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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tamil nationalism has developed among the Tamils of both Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. It expresses itself in the form of linguistic purism ("Pure Tamil"), of irredentism ("Dravida Nadu"), and of Anti-Brahminism ("Self-Respect Movement"). Tamil irredentism in Sri Lanka (Tamil Eelam) was the casus belli of the Sri Lankan Civil War of 1983 to 2009. In the Republic of India, Tamil irredentism led to the anti-Hindi agitation during the 1960s.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives. Other various routes led to Mexico or overseas. Created in the early 19th century, the Underground Railroad was at its height between 1850 and 1860. One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad".British North America, where slavery was prohibited, was a popular destination, as its long border gave many...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yogurt Connection was a drug smuggling ring which operated out of Indianapolis, Indiana, United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Prosecutors estimated that the gang ran an estimated 250,000 pounds of Colombian, Jamaican and Thai marijuana. Distribution reached into eleven Midwestern U.S. states and was valued at $50 million to $100 million United States dollars, then the largest known ring of its kind.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An online newspaper, also known as a web newspaper, is a newspaper that exists on the World Wide Web or Internet, either separately or as an online version of a printed periodical.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Undead is a collective name for fictional, mythological, or legendary beings that are deceased and yet behave as if alive. Undead may be incorporeal, such as ghosts, or corporeal, such as vampires and zombies. Undead are featured in the legends of most cultures and in many works of fantasy and horror fiction.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pope St. Gregory VII (c. 1015/1028 – May 25, 1085), born Hildebrand of Sovana (Italian: Ildebrando da Soana), was Pope from April 22, 1073, until his death. One of the great reforming popes, he is perhaps best known for the part he played in the Investiture Controversy, his dispute with Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor affirming the primacy of the papal authority and the new canon law governing the election of the pope by the College of Cardinals. He was at the forefront of both evolutionary developments in the relationship between the emperor and the papacy during the years before becoming pope. He was beatified by Pope Gregory XIII in 1584, and canonized in 1728 by Pope Benedict XIII as Pope...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Color Purple is an acclaimed 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vom Kriege (German pronunciation: ) is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife in 1832. It has been translated into English several times as On War. On War is actually an unfinished work; Clausewitz had set about revising his accumulated manuscripts in 1827, but did not live to finish the task. His wife, with whom he shared a deep intellectual relationship, edited his collected works and published them between 1832 and 1835. His 10-volume collected works contain most of his larger historical and theoretical writings, though not his shorter...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pope Clement V, born Raymond Bertrand de Got (also occasionally spelled de Gouth and de Goth) (c. 1264 – 20 April 1314) was Pope from 1305 to his death. He is memorable in history for suppressing the order of the Knights Templar and executing some of its members, and as the Pope who moved the Curia away from Rome, ushering in the period known as the Avignon Papacy.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Omniverse is the conceptual ensemble of all possible universes, with all possible laws of physics.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Nisko Plan, also Lublin Plan or Nisko-Lublin Plan (German: Nisko und Lublin Plan), was developed in September 1939 by the Nazi German Schutzstaffel (SS) as a "territorial solution to the Jewish Question". In contrast to the similar "Madagascar" and other Nazi plans, the Nisko Plan was put into effect between October 1939 and April 1940 by Germans` setting up the Lublin reservation, also Nisko reservation (German: Lublin Reservat or Nisko Reservat), a concentration camp, in the Generalgouvernement. The plan and the reservation take their names from the towns of Lublin and Nisko, which bordered the reservation and would have been part of it after an envisioned, but not realized, enlargement.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Big Bang cosmology, the observable universe consists of the galaxies and other matter that we can in principle observe from Earth in the present day, because light (or other signals) from those objects has had time to reach us since the beginning of the cosmological expansion. Assuming the universe is isotropic, the distance to the edge of the observable universe is roughly the same in every direction—that is, the observable universe is a spherical volume (a ball) centered on the observer, regardless of the shape of the universe as a whole. Every location in the universe has its own observable universe which may or may not overlap with the one centered on the Earth.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The oil palms (Elaeis) comprise two species of the Arecaceae, or palm family. They are used in commercial agriculture in the production of palm oil. The African Oil Palm Elaeis guineensis is native to West Africa, occurring between Angola and Gambia, while the American Oil Palm Elaeis oleifera is native to tropical Central America and South America. The generic name is derived from the Greek for oil, elaion, while the species name refers to its country of origin.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nazi songs deals with songs that were written for the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! No. 246 Squadron RAF was a squadron of the Royal Air Force.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Stop the War Coalition (StWC) (informally just Stop the War) is a United Kingdom group set up on 21 September 2001 that campaigns against what it believes are unjust wars.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A nut is a hard-shelled fruit of some plants having an indehiscent seed. While a wide variety of dried seeds and fruits are called nuts in English, only a certain number of them are considered by biologists to be true nuts. Nuts are an important source of nutrients for both humans and wildlife.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Hercules (AK-41) was an Hercules-class transport commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering necessary goods and equipment to ships and stations in the war zone.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, was created by the United Nations, with the adoption of Security Council Resolution 425 and 426 on 19 March 1978, to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon which Israel had invaded five days prior, restore international peace and security, and help the Government of Lebanon restore its effective authority in the area.