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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Athens, Greece, from April 6 to April 15, 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era. Because Ancient Greece was the birthplace of the Olympic Games, Athens was perceived to be an appropriate choice to stage the inaugural modern Games. It was unanimously chosen as the host city during a congress organized by Pierre de Coubertin, a French pedagogue and historian, in Paris, on June 23, 1894. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was also instituted during this congress.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1880 Republican National Convention convened from June 2 to June 8, 1880 at the Interstate Exposition Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and nominated James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur as the official candidates of the Republican Party for President and Vice President of the United States, respectively, in the 1880 presidential election.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 13th Airborne Division was an airborne formation in the United States Army during World War II, and was commanded by Major General Eldridge Chapman. It was officially activated in August 1943 at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, remaining active until February 1946, but never saw combat.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tropical Depression Ten was a short-lived tropical cyclone that made landfall on the Florida Panhandle in September 2007. The system developed as a subtropical depression on September 21 in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico from the interaction of a tropical wave, the tail end of a cold front, and an upper-level low. Initially containing a poorly defined circulation and intermittent thunderstorm activity, the system transitioned into a tropical depression after convection increased over the center. Tracking northwestward, the depression moved ashore near Fort Walton Beach early on September 22, and shortly thereafter it dissipated over southeastern Alabama.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tropical Depression Ten was the tenth tropical cyclone of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed on August 13 from a tropical wave that emerged from the west coast of Africa on August 8. As a result of strong wind shear, the depression remained weak and did not strengthen beyond tropical depression status. The cyclone degenerated on August 14, although its remnants partially contributed to the formation of Tropical Depression Twelve, which eventually intensified into Hurricane Katrina. The cyclone had no effect on land, and did not directly result in any fatalities or damage.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Особенности климата России определяются рядом географических факторов, в том числе географическими положениями, размерами и протяжённостью с запада на восток и севера на юг, большим разнообразием рельефа.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Семь путешествий Чжэн Хэ ( кит. упр. , пиньинь: Zheng He xia Xiyang, палл.: Чжэн Хэ ся Сиян, буквально: « Чжэн Хэ в Западный Океан») семь плаваний огромного китайского флота в Юго-Восточную Азию и Индийский океан в 1405 1433 года, во времена правления императоров Чжу Ди и Чжу Чжаньцзи династии Мин. Руководителями плаваний (в ранге «главных послов», чжэнши ) были императорские евнухи: либо единолично...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Спорт в России один из наиболее востребованных россиянами видов деятельности. Спортом занимаются профессионально и любительски. Любительский спорт тесно связан с понятием физкультуры.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Пермь (, местн. произн. ) город на востоке европейской части России, в предгорьях Урала, административный центр Пермского края, порт на реке Каме, транспортный узел на Транссибирской магистрали, городской округ. Крупный многоотраслевой промышленный, научный, культурный и логистический центр Урала.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Актерские действа известны издавна. Сначала они были связаны с религиозными празднествами или с языческими обрядами.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Паровоз О («Основной») первый паровоз, ставший основным в локомотивном парке российских железных дорог. В период с 1890 по 1915 год на двенадцати паровозостроительных заводах было изготовлено более 9 тыс. локомотивов этой серии, что сделало паровоз О самым массовым из дореволюционных локомотивов. Этот локомотив работал на всех государственных и большинстве частных железных дорог...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! История развития фототехники привела к тому, что были выработаны определённые стандарты на интерфейс между фотографом и используемой им фототехникой. В результате цифровые фотоаппараты (цифровая фотокамера, ЦФК) в большинстве своих внешних черт и органах управления повторяют модели плёночной фототехники. Принципиальное различие оказывается в «начинке» аппарата, в технологиях...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Цветная фотография совокупность способов получения фотографических изображений, воспроизводящих с некоторой точностью как яркостные, так и цветовые различия фотографируемых объектов.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Кэндзабуро Оэ (яп. О:э Кэндзабуро:?, род. 31 января 1935) выдающийся современный японский писатель-гуманист, автор нескольких десятков романов и повестей, циклов рассказов и многочисленных эссе. В своих сочинениях Кэндзабуро Оэ пытается преодолеть достигшие, по его мнению, своего апофеоза во Второй мировой войне нигилизм, безответственность и отчуждённость современного человека. Для...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Moon. is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Tactics, a brand of the joint company Nexton, and first released on November 21, 1997 playable on a Windows 95 PC as a CD-ROM; the game was re-released five more times between 1998 and 2003. The game was described by the development team as a "Reaching the Heart AVG" ( AVG, Kokoro ni Todoku AVG?). The gameplay in Moon. follows a plot line which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the three female main characters. Unlike most adult games where the protagonist is male, the protagonist of Moon. is a girl. She is named Ikumi Amasawa who joins an organization called FARGO in the hopes of...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Brewarrina is a small town (2006 population: 1,121 ) in North West New South Wales, Australia on the banks of the Barwon River in Brewarrina Shire. It is 98 km east of Bourke and west of Walgett on the Kamilaroi Highway, and 808 km from Sydney. Brewarrina has had its population decrease from 1,197 persons in 2001, to 1,121 persons in 2006. Other towns and villages in the Brewarrina district include; Goodooga, Gongolgon, Weilmoringle and Angledool.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Famine has been a recurrent feature of life in the Indian sub-continental countries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and reached its numerically deadliest peak in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Historical and legendary evidence names some 90 famines in 2,500 years of history. There are 14 recorded famines in India between the 11th and 17th centuries. Famines in India resulted in more than 60 million deaths over the course of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. The last major famine was the Bengal famine of 1943. A famine occurred in the state of Bihar in December 1966 on a much smaller scale. The drought of Maharashtra in 1970 1973 is often cited as an example in which...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was played on September 2, 2009, at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C. The match determined the winner of the 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. This was the 96th edition of the oldest competition in United States soccer. The match was won by Seattle Sounders FC, who defeated D.C. United 2 1. Clyde Simms scored D.C. United's only goal. Fredy Montero and Roger Levesque scored Seattle's two goals as the club became the second expansion team in Major League Soccer (MLS) history to win the tournament in their inaugural season.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2005 Dr. Pepper Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Championship Game was the inaugural contest of the game. It was a regular-season ending American college football contest at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Florida State Seminoles. The game decided the winner of the Atlantic Coast Conference football championship. Florida State University (FSU) defeated Virginia Tech 27 22 in a game characterized by penalties, defense, and a fourth-quarter comeback attempt by Virginia Tech. The game was the final contest of the regular season for the two teams, as bowl games are not considered part of the regular season. In addition, the contest...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Okeechobee hurricane, or San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was a deadly hurricane that struck the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida in September of the 1928 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the second recorded hurricane to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale in the Atlantic basin after the 1924 Cuba hurricane; as of 2010, it remained the only recorded hurricane to strike Puerto Rico at Category 5 strength, and one of the ten most intense ever recorded to make landfall in the United States.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In mathematics, the repeating decimal 0.999... (which may also be written as 0.9, , 0.(9), or as "0." followed by any number of 9s in the repeating decimal) denotes a real number that can be shown to be the number one. In other words, the symbols 0.999... and 1 represent the same number. Proofs of this equality have been formulated with varying degrees of mathematical rigour, taking into account preferred development of the real numbers, background assumptions, historical context, and target audience.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1991 Perfect Storm, also known as the Halloween Nor'easter of 1991, was a nor'easter that absorbed Hurricane Grace and ultimately evolved into a small hurricane late in its life cycle. The initial area of low pressure developed off Atlantic Canada on October 28. Forced southward by a ridge to its north, it reached its peak intensity as a large and powerful cyclone. The storm lashed the East Coast of the United States with high waves and coastal flooding, before turning to the southwest and weakening. Moving over warmer waters, the system transitioned into a subtropical cyclone before becoming a tropical storm. It executed a loop off the Mid-Atlantic states and turned toward the northeast....