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Alchesay High School
Alchesay High School is a public high school on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Whiteriver, Arizona, Navajo County. It was founded in 1956 and named after Chief Alchesay, who was a key person in the formation of the White Mountain Apache tribe. The first graduating class graduated in 1960. I ...
2012–13 Hull City A.F.C. season
The 2012–13 season is Hull City's third consecutive season back in the Championship after relegation from the Premier League in the 2009–10 season. They also competed in the League Cup and the FA Cup. After a dramatic last day of the season the club took second place and gained automatic promo ...
W70
W70 is the designation for a tactical nuclear warhead developed by the United States in the early 1970s. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory designed W70 was used on the MGM-52 Lance missile. About 1250 were built in total. The warhead had a variable yield of between 1 and 100 kilotons, sel ...
The Naracoorte Herald
The Naracoorte Herald is a weekly newspaper first published in Naracoorte, South Australia on 14 December 1875. It is a part of Fairfax Media, with the Fairfax regional office located in the town on Smith Street. History. The Narracoorte Herald was founded in 1875 by Andrew F. Laurie and John W ...
Ojibwe writing systems
is an indigenous language of North America from the Algonquian language family. Ojibwe is one of the largest Native American languages north of Mexico in terms of number of speakers and is characterized by a series of dialects, some of which differ significantly. The dialects of Ojibwe are spoken in ...
Post–civil rights era in African-American history
The post–civil rights era in African-American history is defined as the time period in the United States since Congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, major federal legislation that ended legal segregation, gained fe ...
St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2019 census estimate, the population was 265,351, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the largest in the state that is not a county seat. St. Petersburg is the fifth-largest city in Florida and the sec ...
NASA Astronaut Group 12
NASA Astronaut Group 12 was a group of 15 astronauts announced by NASA on June 5, 1987. Group members. Pilots. * Andrew M. Allen , U.S. Marine Corps * Kenneth D. Bowersox , U.S. Navy * Curtis L. Brown, Jr. , U.S. Air Force * Kevin P. Chilton , U.S. Air Force * Donald R. McMonagle , U.S. Air ...
Chasseurs Alpins
The chasseurs alpins are the elite mountain infantry force of the French Army. They are trained to operate in mountainous terrain and in urban warfare. History. France created its own mountain corps in the late 19th century in order to oppose any Italian invasion through the Alps. In 1859–70 It ...
Croatian Air Force (Independent State of Croatia)
The Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia , was the air force of the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state established with the support of the Axis Powers on the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II. The ZNDH was founded under German authority in April 1941, fol ...
List of WKRP in Cincinnati episodes
WKRP in Cincinnati is an American situation comedy television series that features the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The series was created by Hugh Wilson and originally aired on the CBS from September 1978 to April 1982. Series overview. ...
Nunivak Island
Nunivak Island is a permafrost-covered volcanic island lying about offshore from the delta of the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers in the US state of Alaska, at a latitude of about 60°N. The island is in area, making it the second-largest island in the Bering Sea and eighth-largest island in the United ...
Quadrature mirror filter
In digital signal processing, a quadrature mirror filter is a filter whose magnitude response is the mirror image around of that of another filter. Together these filters, first introduced by Croisier et al., are known as the Quadrature Mirror Filter pair. A filter will be the quadrature mirror fi ...
Ahmad Javad
Ahmad Javad was an Azerbaijani poet. Javad is most remembered for writing the words of the National Anthem of Azerbaijan, which was used during the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan between 1918–1920, and which has been reinstated now that Azerbaijan has regained its freedom, since 1991, and ano ...
Checked tone
A checked tone , commonly known by the Chinese calque entering tone , is one of the four syllable types in the phonology in Middle Chinese. Although usually translated as "tone", a checked tone is not a tone in the phonetic sense but rather a syllable that ends in a stop consonant or a g ...
Word painting
Word painting is the musical technique of composing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song's lyrics. For example, ascending scales would accompany lyrics about going up; slow, dark music would accompany lyrics about death. Historical development. Tone painting of words goes at least as ...
Sporting Chronicle
The Sporting Chronicle , known colloquially as The Chron , was a Manchester-based, daily, national horse racing newspaper which operated in Great Britain for 112 years until its closure in 1983 due to unsustainable losses. The last edition was published on 23 July of that year. It was established ...
Total (girl group)
Total is an American R&B girl group originally from the Plainfield, New Jersey, United States, and one of the signature acts of Sean Combs' Bad Boy Records imprint during the 1990s. The group consisted of members Kima Raynor, Keisha Spivey, and Pamela Long. Total is best known for their feature on ...
Ice age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and greenhouse periods, during which there are no glaciers ...
Christian Baptist
The Christian Baptist , established in 1823 by Alexander Campbell, was the first magazine associated with the early Restoration Movement. The prospectus for the Christian Baptist described its purpose as " espouse the cause of no religious sect, excepting that ancient sect called 'Christians ...
Lewis Malone Ayer Jr.
Lewis Malone Ayer Jr. was a South Carolina politician who served as a Confederate Congressman during the American Civil War. Ayer was born near Barnwell, South Carolina, and educated in the common schools. He attended law school and passed his bar exam. After establishing a successful practice, he ...
Eric Wrangel
Eric Wrangel - Swedish politician, translator and writer. He was born on August 9, 1686 in Stockholm and died on January 18, 1765. He graduated from the Uppsala University. ...
Do You Want to Dance
" Do You Want to Dance " is a song written by American singer Bobby Freeman and recorded by him in 1958. It reached number No. 5 on the United States Billboard Top 100 Sides pop chart and No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. Cliff Richard and the Shadows' version of the song reached No. 2 in ...
Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University
Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University was founded in 1 of September 1979. It is situated in Ekaterinburg, Russia. RSVPU is a federal state autonomous educational institution of higher education, which consists of colleges, institutes and departments, branches and representative offices i ...
Century
A century is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word century comes from the Latin centum , meaning one hundred . Century is sometimes abbreviated as c. A centenary is a hundredth anniversary, or a celebration of this, typicall ...