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<item> <title>Dinosaur</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur</guid> <description>Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that ranged in form from reptile-like to bird-like.[1] Dinosaurs dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. At the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, all non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. Dinosaurs still exist today in the line of birds (avian dinosaurs).</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Dinosaur.ogg" length="16995627" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:21:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mrdallaway</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker-Levy_9</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker-Levy_9</guid> <description>Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9, formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet which collided with Jupiter in 1994, providing the first direct observation of the collision of two solar system objects. This generated a large amount of coverage in the popular media, and SL9 was closely observed by astronomers worldwide. The comet provided many revelations about Jupiter and its atmosphere and highlighted Jupiter's role in reducing space debris in the inner solar system.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Comet_Shoemaker-Levy_9.ogg" length="7044918" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:03:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Macropode</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Treaty of Devol</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Devol</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Devol</guid> <description>The Treaty of Devol was an agreement made in 1108 between Bohemund I of Antioch and Byzantine Emperor Alexius I, in the wake of the First Crusade. Although it was not initially enforced, it was intended to make the Principality of Antioch a vassal state of the Byzantine Empire. It is a typical example of the Byzantine tendency to settle disputes through diplomacy rather than warfare, and was both a result of and a cause for the distrust between the Byzantines and their Western European neighbors.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Treaty_of_Devol.ogg" length="7007743" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 04:31:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mrdallaway</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Flag of the Republic of China</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China</guid> <description>The National Flag of the Republic of China (Chinese: 中華民國國旗; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó guóqí) is a well-known symbol of the Republic of China (ROC), which since 1949 has been based on the island of Taiwan. It is commonly referred to in Chinese as Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth (青天、白日、滿地紅 qīng tiān, bái rì, mǎn dì hóng) to reflect its attributes. This design was first used in China by the Kuomintang (KMT) in 1917 and made the official flag of the ROC in 1928.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.ogg" length="5607099" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Darobsta</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>The Quatermass Experiment</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quatermass_Experiment</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quatermass_Experiment</guid> <description>The Quatermass Experiment is a British television science-fiction serial, transmitted by BBC Television in the summer of 1953, and re-staged by BBC Four in 2005.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/The_Quatermass_Experiment.ogg" length="7007112" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:43:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Whouk</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Three men make a tiger</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_men_make_a_tiger</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_men_make_a_tiger</guid> <description>Three men make a tiger (Chinese: 三人成虎 ; Pinyin: sān rén chéng hǔ) is a Chinese proverb or four-character idiom. It refers to the idea that if an unfounded premise or urban legend is mentioned and repeated by many individuals, the premise will be erroneously accepted as the truth. This concept is analogous to communal reinforcement or the logical fallacy known as argumentum ad populum or appeal to the people.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/SanRenChengHu.ogg" length="1700189" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:48:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Audioman</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Hànyǔ Shǔipíng Kǎoshì</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A0ny%C7%94_Sh%C7%94ip%C3%ADng_K%C7%8Eosh%C3%AC</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A0ny%C7%94_Sh%C7%94ip%C3%ADng_K%C7%8Eosh%C3%AC</guid> <description>Hànyǔ Shǔipíng Kǎoshì (Chinese:汉语水平考试), abbreviated as HSK, is the world's most well-known test of Chinese language proficiency for non-native speakers. It is also known as the Chinese Proficiency Test.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/HanyuShuipingKaoshi.ogg" length="2149862" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:07:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Audioman</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Hong Kong Observatory</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Observatory</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Observatory</guid> <description>Hong Kong Observatory (Chinese: 香港天文台; Yale: hēung góng tīn màhn tòih, Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 tin1 man4 toi4; Mandarin Pinyin: Xiānggǎng Tiānwén Tái), known as the Royal Observatory (Chinese: 皇家香港天文台) before 1997, is a department of the Hong Kong Government. The Observatory forecasts weather and issues warnings on weather-related hazards. It also monitors and makes assessments on radiation levels in Hong Kong and provides other meteorological and geophysical services to meet the needs of the public and the shipping, aviation, industrial and engineering sectors.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/HongKongObservatory.ogg" length="2179966" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:55:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Audioman</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Mackenzie Allen</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_Allen</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_Allen</guid> <description>In the television show Commander in Chief, a political drama aired by ABC, Mackenzie Spencer Allen, played by Geena Davis, is the first female President of the United States.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/En-Mackenzie_Allen.ogg" length="1763657" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:35:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Admrboltz</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>University of Rhode Island</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Rhode_Island</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Rhode_Island</guid> <description>The University of Rhode Island, commonly abbreviated as U.R.I., is the principal public research university in the State of Rhode Island, with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, and three other campuses located throughout the state.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/En-uri.ogg" length="1472810" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alexkillby</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Sarah Lane</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Lane</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Lane</guid> <description>Sarah Lane (born 12 October 1976 in Santa Cruz, California) is an American television personality.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/En-sarahlane.ogg" length="831535" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:53:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alex Killby</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Patrick Norton</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Norton</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Norton</guid> <description>Patrick Norton (born June 26th, 1970 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois) was co-host and managing editor of The Screen Savers, an interactive television program on TechTV geared toward the technology enthusiast. He is now the host of the IPTV show DigitalLifeTV, as well as an editor for ExtremeTech and ExtremeiPod and lives in San Francisco, California with his wife, Sarah.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/En-patricknorton.ogg" length="1165831" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alex Killby</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Adam Curry</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curry</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curry</guid> <description>Adam Clark Curry (born 3 September 1964) is a broadcasting and Internet personality well known for his stint from 1987 to 1994 as a video jockey on the music video channel MTV. In the mid-1990s, Curry was a World Wide Web entrepreneur and one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer a Web site. In the 2000s, he helped pioneer podcasting.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/En-adamcurry.ogg" length="2191234" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:37:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alex Killby</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Waterfall Gully, South Australia</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_Gully%2C_South_Australia</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_Gully%2C_South_Australia</guid> <description>Waterfall Gully (34°57′S 138°40′E) is a small suburb of 2,285 people in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide. It is located in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges around five kilometres east of Adelaide's central business district (CBD). For the most part, the suburb encompasses one long gully with First Creek at its centre and Waterfall Gully Road adjacent to the creek.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Waterfall_Gully%2C_South_Australia.ogg" length="7307445" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:37:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>NicholasTurnbull</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Creative Commons</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons</guid> <description>The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/En-Creative-Commons.ogg" length="4254834" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:45:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>LearnOutLoud.com</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Rosa Parks</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks</guid> <description>Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (4 February 1913 – 24 October 2005) was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "mother of the modern-day Civil Rights Movement".</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/En-Rosa_Parks.ogg" length="20862762" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:33:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Salvo46</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Homo floresiensis</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis</guid> <description>Homo floresiensis ("Man of Flores") is a species in the genus Homo, remarkable for its small body, small brain, and survival until relatively recent times. It is thought to have been contemporaneous with modern humans (Homo sapiens) on the Indonesian island of Flores.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Homo_floresiensis.ogg" length="10064083" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:51:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Macropode</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Dalek Part 3</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek_3</guid> <description>The Daleks (pronounced "DAH-lecks" or "DAH-licks"; IPA: 'dɑːlɛks) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The mutated descendants of the Kaled people (referred to in the first Dalek serial as "Dals") of the planet Skaro, they travel around in tank-like mechanical casings, a ruthless race bent on universal conquest and domination, utterly without pity, compassion or remorse.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/En-Dalek-part_3.ogg" length="5705498" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:37:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Throup</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Dalek Part 2</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek_2</guid> <description>The Daleks (pronounced "DAH-lecks" or "DAH-licks"; IPA: 'dɑːlɛks) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The mutated descendants of the Kaled people (referred to in the first Dalek serial as "Dals") of the planet Skaro, they travel around in tank-like mechanical casings, a ruthless race bent on universal conquest and domination, utterly without pity, compassion or remorse.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/En-Dalek-part_2.ogg" length="3992897" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:36:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Throup</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Dalek Part 1</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek</guid> <description>The Daleks (pronounced "DAH-lecks" or "DAH-licks"; IPA: 'dɑːlɛks) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The mutated descendants of the Kaled people (referred to in the first Dalek serial as "Dals") of the planet Skaro, they travel around in tank-like mechanical casings, a ruthless race bent on universal conquest and domination, utterly without pity, compassion or remorse.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/En-Dalek-part_1.ogg" length="5352813" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Throup</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Solid Snake</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_Snake</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_Snake</guid> <description>Solid Snake is the main character in the Metal Gear video game series. He is known as "the man who makes the impossible possible" and is a mystery and myth to much of the world. He is a highly trained, elite soldier with a personal preference for parachuting, husky racing, SCUBA diving, free climbing, rappelling, small and medium range handguns (though well-versed in all types of munitions), and various hand-to-hand combat techniques.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/En-Solidsnake.ogg" length="1298625" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Pain</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Coconut crab</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab</guid> <description>The coconut crab (Birgus latro) is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. It is a derived hermit crab which is known for its ability to crack coconuts with its strong pincers in order to eat the contents.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Coconut_crab.ogg" length="5548998" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2005 06:43:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Macropode</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>MicroProse</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroProse</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroProse</guid> <description>MicroProse Software, Inc. (also known as MicroProse Simulation Software) was an American video game developer, founded in 1982 by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey. It is known as the publisher of the majority of Meier's hit computer games, such as Pirates, Silent Service, Railroad Tycoon, and Civilization and for the sci-fi X-COM series.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Microprose.ogg" length="5290820" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:40:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>WikiFanatic</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Western Reserve Academy</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Reserve_Academy</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Reserve_Academy</guid> <description>Western Reserve Academy (also known as 'WRA' or 'Reserve') is a private, mid-sized, coeducational boarding and day college preparatory school located in Hudson, Ohio.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/En-Western_Reserve_Academy.ogg" length="2538073" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:45:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zvesoulis</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Bicycle lighting</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_lighting</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_lighting</guid> <description>Bicycle lighting has two main purposes: seeing and being seen. There are several types of bicycle lights available, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, and each with its own enthusiastic advocates! Different technologies address these two purposes in different ways. There is no one "best" solution for any rider, and many riders mix and match different technologies to provide the balance that works for them.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/En-Bicycle_lighting.ogg" length="6040255" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:17:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>SCEhardt</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Microwave radio relay</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_radio_relay</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_radio_relay</guid> <description>Microwave radio relay is a technology for transmitting digital and analog signals, such as long-distance telephone calls and the relay of television programs to transmitters, between two locations on a line of sight radio path. In microwave radio relay, radio waves are transmitted between the two locations with directional antennas, forming a fixed radio connection between the two points.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Microwave_radio_relay.ogg" length="1877150" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>NicholasTurnbull</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>The Giver</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver</guid> <description>The Giver is a soft science fiction novel written by Lois Lowry and published in 1993. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopia and gradually appears more and more dystopic. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/The_Giver.ogg" length="9896351" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:21:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>NicholasTurnbull</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Golden Age of Arcade Games</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Arcade_Games</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Arcade_Games</guid> <description>The Golden Age of Arcade Games was a peak era of arcade game popularity and innovation. Some opinions place this period's beginning in late 1979 or 1980 when the first color arcade games appeared and arcades began to become prevalent, and its ending in the mid-1980s. However, more generous definitions place its start at the 1978 release of Space Invaders and its end in the mid-1990s with the release of home gaming systems which were more powerful than typical arcade hardware, due to their ability to render 3-D.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Golden_Age_of_Arcade_Games.ogg" length="8740764" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andrevan</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Eureka Stockade</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Stockade</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Stockade</guid> <description>The Eureka Stockade was a miners' revolt in 1854 in Victoria, Australia against the officials supervising the gold-mining region of Ballarat due to many reasons, including heavily priced mining items and the expense of a digging license.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Eureka_Stockade.ogg" length="9720961" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2005 09:58:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Macropode</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Nightwish</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwish</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwish</guid> <description>Nightwish is a Finnish musical band formed in 1996 in the town of Kitee. Nightwish composes songs that are often classified as either symphonic metal or power metal; their musical style has also been described as a symphonic metal variant, called opera metal.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Nightwish-spoken.ogg" length="5921674" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>SoothingR</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Tank</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank</guid> <description>A tank is a tracked armoured fighting vehicle, designed primarily to engage enemy forces by the use of direct fire. A tank is characterized by heavy weapons and armour, as well as by a high degree of mobility that allows it to cross rough terrain at relatively high speeds.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Tank.ogg" length="7437945" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:21:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rfc1394</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Down to a Sunless Sea</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_to_a_Sunless_Sea</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_to_a_Sunless_Sea</guid> <description>David Graham's Down to a Sunless Sea explores the issues involved in a world without energy, gone mad, that crosses the line into nuclear holocaust.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Down_to_a_Sunless_Sea.ogg" length="1828549" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Tue, 6 Sep 2005 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rfc1394</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Beverage can stove</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverage_can_stove</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverage_can_stove</guid> <description>A beverage can stove is a homemade, ultra-light backpacking stove. The simple design is made entirely from cans (typically soft drink or beer cans) and burns alcohol (typically denatured).</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Beverage_can_stove.ogg" length="5299415" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sat, 3 Sep 2005 23:10:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Messedrocker</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Antarctic krill</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_krill</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_krill</guid> <description>The Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba 1) is a species of krill found in the Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Antarctic_krill.ogg" length="14700084" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sat, 3 Sep 2005 24:56:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Messedrocker</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Chess</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess</guid> <description>Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players. It is played on a square board of eight rows (called ranks) and eight columns (called files), giving 64 squares of alternating colour, light and dark, with each player having a light square at the near right corner when facing the board.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Chess.ogg" length="2109290" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:26:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rfc1394</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Labour Day</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day</guid> <description>A Labour Day is an annual holiday that resulted from efforts of the labour union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Labour_Day_%28main_article%29.ogg" length="4566818" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:03:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bricks</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Labor Day (United States)</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day_%28United_States%29</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day_%28United_States%29</guid> <description>Labor Day is a United States federal holiday that takes place on the first Monday of September.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/LaborDayUnitedStatesSpoken.ogg" length="1330181" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2005 06:56:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bricks</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Pete Doherty</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Doherty</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Doherty</guid> <description>Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979 in Hexham, Northumberland, England) is the singer for the band Babyshambles, and formerly co-frontman and songwriter (along with Carl Barat) of The Libertines. Since 2003, he has become well known to the public at large as a result of his tempestuous relationship with supermodel Kate Moss and his struggles with his addiction to crack cocaine after having a Naltrexone implant to beat his heroin addiction.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/En-Pete_Doherty.ogg" length="10574125" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>It's-is-not-a-genitive</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>History of Russia Part 2</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia_2</guid> <description>The history of Russia begins with that of the East Slavs, the ethnic group that eventually split into the Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/RussianHistory2.ogg" length="16829479" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:49:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>It's-is-not-a-genitive</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>History of Russia Part 1</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia</guid> <description>The history of Russia begins with that of the East Slavs, the ethnic group that eventually split into the Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/RussianHistory1.ogg" length="13148305" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:49:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>It's-is-not-a-genitive</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Muddy Waters</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muddy_Waters</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muddy_Waters</guid> <description>McKinley Morganfield (4 April 1915–30 April 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the father of Chicago blues."</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Muddy_Waters.ogg" length="2241144" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Macropode</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Hong Kong</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong</guid> <description>The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It is located on the southeastern coast of China.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-Hong_Kong.ogg" length="6893568" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:28:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Carlsmith</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Marie Curie</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie</guid> <description>Marie Curie (Polish Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a chemist, pioneer in the early field of radiology and a two-time Nobel laureate. She also became the first woman ever appointed to teach at the Sorbonne. She was born in Poland and spent her early years there, but in 1891 at age 24 moved all to France to study science in Paris. She obtained all her higher degrees and conducted her scientific career there and became a naturalized French citizen. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Marie_Curie.ogg" length="2361344" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Macropode</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Avoidant personality disorder</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidant_personality_disorder</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidant_personality_disorder</guid> <description>Avoidant personality disorder (sometimes abbreviated APD or AvPD), or anxious personality disorder, is a personality disorder characterised by a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation. People with avoidant personality disorder often consider themselves to be socially inept or personally unappealing, and avoid social interaction for fear of being ridiculed or humiliated.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Avoidant_personality_disorder.ogg" length="2669568" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:29:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Macropode</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Titanium</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium</guid> <description>Titanium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ti and atomic number 22. It is a light, strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant (including resistance to sea water and chlorine) transition metal with a white-silvery-metallic colour. Titanium is used in strong light-weight alloys (most notably with iron and aluminium) and its most common compound, titanium dioxide, is used in white pigments. Substances containing titanium are called titaniferous.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Titanium.ogg" length="7974912" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:13:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>dweekly</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Social anxiety</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anxiety</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anxiety</guid> <description>Social anxiety is an intense feeling of fear, apprehension or worry regarding any or all social situations or public events. For instance, some sufferers have difficulty attending parties or meetings, making a phone call, walking into a shop to purchase goods, or asking for help from authority figures. It is sometimes known as social phobia or social trauma. In psychiatry, it is diagnosed as social anxiety disorder, a form of anxiety disorder.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Social_anxiety.ogg" length="2146304" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:02:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Macropode</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>A. E. J. Collins</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._J._Collins</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._J._Collins</guid> <description>Arthur Edward Jeune (James) Collins (18 August 1885–11 November 1914), typically known by his initials AEJ Collins, was a British cricketer and soldier. He is most famous for achieving the highest-ever recorded score in cricket: as a 13-year-old schoolboy, he scored 628 not out over four afternoons in June 1899. Collins' record-making innings drew a large crowd and increasing media interest; spectators at the Old Cliftonian match being played nearby were drawn away to watch a junior school house cricket match.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/AEJ_Collins.ogg" length="4356096" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:23:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Flowerparty</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Mental Illness</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Illness</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Illness</guid> <description>A mental illness is defined by the medical profession as a disorder of the brain that results in a disruption in a person's thinking, feeling, moods, and ability to relate to others and to work. Mental illness is distinct from the legal concepts of sanity and insanity.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Mental_illness.ogg" length="7733248" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2005 01:06:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Erikpatt</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Guido of Arezzo</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_of_Arezzo</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_of_Arezzo</guid> <description>Guido of Arezzo or Guido Aretinus or Guido da Arezzo or Guido Monaco (991/992 – after 1033) was a music theorist of the Medieval era. He is regarded as the inventor of modern musical notation (staff notation) that replaced neumatic notation; his text, the Micrologus, was the second-most-widely distributed treatise on music in the middle ages (after the writings of Boethius).</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Guido_of_arrezo.ogg" length="2103296" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>epolk</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Coat of Arms of Aruba</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_Aruba</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_Aruba</guid> <description>The Coat of Arms of Aruba was originally designed in Amsterdam in 1955. Since then it has been in use as the national symbol of Aruba.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/En-Coat-of-arms-of-Aruba.ogg" length="577536" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:15:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dirtyliberal</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Black</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black</guid> <description>Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Black.ogg" length="6053888" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:11:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>epolk</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>William Topaz McGonagall</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Topaz_McGonagall</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Topaz_McGonagall</guid> <description>William Topaz McGonagall (1825–29 September 1902) was a weaver, actor, and poet. He is renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/William_Topaz_McGonagall.ogg" length="2833408" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:36:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arwel Parry</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>The Tay Bridge Disaster</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tay_Bridge_Disaster</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tay_Bridge_Disaster</guid> <description>The Tay Bridge Disaster is an internationally-known poem by the Scottish poet William McGonagall and recounts the events of the evening of 28 December 1879, when, during a severe gale, Tay Rail Bridge near Dundee collapsed as a train was passing over it with the loss of all on board.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/The_Tay_Bridge_Disaster.ogg" length="2096128" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:02:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arwel Parry</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Culture of Aruba</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Aruba</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Aruba</guid> <description>Aruba, one of the many islands that make up the Caribbean, was first discovered and claimed by the Spanish in 1499. Yet evidence and records show that the Spanish were definitely not the first people on the island. In fact, painted petrographs left behind on walls and the ceilings of caves to escavated ancient artifacts of the Arawaks have been found in Aruba. Precisely for this information, many do in fact believe that the Caiquetios, people's of the Arawak tribe that migrated north from the Orinoco Basin in South America, were the very first inhabitants of the island.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/En-Culture-of-aruba.ogg" length="1028096" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:07:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dirtyliberal</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Aruba</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruba</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruba</guid> <description>Aruba is an island in the Caribbean Sea, just a short distance north of the Venezuelan Paraguaná Peninsula, and it forms a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Unlike much of the Caribbean region, it has a dry climate and an arid, cactus-strewn landscape. This climate has helped tourism, however, as visitors to the island can reliably expect warm, sunny weather.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-aruba.ogg" length="5769216" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2005 05:13:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dirtyliberal</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Helen Gandy</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gandy</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gandy</guid> <description>Helen Wilburforce Gandy (8 April 1897–7 July 1988) was an American civil servant. Gandy, who at age twenty-one left her native New Jersey for Washington, D.C., was the secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover for fifty-four years. Hoover called her "indispensable" and she exercised great behind-the-scenes influence on Hoover and the workings of the Bureau. Following Hoover's death in 1972, she spent weeks destroying his "Personal File," thought to be where the most incriminating material he used to manipulate and control the most powerful figures in Washington was kept.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Helen_Gandy.ogg" length="10741760" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mm35173</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Eurotunnel</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurotunnel</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurotunnel</guid> <description>Eurotunnel plc (in the UK) and Eurotunnel S.A. (in France) make up the Eurotunnel Group, founded in August 1986, which manages and operates the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Eurotunnel.ogg" length="594944" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Thorpe</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>History of the Grand Canyon area</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Grand_Canyon_area</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Grand_Canyon_area</guid> <description>The known history of the Grand Canyon area stretches back 10,500 years when the first evidence for human presence in the area started. Native Americans have been living at Grand Canyon and in the area now covered by Grand Canyon National Park for at least the last 4,000 of those years. Anasazi, first as the Basketmaker culture and later as the more familiar Puebleoans, developed from the Desert Culture as they became less nomadic and more dependent on agriculture. A similar culture, the Cohonina, also lived in the canyon area. Drought in the late 13th century was the likely cause for both cultures to move on. Other cultures followed, including the Paiutes, Cerbat, and the Navajo, only to be later forced onto reservations by the United States Government.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/History_of_the_Grand_Canyon_area_1.ogg" length="8035328" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:18:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Norvy</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Chicago</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago</guid> <description>Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. Chicago is located in the Midwestern state of Illinois along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Chicago.ogg" length="16529408" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:52:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>bmicomp</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>The Gruffalo</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gruffalo</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gruffalo</guid> <description>The Gruffalo is a successful children's book, written by Scottish writer/playwright Julia Donaldson and illustrated by German Axel Scheffler. The book has sold over a million copies, has won several prizes for children's literature, and has been made into a West End and Broadway play.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Gruffalo.ogg" length="5283840" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:56:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Finlay McWalter</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Gemination</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemination</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemination</guid> <description>In phonetics, gemination is when a spoken consonant is "doubled", so that it is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than a "single" consonant. The term comes from the word geminus, Latin for "twin".</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Gemination.ogg" length="2654208" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:28:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>LjL</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Consonant</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonant</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonant</guid> <description>A consonant is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by a closure or stricture sufficient to cause audible turbulence, at one or more points along the vocal tract. The word consonant comes from Latin meaning "sounding with" or "sounding together", the idea being that consonants don't sound on their own, but only occur with a nearby vowel, which is the case in Latin. This conception of consonants, however, does not reflect the modern linguistic understanding which defines consonants in terms of vocal tract constrictions.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Consonant.ogg" length="2974720" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:49:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>LjL</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Language</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language</guid> <description>A language is a system of expression and communication. Individual languages use sound, gesture, and other means to express and communicate concepts, emotions, ideas, and thoughts. Expressions of a language are analysable into words, whose meanings are usually conventional. The word "language" is also used to refer to the common properties of languages.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Language.ogg" length="7999488" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>LjL</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Vowel</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel</guid> <description>In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract where there is no build-up of air pressure above the glottis, in contrast to consonants, which are characterized by a constriction or closure at one or more points along the vocal tract. The word vowel comes from the Latin word vocalis, meaning "uttering voice" or "speaking". Vowels usually form the peak or nucleus of a syllable, whereas consonants form the onset and coda. However, some languages allow sounds that wouldn't normally be classified as vowels to form the nucleus of a syllable, such as the sound of m in the English word prism, or the sound of r in the Czech word vrba (meaning "willow"). Sometimes vowels are defined by whether they form the nucleus of a syllable, and by that criterion these sounds are vowels, but usually sounds that can form the nucleus of a syllable are called sonorants. (In some languages, such as Tashlhyt Berber and Oowekyala, non-sonorant consonants can also form the nucleus of a syllable.)</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Vowel.ogg" length="11021312" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:18:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>LjL</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Milanese</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milanese</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milanese</guid> <description>Milanese (milanes, milanées, meneghin, meneghín) is a Lombard language variety spoken in the city of Milan and its surroundings.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Milanese.ogg" length="2910208" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:03:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>LjL</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Roe v. Wade</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade</guid> <description>Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case, establishing that laws against abortion violate a constitutional right to privacy, and effectively overturning all state laws outlawing or restricting abortion. It remains one of the most controversial decisions in Supreme Court history.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Roe_vs_wade.ogg" length="10897408" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2005 22:50:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeyth</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Paradox</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox</guid> <description>A paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that seems to lead to a contradiction or to a situation that defies intuition. Typically, either the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction; or the puzzling result is not really a contradiction; or the premises themselves are not all really true (or, cannot all be true together). The recognition of ambiguities, equivocations, and unstated assumptions underlying known paradoxes has often led to significant advances in science, philosophy and mathematics.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Paradox.ogg" length="5838848" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:43:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Halidecyphon</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Battle of Aljubarrota</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aljubarrota</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aljubarrota</guid> <description>The Battle of Aljubarrota took place on 14 August 1385, between Portuguese forces commanded by King João I and his general Nuno Alvares Pereira, and the Castilian army of King Juan I. The place was Aljubarrota, between the towns of Leiria and Alcobaça in central Portugal. The result was a decisive defeat of the Castilians and the end of the 1383–1385 Crisis, establishing João as King of Portugal. Independence was assured and a new dynasty, the House of Aviz, was established. Scattered border confrontations with Castilian troops would persist until the death of Juan I in 1390, but these posed no real threat to the Portuguese monarchy. To celebrate his victory and acknowledge divine help, João I ordered the construction of the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória na Batalha and the founding of the town of Batalha (pronounced "bɐtaʎɐ", the Portuguese word for "battle"). The king, his wife Philippa of Lancaster, and several of his sons are buried in this monastery, which is an important part of Portuguese heritage.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Battle_of_Aljubarrota.ogg" length="5838848" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joaopais</dc:creator> </item>

<item> <title>Plaid Cymru</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaid_Cymru</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaid_Cymru</guid> <description>Plaid Cymru (literally meaning, "Party of Wales") is a left-of-centre (describing itself as socialist "and proud of it") Welsh nationalist party. The name was used from the late 1920s until it was formally changed to Plaid Cymru – The Party of Wales in the late 1990s, partly due to new electoral requirements that a party have an English name. In Wales, the party is often known as simply Plaid.</description> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Plaid_Cymru.ogg" length="3540992" type="audio/ogg"/> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:59:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arwel Parry</dc:creator> </item>

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Chai (Hindi: चाय [cay]) or Masala Chai is a term for spiced tea from India. Chai (pronounced /tʃɑɪ/) is actually a generic word for tea in many South Asian countries, in Persian, and also in the East African language Swahili. The Chinese character for tea, 茶, is pronounced in Mandarin Chinese as "chá", and is the source of words for tea in many Eastern languages, hence "chai" in Central, South, and Southwest Asian languages as well as in Eastern and Central Europe and North and East Africa. In the United States, many people refer to Indian tea as Chai tea, a redundancy (since chai means tea) resulting from the fact that the two words originally derive from two different spoken forms of Chinese. In India, prepared tea is sold in many varieties, the most famous being "masala chai" (मसाला चाय [masālā cay]), masala being the Hindi word for spice, and the spice mixture is sold as "chai masala."

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<item> <title>Godwin's law</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law</guid>

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Godwin's law (also Godwin's rule of Nazi analogies) is an adage in Internet culture that was originated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states that:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. In addition, it is considered poor form to invoke the law explicitly. Godwin's law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. Many people understand Godwin's law to mean this, although (as is clear from the statement of the law above) this is not the original formulation.

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<item> <title>Synapse</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse</guid>

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Synapses are specialized junctions through which cells of the nervous system signal to one another and to non-neuronal cells such as muscles or glands. Synapses form the circuits in which the neurons of the central nervous system interconnect. They are thus crucial to the biological computations that underlie perception and thought. They also provide the means through which the nervous system connects to and controls the other systems of the body.

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<item> <title>Wikipedia</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia</guid>

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Wikipedia is a Web-based, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers and sponsored by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. It has editions in roughly 200 different languages (about 100 of which are active) and contains entries both on traditional encyclopedic topics and on almanac, gazetteer, and current events topics. Its purpose is to create and distribute a free international encyclopedia in as many languages as possible. Wikipedia is one of the most popular reference sites on the internet, receiving around 60 million hits per day.

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<item> <title>Light year</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_year</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_year</guid>

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A light year, abbreviated ly, is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9.46 × 1012 kilometres (9.46 petametres, or about 5.88 × 1012 (nearly six trillion) miles). More specifically, a light year is defined as the distance that a photon would travel, in free space and infinitely far away from any gravitational or magnetic fields, in one Julian year (365.25 days of 86400 seconds each). Since the speed of light in a vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 m/s, one light year is exactly equal to 9,460,730,472,580,800 m.

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<item> <title>The Dilbert Principle</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dilbert_Principle</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dilbert_Principle</guid>

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The Dilbert Principle refers to a 1990s satirical theory stating that companies should promote their worst employees to managerial positions so as to prevent them from directly affecting the consumer's experience.

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<item> <title>You forgot Poland</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_forgot_Poland</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_forgot_Poland</guid>

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"You forgot Poland" is a political slogan based on a statement by United States President George W. Bush during the first presidential election debate on 30 September 2004. During the debate John Kerry accused Bush of failing to gain international support for the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, saying "... when we went in, there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States. That's not a grand coalition. We can do better.". Bush replied by saying "Well, actually, he forgot Poland." Paraphrased as "You forgot Poland", it became a popular catch phrase among Bush detractors. The phrase was used on bumper stickers, T-shirts and other merchandise.

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<item> <title>Action potential</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_potential</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_potential</guid>

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As the traveling signals of nerves and as the localized changes that contract muscle cells, action potentials are an essential feature of animal life. They set the pace of thought and action, constrain the sizes of evolving anatomies and enable centralized control and coordination of organs and tissues. Non-propagating action potentials occur also in some plants.

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<item> <title>Maus</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus_(graphic_novel)</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus_(graphic_novel)</guid>

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Maus: A Survivor's Tale is a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman that recounts his father's struggle to survive the Holocaust as a Polish Jew. The book also follows the author's troubled relationship with his father and the way the effects of war reverberate through generations of a family. In 1992 it won a Pulitzer Prize Special Award, as the Pulitzer committee could not decide whether to categorize it as fiction or biography.

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<item> <title>DNA repair</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_repair</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_repair</guid>

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DNA repair is a process constantly operating in each cell of a living being; it is essential to survival because it protects the genome from damage. In human cells, both normal metabolic activities and environmental factors (such as UV rays) can cause DNA damage, resulting in as many as 500,000 individual molecular lesions per cell per day. These lesions cause structural damage to the DNA molecule, and can dramatically alter the cell's way of reading the information encoded in its genes. Consequently, the DNA repair process must be constantly operating, to correct rapidly any damage in the DNA structure.

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<item> <title>Galveston Hurricane of 1900</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Hurricane_of_1900</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Hurricane_of_1900</guid>

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The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on the city of Galveston, Texas on 8 September 1900. It had estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (217 km/h), making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

The hurricane caused great loss of life. The death toll has been estimated to be between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals. The number most cited in official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of casualties of any Atlantic hurricane, after the Great Hurricane of 1780, and 1998's Hurricane Mitch. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is to date the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States.

The hurricane has no official name and is referred to under various descriptive, unofficial names. Common names for the storm include the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the Great Galveston Hurricane, and in older documentation, the Galveston Flood.

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<item> <title>Fractal</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal</guid>

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A fractal is a geometric object which is rough or irregular on all scales of length, and so which appears to be 'broken up' in a radical way. Some of the best examples can be divided into parts, each of which is similar to the original object. Fractals are said to possess infinite detail, and they may actually have a self-similar structure that occurs at different levels of magnification. In many cases, a fractal can be generated by a repeating pattern, in a typically recursive or iterative process. The term fractal was coined in 1975 by Benoît Mandelbrot, from the Latin fractus or "broken". Before Mandelbrot coined his term, the common name for such structures (the Koch snowflake, for example) was monster curve.

Fractals of many kinds were originally studied as mathematical objects. Fractal geometry is the branch of mathematics which studies the properties and behaviour of fractals. It describes many situations which cannot be explained easily by classical geometry, and has often been applied in science, technology, and computer-generated art. The conceptual roots of the fractals can be traced to attempts to measure the size of objects for which traditional definitions based on Euclidean geometry or calculus fail.

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<item> <title>Felix von Luckner</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Luckner</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Luckner</guid>

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Graf (Count) Felix von Luckner (born Dresden, Germany, 9 June 1881, died Malmo, Sweden, 14 April 1966) was a minor German nobleman and noted sailor who earned the epithets Der Seeteufel (the Sea-Devil) and Die Piraten des Kaisers (the Emperor's Pirate) for his exploits in command of the sailing commerce raider Seeadler (Sea Eagle) in 1916-1917.

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<item> <title>Hereditary peer</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_peer</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_peer</guid>

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The Peerage in the United Kingdom includes several hereditary peers, as well as life peers. Hereditary peers hold titles that may be inherited; even peers who were granted, rather than inherited, hereditary titles are hereditary peers. Formerly, most of them were entitled to a seat in Parliament, but now, hereditary peers do not have an automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. Ninety-two are permitted to sit in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999, although this reduction has been challenged in the European Court of Human Rights.

An hereditary title is not necessarily a title of the peerage. For instance, baronets and baronetesses may pass on their titles, but they are not peers. Similarly, a non-hereditary title may still belong to the peerage, as evidenced by the case of life peers.

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<item> <title>Civil Air Patrol (intro)</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Air_Patrol</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Air_Patrol</guid>

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The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was created just days before the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and is credited with sinking at least two German U-boats. Today, CAP is no longer called on to destroy submarines, but is instead a benevolent entity dedicated to education and national service. It is a volunteer organization with a strongly aviation-minded membership that includes people from all backgrounds and all walks of life. It performs three key missions: Emergency services (including search and rescue), aerospace education for youth and the general public, and cadet programs.

During World War II, the Civil Air Patrol was seen as a way to use America's civil aviation resources to aid the war effort, rather than grounding them, as was the case in the United Kingdom. The organization eagerly assumed many missions, including: anti-submarine patrol and warfare, border patrols and courier services. Despite being a volunteer force that was largely untrained in combat and military science, the organization's performance far exceeded expectations in its tasks.

After the end of World War II, Civil Air Patrol became the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force. The incorporation charter declared that CAP would never again be involved in direct combat activities, but would instead be of benevolent nature. CAP still actively performs search and rescue missions within the United States. The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center demonstrated the importance of the Civil Air Patrol, as it was this organization's aircraft that flew blood to victims of the attack as well as providing the first aerial pictures of the World Trade Center site.

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<item> <title>Ruthin</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthin</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthin</guid>

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Ruthin (Welsh: Rhuthun), pronounced RITH-in (IPA /'rɪθɪn/), is the county town of Denbighshire in North Wales located at UK National grid reference SJ127584, approx. 53 deg 7 min North, 3 deg 18 min West, at the junction of the trunk roads A494 (Queensferry - Mold - Ruthin - Corwen - Dolgellau) and A525 (Rhyl - Denbigh - Ruthin - Wrexham - Whitchurch - Stoke-on-Trent). The population at the 2001 census was 5,218 of whom 47% were male and 53% female. The average age of the population was 43.0 years and the population is 98.2% "white".

Ruthin is located around a hill in the southern part of the Vale of Clwyd - the older part of the town, the Castle and Saint Peter's Square are located on top of the hill, while many newer parts of the town are on the floodplain of the River Clwyd (which became painfully apparent on several occasions in the late 1990s -- new flood control works costing £3 million were inaugurated in autumn 2003).

The name 'Ruthin' comes from 'rudd' or red and 'din', the Welsh word for fort, and refers to the colour of the old red sandstone which forms the geologic basis of the area, and from which the castle was constructed in 1277-1284.

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<item> <title>Welsh language</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language</guid>

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Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg), not to be confused with Welsh English (the English language as spoken in Wales), is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic spoken natively in the western part of Britain known as Wales (Cymru), and in the Chubut Valley, a Welsh immigrant colony in the Patagonia region of Argentina.

There are also speakers of Welsh throughout the world, most notably in England, the United States and Australia.

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<item> <title>Samantha Smith</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith</guid>

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Samantha Reed Smith (29 June 1972–25 August 1985) was an American schoolgirl from Manchester, Maine who was called America's Youngest Ambassador in the United States and the Goodwill Ambassador in the Soviet Union during her lifetime. She became famous in these two countries and well-known worldwide after writing a letter to the Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Yuri Andropov during the Cold War and receiving a reply from Andropov which included a personal invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which Smith accepted. Assisted by extensive mass media attention in both countries, she participated in peacemaking activities in some other countries after her visit to the Soviet Union, wrote a book and co-starred in a television series before her death in an airplane crash.

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<item> <title>Ralph Yarborough</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Yarborough</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Yarborough</guid>

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Ralph Webster Yarborough (8 June 1903 – 27 January 1996) was a Texas politician who served in the United States Senate (1957-1971) and was a leader of the progressive or liberal wing of the Democratic Party in Texas in his many races for statewide office. As a U.S. Senator, he was a staunch supporter and author of "Great Society" legislation that encompassed Medicare and Medicaid, the War on Poverty, federal support for higher education and veterans. He co-wrote the Endangered Species Act and was the only southern senator to vote for all civil rights bills from 1957 to 1970 (including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act). Yarborough was known as "Smilin' Ralph" Yarborough and used the slogan "Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it" in his campaigns.

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<item> <title>Alexandra of Denmark</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_of_Denmark</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_of_Denmark</guid>

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Queen Alexandra (nèe Princess Alexandra of Denmark) 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom 1901–1910. Prior to that, she was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901 — the longest anyone has ever held that title. From 1910 until her death she also was the Queen Mother, as the mother of the reigning monarch, George V of the United Kingdom, though that particular title was not used. Instead, through her widowhood, she was styled Her Majesty Queen Alexandra.

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<item> <title>Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel%2C_Prince_of_Naples</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel%2C_Prince_of_Naples</guid>

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Victor Emmanuel, prince of Naples (Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amedeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria de Savoie), born 12 February 1937) is the head of the house of Savoy. He is known to Italian monarchists as Vittorio Emanuele IV. He lived for most of his life in exile, following the referendum that made Italy a republic. He is not very highly considered in Italy or abroad, because of a series of blunders, anti-semitic remarks, and even a murder charge.

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<item> <title>Princess Elizabeth of Clarence</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Elizabeth_of_Clarence</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Elizabeth_of_Clarence</guid>

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Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (Elizabeth Georgiana Adelaide) (10 December 1820-4 March 1821) was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of King George III. At the time of her birth she was third in the line of succession to the British throne.

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<item> <title>Revolt of the Admirals</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Admirals</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Admirals</guid>

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The "Revolt of the Admirals" was a late 1940s episode during which several high-ranking officers of the United States Navy publicly disagreed with the United States government's plans for the military forces.

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<item> <title>Ship naming and launching</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_naming_and_launching</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_naming_and_launching</guid>

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The ceremonies involved in 'naming and launching' naval ships are based in traditions thousands of years old.

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<item> <title>Ship commissioning</title> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_commissioning</link> <guid>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_commissioning</guid>

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The ceremonies involved in commissioning ships into a military force are based in traditions thousands of years old.

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