7, 10, 11, and 13, originally appeared on Buddha. After the music is finished in "Depends", Mark recites a quote from the film Airplane!. Personnel. Blink-182. Tom DeLonge – vocals, guitar.


Kennedy — guitar. Maura Kennedy — vocals. Iris DeMent — vocals. Fran Breen — drums. Philip Donnelly — guitar. Le Ann Etheridge — bass guitar, vocals, mandolin. Lee Satterfield — vocals,


Park. Chester Bennington - vocals. Rob Bourdon - drums, Brad Delson - guitars, bass, Joseph Hahn - records, sampling, Mike Shinoda - emcee, vocals, sampling. Dave "Phoenix"

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'live' band. Their style of music may be described as post-punk with the elements of ska, Latin American music and funk. Members. Saulius 'Samas' Urbonavičius - Vocals, guitar. Gintautas 'Profesorius'


Session) – 0:56. "Butterflies" – 2:40. Personnel. Recording. Dave Grohl - vocals, guitar, bass, drums. Greg Dulli - guitar on "X-Static". Band. Dave Grohl - vocals, guitar. Pat Smear - guitar, vocals. Nate


Arlington, Virginia) is a member of the band Hanson. In addition to playing the drums, percussion, piano, and guitar, he sings backing vocals and lead vocals. He was


social sciences and went on to study composition with Jacob Druckman and Vincent Persichetti at the Juilliard School. Her early musical experiences were largely self-directed, beginning with the mandolin, guitar, and


"Everywhere Is All Around" (Wheeler/Carr), and "Does Your Mother Know" (ABBA). Personnel. Ash. Mark Hamilton – bass, sleeve assistant. Rick McMurray – drums. Tim Wheeler – guitar, vocals, string arrangements. Additional


31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City. Biography. McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra. After his

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– 9:37 (Friedman, Becker). Personnel. Peter Marrino - vocals. Jason Becker - guitar. Marty Friedman - guitar, bass. Atma Anur - drums. Laurie Sato - logo concept. Trivia.


Me" – 4:43. "The Different" – 4:06. "Heal Me" – 3:39. There is one known outtake titled 'Whispers in the Heart' 'My Heart' or 'Heart Whispers'. Personnel. Melissa Etheridge - guitar,


He learned the guitar and began composing his own songs by the age of thirteen. On leaving school he apprenticed as an electrician, while performing in folk and

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are descendants of the Spanish guitar. The only real percussion instruments used are the maracas. Besides the genre and dance, the name joropo also means the performance, the event


2:33. Side B. "Horror Hotel" (Danzig) – 1:25. "Ghouls Night Out" (Danzig) – 1:56. Credits. Glenn Danzig – vocals. Jerry Only – background vocals, bass. Doyle – guitar. Arthur Googy


Johnson's band is composed of: Jack Johnson - Vocals, guitar. Adam Topol - Drums, percussion. Merlo Podlewski - Bass. Zach Gill - Keys, vocals. Russell brockmeyer- back


regulars). Simon Emmerson (guitar, production). N'Faly Kouyate (kora, balaphon, ngoma drums, vocals). Moussa Sissokho (djembe, talking drum). James McNally (Bodhrán, accordion, whistle). Johnny Kalsi (Dhol Foundation bandleader; Dhol). Iarla


Baobab. The south of Senegal, called Casamance, has a strong Mandinka minority, and began producing masters of the kora in the late 1950s. The band Touré Kunda was

district in Nduga Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia


In mathematics, a binary relation R on a set X is

well-defined mathematical collection of distinct objects


is the set of natural numbers, then: is the (false) statement: For all natural numbers n, 2·n > 2 + n. Similarly, if Q(n) is the predicate "n


Given a set S with a partial order ≤, an infinite descending chain is a chain


of a set with respect to a binary operation on that set. It leaves other elements unchanged when combined with them. This is used for groups and


or in words: Given any set A, there is a set B such that, for any element c, c is a member of B if and only


studying relationships among the attributes of a single unit. Our interest may be in a statistical population (or set) of similar units rather than in any individual unit. Survey sampling offers


population is a set of entities concerning which statistical inferences are to be drawn, often based on a random sample taken from the population. For example, if we were


example: suppose that, in a particular truth theory, the word "Nixon" refers to Richard M. Nixon, and "is alive" is associated with the set of currently living


consisting of a set together with a binary operation and binary relation satisfying certain axioms detailed below. We can also say that an Archimedean group is a linearly


of the inverse function theorem. Converses. Several converses of the Banach contraction principle exist. The following is due to Czesław Bessaga, from 1959: Let be a map of an abstract set


n, i.e. if A and B are square matrices of the same format, then there is only a single admissible set S, and the Cauchy–Binet formula reduces


In mathematics, the real line is the line whose points correspond to the real numbers. That is, the real line is the set R of

protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens


intersection must also be union-compatible. The Cartesian product is defined differently from the one defined in set theory in the sense that tuples are considered to be 'shallow'


In mathematics, the elements of a set A


ε is the counit of C. Examples. Take an arbitrary set S and form the K-vector space with basis S. The elements of this vector space are those functions

protein-coding gene in the species Mus musculus


space to store the tag. The name "union" stems from the type's formal definition. If one sees a type as the set of all values that that type can take


and there are relations which are neither symmetric nor antisymmetric (e.g., the preys-on relation on biological species). Antisymmetry is different from asymmetry. According to one definition of asymmetric, anything

one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank


as the "age of the dinosaurs". The genus Glirodon has been described by Engelmann G.F. and Callison G. (1999) from a 'gliriform tooth'. The species Glirodon grandis, also described


a tool-using species of crow endemic to New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. These crows are the only non-primate animals known to invent new tools by modifying existing ones,


see in the dark and be able to detect predators they are not as closely related, like the spinifex hopping mouse and the hare. We know that these two species


contains the following species, with new ones being described occasionally: Acrossocheilus aluoiensis (Nguyen, 1997). Acrossocheilus baolacensis Nguyen, 2001. Acrossocheilus beijiangensis Wu & Lin, 1977. Acrossocheilus clivosius (Lin, 1935). Acrossocheilus fasciatus (Steindachner,


of the four genera are restricted to tropical South America; a single species of Crax ranges north to Mexico. They form a distinct clade which is usually classified as the subfamily


Pioneer species are species which colonize previously


genus name, Zauschneria also included Epilobium septentrionale. "Hummingbird flower" redirects here. For flowers visited by hummingbirds, see the Hummingbird and Pollinator articles. Zauschneria (Epilobium canum) is a species


species, but it is also noted by prey species and avoided. For example felids such as leopards and jaguars mark by rubbing themselves against vegetation. Some prosimians, such as the Red-bellied


the genus is derived from the Greek phragma, which means "division", and pedium, which means "slipper" (referring to the pouch). It is abbreviated Phrag in trade journals. About 20 species of


Balaenoptera is a genus of Balaenopteridae, the Rorqual whales, and contains eight species. The species Balaenoptera omurai was published in 2003.


Cited in "Sacred Ground" by Living Colour. "Ambush" by Sepultura from their 1996 'tribal' album, Roots. In 2004, the fish species Astyanax chico was named "in honor to Francisco Alves "Chico"


North America and around the Bering Strait, migrating south in winter. Many authorities place these species in the grey goose genus Anser. Indeed, Chen and Anser are


to grow past the shoreline. The region also has very high tides, sometimes reaching and has become a popular spot for river surfing. Wildlife. More than one-third of all species

specific genus-differentia defined item that is described first by its genus (genos) and then its differentia (diaphora); concept in metaphysics


genetically identical from one generation to the next, each has the characters of a true species, maintaining distinctions from other congeneric apomicts, while having much smaller differences


is a bird species of the woodpecker family (Picidae). It is distributed throughout Europe and northern Asia, and usually resident year-round except in the colder parts of its


it is sometimes found with Brent flocks. All the species of the Branta genus are distinguished by their dark sooty colour, relieved by white, and as a


Black Kites. The question whether the Cape Verde Kite should be considered a distinct species (Milvus fasciicauda) or a Red Kite subspecies was never really settled. A


dozen species in four genera, but these enigmatic fishes are in need of taxonomic revision. . The scientific name means "Ateleopus-shaped", from Ateleopus (the type genus) + the standard fish order


apart from female Musk Ducks at a distance. Male Musk Ducks in the breeding season are usually unmistakable due to the large bill lobe. Systematics. The relationships of this peculiar species


genus Physeter, the synonym Physeter catodon refers to the same species. It is one of three living species in the sperm whale superfamily, the others being the Pygmy Sperm Whale and


Mauritius ornate day gecko (Phelsuma ornata Gray, 1825) is a diurnal species of geckos. It occurs on the island Mauritius and some surrounding islands and typically


Lifemapper is building a species diversity map of the world. It is similar to the SETI@Home client, in


Leiolopisma is a genus of skinks. Most species occur in the region of New Caledonia-New Zealand, and they are related to other genera from that general


comprising three species of skink native to Mexico and Central America. They were formerly included in the genus Eumeces. Species. Tepalcatepec Skink, Mesoscincus altamirani (Dugés, 1891) - Mexico.


in the High Arctic of Europe, Asia and North America, where it is one of the most numerous bird species. Description. At 40–44 cm in length, with a 64–75 cm wingspan, very similar


The common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) is a species of freshwater fish of the salmon family (family Salmonidae). It is the type species


sometimes known as scud) is an order of animals that includes over 7,000 described species of shrimp-like crustaceans ranging from in length. Amphipod comes from the Modern Latin amphi- "of


Melicope is a genus of about 150 species


The Yellow-billed Cardinal Paroaria capitata is a bird species in the tanager family (Thraupidae).


Asparagus is a genus in the plant family Asparagaceae comprising up to 300 species. The most well-known species is the edible Asparagus officinalis, commonly referred to as


Only a few Cymbidium species are commonly grown in nurseries, due to the popularity of hybrids. Most are to be found in botanical gardens or in their ever shrinking natural habitat.


The formal system of naming species


kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Early concepts. Carolus Linnaeus distinguished two kingdoms of living things: Animalia for animals and Vegetabilia for plants (Linnaeus also included minerals, placing


are gregarious, forming large flocks where their numbers are sufficient. Taxonomy. There are 15 living species of cranes in 4 genera: SUBFAMILY BALEARICINAE - crowned cranes. Genus Balearica. Black Crowned


The order Anseriformes contains about 150 living species of birds in three extant families: the Anhimidae (the screamers), Anseranatidae (the Magpie Goose), and the


it covers its eggs with vegetation. After a period of time the vegetation will stain the eggs and help conceal them better. Although this species does not


a separate species, Leptocephalus brevirostris (from the Greek leptocephalus meaning "thin- or flat-head"). In 1886, French zoologist Yves Delage kept leptocephali alive in a laboratory tank in Roscoff until they


A grazing antelope is any of the species of antelope that make up the subfamily Hippotraginae in the


For other uses, see Solitaire (disambiguation). The Solitaires are medium-sized mostly insectivorous birds in the genera Myadestes, Cichlopsis and Entomodestes of the thrush family Turdidae. These are species


Red-breasted Mergansers dive and swim underwater. They mainly eat small fish, but also aquatic insects, crustaceans and frogs. The Red-breasted Merganser is one of the species to which the Agreement


Phelsuma breviceps is a diurnal species of gecko. It is native to south-east


The family Petauridae includes 11 medium-sized possum species: four striped possums, the six species wrist-winged gliders in genus Petaurus, and Leadbeater's Possum


to the subfamily Lygosominae. Species include: Lobulia brongersmai. Lobulia elegans. Lobulia elegantoides (Ahl, 1925).


Pteromyini or Petauristini, are a tribe of 44 species of squirrels (family Sciuridae). Description. Flying squirrels are incapable of sustained flight, instead they glide between trees, with flights


Ground spiders (family Gnaphosidae) are reddish, brown, gray, striped, black spiders, and include nearly 2,000 described species in over 100 genera, distributed worldwide. This makes the family the seventh largest known.


northern Pacific. It was first described by Marmaduke Tunstall in his 1771 Ornithologia Britannica. Description and systematics. Like most other pipits, this is an undistinguished-looking species which usually can be seen


to fishermen and hiring 43 official catchers to curb the growth of species which threaten the natural freshwater ecosystem. Shiga Prefecture is Michigan's "sister state", selected in 1968


the order are small, the whale shark is the largest living fish. Classification. The order is small, with only around 40 species in seven families in 13 genera:


giant clumping bamboo, which are similar to the genus Bambusa. With about 29 species, this genus is found from the Indian subcontinent throughout Southeast Asia. Dendrocalamus giganteus is one


a simple form of co-operative breeding. It occurs in less than five perent of bird species world-wide but is more common in Australia. Bird species in which this behaviour is found


caused great controversy when it was installed in Tréguier, Brittany. Renan's 1862 biography of Jesus had denied his divinity, and he had written the addressed to the goddess

cultural region and former province of France


was Guy of the Breton March, who like Roland, was unable to exert French expansion over Brittany and merely sustained a Breton presence in the Carolingian Empire. According


saint of Quebec, Brittany, the Mi'kmaq peoples, women in labor, and miners. The story bears a superficial similarity to that of the birth of Samuel, whose mother Hannah had also been


of Ys were worshippers of Celtic gods). However, a Breton folktale asserts that Gradlon met, spoke with and consoled the last Druid in Brittany, and oversaw his pagan burial, before


It is located north of Brittany and west of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. About 30% of the population of the island is concentrated in Saint Helier. Physical


Annales Bertiniani, Nominoe, king of Brittany, makes war on the Vikings. By topic. Religion. January – Pope Leo IV succeeds Pope Sergius II as the 103rd pope. Rabanus Maurus becomes


appointed ambassador to Madrid. From Madrid he was suddenly summoned to the governorship of Brittany, and in 1787 was appointed by the king to succeed Vergennes in the ministry


de Leon: English army defeats Charles of Blois in Brittany. June 20 – English win small victory at La Roche-Derrien in Brittanny. June 24 – The leaders


the island which was called after the Bretons of Brittany, this municipality has what is probably the oldest surviving European name to have been used to designate part of North


troubled by internal dissensions, his son Chram rising against him on several occasions. Following Chram into Brittany, where the rebel had taken refuge, Chlothar shut him up with


Brittany, where he lived most of his life and where he died. His mother Marie-Angélique-Aspasie Puyo, 19 years old at the time of his birth, belonged to one of the


were temporarily lodged before quickly being repatriated. British ships ferried French troops to Brest, Cherbourg and other ports in Normandy and Brittany, although only about half of the


follows some signs - her initials V d' H written on a door - to Brittany, on this island with the name if not very pleasing... Brutal deaths, written


handicrafts and reason, shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens, which built the Parthenon to worship her.

person or character who fights adversity through ingenuity, courage, or strength


and scope of the story is epic. It follows the struggles of gods, heroes, and several mythical creatures over the eponymous magic Ring that grants domination over

1987 official documentary film of the 1986 FIFA World Cup directed by Tony Maylam


the Phoenix. Description. The only description given of it in the “Jabberwocky” poem is that the hero should "shun the frumious Bandersnatch," this particular portmanteau being a concise way of describing

2014 Indian action film directed by Nikhil Advani


the Almagro neighbourhood. He died in an airplane crash at the height of his career, becoming an archetypal tragic hero mourned throughout Latin America. For many, Gardel embodies


The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds [or lineages]", are the epic poems that appear at the dawn of French literature.


get a good suntan, but somehow managed to end up in a cannibal-filled Australia instead. He got the last laugh, however, by eventually returning to a hero's welcome and gave Melchett


Lady" wished to dwell with him. Erichthonius. Hephaestus attempted to rape Athena, but she eluded him. His semen fell on the ground, and Erichthonius was born from the Earth, Gaia

Greek primordial deity, goddess of Earth

fictional Planet from the Foundation Universe by Isaac Asimov


either a single tree or a grove of immortality-giving golden apples grew. The apples were planted from the fruited branches that Gaia gave to her as a wedding gift when


of Gaia or Gaea, who was fertilized by the blood of Ouranos, after being castrated by his son Cronus. Cronus secured his power by re-imprisoning or refusing to free


as a serpent. She presided at the Delphic oracle, which existed in the cult center for her mother, Gaia, Earth, Pytho being the place name that was


spike as her main attributes. The Chthonian deities are the manifestations of the Great Goddess, such as Gaia or Ge. In Latin writings of the time, the singular nominative


biochemical processes of production in living organisms. Generatio spontanea. The ancient Greeks believed that living things could spontaneously come into being from nonliving matter, and that the goddess Gaia could make


this late variant Hermes falls in love with Herse. Herse, Aglaulus, and Pandrosus go to the temple to offer sacrifices to Athena. Hermes demands help from Aglaulus to

Olympian god in Greek religion and mythology; the emissary and messenger of the gods; the god of trade, heraldry, merchants, commerce, roads, thieves, trickery, sports, travelers, and athletes; the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia


to Hermes where Hermes on seeing the tortoise exclaims συμβολον ηδη μοι "symbolon [symbol/sign/portent/encounter/chance find?] of joy to me!" before turning it into a lyre. See also.

public artwork by an unknown Roman artist


In Etruscan mythology, Turms was the equivalent of Greek Hermes, god of. trade and the messenger god between people and gods. Turms is also a


army, and conquered Thebes, becoming its joint rulers. Rule of Thebes. Amphion became a great singer and musician after Hermes taught him to play and gave him a golden


and later as an epitheton for the Greek Hermes and, finally, the fully equated Roman Mercurius (Mercury; both were also messenger of the gods). Among the Greeks, T.


and threw themselves off a cliff to their deaths. Pandrosus and Hermes later had a son, Ceryx. References.


or Hermes. Starting about 300 BC, the state took over control of the Mysteries, specifically controlled by two families: the Eumolpidae and the Kerykes. This led to a vast increase in


always the case. For example, when tracing a curve such as a spiral using polar coordinates, an extra full turn gives rise to a quite different point on the curve.

curve which emanates from a point, moving farther away as it revolves around the point


Types of angles. An angle of 90° (π/2 radians, or one-quarter of the full circle) is called a right angle. Two lines that form a right angle are

90° angle (π/2 radians): an angle that bisects the angle formed by two halves of a straight line


rotation and the magnitude of the torque are constant the axis will describe a cone, its movement at any instant being at right angles to the direction of the torque. In


right angles to simulate limited joint movement. Tutting/King Tut. Inspired by the art of Ancient Egypt, tutting exploits the body's ability to create geometric positions and movements, predominantly with the


bijection, which means we can identify any angle with a number between 0 and. Angles between curves. The angle between a line and a curve (mixed angle)

mathematical idealization of the trace left by a moving point


(x1,y1) and (x2,y2) on a line, the slope m of the line is. Through differential calculus, one can calculate the slope of the tangent line to a curve


only when the flow changes with time: that is, when the flow is not steady. Streamlines are a family of curves that are instantaneously tangent to the velocity


the objectives of the modern theory of dynamical systems. For discrete-time dynamical systems the orbits are sequences, for real dynamical systems the orbits are curves and for holomorphic dynamical systems


by a graph in the Cartesian plane; the function is continuous if, roughly speaking, the graph is a single unbroken curve with no "holes" or "jumps". In general,


A catenoid is a three-dimensional shape made by rotating a catenary curve around the axis. Not counting the plane, it is the first minimal surface


and Wilhelm Blaschke was in this connection. It follows from the classic theorem of Crofton expressing the length of a plane curve as an expectation of the number of intersections with


are supposed to provide a cohomology theory which embodies all these particular cohomologies. For example, the genus of a smooth projective curve C which is an interesting invariant


curve that is not an algebraic curve. Here for a curve C what matters is the point set (typically in the plane) underlying C, not a given parametrisation. For example,


Ruled Britannia, in which the Spanish Armada succeeded in conquering Britain in the Elizabethan era, with William Shakespeare being given the task of writing the play that will motivate the Britons


and begin compiling his book all over again. William Shakespeare is believed to have used Cooper's Thesaurus in the creation of his many poems and plays. (Evidence of this


and film. Claudius killed King Hamlet, his brother, and married his sister-in-law, Gertrude, in order to become King of Denmark in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In the Thomas Harris novel


entrances; — William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7. it is a simile. In this metaphoric example, "the world" is compared to a stage, describing it with the attributes of “the


than the sun--here it is; look at it; its brightness blinds you.". "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:" - William Shakespeare,


by writers such as William Shakespeare and Thomas More. The Tudor King Edward VI of England was enumerated to recognise the legality of Edward V's reign. See also.


not seen until the Hubble Space Telescope recovered it in 2003. Ophelia was named after the daughter of Polonius, Ophelia, in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It is also designated Uranus VII. Unfortunately, other


and was for some time editor of the Morning Herald. Besides editions of the works of William Shakespeare, James Beattie, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Warton, Alexander Pope, Edward Gibbon, and


Sir Philip Sidney's sequence Astrophel and Stella (1591) that started the English vogue for sonnet sequences: the next two decades saw sonnet sequences by William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Samuel


Catherine, started the business in their basement at 511 Eastridge Drive, with sixteen William Shakespeare titles. CliffsNotes now exist on hundreds of works. The term CliffsNotes has now come


line, 1922). The Tempest by William Shakespeare (20 colour plates, 20 line, 1926). The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (12 colour plates, 23 line, 1929). The Compleat Angler


Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (1580 – 1645). Jean Racine, French dramatist (1639 – 1699). William Shakespeare, English author and poet (1564 – 1616). Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish playwrigth and


The Swan was a theatre in Southwark, London, England, built between 1594 and 1596, during the first half of William Shakespeare's career. It was the fourth in


William Shakespeare. See also. New Theatre Oxford. Old Fire Station Theatre. Oxford Playhouse. External links.


rooted in folklore. William Shakespeare is known for creating many archetypal characters that hold great social importance in his native land, such as Hamlet, the self-doubting hero and the


Contribution to Contemporary History, London: Macmillan, 1961. Ralegh and the Throckmortons, London: Macmillan, 1962. William Shakespeare: a Biography, London: Macmillan, 1963. Christopher Marlowe: a biography, London: Macmillan, 1964. Shakespeare's Sonnets, London: Macmillan,


with many parallels between the regulars and William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The series was cancelled midway through the season, with this subplot never resolved. In an attempt to


Geoffrey's story was incorporated into Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles in 1577, where it was found by William Shakespeare and used as the basis of his romance, Cymbeline. Beyond the name


William Shakespeare referred to Sinon on several occasions in his work, using him as a symbol of treachery. References.


also appears as a character in the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.


Marlowe - Thomas Nashe - William Shakespeare - Sir Philip Sidney - Edmund Spenser - The Shepherd Tonie - Joshua Sylvester - John Webster - Sir Thomas Wyatt. Book II (Palgrave). Francis


and politics. The title is taken from a famous speech by the King in William Shakespeare's Henry V: "Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot/But he'll remember with


the first person to suggest that James Burbage was connected with the Burbage family of Warwickshire: a forged letter of the nineteenth century maintained that Burbage and William Shakespeare were from


It was not, however, possible to publish it in the author's lifetime, but it was widely circulated in MS. Evidently one of these manuscripts fell into William Shakespeare's hands,


just outside Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. His house in Stratford-upon-Avon eventually became William Shakespeare's finest home, New Place. He financed the construction of a stone bridge over the River Avon, now known as


Une Tempête, adapted from The Tempest by William Shakespeare: adaptation pour un théâtre nègre. Paris: Seuil; reprint: 1997; A Tempest, New York: Ubu repertory 1986. 1966: Une Saison au


Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of literary fiction, though it often uses the tropes of science fiction


Head of Drama Sydney Newman. It was an early example of the spy-fi genre, often combining secret agent storylines with science fiction and fantasy elements, preceding the James Bond


Christiaan Huygens, FRS (,; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist, horologist, and writer of early science fiction


Misfit is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was first published in the November 1939 issue of


Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine (July, August,


of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990 as the third Culture novel. Plot introduction. The narrative takes the


the role of suspects and characters in a murder mystery, lending elements of science fiction to the novel, despite its being set in the present. Plot summary. A former astronaut is


2, 2007) was an American science fiction writer and editor, perhaps best known for having edited a large number of anthologies and collections for a variety of publishers in


a 2003 science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It takes place in the Revelation Space universe and is a direct sequel to Redemption Ark. Plot summary.


Dan Alderson, is a fictional device that enables instantaneous interstellar transportation. It is featured in the CoDominium series of science fiction novels by Jerry Pournelle, including the Mote series


Yuji Hayami (born 1961) is a Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer. Born in Aomori prefecture,


the well-known blunders committed by Evil Overlords in popular fictional works, typically explained in a comical fashion. The lists were compiled by science fiction fans over a number of years, and


and complementary therapies such as acupuncture, homeopathy, and massage therapy. The National Science Foundation has also conducted surveys of the popularity of alternative medicine. After describing the negative impact science fiction

single by the Australian rock band Divinyls


at the national Swedish sf convention Swecon in 2006, at Gaylaxicon 2008, and at Wiscon 2009. Mundane Science Fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction focusing on stories set on or


merged into Battle. His next creation was the science fiction-themed weekly 2000 AD, launched in 1977. As with Battle and Action he developed most of the early series before handing them over


a novel combining elements of both science fiction and fantasy written by Roger Zelazny. According to him, the name of the book (but not the titular character) was a homage to Jack


Niourk (published 1957) is a science fiction novel by the French


Romance novel. Science fiction and fantasy. Western fiction. Lovecraftianism. References. New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage by Alpana Sharma Knippling (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1996).


Barbarella is a fictional heroine in the French science fiction


collection of science fiction short stories written by Stephen Baxter. The collection connects the novels of the Xeelee Sequence and also shows the history of mankind in the Xeelee universe,


Reynolds (November 11, 1917 - January 30, 1983) was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, Dallas Ross and Maxine Reynolds. Many


13, 1933) is an American popular culture historian and mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. The prolific Goulart's first professional publication was a reprint in The Magazine of Fantasy &


During the early 1950s, Ballantine attracted attention as one of the leading publishers of paperback science fiction and fantasy, beginning with The Space Merchants (#21). The Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth


The Whole Man is a 1964 science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel


science fiction community grew (see Barnard's Star in fiction), and it was adopted as a target for Project Daedalus. Refining planetary boundaries. While not completely ruling out the possibility of planets,


Heretics of Dune is a 1984 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, fifth in a series of six novels. Plot introduction. Fifteen hundred years have passed since Leto's reign


is a term invented by Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish science fiction writer. It was the language used by people in a totalitarian world called Paradyzja (in Zajdel's 1984 book by


Dr Evans also edited two anthologies of psychological science fiction/horror stories, Mind at Bay and Mind in Chains, a collection of science writings, "Cybernetics: Key Papers," a reference book "Psychology: A


Emshwiller (February 16, 1925-July 27, 1990) was a visual artist notable for illustrations of many science fiction magazine covers and for his pioneering experimental films. He usually signed his


(often shortened to Nadesico) is a science fiction comedy anime TV series, and a later manga series created by Kia Asamiya. The manga, published in English by CPM Manga,


science fiction situation comedy Red Dwarf, played by Chris Barrie. He is unpopular with his crew mates, and is often the target of insults or pranks. Throughout the first seven


opera, dealing with several themes of science fiction. Having sold over one billion copies (in pulp booklet format) worldwide, it is the most successful science fiction book series ever


Alien Breed is the first in a series of science fiction computer games


The Dead Zone is a 1983 science fiction-thriller film based on the Stephen King novel


Vittorio Catani (born July 17 1940) is an Italian science fiction writer. Born in Lecce, he currently lives and works in Bari, Italy. A retired


Science fiction. List of science fiction authors. List of science fiction novels. List of science fiction short stories. List of science fiction television. References. External links. at the Internet Book


of the previous series almost completely disappeared, as Steed and Peel visibly enjoyed topping each other's witticisms. Additionally, many episodes were characterised by a futuristic, science fiction bent to


Bora Horza Gobuchul is actually an enemy of the Culture. Plot summary. Consider Phlebas is Banks' first science fiction novel set in the Culture, and takes its title from a line


work, she has never hesitated to admit that she writes science fiction. She was Writer Guest of Honour at the 1987 World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), and made a


fiction, but the work also touches on mythology, fantasy, mystery, science fiction and romance. The first four stories in the collection involve a fictional two-act play of the same title.


FI UK, or simply SCI FI) is a television channel service specialising in science fiction, fantasy and horror shows and movies. It is available via digital cable, IPTV, satellite


science fiction author, along with his wife Virginia, was a resident from 1965 until just before his death in 1988, in a house he designed and built himself. The road


the genre of science fiction. The tale recounts the visit to Earth of a being from a planet circling the star Sirius and his companion from the planet Saturn. This story and


The Complete Robot is a collection of 31 science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov written between 1940 and 1976, which were previously collected in books I, Robot, The


in fandom before the cutoff date, January 1, 1938, were eligible. Such fannish activity (or "fanac") including writing to letter columns in science fiction magazines, having been published in fanzines, or having


than to the science fiction setting of Stephenson's two previous novels, Snow Crash and Diamond Age, and features fictionalized characterizations of such historical figures as Alan Turing, Douglas MacArthur, Winston Churchill, Isoroku


Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American mainstream, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his


"Gentlemen, Be Seated!" is a science fiction short story by Robert A.


and his use of a time machine to pursue Jack the Ripper into the 20th century. Plot. In London in 1893, popular science fiction writer and essayist H.G. Wells unveils


VOR: The Maelstrom is a science fiction miniature wargame, set in the 22nd century. It was published by FASA in 1999, but was discontinued following


show how "lower" genres (such as crime fiction, romantic fiction and science fiction) could be a mosaic of equal truths that make up reality. This change is also a change


9 Tales of Space and Time is a science fiction anthology edited by Raymond Healy and first published in 1954 (1955 in the UK). It was


(Natsukaidô-Samârôdo), followed by various other fantasy books, often set in large cities or characterized by a surreal streak. Hayami also worked on a number of novelizations of science fiction


the user base of Unix, and thus contain many obscure jokes about computer science and computer programming. Other favoured sources include quotations from science fiction (Star Trek, The Cyberiad, Doctor Who,


Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and surrealistic or "slipstream" fiction. Ryman currently lectures in Creative Writing for University of Manchester's English Department. His


an enlarged version of the Skylark Two in the 1948 E.E. Smith science fiction novel Skylark Three (originally published in Amazing Stories in 1930), the second book of the Skylark


The Stardroppers is a science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was originally published in 1963 as Listen, the Stars,


The Bureau of Sabotage is a fictional government entity set in two of Frank Herbert's science fiction novels, Whipping Star


Le Prix du Danger is a 1983 French-Serbian science fiction


February 1982. She has no children. Writing for over 35 years, Yarbro has worked in a wide variety of genres, from science fiction to westerns, from young adult adventure to


Ian R. MacLeod (born 1956) is a British science fiction and fantasy writer. He was born in Solihull near Birmingham. He


entire science fiction genre, the term "Syfy" can be protected by trademark and therefore would be easier to market on other goods or services without fear of confusion


is an American artist, primarily in the science fiction and fantasy genres. His artworks have been nominated eight times for Hugo Awards, and he is a past president


Evolution is a collection of short stories that work together to form an episodic science fiction novel by author Stephen Baxter.


and Willy Ley following participation as expert advisers for Fritz Lang's early science fiction film Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon). Ley and Oberoth had hoped to receive funding


Cloud Nebula is the 1989 sequel to the successful Starflight science fiction computer game. It was developed by Binary Systems, and published by Electronic Arts, for DOS. Starflight 2 introduced


science fiction American animated series produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It first aired on Kids' WB in January 2001. It is a spinoff series based on the character Zeta


all students during their first year at Columbia in the late 1940s. Kroeber was father of the academic Karl Kroeber and the writer (primarily of fantasy and science fiction)


surprise US dance hit. His second movie release of the decade came in 1987 in the form of Spaceballs, a parody of science fiction, mainly Star Wars. Both films


A science fiction thriller adventure about a rescue mission of the first manned mission to Mars, which encountered a catastrophic and mysterious disaster. Red Planet (2000) – A group of astronauts


Linda Park, is a fictional character in the science fiction television series . Sato is the communication officer aboard the starship Enterprise (NX-01), and also a linguist who


The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975.


The Man Who Sold the Moon is the title of a 1950 collection of science fiction short stories by Robert A. Heinlein. The stories, part of Heinlein's


that science fiction is a flavor that can be applied to any literary genre, rather than a limited genre itself. Specifically, in the book Asimov's Mysteries, he claims that


currently discernible. Dreamtime in creative art. Literature. Tad Williams four-volume science fiction epic Otherland touches upon Dreamtime and other aboriginal myths. Spider Robinson's science fiction trilogy "Stardance" touches upon this in the


Kathy Diane Wentworth (born 1951), known as K. D. Wentworth, is a science fiction author. She got her start winning the Writers of the


After serving over half of his sentence, he was released from prison and returned to his scientific work. He also wrote the first Croatian science fiction novel, On the


(May 18, 1930–June 29, 2007) was an American science fiction and fantasy fiction author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction stories. He also wrote a series


was the first of many games played with Icehouse pieces. Andrew Looney came up with the idea for a game played with pyramids in a series of science fiction


of science fiction novels and short stories. In the episode "Impact Winter" of the popular television show The West Wing, NASA sights a large asteroid that could possibly collide with Earth. President


Nick Pollotta is an American science fiction and fantasy author. The majority of his work has been


Paul O. Williams (January 17,1935 - June 2, 2009) was an American science fiction writer and


of earth as opposed to one from heaven or the underworld. The first use of the word in the contemporary sense was by science fiction author, Robert A. Heinlein, in Red Planet,


rum) is a poem of science fiction written by the Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1956. It was published on 13 October 1956. The title comes from ancient Greek


known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other


yet been constructed, but many design proposals have been made with varying degrees of realism by both science fiction authors and engineers. History. About 1970, near the end


The Dragonriders of Pern is an extensive science fiction/fantasy series of novels and short stories primarily written by Anne McCaffrey. Since 2004, McCaffrey's


George Zebrowski (born December 28, 1945 in Villach / Austria) is a science fiction author and


On the gripping hand is an expression found in the science fiction


warp, space warp and time-space warp are commonly used in science fiction. They sometimes refer to Einstein's theory that time and space form a continuum which bends, folds


John Jacob Astor's accomplishments was A Journey in Other Worlds, a 1894 science fiction novel titled about a fictional account of life in the year 2000 on the planets Saturn


British science fiction author. Morgan studied history at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduation he started teaching English in order to travel the world. After fourteen years and a post


They'd Rather Be Right (also published as The Forever Machine) is a science fiction novel by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley. It


the upcoming Finnish science fiction movie Iron Sky. Kammler is the obvious inspiration behind the character of Ernst Streicher in Michael Slade's novel 'Swastika'. Notes. See also. Arthur Rudolph.


Massimo Lo Jacono (born 1937) is an Italian science fiction and fantasy writer. In 1963 he was one of the editors of the science fiction magazine Futuro.


excluding our own Sun) is ~268 000 AU away from the Sun. The mean diameter of Betelgeuse is 5.5 AU (822 800 000 km). The distance from the Sun to the


of spectral type K or M. They are the largest stars in the universe in terms of volume, although they are not the most massive. Betelgeuse and Antares are the best


stars or measuring the bright cores of active galaxies. Example images of starspots on Betelgeuse can be seen. Focal length and f-ratio. The focal length determines how wide an


The mean diameter of Betelgeuse is 5.5 AU (822 800 000 km). The distance from the Sun to the centre of the Milky Way is approximately 1.7 AU.

spiral galaxy in the Local Group containing the Solar System


using optimistic numbers, suggested as many as one million communicating civilizations in the Milky Way in 1966, though he later suggested that the number could be far smaller. Skeptics, such as Frank


1917, the astronomer Harlow Shapley was able to estimate the Sun's distance from the galactic centre based on the distribution of globular clusters; previously the Sun's location within the Milky Way


Southern Hemisphere. It was the closest observed supernova since SN 1604, which occurred in the Milky Way itself. The light from the supernova reached Earth on February 23, 1987. As the first


god of the south, one of the skybearers. Mixcoatl (cloud serpent) - god of hunting, war, and the Milky Way. An aspect of Tezcatlpoca and father of Quetzalcoatl. Nanahuatzin (also Nana,


of star systems). The larger the number, the more predictable is the future. Using these techniques, Seldon foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way,


Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. 20 Em — 21,500 light years — Distance to OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, the most distant and the most Earth-like planet known. 24 Em


Edward Purcell observe the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen. 1956 - Lyman Spitzer predicts coronal gas around the Milky Way. 1965 - James Gunn and Bruce Peterson use


swinging past the Sun to boost its galactic travel. The energy and angular momentum would then come from the Sun's orbit around the Milky Way. The time scales involved for such an


the International Space Station or the Milky Way are other popular visible objects. Space, geodesy, and navigation. Many other things can be estimated without an instrument. If an arm is stretched the


should be understood as the Goddess of the Milky Way, or be associated with patterns of stars associated with Huitzilopochtli. References. Duran, Fray Diego (Doris Heyden, Translator). “The


the Milky Way itself, as exemplified by recent study of the halo star CS31082-001. Limiting factors in its precision are the quality of observations of faint stars, and perhaps more


events. Astronomy. Supernova 1604, also known as Kepler's Supernova, is observed., this was the last supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. Exploration. France begins settling French Guiana. Russian city of


multi-dimensional braneworld scenario. Examples. The distances are approximate mean distances. It has to be taken into consideration that the distances between celestial bodies change in time due to their orbits and

dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future


Quality time is an informal reference to time spent with loved ones (e.g., close family, partners or friends) which is in some way important, special, productive or profitable.


Do a Lot of Things Together. By the time Green was twelve, he had written ten more songs, and Time magazine ran a short piece about Green in an


Schrödinger equation. The Hamiltonian generates the time evolution of quantum states. If is the state of the system at time t, then. This equation is known as


velocity independent from time. It is the opposite of turbulent flow. In nonscientific terms laminar flow is "smooth," while turbulent flow is "rough.". The dimensionless Reynolds number is an important


of Harding's alleged involvement led to a media frenzy of saturation news coverage. Harding appeared on the cover of both Time and Newsweek magazines in January 1994. Reporters and TV


Oscillation is the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states. Familiar


material that can be gleaned, then studio story editors better spend more time at home looking at television." Time described the film as "wonderful". Louella Parsons enjoyed the


whole thing went wrong in the end." Timberlake also issued an apology, calling the accident a "wardrobe malfunction". Time magazine reported that the incident became the most


To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10−5 seconds and 10−4 seconds (10 microseconds to 100 microseconds). See


hieroglyph was figuratively depicted in art as a woman wearing a palm shoot (which was a representation of time) over her head. This figurative woman was often referred to


of stability in clocks and oscillators. It is also known as the two-sample variance, and written σy²(τ). It is defined as one half of the time average of

album based on Dave Clark's 1986 musical "Time


He defines narrative in terms of ten things: Narrative diachronicity: The notion that narratives take place over some sense of time. Particularity: The idea that narratives deal with particular


his own experiences in Butte, Montana as a Pinkerton agent. Time included Red Harvest in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Plot. The Continental Op


1947 incident fame and notoriety so that by the mid-1990s, strong majorities in polls, such as a 1997 CNN/Time poll, believed that aliens had visited earth and specifically that aliens had


In telecommunication, attack time is the time between (a) the instant


the number of bits per unit time. Note: Bit-count integrity is not the same as bit integrity, which requires that the delivered bits correspond exactly with the original bits.


Circuit reliability (also time availability) (CiR) is the percentage of time an electronic circuit was available for use in a specified


during the period of time when sunrise or sunset is present at critical points along the path. Significant phase shifts may occur on paths wherein a reflection area of


In telecommunications, the intercharacter interval is the time interval between


time, and is the number of unique algorithm-generated passwords (the 'password space'). The degree of password security is determined by the probability that a password can be guessed

village in Pike County, Illinois, United States of America


In telecommunication, the term release time has the following meanings: The time interval between (a) the instant that an enabling signal (as in a VOGAD or echo suppressor) is


moment). The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological or sequential time, the latter signifies a time in


tin or tinš means "day" and its plural is tinia showing that he is a god governing the passage of time (compare Father Time and Ancient of Days).


separation of at least 200 m between the two experimental parties is required for good results with this method. Other methods. In these methods the time measurement has been replaced


Duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval. In sounds and music, a.


In physics, the Planck time, (tP), is the unit of time in the system

1981 studio album by Electric Light Orchestra


the astrolabe, finding numerous additional uses for it. Al-Sufi also first described over 1000 different uses of an astrolabe, in areas as diverse as astronomy, astrology, horoscopes, navigation, surveying, timekeeping, Qibla,


- 2:39. See also. Dilbert. PC LOAD LETTER. The Office (UK TV series). The Office (US TV series). Stromberg (TV series). Waydowntown. TPS Reports. References. External links. article in Time


are commonly used in science fiction. They sometimes refer to Einstein's theory that time and space form a continuum which bends, folds or warps from the observer's point


such that their corresponding significant instants are displaced by a constant interval of time. Source: from Federal Standard 1037C in support of MIL-STD-188.


the visual system, auditory system and somatosensory system, so far. Stimulus. Sensory systems code for four aspects of a stimulus; type (), intensity, location, and duration. Arrival time of a sound


type of oscilloscope used in television applications. It is typically used to measure and display the level, or voltage, of a video signal with respect to time. The level


and makes seven kilobytes of memory unavailable to DOS. ©Brain was written by two brothers, Basit Amjad Farooq Alvi, who lived in Charminar, Lahore, Pakistan. The brothers told TIME


sonic energy E per time t unit. It is measured in watts, or sound intensity I times area A: The measure of a ratio of two sound powers is.


ratio is about 390. His estimate was based on the angle between the half moon and the sun, which he estimated as 87°. According to Eusebius of Caesarea in the

unincorporated community in Virginia, United States


Surveyor 5 was the fifth lunar lander of the Surveyor program that explored the Moon


embrace the entire universe.". See also. The crater Anaximenes on the Moon is named in his honour. Philosophy. Material monism. References. Further reading.


moon. After perihelion. After its perihelion passage, the comet moved into the southern celestial hemisphere, and its show was over as far as most of the northern hemisphere public were concerned. The


lithography, engraving, laser printing, attachment of photographs or other paper memorabilia, etc. Frequently flight cachets (which have also been used in space and on the moon) are rubber-stamped. The


Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1866. The crater Lyell on the Moon and a crater on Mars were named in his honour. In addition, Mount


Army. The overall goal of Horizon was to place a human on the Moon, a mission that would soon be taken over by the rapidly-forming NASA. Although concentrating


to Washington, DC, where Smithsonian Institution geochemist Brian Mason recognized that the sample was unlike any other known meteorite and resembled some rocks brought back from the Moon by


Montes Caucasus is a rugged range of mountains in the northeastern part of the Moon.


Titan (, or as), or Saturn VI, is the largest moon of Saturn, the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere,


that from the surface of the satellite, the main planet appears to be locked in place in the sky as it slowly rotates. The Moon is in synchronous rotation


astronomical photography and photographs the Moon. 1845 - Lord Rosse finishes the Birr Castle optical reflecting telescope, located in Parsonstown, Ireland. 1849 - Santiago observatory set up by USA, later becomes


1879, the Arago Medal in 1893, and was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (French Legion of Honor). Hall crater on the Moon as well


Chemie (1806). Klaproth was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1804. The crater Klaproth on the Moon is named after him. His son


1890 – April 21, 1967) was a French astronomer born in Caen. Danjon devised a method to measure "Earthshine" on the Moon using a telescope in which a prism split the


Luna 23 (Ye-8-5M series) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunnik 23. Luna 23 was a Moon lander mission which was intended to return a


a pawn of the powerful generals, one after the other. His reign and his life did not last long. The crater Ariadaeus on the Moon is named after him. Biography.


6 December 1958 by the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile agency in conjunction with NASA. The spacecraft was intended as a lunar probe, but failed to go past the Moon


1921. Mohorovičić is one of the most prominent earth scientists in 20th century. The crater Mohorovičić (51 km in diameter) on the Moon's far side is named in his honor. In


10 minutes of flight prior to crashing upon the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study radar reflectivity of


it became the moon, so that his mother would be comforted in seeing her daughter in the sky every night. Templo Mayor stone disk. A large shield-shaped stone relief reflecting

unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States


Space Physics and Astronomy (http://www.astro.utu.fi/) in honour of its founder. The crater Väisälä on the Moon is named after him, and so is the asteroid 1573 Väisälä. Asteroids discovered. Yrjö


9 payload was carried to Earth orbit by an A-2-E vehicle and then conveyed toward the Moon by a fourth stage rocket that separated itself from the


a meteorite that is known to have originated on the Moon. Discovery. In January 1982, John Schutt, leading an expedition in Antarctica for the ANSMET program, found


the Moon in the Sea of Rains. The spacecraft had dual ramps by which the payload, Lunokhod 1, descended to the lunar surface. Lunokhod 1 was a lunar vehicle


a club and a lotus. He rides his chariot (the moon) across the sky every night, pulled by ten white horses or an antelope. Although the antelope is the


South Pole-Aitken basin is an impact crater on Earth's Moon. Roughly 2500 kilometers in diameter and 13 kilometers deep, it is the second largest known impact crater in the entire Solar


the orbits of the Moon around the Earth, as well as that of planets around the Sun. The Hill sphere, which approximates the gravitational sphere of influence


Astrophotography is a specialized type of photography that entails making photographs of astronomical objects in the sky such as the Moon, Sun, planets, stars,


the northern part of the Moon's near side. It was named after Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. This range is located in the northern part of the


Moon. Harris is a part of historic Inverness-shire, and was administered as such under older administrative divisions. In the 2001 census, Harris had a usually resident population of 1,984.


around 1 milliarcsecond, equivalent to the gap between the headlights of a car as observed from the same distance as between the Earth to the Moon. General


the Vilnius Observatory in 1865. He was first to prove the non-sphericity of the Moon, concluding in 1860 that it is elongated in the direction of the Earth. He is


the Moon and interplanetary space. The spacecraft was equipped with an f/106 mm camera and TV system that provided automatic inflight film processing. On July 20 lunar flyby


Observatory. He worked closely with George Ellery Hale. Craters on Mars and the Moon were named in his honor. See also. List of astronomical instrument makers. Obituaries. (one sentence).

unincorporated community in Wisconsin, United States


east of Mare Frigoris. It is located along the northeastern limb of the Moon, and continues on to the far side. Due to its location, the visibility of this feature can


The long axis (line of the apsides: perigee and apogee) of the moon's elliptical orbit precesses about once in just under 9 years. It is caused by the


on the Moon is the location of the Apollo 14 landing site. It is named after the 80-kilometer-diameter crater Fra Mauro, located within it. It is a widespread hilly geological area


(the moon god) from his right eye and Susanoo (tempest or storm god) from his nose. The story of Izanagi and Izanami has close parallels to the Greek myth of


In vedic timekeeping, a tithi (also spelled thithi) is a lunar day, or the time it takes for the longitudinal angle between the moon


the project. The landmark Dionysiou Aeropagitou street has been pedestrianised, forming a scenic route. The route starts from the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Vasilissis Olgas Avenue, continues under the


Athens of Latin America – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Athens of Nicaragua - Granada, Nicaragua. Athens of Minas Gerais – Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Athens of North America –


bibliographic information for anyone interested in the discovery and independence of Nicaragua. The National Palace of Culture has on show an interesting exhibition of Nicaraguan art from the


Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Debayle () (5 December 1925 17 September 1980) was officially the 73rd and 76th President of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and


the east coast of Nicaragua. This state existed until approximately 1821, before Colombia took over control of these islands. Somewhat later (1823) this flag was again the


Originally, the agreement encompassed the United States and the Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and was called CAFTA. In 2004, the Dominican Republic joined


Nicaragua are nearly 50% hermaphrodite. The seeds were given by representatives from a World Relief / European Union joint team in 2001 to organizations such as APAC (Ascociación Pueblos


Light-Flyweight champion Rosendo Alvarez of Nicaragua, knocking Alvarez out in the sixth round in a non-title bout. On September 23, 2006, he moved up to the super-flyweight division where he defeated


executive vice president of finance for Nintendo of America Inc. Gilberto Wong- Presidential Spokesman of Nicaragua. Gregory A. Kozmetsky - philanthropist. Russell Byrd - video game designer for Iguana


Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela have done so – or, alternatively, a state can agree to abide by the Court's


(1976-81) emphasized human rights rather than anti-communism, while President Ronald Reagan (1981-89) promoted rollback with respect to both Nicaragua and Afghanistan. Despite these departures, central aspects of containment, including NATO


Calderón Fournier (born in Diriamba, Nicaragua, on 14 March 1949) served as President of Costa Rica from 1990 to 1994. His father was Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia,


Mexico. Río Grijalva (Mexico) was named after him. Bernal Díaz del Castillo wrote about the travels of Juan de Grijalva in his book. He died in Nicaragua in 1527. References.


five blue five-pointed stars arranged in an X pattern centered in the white band represent the five nations of the former Federal Republic of Central America (El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,


million – $800 million). Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori ($600 million). Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko ($114 million – $200 million). Former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Alemán ($100 million). Former Philippine


to communists. She left office on January 10, 1997. Chamorro was the first, and to date only, woman to hold that position in Nicaragua, and furthermore was the first elected


changed. Distribution, habitat and movements. The Olive Warbler is distributed from the United States to Nicaragua, making it the only bird family endemic to North America. In


times can take on the appearance of conspiracy theories. For example, Gary Webb's 1996 San Jose Mercury News expose linking the CIA to Nicaraguan contras organizing the distribution


mature deciduous forests in the Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Turks and Caicos Islands, and


the US began to maintain a significant military presence there, with the goal of providing a bulwark against the revolutionary Sandinista government of Nicaragua, a Leftist party which had driven


Mountain Range in the Yukon & Northwest Territories. The Mackenzie building at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. Mackenzie Hall in Windsor, Ontario. Alexander


now the Alaska Highway, and the fact that its eastern boundary (as defined by the Census Bureau) is the Yukon Territory, Canada border. The population of the community


and extend along an east-west axis across northern Alaska from near the northern opening of the Bering Strait to the northern Yukon Territory. Major subranges include the British Mountains and Richardson


Tutchone is an Athabaskan language spoken in the Yukon Territory in Canada. It has two varieties that are sometimes considered separate languages: Southern Tutchone and Northern

unincorporated community in Missouri, United States


Strait, Nares Mountain and Nares Lake, in Yukon, Canada, are named for him. He also surveyed the Magellan Strait and several locations in Australia, as well as holding the post


The Beaufort Sea () is the portion of the Arctic Ocean located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska and west

unincorporated community in West Virginia


just after John Sparrow David Thompson. Namesakes. The following are named in honour of Alexander Mackenzie: The Mackenzie Mountain Range in the Yukon & Northwest Territories. The Mackenzie

former federal electoral district of Canada


to catch fire easily or covered in snow. The balloons continued to arrive in Oregon, Kansas, Iowa, British Columbia, Manitoba, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Washington, Idaho, South Dakota, Nevada, Colorado, Texas, Northern


of Zimbabwe and Zambia. Virginia Falls (Northwest Territories) on South Nahanni River, Northwest Territories, Canada. World's 14th largest waterfall located in Nahanni National Park Reserve a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Waihilau Falls,


was born in Wingham, Ontario to a Methodist family and attended the University of Toronto. In 1881 he moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (then part of the Northwest Territories), where


in different places. In Greenland, Alaska, Labrador, the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories and in the western part of the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, it is written with the Latin alphabet.


three "reserves". At the time of settlement (1899), all four "reserves" were located in the Northwest Territories: Saskathewan (Rosthern) Colony in the territories' provisional District of Saskatchewan, North Reserve, straddling the


responsible for supervising federal involvement in the territorial governments of the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. History. A Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs was in the Canadian cabinet from


into separate species: The Western Warbling Vireo, V. swainsonii, includes V. g. swainsonii, which breeds from southeastern Alaska and southwestern Northwest Territories to the Sierra San Pedro Mártir,


year 1888 in Canada. Events. January 19 - Thomas Greenway becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing David H. Harrison. June 20 - The Northwest Territories holds its first general


November 3- Alan Hoole becomes Governor of Anguilla. November 4- Zlatko Matesa becomes Prime Minister of Croatia. November 22- Don Morin becomes Premier of the Northwest Territories. November 24- Roger


who became premier of the Northwest Territories under a consensus government system.). Born in Central Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, the daughter of Ralph R. Callbeck and Ruth Campbell, she received a Bachelor


Western Arctic is a federal electoral district and senate division in Northwest Territories, Canada, that has been


The Beaufort Sea () is the portion of the Arctic Ocean located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska and west of


Parliament until his death in 1892 from a stroke that resulted from hitting his head during a fall. He died in Toronto and was buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Sarnia, Ontario.


as an alderman in Sarnia from 1971 to 1974, and as mayor of the city from 1975 to 1980. He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1977


traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland. Lammas – Neopagan festival of Lammas. Lebanon – Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh). Yorkshire, England – Yorkshire Day. World Scout Day


In cryptography, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an encryption standard adopted by the U.S. government. The

practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties


In cryptography, a block cipher is a symmetric key cipher operating on fixed-length groups of bits, termed blocks, with an unvarying transformation. A block cipher encryption


a programming language, a tool for the precise expression of methodological information at various levels of abstraction. In cryptography, breaking the Enigma machine was an important factor contributing to


by mapping common words into shorter words (e.g. Huffman Code). Cryptography. Main article: Cryptography. Cryptography is about the creation of ciphers. A code word is an element of


career as an academic researcher.. He received his PhD in 1995, and became a lecturer in the same year. He lives near Sandy, Bedfordshire. In cryptography, he designed with Eli


In cryptography, coincidence counting is the technique (invented


under the codename Homer. The investigators were examining and forcing breaks in VENONA, which was a certain class of Soviet cryptography messages, which had been intercepted during the World War II


retain all the existing bits, and is frequently used in digital cryptography. Rotate through carry. Rotate through carry is similar to the rotate no carry operation, but the two


In cryptography, SEAL (Software-Optimized Encryption Algorithm) is a very fast stream cipher optimised for machines with a 32-bit word


In cryptography, the shrinking generator


explain concepts from computer science for laymen using simple language, metaphor and analogy. It moves from Boolean algebra through topics such as information theory, parallel computing, cryptography, algorithms, heuristics,


In cryptography, the Zimmermann-Sassaman key-signing protocol


In cryptography, a blind signature, as introduced by David Chaum, is a form of digital signature in which the content of a message is disguised (blinded)


In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption — a series of


powerful halting oracle and an even harder halting problem. Applications to cryptography. In cryptography, oracles are sometimes used to make arguments for the security of cryptographic protocols where (typically) a hash


The cypherpunks comprise an informal group of people interested in privacy and cryptography who originally communicated through the cypherpunks mailing list. The aim of the group was


In cryptography, Type 2 products are unclassified cryptographic equipment, assemblies, or components, endorsed


Unicity distance is a term used in cryptography referring to the length of an original ciphertext needed to break the


disciplines, or to poor application of them. This views FC as an appropriately crossdiscipline subject. Indeed, inevitably so, given that finance and cryptography are each built upon multiple disciplines.


Financial cryptography (FC) is the use of cryptography in applications in


(Aj)j∈J. In complexity theory and cryptography, an index set is a set for which there exists an algorithm I that can sample the set efficiently; i.e., on input 1n, I can


De furtivis Literarum Notis (1563) On secret codes and Cryptography. Villa (1583-92) An agricultural encyclopaedia. De humana physiognomonia libri IIII (1586) On Physiognomy. De refractione optices (1589) On Optics. Elementorum curvilineorum


In cryptography, a commitment scheme allows one to commit to a value


In cryptography, zeroisation (also spelled


father, also named Gaius Octavius, had been governor of Macedonia. His mother Atia was the niece of Julius Caesar. In 59 BC, when he was four years old,


Parthia through diplomacy. He reformed the Roman system of taxation, developed networks of roads with an official courier system, established a standing army (and a small navy), established

historical region located in north-eastern Iran


Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. __NOTOC__. Events. By place. Roman Empire. War between Rome and Parthia breaks out due to the


Empire. Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius starts a new war against the Parthians who are led by Vologesus. The war is brief and results in an inconclusive peace. Rome states that while


displays artifacts dating back to the Parthian and Persian civilizations. The Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan is an important institute of higher learning. Large mosques include the Azadi Mosque (which


of Bactria defeats an army of Parthians. He dies shortly thereafter and is succeeded by his son Diodotus II. Korea. Haemosu, who is a descendant of the


be part of the Persian Empire. Except for the Parthian and Seleucid periods when the region was ruled by local chiefdoms, Khwarezm more or less remained politically part of Persia


name taken from the Achaemenid Empire, and used to distinguish it from nearby Bactria. The Chinese explorer Zhang Qian, who visited the neighbouring countries of Bactria and Parthia


Parthians, and the Sassanians, was obscure and devoid of political influence. The poorest but most fervent of the exiles returned to Judaea during the reign of the Achaemenids. There, with


Roman commander in the east, captures Tigranocerta in Mesopotamia after defeating the Parthians. He sets up Tigranes as ruler of Armenia. By topic. Arts and sciences. In the Satyricon, Petronius pokes


__NOTOC__. Events. By place. Roman Empire. Lucius Verus begins a war with the Parthians, due to the invasion of Syria and Armenia by


tombs decayed, a fresh city of tombs arose on their ruins. It is remarkable that thus far, no cemetery older than the Seleucid or Parthian period has been


for the second time. Cleopatra Selene marries Juba II of Numidia, and as a wedding present Augustus Caesar makes her queen of Mauretania in her own right. Tiridates invades Parthia and


Mount Alvand, became a summer residence. Later, it became the capital of the Parthian kings, at which time it became their main mint, producing drachm, tetradrachm, and assorted bronze denominations.


Parthians. Antiochus VII Sidetes becomes king of the Seleucid Empire in his absence. Births. Deaths. Emperor Jing of Han China, Emperor of China (b. 188 BC).


before 100 BC the Scythians overran Parthia. Births. Deaths. References.


and Cleopatra Thea. Upon the death of his father in Parthia and his uncle Demetrius II Nicator's return to power (129 BC), his mother sent him to Cyzicus on the


shrubs, including mountain laurel and rhododendron. Among cultivated plants are wisteria and camellia. While in the past the state enjoyed a variety of mammals such as Plains Bison, Eastern


the hybridizing of rhododendrons and their planting around Flora's Green, and the creation of the Italian Garden. Before the First World War the garden required the services of 22 gardeners to


There are fine mature woodlands and a large variety of rhododendrons and azaleas. In the early 20th century Henry Morris Upcher obtained rhododendron seeds of various types from


azalea, rhododendron, and holly on slopes leading down to ornamental lakes. Gertrude Jekyll explored the woods in the early 20th century. The exotic trees were planted from 1938


Notable people. Kate Austen, fictional character from ABC's Lost tv series; lived in Ames. John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry, inventors of world's first electronic digital computer


Mapother is also an actor most known for playing Ethan Rom on Lost. Filmmaking. Acting career. 1980s. Cruise's first film role came in 1981, when he had a small role in


"The Easton Assassin"). Frank Reed Horton - founder of Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity. Daniel Dae Kim - actor, ABC's Lost. Christopher Lennertz - film, television, and video game music composer,

painting by Frederick Mccubbin (NGV, 1118-4)


also an influence on the TV series Lost. Novels. La invención de Morel (1940, translated into English as The Invention of Morel, or "Morel's Invention" ISBN 1-59017-057-1). Plan de


who have lived in the area include John Thomson, Jason Cowan (Big Brother 5), Amy Searles(Coronation Street),Gary Mounfield (Primal Scream and The Stone Roses), Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings, Lost


titles, especially the early work, share common traits (likely influenced by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, on which Parsons was the audio engineer in 1973). They were concept albums,


celebrating the vibe of the area. The song "Waiting for the Worms" from Pink Floyd's The Wall has a rally leader speaking into a megaphone to a racist rally mob, which


Pink Floyd. Petro's also debuted at the 1982 World's Fair. See also. World's Fair. Sunsphere. East Tennessee Historical Society. National Conservation Exposition. References. External links. , by Bruce Schulman. ,


their melodies, whimsical lyrics, and inventive production. They often appeared on the same bill with such bands as The Spencer Davis Group, The Who, The Small Faces, Pink Floyd


Who, Gong, and Pink Floyd, among many others. Well-known examples of its use are on The Who track "Won't Get Fooled Again" from Who's Next and Pink Floyd's "On the


as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix) in 1971. Nearly all of the tracks on this album are compositions or traditional arrangements of Murat Ses, the group's keyboardist, arranger and composer


Stone of Sisyphus, the previously unreleased album by the band Chicago. Sisyphus (dialogue), a dialogue ascribed to Plato. "Sysyphus", an instrumental by Richard Wright of Pink Floyd. Tantalus. The Myth of


listed. The station's celebrity owes to numerous cultural appearances, which include a shot in The Beatles' 1965 movie Help! and being used in the cover art of Pink Floyd's 1977


Rodriguez-Lopez had stated that they wanted their next album to sound like Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, while the other members of the band


in clubs. When artists such as Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson toured Italy, Linford served as their local production manager. Career. As computers began to be used in music


A Nice Pair is a compilation album by Pink Floyd, re-issuing


Eve album. Parsons released titles under his name (Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana (about Sigmund Freud's work


Scotsman Eric Woolfson in the canteen of Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1974. Parsons had already acted as assistant engineer on The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It

road in the borough of Camden and the City of Westminster in London


psychology) and Poe - More Tales of Mystery and Imagination (continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature). Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first


of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, which Baudelaire greatly admired and translated into French, were a significant influence and the source of many stock


account for their continuing resonance and popularity. All these interests naturally led to his deep affection for the works of Edgar Allan Poe, who heavily influenced his earliest macabre stories and writing

Attorney General of Maryland from 1911 to 1915


study of the works of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Poe et ses oeuvres, 1864) and it is not difficult to see Poe's works, published in France as Histoires extraordinaires


"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death"(1842) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince


- a title that included 16 colour plates and more than 24 monotone illustrations. This was closely followed by an illustrations for an edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales


of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping. As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. (Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"). Dactylic.


the USA.). Demonomania Delusion that one is possessed by demons. Monomania in literature. The 19th century writer Edgar Allan Poe would often write tales in which the narrator and


"Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of


detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe]... at night he went about the streets of Buenos Aires looking for that intellectual stimulus that only can be given by nighttime


In 1837 in Philadelphia he established the Gentlemen's Magazine, of which Edgar Allan Poe was for some time the editor. His magazine was intended for a general audience, incorporating

1909 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith


The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They honor the best


(1971) for narrator and orchestra after Edgar Allan Poe, are little known. In addition to his earlier Saint Louis recordings for RCA and EMI, Slatkin has conducted several recordings for the Naxos


of Lewes, founded by the earl of Warren, c. A.D. 1077. Of this only a few fragments of the domestic buildings exist. The best preserved Cluniac houses in


operates the Delaware Memorial twin suspension bridges, the Cape May-Lewes Ferry between Cape May, New Jersey and Lewes, Delaware, the Three Forts Ferry Crossing and the Salem County

city in Sussex County, Delaware, United States of America


Jameson's lectures in Edinburgh, and visited Gideon Mantell at Lewes, in Sussex. In 1823 he was elected joint secretary of the Geological Society. As his eyesight began to

city in Sussex County, Delaware, United States of America


qualifies as one of England's Marilyns. The summit is not marked on the ground. Transport. Crowborough is located on the A26 road between Tunbridge Wells and Lewes. and near the A21


of its inmates. It should comprise a mill, a bakehouse, stables, and cow-houses, together with accommodation for carrying on all necessary mechanical arts within the walls, so as to obviate the

Bramley, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire, RG26


investment strategy, can in fact be favorable in many cases to a stable strategy, setting passive management apart from its more change-prone counterparts. The capital asset pricing

Stratfield Saye, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire, RG7


rooms, and two flanking rectangular wings both built around a central courtyard: one contains the stables, and the other the kitchens, laundries, and storehouses. If Castle Howard was the first


the Abbey of St Augustine's at Bristol, now the cathedral church of that city, shows the arrangement of the buildings, which departs very little from the ordinary Benedictine

city in South West England, United Kingdom


Aardman Animations in Bristol, where he worked as an animator on commercial products (including the video for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer", where he worked on the famous dance scene involving


Charing. From here, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, coaches departed by various routes to Dover, Brighton, Bath, Bristol, Cambridge, Holyhead and York. The inn features in Sketches by

borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States


village of Jasionka north of the city. Scheduled passenger services include flights to: Warsaw (WAW), Dublin, London (Stansted), Bristol, UK, Birmingham, UK, New York (JFK Airport, and Newark Liberty International

census-designated place in Vermont, United States


100th Window is the fourth studio album from the Bristol-based


The Bishop of Bristol heads the Church of England Diocese of Bristol in the Province of Canterbury, in England. The present diocese covers parts


best known as Ernest Giles, was an Australian explorer who led three major expeditions in central Australia. Early life. Ernest Giles was born in Bristol, England son of William Giles,

city in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States


"Poems from the Trenches" are recognised as some of the most outstanding written during the First World War. Biography. Isaac Rosenberg was born in Bristol in 1890 to Barnet


was made a deacon and in 1822 a priest. In 1823 he became curate of Booterstown in Dublin, moving to Bristol in 1831 and St James's Chapel, Piccadilly in


town after Bristol, England. Population of Bristol in (1890) 199; (1910) 444; (1940) 675; (1970) 470; (1980) 441. The population was 377 at the 2000 census. Geography. Bristol is located


and gentler electronic music upon approaching sunrise. In 1994, trip hop emerged from Bristol, which combined elements of hip hop beats, drum and bass breaks, and ambient atmospheres


Hellier Baily (1819—1888) was an English palaeontologist. His uncle was E.H. Baily, a sculptor. William Hellier Baily was born at Bristol on July 7, 1819. From 1837 to 1844 he was


part of Wythe County to form Smyth County. With the incorporation of the town of Goodson as the independent city of Bristol in 1890, Washington County assumed its present size. Geography.

independent city in Virginia, United States


Fred Wedlock (born Peter Frederick Wedlock, 23 May 1942, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England) is a folk singer best known for his UK hit single, "The Oldest


was originally manufactured by the Bristol-based food and drink company HW Carter as a blackcurrant cordial. Development research into pure fruit syrups for the manufacture of milkshakes had been done at

human settlement in the United States of America


richest Englishmen of his day. He was born at Bristol in 1399 or 1400, a member of a wealthy family of merchants and cloth manufacturers in that city. He


Bristol and the surrounding smaller towns and communities in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. All three of the principal cities are located in the extreme northeastern corner of

city in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States


Stoke Gifford, a suburb of Bristol, England. References. External links.

city in and the county seat of Liberty County, Florida, United States


the Imperial Tobacco Company, and also represented Bristol North in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist. A member of the wealthy Bristol tobacco importing Wills family, he was the younger


DPA headquarters at Abbey Wood, Bristol. This only covered production for the RAF. At this point none of the other nations had signed up for production. The percentage share

unincorporated community in Pierce County, Georgia, United States


line, including 6.20% of those under age 18 and 9.60% of those age 65 or over. Towns. Barrington. Bristol. Warren. See also. List of Registered Historic Places in


Bristol, England) is an English singer-songwriter. The one time jazz-funk guitarist was a mid 1980s teen idol. His 50 weeks on the UK Singles Chart in 1984 beat all

human settlement in Ontario County, New York, United States of America


September 1796 – 6 January 1849) was an English writer. He was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was born near Bristol, and spent


She travelled abroad, and, visiting Rome, the Duchess was received with honor by Pope Clement XIV. Meanwhile, in March 1775, her first husband's brother died and Hervey became Earl of Bristol.


Portishead today. Portishead is primarily a dormitory town for Bristol and its environs. Local employers include the Avon and Somerset Constabulary, which has its headquarters on the western

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801-1885


district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was built for the married couple, Rosario Segimon and Pere Milà. Rosario Segimon was the wealthy widow of José Guardiola, an Indiano, a


(1927). This version was widely used, with examples going to Sweden, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, Spain, United States, and Poland. Military Enigma. The Navy was


negotiation of reciprocity treaties with Argentina, France, Germany, Cuba, and the British West Indies; the negotiation of new treaties with Spain; and the negotiation of a treaty


__NOTOC__. Events. By place. Rome. Germanic tribes attack Gaul and northern Spain, the Cimbri defeated


in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. External links.


1857 and is named for the explorer Hernando De Soto, who claimed the Louisiana Territory for Spain. De Soto was the city closest to the mean center


Fines is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Demographics. Source: External links. - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía. [Fines]


As a result, Monturiol wrote a letter to the nation and encouraged a popular subscription which raised 300,000 pesetas from citizens of mainland Spain and Cuba. Ictineo was eventually


Spain. In many cases (as listed above), the EU PDO/PGI system works parallel with the system used in the specified country, and in some cases is subordinated


(the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal), where they raised yet another army. Caesar soon followed and, on March 17, 45 BC, the armies met in the battle


after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was also a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young. Life. Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga was born in Bilbao, Spain on


Races: Kentucky Derby – Fusaichi Pegasus. Preakness Stakes – Red Bullet. Belmont Stakes – Commendable. Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships: Breeders' Cup Classic – Tiznow. Breeders' Cup Distaff – Spain.


writer of a tract on the Trinity and Incarnation, who was exiled to Spain in 378-380 and then relapsed to Judaism; but he afterwards abandoned this theory of the


of Spain officialized the moving of the capital. This dramatically increased the potential for expansion of the city. Guatemala City was the scene of the declaration of independence of Central America


(12.9%), France (11.4%), and Spain (7.4%). Labour. Following the 2003 "Biagi law", a controversial labour reform, unemployment has been steadily decreasing, reaching 6.2% in 2007, the lowest rate since the


marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain. 1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor


of Castile. Muhammed V builds the Granada Hospital in Granada (in present-day Spain). War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in present-day


France, Spain, and Portugal to support queen Isabella II of Spain against her uncle Don Carlos, Count of Molina, who claimed the Spanish throne under the succession law of 1714-1830,


Spain produced the most silver in his time, many of the mines having been started by Hannibal. One of the largest had galleries running for between one and two miles into the


after a city in Spain, has an area of 24 square kilometres (9 sq mi) and a maximum altitude of 259 metres (850 ft). Santa Fe hosts a forest


Escurial is a village in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.


landscapes, castles in Spain, and farms in Burgundy, etchings like the series of "The Triumph of Death," and the sculptured fountains for the gardens of the duke of Portland


Dublin, in Ireland, son of the Dublin writer Melasina Trench. He went to school at Harrow, and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1829. In 1830 he visited Spain. While incumbent


Henry took Holy Orders to promote Portuguese interests within the Catholic Church, then dominated by Spain. He rose fast through the Church hierarchy, becoming in quick succession Archbishop of Braga, Archbishop


games for Hilldale in the ECL regular season. Field hockey. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is founded on January 7 in Paris by seven member states: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain


was sold for scrap in Spain in 1975. References.


Abdera (, Strabo;, Ptol.;, Ephor. ap. Steph. B.) was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain, between Malaca (now Málaga) and Carthago Nova


II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635). Egica, Visigothic king of Spain. Liutpert, Lombard king of Italy. Al Muhallab ibn Abi Suffrah, Governor of Basra. Chen Zi'ang,


Spanish, Italians, Irish, French, Greeks, Germans, English, Scots, Croats, and Palestinian communities. The largest ethnic group in Chile arrived from Spain and the Basque regions in the south of France. Estimates


province of northern Spain in the southern part of the Basque Autonomous Community. The province numbers a population of 301,926 inhabitants in an area of 2,963 km². It is bordered


runs through Neosho today. In the 1882, after the vineyards of France, Spain, and Portugal were struck by the deadly phylloxera louse, it was determined that grapes bred by Neosho


Saint Andrew. (Saint Andrew is also a patron saint of Russia). The very same Saltire was also flown as the flag of Galicia in Spain until 1891, when Russia requested


as José María Blanco Crespo, was a Spanish theologian and poet. He was born in Seville in Spain. White had Irish ancestry and was the son of the merchant Guillermo


of Comayagua or Honduras, with Comayagua as its capital. After independence from Spain it was the capital of the state of Honduras in the United States of Central


occurs in two population groups separated by a huge geographical region between. One population lives in Western Europe, specifically the southwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain and Portugal. The


analogous term "Antiguo Régimen" is often used in Spanish. However, although Spain was strongly affected by the French Revolution and its aftermath, the break was not as sharp


the Hispano HA-200 jet trainer for Hispano Aviacion in Spain in 1952 before eventually being allowed to return to aircraft manufacturing in Germany to licence-produce the Fiat G91


field on the left side is the Eagle of the United States, and in the red field on the right is the Lion-Rampant of Spain, both representing


of Tacuarembó. In 1946 he married Luz López Alegre. From 1973 to 1985, when a military dictatorship ruled Uruguay, Benedetti lived in exile in Buenos Aires, Lima, Havana, and Spain


service in France. From 1914 to 1924, he was posted in Madrid, Spain, and was Mexico's Chargé d'affaires, 1920-24. He also pursued a literary career as journalist, investigator, translator, critic,


go back to Spain with him and to submit their rival territorial claims to the arbitration of the crown. In July 1539, they sailed for Spain from Cartagena. However, none


García and he ended their controversy at the II South American Community of Nations Summit. On July 20, 2006 García named as Finance Minister Luis Carranza, a former executive at Spain-based


Spain, is a town and municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, within the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. The town is located at 4° 49' W and 38° 46'


buyers in Spain. Cupón Diario. The ONCE periodically introduces new products onto the market and the information below regarding the prices and prizes of ONCE products may not be up-to-date.


sinking were published in the Illustrated London News. Politician and future United States' ambassador to Spain, Ogden Haggerty Hammond of Louisville, Kentucky (survived) and his first wife, Mary Picton


Farruca is a form of Flamenco music, probably originating in the Galicia region of north-western Spain. It is a light form typical of cante chico, and is traditionally


peoples were conquered by Spain in the sixteenth century. Costa Rica was then the southern-most province in the Spanish territory of New Spain. The provincial capital was in Cartago. For


Colombia, and of Ecuador all use variants of the flag of Great Colombia, the country they composed upon their independence from Spain, created by the Venezuelan independence


Events. May—El Cid completes his conquest of Valencia, Spain, and begins his rule of Valencia. May 15 – The Cathedral of Saint Agatha in Catania is consecrated


Arabic which he had brought with him from Spain. His grammatical writings, among which Moznayim ("Scales", 1140) and Zahot (Tzakhot = "Correctness", 1141) are the most valuable, were the first expositions


Priorat is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain. The central part of the comarca, "Priorat històric," produces the famous and prestigious wine of the Denominación de Origen


nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Biography. Torres was born on 28 December 1852, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, in Santa Cruz de Iguña, Molledo (Cantabria), Spain. The family resided


livres (pounds), about 48.95 kg, and has later been redefined as 100 kg (mesures usuelles), thus called metric quintal with symbol qq. In Spain, the centena is still defined as 100


RedLibre is a free networks wireless meta community in Spain. The goals of the RedLibre project are: Build


top musicians from around the globe. Sister city. Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. See also. Balady citron. References. Bibliography. External links. (English). (English). (English). (English & Hebrew).


inhabited capital (one with figures). In France the most important centers for sculpture include: Cluny, Autun, Vézelay, Toulouse and Moissac. In Spain, León and Santiago de Compostela have some of the


Ernest of Bavaria (1554-1612). From then, Stanihurst analysed the relationships between medicine and chemistry. In the early 1590 he was invited to Spain by King Philip II, who


party in Spain campaigning for the independence of Catalonia from this country. It is also the main sponsor of the independence movement from France and Spain in the territories known


19 episodes that drew up to 20 million viewers in Spain, has been rerunned almost every summer since then and has left a deep impact on several


the pygmy sperm. Its favorite habitat appears to be just off the continental shelf. In the Atlantic, strandings have been observed in Virginia, United States in the west and Spain in


(officially part of the kingdom of Sardinia) was enlarged. The Bourbon dynasty was restored to France and Spain as well as a return of other legitimate rulers to the Italian states.


Eighty Years' War. Spanish troops quickly started fighting the rebels, but before the revolt could be completely defeated, a war between England and Spain had broken out, forcing Philip's Spanish troops


__NOTOC__. Events. By place. Europe. Abd-ar-rahman II becomes ruler of Umayyad Spain. Byzantine


sold the boat to Spain for 1.5 million Reichsmark. On August 2, at 10am, she was commissioned into the Armada Española as G-7. G-7's repairs were completed in 1947,


and a founder of the modern-day popular Flamenco style of music. Early life and career. Carlos Montoya was born in Madrid, Spain, unto a gypsy family, on December 13, 1903. As


and carries a 250 kg warhead to an official depth of 600 meters. It is also used by Pakistan and Spain. References.


styles that correspond to slower Cuban music, such as the bolero-son. Flamenco Rumba, a style of flamenco music from Spain also known as Gypsy Rumba or Rumba


Benidorm (,) is a Valencian coastal town and municipality located in the comarca of Marina Baixa, in the province of Alicante, Spain, by the western Mediterranean


coefficient is comparable to the national averages in Germany, Sweden, Norway and Austria, and better than Canada, France, Spain, Italy, UK, USA and South Korea). Nationally, too,


he established his career as a society painter. He also became known for his etchings of pre-war Britain, Italy and Spain. He died in Haywards Heath, West Sussex in 1968. External


The entire area passed in 1384 to the dukes of Burgundy, in 1477 to the Habsburg dynasty, and in 1556 to the kings of Spain. The western districts of