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Rosewell (plantation)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rosewell Plantation in Gloucester County, Virginia, was for more than 100 years the home of a branch of the Page family, one of the First Families of Virginia. Begun in 1725, the Flemish bond brick Rosewell mansion overlooking the York River was one of the most elaborate homes in the American colonies. In Mansions of America, the architectural historian Thomas Tileston Waterman described the plantation house as "the largest and finest of American houses of the colonial period." Through much of the 18th century and 19th centuries, and during the American Civil War, Rosewell plantation hosted the area`s most elaborate formal balls and celebrations. The home burned in 1916.
Andy Landers
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Andy Landers (born October 8, 1952 in Maryville, Tennessee) is the longtime head coach of the University of Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team. He married the former Pam McClellan in 1981 and has two children, Andrea Lauren and Drew Joseph.
Father Callahan
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Father Donald Frank Callahan is a fictional character created by Stephen King. He originally appeared in `Salem`s Lot and later the Dark Tower, appearing in The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah and finally The Dark Tower. He is at first an alcoholic with a troubled faith, but seems to find his peace in the Dark Tower books, and his faith is restored.
Eddie Wolstenholme
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edward K. Wolstenholme (born c. 1954,Preston, Lancashire) is an English former football referee who officiated in the Football League and the Premier League. He now lives in Blackburn, Lancashire, and may be remembered as the referee in charge of a football match in 2002 described as the "Battle of Bramall Lane". His other occupation before becoming a professional for PGMOL in 2001 was as an engineering fitter.
Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen was a significant court case decided in the High Court of Australia on 11 May 1982. It concerned the constitutional validity of parts of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, and the discriminatory acts of the Government of Queensland in blocking the purchase of land by Aboriginal people in northern Queensland.
George Boateng
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! George Boateng (born 5 September 1975) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nottingham Forest in The Championship.
Peter Ridsdale
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Peter Ridsdale (born 11 March 1952) is an English businessman who is currently the Chairman of Football Operations at League Two club Plymouth Argyle. Ridsdale was previously the chairman of Leeds United, Barnsley and Cardiff City.
Hyperon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In particle physics, a hyperon is any baryon containing one or more strange quarks, but no charm quarks or bottom quarks.
2004 National League Championship Series
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2004 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a Major League Baseball playoff series played from October 13 to 21 to determine the champion of the National League, between the Central Division champion St. Louis Cardinals and the wild-card qualifying Houston Astros. This marked the first time in either Major League that two teams from the Central Division met in a Championship Series.
Cayley graph
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In mathematics, a Cayley graph, also known as a Cayley colour graph, Cayley diagram, group diagram, or colour group is a graph that encodes the abstract structure of a group. Its definition is suggested by Cayley`s theorem (named after Arthur Cayley) and uses a specified, usually finite, set of generators for the group. It is a central tool in combinatorial and geometric group theory.
Laval municipal election, 2005
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2005 Laval municipal election took place on November 6, 2005, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Laval, Quebec.
Klee–Minty cube
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Klee–Minty cube (named after Victor Klee and George J. Minty) is a unit cube whose corners have been slightly perturbed. Klee and Minty demonstrated that Dantzig`s simplex algorithm has poor worst-case performance when initialized at one corner of their "squashed cube".
Contraband (performance group)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Contraband, a collection of artists led by director/choreographer Sara Shelton Mann, was a dance-based, live performance ensemble, that worked together from 1985 to the mid ‘90s. Based mainly in San Francisco, the group became known for its lively, electrifying performances, often politically-charged and community-engaging. By utilizing dance, music, set, text/spoken word, and site-specific work, Contraband came to develop a cross-disciplinary performance aesthetic, as well as approach to dance and dance training, that would have a profound influence on Bay Area dance, performance art, and culture, as well as performance practice abroad.
Upper and Lower Lascar Row
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lascar Row is located at Sheung Wan, the Central and Western District, which is between the Hollywood Road and the Queen`s Road Central.The official name should be Upper Lascar Row. The street name "Upper Street" is very special, but in fact, there is another "Lower Street" called Lower Lascar Row. It is neither a road nor a shopping place. After the redevelopment by the Hong Kong Government, a majority part of Lower Lascar Street has been redesigned as a street used by vehicular traffic, and now it is renamed as Lok Ku Road.
Transportation Equity Network
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Transportation Equity Network (TEN) is a project of the Gamaliel Foundation and a grassroots organization with more than 350 community organizations in 41 states in the United States. TEN`s stated goal is "to create an equity-based transportation system by connecting local transportation campaigns with D.C.-based advocacy."
All About Tonight (Blake Shelton extended play)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! All About Tonight is the second extended play, and eighth studio release by American country music artist Blake Shelton. It was released on August 10, 2010, via Warner Music Group Nashville, under its Reprise label. The first single, "All About Tonight," was released to radio in April 2010 and has become his seventh Number One hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. The album`s second single, "Who Are You When I`m Not Looking" (previously recorded by Joe Nichols on his album Real Things), was released to radio in August 2010.
Kankesanthurai Electoral District
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kankesanthurai Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Kankesanthurai in Jaffna District, Northern Province. The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka introduced the proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament. The existing 160 mainly single-member electoral districts were replaced with 22 multi-member electoral districts. Kankesanthurai electoral district was replaced by the Jaffna multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Kankesanthurai continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.
Chip Saltsman
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John "Chip" Saltsman, Jr. (born March 24, 1968) is an American politician who has served as chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party from 1999 to 2001, senior political advisor to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and manager of Mike Huckabee`s 2008 presidential campaign. He also works for the Chuck Fleischmann campaign in Tennessee`s 3rd district from 2009 to 2010.
GNA13
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Guanine nucleotide-binding protein subunit alpha-13 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GNA13 gene.
United States Coast Guard Sector
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Sector is a shore-based operational unit of the United States Coast Guard. Each Sector is responsible for the execution of all Coast Guard missions within its Area of Responsibility (AOR), with operational support from Coast Guard Cutters and Air Stations. Subordinate commands within a Sector typically include Stations and Aids-to-Navigation (ATON) Teams. Some Sector commands also have subordinate units such as Sector Field Offices and Marine Safety Units that are responsible for mission execution in parts of the Sector`s AOR. There are 35 sectors within the Coast Guard.
Birmingham Stechford (UK Parliament constituency)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Birmingham Stechford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Stechford district of the city of Birmingham. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
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