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1962 Baltimore Orioles season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1962 Baltimore Orioles season involved the Orioles finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 77 wins and 85 losses.
Sheila Bair
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sheila Colleen Bair (born April 3, 1954) was the 19th Chairperson of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). She was appointed to the post for a five-year term on June 26, 2006 by George W. Bush. Bair served as a member of the FDIC Board of Directors through July 8, 2011.
Anti-handling device
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An anti-handling device is an attachment to or integral part of a landmine or other munition e.g. some fuze types found in air-dropped bombs such as the M83, cluster bombs and sea mines. It is specifically designed to prevent tampering. When the protected device is disturbed it detonates, killing or injuring anyone within the blast area. There is a strong functional overlap of booby traps and anti-handling devices: a munition with an anti-handling device fitted has, for all intents and purposes, been booby-trapped.
Christ Episcopal Church (Tarrytown, New York)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christ Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 43 South Broadway (US 9) in Tarrytown, New York. Topped by a modest tower, the ivy-covered red brick church was built in 1837 and maintains an active congregation to the present day. The church also includes the San Marcos Mission, a Spanish-language ministry.
Amathole District Municipality
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Amathole is one of the 7 districts of Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Amathole is East London. Over 90% of its 1 664 259 people speak Xhosa (2001 Census). The district code is DC12. "Amathole" means calves, the name of the mountain range and forest which forms the northern boundary of the district.
Felicity Jones
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Felicity Jones (born 17 October 1983) is an English actress from Birmingham. She is best known to television audiences for her role as the school bully Ethel Hallow in the first series of The Worst Witch (she was replaced by Katie Allen for series two and three) and its sequel Weirdsister College. Jones also co-starred in Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant`s feature Cemetery Junction. She starred opposite Anton Yelchin in the 2011 drama Like Crazy.
Area code 530
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! North American area code 530 is a California telephone area code that covers Auburn, Chico, Colfax, Davis, Grass Valley, Marysville, Oroville, Placerville, Redding, Red Bluff, Susanville, Truckee, Woodland, Yuba City and South Lake Tahoe.
Jennifer Kimball
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jennifer Kimball is a vocalist and songwriter who is notable for being part of the acclaimed folk duo The Story. She is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter and has released two albums Veering from the Wave and Oh Hear Us.
Vitaly Scherbo
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vitaly Venediktovich Scherbo (or Shcherbo) (Russian: Виталий Венедиктович Щербо, Belarusian: Віталь Венядзіктавіч Шчэрба), born 13 January 1972 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, is a Belarusian and former Soviet artistic gymnast. Arguably the greatest or most successful male gymnast of all time, he is the only male gymnast ever to have won a world title on all 8 events (Individual All-Around in 1993, Team in 1991, Floor in 1994, 1995 and 1996, Horizontal Bar in 1994, Parallel Bars in 1993 and 1995, Pommel Horse in 1992, Rings in 1992, Vault in 1993 and 1994). At the 1992 Olympics, he won 6 of 8 events (team, all-around, and 4 of 6 event finals - more...
Lake Mead
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States. It is located on the Colorado River about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the states of Nevada and Arizona. Formed by water impounded by the Hoover Dam, it extends 112 miles (180 km) behind the dam, holding approximately 28,500,000 acre feet (35.2 km3) of water.
Beryl Markham
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Beryl Markham (26 October 1902 – 3 August 1986) was a British-born Kenyan aviatrix, adventurer, and racehorse trainer. During the pioneer days of aviation, she became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. She is now primarily remembered as the author of the memoir West with the Night.
Groundhog
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck, whistle-pig, or in some areas as a land-beaver, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. Other marmots, such as the yellow-bellied and hoary marmots, live in rocky and mountainous areas, but the woodchuck is a lowland creature. It is widely distributed in North America and common in the northeastern and central United States. Groundhogs are found as far north as Alaska, with their habitat extending southeast to Alabama.
Jacob Lawrence
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.
Ollywood films of the 1980s
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A list of films produced by the Ollywood film industry based in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack in the 1980s:
2010 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix, officially the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar, was the opening round of the 2010 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of April 9–11, 2010 at the Losail International Circuit located in Doha, Qatar. Spectator attendance was 7302. Defending world champion Valentino Rossi won the opening MotoGP race after Casey Stoner crashed while in the lead, ending his undefeated streak from 2007.
2010 Madeira floods and mudslides
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 Madeira floods and mudslides were the result of an extreme weather event that affected Madeira Island in Portugal`s autonomous Madeira archipelago on 20 February 2010. At least 42 people died and at least 100 were injured.
Herpes labialis
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Herpes labialis or "orolabial herpes":368 is an infection of the lip by herpes simplex virus (HSV-1). An outbreak typically causes small blisters or sores on or around the mouth commonly known as cold sores or fever blisters. The sores typically heal within 2–3 weeks, but the herpes virus remains dormant in the facial nerves, following orofacial infection, periodically reactivating (in symptomatic people) to create sores in the same area of the mouth or face at the site of the original infection.
William C. Rader
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William C. Rader, M.D. is a controversial Malibu psychiatrist who began administering fetal "stem cell" treatments offshore in the 1990s.
Dave Moody
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dave Moody is an artist, producer, songwriter and filmmaker from North Carolina. His instrumental proficiency has earned him two Grammy Award Nominations and three International CMA Awards as a member of The Moody Brothers. After becoming regular performers on the Grand Ole Opry and touring extensively throughout Europe in the 80s, the trio of Carolina brothers signed a contract with the Walt Disney Company in 1992 to open and perform their own nightly concerts at Disneyland Paris` Disney Village, where they performed for over thirty million guests during their time in France.
Boeing 747 hull losses
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A total of 49 Boeing 747 aircraft, first flown commercially in 1970, have been involved in accidents and incidents resulting in the complete destruction of the aircraft or it being declared to be damaged beyond economical repair. Many of these losses have been due entirely to hostile actions, including terrorism. Of the 49 aircraft losses, 23 resulted in no loss of life, in one a hostage was murdered, and in another a terrorist died. Some of the aircraft declared damaged beyond economical repair were older 747s that sustained relatively minor damage that, had they been newer, would have resulted in their being repaired.
Mike Vranos
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael W. "Mike" Vranos is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who in the 1990s was referred to by some as the "most powerful man on Wall Street." In 1993, he reportedly earned $15 million from trading mortgage bonds.Fortune Magazine once called him "one of the best bond traders on Wall Street." According to a 2007 Wall Street Journal article, he has continued to be regarded as "the best-known mortgage-bond trader on Wall Street."
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