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Rainbow Dam
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rainbow Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Missouri River, 29 feet (8.8 m) high and 1,055 feet (322 m) long, located six miles northeast of Great Falls in the U.S. state of Montana and just upstream of Rainbow Falls, a 45 ft (14m) waterfall that is the third of the five Great Falls of the Missouri. The dam, built in 1910, generates 36 MW of electricity from 8 turbines. Building the dam reduced the flow of water over Rainbow Falls and downstream Crooked Falls, and they can almost completely dry up if less water exits the dam. The water from the penstocks re-enters the river a few hundred yards east of Crooked Falls.
Xclamation Festival
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Xclamation Festival or X Fest is an annual festival that takes place on the streets of downtown Modesto, California from 9th to 12th between J and H Streets, usually on the first Saturday in August. Begun in 2000 and organized by Chris Ricci Presents, the day is characterized by a Mardi Gras atmosphere, concert performances that go into the late evening hours, and a motto of "Good Times, Downtown." The festival features 50 bands on 8 stages over the course of 8 hours.
Simplicia (moth)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Simplicia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.
History of the Jews in Syria
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Syrian Jews derive their origin from two groups: those who inhabited Syria from early times and the Sephardim who fled to Syria after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain (1492 AD). There were large communities in Aleppo, Damascus, and Qamishli for centuries. In the early twentieth century a large percentage of Syrian Jews emigrated to the U.S., Central and South America and Israel. Today only a few Jews still live in Syria. The largest Syrian-Jewish community is located in Brooklyn, New York, and estimated at 75,000.
GnomeBaker
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! GnomeBaker is a free CD/DVD authoring application for Unix-like computer operating systems. It is based on GNOME desktop environment.
Rainbow Drops
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rainbow Drops are a brand of sugar-coated cereal type puffed maize and rice confectionery sold in the UK, produced by Swizzels Matlow. The sweets have a orange, pink, green and yellow coloured, sugary coating, and are sold in bags of 80g, 25g or 10g. They are also suitable for vegans. Rainbow Drops have gained cult status and have become widely regarded as retro sweets. 80g bags contain 215 calories
Xcel Energy Cabin Creek Fire
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Xcel Energy Cabin Creek Fire occurred on October 2, 2007 The incident occurred at Xcel Energy’s Hydropower Generation plant in Georgetown, Colorado, a small town forty-five miles west of Denver. This accident killed five workers and injured three. The incident is thought to be the result of shoddy work by a contractor (RPI coating) and Xcel Energy`s willingness to cut costs at the expense of safety.
Xcelerator
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xcelerator is a steel launched roller coaster at Knott`s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Xcelerator was Intamin`s first hydraulically-launched coaster. Xcelerator is the fourth Intamin installation at Knott`s. The other three were: The Sky Cabin, Bigfoot Rapids, and Perilous Plunge.
Tom Kerry
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Kerry (June 27, 1901 – January 8, 1983) was an American Communist and a lifelong member of the Socialist Workers Party.
Walton, Suffolk
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walton is a small village in Suffolk, between the rivers Orwell and Deben. It is often confused as being part of Felixstowe, although it is a separate village and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The 19th century terraces of Walton High Street are just a few hundred yards from Hamilton Square in the middle of Felixstowe.
Fred Wah
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frederick James Wah (born January 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and scholar.
Robert D. Rucker
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert D. Rucker is the 105th justice appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court.
Pachanga Latino Music Festival
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pachanga Latino Music Festival is the first Latin-themed music, cultural arts and food festival originated in Austin, Texas.Pachanga is a one-day festival intended to showcase Latino-created music, food, and works of art and their contributions to American culture.
Rainbow District School Board
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rainbow District School Board is a school board in the Canadian province of Ontario. The school board is the school district administrator for English language public schools in Greater Sudbury, the southern Sudbury District and the Manitoulin District, with a total enrollment of 16,985 students as of October 31, 2005. It operates schools in an administrative region of 14,125 square kilometres (5,454 sq mi).
Pan-Asianism
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pan-Asianism (also known as Asianism or Greater Asianism) is an ideology or a movement that Asian nations unite and solidify and create a continental identity to defeat the designs of the Western nations to perpetuate hegemony.
Walton, Peterborough
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walton is a residential area and electoral ward of the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. Manufacturers of industrial machinery, Peter Brotherhood Limited, relocated here from London in 1906.
Rainbow Dance
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film, created by New Zealand-born animation pioneer Len Lye. This is Lye`s second film to be viewed to the public. It uses the Gasparcolor process.
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