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 has been occupied since the Bronze Age which is remarkable because of the lack of raw materials on the island, although it is surrounded by rich fishing waters.

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.

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

The exhibition of cotton ginning machinery at the State Fair grounds is valued at more than a million dollars.

The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity is charged with enforcing this provision.

" Advance Australia Fair " is the official national anthem of Australia.

* 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.

It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.

Pushkar is also famous for its annual Pushkar Fair.

An air show, also " airshow ", Air Fair, or Air Tatoo is an event at which aviators display their flying skills and the capabilities of their aircraft to spectators in aerobatics.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

The town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders holds a traditional week-long " Beltane Fair " every year in June, when a local girl is crowned Beltane Queen on the steps of the parish church.

He composed a song about the area called " O's alainn an t-aite ", or " Fair is the Place.

The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization ( ABS ) to the Convention on Biological Diversity is a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Originally known as the Fair Park Bowl, it is located in Fair Park, site of the State Fair of Texas.

Fair City is RTÉ's soap opera, located in the fictional Dublin suburb of Carraigstown.

The rodeo arena is encompassed by the popular Kittitas County Fair, also held during Labor Day weekend.

Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work.

Fair use is one of the Traditional Safety Valves.

A number of these dice are rolled, usually four at a time (" 4dF " in Fudge dice notation ), and for every plus side that comes up the result of using the Trait is considered one step higher ( e. g. from Fair to Good ) and for every minus side that comes up the result is considered one step lower.

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

The government also strengthened a Fair Wages Resolution, with a clause that required all employers getting government contracts to recognise the rights of their workers to join trade unions.

* Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, prohibiting discrimination in sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, creed, and national origin.

In addition to his body of music, Satie also left a remarkable set of writings, having contributed work for a range of publications, from the dadaist 391 to the American culture chronicle Vanity Fair.

The Viceregal Salute — composed of the first and last four bars of the National Anthem (" Advance Australia Fair ")— is the salute used to greet the governor upon arrival at, and mark his or her departure from most official events, although " God Save The Queen ", as the Royal Anthem, is also used.

More administrative reforms were made by Philip IV, also called Philip the Fair ( reigned 1285 – 1314 ).

Louis the Pious ( 778 – 20 June 840 ), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781.

The Tennessee State Fair is also held annually in September.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road ( also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks ) ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.

Shakespeare also uses the legal term, " quietus " ( final settlement ), in Sonnet 134, the last Fair Youth sonnet.

He also claims that the alleged encryptions settle the question of the identity of " the Fair Youth " as Henry Wriothesley and contain striking references to the sonnets themselves and de Vere's relationship to Sir Philip Sidney and Ben Jonson.

* 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.

Later that year, he won first prize in the International Science Fair for the invention ; he was also recognized by the Westinghouse Talent Search and was personally congratulated by President Lyndon B. Johnson during a White House ceremony.

He also assisted with the St. Louis World ’ s Fair of 1904 where he was well represented and received.

* May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA.

* October 30 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, closes.

The city is also well known for several international events and fairs, including Milan Fashion Week and the Milan Furniture Fair, the largest of its kind in the world, and will host the 2015 Universal Exposition.

Events such as the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival are held annually, while the city also hosts the largest bi-annual meeting of the Greek diaspora.