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Jason Molina
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jason Molina is an American singer-songwriter, originally from Lorain, Ohio. He first came to prominence performing and recording as Songs: Ohia, both in solo projects and with a rotating cast of musicians. Since 2003, he has recorded either under his own name or with a stable line-up of band members as the Magnolia Electric Co.
David Wooster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Wooster (March 13, 1711 – May 2, 1777) was an American general who served in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolutionary War. He died of wounds sustained during the Battle of Ridgefield, Connecticut. Cities, schools, and public places were named after him. He has been called "a largely forgotten hero of the Revolution."
Clarence Stein
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clarence Samuel Stein (June 19, 1882 – February 7, 1975) was an American urban planner, architect, and writer, a major proponent of the Garden City movement in the United States.
Martin Chittenden
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Martin Chittenden (March 12, 1763 – September 5, 1840) was an American politician from Vermont. He served as a United States Representative and as the seventh Governor of Vermont during a crucial portion of the War of 1812.
Prosopis
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prosopis is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains around 45 species of spiny trees and shrubs found in subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas, Africa, Western Asia, and South Asia. They often thrive in arid soil and are resistant to drought, on occasion developing extremely deep root systems. Their wood is usually hard, dense and durable. Their fruits are pods and may contain large amounts of sugar. The generic name means "burdock" in late Latin and originated in the Greek language.
Stormy Weather (song)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Stormy Weather" is a 1933 song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford. It has since been performed by artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Clodagh Rodgers, and Reigning Sound and most famously by Lena Horne and Billie Holiday. Leo Reisman`s orchestra version had the biggest hit on records (with Arlen himself as vocalist), although Ethel Waters`s recorded version also sold well. "Stormy Weather" was featured in the 1943 movie of the same name.
St. David`s Battery, Bermuda
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! St. David`s Battery, also known as the Examination Battery, was a fixed battery of rifled breech-loader (RBL) artillery guns, built and manned by the Royal Garrison Artillery and the Royal Engineers, and their part-time reserves, the Bermuda Militia Artillery and the Bermuda Volunteer Engineers, part of the Bermuda Garrison of the British Army.
International Menopause Society
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The International Menopause Society (IMS) is a non-profit association, within the meaning of the Swiss Civil Code. The Association was created in 1978 in Jerusalem during the second Menopause Congress and currently has members in 62 countries. In addition to organizing congresses, symposia, and workshops, the IMS owns its own journal: Climacteric, the Journal of Adult Women`s Health and Medicine, published by Informa Healthcare. The IMS has three sub-organs: CAMS, the Council of Affiliated Menopause Societies, the WSSM, the World School for the Study of the Menopause and the CPP, the Council of Past Presidents.
Frank Stout (painter & sculptor)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frank Stout (born February 17, 1926) is an American figurative artist associated with post-abstract expressionist realism. He is best known for his psychologically penetrating, witty portraits of individuals and large groups, and soulful landscapes executed with a painterly technique. He is also known for flowing figure sculpture in a variety of media, and his pastel drawings.
List of charges against Bradley Manning
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! United States v. Bradley Manning is the court-martial case involving US Army Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, who is alleged to have delivered US government documents to those not entitled to receive them in 2009 and 2010. Media reports have alleged that the receiver was Julian Assange of Wikileaks.
Bannered routes of U.S. Route 63
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eleven bannered routes of U.S. Route 63 currently exist. Six of them lie within the state of Arkansas. There is also one former routing that has been removed from the system.
Aurealis Award for best anthology
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and Fantastic Queensland to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers". To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 November of the prior year and 31 October of the current year; the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people.
K-League Top Assistor Award
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The K-League Top Assitor Award has been awarded since the 1983 season to K-League regular season and K-League Cup assists leader.
Stairway to Heaven (Philippines TV series)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stairway to Heaven is a Philippine drama adapted from a Korean drama with the same name; directed by Joyce E. Bernal and developed by Dode Cruz, their third team-up after the highly-successful MariMar and Dyesebel.
Kenny Casanova
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kenny Casanova, born in May 1971, is a professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager with international success in semi retirement, and also a DJ. Kenny Casanova is best known as a prowrestler on the North East circuit, whose career has led him to be inducted in the class of 2010 New England Prowrestling Hall of Fame.
Capricon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Capricon is an annual, four-day-long (Thursday through Sunday) science fiction convention in a suburb of Chicago, which draws approximately 900+ people. Capricon attendees share an interest in science , science fiction, fantasy, and related genres. The Capricon convention has been held each year since 1981. Capricon is the annual gathering for Phandemonium, a not-for-profit organization, and is entirely volunteer run. The purpose of Phandemonium is to promote Science Fiction as a literary genre and to promote the Chicago area sf community.
Art Miki
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arthur Kazumi Miki, CM (born 1936) is an activist and politician in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians from 1984 to 1992, and is best known for his work in seeking compensation for Japanese-Canadians who were interned by the Government of Canada during World War II.
Make It Easy on Yourself
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Make It Easy On Yourself" is a popular song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David which was first a hit for Jerry Butler in 1962 and has since been a Top 40 single for the Walker Brothers - for whom it was a #1 UK hit - and Dionne Warwick.
Clark H. Woodward
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clark Howell Woodward (1877–1968) served the United States Navy in five wars: the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, the Chinese Boxer Rebellion, and both World Wars. A staunch promoter of an advanced U.S. Navy, he influenced priorities and policies concerning the upgrading and construction of modern naval warships. Upon his retirement after fifty years and six months of active duty, he assured an audience at Annapolis that "the first fifty years were the hardest."
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