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Freedom of Choice
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Freedom of Choice is the third album by New Wave musicians Devo, released on May 16, 1980. It saw the band moving in more of an overt synthpop direction, even though guitars still played a prominent role.
GeoPort
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! GeoPort was a serial data system used on some models of the Apple Macintosh. GeoPort slightly modified the existing Mac serial port pins to allow the computer`s internal sound hardware to emulate various devices such as modems and fax machines. GeoPort could be found on late-model m68k-based machines (the AV series) as well as many pre-USB Power Macintosh models. Some later Macintosh models also included an internal GeoPort known as the Communications Slot. Apple GeoPort technology is now obsolete, and modem support is typically offered through USB.
High School Dropout in the United States
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High School Dropout in the United States The United States Department of Education’s measurement of dropout rate is the percentage of 16-24 year olds who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school credential. The rate for high school dropout in 2009 was 8.1%. There are many risk factors for high school dropout. These can be categorized into social and academic risk factors. Members of racial and ethnic minority groups drop out at higher rates than White students, as do those from low-income families, from single-parent households, and from families in which one or both parents also did not complete high school. Students at-risk for dropout based on academic risk factors are...
To Be A Somebody
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! To Be A Somebody is the first episode of the second season of Cracker, divided into three parts. It served as the breakthrough role of actor Robert Carlyle. Unlike other episodes, it is connected with a real life event, the Hillsborough disaster, and other events connected to it. It is also the final episode to feature DCI Bilborough, and the first to feature DCI Wise and DC Harriman.
Korean War in popular culture
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A large number of films, books, and other media have depicted the Korean War in popular culture. The TV series M*A*S*H is one well known example. The 1959 novel The Manchurian Candidate has twice been made into films. The 1982 film Inchon about the historic battle that occurred there in September 1950 was a financial and critical failure. Many films about the war have been produced in Asian countries as well.
Academia Catarinense de Letras
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Academia Catarinense de Letras (ACL) (English: Catarinense Academy of Letters) is a Brazilian literary non-profit society, and it is the maximum literary authority in the State of Santa Catarina.
Big West Conference Men`s Basketball Player of the Year
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Big West Conference Men`s Basketball Player of the Year is an annual basketball award given to the Big West Conference`s most outstanding player. The conference was formed in 1969 and was known as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association until 1988. The award was first given following the 1969–70 season. No player has won the award three times, but there have been six two-time Players of the Year. Larry Johnson of UNLV was also the National Player of the Year in 1990–91, the same season of his second consecutive Big West Player of the Year accolade.
Muay Thai in popular culture
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Hard martial art Muay Thai, Thailand`s National Sport, was featured in several media such as film, television shows, manga, anime and video games, Muay Thai became well known around the world when Yodtong Senanan lead Nak Muay Team against Osamu Noguchi`s Kickboxer Team on October 16, 1972. In the years since, Muay Thai has influenced Kickboxing, K-1, and MMA as some practicioners train in Muay Thai for use in competition. Its brutal yet flashy style has made it popular for use in film.
Brian Kibler
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Brian M. Kibler (born 7 September 1980) is an American game designer currently working with Gamer Entertainment, a gaming consultancy. In 2010 Kibler designed Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer with Justin Gary, Rob Dougherty, and John Fiorillo. Previously he worked on Chaotic and was the lead designer of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. In the World of Warcraft video game there is a non-player character bearing the name "Kibler" as well as quests and items.
B. Scott
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! B. Scott, (born Brandon Scott Sessoms on March 21, 1981) is an American television personality, radio show host and internet celebrity who is best known for his YouTube videoblogs and website lovebscott.com .
T Lopez
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christina T Lopez (born April 18, 1984), better known by her stage name T Lopez, is an American and Mexican actress and singer from Ontario, California. T Lopez was a former member of the Latina group, known as Soluna who were signed to DreamWorks Records whose musical debut album "For All Time" and debut single of the same name generated buzz in 2002. The group opened for the international tours of Enrique Iglesias and Marc Anthony.
East Grand Rapids High School
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! East Grand Rapids High Schoolis located in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the United States, in the East Grand Rapids Public School District, serving grades 9-12. It is recognized as a school of excellence.More recently, however, it was recognized as one of the top 600 high schools in the country.As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 975 students and 50.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 19.2.
The Contenders (band)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Contenders were one of the most popular Norwegian roots rock bands of the early 1990s, playing more than 200 gigs and releasing three albums.
Livery collar
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A livery collar or chain of office is a collar or heavy chain, usually of gold, worn as insignia of office or a mark of fealty or other association in Europe from the Middle Ages onwards.
Charles Henri Sanson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Henri Sanson, full title Chevalier Charles-Henri Sanson de Longval (February 15, 1739 - July 4, 1806) was the Royal Executioner of France in the court of King Louis XVI and High Executioner of the First French Republic. He administered capital punishment in the city of Paris for over forty years, and by his own hand executed nearly 3,000 people, including the King himself.
Cadmium selenide
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cadmium selenide (CdSe) is a solid, binary compound of cadmium and selenium. Common names for this compound are cadmium(II) selenide, cadmium selenide, and cadmoselite (a very rare mineral).
Tuomo Ruutu
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tuomo Iisakki Ruutu (born February 16, 1983) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward who plays for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League. He is the brother of Jarkko Ruutu, a former NHL player currently playing for Jokerit, and retired player Mikko Ruutu.
Terminal velocity
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In fluid dynamics an object is moving at its terminal velocity if its speed is constant due to the restraining force exerted by the fluid through which it is moving.
Irv Rubin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Irving D. Rubin (April 12, 1945 – November 13, 2002) was chairman of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) from 1985 to 2002. He allegedly committed suicide in jail when awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to bomb private and government property.
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