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Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 390 competitors from 106 nations contested 17 events (10 for men and 7 for women). The competition took place at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, located in the east of the Greek region of Attica.
Biretta
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The biretta (Latin: biretum, birretum) is a square cap with three or four peaks or horns, sometimes surmounted by a tuft. Traditionally the three peaked biretta is worn by Roman Catholic clergy and some Anglican and Lutheran clergy. The four peaked biretta is worn as academic dress by those holding a doctoral degree from a pontifical faculty or pontifical university. Occasionally the biretta is worn by advocates in law courts, for instance the Advocates in the Channel Islands.
U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Foreign Terrorist Organization" is a designation of non-United States-based organizations declared terrorist by the United States Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Most of the organizations as of 2007 on the list are Islamist extremist groups, with the remainder being mainly communist groups, followed by nationalist/separatist groups.
Human skeleton
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The human skeleton consists of both fused and individual bones supported and supplemented by ligaments, tendons, muscles and cartilage. It serves as a scaffold which supports organs, anchors muscles, and protects organs such as the brain, lungs and heart.
Ashfield, Massachusetts
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ashfield is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,737 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Cameronian (horse)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cameronian was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He won the 2000 Guineas and the Derby in 1932 but finished unplaced in the St Leger in his attempt to win the English Triple Crown. He returned as a four-year-old to win the Champion Stakes in 1933.
Super Video CD
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Super Video CD (Super Video Compact Disc or SVCD) is a digital format for storing video on standard compact discs. SVCD was intended as a successor to Video CD and an alternative to DVD-Video, and falls somewhere between both in terms of technical capability and picture quality. Although SVCDs proved more sophisticated than VCDs, the format ironically remains in the latter`s shadow.
The Other Guys (University of St Andrews)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Other Guys (TOG) is an all-male a cappella ensemble from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. The group was founded in 2004 and has been one of the groups responsible for the rise of collegiate a cappella in Scotland.
Gareth Loy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr. Gareth Loy is an American author, composer, musician and mathematician. Loy is the author of the two volume series on the intersection of music and mathematics titled Musimathics. Dr. Loy was an early practitioner of music synthesis at Stanford, and wrote the first software compiler for the Systems Concepts Digital Synthesizer (Samson Box). More recently, Loy has published the freeware music programming language Musimat, designed specifically for subjects covered in Musimathics, available as a free download. Although Musimathics was first published in 2006 and 2007, the series continues to evolve with updates by the author and publishers, and the texts are being used in numerous math and...
Anthony Crawford (lynching victim)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Anthony Crawford (ca. 1865 – October 21, 1916) was an African American man killed by a lynch mob in Abbeville, South Carolina in 1916.
List of Arthur episodes (season 4)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The fourth season of the television series Arthur was originally broadcast on PBS in the United States.
Keepsake Press
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Keepsake Press was a private press founded by English writer Roy Lewis. The press published more than 100 books and chapbooks using letterpress techniques. It ceased to operate in 1996 when Lewis died. Its archive is now housed at Reading University
2–3 zone defense
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2–3 zone defense is a defensive strategy used in basketball as an alternative to man-to-man defense. It is referred to as the 2–3 because of its formation on the court, which consists of two players at the front of the defense (and closer to half court) and three players behind (and closer to the team`s basket).
High Line Canal
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The High Line Canal is a man-made waterway, used for irrigation and recreation, that serves the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area. The High Line Canal (HLC) begins at a diversion dam on the South Platte River, some 1.8 miles (2.9 km) above the mouth of Waterton Canyon. From its headgate, the HLC runs 66 miles (106 km) to Green Valley Ranch, passing through Douglas, Arapahoe, and Denver Counties.
Placental growth factor
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Placental growth factor is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PGF gene.
Arena curling
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prior to around 2000, most Curling clubs in the United States followed the traditional Canadian model, operating in private facilities on dedicated ice sheets. When curling was introduced to a wider American audience during the 2002 Winter Olympics, interest in the sport grew dramatically. With the huge and sudden influx of new curlers, many existing curling clubs quickly filled. In addition, there developed strong interest in curling where there had never been before, in seemingly unlikely warm climates such as California, Arizona and Texas.
Amul STAR Voice of India
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Star Voice of India was an Indian Television singing competition that premiered on 18 May 2007 and ended on 24 November 2007. It was the first Indian singing competition produced by STAR Plus. The show was directed by Gajendra Singh, creator of the famous Sa Re Ga Ma Pa series. It also featured judges that were on the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa series, Aadesh Shrivastava, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Alka Yagnik, Lalit Pandit and Jatin Pandit. Shaan, who had previously been hosting Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. The winner of the show was Ishmeet Singh Sodhi.
King Kelson`s Bride
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! King Kelson`s Bride is a historical fantasy novel by American-born author Katherine Kurtz. It was first published by Ace Books in 2000. It was the thirteenth of Kurtz` Deryni novels to be published, and the only novel in the series that was not part of a trilogy. In terms of the series` internal literary chronology, King Kelson`s Bride directly follows the events of the third Deryni trilogy, the Histories of King Kelson. The next trilogy to be published, the Childe Morgan series, is a direct prequel to the first Deryni series, the Chronicles of the Deryni.
1903 in baseball
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The following are the baseball events of the year 1903 throughout the world.
Maxine Peake
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974 in Bolton, Greater Manchester) is an English stage, film and television actress known for playing Veronica in Channel 4`s Manchester-based drama series Shameless, Twinkle in Victoria Wood`s sitcom Dinnerladies, and, most recently, barrister Martha Costello in BBC legal drama Silk.
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