications" of the Windows Mobile software family, in a paper released by Microsoft. In Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6.0 it is called Bubble Breaker. The original non-bundled version of the game is available from the developer itself as Bubblets.
Jamie Hand
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jamie Hand (born 7 February 1984) is an English footballer who plays for Luton Town as a midfielder, on loan from Hayes & Yeading United. Hand is a former England under-19 international.
Pro Mazda Championship
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear is an open-wheel racecar driver development series in North America. Competitors use spec Formula Mazda race cars built by Star Race Cars. The original series, using first-generation tube-frame cars started in the early 1990s, with the current, high-tech, carbon-fiber car released in 2004. The series has historically included road courses, street courses, and ovals. The series` primary sponsors are Mazda and Goodyear and the cars, while purpose built for the track with carbon fiber monocoques, are powered by 250 horsepower Mazda `Renesis` rotary engines. The series` stated goal is "to develop new race driving talent". In 2010 the series became a...
Searching for Jerry Garcia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Searching for Jerry Garcia is the second and final studio album by Detroit rapper Proof of D12, released on August 9, 2005. It was the only solo album that Proof released on a major label before his death. It reached number 65 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Albums Chart. The album is named after Grateful Dead member Jerry Garcia. The album`s release date, August 9, 2005, intentionally coincided with the ten-year anniversary of Garcia`s death.
Edgar Pangborn
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edgar Pangborn (February 25, 1909 – February 1, 1976) was an American mystery, historical, and science fiction author.
332nd Engineer General Service Regiment (United States)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 332nd Engineer General Service Regiment or 332nd Engineer Regiment was activated as a Special Service Regiment in May 1942, as a unit in the United States Army. Later this unit was redesignated a General Service Regiment. The unit was formed from some regular Army officers and enlisted men, trained in the United States, then shipped overseas early in World War II to England. They were the vanguard of many others to follow, including infantry and armored troops. Their purpose was to build facilities in preparation for those to follow. After the Normandy Invasion, they followed the front lines constructing roads, railroad bridges, hospitals, and other infrastructure needed by the advancing...
Lock-in amplifier
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A lock-in amplifier (also known as a phase-sensitive detector) is a type of amplifier that can extract a signal with a known carrier wave from an extremely noisy environment (the signal-to-noise ratio can be -60 dB or even less). It is essentially a homodyne with an extremely low pass filter (making it very narrow band). Lock-in amplifiers use mixing, through a frequency mixer, to convert the signal`s phase and amplitude to a DC—actually a time-varying low-frequency—voltage signal.
Deaf Smith
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Erastus "Deaf" Smith (April 19, 1787– November 30, 1837) was an American frontiersman noted for his part in the Texas Revolution and the army of the Republic of Texas. He fought at the Grass Fight and the Battle of San Jacinto. After the war, Deaf Smith led a company of Texas Rangers.
The House of God
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The House of God is a satirical novel by Samuel Shem (a pseudonym of the psychiatrist Stephen Bergman), published in 1978. It portrays the psychological harm done to medical interns during the course of medical internship in the early 1970s.
20th-century philosophy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 20th-century philosophy saw the development of a number of new philosophical schools including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, phenomenology, existentialism and poststructuralism. In terms of the eras of philosophy, it is usually labelled as contemporary philosophy (succeeding modern philosophy which runs roughly from the time of Descartes until the twentieth-century).
Torpedo bomber
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A torpedo bomber is a bomber aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with aerial torpedoes, but which could also carry out conventional bombings. Torpedo bombers existed almost exclusively prior to and during World War II when they were an important element in many famous battles, notably the British attack at Taranto and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The introduction of improved weapons that could be carried by conventional bombers, notably anti-shipping missiles, and the vulnerability of torpedo bombers during the attack, led to the type`s disappearance almost immediately after the war.
Roman d`Alexandre en prose
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Roman d`Alexandre en prose (Prose Alexander-Romance) is one of many medieval "Alexander romances" relating the adventures of Alexander the Great, which were by then greatly elaborated with fantastical additions to the historical accounts. Alexander was one of the medieval "Nine Worthies," and his journeys eastward -- and most especially the strange and exotic people and animals he encountered there -- were treated in a number of different texts in a variety of genres. Based on the relatively large number of surviving manuscripts, as well as the deluxe quality of many of these productions, the Old French Roman d`Alexandre en prose can be considered the most popular and successful vernacular...
Cyclone Fran
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cyclone Fran was the third tropical cyclone within four weeks to impact Vanuatu. Fran formed on March 4 and then gradually intensified. Winds reached gale-force on 5 March, and hurricane-force a few days later. Cyclone Fran reached the powerful Category 5 equivalent on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale near Vanuatu. The storm weakened somewhat due to land interaction, but briefly re-intensified after moving away from land. Fran gradually weakened over the next several days over less favorable conditions. Meanwhile, the storm passed north of New Caledonia. Eventually, as a Category 2 system on the Australian scale, Fran made landfall on Queensland during 16 March. Severe Tropical Cyclone...
Arlene Davila
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arlene Davila (born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico) has contributed to the field of Latino/a Studies as an author and professor. She has written five books and many articles on issues ranging from depictions of public images of Latinos, marketing to Latinos, cultural politics in Puerto Rico, and Latinization of the United States. Her research focuses on race and ethnicity, media studies, and Puerto Rican national identities. She is an associate professor at New York University.
Battle of Dongkou
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Dongkou was a naval battle fought in late 222 and early 223 between forces of the states of Cao Wei and Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. The battle concluded in a Wu Pyrrhic victory.
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