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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1874 Atlantic hurricane season was a relatively inactive one, in which seven tropical cyclones developed. Three storms intensified into hurricanes, and interestingly enough, no storms attained major hurricane status, a system with maximum sustained winds of 111 mph (178 km/h) or greater. The first storm of the season developed on July 2, just over a month before the traditional start of the hurricane season. The final storm was last sighted on November 4, while situated just to the north of the Bahamas. Storm data is largely based on the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT), which recognizes all storm formation and dissipation during the 1874 season.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 5AT Advanced Technology steam locomotive is a conceptual design conceived by the British engineer David Wardale, and first described in his definitive work on modern steam, "The Red Devil and Other Tales from the Age of Steam" .

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The list of manned Mars mission plans in the 20th century is a listing of formal proposals, studies, and plans for a human manned mission to Mars during the 20th century. It is limited to serious studies done with engineering and scientific knowledge about the capabilities of then current technology, typically for high-budget space agencies like NASA. Mission profiles included manned flybys, manned landers, or other types of Mars system encounter strategies. A manned Mars lander, often called a Mars Excursion Module (MEM), enabled Mars orbit rendezvous or flyby rendezvous. For 21st century mission and later plans; see Manned mission to Mars.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Daniel Martin Charge (born 10 May 1988) is an English football striker, who plays for Isthmian League Division One North club Grays Athletic.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2000 Copa Libertadores Final was a two-legged football match-up to determine the 2000 Copa Libertadores champion.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Canine leishmaniasis (LESH-ma-NIGH-ah-sis) is a zoonotic disease (see human leishmaniasis) caused by Leishmania parasites transmitted by the bite of an infected Phlebotomine sandfly. Canine leishmaniasis was first identified in Europe in 1903, and in 1940 it was determined that 40% of all dogs in Rome were positive for leishmaniasis. Traditionally thought of as a disease only found near the Mediterranean basin, 2008 research claims new findings are evidence that canine leishmaniasis is currently expanding in continental climate areas of northwestern Italy, far from the recognized disease-endemic areas along the Mediterranean coasts. Cases of leishmaniasis began appearing in North America in...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! SMART Recovery (Self Management and Recovery Training) is an international non-profit organization which provides assistance to individuals seeking abstinence from addictive behaviors. The approach used is secular and science-based using non-confrontational motivational, behavioral and cognitive methods. Meeting participants learn recovery methods derived from evidence-based addiction treatments.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of the bird species recorded in the Cook Islands. The avifauna of the Cook Islands includes a total of 50 species, of which 6 are endemic, 1 has been introduced by humans, and 3 are rare or accidental. Ten species are globally threatened.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wye Valley Brewery is a brewery in the village of Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, England, in the Wye Valley. Founded in 1985 by Peter Amor, it has become "one of Britain`s leading independent breweries". In 2002 Peter Amor`s son, Vernon Amor, became managing director.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a gallery of named canna cultivars, representative of the various Canna cultivar groups. Names of cultivars are regulated by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, are registered with an International Cultivar Registration Authority (ICRA) and conform to the rules of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) Commission for Nomenclature and Cultivar Registration. The ICRA for the Canna genus is the Royal General Bulbgrowers` Association of the Netherlands (KAVB).

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Smith Mountain Lake is a large reservoir in the Roanoke Region of Virginia, located southeast of the City of Roanoke and southwest of Lynchburg. The lake was created in 1963 by the Smith Mountain Dam impounding the Roanoke River. The majority of the south shore of the lake lies in Franklin County while a portion, including access to the dam, lies in Pittsylvania County. The lake has become a popular recreation spot and has also experienced significant development in the last decade. It is the largest man-made lake in the entire state of Virginia.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! State Street Bank and Trust Company v. Signature Financial Group, Inc., 149 F.3d 1368 (Fed. Cir. 1998), also referred to as State Street or State Street Bank, was a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concerning the patentability of business methods. State Street for a time established the principle that a claimed invention was eligible for protection by a patent in the United States if it involved some practical application and, in the words of the State Street opinion, "it produces a useful, concrete and tangible result." With the 2008 decision In re Bilski, however, the useful-concrete-tangible test was jettisoned. According to the Bilski opinion, the...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joseph Papp (June 22, 1921 – October 31, 1991) was an American theatrical producer and director. Papp established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in downtown New York (still located there as of 2011). "The Public," as it is known, has many small theatres within it. There, Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new creations, both plays and musicals. Among numerous examples of these creations were the works of David Rabe, Ntozake Shange`s "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf", Charles Gordone`s No Place to Be Somebody (the first off-Broadway play to win the Pulitzer Prize), and Papp`s production of Michael...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Upper St. Clair Township is a Home Rule Municipality and township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located about 10 miles (16 km) south of Pittsburgh. The population was 20,053 at the 2000 census.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is an intergovernmental organization, located in The Hague, Netherlands. The organization promotes and verifies the adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention which prohibits of the use of chemical weapons and requires their destruction. The verification consists both of evaluation of declarations by members states and on-site inspections.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bank Transfer Day is a consumer activism initiative calling for a voluntary switch from commercial banks to not-for-profit credit unions by November 5, 2011. As of October 15, 2011, a Facebook page devoted to the effort had drawn more than 54,900 "likes".Debit card fees of $5 a month from the Bank of America are among steps leading to the Bank Transfer Day protest with a November 5 deadline.Occupy Wall Street participants support the effort even though the events are not related.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shaolin Kempo Karate (or "SKK") is a martial art style that combines the Five Animals of Shaolin Kung Fu, the core competency of Kempo, the hard-hitting linear explosiveness of traditional Karate, as well as the power of Western Boxing and the felling and grappling arts of Jujutsu, Chin Na, and Mongolian wrestling. This system was founded and developed by Fredrick J. Villari, (a former black belt student of Nick Cerio and William Kwai Sun Chow) who devised a hybrid system which integrated the four ways of fighting:striking, kicking, felling, and grappling to eliminate the inherent weakness of martial arts systems that focus on just one or two of fighting techniques.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lilian May Miller (July 20, 1895 - January 11, 1943) was an American painter, woodblock printmaker and poet. Miller lived her life "between two worlds", connecting two hemispheres—the East and the West, as well as the feminine and the masculine. In the world of art she marked her place with imagery, while she attended presentations in traditional kimonos, and signed her paintings with a monogram. In her personal life she hiked California`s San Gabriel Mountains and wandered through Alaska. She never married and she supported herself solely through the sale of her art. Miller saw Japanese painting and print-making as her first and foremost mode of artistic expression.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Board puzzles with algebra of binary variables ask players to locate the hidden objects based on a set of clue cells and their neighbors marked as variables (unknowns). A variable with value of 1 corresponds to a cell with an object. Contrary, a variable with value of 0 corresponds to an empty cell—no hidden object.