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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The San Francisco 49ers 1988 season was their 43rd season in the National Football League. The season was highlighted by their third Super Bowl victory. In 1988, the 49ers struggled. At one point, they were 6-5 and in danger of missing the playoffs but rose to defeat the Washington Redskins on a Monday night, eventually finishing the season at 10-6. They gained a measure of revenge by thrashing the Minnesota Vikings 34-9 in the first round. The 49ers then traveled to Chicago`s Soldier Field, where the chill factor at gametime was 26 degrees below zero. They defeated the Chicago Bears 28-3 in a NFC Championship game upset.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oli Thompson (born 1980) is a British strongman, mixed martial artist and former holder of the title Britain`s Strongest Man.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1935 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the twenty-eighth season of Sydney`s top-grade rugby league football club competition, Australia`s first. With the inclusion of the Canterbury-Bankstown club this season, nine teams from across the city contested the premiership which lasted from April until September and culminated in Eastern suburbs` victory over South Sydney in the final.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Vincent Paul Maher Lombardi (born August 19, 1942) is an American university professor and administrator. Lombardi currently serves as the president of the Louisiana State University System, a position he has held since 2007. He is a native of California, and earned his bachelor`s, master`s and doctoral degrees before becoming a professor of Latin American history. Lombardi was formerly the president of the University of Florida and the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker, known as Edmond de Coussemaker, born on 19 April 1805 in Belle, died on 10 January 1876 in Lille, was a schooled jurist. As a musicologist and ethnologist, he focused mainly on the heritage of French Flanders. With Michiel de Swaen and Maria Petyt, he was one of the most eminent defenders of Dutch culture in France.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! I-58 was a Japanese B3 type cruiser submarine that served in the final year of World War II. Modified to carry Kaiten manned torpedoes, she damaged two enemy destroyers with them, but her most significant success was the USS Indianapolis, sunk with conventional torpedoes on 30 July 1945. The submarine surrendered in September 1945, and was later scuttled by the United States Navy.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Beautiful Son" is a song by American alternative rock band Hole, written collectively by frontwoman Courtney Love, lead guitarist Eric Erlandson and drummer Patty Schemel. The song was released as the band`s fourth single in April 1993 on the European label City Slang. To coincide with the song`s lyrics, Love used a photograph of her husband, Kurt Cobain, at age 7 as the single`s artwork.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A core sample is a cylindrical section of (usually) a naturally occurring substance. Most core samples are obtained by drilling with special drills into the substance, for example sediment or rock, with a hollow steel tube called a core drill. The hole made for the core sample is called the "core hole". A variety of core samplers exist to sample different media under different conditions. More continue to be invented on a regular basis. In the coring process, the sample is pushed more or less intact into the tube. Removed from the tube in the laboratory, it is inspected and analyzed by different techniques and equipment depending on the type of data desired.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of the Old Church Slavonic language. The alphabet has existed in its modern form since 1918 and consists of thirty-two letters. See also Belarusian Latin alphabet and Belarusian Arabic alphabet.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The SX-70 is a folding single lens reflex Land Camera which was produced by the Polaroid Corporation from 1972-1981.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The notion of performative utterances was introduced by language philosopher J. L. Austin. According to his original conception, it is a sentence which does something in the world rather than describing something about it. For example, the statement "I now pronounce you man and wife," is not true or false but instead `happy` or `unhappy`, depending on whether or not it is performed properly (by an ordained minister, before a single man and woman, etc.). The performative is uttered in the performance of an illocutionary act and is either felicitous (successful) or infelicitous (unsuccessful) rather than true or false. Austin originally assumed that stating something and performing an...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! General Sir John Winthrop Hackett GCB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC (5 November 1910–9 September 1997) was an Australian-born British soldier, author and university administrator.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Magician, The Magus, or The Juggler (I) is the first trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination. In divination it is considered by some to succeed The Fool card, often numbered 0.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Southern Afrotemperate Forest (The Southern Cape Forests) is a kind of tall, shady, multi-layered indigenous South African forest. This is the main forest-type in the south-western part of South Africa, naturally extending from the Cape Peninsula in the west, as far as Port Elizabeth in the east. In this range (apart from the massive Knysna-tsitsikamma forest complex) it usually occurs in small forest pockets, surrounded by Fynbos vegetation.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oh! Carol: The Complete Recordings, 1955-66 is an 8 CD box set of Neil Sedaka released in 2003 on Bear Family Records.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Harner (born 1929) is the founder of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and the formulator of "core shamanism." Harner is known for bringing shamanism and shamanic healing to the contemporary Western world. Walsh and Grob note in their book, Higher Wisdom, "Michael Harner is widely acknowledged as the world`s foremost authority on shamanism and has had an enormous influence on both the academic and lay worlds…. What Yogananda did for Hinduism and D. T. Suzuki did for Zen, Michael Harner has done for shamanism, namely bring the tradition and its richness to Western awareness." Harner received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963. He taught...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Douglas Cook (New Plymouth, New Zealand, 28 October 1884 - Gisborne, New Zealand, 27 April 1967) was the founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, now the national arboretum of New Zealand, and one of the founders of Pukeiti, a rhododendron garden, close to New Plymouth. He was a "plantsman with the soul of a poet and the vision of a philosopher".

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Impiety is a Singaporean black metal band, formed in early 1990 by Shyaithan (vocals/guitar/bass) and drummer Necro-Angelfornicator. They are notable for being one of the first extreme metal bands to emerge from Singapore, including releasing records on notable Western record labels.