High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Timothy Mantlo (born November 9, 1951) is an American comic-book writer, primarily at Marvel Comics, best known for his work on two licensed toy properties whose adventures occurred in the Marvel Universe: the Eagle Award-winning Micronauts and the long-running Rom. An attorney, he also worked as a public defender. Mantlo was the victim of a hit-and-run accident in 1992 and has been in institutional care ever since.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Carvel "Bill" Graham, PC QC (born March 17, 1939) is a former Canadian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of National Defence, and Leader of the Opposition and interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! President Bill Clinton made two appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States, both during his first term.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! President Bill Clinton was criticized for some of his pardons and acts of executive clemency. While most presidents grant pardons on several days throughout their terms, Clinton chose to make most of them on January 20, 2001. Collectively, the controversy surrounding these actions has sometimes been called Pardongate in the press. Federal prosecutor Mary Jo White was appointed to investigate the pardons. She was later replaced by James Comey, who found no wrongdoing on Clinton`s part.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William (Bill) Ronald Reid, OBC (12 January 1920 – 13 March 1998) was a Canadian artist whose works included jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and painting. His work is featured on the Canadian $20 banknote.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William John "Bill" Janklow (September 13, 1939 – January 12, 2012) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who holds the record for the longest tenure as Governor of South Dakota - sixteen years in office.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Westwood "Bill" Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is an American politician. He is the current 32nd State Treasurer of California, elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2010. He has also served as California Attorney General and President Pro Tempore of the California State Senate. Having held elective office since 1973, Lockyer has arguably had more varied executive and legislative experience than any other current official of the State Government. Lockyer is unable to run for a third term in 2014 due to term limits.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Grenville "Bill" Davis, PC, CC, OOnt, QC (born July 30, 1929 in Brampton, Ontario) was the 18th Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1971 to 1985. Davis was first elected as the MPP for Peel in the 1959 provincial election where he was a backbencher in Leslie Frost`s government. Under John Robarts, he was a cabinet minister overseeing the education portfolio. He succeeded Robarts as Premiere of Ontario and held the position until resigning in 1985.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William "Billy" McCaughey (c. 1950 - 8 February 2006) was a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary`s Special Patrol Group (SPG) and the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in the 1970s. He was imprisoned for 16 years for murder from 1980 to 1996. On his release he worked as a loyalist and Orange Order activist until his death in 2006.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Morris "Billy" Hughes, CH, KC, (25 September 1862 – 28 October 1952), Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, from 1915 to 1923.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Billy Hutchinson (born 1955) is the leader of the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland. He was elected to Belfast City Council in 1997 and to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998. He lost his assembly seat in 2003 and his council seat in 2005. Before this he had been a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the founder of their youth wing the Young Citizen Volunteers (YCV).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Billy Mitchell (1939 – 20 July 2006) was a Northern Irish community activist and member of the Progressive Unionist Party. Mitchell was a leading member of the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and served a life sentence for his part in a double murder but later abandoned UVF membership and took up cross-community work.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Billy Mackie Snedden, KCMG, QC (31 December 1926 – 27 June 1987) was an Australian politician representing the Liberal Party. He was Leader of the Opposition at the 1974 federal election, failing to defeat the Labor incumbent Gough Whitlam.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small dungeon in the old Fort William, at Calcutta, India, where troops of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, held British prisoners of war after the capture of the Fort on 19 June 1756.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Black Hills Land Claim is an ongoing land dispute between Native Americans from the Sioux nation and the United States Federal Government.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Major General Blanton C. Winship (1869—1947) was a military lawyer and veteran of both the Spanish-American war and World War I. During his long career, he served both as Judge Advocate General of the United States Army and as the Governor of Puerto Rico.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bloody Gulch massacre was a war crime that took place in the Korean War on August 12, 1950 in "Bloody Gulch", west of Masan, South Korea. 75 captured US Army prisoners of war were executed by members of the North Korean People`s Army during one of the smaller engagements of the Battle of Pusan Perimeter.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Blue Peter pets are the animals who regularly appear on the BBC children`s television series Blue Peter. For 27 years, when not on TV, these pets were often looked after by Blue Peter`s long-standing pet keeper Edith Menezes, who died in 1994. The first pet was a dog named Petra in 1962 and since then there have been several dogs, cats, tortoises, parrots and horses. The current animals on the show are Barney the dog; cats named Socks and Cookie; Shelley the tortoise; Magic the trainee guide dog puppy; and the rarely seen Blue Peter Riding for the Disabled horse, Jet. Rags was another pony, named by viewers, who was purchased by the proceeds of a Christmas appeal in the late 1970s as a...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the card game of poker, a bluff is a bet or raise made with a hand which is not thought to be the best hand. To bluff is to make such a bet. The objective of a bluff is to induce a fold by at least one opponent who holds a better hand. The size and frequency of a bluff determines its profitability to the bluffer. By extension, the term is often used outside the context of poker to describe the act of making threats one cannot execute.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert William "Bob" Barker (born December 12, 1923) is a former American television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS`s The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history, and for hosting Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975.