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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Alabama Claims were a series of claims for damages by the United States government against the government of Great Britain for the assistance given to the Confederate cause during the American Civil War. After international arbitration endorsed the American position in 1872, Britain settled the matter by paying the U.S. $15.5 million for damages done by several warships built in Britain and sold to the Confederacy, thus ending the dispute and ensuring friendly relations.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sam the Record Man flagship store was opened in 1961 by Sam Sniderman at 347 Yonge Street, Toronto. It was the second Sam`s store to be on Yonge Street, as its precursor store was at 219 Yonge Street from 1959, until the 347 location opened in late 1961. It was the best known store in the Sam the Record Man chain of 140 locations across Canada, two blocks away from the Eaton Centre and Dundas Square. Sam`s became a popular attraction, drawing people into its selection of records, and later cassettes and CDs. It flourished in the Downtown Toronto area, quickly gaining notoriety and out-selling the competition. What started as a single storefront had evolved into an entire block completely...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The women`s doubles tennis competition was one of five tennis events at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In geometry, the Pythagorean tiling or two squares tessellation is a tessellation of the plane by squares of two different sizes, in which each square touches four squares of the other size on its four sides. A tiling of this type may be formed by squares of any two different sizes. It also is commonly used as a pattern for floor tiles; in this context it is also known as a hopscotch pattern.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A short snorter is a banknote inscribed by people traveling together on an aircraft. The tradition was started by Alaskan Bush flyers in the 1920s and spread through the military and commercial aviation. During World War II short snorters were signed by flight crews and conveyed good luck to soldiers crossing the Atlantic. Friends would take the local currency and sign each others bills creating a "keepsake of your buddy`s signatures".

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Cameron Macauley (October 20, 1923 – May 17, 2007) was a photographer, filmmaker and educator noted for his prizewinning still photographs, his ethnographic films and his expertise on historic films and photographs. His career spanned over 75 years.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Burmester`s theory is named after Ludwig Burmester (1840-1927). Burmester introduced geometric techniques for synthesis of linkages in the late 19th century. His approach was to compute the geometric constraints of the linkage directly from the inventor`s desired movement for a floating link. From this point of view a four-bar linkage is a floating link that has two points constrained to lie on two circles.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of Wii video games that have sold or shipped at least one million copies, sorted in order of copies sold. As of March 2011, there are 103 Wii video games that have sold over 1 million units.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) is a literary prize managed in association with the Booker Prize Foundation in London, and supported by the Emirates Foundation in Abu Dhabi. The prize is specifically for prose fiction by Arabic authors, along the lines of the Man Booker Prize. Each year, the winner of the prize receives US$50,000 and the six shortlisted authors receive US$10,000 each.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lloyd Jones (born 1 August 1988 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh ice dancer who has competed for Great Britain. In 2009, he began competing internationally for France with Pernelle Carron. They are the 2010 French national champions.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The German Democratic Republic (GDR), often called East Germany, had founded a separate National Olympic Committee for socialist East Germany on 22 April 1951 in the Rotes Rathaus of East Berlin, as the last of three German Olympic committees of the time. It was not recognized by the IOC for over a decade.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr. Henry Daniel Cogswell (March 3, 1820 – July 8, 1900) was a dentist and a crusader in the temperance movement. He and his wife Caroline also founded Cogswell College in San Francisco, California. Another campus in Everett, Washington was later dedicated in his honor.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Guero is the ninth (and sixth major-label) studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck, first released in March 2005 on Interscope Records. It debuted on Billboard`s Top 200 Album chart at #2 (where it went gold), and in the UK at #15 (where it went silver). To date, this is Beck`s highest charting CD. It is seen by many reviewers as a return to the style of Odelay, his 1996 album, mainly because this album, like Odelay, utilizes production duo the Dust Brothers. It also recalls Mutations in places with its Brazilian influences. "E-Pro" was the album`s first single, with "Girl" as the follow-up. As of July 2008, Guero has sold 868,000 copies in the United States.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Nemo" is the tenth single by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish and the first single from the album Once. The song can be heard in the ending credits of the 2005 film The Cave. A special version of the music video was released that contained scenes from the movie. For "Nemo", a big-budget video was made, the director was Antti Jokinen, who had previously worked with Shania Twain, Celine Dion and Eminem. The video was n° 1 on MTV Brazil Video Chart. The song was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stoneage Romeos was iconicAustralian rock group Hoodoo Gurus` first album (released 1984) and saw them receive record sales to complement their already strong reputation for live performances. The album name is from a Three Stooges short film. With radio and television support for their third single "My Girl" (1983) (complete with a film clip about a greyhound of the same name), the band`s following grew. The album`s other singles were - "Leilani" (1982), "Tojo" (1983), and "I Want You Back" (1984). Later in July 1985 they took the honours in the `Best Debut Album` category at the 1984 Countdown Awards.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2012–13 Toto Cup Leumit was the fourteen season of the third important football tournament in Israel since its introduction and the first under the current format. It was held in two stages. First, sixteen Liga Leumit teams were divided into four groups. The winners and runners-up were advanced to the Quarterfinals. Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals were held as one-legged matches, with the Final been played at the Ramat Gan Stadium in Ramat Gan.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Men`s 4x200 Freestyle Relay event at the 11th FINA World Championships was swum on July 29, 2005 in Montreal, Canada. 22 teams swam in the event`s preliminary heats in the day`s morning session; with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the event`s final that evening.

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