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Goal-line technology
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In association football, goal-line technology is a proposed technology currently in testing stages, which determines when the ball has completely crossed goal line, assisting the referee in calling a goal or not. So far FIFA, footballs governing body, has resisted goal-line technology as well as other proposed ideas such as instant replay and adding extra officials. FIFA officials do not want the game of football to lose the element of human error or the continuity of the game. However, in the wake of recent controversial calls made in both the FA Premier League and the 2010 World Cup FIFA is now testing potential candidates for goal line technology. Nine systems are currently being tested in...
Food and Agriculture Organization
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information, and helps developing countries and countries in transition modernise and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices, ensuring good nutrition and food security for all. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates into English as "let there be bread". As of 8 August 2008, FAO has 191 members states along with the European Union,...
Leatherface
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Leatherface is the main antagonist in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror-film series and its spin-offs. He wears masks made of human skin (hence his name) and engages in murder and cannibalism alongside his inbred family. He is considered by many to be one of the first major slasher film villains alongside Michael Myers and Norman Bates. Leatherface first appeared in the first film in the series (1974) and in its four subsequent continuations and remakes. Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, who wore a mask made of human skin, was purportedly the inspiration for the character.
Paulo Coelho
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paulo Coelho (Portuguese pronunciation: ; born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.
Cowboys from Hell
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cowboys from Hell is Pantera`s fifth album and their first Atco Records album, recorded at The Dallas Sound Lab in Irving, TX and released on July 24, 1990. This was their first commercially successful album, exposing the band`s groove metal style to mainstream audiences. Cowboys from Hell is seen as Pantera`s "official" debut by most fans, as well as the band itself as they left behind their glam metal past and began to exhibit a more groove metal-oriented sound. After its release, a logo for the band was made featuring the letters `CFH` (the abbreviation of the album title) in a circular design.
Klingon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Klingons (Klingon: tlhIngan, pronounced ) are a fictional warrior race in the Star Trek universe.
Shattered Union
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shattered Union is a turn-based tactics video game developed by PopTop Software and published by 2K Games in 2005.
CounterPunch
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! CounterPunch is a bi-weekly newsletter published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical attitude". It includes a website, updated daily, which contains much more material not published in the newsletter.
Gavin Rossdale
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gavin McGregor Rossdale (born 30 October 1965) is an English musician, known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush as well as an actor. Following Bush`s separation in 2002, which lasted for eight years, he was the lead singer and guitarist for Institute, and later began a solo career. He continues to perform both Bush and Institute songs during his solo concerts. Rossdale is married to fellow musician Gwen Stefani.
Gavin DeGraw
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gavin Shane DeGraw (born February 4, 1977) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is known for his songs "Chariot", "Follow Through", "I Don`t Want to Be" (which has been featured as the theme song for the television drama series, One Tree Hill since 2003), "In Love with a Girl", and "Not Over You".
Nissan Pathfinder
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Nissan Pathfinder is a SUV manufactured by Nissan Motors since 1986, derived from Nissan`s compact pickup truck platform. The Pathfinder is slotted in size between the Murano and Armada or Patrol, but in price between the Xterra and Murano. The Pathfinder`s traditional Japanese competitor is the Toyota 4Runner.
Scary Movie
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scary Movie is a 2000 comedy-parody film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, as part of Warner Bros. Entertainment. It is an American dark comedy which heavily parodies the horror, slasher, and mystery genres. Several mid- and late-90s films and TV shows are spoofed, most predominantly Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, along with The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, The Matrix, The Blair Witch Project, and Dawson`s Creek.
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) is an album by David Bowie, released in September 1980 by RCA Records. It was Bowie`s final studio album for the label and his first following the so-called Berlin Trilogy of Low, "Heroes" and Lodger (1977–1979). Though considered significant in artistic terms, the trilogy had proved less successful commercially. With Scary Monsters, however, Bowie achieved what biographer David Buckley called "the perfect balance": as well as earning critical acclaim, the album peaked at #1 in the United Kingdom and restored Bowie`s commercial standing in the United States.
Verity Lambert
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Verity Ann Lambert, OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. She is best known as the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who, a programme which has become a part of British popular culture, and for her association with Thames Television. Her many credits include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek and Love Soup.
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is a first-person, traditional role-playing video game for MS-DOS developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1996. It is a sequel to the RPG The Elder Scrolls: Arena and the second installment in The Elder Scrolls series. On July 9, 2009, it was made available as a free download on the Elder Scrolls website. It is the first game in the series to be rated M.
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