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.

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

He was no flaming liberal, yet the New Deal, the Fair Deal and the New Frontier needed him.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).

Before finishing the musical, Lerner was eager to write while My Fair Lady was taking so long to complete.

Lerner's autobiography The Street Where I Live ( 1978 ), was an account of three of his and Loewe's successful collaborations, My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot along with personal information.

He was surprisingly able to complete " I Could Have Danced All Night " from My Fair Lady in one 24 hour period.

He would sometimes write songs with someone in mind, for instance, " I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face " from My Fair Lady was written with Rex Harrison in mind to complement his very limited vocal range.

In 1992, Vanity Fair published an article by journalist Lynn Hirschberg which alluded that Love was addicted to heroin during her pregnancy.

The Southern Cross was written into the lyrics of " Advance Australia Fair " in 1901: " Beneath our radiant Southern Cross "; the song was adopted as the Australian National Anthem in 1984.

After the death of the founder the order was favoured and privileged by Benedict XI, and rapidly spread through Italy, Germany, Flanders, and France, where they were received by Philip the Fair in 1300.

Sagan recalls that one of his best experiences was when he was four or five years old, his parents took him to the 1939 New York World's Fair.

A still larger Wisconsin Cheddar cheese of 34, 951 lb ( 15, 853 kg ) was produced for the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

Capra's final film, Rendezvous in Space ( 1964 ), was an industrial film made for the Martin Marietta Company and shown at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

It was exhibited at the New York Hall of Science after the Fair ended.

1939 was a busy year, as he opened the 1939 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, opened New York Municipal Airport No. 2 in Queens ( later renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia Field ), and had the city buy out the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, thus completing the public takeover of the subway system.

Futurama was an exhibit / ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair designed by Norman Bel Geddes that tried to show the world 20 years into the future ( 1959 – 1960 ).

The Futurama exhibition was subsequently presented as one of the 1939 New York World Fair ’ s main attractions, as it was the “ Number one hit show .” It captured the fancy of the public and critics alike, with journalists competing to find adequate words to convey Bel Gedde ’ s “ ingenuity ”, “ daring ”, “ showmanship ”, and “ genius ”.

This was the year that Paris hosted the first World's Fair, and Eiffel was bought a season ticket by his mother

In 1948, the state bought the facility and used it for the San Fernando Valley Fair for the next three decades.

Once farm land, this was bought by Henry Ford for his estate, Fair Lane, and the Ford Motor Company World Headquarters.

The stamps were interesting and attractive, designed to appeal to not only postage stamps collectors but to historians, artists and of course the general public who bought them in record numbers because of the fanfare of the Columbian Exposition of the World's Fair of 1892 in Chicago, Illinois.

The first acquisition of the new Cedar Fair company came in 1992 when Cedar Fair bought Dorney Park from Harris Weinstein.

Cedar Fair also bought Worlds of Fun from Hunt-Midwest in 1995.

One of the biggest acquisitions came in 1997 when Cedar Fair bought Knott's Berry Farm from the Knott family.

Cedar Fair bought the park for $ 145 million and reverted its name back to Geauga Lake, the name the park used until its conversion by Six Flags in 2000.

In " Ma and Pa Kettle At The Fair ", Pa bought Emma to win a horse race at the county fair.

In May 2008, Smucker's announced that it had bought the food division of Knott's Berry Farm from ConAgra Foods, but not the theme park, which Cedar Fair owns.

At the Goblin Fair in the forest of Tantrevalles, Melancthe is entranced by four beautiful flowers she has bought, which evoke emotions she can't quite identify.

She and her husband, together with her sister, Virginia Fair, bought the land in 1891 from the estate of George Bancroft, and commissioned the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White to design a summer home suitable for entertaining on a grand scale.

They bought the property and named it " Bareacres " after the character Lord Bareacres in Vanity Fair ( novel ) by Thackeray.

The fair had achieved an international reputation by the early 20th century and a local newspaper report of 1909 states " The Banagher Great Fair was a huge success and among those present were Senor Gelline of Milan to make purchase on behalf of the Italian Government, while Mr. Rodzanko bought for the Russian Government.

The alpine furniture for the lodge was bought from an exhibit at the 1964 World's Fair.

A further eight stores were bought in 2009 from the Co-op ( who had acquired them on taking over the Somerfield group but were instructed to dispose of them by the Office of Fair Trading ).

and get all the skins that should go to pay the debts we have contracted for goods bought of the Fair Traders ; by this means we not only ruin ourselves but them too.

Along with Ballyclares " May Fair " this fair is one of the very few yearly fairs in the U. K. where animals can be bought, although unlike the " May Fair " ( which sells horses ) the Ballynure Fair has only been known to sell cows.

Ironically, Cedar Fair ( the company that bought Knott's Berry Farm in 1997 ) removed more original features from the park than Disney's plans would have done, although keeping the Knott's name and layout intact.

In 1995 Cedar Fair LP bought Worlds of Fun from Hunt Midwest, which took the park in a new direction.

Three hundred permanent settlers resided in Fair Oaks by 1897 and bought land in 5, 10, and tracts at an average of $ 30 per acre.