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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! TopCoder is a company which administers contests in computer programming. TopCoder hosts fortnightly online algorithm competitions — known as SRMs or "single round matches" — as well as weekly competitions in design and development. The work in design and development produces useful software which is licensed for profit by TopCoder. Competitors involved in the creation of these components are paid royalties based on these sales. The software resulting from algorithm competitions — and the less-frequent marathon matches — is not usually directly useful, but sponsor companies sometimes provide money to pay the victors. Statistics (including an overall "rating" for each developer) are...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Berengar of Tours (c. 999–January 6, 1088) was a French 11th century Christian theologian and Archdeacon of Angers, a scholar whose leadership of the cathedral school at Chartres set an example of intellectual inquiry through the revived tools of dialectic that was soon followed at cathedral schools of Laon and Paris, and who disputed with the Church leadership over the doctrine of transubstantiation in the Eucharist.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The New Jersey Chapter of The Society for Information Management (also referred to as SIM or Society for Information Management International SIMI) is a professional organization of over 250 senior IT executives, Chief Information Officers, prominent academicians, selected consultants, and other IT thought leaders. Members of the SIM NJ Chapter work for companies in the NJ metropolitan area or reside within this region. Members come together to share and enhance their rich intellectual capital for the benefit of its members and their organizations. The Chapter is organized for the purpose of bringing together senior Information Technology (IT) executives from leading companies in the New Jersey...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zina Garrison and Lori McNeil were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Garrison with Pam Shriver and McNeil with Betsy Nagelsen.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions was a conference on Climate Change held at the Bella Center by the University of Copenhagen. The event was organised with the assistance of other universities in the International Alliance of Research Universities. The stated aim of the conference was to provide "a summary of existing scientific knowledge two years after the last IPCC report." The conference took place on the 10–12 March 2009.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Hammond`s Blast Lab is a children`s television programme made by DCD Media-owned September Films and Hamster`s Wheel Productions for the BBC and shown on the CBBC Channel and CBBC outputs on both BBC One and BBC Two.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Konstantin Gavrilovich Catacazy or Katakazi (Константин Гаврилович Катакази) (1830 - April 1, 1890) was a Russian diplomat of the 19th century, minister plenipotentiary of the Russian Empire to the United States.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Republic of Botswana is a landlocked sovereign country located in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are Batswana (singular: Motswana), regardless of ethnicity. Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west, Zambia to the north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. The economy, closely tied to South Africa`s, is dominated by mining (especially diamonds), tourism, and cattle.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nova Bassano is a municipality and a city in the state Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Winslow Hall is a country house, now in the centre of the small town of Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England, built in 1700; its site at the edge of the village was a common one for a house of the gentry, with a public front facing the high street and a garden front that still commanded 22 acres (89,000 m2) in 2007. The architect of the mansion has been a matter of prolonged architectural debate: the present candidates are Sir Christopher Wren or a draughtsman, whether in the Board of Works, which Wren oversaw, or a talented provincial architect.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1979 Minnesota Twins season was a season in American baseball. The team finished 82-80, fourth in the American League West.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Goldsprint is a bicycle rollers racing and social event. Riders on stationary bikes compete against each other in front of spectators.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Muscle is a comedy television series from the United States which aired on The WB in 1995. It was set inside the fictional Survival Gym in New York City. It was a parody of prime time soap operas of the 1990s.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970s military operation in Balochistan was a a five-year conflict in which a separatist movement in Balochistan, the largest province of Pakistan, engaged with the Pakistan Army after then-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ordered a military operation in the region in 1973. The movement, initiated by Baloch nationalists in the aftermath of the secession of East Pakistan, had been fuelled by Bhutto`s dissolution of successive provincial governments. It was largely coordinated by the Baloch sardars, or tribal chiefs, against Bhutto`s operation, which was led by General Tikka Khan and aided by Iran. The conflict led to unrecorded civilian casualties, as well as heavy losses for the...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Colorado Convention Center is a multi-purpose convention center located in Downtown Denver. The center opened in June 1990; the first event being the NBA Draft for the Denver Nuggets. The convention center was expanded in 2004 to include several meeting rooms, two ballrooms and an indoor amphitheatre. Since opening, the center hosts over 400 events per years.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Arab Human Development Report is an independent report sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), providing leading Arab scholars a platform through which to analyze the challenges and opportunities for human development in the Arab Region. UNDP`s Arab Human Development Report Project maintains a Web site on which copies of the Reports are available for download in the Arabic, English and French languages.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Piper PA-32R is a six-seat, high-performance, single engine, all-metal fixed-wing aircraft produced by Piper Aircraft. The design began life as the Piper Lance, a retractable gear version of the Piper Cherokee Six. Later models are known as Saratogas. The primary difference between the Lance and early Saratoga is the development of a tapered wing on the Saratoga replacing the "hershey bar" wing on the Lance that was a carryover from the Cherokee Six. Later Saratoga models provided updated/improved avionics, engine and interior touches but retained the same airframe design.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Digital Video Broadcasting, the Common Interface is an extensible digital interconnect found in the digital TV market. It is also known as DVB-CI for Digital Video Broadcast Common Interface.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-6-2 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, six coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frogs` legs are one of the better-known delicacies of French and Cantonese cuisine. They are also eaten in other regions, such as Thailand, Vietnam, the region of Alentejo in Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, northwest Greece, and the Piemonte region in Italy, as well as the Southern regions of the United States. Currently the world`s largest exporter of frogs is Indonesia, also a large consumer. In regions such as Brazil, Mexico and the Caribbean many frogs are still caught wild. A type of frog called the edible frog is most often used for this dish. Frog legs are rich in protein, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin a and potassium. They are often said to taste like chicken because of their mild flavor,...