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February 2009 tornado outbreak
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The February 2009 tornado outbreak primarily affected portions of the South Central United States on February 10, as well as sections of the Northeastern United States, on February 11. During the two-day period, 15 tornadoes touched down in seven states. Oklahoma was struck by six tornadoes, the most of any state. The first day of the outbreak produced the most tornadoes; the second brought mainly high wind damage and rain or snow in most of the Northeast.
February 2007 North America blizzard
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The February 2007 North America Winter Storm (otherwise referred to as the Valentine`s Day Blizzard or Valentine`s Day Storm) was a massive winter storm that affected most of the eastern half of North America, starting on February 12, 2007 and peaking on Valentine`s Day, February 14. The storm produced heavy snowfalls across the midwestern United States from Nebraska to Ohio and produced similar conditions across parts of the northeastern United States, and into Canada in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. Significant sleet and freezing rain fell across the southern Ohio Valley and affected portions of the east coast of the United States, including the cities of Boston, Baltimore, Washington,...
February 1969 nor`easter
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The February 1969 nor`easter was a severe winter storm that affected the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States between February 8 and February 10. It ranked as Category 2, or "significant", on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale. The nor`easter developed on February 9, and as it moved towards the northeast, intensifying to become a powerful storm, it dropped paralyzing snowfall, often exceeding 20 in (51 cm). New York City bore the brunt of the storm, suffering extensive disruption. Thousands of travelers became stranded on roads and in airports. Overall, at least 94 people lost their lives to the storm. Following the event, the mayor of New York, John Lindsay, was...
Fears in Solitude
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fears in Solitude, written in April 1798, is one of the conversation poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem was composed while France threatened to invade Great Britain. Although Coleridge was opposed to the British government, the poem sides with the British people in a patriotic defense of their homeland. The poem also emphasizes a desire to protect one`s family and to live a simple life in harmony with nature. The critical response to the poem was mixed, with some critics claiming that the work was "alarmist" and anti-British.
Fearless (Taylor Swift song)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Fearless" is a country pop song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was co-written by Swift in collaboration with Liz Rose and Hillary Lindsey and produced by Nathan Chapman and Swift. "Fearless" was released on January 4, 2010 by Big Machine Records as the fifth and final single from Swift`s second studio album, of the same name, Fearless. Swift composed the song while traveling on tour to promote her eponymous debut album, Taylor Swift (2006). She wrote "Fearless" in regards to the fearlessness of falling in love and eventually titled her second studio album after the song. Musically, it contains qualities commonly found in pop rock music and, lyrically, is about a...
The Fear (song)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Fear" is a song by British recording artist Lily Allen from her second studio album, It`s Not Me, It`s You. Written by Allen and Greg Kurstin, the song was released as the lead single of the album. Initially, "Everyone`s At It" was announced to be the first single; however, it was ultimately decided on "The Fear" to be released on 26 January 2009 by Regal Recordings, while the demo leaked onto the internet in April 2008. The song incorporates electropop music as the lyrics tackle the problems with celebrity lifestyles and include metaphors for recognized British newspapers, as well as sarcasm.
Fear of a Black Planet
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fear of a Black Planet is the third studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released April 10, 1990, on Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records. Production for the album was handled by the group`s production team The Bomb Squad, who expanded on the dense, sample-layered sound of the group`s previous album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988). They constructed elaborate sound collages for the album`s music, incorporating varying rhythms, numerous samples, media sound bites, and eccentric music loops, which reflected the content`s confrontational tone. Fear of a Black Planet contains themes concerning organization and empowerment within the African-American...
F.E.A.R
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! F.E.A.R. (an initialism for First Encounter Assault Recon) is a psychological horror first-person shooter developed by Monolith Productions and published by Vivendi Universal and the first game in the F.E.A.R. (series). It was released on October 17, 2005, for Microsoft Windows, and ported by Day 1 Studios to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.Timegate Studios has released two expansion packs, F.E.A.R. Extraction Point in October 2006 and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate in November 2007. Both the expansions were ported to the Xbox 360 packed under the title F.E.A.R. Files. A direct sequel titled F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, was released by Monolith Productions in February 2009. A second sequel, F.E.A.R. 3...
Favorite Girl
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Favorite Girl" is a song by Canadian recording artist, Justin Bieber. The song was written and produced by D`Mile, and Antea Birchett, Anesha Birchett, and Delisha Thomas also receive writing credits. Bieber first debuted the acoustic version of his song in his official YouTube account after American country pop singer Taylor Swift used Bieber`s single "One Time" as background music in one of her video tour diaries. The song was later released exclusively to iTunes as the second promotional single from his debut studio release, My World on November 4, 2009.
Frank Hoar
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Harold Frank Hoar, FRIBA (13 September 1907 – 3 October 1976), was a British architect, artist, academic and architectural historian. Hoar first came to public prominence when, at the age of 25, he won a competition to design the first terminal building at London`s Gatwick Airport in the 1930s. His architectural career focused increasingly on town planning in the post war years, when he also became a well known public commentator on domestic architecture in that era of reconstruction. A senior lecturer at University College London, Hoar was an expert on the Bavarian Baroque and wrote histories of English and European architecture at a time when architectural modernism decried the value of an...
Hurricane Fausto (2008)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hurricane Fausto was a strong Category 1 hurricane that had only minor effects on land during its life over the eastern Pacific basin. The seventh tropical depression, sixth named storm, and third hurricane of the 2008 Pacific hurricane season, Fausto formed out of a tropical wave on July 16. The storm gradually strengthened as it moved towards the west-northwest, becoming a minimal hurricane two days later. On July 19, Fausto turned towards the northwest as it continued to strengthen. The next day, while passing between the Mexican islands of Clarion and Socorro, the hurricane reached its peak intensity with winds of 90 mph (150 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 977 mbar (hPa; 28.85 inHg).
John Emilius Fauquier
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Emilius “Johnny” Fauquier DSO Two Bars, DFC (March 19, 1909 – April 3, 1981) was a Canadian aviator and Second World War Bomber Command leader. He commanded No. 405 Squadron RCAF and later No. 617 Squadron RAF (the Dambusters) over the course of the war. A bush pilot, prior to the war, he joined the RCAF as a flight instructor in 1939. He joined No. 405 Squadron in 1941 and would fly operationally for the rest of the war, taking a drop in rank on one occasion to return to active command. During his three tours of operation he participated in Operation Hydra and dozens of other sorties over Europe.
Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion (previously known as Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion and Cricket Wireless Pavilion) is an amphitheater located in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, which seats 8,000, under a pavilion roof and an additional 12,000, on a spacious hillside behind the main stands. It was originally known as Desert Sky Pavilion and opened in November 1990 (Billy Joel was the venue`s inaugural performer). With a total capacity of 20,000, its capacity is higher than US Airways Center and Jobing.com Arena. The amphitheater`s season starts in April and closes in October.
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz" is the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of Family Guy. The episode follows Peter`s decision to find a new religion for himself. After several failed attempts, he chooses the one man who has always been there for him, Fonzie, and starts the First United Church of the Fonz.
Fatbeard
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Fatbeard" is the seventh episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 188th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 22, 2009 and in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2009. It was the mid-season finale, marking the final South Park episode for six months. In the episode, Cartman misinterprets news reports about Piracy in Somalia to mean the return of the classic era of swashbuckling pirates, and misleads a handful of South Park boys to voyage to Mogadishu to start a pirate crew.
Fata Morgana (Sanctuary)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Fata Morgana" is the third episode of the science fiction television series Sanctuary. The episode first aired on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States on October 10, 2008. It subsequently aired on ITV4 in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2008. The episode, which is named after a mirage of the same name, was written by Damian Kindler. Martin Wood served as director.
The Fat Guy Strangler
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Fat Guy Strangler" is the seventeenth episode of season four of Family Guy, which originally aired on November 27, 2005.Lois discovers she has a long-lost brother, Patrick. She discovers he was put in a mental hospital after seeing his mother being seduced; so she consents to release him, but after a childhood flashback induced by Peter, he becomes traumatized and starts murdering overweight people. The episode was written by Chris Sheridan and directed by Sarah Frost, and guest-stars were Bob Barker, Dave Boat, Max Burkholder, Barclay DeVeau, Robert Downey, Jr., Margaret Easley, Kim Parks, Will Sasso, Anne-Michelle Seiler and Tara Strong.
Fat Freddy`s Drop
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fat Freddy’s Drop is a seven-piece band from Wellington, New Zealand, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. Originally a jam band formed in the late 1990s by musicians from other bands in Wellington, Fat Freddy’s Drop gradually became its members` sole focus. Band members continued playing with their other respective groups—The Black Seeds, TrinityRoots, Bongmaster, and others—for much of their 11-year career. Fat Freddy’s Drop are known for their improvised live performances; songs on their studio albums are versions refined over years of playing them live in New Zealand, and on tour abroad.
Fastra II
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Fastra II is a desktop supercomputer designed for tomography. It was built in late 2009 by the ASTRA (All Scale Tomographic Reconstruction Antwerp) group of researchers of the IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology) VisionLab at the University of Antwerp and Belgian computer shop Tones, in collaboration with Asus, a Taiwanese multinational computer product manufacturer, as the successor to the Fastra I (built in 2008).
Fast Lane (song)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Fast Lane" (commonly misspelled as "Fastlane") is the lead single by hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil, a group composed of Royce da 5`9" and Eminem, from their first EP Hell: The Sequel. It`s their first single as a group since the 1999 hit "Nuttin` to Do" and the duo`s major label debut single, due to a break-up in late 2000. The song was released May 3, 2011 by Shady Records. The single was produced by Eminem, Supa Dups, and Jason "JG" Gilbert. Texas rapper Chamillionaire released a remix of this song on May 8, 2011.
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