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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second USS Cyane was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Cyclops (AC-4) was one of four Proteus-class colliers built for the United States Navy several years before World War I. Named for the Cyclops, a primordial race of giants from Greek mythology, she was the second U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. The loss of the ship and 306 crew and passengers without a trace sometime after 4 March 1918 remains the single largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history not directly involving combat. The cause of the ship`s loss is unknown.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Cuttlefish (SC-5/SS-171), a Cachalot-class submarine and one of the "V-boats," was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the cuttlefish. Her keel was laid down by Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 21 November 1933 sponsored by Mrs. B. S. Bullard, and commissioned on 8 June 1934, Lieutenant Commander Charles W. "Gin" Styer in command.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Cutlass (SS-478), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the cutlassfish, a long, thin fish found widely along the coasts of the United States and in the West Indies. Her keel was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard on 10 July 1944. She was launched on 5 November 1944 sponsored by Mrs. R. E. Kintner, and commissioned on 17 March 1945 with Commander Herbert L. Jukes in command.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Cushing (Torpedo Boat #1/TB-1) was a torpedo boat in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. She was named for William B. Cushing.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Saratoga, a sloop-of-war, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Battle of Saratoga of the American Revolutionary War. Her keel was laid down in the summer of 1841 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched on 26 July 1842 and commissioned on 4 January 1843 with Commander Josiah Tattnall in command.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cyane was a Royal Navy sailing Banterer-Class sixth-rate ship of 22 guns, built in 1806 at Topsham, near Exeter, England. She was ordered in January 1805 as HMS Columbine and was renamed Cyane on 6 December of that year.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venus is the name of two fictional characters appearing in Marvel Comics. The first originally based on the goddess Venus (Aphrodite) from Roman and Greek mythology was retconned to actually be a siren that only resembles the goddess. The second is stated to be the true goddess, and now wishes only to be referred to by her Greek name, Aphrodite. The similarities between the two characters are a point of conflict in the comics.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Cuttyhunk Island (AG-75/AKS-23) was a Belle Isle-class miscellaneous auxiliary acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Cuttyhunk Island was built as the war was coming to an end, and was used as a transport. She was later classified as a stores ship and eventually scrapped.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venur or Venoor is a small village on the banks of the Phalguni river in the South Kanara of Karnataka, India. It was once the seat of Jainism and the capital.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ustad Rais Khan (born 25 November 1939) is a legendary sitarist born in Indore, India. In the different lines of "gayaki ang" (where the sitar plays the material of singers more than those of instrumentalists) Ustad Rais Khansaheb is the torchbearer of the Mewat or Mewati Gharana (lineage), which is connected to Indore and the "beenkar baj gayaki ang" (singing style combined with rudra vina approaches) carried out by Ustad Rais Khan`s father Ustad Mohammed Khan, one of the greatest rudra vina (been) players and a great sitarist himself. This lineage goes back to the court musicians of the Mughal Emperors. Amongst the Khayal and dhrupad doyens, Rais Khan`s gharana is a lineage containing the...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venugopal Chandrasekhar is a former National table tennis champion from Tamil Nadu. He earned the Arjuna Award in 1982 as well as a lifetime achievement award. Among his major achievements are winning the Nationals, making the semi-final of the Commonwealth championships in 1982, and helping India progress to category I from II in the 1983 Tokyo World Championships.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics venues are mostly located in the host city of London, though some other events require facilities located elsewhere. Since the successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, some details have changed, with ongoing developments and announcements taking place.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! For the 2010 Winter Olympics, a total of ten sports venues were used, seven in Vancouver (including BC Place), and three in Whistler.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venugopal Dhoot (born 30 Sep 1951 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian businessman. According to Forbes Magazine, his wealth in 2009 is U$2.65 billion according to. Moreover he is said to be the eighteenth richest man in India.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! For the 2000 Summer Olympics, a total of thirty sports venues were used. After Melbourne hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics, Australia made several bids for the Summer Olympics before finally winning the 2000 Summer Olympics by two votes over Beijing, China. Venue construction were set at the Homebush Bay area of Sydney in an effort to rehabilitate the land. Environmental studies of the area in the early 1990s forced remediation to be used for about a fifth of the site selected. Fifteen new venues were constructed for the Games. During the games, 137 cars were removed from the streets of Sydney before the start of the women`s marathon while the last day of the canoe sprint finals were delayed six...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venue Songs is a 2004 album by the group They Might Be Giants. Although technically it is a live album, as all the tracks were performed live, it is different than a standard live album in that, instead of live versions of the band`s popular songs, it is composed of all new songs. At each stop of their 2004 tour, They Might Be Giants wrote, arranged and performed a new song dedicated to that venue. Each song came together in one day as a surprise to the audience.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venu Isc is an Indian cinematographer who has worked in over 80 feature films and has won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography three times, in 1987 (Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal), 1993 (Miss Betty`s Children), 1994 (Ponthan Mada), apart from that he won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Debut Director for Daya in 1998.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venue Cymru is a large arts venue in Llandudno, Conwy county borough, north Wales, incorporating a 1,500 seat theatre, restaurant, conference centre and arena. The venue was previously known as the North Wales Theatre and the North Wales Conference Centre.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second USS Saratoga, named for the Battles of Saratoga, was a corvette built on Lake Champlain for service in the War of 1812.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venu V. Desam (born 1959 at Desam, Aluva, Kerala, India) is a Malayalam poet. He was the first Malayalam poet to write gazals in Malayalam. Apart from original works many of which have received Awards, he has also translated different works of various classic writers into Malayalam, including those of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, Leo Tolstoy, Khalil Gibran, Osho, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Vladimir Korolenko.