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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Marching Owl Band (aka The MOB) is the Rice University "marching band" in the sense that it is the official ensemble that performs during football games, some basketball games, parades, and other public events. However, the MOB is not a traditional marching band, but rather a scatter band; members do not march, and some members play non-standard instruments (or no instrument at all). For example, in the most recent season these instruments included violins, violas, a cello, electric guitar, electric bass and electric piano. Extras known as Show Assistants are also a perennial inclusion in the MOB; these students play no instruments besides the kazoo (or an occasional didgeridoo), but are...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sophia Alekseyevna (anglicization of Russian Царевна Софья Алексеевна Sofia Alekseyevna) (27 September 1657–14 July 1704) was a regent of Russian Tsardom (1682–1689) who allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Prince Vasily Galitzine, to install herself as a regent during the minority of her brothers, Peter the Great and Ivan V. Her reign was carried out with a firm and heavy fist, she did not hesitate to utilize violent tactics to promote her agenda. The activity of this "bogatyr-tsarevna" (as Sergey Solovyov called her) was all the more extraordinary, as upper-class Muscovite women, confined to the upper-floor terem and veiled and guarded in...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The White River is a white, glacial river in the U.S. state of Washington. It flows about 75 miles (121 km) from its source, the Emmons Glacier on Mount Rainier, to join the Puyallup River at Sumner. It defines part of the boundary between King and Pierce counties.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fred Clifford Clarke (October 3, 1872 – August 14, 1960) was a Major League Baseball player from 1894 to 1915 and manager from 1897 to 1915. A Hall of Famer, Clarke played for and managed both the Louisville Colonels and Pittsburgh Pirates. He was a left fielder and left-handed batter.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays. Her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family`s legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago during her childhood.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In linguistics, demonstratives are deictic words (they depend on an external frame of reference) that indicate which entities a speaker refers to and distinguishes those entities from others. Demonstratives are employed for spatial deixis (using the context of the physical surroundings of the speaker and sometimes the listener) and for discourse deixis (including abstract concepts) where the meaning is dependent on something other than the relative physical location of the speaker, for example whether something is currently been said or was said earlier.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Delusional parasitosis (also known as "Ekbom syndrome," and delusions of parasitosis:60) is a form of psychosis whose victims acquire a strong delusional belief that they are infested with parasites, whereas in reality no such parasites are present. Very often the imaginary parasites are reported as being "bugs" or insects crawling on or under the skin; in these cases the experience of the sensation known as formication may provide the basis for this belief.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The data link layer is layer 2 of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking. It corresponds to, or is part of the link layer of the TCP/IP reference model.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The discography of American blues musician Muddy Waters features numerous singles and albums.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A rotaxane is a mechanically-interlocked molecular architecture consisting of a "dumbbell shaped molecule" which is threaded through a "macrocycle" (see graphical representation). The name is derived from the Latin for wheel (rota) and axle (axis). The two components of a rotaxane are kinetically trapped since the ends of the dumbbell (often called stoppers) are larger than the internal diameter of the ring and prevent disassociation (unthreading) of the components since this would require significant distortion of the covalent bonds.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The alternative periodic table is a standard periodic table rotated counter-clockwise and then mirrored across the vertical axis, so that the lower groups are to the left and the number increases to the right. Due to the rotation and the incorporation of the lanthanides and actinides into the main table, the Alternative Table is significantly longer vertically than the Standard Table. Its restricted width allows it to be read on-line without needing to scroll horizontally. It also allows more information in each cell such as the full name of an element.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling (also known as meshing) is the process of developing a mathematical representation of any three-dimensional surface of object (either inanimate or living) via specialized software. The product is called a 3D model. It can be displayed as a two-dimensional image through a process called 3D rendering or used in a computer simulation of physical phenomena. The model can also be physically created using 3D printing devices.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Many National Park Sites in the United States commemorate the contribution of the Native American culture(s). The term ‘Native American’ includes all cultural groups that predate the arrival of either western European explorers/settlers or east coast explorers and settlers. In this sense, Native Alaskans of both arctic and sub-arctic cultures are included with the American Indians of the continental United States. Native Hawaiians are included as the traditional cultures of the islands.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Golden Cygnet was a racehorse who many racing professionals believed was going to be the next superstar of National Hunt racing after his performance at Cheltenham in March 1978. Described by Irish trainer Vincent O`Brien as "the best hurdler I`ve ever seen", he suffered a fatal injury in the Scottish Champion Hurdle. His hurdling career had lasted less than five months.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Royal Naval College of Canada (RNCC) was a naval college set up in Canada by the Royal Navy; it existed from 1911 to 1922. The school educated about 150 students until it closed due to declining numbers and cuts from Ottawa. The aim of the college was to instruct recruits a course of study that would make them qualified for service on British warships. Recruits became deck officers or engineers.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NYU Violets is the name of the sports teams and other competitive teams at New York University. The colors are the trademarked hue "NYU Violet", and white. The school mascot represents a bobcat. The Violets compete as NCAA Division III teams in the University Athletic Association conference. The university sponsors varsity sports as well as several intramural and club teams.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The SS Badger is a coal-fired passenger and vehicle ferry in the United States that has been in Lake Michigan service from 1953 until the present. Currently, she shuttles between Ludington, Michigan and Manitowoc, Wisconsin. She is the last coal-fired passenger vessel operating on the Great Lakes.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Ain`t We Got Fun?" is a popular foxtrot published in 1921 with music by Richard A. Whiting, lyrics by Raymond B. Egan and Gus Kahn.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Two Tonys" is the fifty-third episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and was the first of the show`s fifth season. It was written by David Chase and Terence Winter, directed by Tim Van Patten and originally aired on Sunday March 7, 2004.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the theory of computation and automata theory, a deterministic finite state machine—also known as deterministic finite automaton (DFA)—is a finite state machine accepting finite strings of symbols. For each state, there is a transition arrow leading out to a next state for each symbol. Upon reading a symbol, a DFA jumps deterministically from a state to another by following the transition arrow. Deterministic means that there is only one outcome (i.e. move to next state when the symbol matches (S0 -> S1) or move back to the same state (S0 -> S0)). A DFA has a start state (denoted graphically by an arrow coming in from nowhere) where computations begin, and a set of accept states (denoted...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William B. Umstead State Park is a North Carolina state park in Wake County, North Carolina in the United States. It covers 5,439 acres (22.01 km2) nestled between the expanding cities of Raleigh, Cary, and Durham, North Carolina. It offers hiking, bridle, and bike trails, boat rentals, camping, picnic areas, and educational programs.