High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Web Cartoonists` Choice Awards is an award voted on by webcartoonists. The nominations were announced in January 2007 and the results in February 2007. 2007 marked the first live ceremony for the awards.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 Australian Grand Prix (formally the LXXIII ING Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 16 March 2008 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia. It was the first race of the 2008 Formula One season. The race, contested over 58 laps, was won by Lewis Hamilton for the McLaren team after starting from pole position. Nick Heidfeld finished second in a BMW Sauber car, with Nico Rosberg third in a Williams, his first ever F1 podium. The race saw a very high rate of attrition, with only seven cars out of the 22-car grid running at the chequered flag – which reduced from seven to six after Rubens Barrichello's disqualification – with two other drivers...
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The 2008 Formula One season was the 59th FIA Formula One World Championship season. It began on 16 March and ended on 2 November with eighteen Grand Prix races. Lewis Hamilton won the driver's title by a point - by overtaking Toyota's Timo Glock on the final corner of the final grand prix of the season to claim the required 5th place finish - from Brazilian Felipe Massa while Massa's teammate, the 2007 world champion, Kimi Raikkonen was ranked third, with two wins. Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro won the constructors' title. In winning the title, Hamilton became the youngest driver ever to win the title and the first black driver to do so. He was also the first British champion since Damon Hill in 1996. Eleven teams competed in the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 Daytona 500 was the 50th annual running of "The Great American Race", the Daytona 500. The race took place on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. The race was the 50th to be run since the first in 1959, won by Lee Petty. To commemorate the event, the Harley J. Earl Trophy, which goes to the winner of the race, was plated in gold instead of silver. In addition, the winning car will be placed on display for one year at the Daytona 500 Experience attraction just outside Turn Four. Ryan Newman won the race; his only win in the 2008 season. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Web Cartoonists` Choice Awards is an annual award voted on by web cartoonists themselves. The nominations ballots for the 8th annual award cover webcomics active in 2007 and were emailed to pre-registered voters by 7 January 2008 and closed those submissions on 23 January 2008. The nominees were announced on 3 February, and voting on those finalists had commenced on 8 February.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 Star Mazda Championship season consisted of a 13-race schedule beginning in March and ending in October. For the first time since 2006, the series features races on oval tracks, more precisely the Milwaukee Mile and the Iowa Speedway. The remaining races except the one at Virginia were held jointly with the also Mazda-backed Atlantic Championship. In addition to the main championship that is typically tested by young, developing drivers, there is also additional class titles for senior drivers. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (formally the I Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) was the seventeenth and last race of the 2009 Formula One season. It took place on November 1, 2009 at the 3.45-mile Hermann Tilke-designed Yas Marina Circuit. It was the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and also the first ever day-night Grand Prix (starting at 5pm, with sunset at 5.43pm on raceday). The race was won by Sebastian Vettel for Red Bull, with polesitter Lewis Hamilton (driving for McLaren) having retired due to a brake failure. Jenson Button had secured the title of World Champion in Brazil, but only two points separated the second-placed and third-placed Sebastian Vettel and Rubens Barrichello....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 Kerrick Australian Sports Sedan series was the 19th running of a national series for Sports Sedans in Australia. It began on April 25, 2009 at Wakefield Park and ended on November 22 at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit after fifteen races. Chevrolet Corvette driver Des Wall was crowned champion after a fiercly contested series between the top three competitors. Winners of the previous two championships Tony Ricciardello (Alfa Romeo Alfetta) and Darren Hossack (Audi A4) competed initially for the race wins, but mechanical unreliability and on track confrontations, usually with each other, allowed Wall to close the gap. Wall only won three races (compared to Ricciardello's six and...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 93rd Indianapolis 500 (Indy 500) was held on Sunday May 24, 2009, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. It was the 14th Indy 500 sanctioned by the Indy Racing League, and the premier event of the 2009 IndyCar Series season.Helio Castroneves of Brazil won the race from the pole position, becoming the first driver born outside the USA to win the race more than twice. Former winner Dan Wheldon of England came second, with Danica Patrick third and Townsend Bell fourth. There were eight crashes, with Vitor Meira and Tony Kanaan both suffering non-permanent injuries. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 Australian Grand Prix (known as LXXV Qantas Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on March 28, 2010 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia. It was the second race of the 2010 Formula One season. The race was won by McLaren driver Jenson Button, the first back- to-back Australian Grand Prix winner since Michael Schumacher in 2002. Second was Renault driver Robert Kubica ahead of Ferrari duo, Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso. Qantas returned as title sponsor of the event after previously holding the position between 1997 and 2001. It was reported that Virgin had built their cars with a fuel tank that was too small to allow the race to be completed at...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg was the second race of the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series season. The race took place on March 29, on the 1.800-mile (2.897 km) temporary street circuit in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was telecast by ESPN2 in the United States. The event was due to take place on March 28 and telecast on ABC, but was postponed by series officials due to safety concerns after torrential rain fell on the circuit. All cars were split into two groups of twelve, with the fastest six from each group going through to the "top 12" session. In this session, the fastest six cars progressed to the "Firestone Fast Six". Данное издание не является...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 IMSA Star Mazda Championship season is the third Star Mazda Championship season under the sanctioning of the International Motor Sports Association and the first under the Indy Racing League's new Road to Indy ladder. Conor Daly became series champion after finishing in the top four positions in each of the twelve races prior to clinching the title at Mosport International Raceway. At the same meeting, Carlos Conde sealed the Masters title for drivers over 45 years of age, while J. W. Roberts secured the Expert title for drivers between 30 and 44 at Trois-Rivieres. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
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Two separate but related recalls of automobiles by Toyota Motor Company occurred at the end of 2009 and start of 2010. Toyota initiated the recalls, with the assistance of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, after several vehicles experienced unintended acceleration. The first recall, on November 2, 2009, was to correct a possible incursion of an incorrect or out-of-place front driver's side floor mat into the foot pedal well, which can cause pedal entrapment. The second recall, on January 21, 2010, was begun after some crashes were shown not to have been caused by floor mat incursion. This latter defect was identified as a possible mechanical sticking of the accelerator pedal causing unintended acceleration,...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 16th season of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will start on February 12 at Daytona International Speedway with the NextEra Energy Resources 250 and will end on November 19 at Homestead-Miami Speedway with the Ford 200. This year sees Darlington Raceway return to the schedule for the first time since 2004, replacing the Milwaukee Mile and the series will also race for the first time at Pocono Raceway and at Auto Club Speedway. After the closing of Memphis Motorsports Park, a second race was added to Nashville Superspeedway, with the first of two NASCAR national weekends with the two lower-tier national series without the Sprint Cup running. Kentucky Speedway lost its stand-alone date...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship season is the debut of the FIA GT1 World Championship, a replacement for the FIA GT Championship which was held from 1997 to 2009. It is the first sports car racing series approved by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) as a World Championship since the demise of the World Sportscar Championship in 1992. Developed by the Stephane Ratel Organisation (SRO), the FIA GT1 World Championship will hold ten events in ten countries on four continents. Six manufacturers have entered the series, the maximum allowed by the series regulations. Twelve teams will represent the marques of Aston Martin, Corvette, Ford, Lamborghini, Maserati, and Nissan. A...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia was the sixth race of the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. It was scheduled to start at 1 p.m. EDT on March 28, 2010, but due to rain it ran on March 29, 2010 at 12 noon EDT. The 2010 Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500 was televised on Fox and was broadcast on MRN radio. This race was the first race that the spoiler replaced the wing on the Car of Tomorrow. The race had eight leaders, 26 lead changes, and 13 cautions. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2011 crackdown on dissidents in the People`s Republic of China refers to the arrest of dozens of mainland Chinese rights lawyers, activists and grassroots agitators in a response to the 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests. Since the protests, at least 54 Chinese activists have been arrested or detained by authorities in the biggest crackdown on dissent since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Since the start of the protests in mid-February 2011, human rights groups have claimed that more than 54 people have been arrested by authorities, some of whom have been charged with crimes. Among those arrested are bloggers who criticise the government such as Ai Weiwei, lawyers who pursue cases...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests refer to public assemblies in over a dozen cities in mainland China starting on 20 February 2011, inspired by and named after the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia; the actions that took and take place at protest sites, and response by the Chinese government to the calls and action.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The British privacy injunctions controversy began in early 2011, when London-based tabloid newspapers published stories about anonymous celebrities that were intended to flout what are commonly (but not formally) known in English law as super-injunctions, where the claimant could not be named, and carefully omitting details that could not legally be published. In April and May 2011, users of non-UK hosted websites, including the social media website Twitter, began posting material connecting various British celebrities with injunctions relating to a variety of potentially scandalous activities. Details of the alleged activities by those who had taken out the gagging orders were also published...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 25 ежегодная премия Nickelodeon Kids` Choice Awards 2012 (Никелодеон Кидс Чойс Эвордс 2012) премия проводилась 31 марта, 2012 в Университете Южной Калифорнии, Galen Center и Парка университета южной Калифорнии. Ведущим был Уилл Смит. Церемония длилась 90 минут, и на сайте Kids` Choice Awards был таймер, который показывал сколько осталось дней, часов, минут и секунд до начала вручения.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 23 enigma refers to the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, some modification of the number 23, or a number related to the number 23.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 24-hour clock is a convention of time keeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours, indicated by the hours passed since midnight, from 0 to 23. This system is the most commonly used time notation in the world today, and is the international standard (ISO 8601) notation for time of day. In the practice of medicine, the 24-hour clock is generally used in documentation of care as it prevents any ambiguity as to when events occurred in a patient`s medical history. It is popularly referred to as military time or astronomical time in the United States, Canada, and a handful of other countries where the 12-hour clock is still dominant.