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London Regiment
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The London Regiment is a Territorial Army regiment in the British Army. It was first formed in 1908 in order to regiment the various Volunteer Force battalions in the newly formed County of London, each battalion having a distinctive uniform. The Volunteer Force was merged with the Yeomanry in 1908 to form the Territorial Force. This resulted from the impending insolvency of the Volunteer Force`s voluntary civilian administration. The administration was taken over by the War Office, and most volunteer units lost their unique identities, becoming territorial battalions of their regular army county regiment. The London corps were a notable exception, being grouped to form their own regiment, each...
Dominic Kinnear
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dominic Kinnear (born July 26, 1967 in Glasgow) is a Scottish-born American former soccer player. He is currently the head coach of Houston Dynamo in Major League Soccer.
Wizzard
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wizzard were a Birmingham-based band formed by Roy Wood, former member of The Move and co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra. The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits states, "Wizzard was Roy Wood just as much as Wings were Paul McCartney."
Freaks
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Freaks is a 1932 American Pre-Code horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival (funfair) performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins` 1923 short story "Spurs". Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup.
1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1902 college football season. W. H. Watkins was in his second year coaching Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt was playing in its 13th season of football. The Commodores had wins over Cumberland, Ole Miss, Central of Kentucky, Tennessee, Washington University), Kentucky, Tulane and LSU. The Tulane and LSU contests were played with one days rest between games for the Commodores.
Justin Moyer
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Justin Moyer (born 1977) is an American musician and journalist. He has been a member of many Washington, D.C.-based bands on Dischord Records, including El Guapo, Supersystem, Antelope, and E.D. Sedgwick. He is a writer for The Washington Post and The Washington City Paper.
Pizza Brain
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pizza Brain is an American pizza museum and pizzeria, and home to the world`s largest collection of pizza memorabilia and collectibles, headquartered in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, United States, with the flagship restaurant on Frankford Avenue.
IBM BASIC
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The IBM Personal Computer Basic, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer (model 5150) in 1981. IBM released four different versions of the Microsoft BASIC interpreter, licensed from Microsoft for the PC and PCjr. They are known as Cassette BASIC, Disk BASIC, Advanced BASIC (BASICA), and Cartridge BASIC. Versions of Disk BASIC and Advanced BASIC were included with IBM PC DOS up to PC DOS 4. In addition to the features of an ANSI standard BASIC, the IBM versions offered support for the graphics and sound hardware of the IBM PC line. Source code could be typed in with a full screen editor, and very limited facilities were...
Versailles discography
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The discography of Versailles, a Japanese visual kei metal band formed in 2007.Versailles` key characteristics are their rococo-esque costumes, dueling guitars and heavy but melodic arrangements.
SS Empire Dorado
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Empire Dominica was a 5,595 GRT design 1019 cargo ship that was built in 1920 as Tolosa by Atlantic Corporation, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States for the United States Shipping Board (USSB), passing to the United States Maritime Commission (USMC) in 1937. She was sold to the United Kingdom in 1940, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Dominica. She served until November 1941, when she was in collision with another ship. Although taken in tow, she subsequently sank.
Taras Bidenko
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Taras Bidenko (born 1980-02-08 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a German based professional boxer who fights in the heavyweight division.
Holden Snyder
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Holden Snyder was a fictional character on the American daytime soap opera As the World Turns. He was portrayed by Jon Hensley, who originated the role.
The Sims Castaway Stories
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sims Castaway Stories is the third and final game in the `The Sims Stories` line of games. It was released on January 29, 2008.
FATF blacklist
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The FATF blacklist was the common shorthand description for the Financial Action Task Force list of "Non-Cooperative Countries or Territories" (NCCTs); that is, countries which it perceived to be non-cooperative in the global fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. Although non-appearance on the blacklist was perceived to be a mark of approbation for Offshore Financial Centres (or "tax havens") who are sufficiently well regulated to meet all of the FATF`s criteria, in practice the list included countries that do not operate as offshore financial centres.
Germanic toponymy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Many region names (and some place names) in Europe derive from the original Germanic word for stranger or foreigner, rendered as "wal" or "gal" (and variations). Germanic w became gu when borrowed into Old French. (Contrast guardian, guerre and Guillaume with the English forms warden, war and William).
Stalker (G.I. Joe)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stalker is the code name of Army Sergeant Lonzo R. Wilkinson, a character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series. He is one of very few characters from the first line of the toys to have a distinct appearance from the other action figures, as he is African-American. Stalker was a major character in the G.I. Joe comic book series published by Marvel Comics, and has also been featured in the series from Devil`s Due publishing. In the animated series, however, he received very little screen time after the first mini-series, and is absent from the later series, G.I. Joe: Sigma 6.
Simplex (disambiguation)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Simplex is Latin for "simple, pure, plain" and may refer to:
Selne
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of Forgotten Realms deities. They are all deities that appear in the fictional Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
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