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Kindle Fire
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Kindle Fire is a tablet computer version of Amazon.com`s Kindle e-book reader. Announced on 28 September 2011, the Kindle Fire has a color 7" multi-touch display with IPS technology and runs a forked version of Google`s Android operating system. It includes access to the Amazon Appstore, streaming movies and TV shows, and Kindle`s e-books. It was scheduled to be released in the US on November 15, 2011, but was released a day earlier, on November 14.
Action of 9 February 1945
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Action of 9 February 1945 refers to the sinking of the German U-boat U-864 in the North Sea off the Norwegian coast during the Second World War by the Royal Navy submarine HMS Venturer. This action is the first and so far only incident of its kind in history where one submarine has intentionally sunk another submarine while both were fully submerged.
1955–56 Newport County A.F.C. season
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1955–56 season was Newport County`s 28th season in the Football League and ninth consecutive season in the Third Division South since relegation from the Second Division at the end of the 1946–47 season.
Legends of War
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Legends of War is a turn-based strategy video game series franchise created in 2010 by the Spanish development company Enigma Software Productions. The serie is multiplatform based for PS3, Xbox 360, PC and PSP, and is set in different time periods and wars across humankind experience through the experience of charismatic military legends.
John Mason (Scottish politician)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Fingland Mason MSP (born 15 May 1957) is a Scottish politician and the Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston.
Ipswich Whitefriars
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ipswich Whitefriars is the name usually given to the Carmelite Priory, a Catholic religious house, which formerly stood near the centre of the medieval town of Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk, UK. The Priory was founded in the 13th century (probably 1278-79) as an establishment of the Carmelite Order of White Friars, and stood until the 1530s, when its ancient revenues and endowments were depleted by Thomas Cromwell during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In its heyday it was the home of many eminent scholars, supplied several Provincial superiors of the Order in England, and was repeatedly host to the provincial chapters of the Order. The site of the Priory is identified and has been...
List of Margate F.C. managers
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of Margate F.C. managers since the club appointed its first full-time manager in 1929, along with the number of competitive games managed and winning percentage where available.
The Advocate (Stamford)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Advocate is a seven-day daily newspaper based in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. The paper shares a publisher and editor with the Greenwich Time; both are owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, a multinational corporate media conglomerate with $4 billion in revenues.
De Bortoli Wines
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! De Bortoli Wines is one of the larger privately owned companies in Australia. De Bortoli makes a wide range of wines including the sweet white Noble One.
Rock microstructure
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rock microstructure includes the texture of a rock and the small scale rock structures. The words "texture" and "microstructure" are interchangeable, with the latter preferred in modern geological literature. However, texture is still acceptable because it is a useful means of identifying the origin of rocks, how they formed, and their appearance.
John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School is a public magnet school for the fine and performing arts located in downtown Augusta, Georgia, USA. It draws students in grades 6 through 12 throughout Richmond County. In addition to a basic curriculum of college preparatory and Advanced Placement academic courses, Davidson offers academic and fine arts courses in the areas of visual arts, music, chorus, dance, cinema production, and theatre. In addition to being recognized as a National Grammy Signature School, the school has been ranked as the #1 school in the state of Georgia and has also placed in the top 100 tier of Newsweek`s "America`s Best High Schools."
Birbal Sahni
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Birbal Sahni FRS (14 November 1891 – 10 April 1949) was an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent, was also a geologist who took an interest in archaeology. He founded the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow, India.
The Sign (song)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Sign" is a 1993 dance-pop song by the Swedish band Ace of Base. The song was an international hit, reaching Number two in the United Kingdom and spending six non-consecutive weeks as number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. It appeared on the band`s album Happy Nation (entitled The Sign in North America.)
Giuseppe Martucci
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Giuseppe Martucci (6 January 1856–1 June 1909) was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. As a conductor he helped to introduce Richard Wagner`s operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of English music there.
Hans Oster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hans Oster (August 9, 1887 – April 9, 1945) was a German Army general, deputy head of the Abwehr under Wilhelm Canaris, and an opponent of Adolf Hitler and Nazism. He was a leading figure of the German resistance from 1938 to 1943.
Chern–Simons theory
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Chern–Simons theory is a 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory of Schwarz type, introduced by Edward Witten. It is so named because its action is proportional to the integral of the Chern–Simons 3-form.
Water privatization in Albania
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Water privatization in Albania was initiated by the Albanian government in the early 2000s with the support of the World Bank and German development cooperation. The stated objective was to improve the quality and efficiency of urban water supply and sanitation. At the time, many households received water only for a few hours every day, utilities were overstaffed, water tariffs were low and many customers did not pay their water bills. There was no single municipal wastewater treatment plant in the country of 3 million, which is among Europe`s poorest countries. In 2002-03 three contracts were signed with foreign private operators covering six secondary cities. Water privatization never covered...
Wind Cave bison herd
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wind Cave bison herd is a herd of 250–400 American Bison in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, USA. It is believed to be one of only four free roaming and genetically pure herds on public lands in North America. The other three herds are the Yellowstone Park bison herd, the Henry Mountains bison herd in Central Utah, and on Elk Island in Alberta, Canada. The Wind Cave Herd are of the Plains Bison subspecies (Bison bison bison).
2011 British motorcycle Grand Prix
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2011 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 10–12 June 2011 at Silverstone.
Dunlop Orange Bowl
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships, known since 2008 as the Dunlop Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships with Dunlop as the title sponsor, is a prestigious junior tennis tournament, one of only five that are rated by the ITF as `Grade A`. Established in 1947 in Miami Beach, the tournament has for years featured both boys and girls singles and doubles draws at both `18 and under` (under-19) and `16 and under` (under-17) age categories. Since 1999, the tournament has been held each December at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida.
Clement Edwards
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! (Allen) Clement Edwards (7 June 1869 – 23 June 1938), usually known as Clem, was a Welsh lawyer, journalist , trade union activist and Liberal Party politician. As a barrister specialising in trade union and labour law he was briefed in some of the most important cases of the day concerning the rights of trade unions to engage in industrial and political action. Edwards was always active in the Welsh radical tradition and was strongly opposed to Labour. During the First World War his patriotism grew enormously and he became a founding member of the National Democratic Party (NDP). He was elected one of the NDP’s Members of Parliament in 1918 and served as its chairman in the House of Commons.
Iree
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Iree (also Ire or Iree Alalubosa) is a Yoruba town in the north-eastern part of Osun State, Nigeria, West Africa. Its geographical coordinates are 7.55 North and 4.43 East. Iree is one of the major towns in the Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State. It is located on the Osogbo-Illa-Orangun road, about 30 km from Osogbo and 8 kilometers from Ikirun. It is surrounded by the following towns: Ikirun, Iba, Eripa, Ada, Aagba, Ororuwo, and Iragbiji. Iree and many other towns in the same region have their names beginning with the letter ‘I’ and so, are usually described as being located in the ‘I’ District. Such towns include Ikirun, Iba, Illa-Orangun, Inisa, Iragbiji, Iresi, Itake and...
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