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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venezuela sent one athlete to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The raganella (Italian for "tree frog") is a percussion instrument common in the folk music of Calabria in southern Italy. Technically, the raganella is a "cog rattle," producing a sound that is enough of a "croak" to have derived the folk name of the instrument from the Italian name of the common tree-frog.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pacific Buddhist Academy is a private, co-educational college preparatory high school in Honolulu, Hawai`i.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ragani is a village development committee in Okhaldhunga District in the Sagarmatha Zone of mid-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3542 living in 678 individual households.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) is an international peacekeeping force overseeing the terms of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pacific Citizen (P.C.) is a national, award-winning semi-monthly newspaper based in Los Angeles, California, United States. The P.C. has been providing the leading Asian Pacific American (APA) news to the community since its inception in 1929. The newspaper is published by the Japanese American Citizens League, JACL, which is the nation’s oldest and largest APA civil rights organization.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Bellerophon (ARL-31) was one of 39 Achelous-class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Bellerophon (a hero of Greek mythology, the son of Eurymede by either the Corinthian King, Glaucus, or the sea god, Poseidon), she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3), nicknamed "Devil Dog", was the second ship named after the battle of Belleau Wood in World War I. Her keel was laid down on 5 March 1973 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by Ingalls Shipbuilding. She was launched on 11 April 1977, and commissioned on 23 September 1978, with Captain T.C. Steele in command.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry was a joint British and American attempt in 1946 to agree upon a policy as regards the admission of Jews to Palestine. The Committee was tasked to consult representative Arabs and Jews on the problems of Palestine, and to make other recommendations `as may be necessary` to the British and American governments. The Committee`s recommendations addressed the matter of immigration and the future government of Palestine. Although one of many committees of inquiry which examined the situation in Palestine, the Anglo-American committee was the only one to also examine the conditions of Jews in Europe.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMCS Vimy was one of twelve Battle class naval trawlers used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Named after the Battle of Vimy Ridge, she was built by Polson Iron Works, in Toronto, Ontario, and was commissioned on 13 November 1917. Decommissioned on 30 November 1918, she was subsequently transferred to the Department of Marine and Fisheries, which converted her into a lightship, like sister ships HMCS Messines, HMCS St. Eloi, and HMCS St. Julien. Eventually designated Lightship No. 5, Vimy was probably broken up in around 1958.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venezuela competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pacific Boychoir is the only boys` chorus in Oakland, California, USA. The chorus was formed in 1998 with 6 boys, and it now includes more than 160 singers from ages 7 to 17. The New York Times said the PBA goes “beyond the reach of most youth choirs” and the Los Angeles Times described the PBA quality of sound and musicianship as “astonishing.”

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Belle Italia (1862) was a sloop captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Belle Isle (AG-73/AKS-21) was a Basilan-class miscellaneous auxiliary acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Belle Isle was configured as a repair ship and used in Pacific Ocean operations. At war’s end she was converted to a stores ship before being finally decommissioned.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMCS Thiepval was one of twelve Battle class Naval trawlers used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). After seeing service on Canada`s east coast at the end of the First World War, Thiepval was transferred to the west coast, where she spent the remainder of her career. In 1924, Thiepval visited the Soviet Union and Japan as part of the support efforts for a round-the-world flight attempt. Thiepval struck a rock and sank off the British Columbia coast in 1930, and her wreck has since become a popular attraction for divers.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sepioloidea pacifica, also known as the Pacific Bobtail Squid, is a species of cuttlefish native to the southern Pacific Ocean; it occurs off New Zealand in the west and in the Nazca and Sala y Gomez submarine ridges in the east.