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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hassan Nemazee styled himself as a multimillionaire Iranian-American investment banker. Nemazee was born in Washington, D.C. on January 27, 1950 and attended Landon School, graduating in 1968. He received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with Honors from Harvard University in 1972. Nemazee has not returned to Iran since the Iranian revolution. Most of his family`s property was seized by the new Iranian government. On August 25, 2009 Nemazee was arrested for fraudulently applying for a loan of over $74 million from Citigroup. The maximum penalty for the offense is 30 years in prison. He was subsequently accused of fraudulently obtaining $292 million of loans from three banks and of using the...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Blinky Palermo, (2 June 1943 – 18 February 1977) was a German abstract painter.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Placenta accreta is a severe obstetric complication involving an abnormally deep attachment of the placenta, through the endometrium and into the myometrium (the middle layer of the uterine wall). There are three forms of placenta accreta, distinguishable by the depth of penetration.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alexander Adolphus Dumfries Henshaw MBE (7 November 1912 - 24 February 2007) was a British air racer in the 1930s and a test pilot for Vickers Armstrong in the Second World War.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! FC 08 Homburg is a German association football club based in Homburg, Saarland. The club was founded on 15 June 1908 as Fussball Club Homburg by a group of seventeen young men at the local Hohenburg pub.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway (reporting mark PWV) was a railroad in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wheeling, West Virginia areas. Originally built as the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, a Pittsburgh extension of George J. Gould`s Wabash Railroad, the venture entered receivership in 1908 and the line was cut loose. An extension completed in 1931 connected it to the Western Maryland Railway at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, forming the Alphabet Route, an independent line between the Northeastern U.S. and the Midwest. It was leased by the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1964 in conjunction with the N&W acquiring several other sections of the former Alphabet Route, but was leased to...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Confiteor (so named from its first word in Latin) is one of the prayers that can be said during the Penitential Rite at the beginning of Mass of the Roman Rite in the Catholic Church. It is also said in the Lutheran Church at the beginning of their Divine Service. It is started by the Priest and ended by the people.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Millbrae Station (also known as Millbrae Intermodal Terminal) is an at-grade Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Caltrain station located in suburban Millbrae, California, in northern San Mateo County.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Shippingport Atomic Power Station, "the world’s first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses," (though the British Magnox reactor at Calder Hall was first connected to the grid on 27 August 1956, it also produced plutonium for military uses) was located near the present-day Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, USA, about 25 miles (40 km) from Pittsburgh. The reactor went online December 2, 1957, and was in operation until October, 1982. It was an experimental, light water moderated, thermal breeder reactor and is notable for its ability to transmute (inexpensive) Thorium 232 to Uranium 233 (the...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sussex Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Goodwood over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late July or early August.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael J. "Mike" Rogers (born June 2, 1963) is the U.S. Representative for Michigan`s 8th congressional district, serving since 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party and Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A gimbal is a pivoted support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis. A set of two gimbals, one mounted on the other with pivot axes orthogonal, may be used to allow an object mounted on the innermost gimbal to remain immobile (i.e., vertical in the animation) regardless of the motion of its support. For example: on a ship, the gyroscopes, shipboard compasses, stoves, and even drink holders, typically use gimbals to keep them upright with respect to the horizon despite the ship`s pitching and rolling.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The following list of German Field Marshals denotes those who have held the German rank of Generalfeldmarschall.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NAPLPS (North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax) is a graphics language for use originally with videotex and teletext services. NAPLPS was developed from the Telidon system developed in Canada, with a small number of additions from AT&T. The basics of NAPLPS were later used as the basis for several other microcomputer based graphics systems.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mark Winger, (born November 26, 1962) a former Springfield, Illinois nuclear power-plant technician, was convicted in 2002 of murdering his wife, Donnah Winger, and Roger Harrington (born 1967), in 1995. Winger married the former Donna Drescher (born Donnah Brown in 1963) in 1988. Winger was an nuclear plant engineer, his bride Donnah an operating room technician. He is a first cousin of actor Debra Winger.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sporcle is a trivia quiz website launched in July 2007. According to the website`s founder Matt Ramme, the name Sporcle is inspired by the word `oracle`. Offices for the website are located in Seattle and San Francisco.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gulf & Ohio Railways is a holding company for seven different short-line railroads in the Southern United States, as well as a tourist-oriented passenger train, and locomotive leasing and repair service through Knoxville Locomotive Works. Gulf & Ohio maintains its corporate headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee.