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Liu Seong Kuntao
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Liu Seong System is one of the many styles of Kuntao Silat, which are hybrid martial arts systems derived from the cultures of China and Indonesia. The Liu Seong system was brought to America, from Indonesia, by Willem A. Reeders (1917-1990).
Gold Coast Oceanway
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Gold Coast Oceanway is a foreshoreway along beaches in Gold Coast, Queensland. The Gold Coast Oceanway is a shared use pedestrian and cyclist pathway on the Gold Coast, connecting the Point Danger lighthouse on the New South Wales and Queensland border to the Gold Coast Seaway. The network includes 36 km of poor, medium and high quality pathways.
Harry Weedon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Harold William "Harry" Weedon (1887 – 17 June 1970) was an English architect. Although he designed a large number of buildings during a long career, he is best known for his role overseeing the Art Deco designs of the Odeon Cinemas for Oscar Deutsch in the 1930s. Influenced by the work of Erich Mendelsohn and Hans Poelzig - the Odeons "taught Britain to love modern architecture" and form "a body of work which, with London Underground stations, denotes the Thirties like nothing else".
HDMS Najaden (1796)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HDMS Najaden (Danish: "The Naiad") was a frigate of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy, which she served from 1796 to 1807 until the British captured her in 1807. While in Dano-Norwegian service she participated in an action at Tripoli, North Africa. She served the Royal Navy as the fifth rate HMS Nyaden (or Nijaden) from 1808 until 1812 when she was broken up. During her brief British service she participated in some small attacks in the Barents Sea during the Anglo-Russian War.
Oz Clarke
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert "Oz" Clarke is a British wine writer, television presenter and broadcaster.
David C. Jones
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Charles Jones (born July 9, 1921) is a retired U.S. Air Force general and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Civil Rights Act of 1875
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Civil Rights Act of 1875 (18 Stat. 335-337), sometimes called Enforcement Act or Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era that guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from jury service. The Supreme Court decided the act was unconstitutional in 1883.
Common Merganser
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Common Merganser (North American) or Goosander (Eurasian) (Mergus merganser) is a large duck, of rivers and lakes of forested areas of Europe, northern and central Asia, and North America. It eats fish and nests in holes in trees. John James Audubon called this bird the "Buff-breasted Merganser" in his book The Birds of America.
Oakley, Utah
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oakley is a city in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 948 at the 2000 census.
Young Mouse
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Young Mouse (1826–1843) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the sixteenth running of the classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse in 1829. In a racing career which lasted from May 1829 until July 1830 the filly ran six times and won three races. Young Mouse won the 1000 Guineas on her first competitive appearance and then ran unplaced in the Oaks Stakes before winning two match races at Newmarket in autumn. She was retired from racing after a single, unsuccessful run as a four-year-old. Young Mouse was later exported to France where she had some success as a broodmare.
2014 CAF Confederation Cup
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2014 CAF Confederation Cup (also known as the 2014 Orange CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons) will be the 11th edition of the CAF Confederation Cup, Africa`s secondary club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The winner will earn the right to play in the 2015 CAF Super Cup.
William Stanley Jenkins
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Captain William Stanley Jenkins was a Canadian flying ace during World War I. He was officially credited with 12 aerial victories, having scored his first two while still on sick leave.
Huatusco (archaeological site)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Huatusco is an archaeological site located in the Carrillo Puerto municipality, near the small, almost deserted town of Santiago Huatusco, on the northern bank of the Rio Atoyac in the Rancho El Fortin. The importance of the site due to the nearly undamaged pyramid from prehispanic times, the largest part of the actual temple is still standing, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico.
Nico Stai
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List of films based on toys
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of feature length animated and live-action films - both theatrically released and direct-to-video - based on toys, board games, and trading cards. Many of these films are based on dolls and action figures made by the toy companies Mattel, Kenner, and Hasbro. In the 1980s, the greeting card companies American Greetings and Hallmark Cards had specialty divisions that created many popular characters, which were later made into toys on which films were based. Several animated cartoon series have also been created based on toy properties, often airing at the same time, or soon after, the toys were launched. The extension of toy properties into films and television, as well as video...
Eddie Lacy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eddie Lacy is a college football player currently playing as the No. 2 running back for the 2011 Alabama Crimson Tide football team. During the 2011 regular season, his average of 7.5 yards per carry ranked first in the Southeastern Conference and sixth in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision.
Space City (newspaper)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Space City was an underground newspaper published in Houston, Texas from June 5, 1969 to August 3, 1972. The founders were SDS veterans and former members of the staff of the Austin, Texas underground newspaper, The Rag, including Thorne Dreyer, Victoria Smith, Cam and Sue Duncan, and Dennis and Judy Fitzgerald. Staffers included Bill Narum as Art Director. The first twelve issues of the paper were published under the title Space City News, which starting with issue no. 13 (Jan. 17, 1970) was changed to Space City! (with the exclamation point as a graphical design flourish) when it was discovered that another publication was already using the name.
Adil Omar
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adil Omar (born May 17, 1991) is a rapper and singer-songwriter from Islamabad, Pakistan. He is one of the few hip-hop artists from Pakistan and musicians from the region to write and perform in English. He has also collaborated with mainstream artists such as Cypress Hill, Xzibit, Everlast, Kool G Rap, DJ Lethal of Limp Bizkit and Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller among others. He is currently working on his debut album, The Mushroom Cloud Effect, for a 2012 release.
List of people from Hillsboro, Oregon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The following is a partial list of notable residents, past and present, from Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. A separate list of people from Oregon is available.
Bryan Marshall (ice hockey)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bryan Marshall (born January 20, 1983 in Livonia, Michigan) is an American professional ice hockey player currently playing for Heilbronner Falken of the German 2nd Bundesliga.
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