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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ragtown is a mining town, now a ghost town, in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California, U.S.. John Suter discovered gold in the Bagdad-Chase area in about 1898.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacifica State Beach is the southernmost of Pacifica, California`s large beaches, it is 0.75 mile long crescent shaped beach located at the mouth of the San Pedro Valley in downtown Pacifica off State Route 1, USA.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Raymond "Rags" Matthews (born August 17, 1905-January 1, 1999) was an All-American football player at Texas Christian University in the 1920s, playing end on both offense and defense. A Fort Worth native, Matthews attended Poly High School before TCU. He lettered three times under coach Matty Bell, during which the Horned Frogs posted a cumulative record of 17-5-5. He was named the team`s Most Valuable Player after the 1926 and 1927 seasons, and was selected to play in the Shrine East-West All-Star Game as a senior in 1927, the first year players from the Southwest Conference were included. Matthews was named to the All-Time All-SWC Team in 1969, and was elected to the College Football Hall of...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Z-Netz was a German BBS network applying store and forward mechanisms to provide their users with e-mail and discussion groups. It can be compared to the U.S. based WWIV network or the international FidoNet.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) is a group of companies founded in May 2002. The ISC website characterizes its membership as "committed to advancing the concept that multiple competing software markets should be allowed to develop and flourish unimpeded by government preference or mandate".

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Russian Circles is a three piece instrumental rock/metal band from Chicago. Russian Circles play instrumental, sprawling music which runs the gamut of heavy discordant metal, to soft delicate passages. They are also known for their energetic live shows, mostly headlining now but in their earlier days they toured with the likes of Boris, Isis, Red Sparowes, Minus the Bear, Daughters, Coheed Cambria, Mono, and Pelican as well as appearances at the 2006 SXSW, and 2009`s Bonnaroo. They were also the opening band for Tool while playing their first tour in the United Kingdom in 2007. Their name is taken from a drill exercise used in the game of ice hockey.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Clark (DD-361) was a Porter-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Charles E. Clark.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is a popular song lyrics by Grant Clarke, music by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams. © 1912, F.A. Mills, 122 W. 36th St, New York.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Social Credit Party of Ontario (SCPO) (also known as the Ontario Social Credit League, Social Credit Association of Ontario and the Union of Electors) was a minor political party at the provincial level in the Canadian province of Ontario from the 1940s to the early 1970s. The party never won any seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It was affiliated with the Social Credit Party of Canada and espoused social credit theories of monetary reform.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacifica Pier is a fishing pier in Pacifica, in western San Mateo County, California. The L shaped pier spans out into the Pacific Ocean for a quarter mile from the City of Pacifica. Its official name is the Rev. Herschell Harkins Memorial Pacifica Pier.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pocket Kingdom: Own the World is a mobile Massively Multiplayer Online Game for the Nokia N-Gage, by Sega, released November 22, 2004. The main core of the game is based on an earlier design used in the popular Sega Saturn title, Dragon Force. Pocket Kingdom had received overall positive reviews, averaging an overall review score of 72% on Game Rankings.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ragtime Snap Shots is a 1915 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rainier High School, located in Rainier, Washington, was established in 1909. As of the 2009-2010 school year, it provides instruction for approximately 300 students in grades 9-12 with a staff of about 20 full time and part time instructors. The school was named a 2007 Washington State School of Distinction based on its dramatically improved WASL scores. Its mascot is the Mountaineer and the school colors are orange and black. The interim principal for the 2009-2010 school year is Wally Lis.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi is the organization responsible for the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia. It was established on October 2, 2007 by the Russian Olympic Committee, the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports, and the Administration of the City of Sochi.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Russian Colonialism extended over regions forming modern Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Finland and the Baltic countries, Moldavia, Central Asia, Siberia and the Caucasus. Its beginnings can be dated to the Muscovite conquest of the Republic of Novgorod in 1478 and its subsequent colonization by settlers from Muscovy. Although Russian colonialism formally ended in 1991 with the political independence of the former Republics, in practice Russian capital still dominates those territories and can be said to maintain a neo-colonial relationship to them, much as the US and European countries still control their former overseas colonies. Russian settlers who arrived in Soviet times still tend to identify...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Clarinda (SP-185), later YP-185, was an armed yacht that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1930.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rags Ragland (b. John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland, August 23, 1905, Louisville, Kentucky; d. August 20, 1946, Los Angeles, California) was an American comedian and character actor. Ragland first made his reputation in burlesque, where he was one of the house comics for the famed Minsky burlesque shows. One of the Minsky striptease stars, Georgia Sothern, remembered him fondly in her 1971 memoir, saying she considered Ragland a close friend and the funniest comedian the Minskys had ever produced.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Clarion River (LSM(R)-409) was an LSM(R)-401-class medium-type landing ship (LSM) built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for the Clarion River in west central Pennsylvania, she was the only US Naval vessel to bear the name.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rags to Riches refers to any situation in which a person rises from poverty to wealth, or sometimes from obscurity to fame. This is a common archetype in literature and popular culture (for example, the writings of Horatio Alger, Jr.).

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Dandelion (1862) was a steam tugboat used by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. In addition to towing, she was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.