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St. Francis Terriers men`s soccer
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The St. Francis Terrier men`s soccer team represents St. Francis College, which is located in Brooklyn Heights, New York. The team was founded in 1968 and joined the Northeast Conference in 1985, cementing its Division I soccer team. The Terriers play their home games at the Aviator Sports Complex located at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn. Prior to 2007, the Terriers would play their home games at Belson Stadium, on the St. John`s University campus in Queens.
Rush (series 4)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Series 4 of police drama Rush premiered on September 1, 2011 with a double episode. The fourth instalment continues to follow the lives of the officers employed with the prestigious Tactical Response Unit in Victoria, Australia. Antony Starr joins the main cast as Senior Sergeant Charlie Lewis, the new boss. Senior Constable Michael Sandrelli (Ashley Zukerman) is fired from TR, goes on an undercover mission but gets shot twice and unfortunately dies.
List of The X Factor finalists (UK series 2)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second UK series of The X Factor ran from 20 August to 17 December 2005 with Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh mentoring and judging the finalists. 75,000 people auditioned for the second series, which saw Shayne Ward declared winner, with Louis Walsh emerging as the winning mentor.
Crossing of the Somme
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Crossing of the Somme took place on 5 August 1636 during the Thirty Years` War and the Franco-Spanish War when units of the Spanish Army of Flanders, the Imperial Army and the Duchy of Lorraine under Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, lieutenant of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, crossed the Somme river near Bray-sur-Somme during its offensive in French territory. Despite the fierce resistance of the French army led by Louis de Bourbon, Count of Soissons, the Spanish troops successfully crossed the river and drove off the French troops along the Oise river, proceeding over the following weeks to invest the important fortress of Corbie, located two leagues of Amiens, which...
Berber orthography
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Berber orthography is the orthography of Berber languages. Most Berber languages were originally unwritten, preserved through oral use in rural areas, isolated from urban hubs. Berber scholars (like Al-Youssi and Al-Mokhtar Soussi) wrote in the more prestigious Arabic language, rather than their vernacular. Currently there are three writing systems in use for Berber languages: the Berber Latin alphabet, Tifinagh, and the Arabic script. Different groups in North Africa have different preferences of writing system, often motivated by ideology and politics.
Liliane Lijn
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Liliane Lijn (born 1939), is a prominent American-born artist who was the first woman artist to work with kinetic text (Poem Machines), exploring both light and text as early as 1962. Utilising highly original combinations of industrial materials and artistic processes, Lijn is recognised for pioneering the interaction of art, science, technology, eastern philosophy and female mythology. Lijn is particularly known for her timeless, cone-shaped Koan series. In conversation with Fluxus artist and writer, Charles Dreyfus, Lijn stated that she primarily chose to ‘see the world in terms of light and energy’. Lijn describes her work as ‘A constant dialogue between opposites, my sculptures use...
1999 WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1999 WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship was a golf tournament that was played from February 24–28, 1999 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. It was the first WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship and the first of three World Golf Championships events held in 1999.
1990 Temple Mount riots
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1990 Temple Mount riots, also known as Black Monday or the Al Aqsa Massacre, was an event that took place in Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem at 10:30 am on Monday, 8 October, 1990 before Zuhr prayer during the third year of the first intifada. They began after a decision by the Temple Mount Faithful to lay a cornerstone at the site. The riots resulted in the death of over twenty and the injury of more than 150 Palestinians. It was condemned by two UN Security Council resolutions.
Pemadumcook Chain of Lakes
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pemadumcook Chain of Lakes are a set of large lakes in north-central Maine in the United States.
Florida Atlantic Owls men`s basketball
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Florida Atlantic Owls basketball team represents Florida Atlantic University, a mid-major NCAA Division I college basketball team, that currently competes in the Sun Belt Conference.
2000 Florida Gators football team
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2000 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida in the sport of American football during the 2000 college football season. The Gators competed in Division I-A of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the university`s Gainesville, Florida campus. They were coached by Steve Spurrier, who led the Gators to their sixth SEC championship, a Sugar Bowl berth, and an overall win-loss record of 10–3 (.769). The season was the team`s eleventh of twelve under Spurrier.
Clapham Junction (film)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clapham Junction is a 2007 British television film, written by Kevin Elyot. Directed by Adrian Shergold, the film centers on the experiences of several gay men during a 36 hour period in the Clapham area of London and the consequences when their lives collide. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 on 22 July 2007, repeated on 1 September 2009, and later released on DVD, but only on Region 1.
Pakistan Premier League
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pakistan Premier League (PPL) is the first division of Pakistani football. It was established in 2004, in place of the National Championship by the Pakistan Football Federation.
Dollar (band)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dollar are a pop vocal duo from the UK, consisting of David Van Day and Thereza Bazar. The duo were successful in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Louisiana State University at Alexandria
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Louisiana State University at Alexandria is located in Alexandria, Louisiana. Louisiana State University at Alexandria is a publicly supported institution that provides undergraduatelevel college education to the citizens of Central Louisiana. The university is a unit of the LSU System and operates under the auspices of the Louisiana Board of Regents. As of Fall 2009 the enrollment was at 2,323 students.
Steve McCall
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stephen Harold "Steve" McCall (born 15 October 1960) is a retired English footballer who now works as a scout for Ipswich Town.
Hook turn
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A hook turn is a traffic-control mechanism where cars that would normally have to turn across oncoming traffic are made to turn across all lanes of traffic instead.
Steven Jackson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Steven Rashad Jackson (born July 22, 1983) is an American football running back for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Rams 24th overall in the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oregon State University.
John Sperling
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Glen Sperling (born 1921) is an American businessman who is credited with leading the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States. His fortune is based on his founding of the for-profit University of Phoenix for working adults in 1976, which is now part of the publicly traded Apollo Group. For ventures ranging from pet cloning to green energy, he has widely been described as an "eccentric" self-made man by the Washington Post and other media.
Sun Valley, Los Angeles
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sun Valley is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California, about 15 miles away from Downtown Los Angeles.
Bronson Pinchot
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bronson Alcott Pinchot (born May 20, 1959) is an American actor. He has appeared in several feature films, including Risky Business, Beverly Hills Cop (and reprising his popular supporting role in Beverly Hills Cop III), The First Wives Club, True Romance, Courage Under Fire and It`s My Party. Pinchot is probably best known for his role in the ABC family sitcom Perfect Strangers as Balki Bartokomous from the (fictional) Greek-like island of Mypos.
Saltville (archaeological site)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saltville Archaeological Site SV-2 an apparent PreClovis archaeological site located in the Saltville Valley near Saltville, Virginia. The site was excavated from 1992 to 1997 by paleogeographer Jerry N. McDonald of the Virginia Museum of Natural History.
Denial of Peter
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Denial of Peter (or Peter`s Denial) refers to three acts of denial of Jesus by the Apostle Peter as described in the three Synoptic Gospels of the New Testament.
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