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Isle of Wight Festival
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Isle of Wight Festival is a music festival which takes place every year on the Isle of Wight in England. It was originally held from 1968 to 1970. These original events were promoted and organised by the Foulk brothers (Ron, Ray and Bill Foulk) under the banner of their company Fiery Creations Limited. The venues were Ford Farm (near Godshill), Wootton and Afton Down (near Freshwater) respectively. The 1969 event was notable for the appearance of Bob Dylan and the Band. This was Dylan`s first paid performance since his motor cycle accident some three years earlier, and was held at a time when many still wondered if he would ever perform again. Followers from across the world trecked to the...
Cipher
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption — a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure. An alternative, less common term is encipherment. In non-technical usage, a “cipher” is the same thing as a “code”; however, the concepts are distinct in cryptography. In classical cryptography, ciphers were distinguished from codes. Codes operated by substituting according to a large codebook which linked a random string of characters or numbers to a word or phrase. For example, “UQJHSE” could be the code for “Proceed to the following coordinates”. When using a cipher the original information is known as plaintext,...
Ashley Smith inquest
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ashley Smith inquest was a coroner`s inquest in Ontario related to the institutional death of Ashley Smith, a teenager who committed suicide on October 19, 2007, while she was under suicide watch at the Grand Valley Institution for Women. Despite guards watching her on video monitors the prisoner Smith was able to strangle herself with a strip of cloth, and it was several hours before guards or supervisors realized she was dead. The warden and deputy warden were fired after the incident, and though the guards and supervisors were initially charged for negligence, those charges were dropped a year later. Smith`s family brought a lawsuit against the Correctional Service of Canada for...
Citizens Party of the United States
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Citizens Party of the United States (Citizens Party) is a contemporary political party in the United States. Founded by Michael Thompson in Wayne, Pennsylvania in 2004 as the New American Independent Party (NAIP), the first meeting took place in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania on the day of the general election in 2004. The New American Independent Party officially changed its name to the Citizens Party in January 2011. The full transition to the Citizens Party lasted several months.
Revolo
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Revolo is a plug-in parallel hybrid technology that can be retrofitted in both existing and new cars.
4th North Carolina Infantry
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 4th North Carolina Regiment (disambiguation) was also known as the Fourth North Carolina State Troops; 4th NCST; and was nicknamed "The Bloody Fourth" after the high rate of casualties at the Battle of Seven Pines. "The effectiveness, steadiness in combat and the aggressiveness of the men to the enemy by the men of the regiment was demonstrated again and again in the Army of Northern Virginia. They earned their nickname “The Bloody Fourth.”" Not to be confused with the "4th North Carolina Regiment" of the American Revolution, or the "4th North Carolina Regiment" of the Spanish-American War.
Dale Stewart (filmmaker)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dale Stewart (born 30 March 1985) is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, editor and screenwriter, best known for his 2010 horror film Compound. He got international recognition early in his career with his horror short film, Awakened in 2008.
Freedom Debt Relief
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Freedom Debt Relief is a debt settlement company based in San Mateo, California, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Freedom Financial Network, LLC a financial service company headquartered in San Mateo California. The company has served more than 100,000 clients since its inception in 2002. Freedom employs more than 600 employees across the U.S.
List of extended-range guitar players
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! While the six strings have been standard practice since the 19th century, guitars featuring seven, eight, nine, ten or even more strings have been used by guitarists that wants to increase the range of pitch available from the guitar. Some types of these guitars can be specific for different cultures such as Russian and Brazilian guitars. During the 90`s the seven string guitar became popular among metal bands such who used the additional string for extra low end.
2nd/10th Dragoons
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2nd th Dragoons (short-form: 2 D) (in its last incarnation, the 57th Field Artillery Regiment , Royal Canadian Artillery or 57 FD REGT RCA) was a militia regiment of the Canadian Army, based in the Niagara, Wentworth and Brant regions of southern Ontario. It was formed in 1936 by amalgamating the 2nd and 10th Dragoons, both of which had served previously as cavalry units in the Canadian militia. After World War II the regiment was converted into an anti-aircraft artillery unit. In 1962 the regiment was converted into a field howitzer unit and in 1968 amid a downsizing of the Canadian Armed Forces the regiment was reduced drastically before eventually being completely disbanded in the mid...
Allen Steckle
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Allen Chubb "A. C." Steckle (July 1872 – March 5, 1938) was an American football player and coach. He played tackle for the University of Michigan from 1897–1899 and later served as the head football coach at the University of Nevada and Oregon State University, then known as Oregon Agricultural College. Steckle was selected as an All-American in 1898 and achieved fame in 1903 when his Nevada Sagebrush team, drawn from a school with 80 students, defeated the University of California football team.
The Rubinoos
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rubinoos are an American power pop band that formed in 1970 in Berkeley, California. They are perhaps best known for their singles "I Think We`re Alone Now" (1977, a cover of the hit by Tommy James & the Shondells), "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (1979), and for the theme song to the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. Although "I Think We`re Alone Now", reaching #45 in 1977, has been their only charting hit, the group has a significant enduring cult following among fans of the power pop genre.
Rajeev Ram
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rajeev Ram (born March 18, 1984 in Englewood, Colorado) is an American professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. Rajeev is a tall, lanky player with a serve-and-volley style who is known best as a doubles specialist. He has advanced as far as the quarter-finals in doubles at three Grand Slams, most recently with Scott Lipsky at the 2011 French Open. He has won two ATP singles tournaments. One in Newport, Rhode Island, and the other in Eckental, Germany.
Runcinated 120-cell
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In four-dimensional geometry, a runcinated 120-cell (or runcinated 600-cell) is a convex uniform polychoron, being a runcination (a 3rd order truncation) of the regular 120-cell.
List of Russian superheroes
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Many "Russian" superheroes in Western comics hail from the Russian Federation, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Others have origins dating back to the Cold War and the Soviet Union.
Dutch declension
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dutch, like many other Indo-European languages, has gradually moved its nominal morphology from synthetic to chiefly analytic. It has retained some vestiges of the original case system, more so than English, but to a much lesser extent than German. In modern Dutch, nouns and articles are no longer inflected for case, although an elaborate case system was used in the written language until the middle of the 20th century.
Nick Markakis
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nicholas William Markakis (born November 17, 1983 in Glen Cove, New York) is a Major League Baseball right fielder for the Baltimore Orioles. Of Greek and German descent , Markakis is known for his arm strength, stellar right field defense and smooth hitting.
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