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North Coast Limited
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The North Coast Limited was a named passenger train operated by the Northern Pacific Railway between Chicago and Seattle via Bismarck, North Dakota. It commenced service on April 29, 1900, served briefly as a Burlington Northern Railroad train after the merger on March 2, 1970 with Great Northern Railway and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and ceased operation the day before Amtrak began service (May 1, 1971). The Chicago Union Station to St. Paul leg of the train`s route was operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad along its Mississippi River mainline through Wisconsin. The train also had a Portland section which split off the Seattle section at Pasco, Washington and...
Clifford Allen
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clifford Robertson Allen (January 6, 1912 – June 18, 1978) was a Tennessee attorney and Democratic politician.
Rise Above Records
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rise Above Records is a London, England based independent record label owned by Lee Dorrian (of the band Cathedral and formerly of Napalm Death). It is named after a Napalm Death song from their EP Mentally Murdered. It was formed in the late 1980s and originally made to sell live releases by Napalm Death and S.O.B., but by 1991 had changed to cater to doom and sludge metal. Rise Above releases were getting US distribution from the mid-90s to 2004 by The Music Cartel. As of 2005, they are currently getting distribution by Candlelight Records. JVC Victor were their Japanese distributors until 2007 when Leaf Hound Records began distributing the Japanese versions of Rise Above releases.
Alphonso Ford
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alphonso Gene Ford (October 31, 1971 – September 4, 2004) was an American professional basketball player. A 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) tall shooting guard, he was one of the greatest scorers in college basketball history. Ford played professionally in both the NBA and the Euroleague, where he confirmed his tremendous scoring ability and became a reference in the matter. The Euroleague created the Alphonso Ford Trophy in his honor.
Cracker (U.S. TV series)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cracker is an American crime drama series produced by Granada Entertainment for ABC and based upon the British television crime drama of the same name created by Jimmy McGovern. An innovative but disturbing take on the standard police-detective genre, the Americanized Cracker consists of sixteen one-hour episodes set in Los Angeles. It stars Robert Pastorelli as criminal psychologist Gerry `Fitz` Fitzgerald and a young Josh Hartnett. Robbie Coltrane, the star of the original series, appears as a villain in one episode. The remade show was broadcast as Fitz in some countries, including the UK.
Ross Dependency
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° south. New Zealand`s claim to the region was formalized in 1923, when the Governor-General of New Zealand was appointed as the Governor of the Ross Dependency by an Imperial Order in Council made in London, United Kingdom. Since the Antarctic Treaty came into force in 1961, Article 1 of which states "The treaty does not recognize, dispute, nor establish territorial sovereignty claims; no new claims shall be asserted while the treaty is in force", most countries do not recognise territorial claims in Antarctica.
Random Hero (band)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Random Hero is an American positive message active rock band formed in Denver, Colorado in 2005. The band is produced exclusively by Ben Kasica, famed guitarist of the band Skillet. Random Hero is known for their energy charged live shows and widely appealing music.
With-profits policy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A with-profits policy (Commonwealth) or participating policy (U.S.) is an insurance contract that participates in the profits of a life insurance company. The company is often a mutual life insurance company, or had been one when it began its with-profits product line. Similar arrangements are found in other countries such as those in continental Europe.
Barfoot & Thompson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barfoot & Thompson is a privately owned, non-franchised real estate company based in Auckland, New Zealand. The company is owned and managed by The Barfoot & Thompson family and is directed by Peter Thompson and Garth Barfoot.
2005–06 Egyptian Second Division
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Egyptian Second Division 2005-06 is the 2005-06 season of the Egyptian Second Division competition. A total of 40 teams are divided into groups based on geographical distribution. The top team of each group promotes to the highest Egyptian football level; Egyptian Premier League.
Child destruction
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Child destruction is the name of a statutory offence in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Hong Kong. The offence of that name has been abolished and replaced in Victoria.
The Graham Norton Show
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Graham Norton Show is a British comedy chat show that is broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. It was originally shown on BBC Two from February 2007 to May 2009 until it moved to BBC One from October 2009. Presented by Irish comedian Graham Norton, the show`s format is very similar to his previous Channel 4 programmes, V Graham Norton and So Graham Norton, both of which were also produced by SO Television.
The Tiger in the Well
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tiger in the Well (1991) is a book by the English author Philip Pullman.
Declaration of Delhi
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The New Delhi Congress or Declaration of Delhi was an international gathering of over 185 judges, lawyers, and law professors from 53 countries all over the world, united as the International Commission of Jurists that took place in New Delhi, India in 1959. The theme of the New Delhi Congress was "The Rule of Law in a Free Society". The Congress further developed the principles and procedures underlying the Rule of Law as well as defining and clarifying the concept itself.
Bush Derangement Syndrome
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Bush Derangement Syndrome" ("BDS") is a pejorative political neologism coined by Charles Krauthammer, an American conservative political columnist and former psychiatrist, in a 2003 column. The term has been used in newspaper columns and editorials, on talk radio, by commentators in the mainstream press, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Fox News Channel, and in the blogosphere.
Darcus Howe
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Darcus Howe (born 1943) is a British broadcaster, writer, and civil liberties campaigner. Originally from Trinidad, he moved to America in the 1960s, then arrived in England intending to study law, where he joined the British Black Panthers, the first such branch of the organization outside the United States. He came to public attention in 1970 as one of the Mangrove Nine, when he marched to the police station in Notting Hill, London, to protest against police raids of the Mangrove restaurant, and again in 1981 when he organized a 20,000-strong "Black People`s March" in protest at the handling of the investigation into the New Cross Fire, in which 13 black teenagers died.
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