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The Twilight Zone
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode (156 in the original series) is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist. A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to serious science fiction and abstract ideas through television and also through a wide variety of Twilight Zone literature.
Centrica
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Centrica plc (LSE: CNA) is a multinational utility company, based in the United Kingdom but also with interests in North America. Centrica is the largest supplier of gas to domestic customers in the UK, and one of the largest suppliers of electricity, operating under the trading names "Scottish Gas" in Scotland and "British Gas" in the rest of the UK. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Kansas City Royals
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball`s American League. From 1973 to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium. The Royals have participated in two World Series, winning in 1985.
Fiber to the x
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fiber to the x (FTTx) is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to replace all or part of the usual metal local loop used for last mile telecommunications. The generic term was initially a generalization for several configurations of fiber deployment (FTTN, FTTC, FTTB, FTTH...), all starting by FTT but differentiated by the last letter, which is substituted by an x in the generalization.
Shallow Life
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shallow Life is the fifth album by Italian band Lacuna Coil. The album was released on April 20, 2009 in Europe and April 21 in North America. As of September, 2009, it has sold over 75,000 copies in the U.S. and 225,000 worldwide.
Antony and the Johnsons
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Antony and the Johnsons is a music group presenting the work of Antony Hegarty and his collaborators.
Cisco PIX
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cisco PIX (Private Internet eXchange) is a popular IP firewall and network address translation (NAT) appliance. It was one of the first products in this market segment.
RollerCoaster Tycoon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! RollerCoaster Tycoon is a construction and management simulation video game that simulates theme park management. Developed by MicroProse and Chris Sawyer and published by Hasbro Interactive, the game was released for Microsoft Windows on March 31, 1999 and was later ported to the Xbox game console. It is the first game in the RollerCoaster Tycoon series and is followed by RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, and the upcoming RollerCoaster Tycoon 3DS.
Roller coaster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. LaMarcus Adna Thompson patented the first coasters on January 20, 1885. In essence a specialized railroad system, a roller coaster consists of a track that rises in designed patterns, sometimes with one or more inversions (such as vertical loops) that turn the rider briefly upside down. The track does not necessarily have to be a complete circuit, as shuttle roller coasters exhibit. Most roller coasters have multiple cars in which passengers sit and are restrained. Two or more cars hooked together are called a train. Some roller coasters, notably Wild Mouse roller coasters, run with single cars.
14th Street – Union Square (New York City Subway)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 14th Street – Union Square is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the BMT Broadway Line, and the BMT Canarsie Line. It is located at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and 14th Street, underneath Union Square in Manhattan, and is served by the:
Sweet Child o` Mine
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Sweet Child o` Mine" is the third single by American rock band Guns N` Roses, and the third from their 1987 debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction. Released on August 17, 1988, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the band`s first and only number-one single in the U.S. It reached number six on the UK Singles Chart.
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (or simply "Sweet Dreams") is a song by the British pop music duo Eurythmics, written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart. It was released as a single in early 1983, and was the title track of their album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). It is notable for being the song which provided the group with their breakthrough into commercial success and one of their biggest hits. Its striking music video helped to propel the song to number two on the UK singles chart, and number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It was the fourth single released from the Sweet Dreams album in the UK and the first ever single to be released by Eurythmics in the United States.
Where`s Wally?
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Where`s Wally?, published in the United States and Canada as Where`s Waldo?, is a series of children`s books created by British illustrator Martin Handford. The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting dozens or more people doing a variety of amusing things at a given location. Readers are challenged to find a character named Wally hidden in the group. Wally`s distinctive red-and-white striped shirt, bobble hat, and glasses make him slightly easier to recognise, but many illustrations contain "red herrings" involving deceptive use of red-and-white striped objects. Later entries in the long-running book series added other targets for readers to find in...
The Settlers of Catan
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber and first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) as Die Siedler von Catan. Players assume the roles of settlers, each attempting to build and develop their settlement while trading and acquiring resources. Players are rewarded points as their settlements grow; the first to reach a set number of points is the winner.
Argumentum ad populum
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In logic, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for "appeal to the people") is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or most people believe it; which alleges: "If many believe so, it is so."
Consensus decision-making
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Consensus decision-making is a group decision making process that seeks the consent, not necessarily the agreement, of participants and the resolution of objections. Consensus is defined by Merriam-Webster as, first, general agreement, and second, group solidarity of belief or sentiment. It has its origin in a Latin word meaning literally feel together. It is used to describe both the decision and the process of reaching a decision. Consensus decision-making is thus concerned with the process of reaching a consensus decision, and the social and political effects of using this process.
SNAP25
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Synaptosomal-associated protein 25 (SNAP-25) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SNAP25 gene. The SNAP-25 protein is a component of the SNARE complex, which is proposed to account for the specificity of membrane fusion and to directly execute fusion by forming a tight complex that brings the synaptic vesicle and plasma membranes together.
Lockheed Martin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Lockheed Martin employs 140,000 people worldwide. Robert J. Stevens is the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Adrian Smith
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adrian Frederick "H" Smith (born 27 February 1957) is an English musician and one of three guitarists in the heavy metal band, Iron Maiden. He is also one of the band`s regular songwriters and, along with bassist Steve Harris, performs backing vocals on some songs.
Ferranti
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ferranti or Ferranti International plc was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993. Known primarily for defence electronics, the Company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but ceased trading in 1993.
Question Mark & the Mysterians
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Question Mark and the Mysterians (rendered ? and the Mysterians on the record label) are an American rock and roll band formed in Bay City, Michigan, in 1962.
Dexia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dexia N.V./S.A., also referred to as the Dexia Group, is a Belgian-French financial institution active in public finance, providing retail and commercial banking services to individuals and SMEs, asset management, and insurance. The company has about 35,200 members of staff and core shareholders` equity of €19.2 billion as at 31 December 2010, and provides governments and local public finance operators with banking and other financial services. Asset Management and Services provides asset management, investor and insurance services, in particular to clients of the two other business lines. In 2008, the bank received bailouts for €6 billion, and it has become the first casualty of the 2011...
List of species (Animorphs)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of fictional alien species from the science fiction series Animorphs, in alphabetical order. Major species are in bold.
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