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1996 in Canada
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Events from the year 1996 in Canada.
PGM-11 Redstone
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The PGM-11 Redstone was the first large American ballistic missile. A short-range surface-to-surface rocket, it was in active service with the U.S. Army in West Germany from June 1958 to June 1964 as part of NATO`s Cold War defense of Western Europe. It was also the first missile to launch examples of a live nuclear bomb, first detonated in a 1958 Pacific Ocean weapons test, with two tests occurring over a period of 12 days.
G. S. Ghurye
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1893-1983) was an Indian professor of sociology. In 1924, he became the second person to head the Department of Sociology in the University of Mumbai. He can be called as the founding father of Indian Sociology and most of the notable names in Indian Sociology like MN Srinivas,AR Desai,Iravati Karve etc have been guided by him.He was an accomplished Sanskrit scholar as well.
Swimming at the 2011 Military World Games
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Swimming at the 2011 Military World Games was held from 17 – 20 July 2011 at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro.
Lucille Caudill Little
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lucille Caudill Little (August 20, 1909 – October 8, 2002), a patron of the arts and philanthropist who served as president of the W. Paul and Lucille Caudill Little Foundation in Lexington, Kentucky.
Saxophone technique
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saxophone embouchure is the position of the facial muscles and shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece when playing a saxophone.
John Penn (engineer)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Penn FRS, (1805–1878) was a marine engineer, whose firm was pre-eminent in the middle of the nineteenth century due to his innovations in engine and propeller systems, which led his firm to be the major supplier to the Royal Navy as it made the transition from sail to steam power. He was also president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on two occasions.
List of D.N.Angel chapters
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The chapters of the manga series D.N.Angel are written and illustrated by Yukiru Sugisaki. The first chapter premiered in Japan in the November 1997 issue of Monthly Asuka. New chapters were serialized in the magazine monthly until to August 2005, when Sugisaki put the series on an extended hiatus. It eventually returned to serialization, starting in the April 2008 issue of Monthly Asuka, where it continues to run. The series focuses on Daisuke Niwa, a middle school student who transforms into the phantom thief Dark Mousy whenever he thinks about his crush, Risa Harada.
Massachusetts Senate elections, 2008
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elections to the 187th Massachusetts State Senate was held on November 4, 2008, the same date as the 2008 Massachusetts House election as well as Federal and Congressional elections. Massachusetts Senators serve two-year terms.
The Back of Beyond
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Back of Beyond (1954) is a feature-length award-winning Australian documentary film produced and directed by John Heyer for the Shell Film Unit. In terms of breadth of distribution, awards garnered, and critical response, it is Heyer`s most successful film. It is also, arguably, Australia`s most successful documentary: in 2006 it was included in a book titled 100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema, with Bill Caske writing that it is "perhaps our national cinema`s most well known best kept secret".
Lucy McGillicuddy Ricardo
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lucille "Lucy" Esmeralda McGillicuddy Ricardo is a fictional character from the American television series I Love Lucy, played by Lucille Ball. She is known for her red hair and for always getting into trouble. Her full name is given in the episodes "The Marriage License," "Fred and Ethel Fight," and "The Passports." Her birthdate is fully revealed in "The Passports" as August 6, 1921 (exactly ten years younger than Ball herself); however in the 1953 episode "Lucy Tells The Truth" in which Lucy is forced to go a day without lying she states her age as 33, making her born in 1920. She also is forced to acknowledge her correct weight as 129 lbs.
Madison and Fifth Avenues buses
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The New York City Transit Authority operates several local bus routes on the one-way pair of Madison Avenue (northbound) and Fifth Avenue (southbound) in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The M1 Fifth and Madison Avenues, M2 Fifth and Madison Avenues/Powell Boulevard, M3 Fifth and Madison Avenues/St Nicholas Avenue, and M4 Fifth and Madison Avenues/Broadway run along the avenues from Midtown into Harlem, and several primarily east-west routes, including the Q32 Roosevelt/Fifth Avenues, use portions of them. Many express buses from the north or the south also use Fifth and Madison Avenues.
The League of Frightened Men
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The League of Frightened Men is the second Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. The story was serialized in six issues of The Saturday Evening Post (June 15–July 20, 1935) under the title The Frightened Men. The novel was published in 1935 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. The League of Frightened Men is a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, one of the most influential works of mystery fiction listed by crime fiction historian Howard Haycraft and Ellery Queen.
Torben Meyer
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Torben Emil Meyer (1 December 1884 – 22 May 1975) was a Danish character actor who appeared in over 190 films in a 55-year career.
Temple of Apollo Sosianus
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Temple of Apollo Sosianus (previously known as the Apollinar and the temple of Apollo Medicus) is a Roman temple dedicated to Apollo in the Campus Martius, next to the Theatre of Marcellus and the Porticus Octaviae, in Rome, Italy. Its present name derives from that of its final rebuilder, Gaius Sosianus.
Furin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Furin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FURIN gene. It was named furin because it was in the upstream region of an oncogene known as FES. The gene was known as FUR (FES Upstream Region) and therefore the protein was named furin. Furin is also known as PACE (Paired basic Amino acid Cleaving Enzyme).
Channel I/O
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In computer science, channel I/O is a generic term that refers to a high-performance input/output (I/O) architecture that is implemented in various forms on a number of computer architectures, especially on mainframe computers. In the past they were generally implemented with a custom processor, known alternately as peripheral processor, I/O processor, I/O controller, or DMA controller.
Glass frog
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Glass frog (or Glassfrogs) is the common name for the frogs of the amphibian family Centrolenidae (order Anura). While the general background coloration of most glass frogs is primarily lime green, the abdominal skin of some members of this family is transparent. The internal viscera, including the heart, liver, and gastrointestinal tract are visible through this translucent skin, hence the common name.
Tejon Pass
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tejon Pass is a mountain pass at the southwest end of the Tehachapi Mountains linking Southern to Central California.
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