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Telectronics
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Telectronics Pty Ltd was an Australian company best known for its role in developing the pacemaker. In 1988 the business was acquired by Pacific Dunlop. However, legal claims resulting from the sale of faulty pacemaker electrode leads inherited by the company in acquisition of Cordis Corporation of Miami led to eventual sale of the assets of the company and Pacific Dunlop restructuring itself into Ansell.
Graham Joyce
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Graham Joyce (born October 22, 1954) is an English writer of speculative fiction and the recipient of numerous awards for both his novels and short stories. He grew up in a small mining village just outside of Coventry to a working class family. After receiving a B.Ed. from Bishop Lonsdale College in 1977 and a M.A. from the University of Leicester in 1980. Joyce worked as a youth officer for the National Association of Youth Clubs until 1988. He subsequently quit his position and moved to the Greek islands of Lesbos and Crete to write his first novel, Dreamside. After selling Dreamside to Pan Books in 1991, Joyce moved back to England to pursue a career as a full-time writer.
Eric Boguniecki
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eric Boguniecki (born May 6, 1975) is an assistant coach for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the AHL.
Gary Brabham
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gary Brabham (born 29 March 1961 in Wimbledon, London) is a former professional racing driver from Australia and a British Formula 3000 champion.
Sister Fidelma
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sister Fidelma is a fictional detective, the eponymous heroine of a series by Peter Tremayne (pseudonym of Peter Berresford Ellis). Fidelma is both a lawyer, or dalaigh, and Celtic religieuse.
Hayden Foxe
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hayden Vernon Foxe (born 23 June 1977 in Sydney) is a former Australian football (soccer) player. He last played with A-League club Sydney FC.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American Democratic Party politician. He served in the United States Congress, as the 80th Governor of Connecticut and as President John F. Kennedy`s Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. He was Connecticut`s first and to date only Jewish governor.
Benjamin Stoddert Ewell
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Benjamin Stoddert Ewell (June 10, 1810 – June 20, 1894) was a United States and Confederate army officer, civil engineer, and educator from James City County, Virginia. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1832 and served as an officer and educator.
Bioenergy in China
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! China has set the goal of attaining one percent of its renewable energy generation through bioenergy in 2020.
Mount Si High School
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mount Si High School is a high school located in the Snoqualmie Valley in Snoqualmie, Washington and a part of Snoqualmie Valley School District #410.GreatSchools.net rates MSHS at an 9 out of 10 with a community rating of 3 out of 5. GreatSchools.net lists MSHS`s highlights as its academic contests, bands, and basketball. The school also served as the basis for Twin Peaks High School, in the cult classic drama, Twin Peaks.
Dolichorhynchops
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dolichorhynchops is an extinct genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous (early Turonian to late Campanian stage) of North America, containing three species, D. osborni, D. herschelensis and D. tropicensis.Dolichorhynchops was an oceangoing prehistoric reptile. Its Greek generic name means "long-nosed eye," perhaps because its eyes seem placed rather far forward on its lengthy snout.
Sean Power (actor)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sean Power is an American actor, writer and director. Power has resided in Canada, the United States, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. He is probably best known for his role as Marty in the BBC comedy series Lead Balloon and for creating his role as the beat poet `Jack` in David Rubinoff`s Stuck.
Andover workhouse scandal
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Andover workhouse scandal arose when the inhumane conditions at the workhouse in Andover, Hampshire, England were exposed by journalists and politicians in 1845. The inmates were kept starving by the workhouse master who stole from the food supplies provided, which were already smaller in quantity than the subsistence diet decreed by the Poor Law Commission. Hunger drove the inmates to eat the bones which they were supposed to crush to make fertilizer, and the regime was operated like a penal settlement. John Walter, who was the editor of The Times and an outspoken critic of the Poor Laws, took a special interest in the case and his newspaper covered the scandal and the subsequent public...
Sharbat Khan
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sharbat is an Afghan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 1051. American Counter-terrorism analysts estimated he was born in 1973, in Khairo Village, Afghanistan.
Jane Cavendish
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Daughter of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, and later the wife of Charles Cheyne, Viscount Newhaven, Lady Jane Cavendish (1621–1669) was a noted poet and playwright. Along with her literary achievements, Jane helped manage her father`s properties while he spent the English Civil War in exile; she was responsible for a variety of military correspondences and for salvaging many of her family`s valuable possessions. Later in life, Jane became an important community member in Chelsea. She used her money and resources to make improvements on Chelsea Church and to otherwise benefit her friends and neighbors. Marked by vitality, integrity, perseverance, and creativity, Jane`s life and works...
Logarithm of a matrix
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In mathematics, a logarithm of a matrix is another matrix such that the matrix exponential of the latter matrix equals the original matrix. It is thus a generalization of the scalar logarithm and in some sense an inverse function of the matrix exponential. Not all matrices have a logarithm and those matrices that do have a logarithm may have more than one logarithm. The study of logarithms of matrices leads to Lie theory since when a matrix has a logarithm then it is in a Lie group and the logarithm is the corresponding element of the Lie algebra.
Isotopes of nitrogen
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Natural Nitrogen (N) consists of two stable isotopes, nitrogen-14, which makes up the vast majority of naturally occurring nitrogen, and nitrogen-15. Fourteen radioactive isotopes (radioisotopes) have also been found so far, with atomic masses ranging from 10 to 25, and one nuclear isomer, 11mN. All of these radioisotopes are short-lived, with the longest-lived one being nitrogen-13 with a half-life of 9.965 minutes. All of the others have half-lives below 7.15 seconds, with most of these being below five-eighths of a second. Most of the isotopes with atomic mass numbers below 14 decay to isotopes of carbon, while most of the isotopes with masses above 15 decay to isotopes of oxygen. The...
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