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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pad Abort Test 2 was the follow-on second abort test to Pad Abort Test 1 of the Apollo spacecraft.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Crusader (1858) was a screw steamer of the United States Navy that served prior to, and during, the American Civil War.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term Ottoman flag refers to any of the flags used by the ruling Sultans of the Ottoman Dynasty. Various flags were used within the Ottoman Empire during its existence, and the sultan also used different personal flags on different occasions of state. Due to the complex social and political organisation of the Ottoman Empire, throughout most of its history there was no single proper national flag, until 1844. In 1844, as part of the Tanzimat reforms, the first official national flag of the Ottoman Empire was adopted. This flag, which had a five-pointed star and crescent, also formed the basis of the present-day flag of the Republic of Turkey. The crescent moon in the Ottoman Flag was often...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Burre (fl. 1597 – 1622) was a London bookseller and publisher of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, best remembered for publishing several key texts in English Renaissance drama.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! DD Podhigai is Doordarshan`s Tamil language regional channel. It is broadcast both terrestrially and via satellite.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paczyna (formerly German Gross Patschin) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Toszek, within Gliwice County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-east of Toszek, 16 km (10 mi) north-west of Gliwice, and 37 km (23 mi) north-west of the regional capital Katowice.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tolfiq Nassar Ahmed al Bihani is a citizen of Saudi Arabia held in the United States`s Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 893. Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts report he was born on 1 June 1972, in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yield to maturity (YTM) or redemption yield of a bond or other fixed-interest security, such as gilts, is the internal rate of return (IRR, overall interest rate) earned by an investor who buys the bond today at the market price, assuming that the bond will be held until maturity, and that all coupon and principal payments will be made on schedule. Yield to maturity is actually an estimation of future return, as the rate at which coupon payments can be reinvested when received is unknown. It enables investors to compare the merits of different financial instruments. The YTM is often given in terms of Annual Percentage Rate (A.P.R.), but more usually market convention is followed: in a...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rahul Pandharipande (born 1969 in Amravati, India) is a mathematician at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), working in algebraic geometry, especially Gromov-Witten theory.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Toll the Hounds is the eighth volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson`s epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen. The Bantam Press hardcover was published on June 30, 2008 and the Tor Books trade paperback on September 16, 2008.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Cruise (AM/MSF-215) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was built to clear minefields in offshore waters, and served the Navy in the Pacific Ocean.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Marco Sanchez (born January 9, 1970) is an American actor, producer, and writer.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pactum Warmundi was a treaty of alliance established in 1123 between the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Republic of Venice.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In basketball, an official is a person who has the responsibility to enforce the rules and maintain the order of the game. The title of official also applies to the scorers and timekeepers, as well as other personnel that have an active task in maintaining the game. Basketball is regarded as among the most difficult sports to officiate, due to the speed of play and instantaneous judgement required.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ventimiglia (Italian: Ventimiglia, French: Vintimille) is a city and comune in Liguria, northern Italy, in the province of Imperia. It is located 130 km (80.78 mi) southwest of Genoa by rail, and 7 km from the French-Italian border, on the Gulf of Genoa, having a small harbour at the mouth of the Roia River, which divides the town into two parts. Ventimiglia`s urban area has a population of 55,000.