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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nilo Cruz (born 1960) is an Cuban-American playwright and pedagogue. With his award of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, Anna in the Tropics, he became the first Latino so honored.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yemassee is a town in Beaufort and Hampton counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 1,027 at the 2010 census. Yemassee is also very near the borders of Colleton and Jasper counties and is often considered to be the geographical center or heart of the Lowcountry region. The town is divided by the county line between Beaufort and Hampton counties, which follows the roadbed of the CSX railroad. Most of the town`s population presently lies within Hampton County (as of 2006). As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Beaufort County portion of Yemassee is included within the Hilton Head Island–Beaufort Micropolitan Statistical Area. Yemassee hosts one of the few commercial...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sobekhotep (“Sobek is pleased”) is an ancient Egyptian name.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oscar Jerome Hijuelos (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Battleaxe was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was sold to the Brazilian Navy on 30 April 1997 and renamed Rademaker.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert D. Richards is a Canadian-born space entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of Moon Express, Inc., a U.S. company awarded a $10M commercial lunar contract by NASA and a competitor in the Google Lunar X PRIZE. He is also the founder and former CEO of Odyssey Moon Limited, an Isle of Man based commercial lunar enterprise and the first official contender in the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. From 2002-2009 he was the founding Director of the Space Division at Optech Incorporated, a company developing laser radar (lidar) systems for space exploration, observation and operations, participating in the 2004 XSS-11 USA-165 mission and the 2007 NASA Mars Phoenix (spacecraft) mission.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Austin (DE-15), was an Evarts-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named for Chief Carpenter John Arnold Austin (1905-1941) who was killed in action on board USS Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on 7 December 1941, and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany, located on southside of the river Main just next to Frankfurt am Main. In 2009 it had a population of 118,770. The city is part of the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main metropolitan area as well as the Frankfurt urban area.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ragged School Museum is a museum in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The museum was opened in 1990, in the premises of the former Dr Barnardo`s Copperfield Road Ragged School. The school opened in 1877 to serve the children of Mile End with a basic education. It closed in 1908, when the London School Boards were sufficiently established to take over the work.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Basilisk (H11) was a B-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw early World War II service in Norway, before being sunk at Dunkirk in 1940.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Velocity Games is an internationally-recognized action sports event founded in Texas in 2003 and considered "the most publicized windsports event in the nation," by Kiteatlas.com. The five-day event is held annually on Memorial Day Weekend in Corpus Christi, Texas, the Windsurfing Capital of the contiguous United States. Corpus Christi, Texas sits along Corpus Christi Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rainbow Falls State Park is a 139-acre (0.56 km2) State park in Washington, located near the town of Dryad. The park features 3,900 feet (1,200 m) of freshwater shoreline on the Chehalis River, as well as some of the last standing old-growth trees in the Chehalis Valley. The park`s main entrance, a pair of vehicle and pedestrian bridges across the Chehalis River above the falls for the which the park is named, was destroyed by flooding in December 2007, and visitors currently access the site through a brief detour to a back entrance.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pachadlela(2004) is a Marathi horror-comedy directed by Mahesh Kothare and stars Bharat Jadhav, Shreyas Talpade, Laxmikant Berde, Vandana Gupte, Dilip Prabhawalkar in lead role. The movie revolves around three friends working in a bank who get posted to a village. They are put up in a wada(palace) by the bank. But according to the villagers, the spirits of the previous owner, his son and his trusted aide still haunt the house. The movie was released on May 7, 2004 and was praised by the Marathi audience for story and performance.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Aurora (SP-345) was a harbor tug and a minesweeper of the United States Navy.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Calgarian was an armed merchant cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was sunk by the U-boat U-19 off Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland on 1 March 1918. The initial strike did not sink her and the crew managed to contain the damage. The U-boat torpedoed her again, despite the protection of other ships. She was hit by 4 torpedoes and quickly sank with the loss of two officers and 47 ratings.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yemane Ghebremichael (commonly known as Yemane Baria), was a well-known Eritrean songwriter, composer and singer. Not confined to musical pursuits, Yemane was also heavily involved in Eritrean politics. He died of natural causes in 1997.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Front (Barisan Jemaah Islamiah Se-Malaysia, often known by its acronym Berjasa) is a political party in Malaysia.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walton and O`Rourke (Paul E. Walton and Michael O`Rourke) were a famous team of cabaret puppeteers who founded the Olvera Street Puppet Theatre in Hollywood in 1935.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The history of the Jews in Qatar is very limited.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rainbow Falls Trail is an American hiking trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Sevier County, Tennessee. The trail ascends Mount Le Conte, the tallest (and sixth highest) mountain east of the Mississippi River and passes Rainbow Falls before absorbing the Alum Cave Trail and terminating near the LeConte Lodge.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pachena Point Lighthouse is located on Vancouver Island, approximately 12 km south of Bamfield, British Columbia, in Pacific Rim National Park. The octagonal wooden tower is maintained by the Canadian Coast Guard who employ lighthouse keepers at the station.