Fair Isle ( from Old Norse Frjóey ; Scottish Gaelic Fara ) is an island in northern Scotland, lying around halfway between mainland Shetland and the Orkney islands.

Fair Isle is the most remote inhabited island in the United Kingdom.

As with the rest of the British Isles and Scotland, Fair Isle experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

Fair Isle has a permanent bird observatory, founded by George Waterston in 1948.

Fair Isle can claim to be the best place to find rare birds in Britain with at least 27 first records.

The island is home to an endemic subspecies of Eurasian Wren, the Fair Isle Wren Troglodytes troglodytes fridariensis.

Fair Isle ( Feedero ) depicted close to Shetland ( Hetlandia ) on the 1539 Carta Marina

Fair Isle was bought by the National Trust for Scotland in 1954 from George Waterston, the founder of the bird observatory.

A traditional Fair Isle sweater | jumper.

Trading links with northern Europe are reflected in Fair Isle Haa, a traditional Hanseatic trading booth located not far from the South Harbour traditionally used by residents of the southern part of the island.

Fair Isle is also famous for its woollen jumpers, with knitting forming an important source of income for the women of the islands.

In January 2004, Fair Isle was granted Fairtrade Island status.

As Fair Isle is not connected to the national grid, electricity is provided by the Fair Isle Electricity Company.

Fair Isle is home to two GSM 900 MHz base stations operated by Vodafone and Telefonica O2

* Fair Isle Airport serves the island with flights to Lerwick and Kirkwall ( Kirkwall only seasonal ).

* The Good Shepherd IV plies between Fair Isle and Grutness.

* Fair Isle community website

* Fair Isle Blog

* Fair Isle bird observatory

* Fair Isle Electricity Company Ltd

* NPR Story on Fair Isle

CAMRA has established influence at national government level, including English Heritage, and has been designated by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry as a " super-complainant " to the Office of Fair Trading.

This has come into question, though, that confidential information has been used to blackmail possible defectors ( see Fair Game ( Scientology )) However, a few transcripts of auditing sessions with confidential information removed have been published as demonstration examples.

The Kittitas County Fair officially began in 1885, and has been held at its current location since 1923.

More recently, the Gosford CBD has suffered a decline as more commercial activity has relocated to nearby Erina, particularly Erina Fair.

Until 2009, the video rights to My Fair Lady were with original theatrical distributor Warner Bros., under license from CBS ( the video license to that film has now reverted to CBS DVD under Paramount ).

* The song ' Scarborough Fair ' ( popularised by Simon and Garfunkel ) has the refrain " Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme " which is also the title of their third studio album.

Although Ireland has access to international soaps, such as Coronation Street, Emmerdale, EastEnders, Home and Away, Hollyoaks, Neighbours etc., Fair City continues to outperform them all, and is Ireland's most popular soap-opera, with the show peaking at over 700, 000 viewers.

He used a similar device in The Nightmare Fair, a script which was never produced for television but has been adapted twice.

This practice still continues today, although the Fair has been relocated from the Square, and is currently held in the large field towards the village of Maugersbury every May and October.

There has been controversy surrounding Stow Fair.

) The 1st World Science Fiction Convention or Worldcon was held in conjunction with the 1939 New York World's Fair, and has been held annually since the end of World War II.

* Vanity Fair: ISBN 0-19-283443-6 ( Oxford World Classics edition, that has explanatory notes and original illustrations )

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Hanks noted his " modern era of moviemaking ... because enough self-discovery has gone on .... My work has become less pretentiously fake and over the top ".

Isabella has been the subject of a number of other historical novels, including Margaret Campbell Barnes ' Isabel the Fair, Hilda Lewis ' Harlot Queen, Maureen Peters ' Isabella, the She-Wolf, Brenda Honeyman's The Queen and Mortimer, Paul Doherty's The Cup of Ghosts and Edith Felber's Queen of Shadows.

Additionally, Fair Trade USA, formerly a licensing agency for the Fairtrade International label, broke from the system and is implementing its own fair trade labelling scheme, which has resulted in controversy due to its inclusion of independent smallholders ( selling via contract production ) and estates for all crops.

The involvement of church organizations has been and continues to be an integral part of the Fair Trade movement:

* Catholic Relief Services has their own Fair Trade mission in CRS Fair Trade

According to the BBC ( 2003 ), " The cost of ink has been the subject of an Office of Fair Trading investigation.

And particularly in the musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.

These included Oregon State Fair, for which he had been booked on and off, for 30 years.

Other songs and marches have been influenced by Advance Australia Fair, such as the Australian Vice-Regal salute.

Although Popeil often receives credit for having been the first to use this phrase, " But wait, there's more ," its origin is attributed to the State Fair JAM Auctioneers.

As documented in various surfing documentaries ( including " Fair Bits ") other objects have occasionally been used instead of surfboards, including water skiis, wakeboards, desks, guitars, and doors.

Masqueray resigned shortly after the Fair opened in 1904, having been invited by Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul, Minnesota to design a new cathedral for the city.

Certain specific incidents in the fictional Keating's career are pointed to by Heynick as having been drawn from Hood's real-life career, such as their both suddenly gaining national fame by winning the highly-publicized skyscraper contest for a media corporation in the early 1920s with a design in the historicist style, and their both heading the committee for a " modernistic " World's Fair in the 1930s from which the hero architect ( Howard Roark in the novel, Frank Lloyd Wright in real-life ) was excluded.

Perth has been known as The Fair City since the publication of the story Fair Maid of Perth by Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott in 1828.

Edward had been raised with his cousin Joan, " The Fair Maid of Kent.

Even less familiar works have been staged: A Fair Quarrel was performed at the National Theatre, and The Old Law has been performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The festival in August has been a traditional occasion for markets and fairs, such as the Bartholomew Fair held in Smithfield, London since the Middle Ages, which served as the scene for Ben Jonson's homonymous comedy.