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List of asteroids/108001–109000 | edit External

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

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! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”201″| 108201–108300 [ edit]

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! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”501″| 108501–108600 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”601″| 108601–108700 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”701″| 108701–108800 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”801″| 108801–108900 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”901″| 108901–109000 [ edit]

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Twisted Christmas | Christmas

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
For the similarly named Twisted Sister album, see A Twisted Christmas

Twisted Christmas is a humorous Christmas album recorded by Bob Rivers and his Comedy Corp.


Track listing

  1. The Twelve Pains of Christmas (3:36)

    • Parody of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”
  2. The Chimney Song (2:06)
    • Original song.
  3. We Wish You Weren’t Living With Us (0:44)
    • Parody of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”
  4. Wreck the Malls (2:02)
    • Parody of “Deck the Halls.”
  5. A Visit From St. Nicholson (4:30)
    • Parody of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (aka “T’was the Night Before Christmas”) by Clement Clark Moore, with actor Jack Nicholson instead of St. Nicholas.
  6. O Come All Ye Grateful Dead-Heads (1:23)
    • Parody of “O Come All Ye Faithful.”
  7. I’m Dressin’ Up Like Santa (When I Get Out On Parole) (3:06)
    • Original song.
  8. The Restroom Door Said, “Gentlemen” (1:33)
    • Parody of “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.”
  9. Foreigners (2:07)
    • Parody of “Angels We Have Heard on High.”
  10. Joy to the World (1:22)
    • Hard rock version of traditional song.
  11. A Message From the King (2:18)
    • Spoken word piece by Elvis Presley impersonator.

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Christmas Turkey | Christmas

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Christmas Turkey is a Christmas-themed album released in 1997 by the Canadian Comedy Music group The Arrogant Worms.
It includes a re-recorded version of “The Christmas Song” (which appeared on their debut album).


Track listing

  1. “Santa’s Gonna Kick Your Ass”
  2. “The Christmas Song”
  3. “Santa Got Arrested”
  4. “Christmas Sucks”
  5. “Things Are Looking Bad For Santa”
  6. “Christmas Turkey Blues”
  7. “Oh God, I’m Santa Claus!”
  8. “Christmas Is Almost Here”
  9. “Dad Threw Up On Christmas Day”
  10. “The Same Christmas Cake”
  11. “Christmastime”
  12. “Christmas Blues”
  13. “Christmas Hangover”
  14. “Vincent The Christmas Virus”
  15. “Christmas In Ignace”

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  • CHRISTMAS-GRAPHICS.COM - Xmas Clipart, Backgrounds, Dividers The biggest collection of free Christmas-related clipart and web graphics around. Includes several galleries of free Xmas clipart, images, animated graphics
  • Christmas - MSN Encarta Christmas, annual Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Most members of the Roman Catholic Church and followers of Protestantism
  • Christmas Carols The lyrics and origins of the most popular Christmas carols together with additional sections dedicated to Christmas songs as well as Carols, a quiz and the
  • A Christmas Story (1983) A Christmas Story on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and morevar mb16=ManyBox.register(’16′,3,’Gc2c2SrkRYIJ’,”,’1e2a’,14,’Map of 3159 W 11th St, Cleveland, OH 44109′)
  • Victorian Christmas Welcome to a Victorian Christmas decorate the tree make the plum pudding enter here to create the magic of a Victorian Christmas!
  • My Merry Christmas The best of Christmas and Santa Claus online for over a decade as a supersite of holiday history, music, movies, stories, clip art, and the world-famous
  • DLTK's Crafts for Kids Christmas Activities Printable templates for Christmas crafts for preschool, kindergarten and gradeschool kids.
  • CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christmas Provides a detailed overview of the holiday from the fourth century through the modern age. Includes links to related topics.
  • Howstuffworks "How Christmas Works" For hundreds of millions of people around the world, Christmas is the biggest holiday of the year. Have you ever wondered where traditions like Santa Claus
  • Mexican Traditions for Christmas For example, the Posadas are now nine parties that are celebrated in differentes friends homes before Christmas. Also, with the North American Free Treaty
  • Christmas Christmas

Race Game (pricing game) | Other versions It

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Race Game is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on August 14, 1974, it is played for four prizes, each worth between $400 and $3,000.

The prizes are usually unrelated, though the game has on occasion offered four trips (on a $1,000,000 Spectacular) or season tickets to four of the Los Angeles sports teams.


Gameplay

In this game, the contestant is presented with four price tags, each representing the price of one of the four prizes. They are given 45 seconds in which to place each price tag with the correct prize.

The contestant is given as many chances as they can take within the time limit to place all four tags, return to a large readout, and pull a lever which tells them how many prices they have right. If they can get all four correct within the time limit, they win all four prizes. Otherwise, they win whatever prizes are correctly priced when time expires. If the contestant is in the middle of a switch when time expires, they are usually allowed to complete it and pull the lever a final time. The contestant is not allowed to pull the lever unless all of the price tags have been placed at a prize.

It is impossible for a contestant to win exactly 3 of the 4 prizes. If a contestant gets 3 of the prizes right, the fourth therefore must be correct. Because of this, the scoreboard that displays the number of correct guesses can’t light up the number “3″.


Foreign versions

Some foreign versions of The Price Is Right have slight changes — for instance, on the UK versions, the contestants only got 30 seconds (though earlier Leslie Crowther episodes used 45 like the US).


See also

  • The Price Is Right
  • List of The Price Is Right pricing games

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Peachtree Road (Elton John album) | albums Elton

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Peachtree Road is the twenty-eighth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 2004. It was named after Peachtree Road, the northern part of Peachtree Street and the major street in Atlanta, one of the singer’s four homes.

The album art on the front cover is a photograph from a railroad crossing near the western suburb of Douglasville, taken by London photographer Sam Taylor-Wood. Taken in by the American South and given complete artistic freedom, she shot thousands of photos during her week-long trip. It included other towns like Unadilla and Forsyth in Georgia, a place which she says he talks fondly of. While she also visited Peachtree Road in the Buckhead area, she thought it was too busy for the album’s more mellow nature. She picked several photos to present to him, and he picked the one which was used. Other photos from the shoot appear on the back and in the included CD and SACD booklet.

Songs from the album debuted at The Tabernacle in Atlanta in early November.

Despite its generally positive reviews, Peachtree Road was one of John’s leanest-selling contemporary efforts, reaching #17 US upon its release, yet only managing #21 in the UK, making it one his rare albums to miss the Top 10 in his homeland.

The album was re-released in 2005 with bonus tracks from Elton John’s Billy Elliot the Musical.

It was dedicated to the memory of Gus and Sheila Dudgeon.


Track listing

All songs by John/Taupin, except where noted.

  1. “Weight of the World”
  2. “Porch Swing in Tupelo”
  3. “Answer in the Sky”
  4. “Turn the Lights Out When You Leave”
  5. “My Elusive Drug”
  6. “They Call Her the Cat”
  7. “Freaks in Love”
  8. “All That I’m Allowed (I’m Thankful)”
  9. “I Stop and I Breathe”
  10. “Too Many Tears”
  11. “It’s Getting Dark in Here”
  12. “I Can’t Keep This from You”


Bonus tracks (2005 CD reissue)

  1. “The Letter” (Elton John, Lee Hall)
  2. “Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher” (Elton John, Lee Hall)
  3. “Electricity” (Elton John, Lee Hall)

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$50 | covered by The Business

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

There are many $50 banknotes, bills or coins, including:

  • Australian fifty-dollar note
  • Canadian fifty-dollar bill
  • United States fifty-dollar bill
  • Nicaraguan fifty-cordoba note
  • One of the banknotes of Hong Kong
  • One of the banknotes of Namibia
  • One of the banknotes of Zimbabwe

Other currencies that issue $50 banknotes, bills or coins are:

  • Bahamian dollar
  • Barbadian dollar
  • Belize dollar
  • Bermudian dollar
  • Brunei dollar
  • Cayman Islands dollar
  • Cook Islands dollar
  • East Caribbean dollar
  • Fijian dollar
  • Jamaican dollar
  • Liberian dollar
  • New Zealand dollar
  • Samoan tala
  • Singapore dollar
  • Solomon Islands dollar
  • Surinamese dollar
  • New Taiwan dollar
  • Trinidad and Tobago dollar
  • Cape Verde escudo
  • Tongan pa’anga
  • Argentine peso
  • Chilean peso
  • Colombian peso
  • Cuban peso
  • Dominican peso
  • Mexican peso
  • Uruguayan peso
  • Brazilian real

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Motorola T720 | Other versions It was

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The Motorola T720 is a line of 2G mobile phones. It is Motorola’s first phone with a color screen existing as different versions for different carriers, a Java ME version and a BREW version, along with the various revisions for each base.

The original BREW Motorola T720 came out shortly after the first wave of BREW enabled devices, the Kyocera 3035e and the Sharp Z-800.

The screen has a resolution 120×160 with a 12-bit (4096) color palette.

Java ME versions can access the full length of the screen, while BREW versions only allow applications to use up 120×130, leaving the annunciators on the screen. The Java ME version is available in several GSM and CDMA variants.

The CDMA versions of the T720 were succeeded by the slightly-upgraded T730, followed by the more recent V710 series. The intended successor of the GSM variants was the T725 and T725e. However, they have been overshadowed by new V-Series phones by Motorola, mainly the V400, V500, V600 and their variants.


Technology

  • CDMA
  • GSM
  • BREW
  • Java ME

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St. John’s High School | Elton John’s Christmas Party

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Schools named “St. John’s High School” include:

In Canada:

  • St. John’s High School (Winnipeg), Canada

In the United States:

  • St. John’s High School (Massachusetts), in Shrewsbury
  • St. John’s High School (Delphos, Ohio)
  • St. John’s Jesuit High School and Academy, Toledo, Ohio
    • St. John’s Jesuit High School
    • St. John’s Jesuit Academy
  • St. John’s High School (South Carolina), Charleston, South Carolina

In India:

  • St. John’s High School, Chandigarh, India
  • St. John’s High School, Ranchi, India
  • St. John’s High School, Bangalore, India

In Belize:

  • The high school of St. John’s College, Belize

In Scotland

  • St John’s RC High School in Dundee, Scotland

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Marine Parade Records | Parade

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Marine Parade is an independent record label set-up and owned by the breakbeat dj and producer Adam Freeland.

The name of the label originates from a Brighton street that Adam used to live in.

The label underwent some financial difficulties in mid-2004 when one of its distributors went into liquidation. This difficulty caused problems to the supply of the album ‘You can be Special Too’ by Evil Nine, only 1000 copies reached the stores, and it became a much sought after record, some fetching up to $90 on EBay. The label has since recovered and then re-released the record.


Artists

Artists currently on the label:

  • Adam Freeland - DJ
  • Apex
  • Beber
  • Evil Nine
  • Fex
  • Freeland - Adam Freelands band project
  • Ils
  • K-Swing
  • Stone Lions


See also

  • List of record labels


External links

  • Official site
  • Discography - Discogs

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B-Side Ourselves | originally released

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

B-Side Ourselves is an EP released by the American rock group Skid Row. All the songs are cover versions of songs by bands which influenced Skid Row.

“Psycho Therapy” features a guest appearance from Faster Pussycat’s Taime Downe.

“Delivering the Goods” features a guest appearance from Judas Priest’s Rob Halford.

Contents


Track listing

  1. “Psycho Therapy” (originally by The Ramones) – 2:30
  2. “C’Mon and Love Me” (originally by Kiss) – 3:23
  3. “Delivering the Goods” (live, originally by Judas Priest) – 4:55
  4. “What You’re Doing” (originally by Rush) – 4:26
  5. “Little Wing” (originally by Jimi Hendrix) – 3:19


Personnel

  • Sebastian Bach – vocals
  • Scotti Hill – lead guitar
  • Dave “The Snake” Sabo – rhythm guitar
  • Rachel Bolan – bass guitar
  • Rob Affuso – drums


Charts


Album

Year Chart Position
1992 The Billboard 200 58

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Coldwater | It was covered by

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Coldwater is the name of some places in North America:

  • Coldwater, Kansas
  • Coldwater, Michigan
  • Coldwater, Mississippi
  • Coldwater, Ohio
  • Coldwater Township, Michigan
  • Coldwater, Ontario, Canada
  • Camp Coldwater - an early settlement in Minnesota

There are also several Coldwater Rivers.

The term coldwater fish refers to fish that prefer to live in colder waters.

The Coldwater Covered Bridge is a covered bridge located in Alabama, United States.

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Christopher Street West | Parade

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Christopher Street West (CSW) is the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Pride Parade and Festival held in June in West Hollywood, California, USA.

Named after New York City’s famed Christopher Street, the site of the Stonewall Rebellion. The CSW parade was started in June 1970 the year following the Stonewall Riot, by a number of Los Angeles’ gay activists, prominent among them Morris Kight, Reverend Troy Perry, and Bob Humphries. The first parade traveled east on Hollywood Boulevard starting from McCadden Place in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. Although one of several gay pride parades that took place that day around the United States, this was the only “street closing” gay pride parade held in 1970 — something emulated by the other parades the following year. After several troubled years (no parade was held in 1973), the CSW parade returned in 1974, and originated yet another feature of the modern gay pride movement by adding a festival to its annual event.

There was always a tense relationship between CSW, the businesses on Hollywood Boulevard and the Los Angeles Police Department LAPD, so in 1979 the parade and festival were moved to the more friendly environs of Santa Monica Boulevard, in the recently incorporated City of West Hollywood, California. The parade now moves west on Santa Monica Boulevard from the corner of Crescent Heights Boulevard, and the festival is held in West Hollywood Park and the adjacent section of San Vicente Boulevard. Present day attendance is typically 250,000 for the parade, and 40,000 at the two-day festival.


Web Site

  • Los Angeles/CSW Pride Web Site

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Christmas Pie | Christmas Party

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Christmas Pie is a village, in Surrey, England. Named after Christmas Pie Farm (1823) a name probably associated with the Christmas family that is mentioned in 16th century records.


References


External links

  • Normandy and Christmas Pie, local history site

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Multilingual User Interface | versions It was

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Multilingual User Interface (MUI) are packages from Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications that allow for the installation of multiple interface languages on a single system. On a system with MUI, each user would be able to select his or her own preferred display language.

Functionally, Microsoft MUIs perform the same task as localized versions of Windows and Office, but with some key technical differences. While both localized versions of software and Microsoft MUIS display menus and dialogs in the targeted language, only localized versions have translated file and folder names. For example, a localized version of Windows would translate the folder names and Start Menu (Spanish Inicio instead of Windows Start) and are coded using the language. MUIs do not contain translated administrative functions such as registry entries and items in Microsoft Management Console, but localized versions do. The advantage of using MUIs over localized versions is each user on a computer could use a different language MUI without having to have many different versions of software installed and dealing with the conflicts that could arise as a result.

MUI is available only through volume agreements from Microsoft. It is not available through retail channels. However, some OEMs distribute the product.


MUI in Windows Vista

MUI is available in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate (as an Ultimate Extra).


External links

  • http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/muizone.mspx - Windows MUI/LIP Knowledge Center

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Rocky Road Cereal | covered

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Rocky Road was a breakfast cereal, created and sold by General Mills. The cereal was made up of balls of cornmeal, chocolate-covered cornmeal, and chocolate-covered marshmallows. Advertising for the product consisted of three cartoon characters who embodied the three constituents of the cereal noted above.


External links

Breakfast Cereal Character Guide

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Radio Disney Holiday Jams | Christmas

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Radio Disney Holiday Jams is a holiday album by Radio Disney, released in 2000. Radio Disney Holiday Jams 2 was released in 2002.


Track listing

  1. “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” - The Chipmunks
  2. “Little Saint Nick” - Beach Boys
  3. “Grandma Got Run Over By The Reindeer” - Elmo and Patsy
  4. “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” - Brenda Lee
  5. “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” - Jackson 5
  6. “Jingle Bell Rock” - Bobby Helms
  7. “A Holly Jolly Christmas” - Burl Ives
  8. “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays” - *NSYNC
  9. “Macarena Christmas” - Los Del Rio
  10. “Jingle Bells” - Singing Dogs
  11. “Sleigh Ride” - Spice Girls
  12. “Last Christmas” - Billie
  13. “As Long As There’s Christmas” - Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack
  14. “Deck The Halls” - SHeDAISY
  15. “Frosty The Snowman” - Myra


See also

  • Radio Disney Jingle Jams
  • Radio Disney Jams Series

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Give Love on Christmas Day | Christmas

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

“Give Love on Christmas Day” was a Christmas classic soul original by Motown family quintet The Jackson 5. Released to R&B radio in 1970, the song, written by the famed label’s songwriting-producing team, The Corporation, was an ode to everybody to “give love on Christmas” because “no greater gift is better than love.” The song became an oft-covered song in decades to come re-recorded by the kid band that follow the J5’s footsteps, New Edition, for their 1985 Christmas album and was given another overhaul by one of its other members, R&B singer Johnny Gill, in 1990 for an all-star Motown Christmas album. R&B group BlackGirl in 1994 and R&B singer Faith Evans has also covered the song live during a Christmas telecast in 2001. It’s the J5’s and Gill’s versions that are most memorable.

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Norton tradition | Caribou. It also

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The Norton tradition is an archaeological culture that developed in the Western Arctic along the Alaskan shore of the Bering Strait around 1000 BC and lasted through about AD 800. The Norton people used flake-stone tools like their predecessors, the Small Arctic Tool tradition, but they were more marine-oriented and brought new technologies such as oil-burning lamps and clay vessels into use.

Norton people used both marine and land resources as part of their subsistence strategy. They hunted caribou and smaller mammals as well as salmon and larger sea mammals. Their settlements were occupied fairly permanently, as is evidenced by village sites which contain substantial dwellings. During summer months, small camps may have been used as temporary hunting and fishing locations, but the main dwelling place was maintained and returned to at the end of the hunting season.


Stages

The Norton tradition is divided into three stages of development.

The first, the Choris Stage (C. 1000 to 500 BC), consists of coastal sites containing fiber-tempered pottery with linear stamping decorating the outsides of the vessels. There is much local variation in this stage, which may indicate relative isolation of communities.

The second stage, Norton (500 BC to AD 800), is distinguished by caribou (hunting) and fishing. There developed more refined pottery that included the Choris-style stamps, but also included check stamps applied using ivory paddles. New technology included stone lamps, stone working, asymmetrical knives, and projectile points made from slate.

The final stage, the Ipiutak Stage (AD 1 to 800), was a more artistically developed form of the Norton Culture. Their technology was less advanced (no pottery, oil lamps, or slate artifacts), but they used elegant harpoon heads that were ornately adorned. Their art tradition consisted of mainly ivory carvings of animal and human figures. They focused more on marine hunting than the first two stages and their settlements were very permanent.


References

  • Fagan, Brian. Ancient North America. Thames & Hudson, London. 2005, p. 191-93.

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Southern Life Centre | 1973 with

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The Southern Life Centre is a skyscraper in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1973 to a height of 138 metres.

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List of theme songs | theme

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
  • List of band theme songs
  • List of theme songs without lyrics
  • List of television theme music
  • List of television theme music composers
  • Music in professional wrestling, including a list of professional wrestling theme songs
  • Song by Houston rapper Slim Thug

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