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Muscular hydrostat
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A muscular hydrostat is a biological structure found in animals. It is used to manipulate items (including food) or to move its host about and consists mainly of muscles with no skeletal support. It performs its hydraulic movement without fluid in a separate compartment, as in a hydrostatic skeleton. The principle behind the hydrostatic skeleton is that water is effectively incompressible at physiological pressures. Thus, a fiber-wound chamber full of water will act as a constant-volume system. What makes the muscular hydrostat unique is that it relies on the same principle, but there is no water-filled cavity. Instead, the bulk of the organ is made up of muscle, which also has constant volume...
Petria Thomas
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Petria Ann Thomas OAM (born 25 August 1975) is an Australian swimmer and Olympic gold medallist and a winner of 15 national titles. She was born in Lismore, New South Wales and grew up in the nearby town of Mullumbimby.
Caudate nucleus
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The caudate nucleus is a nucleus located within the basal ganglia of the brains of many animal species. The caudate nucleus is an important part of the brain`s learning and memory system.
David Kilgour
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Kilgour, PC (born February 18, 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a former Canadian politician.
1919 in sports
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 1919 in sports describes the year`s events in world sport.
Alvin Robertson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alvin Cyrrale Robertson (born July 22, 1962 in Barberton, Ohio) is a retired American basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association from 1984 to 1993, and for one final season in 1995–96.
Carroll, New Hampshire
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Carroll is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 763 at the 2010 census. The two largest villages are Twin Mountain and Bretton Woods. Carroll is an important access point for recreational areas in the White Mountains, including many 4,000-footers, the Zealand River area, the Presidential Range, and the Presidential Dry River Wilderness. The town is crossed by the Appalachian Trail and is home to the Mount Washington Hotel at Bretton Woods. It is also home to the Highland Center at Crawford Notch, the Appalachian Mountain Club`s four-season lodge.
St Ives by-election, 1937
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The St Ives by-election, 1937 was a by-election held in England on 30 June 1937 for the House of Commons constituency of the St Ives in Cornwall.
C. Peter R. Gossels
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! C. Peter R. Gossels (born August 11, 1930) is an attorney practicing in Massachusetts, a contributor to professional journals and co-editor of a number of Jewish prayer books, including the first egalitarian Jewish prayer book, Vetaher Libenu, published in 1980.
Willie and the Hand Jive
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Willie and the Hand Jive" is a song written by Johnny Otis and originally released as a single in 1958 by Johnny Otis Show, reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #5 on the Billboard R&B chart. The song has a Bo Diddley beat and was partly inspired by the music sung by a chain gang Otis heard while he was touring. The lyrics are about a man who became famous for doing a dance with his hands, but the song has been accused of glorifying masturbation. It has since been covered by numerous artists, including The Strangeloves, Eric Clapton, Cliff Richard, Johnny Rivers, George Thorogood and The Grateful Dead. Clapton`s 1974 version was also released as a single and also reached the...
AN-VI
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! AN-VI is a new member of the rubber family, with substantially different characteristics to those of traditional elastomers.
2010 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Europe/Africa Zone is one of three zones of regional competition in the 2010 Fed Cup.
2002 Toronto Rock season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2002 season was the 5th in franchise history and 4th as the Rock.
Maple Grove Raceway
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maple Grove Raceway is a quarter-mile dragstrip located near Mohnton, Pennsylvania, just outside Reading. It opened in 1962 as a 1/5-mile dragstrip. It was eventually lengthened to its current quarter-mile length in 1964. The track has been sanctioned by the National Hot Rod Association for most of its existence. It has hosted an NHRA national event since 1985. Uni-Select Auto Plus came aboard as the Nationals sponsor in 2011. Other key events include the American Drag Racing League, the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, the Geezers Reunion at The Grove presented by Yuengling and the NHRA Pennsylvania Dutch Classic.
Joseph R. Cistone
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joseph Robert Cistone (born May 18, 1949) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the sixth and current Bishop of Saginaw.
Jamie Parker
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jamie Parker is an English actor and singer.
Rotherhithe (UK Parliament constituency)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rotherhithe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Rotherhithe district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Battle of Connecticut Farms
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Connecticut Farms, fought June 7, 1780, was one of the last major battles between British and American forces in the northern colonies during the American Revolutionary War. Hessian General Wilhelm von Knyphausen, in command of the British garrison at New York City, made an attempt to reach the principal Continental Army encampment at Morristown, New Jersey. Knyphausen`s advance was strongly met by companies of the New Jersey militia at Connecticut Farms (present-day Union Township). After stiff resistance, the militia were forced to withdraw, but the battle and skirmishing that preceded it sufficiently delayed Knyphausen`s advance that he remained there for the night. After...
Andy Clyde
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Andy Clyde (March 25, 1892 — May 18, 1967) was a Scottish movie and TV actor whose career spanned more than four decades. He broke into silent films in 1925 as a Mack Sennett comic. Born Andrew Allan Clyde, he came from a family that had been prominently identified with the theatre for generations; his brother David Clyde and sister Jean Clyde also became screen actors.
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