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| Cethegus | ... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of | and Varro (or, less frequently, year 777 Ab urbe condita). The denominatio ... |
| Amiga | ... uter era, composing the music for tens of games. He was also an experienced | programmer and ported many of Thalion Software's Atari ST titles. He no lo ... |
| ENIAC | ... the name CONIAC (Conny [Palm] Integrator And Calculator, compare Cognac and | ) for the predecessor BARK |
| Brown Bess | ... rachm cartridges were compatible with none but the San Patricio Companies " | " muskets, and they made up only a fraction of the defending forces. Furth ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... r shorten a year in which his political opponents held office. It was while | was pontifex maximus that the calendar was overhauled, with the result bei ... |
| Project Gutenberg | ... peaking world (and which is currently available online for free download by | ). It was often the book after the Bible that was most frequently owned by ... |
| RIM-7 Sea Sparrow | The Sparrow was used as the basis for a surface-to-air missile, the | , which is used by the United States Navy for air defense of its ships |
| Radiodrum | ... x which was also developed at Bell Laboratories in 1969. Development of the | , a three dimensional electronic instrument. In 1988, TAT-8 became the fir ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | A Woman Under the Influence has an overall approval rating of 94% on | |
| Intel 8255 | ... vided by the AY-3-8910 chip manufactured by General Instrument (GI), and an | Programmable Peripheral Interface chip was used for the parallel I/O such ... |
| Barlow lens | File:Saturn-27-03-04.jpeg|Saturn photographed using negative projection ( | ) with a Philips Tou Webcam attached to a 250mm Newtonian telescope. It is ... |
| Allmusic | ... Suddenly, Eric Burdon and Van Morrison weren't so weird — even Bob Dylan." | has described Jagger as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen ... |
| Dulmont Magnum | ... onal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian | laptop, one of the first laptops; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a ... |
| GamesRadar | ... toise evolved from Squirtle. IGN's Pokémon Chick called it "quite popular". | editor Brett Elston commented that Blastoise is “hecka cool” and “well wor ... |
| BBC Micro | ... r made by Acorn Computers Ltd from 1980 to 1982 when it was replaced by the | (originally Proton) and later the Acorn Electron |
| Combined Cipher Machine | From 1943 the Americans and the British agreed upon a | (CCM). The British Typex and American ECM Mark II could be adapted to beco ... |
| W59 | ... o the Skybolt warhead, it was decided to adapt this design, based on the US | , for Polaris instead of the original W58 |
| Acorn Electron | ... 982 when it was replaced by the BBC Micro (originally Proton) and later the | |
| IBM Personal Computer | ... C compatible computers, being the first company to legally reverse-engineer | . It rose to become the largest supplier of PC systems during the 1990s be ... |
| TOP500 | The November 2007 release of the 30th | list of the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world, has LLNL’s Bl ... |
| Anpanman | ... rt and has never recovered. In a 2010 survey, she was in third place behind | and Pikachu from Pokémon. In 2010, the New York Times described Hello Kitt ... |
| Jesse Helms Center | ... the official papers and historical items from his Senate career, where the | is based to promote his legacy. In 2005, Liberty University opened the Jes ... |
| Musical America | ... en freely and is more modern than his previous works. Gershwin explained in | , "My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in ... |
| DVD | On July 27, 1999, a digitally restored print of the film was released in | by Organa through Geneon (Pioneer), and packaged with the documentary The ... |
| St Paul's Cathedral | ... at the time of his death. He was buried in a sarcophagus of luxulyanite in | next to Lord Nelson |
| OT-64 SKOT | ... rmored personnel carriers, 15 Czech BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles and 90 | APCs, 64 German Condor APCs, 15 Brazilian EE-9 Cascavel and 18 EE-3 Jarara ... |
| Atari ST | ... also an experienced Amiga programmer and ported many of Thalion Software's | titles. He no longer composes music for a living and in 2006 he was workin ... |
| Lepidus | ... one of the forcible acts of the triumvirs of 43 BC (Octavianus, Antony, and | ), that they obliged the senators to repair the public roads at their own ... |
| Allmusic | ... the Roof, which featured jazz arrangements of eight songs from the musical. | awarded the album 4 stars and states "Cannonball plays near his peak; this ... |
| W58 | ... adapt this design, based on the US W59, for Polaris instead of the original | |
| Atari ST | ... rn 1970), a French musician known by the alias Jess, wrote chiptunes on the | during the 1990s |
| M14 | ... d finished in Australia, chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO and feed from modified | magazines. The No. 4 Mk IV is designed with the modern shooter in mind, an ... |
| Teddington weir | ... tides forecast in the North Sea and high river flows at the tidal limit at | indicate that water levels would exceed in central London. Forecast sea le ... |
| JT8D-219 | ... n a joint venture with Seven Q Seven (SQS) and Omega Air, has developed the | as a re-engine powerplant for Boeing 707-based aircraft, calling their mod ... |
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| 55 Cancri | ... the Bayer designation if the latter contains an extra attached number, so " | " is more common than "Rho-1 Cancri" |
| Mark 48 Mod-1 | ... , including purchase of the U.S. Mark 45 ASTOR nuclear torpedo, or the U.S. | , or Subroc from the United States, or at the initiative of Flag Officer S ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... arose in the 1980s, with the funk-influenced singer Prince, dance-pop star | , and a wave of female vocalists like Tina Turner and Whitney Houston. Mic ... |
| Compis | ... ; the Siemens PC-D (not 100% IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2.11 ); the | (a Swedish school computer); the RM Nimbus (a British school computer); th ... |
| Unisys ICON | ... (a Swedish school computer); the RM Nimbus (a British school computer); the | (a Canadian school computer); ORB Computer by ABS; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, ... |
| H2S radar | ... .C. Cossor and Pye, a 60 MHz radar was developed, and from 1941 to 1943 the | system |
| Augustus | ... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of | and Traianus (or, less frequently, year 851 Ab urbe condita). The denomina ... |
| Heading indicator | ... d for IFR flight are those that are required for VFR flight in addition to: | , Sensitive Altimeter adjustable for Barometric Pressure, Clock with a swe ... |
| Augustus | ... he king” (Félibien, 1674). Accordingly, one finds scenes of the exploits of | , Alexander the Great, and Cyrus alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Light ... |
| Combined Cipher Machine | For inter-Allied communications during World War II, the | (CCM) was developed, used in the Royal Navy from November 1943. The CCM wa ... |
| Nintendo DS | ... t) launched The Price Is Right video game for PC. A version for the Wii and | platforms was released in September 2008, while a version for the iOS was ... |
| Attitude indicator | ... rometric Pressure, Clock with a sweep-second pointer or digital equivalent, | , Radios and suitable Avionics for the route to be flown, Alternator or ge ... |
| ground loop | ... ntial can be reduced by proper bonding to a common ground at the house. See | |
| Sinclair QL | The company also sold the Lattice C compiler for the | and the Atari ST and range of other languages for m68k-based computers. Me ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... s a set of Christmas songs that he arranged in a rock style on his school's | |
| Pratt & Whitney JT4 | ... eeded. Braniff International Airways ordered the higher-thrust version with | A engines, the 707-220. The final major derivative was the 707-320, which ... |
| Commodore 64 | The group was founded in 1986 by PSI as a | group, before moving to the PC demoscene in 1988; other members included, ... |
| David Letterman | Since 1982, Shaffer has served as musical director for | 's late night talk shows: as leader of "The World's Most Dangerous Band" f ... |
| Mk 15 Phalanx | The M61 is also the basis of the US Navy | CIWS system and the M163 VADS Vulcan Air Defense System (the M168 variant ... |
| Mizuno Shinryu | Another Japanese Fi 103 version was the | , a proposed rocket-powered kamikaze aircraft design which was not built |
| planing machine | ... ne used for boring the large-diameter cylinders on early steam engines. The | , the slotting machine and the shaping machine were developed in the first ... |
| P-15 Termit | ... or sunk to build reefs. Cuba has constructed rolling platforms with Soviet | missile batteries taken from its warships and placed them near beaches whe ... |
| General Electric LM2500 | ... MTU 16V1163 TB83 diesel engine (providing , used for cruising speed), and a | gas turbine (providing , used to reach top speed for short periods). Chakr ... |
| General Electric CF6 | ... & Whitney JT9D turbofan engines, whereas the series 10 and 30 engines were | . Before delivery of its aircraft, Northwest's president asked that the "s ... |
| Turn coordinator | ... Alternator or generator, gyroscopic rate of turn indicator that is either a | or the Turn and bank indicator |
| MSX | ... leased, in 1988 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum and | . He had another game titled Emilio Butragueño 2 in 1989 which was a compi ... |
| Atari ST | The company also sold the Lattice C compiler for the Sinclair QL and the | and range of other languages for m68k-based computers. MetaComCo also repr ... |
| HP 200LX | ... nisys ICON (a Canadian school computer); ORB Computer by ABS; the HP 100LX, | , HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX; the Tandy 2000 desktop (a somewhat PC-com ... |
| Michael Phelps | ... considered teen idols like Nadia Comăneci, Mary Lou Retton, Shawn Johnson, | and Apolo Ohno as well as 1970s nine time swimming gold medalist Mark Spit ... |
| Seismometer | ... ast were equivalent to over of TNT, and could be heard and felt up to away. | s at Science Museum Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, away, and in Norman, Oklaho ... |
| hydrogen bomb | With the 1952 test of the first U.S. | , code named "Ivy Mike", the island of Elugelab in the Enewetak atoll was ... |
| Ain't It Cool News | ... also hosted the MTV series, in 2005. The film review websites Spill.com and | are based in Austin. Rooster Teeth Productions, creator of popular web ser ... |
| analog | ... he noisy channel coding theorem to the archetypal case of a continuous-time | communications channel subject to Gaussian noise. The theorem establishes ... |
| DVD | Both theatrical versions were released on VHS, Laserdisc and | . But the R-rated version never saw wide release until its Laserdisc (in l ... |
| jazz pianist | ... Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943), born Thomas Wright Waller, was a | , organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer |
| IBM PC | ... ed directly against IBM, manufacturing computer systems equivalent with the | . In the 1990s, as IBM's own PC division declined, Compaq faced other IBM ... |
| Air-to-Air Stinger | ... nd can be used by paratroopers. A helicopter launched version exists called | (ATAS) |
| Wallace Sword | ... was erected, very close to the site of his victory at Stirling Bridge. The | , which supposedly belonged to Wallace, although some parts were made at l ... |
| Overwhelmingly Large Telescope | ... lanet Finder, Space Interferometry Mission, Darwin, New Worlds Mission, and | |
| F117 | ... -22 Raptor, the F100 family that powers the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon, the | for the C-17 Globemaster III, the J52 for the EA-6B Prowler, the TF33 powe ... |
| BMW 132 | ... Hornet engines. By the mid-30s they had introduced an improved version, the | . The BMW 132 was widely used, most notably on the Junkers Ju 52, which it ... |
| Vega | ... ing in 1861. The first photograph of a star was a daguerreotype of the star | by astronomer William Cranch Bond and daguerreotype photographer and exper ... |
| one chip-MSX | ... ed (in August 2006) the launch of a new MSX2 compatible system called the " | ", a system based on an Altera Cyclone EP1C12Q240C8 FPGA. The one chip-MSX ... |
| Asafa Powell | ... tood as the Commonwealth record from 1996 until 2005, when it was broken by | , and is the current Canadian record (shared with Bruny Surin since 1999). ... |
| Brass instrument | | players may produce vibrato by gently shaking the horn which varies the pr ... |
| Malcolm McLaren | ... numerous awards and recognitions, and acquired an unexpected audience after | sampled some of its music in his 1982 hit song, "Buffalo Girls." Later the ... |
| DVD | ... is still available through Organa at organa.com. In 2004, a budget edition | was released by Alpha Video. A laserdisc version was released by the Crite ... |
| AGM-114 Hellfire | ... our hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of | missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems ... |
| Epiphone Texan | ... and that George Martin later persuaded them to allow McCartney to play his | steel-string acoustic guitar, later on editing-in a string quartet for bac ... |
| EPROM | ... a physical swap of the software or firmware, which is usually stored on an | but may be loaded onto non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) or even s ... |
| Euan Byers | ... Andrew Coltart and Robert Dinwiddie. Curling world champions David Murdoch, | and Craig Wilson were all born in Dumfries. Former darts champion is anoth ... |
| Wii Remote | ... he game's hardware. Dragon Quest Swords for the Wii uses the motion sensing | as a sword. Another spin-off title, Slime MoriMori Dragon Quest, uses the ... |
| Phalanx close-in weapon systems | ... an 8-cell Mark 41 Vertical launch system for Sea Sparrow missiles, and four | |
| WE.177 | ... lag Officer Submarines minuted that the proposal to arm the Mark 8 with the | A warhead would, despite the torpedo's performance shortcomings, be "much ... |
| Commodore Datasette | ... program and data storage. A dedicated tape recorder along the lines of the | was never produced; Apple recommended using the Panasonic RQ309 in some of ... |
| Paul McCartney | ... featured "George's Band" and included the surviving members of The Beatles, | and Ringo Starr, as well as musicians Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, ... |
| interceptor | ... th a strength of 17,969 troops, the FAP counts in its arsenal with MiG-29 ( | ) and Mirage 2000 (interdictor / multirole aircraft) |
| Whitney Houston | ... ow scheduled for release in August 2012. The remake stars Jordin Sparks and | , in her final film role before her death. The film will be produced and d ... |
| Boeing 929 | Boeing launched its first passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoil | , in April 1974. Those ships were powered by twin Allison gas turbines of ... |
| Alicia Keys | ... presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by her five children and singer | . Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu and Chaka Khan performed musical tributes to ... |
| J52 | ... the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon, the F117 for the C-17 Globemaster III, the | for the EA-6B Prowler, the TF33 powering E-3 AWACS, E-8 Joint STARS, B-52, ... |
| single central conductor | ... face-wave mode that does not involve or require the outer shield but only a | also exists in coax but this mode is effectively suppressed in coax of con ... |
| Madonna | ... 989, Wright became involved with actor Sean Penn following his divorce from | . Their daughter Dylan Frances Penn was born on April 13, 1991. Their son ... |
| Intel 8086 | ... microprocessor and microcontroller introduced in 1982. It was based on the | and, like it, had a 16-bit external data bus multiplexed with a 20-bit add ... |
| M-1097 Avenger | ... officially it requires two. The FIM-92B missile can also be fired from the | and M6 Linebacker. The missile is also capable of being deployed from a Hu ... |
| flathead | After the English Ford | (L head or side valve) with 49 hp (37 kW), a BMC series A was used, then p ... |
| DVD | In 2006, The Damned released the single "Little Miss Disaster", and a live | MGE25 documenting a 2004 Manchester concert celebrating the 25th anniversa ... |
| David Murdoch | ... sional golfers Andrew Coltart and Robert Dinwiddie. Curling world champions | , Euan Byers and Craig Wilson were all born in Dumfries. Former darts cham ... |
| water jet(s) | ... their way forward more effectively using (additional) screw propeller(s) or | . Most amphibians will work only as a displacement hull when in the water ... |
| Nissan VQ engine | The | s, of V6 configuration, have been featured among Ward's 10 Best Engines fo ... |
| M230 Chain Gun | ... acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a [[30 mm caliber|]] | carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fusela ... |
| Leslie speaker | ... nt, mechanical vibrato (or none at all), notably electric organists using a | . Vibrato on the theremin, which is a continuously variable-pitch instrume ... |
| Stirling engine | ... is actually small in comparison), which Kamen is working to convert into a | -powered kinetic sculpture |
| koto | ... ing music on a lap drum. From the seventeenth century they often played the | or the shamisen. Goze organizations sprung up throughout the land, and exi ... |
| Man-Portable Air-Defense System (MANPADS) | ... se by EADS in Germany, with 70,000 missiles produced. It is classified as a | |
| Envisat | ... cameras to identify and target wildfires. Satellite-mounted sensors such as | 's Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer and European Remote-Sensing Sa ... |
| Usain Bolt | ... cord (shared with Bruny Surin since 1999). His Olympic record was broken by | at the 2008 Beijing Olympics |
| Rotten Tomatoes | The Verdict holds a 96% "Fresh" rating on the review aggregate website | . In a poll of 500 films held by Empire magazine, it was voted 254th Great ... |
| final game of the season | ... inal in 1989, but was deprived of a second double in the last minute of the | . In the season Liverpool won their third league title under Dalglish. At ... |
| Lisa | ... talk. These inventions were later commercialized by Apple Computer in their | and Macintosh computers |
| FN FAL | The current assault rifle used by the army is the Belgian | - Argentinian Built; it is being replaced by Austrian Steyr AUG following ... |
| DVD | On some AIOs, like the Hewlett-Packard Photosmart C8180 printer, have a | burner and Lightscribe functionality where the user could burn DVDs and cr ... |
| Cretan lyra | ... s seated, the instrument's base rests on the player's upper left thigh. The | is the dominant instrument of the traditional music of Crete and is tradit ... |
| TV Guide | ... sult is an astonishing, compulsive film, directed with a crackling energy." | rated the film four out of four stars, calling it "tough-minded" and "movi ... |
| Kofler bench | A | is a metal strip with a temperature gradient (range from room temperature ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | The film has a 93% fresh rating on | |
| C1W reactor | ... the world's first nuclear cruiser, the USS Long Beach (CGN-9), which used a | . All of the Navy's nuclear cruisers have been decommissioned |
| Allmusic | ... y vocals rode calmly on R. Kelly's rough beats". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of | felt that the album had its "share of filler", but described the singles a ... |
| Zweihänder | ... d Landsknecht phalanxes also contained men armed with two-handed swords, or | , and halberdiers for close combat against both infantry and attacking cav ... |
| Allison V-1710 | ... p towards the use of engine management systems, like that later used by the | |
| Atari ST | The | computers were sold with "stspeech.tos" on floppy disk |
| DVD | ... onto non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) or even stored on CD-ROM or | , depending on the capabilities of the machine and the applicable regulati ... |
| 57 mm AZP S-60 | ... and 82 towed anti-aircraft guns (14.5mm, including 12 ZPU-4, 23mm, 37mm, 12 | , and 12 100 KS-19s |
| Byzantine bowed lyre | ... ear records of the use of crwth to denote an instrument of the lyre (or the | ) class date from the 11th century. Medieval instruments somewhat resembli ... |
| Gwen Ifill | ... anson. She appeared on Saturday Night Live on October 4, 2008, as moderator | impersonator in a comedic sketch depicting the recent vice-presidential de ... |
| European Remote-Sensing Satellite | ... nted sensors such as Envisat's Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer and | 's Along-Track Scanning Radiometer can measure infrared radiation emitted ... |
| Usain Bolt | ... r most career gold medals for an Olympian by winning eight swimming events. | secured the traditional title of "World's Fastest Man" by setting new worl ... |
| Nürburgring | ... nish 8th, as well as an exhibition race to celebrate the opening of the new | , which was attended by several Formula 1 drivers, each driving identical ... |
| Sōjutsu | # | (spear techniques |
| steam engine | ... laboration with Matthew Boulton, he had succeeded by 1778 in perfecting his | , which incorporated a series of radical improvements, notably the closing ... |
| Steyr AUG | ... is the Belgian FN FAL - Argentinian Built; it is being replaced by Austrian | following a bidding contest in 2007 and 2008. In addition, about 300 Russi ... |
| Altair 8800 | ... ent at Apple. Their first product, the Apple I computer, was similar to the | , the first commercially available microcomputer, except it had no provisi ... |
| Pentium compatible processor | ... x86 assembly language optimizations which led to the usage of terms such as | for software requirements. An i486DX2-50 version was also available, but b ... |
| R-985 Wasp Junior | The R-1340 was followed by another very successful engine, the | . Eventually a whole Wasp series was developed. Both engines are still in ... |
| Bill O'Reilly | ... g break in Acapulco just a week after the dissemination of the email, while | devoted a segment of his show, The O'Reilly Factor, to urge students to st ... |
| Space.com | In 2001, the space news website | asked Freeman Dyson, J. Richard Gott and Sid Goldstein for reasons why som ... |
| Khaybar KH2002 | ... Iranian company, was involved in the bidding to replace the FN FAL with its | ; but since there is a UN embargo banning arms exports from Iran, the comp ... |
| S-400 | ... able to detect and engage stealth targets, with the most notable being the | , which is claimed to be able to detect a target with a 0.05 meter squared ... |
| Sun-2 | ... he University of Cambridge, decided to write a WYSIWYG document editor on a | workstation. He got the idea from his college roommate at Columbia, Ben Me ... |
| DVD | ... serdisc (in letterbox format) and VHS, but was not immediately available on | . Although this was in part the result of Lucas's early skepticism of the ... |
| Wagner tuba | ... . Wagner even commissioned the production of new instruments, including the | , invented to fill a gap he found between the tone qualities of the horn a ... |
| Gatling gun | ... uary 26, 1903) was an American inventor best known for his invention of the | , the first successful machine gun |
| AK-101 | ... ollowing a bidding contest in 2007 and 2008. In addition, about 300 Russian | s are already used, and the elite airborne, commando, and antiterrorist Ba ... |
| mines | ... ie Massey and Nevill Mott; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic | and was instrumental in designing a new mine that was effective against Ge ... |
| Paul McCartney | ... ica, the Top 20 hit "Veronica", one of several songs Costello co-wrote with | in that period (see Collaborations) |
| Croke Park | ... l Irish Constabulary opened fire on the crowd at a Gaelic football match in | , killing fourteen civilians. That evening, three IRA suspects in Dublin C ... |
| 80386 | When Compaq introduced the first PC based on Intel's new | microprocessor, the Compaq Deskpro 386, in 1986, it marked the first CPU c ... |
| Micky Adams | ... uld, Phil Neal, Ron Atkinson, Gordon Strachan, Peter Reid, Gary McAllister, | , Iain Dowie and Chris Coleman |
| Nintendo DS | ... n Apple II software on Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, homebrew enabled | and other operating systems. Numerous disk images of Apple II software are ... |
| MIM-23 Hawk | ... 226 utility vehicles, 12 MIM-72 Chaparral surface-to-air missile systems, 3 | surface-to-air missile systems, 36 155 mm artillery pieces, 7 175 mm artil ... |
| Krampus | ... r in the year to come. If they fail to do so they will receive a visit from | who traditionally leaves a rod, an instrument their parents will use to di ... |
| Microsoft Java Virtual Machine | ... ard drives that were larger than 137GB (48-bit LBA support) by default. The | , which was not in the RTM version, appeared in this Service Pack. Support ... |
| Augustus | ... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of | and Saturninus (or, less frequently, year 794 Ab urbe condita). The denomi ... |
| VOR | ... ion systems are available to pilots, including ground-based systems such as | s and NDBs as well as the satellite-based GPS system. In addition, Air Tra ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... the sixth best film in the romantic comedy genre. It is also ranked #15 on | ' 25 Best Romantic Comedies |
| Epiphone Texan | Ostensibly simple, featuring only McCartney playing an | steel-string acoustic guitar backed by a string quartet in one of the Beat ... |
| TerraSAR-X | ... Recent high-resolution ( 4 - 0.5 metre) private imaging satellites include | , IKONOS, Orbview, QuickBird and Worldview-1, allowing any country (or any ... |
| Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | ... Antony. Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and | , Caesar's best friend, established the Second Triumvirate. Lepidus was fo ... |
| Tommy Glenn Carmichael | ... , such as the "slider" or "monkey paw" used by notorious slot machine cheat | . However, more recent attempts at defrauding slot machines involve manipu ... |
| Mindset | ... ang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor; the | ; the Siemens PC-D (not 100% IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2.11 ); th ... |
| Assemblies of God | ... , such as the Southern Baptist Convention. Pentecostal churches such as the | , as well as Restorationist churches, like Jehovah's Witnesses and , also ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... s given mixed to positive reviews and currently has a 68% "fresh" rating on | . Dave Kehr, in the Chicago Reader, wrote, "Richter seems to have invented ... |
| DB 601 | ... g a single-stage two-speed design directly geared to the engine (unlike the | 's hydraulically clutched version) which led to rather limited altitude pe ... |
| Charge-coupled device | ... d a prototype interactive page-layout system for the Picturephone (TM). The | (CCD) was invented in 1969 by Willard Boyle and George E. Smith, for which ... |
| Steyr AUG | ... ys have a bipod. In the case of some assault rifles, such as the H&K G36 or | , the SAW is simply the standard rifle with a few parts replaced. Neverthe ... |
| Metacritic | ... 000 copies in its first week. The record received favorable reviews and was | 's 15th best-reviewed album of 2007. A significant portion of the proceeds ... |
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| Xerox 6085 | ... 9 LISP machine), "Dorado" (used in the Xerox 1132 LISP machine), "Daybreak" | , and "Dragon" (a 4-processor 6085 with one of the first snoopy caches, th ... |
| Gsh-6-30 | ... which uses both guns and missiles for final defense. Two six-barreled 30 mm | gatling guns and 9M311 surface to air missiles provide for its defensive c ... |
| keys | ... comparable in terms of style and technique to Froberger's suites. Seventeen | are used, including F-sharp minor. Number 29 has all four traditional move ... |
| London Assembly | In 2006, a report commissioned by the | identified that whilst demand was at an all time high across the capital, ... |
| photoresistance | ... source such as batteries to operate. CdS light meters use a sensor based on | , i.e. their electrical resistance changes proportionately to light exposu ... |
| Rotax Max | Many people race worldwide in Spec series such as | (a Touch-and-Go class) or those using the Yamaha KT100 engine |
| Hyperion | ... ased in March 1983 at $2995, considerably more affordable than the Canadian | . The Compaq Portable was one of the progenitors of today's laptop; some c ... |
| Palm PDA | ... . Cisco and Efficient Networks sell PPTP clients for older Mac OS releases. | devices with Wi-Fi are bundled with the Mergic PPTP client |
| Michael Jackson | ... 2008 and singing "I'll Be Seeing You" during the montage. Latifah spoke at | 's memorial service in Los Angeles. She also hosted the 2010 People's Choi ... |
| R800 | ... ssor, while the MSX TurboR was based on an enhanced Zilog Z800 known as the | . The MSX TurboR was introduced in 1990 but was unsuccessful due to a lack ... |
| Evel Knievel | Ham appeared repeatedly on television, as well as on film with | |
| GamePro | ... rly Pokémon phenomenon as "like a Hydro Pump from a Blastoise to the face". | s Kat Bailey wrote that a lot of players chose Blastoise for its two hydro ... |
| M101 | ... 5 and AMX-13), armoured personnel carriers (M-113, UR-416), artillery (D30, | , M109 and M114 howitzers), antiaircraft systems (ZSU-23-4 Shilka) and hel ... |
| Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope | ... its on the possibility of existence of light primordial black holes. NASA's | launched in 2008 will continue the search for these flashes |
| Walter Cronkite | ... s and maintained higher viewership levels for much of the 1960s, even after | took over CBS's competing program (initially named Walter Cronkite with th ... |
| H2X radar | ... get. If both were obscured then the centre of Dresden would be bombed using | . The mix of bombs to be used on the Dresden raid was about 40% incendiari ... |
| Willis Lamb | ... els Bohr, who was to lecture at Princeton University. Isidor Isaac Rabi and | , two Columbia University physicists working at Princeton, heard the news ... |
| M60 | ... of the 1st Australian Task Force. In this role they were armed with single | doorguns. In 1969 four of No. 9 Squadron's helicopters were converted to g ... |
| MIM-72 Chaparral | ... M-60/M-48A3 tanks, 250 armored personnel carriers, 226 utility vehicles, 12 | surface-to-air missile systems, 3 MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air missile syste ... |
| F100 | ... Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the F119 for the F-22 Raptor, the | family that powers the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon, the F117 for the C-17 G ... |
| arbiter | ... o central DMA controller is required since the DMA is bus-mastering, but an | is required in case of multiple masters present on the system |
| ATMs | ... battle, Ness' father deposits money in an account that can be withdrawn at | . In towns, players can visit various stores where weapons, armor, and ite ... |
| EMS VCS 3 | ... Champs-Élysées in Paris, he set up a small recording studio, which included | and EMS Synthi AKS synthesisers, and two linked Revox tape machines. For a ... |
| TV Guide | ... The Heiress is one of the handsome, intense and adult dramas of the year." | rates the film five out of a possible five stars and adds, "This powerful ... |
| Springfield rifle | ... the first, American car (1825, Thomas Blanchard;) numerous editions of the | ; the gasoline-powered automobile, (1893, the Duryea brothers;) the first ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... me for the group was subsequently dropped. That island was first invaded by | in 55 BC, and the Roman conquest of the island began in AD 43, leading to ... |
| H2X radar | ... und that the their view was obscured by clouds so they bombed Dresden using | to target this location. The groups that followed the 303rd, (92nd, 306th, ... |
| Allmusic | Keith Johnson of | describes a "Modern Creative" genre, in which "musicians may incorporate f ... |
| Spike Magazine | In an August 1999 | interview, Gibson stated "He (Chris) was brought to my attention by someon ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | The film has an 89% rating on | |
| Ronald Dale Harris | ... owaves toward it to disrupt its proper functioning. Casino insiders such as | have also been discovered manipulating the software in slot machines in or ... |
| Usain Bolt | ... tator for CBC Television at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He estimated that had | not slowed down near the end of the 100m dash (which he still won in recor ... |
| Cell processor | ... example usage of DMA in a multiprocessor-system-on-chip, IBM/Sony/Toshiba's | incorporates a DMA engine for each of its 9 processing elements including ... |
| Donington Park | ... . The major Download Festival, a hard rock and metal festival, is hosted at | |
| Coastal artillery | Near the city, there are deep woods. In Baneheia and at the previous | Fortress Odderøya, there are lighted ski trails and walking paths speciall ... |
| Craig Wilson | ... and Robert Dinwiddie. Curling world champions David Murdoch, Euan Byers and | were all born in Dumfries. Former darts champion is another Doonhamer |
| diaphragm | ... its frequency and amplitude in response to the sound waves arriving at its | . The resulting current is transmitted along the telephone line to the loc ... |
| Kepler Mission | The | endeavours to discover Earth-like planets orbiting around other stars by o ... |
| DVD | ... limited number of digital-projection theaters on September 10, 2004 and on | in Region 1 on September 14. Region 2 and 4 releases came later. More rece ... |
| H2S Mk IX | ... featured a "narrowed fuselage" along with a bulbous nose to accommodate the | radar; the crew of four would be housed in a pressurised cockpit under a l ... |
| Hydra 70 | ... -wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and | rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems redundancy to improve ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... erely because it is accommodated to the Julian year." This Julian refers to | , who introduced the Julian calendar in 46 BC |
| Nokia MikroMikko 2 | ... ewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day); the ; the | . Acorn created a plug-in for the BBC Master range of computers containing ... |
| nuclear attack | ... vide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a | |
| Let It Be | ... releases - The Beatles (The White Album), Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and | were issued on their own Apple label, distributed by EMI and bearing Parlo ... |
| two-way | ... ology occurred on 9 August 1892, when Thomas Edison received a patent for a | telegraph (, "Duplex Telegraph") |
| Sun-3 | ... rix, Pyramid Tech Unix, Tru64, AIX, Motorola 8000, and HP9000, SGI IRIX and | |
| S2W | ... ted in a fire, and the facility was shut down. In the meantime, the S1W and | pressurized water reactors, conceived for the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), had ... |
| Xeon | ... an example of DMA engine incorporated in a general-purpose CPU, newer Intel | chipsets include a DMA engine technology called I/O Acceleration Technolog ... |
| Bryant Gumbel | ... , and Len Dawson (who wasn't in the broadcast booth with Enberg and Olsen). | and Mike Adamle of NFL '80 anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame cov ... |
| Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | ... aly, before Senna added his second victory, again in wet conditions, at the | in Belgium. Senna's relationship with De Angelis soured over the season, a ... |
| ABM-1 Galosh | The response to the threat of interception by | missiles was to deploy an upgraded or Improved Front End (IFE) to Polaris ... |
| Atari ST | ... available for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, | , MSX and DOS, but was heavily criticised by gaming press at the time beca ... |
| Lowrey organ | ... ngs. Hudson in particular was able to coax a wide range of timbres from his | ; on the choruses of "Tears of Rage", for example, it sounds like a mellot ... |
| in the final | ... he title on the final day of the season), and the FA Cup by beating Everton | . The following season was trophyless for Liverpool. Before the 1987–88 se ... |
| Rolls-Royce Olympus | ... class corvettes, Turunmaa and Karjala, in 1968. They were equipped with one | TMB3 gas turbine and three Wärtsilä marine diesels for slower speeds. They ... |
| 8008 | The first microcomputer implementation of APL was on the | -based MCM/70, the first general purpose personal computer, in 1973 |
| Thermite | ... am lost, the military readies a backup plan: an air strike by F/A-18's with | plasma, that will neutralize the poison gas but kill everyone on the islan ... |
| Augustus | ... n protectorate. The process was completed in 27 B.C. when the Roman Emperor | annexed the rest of Greece and constituted it as the senatorial province o ... |
| SAM Roland | ... west European weapons including the Oerlikon GDF-002 35 mm twin cannon and | , while the British forces used the brand-new FIM-92 Stinger. Both sides a ... |
| MSX | ... for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, | and DOS, but was heavily criticised by gaming press at the time because of ... |
| Augustus | ... all days after the Ides, and had some odd effects. For example, the emperor | was born in 63 BC on the 23rd day of September. In the pre-Julian calendar ... |
| H-block | ... ence between the two was primarily in the arrangement of the cylinders – an | in the Sabre and an X-block in the Vulture |
| S1W | ... ak resulted in a fire, and the facility was shut down. In the meantime, the | and S2W pressurized water reactors, conceived for the USS Nautilus (SSN-57 ... |
| Stradivari | ... de the Antonio Amati 1600, the Nicolò Amati 1657, the Paganini-Desaint 1680 | , the Guarneri-filius Andrea 1706, the Le Brun 1712 Stradivari, the Vuilla ... |
| Allmusic | ... l plasticity which are now an integral part of contemporary youth culture". | has described Jagger as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen ... |
| Molotov cocktail | ... e Primate Freedom Project. Demonstrations were held in front of his home. A | was placed on the porch of what was believed to be the home of another UCL ... |
| naval reactor | The D2G reactor was a | used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propu ... |
| Tandy 2000 | ... versions of WordPerfect have also been available for Apricot, DEC Rainbow, | , TI Professional, Victor 9000, and Zenith Z-100 systems, as well as aroun ... |
| Hand pay | EGM is used as a shorthand for "Electronic Gaming Machine." | refers to a payout made by an attendant or at an exchange point ("cage"), ... |
| Naval Special Warfare Cold Weather Detachment Kodiak | The United States Navy operates a small training base near the city called | which trains United States Navy SEALs in cold weather survival and advance ... |
| QCDOC | ... numerical computation which is then carried out on supercomputers like the | which was constructed for precisely this purpose. While it is a slow and r ... |
| Whitney Houston | ... re films, including Honey (recast to Jessica Alba). Some Kind of Blue and a | -produced remake of the 1976 film Sparkle were canceled due to Aaliyah's d ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... ative Software) in 1989. It was available for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, | , Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, MSX and DOS, but was heavily criticised by ga ... |
| 1100 Series | ... with an architecture close to that which came to be known as that of the " | ." It ran the EXEC II operating system, a batch-oriented second-generation ... |
| air-cooled | The BMW 801 was a powerful German | radial aircraft engine built by BMW and used in a number of German militar ... |
| R-1340 Wasp | ... mpany. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's first engine, the 425 horsepower (317 kW) | , was completed on Christmas Eve 1925. On its third test run it easily pas ... |
| fuses | ... nd shells fired by these weapons are usually fitted with different types of | (barometric, time-delay, or proximity) to explode close to the airborne ta ... |
| Mike Adamle | ... who wasn't in the broadcast booth with Enberg and Olsen). Bryant Gumbel and | of NFL '80 anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame coverage |
| 80286 | ... ardware was incompatible with the hardware used in the original IBM PC, the | was used as the successor instead in the IBM PC/AT |
| Michael Jackson | | in his music video for "Smooth Criminal" pays tribute to the Fred Astaire ... |
| Paul McCartney | ... e Abbey Road album, the cover of which features the band crossing the road. | has owned a property in the area since the 1960s along with many other fam ... |
| Julius Caesar | When | added days to some months, he added them to the end of the month, so as no ... |
| Laser 128 | Apple also challenged VTech's | , an enhanced clone of the Apple IIc first released in 1984, in court. Thi ... |
| DVD | A 10th-anniversary | of the film was released in 2005; it included both the theatrical version ... |
| telescoping | ... re also on sale in London during the 1780s. Modern designs usually employ a | steel trunk; new materials such as cotton, plastic film and nylon often re ... |
| Madonna | Directors Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino, and pop singer | have publicly stated they are fans of the series. As a child, Johnny Depp ... |
| KAF-10500 | ... ced on September 15, 2006 that the new Leica M8 camera incorporates Kodak's | image sensor. This was the second recent partnership between Kodak and the ... |
| AR-15 | ... ttaché case); H&K MP5K submachine guns (sometimes in an attaché case); Colt | assault rifles; Remington Model 700 bolt-action sniper rifles (with scope) ... |
| Ars Technica | ... including video game magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly, technology website | , and concert event Video Games Live. There have also been Space Invaders ... |
| H2X radar | ... noon on the 14 February 1945, because of cloud the later waves bombed using | for targeting. The mix of bombs to be used on the Dresden raid was about 4 ... |
| Commodore SuperPET | The | , introduced in 1981, included an APL interpreter developed by the Univers ... |
| Bob Hawke | ... took various academic positions, and when Labor was restored to power under | in 1983, Whitlam was appointed Ambassador to UNESCO, based in Paris. He se ... |
| Amiga | ... Vikings, was released in 1992 by publisher Interplay Entertainment for DOS, | , Sega Mega Drive and SNES among others. The sequel, The Lost Vikings II, ... |
| Len Berman | ... tions produced several alumni in sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, | , Sean McDonough, and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and ... |
| Gamo | Rights were acquired by | for its new subsidiary BSA Guns (UK) Limite |
| AKM | The AK-74 is an adaptation of the 7.62mm | assault rifle and features several important design improvements. These mo ... |
| Bristol Proteus | ... ish Brave class fast patrol boat) in service from 1965 to 1990) which had 3 | (later RR Proteus) Marine Gas Turbines rated at combined, plus two General ... |
| 8087 | ... , introduced DRAM refresh, a power-save mode, and a direct interface to the | or 80187 floating point numeric coprocessor |
| TradeMe | ... were Taiwan and Japan, where Yahoo! had a head start, and New Zealand where | , owned by the Fairfax media group is the dominant online auction website |
| FN P90 | ... lt-action sniper rifles; Remington Model 870P pump-action shotguns; and the | personal defense weapon |
| DVD | Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released the entire series on | in Regions 1 & 2 |
| naval reactor | The S1G reactor is a | used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propu ... |
| Youssou N'Dour | In 2004 Senegalese musician | released his Grammy Award winning album Egypt, which documents his Mouride ... |
| DVD | ... nd playing pieces. Some games use CDs, video cassettes, and, more recently, | s in accompaniment to the game |
| PDP-6 | ... t . He is also a fan of old technology, having grown up in the age of TECO, | es, the original VT100, FORTRAN, IBM 3270 and the IBM 5150; one could, exc ... |
| erase head | ... ome after listening to Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge. By disabling the | of a tape recorder and then spooling a continuous loop of tape through the ... |
| Nürburgring | ... engine problems in Britain. At the next race, the German Grand Prix at the | circuit, Fangio needed to extend his lead by six points to claim the title ... |
| 8086 | The 80186 would have been a natural successor to the | in personal computers. However, because its integrated hardware was incomp ... |
| duplex | ... nverted by an earphone, or speaker, back into sound waves. Telephones are a | communications medium, meaning they allow the people on both ends to talk ... |
| GP-25 | ... kets are cast into the gas block assembly and are used to attach a BG-15 or | under-slung 40 mm grenade launcher. The forward section of the front sight ... |
| DVD | ... s. Other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, | , and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc (5″/12 cm, 8″/2 ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... to attend, to recite a poem written by Angelou at the memorial service for | in July 2009 |
| VK56DE | The Titan features a 32 valve 5.6 L | V8 engine which generates 317 hp, and is capable of towing approximately 9 ... |
| O2 | ... II, a Coleco Adam on Mir, a Furby, a nuclear weapon guidance system, an SGI | , a Hewlett-Packard Calculator (with reverse Polish notation, which meant ... |
| SINCGARS | ... hich the AN/PRC-25 cannot. Today the AN/PRC-77 has largely been replaced by | radios, but it is still capable of inter-operating with most VHF FM radios ... |
| Automated teller machine | | (ATM) vendors Wincor Nixdorf, NCR Corporation and Diebold Incorporated hav ... |
| Cretan lyra | ... in various regions in Greece—in particular, the Dodecanese and Crete (e.g. | )—and the northern mainland regions of Macedonia and Thrac |
| Amiga | ... s and "stress" indicator markers, made possible by advanced features of the | hardware audio chipset. It was divided into a narrator device and a transl ... |
| Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer | ... e sources such as Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), | (MODIS), and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) for detectio ... |
| Opera's own web browser | ... to engine is licensed to a number of other software vendors, and is used in | |
| Doppler On Wheels | ... ornadoes Experiment), deployment of TOTO (the TOtable Tornado Observatory), | (DOW), and dozens of other programs, hope to solve many questions that sti ... |
| Diane Ross | ... lard recruited her best friend Mary Wilson, who in turn recruited classmate | . Mentored and funded by Jenkins, The Primettes began by performing hit so ... |
| ENIAC | Eckert and Mauchly built the | (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) at the University of Pennsy ... |
| gravitational wave observatory | Livingston Parish is home of one of two installations for a | (LIGO) which is a facility dedicated to the detection of cosmic gravitatio ... |
| 2008 Copa Sudamericana Finals | ... ge, Internacional faced reigning champions Estudiantes, in a rematch of the | . Despite dominating most of the first leg played in Porto Alegre, Interna ... |
| Craig Hamilton | ... holm. Scotland rugby union internationalists Duncan Hodge, Nick De Luca and | were born in Dumfries as were professional golfers Andrew Coltart and Robe ... |
| animatronic model | ... er Jackson's films (2002) and (2003), Treebeard is a combination of a large | and a CGI construct; his voice is performed by John Rhys-Davies, who also ... |
| nuclear weapon | ... en such residences as an iMac, a Palm III, a Coleco Adam on Mir, a Furby, a | guidance system, an SGI O2, a Hewlett-Packard Calculator (with reverse Pol ... |
| shakers | ... e up of percussion surdos, tambourines, and cuícas, who joined pandeiro and | . This group was instrumental and is called bateria, and it lends itself t ... |
| IBM 3270 | ... , having grown up in the age of TECO, PDP-6es, the original VT100, FORTRAN, | and the IBM 5150; one could, except for the decent taste in clothing, cate ... |
| carrier | ... frequency signal which generates the radio waves, which is often called the | . This process is called modulation. The information can be added to the c ... |
| Rotax Max | ... b level classes. Dry centrifugal clutches are now used in many categories ( | is one example) and have become the norm as the top international classes ... |
| Walter Cronkite | The program's ratings slipped late in the decade as CBS's | gained fame for his coverage of the space program, a field in which neithe ... |
| keys | ... eference to Apollo's lyre), a collection of six variations set in different | . It is dedicated to composers Ferdinand Tobias Richter (a friend from the ... |
| Marc Wright | ... 976 Winter Olympics, respectively. Arthur Shaw, Earl Thompson, Edwin Myers, | , Adam Nelson, Gerry Ashworth, and Vilhjálmur Einarsson have all won medal ... |
| AKM | ... d in the early 1970s in the Soviet Union as the replacement for the earlier | (itself a refined version of the AK-47). It uses a smaller intermediate ca ... |
| Encyclopedia Dramatica | ... example, a New York Times article discussed troll activity at 4chan and at | , which it described as "an online compendium of troll humor and troll lor ... |
| Hull, Massachusetts | ... ide Internet firm business called Chess.net, overlooking Nantasket Beach in | , he spent summers with his uncle in Hull, sleeping on his couch, and spen ... |
| Sean McDonough | ... ed several alumni in sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, Len Berman, | , and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and former radio br ... |
| horn | ... ese, the orchestra consists of pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, | s, trumpets, a set of two timpani, and strings. The aria, "Sorrow has beco ... |
| DVD | Redbox | Vending machines run a modified version of XP designed for the fullscreen ... |
| Pentium M | ... equivalent to a throughput of about 11 MiB/s for a 200 MHz processor. On a | 1.7 GHz throughput is about 60 MiB/s |
| fluorescent lights | ... a heightened illusion of grainy documentary realism, footage was shot under | in an actual office building set, and taped on hand-held Hi-8 video camera ... |
| Harvey Nichols | ... s home to many expensive shops, including the department stores Harrods and | , and flagship stores of many British and international fashion houses, in ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... nerary of Antoninus, the description of the road system, after the death of | and during Augustus tenure, is as follows |
| tripropellant | ... llant ever test-fired in a rocket engine was 542 seconds (5,320 m/s) with a | of lithium, fluorine, and hydrogen. However, this combination is impractic ... |
| Dreamcast | ... bes, is a rail shooter video game released by Sega in Japan in 2001 for the | and PlayStation 2, with a European Dreamcast release and United States Pla ... |
| statutory instrument | ... The current Constitution, incorporating a Bill of Rights, was ordained by a | of the United Kingdom in 2009. A 15-seat Legislative Assembly is elected b ... |
| Amstrad CPC | ... ain" (a division of Alternative Software) in 1989. It was available for the | , ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, MSX and DOS, but w ... |
| AK-47 | ... ion as the replacement for the earlier AKM (itself a refined version of the | ). It uses a smaller intermediate cartridge, the 5.45×39mm, replacing the ... |
| encoding | ... io Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio | format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format ... |
| Harrods | ... ghtsbridge is home to many expensive shops, including the department stores | and Harvey Nichols, and flagship stores of many British and international ... |
| Pentium Pro | On a | , AES encryption requires 18 clock cycles / byte, equivalent to a throughp ... |
| Britney Spears | ... sman for such products as Viagra, Visa, Dunkin' Donuts and Pepsi-Cola (with | ), and as an occasional political commentator on the popular American inte ... |
| R2-D2 | ... ack to the 2004 DVD release of , writer and director George Lucas describes | as "the main driving force of the movie ... what you say in the movie busi ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... mputers. Before then, the game was only available on a limited basis on the | due to few publishers showing any interest in porting it. The reason for t ... |
| California Thrasher | ... species to persist and produce offspring. For example, the behavior of the | is consistent with the chaparral habitat it lives in—it breeds and feeds i ... |
| shakers | ... e center of the wheel). The instruments of the Bahian samba were pandeiros, | , guitars, and sometimes the castanets and berimbaus |
| KY-57 | ... omponents. It can provide secure voice (X-mode) transmission with the TSEC/ | voice encryption device, but is not compatible with the SINCGARS frequency ... |
| Byzantine lyra | # a pear-shaped instrument descendant of the | with a vaulted back which is found in various regions in Greece—in particu ... |
| gearboxes | ... s almost unchanged until 1951 when BSA added plunger rear suspension. Early | were weak and unreliable. The C11G was available with a three ratio gearbo ... |
| TV Guide | ... cast member appearing to look at the other cast members. In a 2010 issue of | , the show’s opening title sequence ranked #8 on a list of TV's top 10 cre ... |
| Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | ... atellite (GOES), Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and | (AVHRR) for detection of fire and smoke plume locations. However, satellit ... |
| DVD | ... roduced. These are often available for a limited time, usually to promote a | release. Common content includes character and mecha listings, lists of re ... |
| Harvard Mark IV | ... by the Harvard Mark II (1947 or 1948), Mark III/ADEC (September 1949), and | (1952) – all the work of Aiken. The Mark II was an improvement over the Ma ... |
| M48A3 | ... nk rocket fire, but they would not be as capable of "jungle busting" as the | medium tanks |
| MANPADS | The main | used by both sides during the Falklands War was the Blowpipe missile |
| Allmusic | Described by | as the "father of country-rock", Gram Parsons' work in the early '70s was ... |
| Pentium | ... unning at least 66 MHz is required. For maximum rendering quality, a faster | CPU is required; with the release of the Pentium, the performance requirem ... |
| Cretan lyra | ... n Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Turkey; a notable example is Crete, where the | is central to the traditional music of the island |
| Atari ST | ... latform noted next to them indicate Jochen did both the Commodore Amiga and | versions |
| Mindstorms | ... ation, which meant that Erwin talked like Yoda for weeks afterward), a Lego | construction, a Tamagotchi, a Segway, an IBM PC 5150, a Timber Wolf-class ... |
| Julien Temple | The music video to accompany the single was directed by | . It features members of the band wearing sleeveless shirts and dungarees |
| Slant Magazine | ... itically acclaimed for her innovative mixture of various genres and sounds. | called the album "a delightful and refreshing antidote to the army of 'pop ... |
| Paul McCartney | Costello has worked with | , Tony Bennett, Lucinda Williams, Kid Rock, Lee Konitz, Brian Eno, and Rub ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul | (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of Rome often met their end in this w ... |
| DAI | ... ny TELEAC decided to introduce their own home computer. The Belgian company | was originally contracted to design their machines, but when they couldn't ... |
| Xerox Alto | ... l computer was captured in the 1972 memo entitled "Why Alto?". In 1973, the | , with its three-button mouse and full-page-sized was born |
| Commodore 64 | ... EP1C12Q240C8 FPGA. The one chip-MSX" is similar in concept to the C-One, a | clone also built on the basis of a single FPGA chip. The new MSX system is ... |
| Bill Bonds | ... l to its new morning show AM America. The station brought in WXYZ-TV anchor | to take Beutel's place. When AM America was cancelled and replaced with Go ... |
| Doomsday Clock | ... ive of the original seventeen tracks. The album’s title, a reference to the | , foreshadowed the band's new lyrical themes. Minutes to Midnight sold ove ... |
| Kh-29 | ... t Venezuela acquired: 200 laser guided bombs types KAB-500 and KAB-1500, 50 | air-to-surface missiles, 50 Kh-31A1 anti-ship missiles, 50 Kh-59ME TV-guid ... |
| Xeon | ... vers, using between four and eight processors, can be found using the Intel | MP, AMD Opteron 800 and 8000 series and the above-mentioned UltraSPARC, SP ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... c attention. This culminated at the Cronkite's Universe talk show hosted by | in New York in 1981, where Leakey and Johanson held a fierce debate on liv ... |
| Opteron | ... etween four and eight processors, can be found using the Intel Xeon MP, AMD | 800 and 8000 series and the above-mentioned UltraSPARC, SPARC64, MIPS, Ita ... |
| Brownings | ... r its first flights, P5212 later carried an armament of 12 .303 in (7.7 mm) | , set in groups of six in each outer wing panel; this was the armament fit ... |
| Jesse Owens | ... tells an anecdote about what guest panelist Bennett Cerf said to challenger | about Adolf Hitler during a 1958 episode; this is one of the episodes that ... |
| AK-103 | Then in 2006 the country purchased 100,000 Russian | assault rifles, all delivered in that same year. Chavez also claimed to ha ... |
| Allmusic | ... they perceived as the overproduced, uninspired popular music of the 1970s. | explained that New Wave's stylistic diversity occurred because New Wave "r ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... unsuccessful at the box office. As of July 13, 2009, the review aggregator | records an average response of 91%, based on 22 reviews |
| Paul McCartney | In 1987, Costello began a long-running songwriting collaboration with | . They wrote a number of songs together, including |
| SPARC | Some architectures (including ARM versions 3 and above, PowerPC, Alpha, | V9, MIPS, PA-RISC and IA-64) feature a setting which allows for switchable ... |
| Amiga | ... nning Mac OS X can run it through Classic. At one time, versions for Tandy, | and Atari computers were offered, as well as a UNIX command-line compiler |
| diesel oil | ... use in automobiles and trucks greatly increased the demand for gasoline and | , both made from fossil fuels. Other forms of transportation, railways and ... |
| DECstation | ... lecting the MIPS processor, which was widely available, introducing the new | series with the model 3100 on 11 January 1989. These systems would see som ... |
| FIM-43 Redeye | ... not until mid-1975. Production of the FIM-92A began in 1978 to replace the | . An improved Stinger with a new seeker, the FIM-92B, was produced from 19 ... |
| SDS 940 | ... sch, developed the Berkeley Timesharing System for Scientific Data Systems' | computer |
| Saab two-stroke | DKW engines were used by Saab as a model for the | used in their new Saab 92 automobile manufacturing venture, in 1947 |
| PowerPC | Some architectures (including ARM versions 3 and above, | , Alpha, SPARC V9, MIPS, PA-RISC and IA-64) feature a setting which allows ... |
| Chicago Pile-1 | ... cularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, | , and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear ... |
| Opteron | ... lement an entry-level SMP machine. It should also be noted that dual socket | designs are technically ccNUMA designs, though they can be programmed as S ... |
| 7080 | ... s the basis for the IBM 7090 line of scientific computers, the IBM 7070 and | business computers, the IBM 7040 and IBM 1400 lines, and the IBM 1620 smal ... |
| Têtes à claques | ... en's hospital in Montreal. They aligned themselves with internet phenomenon | to create an eBay auction based on popular T-A-C character Uncle Tom, an i ... |
| Allmusic | ... assic and an anthem of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. According to | , James Brown was critical, through "the gospel-impassioned fury of his vo ... |
| Harry Reid | ... e unless Stevens resigned first. Late on November 1, Senate Majority Leader | confirmed that he would schedule a vote on Stevens's expulsion, saying tha ... |
| M77 | Sturm, Ruger offered several | Mark II Frontier rifles in stainless steel in various chamberings from var ... |
| General Electric T58 | ... on missile bases included a specific requirement to mandate the use of the | turboshaft as a powerplant. The Air Force had a large inventory of these e ... |
| GamesRadar | ... s was the 1980 shoot 'em up arcade game, Stratovox, from Sun Electronics. , | Another early example was the arcade version of Bezerk, released that same ... |
| 7400 series | ... example, the 74HCT00 series provides many drop-in replacements for bipolar | parts, but uses CMOS technology |
| Rolls-Royce Pegasus | ... an engine used in the Hawker Siddeley Harrier and which became known as the | when Rolls-Royce took over that company. Two Bristol Pegasus engines remai ... |
| Daily Kos | The Hill published an op-ed piece by Markos Moulitsas of the liberal blog | titled "Dems: Ignore 'Concern Trolls. The concern trolls in question were ... |
| original Gundam | ... ns with different designs and coloring (with most following Kunio Okawara's | design). Producer Masahiko Asano wrote in his notes on the production of S ... |
| Augustus | ... ell into neglect under the Macedonian kings, and when they were repaired by | (Sueton. Aug. 18, 63) Thmuis had attracted its trade and population |
| London Assembly | ... e Bexley and Bromley London Assembly constituency and is represented on the | by James Cleverly (Conservative) |
| Atari 800 | ... ith the keyboard on top, a layout that became common with machines like the | and Commodore VIC-20. In this form it could be attached to a 3rd party com ... |
| Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope | ... Award, the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Fermi National Accelerator Lab, the | , the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station, a class of particles called ... |
| AK-105 | ... in these roles, but has been augmented by various submachine guns, and the | . It is also commonly used by law enforcement; for example, each urban pol ... |
| Silvering | Historically this coating was silver. | was put on the mirror chemically, typically by the mirror maker or user. S ... |
| LARC | ... C, the dominant computer manufacturer at the time, had won the contract for | , now called the Livermore Automatic Research Computer |
| James Clerk Maxwell Telescope | ... Herschel Space Observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the | , and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) |
| Harvard Mark II | The Mark I was followed by the | (1947 or 1948), Mark III/ADEC (September 1949), and Harvard Mark IV (1952) ... |
| review aggregate | ... ion from critics and fans alike. The film holds a 60% "Fresh" rating on the | website Rotten Tomatoes |
| Paul McCartney | ... The Beatles that relied upon a performance by a single member of the band, | . He was accompanied by a string quartet. The final recording was so diffe ... |
| AlphaStation | ... orld in November 2004. Alpha-based computers (the DEC AXP series, later the | and AlphaServer series) superseded both the VAX and MIPS architecture in D ... |
| DVD | In 2000 Warner Music released Enya: The Video Collection on | in Europe, South Africa and Asia, collecting all her videos from "Orinoco ... |
| Xeon | ... , for example, the Itanium, POWER, UltraSPARC, Opteron, Athlon, Core 2, and | all have multi-core variants. Athlon and Core 2 Duo multiprocessors are so ... |
| DVD | ... age containing a special live recording of his classic work, Oxygène, in 3D | , live CD and normal 2D DVD formats in November 2007, named . A first for ... |
| DVD | On the | , there are some deleted scenes |
| Julius Caesar | In the 50s BC, Aquitania was conquered by lieutenants of | and became part of the Roman Empire |
| M2 | ... ctually quite competent. Their smaller tactical needs were filled with four | .50 caliber machine guns linked together (known as the "Quad Fifty"), whic ... |
| Bristol Jupiter | ... Fedden as the follow-on to the Bristol Aeroplane Company's very successful | , following lessons learned in the Mercury effort. The Mercury was a small ... |
| Julius Caesar | Over time the Comitium was lost to the ever-growing Curia and to | 's rearrangements before his assassination in 44 BC. That year two supreme ... |
| Spitzer | ... cosmic dust surrounding a distant star 6500 light years away. Using NASA's | infrared telescope the scientists spotted the molecules' unmistakable infr ... |
| Rolls-Royce Gnome | ... el similar to the UH-1F by re-engining the 204B with the 1,225 shp (914 kW) | turboshaft and later the UH-1F's General Electric engine. The Italian vers ... |
| Xerox Star | ... Xerox 1100 LISP machine), "Dandelion" (used in the Xerox 8010 model of the | and Xerox 1108 LISP machine), "Dandetiger" (used in the Xerox 1109 LISP ma ... |
| Lycoming T53 | ... and two rotor blades on the main rotor. Early UH-1 models featured a single | turboshaft engine in versions with power ratings from to . Later UH-1 and ... |
| Intel 8080 | ... de board using new microprocessors from the United States. The game uses an | central processing unit, and features raster graphics on a CRT monitor and ... |
| distortion | ... lectric guitar, and typically through an amplification process that imparts | . Power chords are a key element of many styles of rock music |
| LARC | ... or this new system, to be called Livermore Automatic Reaction Calculator or | , from both IBM and UNIVAC. Expected to cost roughly $2.5 million and runn ... |
| clustering | Digital also invented | , an operating system technology that treated multiple machines as one log ... |
| PowerPC | ... help to fully switch endianness. For instance, the 32-bit desktop-oriented | processors in little-endian mode act as little-endian from the point of vi ... |
| Hardanger fiddle | ... ernationally known author Hans Herbjørnsrud who was born in Heddal, and the | maker Olav Gunnarsson Helland (1875–1939) who many consider the finest of ... |
| tomahawk | ... line, encouraging the team to score, but over time, the gesture imitated a | swinging down. Traditionally, the Seminole seldom used tomahawks. Before c ... |
| The Catherine Wheel | ... oreographer Twyla Tharp, scoring music he wrote that appeared on his album, | for a ballet with the same name, prominently featuring unusual rhythms and ... |
| Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy | ... a Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, and the | (SOFIA) |
| distortion | When two or more notes are played through a | process which non-linearly transforms the audio signal, additional harmoni ... |
| Hull, Massachusetts | ... e beta program of Napster, Shawn moved his company from his headquarters in | to a more spacious location in San Mateo, California and hired additional ... |
| AGM-114 Hellfire | ... ems were integrated and tested during this time, including the laser-guided | missile. The missile's development had began in 1974 |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... for Blow were decidedly mixed. The film holds an approval rating of 55% at | based on 135 reviews (74 positive, 61 negative), where the consensus is: " ... |
| Xerox Alto | ... instead of a microprocessor chip, which was not available in 1971. The 1973 | and 1981 Star workstations, which introduced the graphical user interface, ... |
| Cornish Assembly | ... Kingdom. It primarily campaigns for devolution to Cornwall in the form of a | , as well as social democracy and environmental protection |
| COROT | ... ely with space-based telescopes that avoid atmospheric haze and turbulence. | (launched December 2006) and Kepler (launched March 2009) are the two curr ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | The review aggregator | reported that 96% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 25 ... |
| DVD | ... s from the Montreal and Vancouver shows were filmed and recorded for a live | and CD, both of which were released in the second quarter of 2006 |
| Ronchi test | Some amateur telescope makers use a similar test called a | that replaces the knife edge with a grating comprising several fine parall ... |
| Harry Reid | ... any that produces The Rush Limbaugh Show and Glenn Beck Program) by Senator | and forty other Democratic senators, complaining about comments made by co ... |
| MEMS | ... rize the bias stability of gyroscopes, including fiber optic gyroscopes and | gyroscopes |
| Scraper | ... ing objects are mallets, hammers, and sticks. Rattle idiophones are shaken. | idiophones are instruments that are scraped with a stick or other foreign ... |
| VHF omnidirectional range | ... elps pilots fly the approach for landing. Some airports are equipped with a | (VOR) to help pilots find the direction to the airport. VORs are often acc ... |
| Kristine Lilly | ... (158). She is the second most capped female player in soccer history behind | , appearing in 275 international matches throughout her career |
| Exocet | ... four torpedoes, four depth charges or two anti-ship missiles (Sea Eagle or | ). It can also readily be configured to deploy the B57 tactical nuclear we ... |
| Cray T3E | ... ed via software (e.g., the Alpha, which runs only in big-endian mode on the | ) |
| MG 131 machine gun | ... the A-series, but replaced the 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 with 13 mm (.51 in) | . The originally planned 1,900 hp (1,400 kW) DB 603G engine was cancelled ... |
| C-One | ... a Cyclone EP1C12Q240C8 FPGA. The one chip-MSX" is similar in concept to the | , a Commodore 64 clone also built on the basis of a single FPGA chip. The ... |
| Model 94 | ... the location where the combination was first developed). It is a Winchester | with a forward-mounted long-eye-relief telescopic sight. Although the orig ... |
| Osirak | ... oyment in a significant air-to-ground operation. This raid severely damaged | , an Iraqi nuclear reactor under construction near Baghdad, to prevent the ... |
| Future Century | ... 990s, alternative timelines have been produced and developed, including the | , After Colony, After War, Correct Century, Cosmic Era, Anno Domini and Ad ... |
| Maurice Greene | ... uring a competition in Reno, Nevada in 1996. He was timed at 5.56A seconds. | matched that performance in 1999, but his run was never ratified as a worl ... |
| Slussen | ... ted by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, SL. Most buses terminate in Stockholm at | |
| Dragunov sniper rifle | ... 3–$24 million. Later that year, Chavez announced plans to purchase of 5,000 | s from the Russian Rosoboronexport, adding that Venezuela must ready itsel ... |
| Atari ST | ... tensive graphics library. This version of Turbo C was also released for the | , but distributed in Germany only |
| longbows | ... larm in the event of an attack. The royal bow-maker, responsible for making | , crossbows, catapults, and other siege and hand weapons, had a workshop i ... |
| IBM System/38 | ... non-compatible TTL circuits for its own use; IBM used the technology in the | , IBM 4300, and IBM 3081 |
| Daimler-Benz DB 601 | ... rcraft is the tail section which lies to the rear of the main wreckage. The | engines were recovered along with the starboard portion of the cockpit |
| VAX | ... Profile B was sponsored by Digital Equipment Corporation and implemented in | and Alpha systems as an I/O bus. Profile F was sponsored by John Theus whi ... |
| MG 17 machine gun | The basic A-series aircraft were armed with two 7.92 mm (.312 in) | s and two 20 mm MG 151/20 cannons in the nose and delivered as the Me 410 ... |
| Nehalem | ... nnounced NUMA introduction to its x86 and Itanium servers in late 2007 with | and Tukwila CPUs. Both CPU families share a common chipset; the interconne ... |
| TRS-80 | ... n compared to the contemporary more commercially-oriented Commodore PET and | , but due to a number of problems including a lack of marketing, the machi ... |
| Herschel Space Observatory | ... able examples of bolometers employed in submillimeter astronomy include the | , the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the James Clerk Maxwell Teles ... |
| BESK | ... tikmaskinnämnden (Swedish Board for Computing Machinery) a few years before | . The machine was built with 8000 standard phone relays, 80 km of cable an ... |
| Wagner tuba | ... including a greatly enlarged brass section with new instruments such as the | , bass trumpet and contrabass trombone. Remarkably, he uses a chorus only ... |
| GD-ROM | ... em reads media using a 12x maximum speed (Constant Angular Velocity) Yamaha | Drive |
| VAX | Constrained by the huge success of their | /VMS products, which followed the proprietary model, the company was very ... |
| Bonneville Dam | ... ents were deposited. Water depths have been estimated at at Wallula Gap, at | , and over modern Portland, Oregon. Sediments were also deposited when the ... |
| Water drum | ... etched over a hole in the ground, and the pot drum, made from a simple pot. | s are also sometimes treated as a distinct category of membranophone. Comm ... |
| Taser | ... unarmed, armed with a less-lethal weapon such as a baton, pepper spray, or | , or with a lethal weapon such as a handgun, or, in the case of a governme ... |
| Athlon | ... essors in one device, for example, the Itanium, POWER, UltraSPARC, Opteron, | , Core 2, and Xeon all have multi-core variants. Athlon and Core 2 Duo mul ... |
| Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia | As of , a total of confirmed exoplanets are listed in the | , including a few that were confirmations of controversial claims from the ... |
| DVD | ... dwide. In 2004–2005 they toured jointly with the band Earth, Wind & Fire; a | recorded during that tour, Chicago/Earth, Wind & Fire - Live at the Greek ... |
| Tukwila | ... A introduction to its x86 and Itanium servers in late 2007 with Nehalem and | CPUs. Both CPU families share a common chipset; the interconnection is cal ... |
| amplification | ... fifth interval, usually played on electric guitar, and typically through an | process that imparts distortion. Power chords are a key element of many st ... |
| Wagner tuba | ... ssors, such as the ophicleide, or, less correctly, the bass trumpet, or the | , both of which are significantly different instruments, and still in use ... |
| DVD | ... e used in applications like satellite communications, compact disc players, | s, disk drives, solid-state drives and two-dimensional bar codes |
| plate | In early powered radios, the headphone was part of the vacuum tube's | circuit and had dangerous voltages on it. It was normally connected direct ... |
| IBM PS/2 | ... quired video memory, timing crystals and an external RAMDAC), and the first | models were equipped with VGA on the motherboard. (Contrast this with all ... |
| Commodore PET | ... ed, especially when compared to the contemporary more commercially-oriented | and TRS-80, but due to a number of problems including a lack of marketing, ... |
| Madonna | ... usic videos in the 1990s. His first video role was as the Angel of Death in | 's 1993 "Bad Girl". The second appearance was in Skid Row's "Breakin' Down ... |
| Atacama Large Millimeter Array | ... oyed in submillimeter astronomy include the Herschel Space Observatory, the | (ALMA), the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, and the Stratospheric Observato ... |
| Kenbak-1 | The | , ancestor to the first personal computers, used TTL for its CPU instead o ... |
| Opteron | ... more processors in one device, for example, the Itanium, POWER, UltraSPARC, | , Athlon, Core 2, and Xeon all have multi-core variants. Athlon and Core 2 ... |
| Augustus | ... r divination. Starting in the last quarter of the 1st century BCE (reign of | ) and over a period of two centuries (reign of Philip the Arab), the Roman ... |
| .50 caliber | ... ally quite competent. Their smaller tactical needs were filled with four M2 | machine guns linked together (known as the "Quad Fifty"), which were often ... |
| Vympel R-73 | ... d cruise missiles, 100 Vympel R-27 medium-range air-to-air missiles and 150 | short-range air-to-air missiles |
| DEC PRISM | ... llel at various labs around the US. Eventually these were gathered into the | project, which delivered a credible 32-bit design with some unique feature ... |
| Ruger Mini | A semiautomatic Pseudo Scout rifle could easily be based upon the | platform, either the Mini-14 (.223 Remington or 6.8 mm Remington SPC) or t ... |
| Engine displacement | ... rive cars called Schwebeklasse and Sonderklasse with two-stroke V4 engines. | was 1,000 cc, later 1,100 cc. These engines had two extra cylinders for fo ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... ed with The Jacksons on the song "State of Shock", sharing lead vocals with | . For his own personal contributions in the 1985 Live Aid multi-venue char ... |
| Ford Kent engine | ... ered and the 1,500 cc "Super Seven 1500" . These were later replaced by the | , better known as the Ford crossflow, in 1,600 cc and 1,700 cc models desi ... |
| MP 40 | ... 4. Unlike the AKMS's somewhat fragile underfolding stock (modeled after the | submachine gun stock), the AKS-74 stock is fabricated from stamped sheet m ... |
| Howard K. Smith | ... med Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, | , and Larry LeSueur. The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for wh ... |
| Wheatstone bridge | ... meter in 1820. These were used to measure resistance and voltage by using a | , and comparing the unknown quantity to a reference voltage or resistance. ... |
| Vympel R-27 | ... s, 50 Kh-31A1 anti-ship missiles, 50 Kh-59ME TV-guided cruise missiles, 100 | medium-range air-to-air missiles and 150 Vympel R-73 short-range air-to-ai ... |
| Samplers | ... drum kit, synthesizers, bass (upright or electric), and other instruments. | have also been taken live by playing samples on drum pads or synthesizers, ... |
| Nuremberg Rally | ... l, discussing their potential role in an invasion of Czechoslovakia. At the | that September, Göring and other speakers denounced the Czechs as an infer ... |
| Rudolf Diesel | The word "diesel" is derived from the family name of German inventor | who in 1892 invented the diesel engine |
| Fat Man | ... d production reactors which produced the plutonium for the Trinity test and | bombs, all used pure carbon (graphite) neutron moderators combined with no ... |
| distortion | ... , aggressive rock music. The electric guitar is often emphasised, used with | and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with ... |
| Ticket-In, Ticket-Out | ... t machine purchases the right to play by inserting coins, cash, or in newer | machines, a paper ticket with a barcode, into a designated slot on the mac ... |
| UltraSPARC | ... with two or more processors in one device, for example, the Itanium, POWER, | , Opteron, Athlon, Core 2, and Xeon all have multi-core variants. Athlon a ... |
| Blowpipe missile | The main MANPADS used by both sides during the Falklands War was the | |
| Kh-59 | ... B-1500, 50 Kh-29 air-to-surface missiles, 50 Kh-31A1 anti-ship missiles, 50 | ME TV-guided cruise missiles, 100 Vympel R-27 medium-range air-to-air miss ... |
| PRV V6 | ... an unusual 90° angle between cylinder banks — a trait shared with the later | . It was a very compact and innovative design that allowed the use of just ... |
| Wheatstone bridge | ... d from radiation and one exposed to it. The strips formed two branches of a | which was fitted with a sensitive galvanometer and connected to a battery. ... |
| Mike Duffy | One month later, on October 4, | , now a Conservative senator (appointed by Harper), said "It is possible t ... |
| Schmidt camera | ... as telescopes designed for precise imaging, for wide field of view (such as | s), or for work at specific wavelengths of light. Astronomical CCD cameras ... |
| Spanish Super Cup | ... thus completing the sextuple, comprising the aforementioned treble and the | , UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup |
| PSP Go | ... many products, such as the iPod Touch, Lego Mindstorms NXT, PlayStation 3, | , telephones, the Nintendo Wii, and some high definition headsets, modems, ... |
| MK 103 cannon | ... ned Me 410 A-2 heavy fighter was cancelled because the dual 30 mm (1.18 in) | pack was not ready in time. The Me 410A featured a bomb bay for carrying a ... |
| AGM-65 Maverick | ... A-50, which can be fitted with free-fall or precision missiles such as the | |
| distorted | ... age rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock. It is typified by a heavy use of | electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with pianos an ... |
| Allmusic | ... ally certified platinum in the US, it was initially panned by critics, with | complaining that the album "lacked conceptual unity and musical bite" and ... |
| Larrabee | Intel's AVX SIMD instructions now process 256 bits of data at once. Intel's | prototype microarchitecture includes more than two 512-bit SIMD registers ... |
| Sten | ... he conflict BSA produced 1,250,000 Lee Enfield .303 service rifles, 404,383 | sub-machine guns, 468,098 Browning machine guns plus spares equivalent to ... |
| Diesel engine | | s are a type of internal combustion engine. Rudolf Diesel originally desig ... |
| VLSI | ... blem. This allows the use of specially programmed FPGA chips or even custom | chips, allowing higher price/performance ratios by sacrificing generality. ... |
| howitzer | ... Secombe after Gunner Milligan's artillery unit accidentally allowed a large | to roll off a cliff - under which Secombe was sitting in a small wireless ... |
| Elugelab | ... test of the first U.S. hydrogen bomb, code named "Ivy Mike", the island of | in the Enewetak atoll was destroyed |
| Boolean circuit | ... hip in any language in BPP can be determined by a family of polynomial-size | s, which means BPP is contained in P/poly. Indeed, as a consequence of the ... |
| Key Largo | ... had suites on the bottom of the Persian Gulf, and Jules' Undersea Lodge in | , Florida requires scuba diving to access its rooms |
| MGM-51 Shillelagh | ... me M81/M81E1 152mm gun/launcher which fired conventional ammunition and the | guided anti-tank missile |
| Itanium | ... ced CPU devices with two or more processors in one device, for example, the | , POWER, UltraSPARC, Opteron, Athlon, Core 2, and Xeon all have multi-core ... |
| IBM 1400 | ... tific computers, the IBM 7070 and 7080 business computers, the IBM 7040 and | lines, and the IBM 1620 small scientific computer. (The 7030 used about tr ... |
| Alpha | ... and share in the R&D process of creating faster computers using their RISC | processors. Microsoft was not exclusively bound to the Alpha chip so it pu ... |
| Allmusic | ... gle moment when the style was born. As an uncredited critic has written for | , "being freed of all rules, free improvisation cannot be traced back to a ... |
| Kh-31 | ... ided bombs types KAB-500 and KAB-1500, 50 Kh-29 air-to-surface missiles, 50 | A1 anti-ship missiles, 50 Kh-59ME TV-guided cruise missiles, 100 Vympel R- ... |
| Richardson curling | ... stinguished the city for many decades. Richardson Crescent commemorates the | team of the 1950s. In recent years Olympic Gold medal winner Sandra Schmir ... |
| Mark III/ADEC | The Mark I was followed by the Harvard Mark II (1947 or 1948), | (September 1949), and Harvard Mark IV (1952) – all the work of Aiken. The ... |
| Joint Direct Attack Munition | ... ea Air Force also expressed interests in acquiring the RQ-4 Global Hawk and | kits to further improve their intelligence and offensive capabilities |
| BGM-71 TOW | ... on, state of the art equipment, such as the AGM-65 Maverick missile and the | , weapons that had only entered production one or more years prior, as wel ... |
| Macintosh 512K | ... owever, RAM-based HFS support was also implemented for use with the earlier | 's 64K ROM through the addition of an INIT file on the system disk. The in ... |
| Crikey | ====Australia====According to | , The Age of March 19 reported that the Vienna Boys Choir “has been caught ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... , and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like | , Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the repub ... |
| Daimler-Benz DB 601 | ... Z. Dornier therefore equipped the V3 prototype with the 1,175 PS (1,159 hp) | Ba inline engines (note: it is not the first time DB engines where used in ... |
| Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator | IBM went on to build the | (SSEC) to both test new technology and provide more publicity for the comp ... |
| Augustus | ... rs) was made a Roman citizen (and thus, the tribe a Roman vassal) by either | or Caligula |
| Winchester Model 1894 | ... ral sources, specifically the Austrian Mannlicher-Schönauer of 1903 and the | , Cooper defined several distinguishing characteristics of a scout rifle |
| AK-107 | Additionally, the | (5.45×39mm M74) and AK-108 (5.56×45mm NATO) rifles have a balanced recoil ... |
| Narsil | ... ing for survivors of the ambush. Isildur's squire Ohtar saved the shards of | from the enemy horde; Isildur's sons were killed during the battle. This i ... |
| Alfa Romeo 126-RC34 | ... gasus under licence, with the engine based on the Pegasus designated as the | with the civil version as the 126-RC10. In Czechoslovakia it was built by ... |
| Pocket PC | ... crosoft subsequently dropped support for these other architectures in their | platform. In 1997, as part of a lawsuit settlement, the StrongARM intellec ... |
| Assemblies of God | ... Christ (formerly Congregational), with 51.5 percent of the population; the | , 24.2 percent; and the Roman Catholic Church, 8.4 percent. The Church of ... |
| Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope | ... e different instruments on board SOHO: the MDI, producing magnetograms, the | (EIT), which photographs the corona in the ultraviolets, and the LASCO, th ... |
| PowerPC | ... irst Digital Equipment Corporation) DEC Alpha, IBM POWER and Apple Computer | (specifically G4 and G5 series, as well as earlier PowerPC 604 and 604e se ... |
| Madonna | ... to these types of pacts. Several artists such as Paramore, Maino, and even | have signed such types of deals |
| .380 ACP | ... a medium-sized bullet at rather low speeds. The closest comparisons are the | , which fires much lighter bullets slightly faster than most .38 Special l ... |
| Alpha | ... B was sponsored by Digital Equipment Corporation and implemented in VAX and | systems as an I/O bus. Profile F was sponsored by John Theus while he work ... |
| Florida Keys | ... s, which offers scuba diving certification and works to repair reefs in the | . In the summer of 2009, the OA will pilot the OA Canadian Odyssey which w ... |
| Mannlicher-Schönauer | Drawing inspiration from several sources, specifically the Austrian | of 1903 and the Winchester Model 1894, Cooper defined several distinguishi ... |
| T-72 | ... Venezuela has shown interest on the following weapons: TOR-M1 SAM systems, | tanks, Su-35 jet fighters and Il-76 military cargo aircraft. Despite of th ... |
| Vega | ... t flattening of its disk. This is at marked variance with the similar-sized | , which rotates at a much faster 274 km/s and bulges prominently around it ... |
| TV Guide | In a 2010 issue of | , the show’s opening title sequence ranked #8 on a list of TV's top 10 cre ... |
| ring modulators | ... nie 2005, 255–57), Mikrophonie II (1965) for choir, Hammond organ, and four | (Peters 1992), and Solo for a melody instrument with feedback (1966) (Maco ... |
| Turbomeca Arriel | ... ircraft), engineering changes were required — notably, the SA365's original | engines were replaced with LTS101-750B-2 powerplants, which at the time re ... |
| Augustus | ... s the ancient Etruscan town of Tibur (modern Tivoli). The mythic meeting of | with the Sibyl, of whom he inquired whether he should be worshiped as a go ... |
| magnetic drum | ... all-electronic, using solid state components. The Mark III and Mark IV used | memory and the Mark IV also had magnetic core memory. The Mark II and Mark ... |
| transmission | ... propeller. This can be a traditional gear box, coaxial planetary gears or a | with belts or chains. Because of the inevitable loss associated with geari ... |
| Murder Was the Case | ... "Natural Born Killaz" for Snoop Doggy Dogg's 1994 short film and soundtrack | and they also planned an album which was to be titled Heltah Skeltah . Lat ... |
| nuclear war | ... ber is a brilliant but eccentric Caltech nuclear physicist whose fears of a | lead him to build an enormous fallout shelter beneath his suburban home. T ... |
| X-ray telescope | ... alf of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. These coronae can be detected using | s. Some stellar coronae, particularly in young stars, are much more lumino ... |
| AK-47 | ... reasons. All weapons supplied at that point were non-US made weapons, like | rifles purchased from China |
| Woodall Rodgers Freeway | ... that attracted an estimated 180,000 people to a speedway at the uncompleted | near Dallas, Texas. At the conclusion of his set, which included "I Wish W ... |
| Intel 80386 | Segment descriptors on | and compatible processors keep a base 32-bit address of the segment stored ... |
| StrongARM | ... in their Pocket PC platform. In 1997, as part of a lawsuit settlement, the | intellectual property was sold to Intel. They continued to produce StrongA ... |
| Doomsday Clock | ... iley face as "a symbol for the whole series", noting its resemblance to the | ticking up to midnight. Moore drew inspiration from psychological tests of ... |
| Florida Keys | ... d in the United States as feral populations in South Florida (including the | ), Hawaii, and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas |
| Let It Be | ... n 1969, The Beatles used the studios while rehearsing music for their album | . A film was made of some of the sessions, and both the film and the album ... |
| Hello! | ... ng her son Barnaby. Together they have a son, David. In 1995 photographs in | showed Jarre apparently romantically involved with 31-year old secretary O ... |
| Cell Processor | ... ology, MIPS' MDMX (MaDMaX) and MIPS-3D. The IBM, Sony, Toshiba co-developed | 's SPU's instruction set is heavily SIMD based. NXP founded by Philips dev ... |
| Florida Keys | ... the Ocean Adventure at the Florida National High Adventure Sea Base in the | , which offers scuba diving certification and works to repair reefs in the ... |
| Network-attached storage | ... o the PACS server in various ways, either as Direct-Attached Storage (DAS), | (NAS), or via a Storage Area Network (SAN) |
| Keith Olbermann | ... rie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, | , New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington P ... |
| Diana Ross | ... H1, called The RuPaul Show, interviewing celebrity guests and musical acts. | , Nirvana, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, Mary J. Blige, Bea Arthur, Dionne War ... |
| AGM-65 Maverick | ... 5 mm, 155 mm and 175 mm ammunition, state of the art equipment, such as the | missile and the BGM-71 TOW, weapons that had only entered production one o ... |
| Commodore VIC-20 | ... rd on top, a layout that became common with machines like the Atari 800 and | . In this form it could be attached to a 3rd party computer monitor and us ... |
| Scavenger's daughter | ... se of torture. The three most common forms used were the infamous rack, the | , and manacles. The rack was introduced to England in 1447 by the Duke of ... |
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| PDP-11 | ... ngs, generically called middle-endian or mixed-endian, are possible. On the | (16-bit little-endian) for example, the compiler stored 32-bit values with ... |
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| Allegro library | ... original Descent (minus the audio code, which was replaced with that of the | ) was released in 1997. The source code to Descent II was subsequently rel ... |
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| IBM 7040 | ... line of scientific computers, the IBM 7070 and 7080 business computers, the | and IBM 1400 lines, and the IBM 1620 small scientific computer. (The 7030 ... |
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| Greek fire | Use of fire in warfare has a long history; similar to napalm is the earlier | , which was also described as "sticky fire" (πῦρ κολλητικόν) and is believ ... |
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| A Hard Day's Night | ... mmer of 1965. During the intervening time, The Beatles released two albums, | and Beatles for Sale, both of which could have included "Yesterday". Altho ... |
| PDP-10 | ... y Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was the second proprietary OS for the | mainframe computer. TOPS-20 began in 1969 as the TENEX operating system of ... |
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| Zilog Z80 | ... ine, combined with their custom display circuitry. The machine included the | and various bus features needed to run the CP/M operating system, but plac ... |
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| Fender Mark Hoppus Jazz Bass | Hoppus has been seen using his signature | in a variety of different colors since the days of Blink-182. Though consi ... |
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| IBM 704 | ... n 1961, physicist John Larry Kelly, Jr and colleague Louis Gerstman used an | computer to synthesize speech, an event among the most prominent in the hi ... |
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| Scalable Coherent Interface | ... l attempt to reduce the communication required to maintain cache coherency. | (SCI) is an IEEE standard defining a directory based cache coherency proto ... |
| Motorola 6800 | Well-known processors that use the big-endian format include | and 68k, Xilinx Microblaze, IBM POWER, and System/360 and its successors s ... |
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| capacity | ... er engines, later variants could produce 1,000 horsepower (750 kW) from its | of 1,750 cubic inches (28 L) by use of a geared supercharger |
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| Z80 | ... ilt the VT180 (codenamed "Robin"), which was a VT100 terminal with an added | -based microcomputer running , but this product was initially available on ... |
| ENIAC | ... 945, Perry Crawford, another member of the MIT team, saw a demonstration of | and suggested that a digital computer was the solution. Such a machine wou ... |
| Intel 8088 | ... They built the machine for several years before developing their own 16-bit | –based machine called the Tulip, which replaced the Sorcerer in 1983. One ... |
| organic laser | ... made widespread 3-D communication practical; the first electrically powered | invented; a large-scale map of cosmic dark matter was compiled, and the F- ... |
| PDP-11 | ... MCS-48, 8051, DEC Alpha, Altera Nios, Atmel AVR, SuperH, VAX, and, largely, | |
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| mace | ... Pelennor Fields, the Witch-king bore a "long pale sword", and later used a | against Éowyn |
| Marsh Lock | ... s a tower built in the 16th century. About a mile upstream of the bridge is | |
| Smith & Wesson Model 10 | ... fire in weapons rated specifically for 38 Special (e.g. all versions of the | ), which are not designed for the greatly increased pressure of the magnum ... |
| Diesel engine | ... with the three-cylinder 1,000 cc engine, but later received a Mercedes-Benz | and finally was renamed a Mercedes-Benz in 1975 |
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| Datamax UV-1 | ... s to build a home computer based on the Astrocade. While the Astrocade (and | ) had limited text capabilities but excellent graphics, the Sorcerer inste ... |
| Amiga | ... ied to hammer out a standardized document format, based conceptually on the | 's Interchange File Format (IFF). Apple became interested in this work, an ... |
| Thompson submachine gun | ... d static friction, or stiction. His locking mechanism was used first in the | |
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| Itanium | ... the AMD Opteron, which can be implemented without external logic, and Intel | , which requires the chipset to support NUMA. Examples of ccNUMA enabled c ... |
| PDP-1 | ... disk for later recall if needed. One such system had been developed for the | at MIT by Daniel Murphy before he joined BBN. Early DEC machines were base ... |
| music box | ... akers playing children's music. Ice cream vans in the United Kingdom make a | noise rather than actual music |
| Blue Steel II | ... g Soviet Air Defence Forces, and by the late 1950s the RAF was pursuing the | stand-off missile to allow its bombers to fire their weapons while still ( ... |
| organ | ... nd the other Beatles tried a variety of instruments, including drums and an | , and that George Martin later persuaded them to allow McCartney to play h ... |
| VAX | Digital also produced the popular | computer family, the first pure 64-bit microprocessor architecture (Alpha ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... e beginning of his public career, Sallust operated as a decided partisan of | , to whom he owed such political advancement as he attained. In 50 BC, the ... |
| diesel cycle | ... developments of the Pegasus created the fuel-injected Bristol Draco and the | Bristol Phoenix, both types being produced in limited numbers. In contrast ... |
| Thompson Autorifle | The most famous applications of the Blish Lock were the | and Thompson submachine gun. Several engineers suspected the autorifle fun ... |
| Gibson Les Paul | ... tarist James Hetfield has a custom version of the ESP Eclipse (based on the | ) with the Iron Cross emblazoned on it. This version is known as the "ESP ... |
| Cologne cathedral | ... o be a pupil of William Morris – he made known that he would have preferred | unfinished, with the 14th-century wooden crane on top of it, as it stood i ... |
| Metacritic | ... also holds a score of 77/100 (mostly favorable) on a similar review website | . It was eventually added to The New York Times "Guide to the Best 1,000 M ... |
| Symbian OS | ... virus using Bluetooth to spread itself among mobile phones appeared on the | |
| AIM-9 Sidewinder | Early models could be armed with up to six | heat-seeking short-range air-to-air missiles (AAM), including rail launche ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... of the old Roman aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of | . Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to hi ... |
| The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes | ... tly erected at the site. This trivia fact was referenced in the 1969 film " | |
| DVD | ... re viable with the increasing popularity of the genre and the advent of the | , funding for documentary film production remains elusive. Within the past ... |
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| DVD | ... instrument for measuring clock jitter values, and is used in manufacturing | and CD-ROM discs |
| center-tapped transformer | ... loudspeakers, have taps to allow adjustment of impedance to each speaker. A | is often used in the output stage of an audio power amplifier in a push-pu ... |
| Geiger counter | ... na boom, two ion traps to measure solar wind, micrometeorite detectors, and | tubes and a Sodium Iodide scintillator for measurement of cosmic radiation ... |
| Atari 8-bit family | ... board similar to machines like the Commodore PET, the Commodore 64, and the | . Unlike those machines, the Sorcerer's keyboard was a high quality unit w ... |
| AIM-7 Sparrow | ... (AAM), including rail launchers on each wingtip. Some F-16s can employ the | medium-range AAM; more recent versions can equip the AIM-120 AMRAAM. It ca ... |
| Cylon | ... recycling footage from the 1974 Universal Studios movie Earthquake during a | attack sequence), widely panned writing, and ill-chosen time slot (Sunday ... |
| 128K Macintosh | ... vancement by Apple to leave a Macintosh computer model behind: the original | , which lacked sufficient memory to load the HFS code and was promptly dis ... |
| Alpha 21364 | ... ch as those from Silicon Graphics were based on MIPS processors and the DEC | (EV7) processor |
| nuclear warhead | ... ansported to another planet where O'Neill's standing order is to detonate a | near the Stargate at the sign of danger, but a young boy named Skaara give ... |
| Basslink | The | HVDC electrical cable has been in service since 2006. It has the capacity ... |
| PDP-6 | In 1964 DEC announced the | . DEC was still heavily involved with MIT's AI Lab, and many feature reque ... |
| DEC Professional | ... which were each tied to different proprietary architectures. The first, the | , was based on the PDP-11/23 (and later, the 11/73) running the RSX-11M+ d ... |
| DVD | ... e the late 1990s numerous video recordings of the opera have been issued on | and Blu-ray disc (BD). These include recent productions and remastered ver ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... alike. The film holds a 60% "Fresh" rating on the review aggregate website | |
| 80286 | ... Microsoft Windows and OS/2 were originally written for the 8088/8086 and/or | , 16-bit microprocessors with a segmented address space where programs had ... |
| DVD | ... - Live In New York City, which featured the same show that was released on | in 2003. Dio has claimed he did not have much input on this release, as he ... |
| PowerPC | ... vanced microprocessors starting with the Intel Pentium and the Motorola/IBM | , as well as in many embedded microprocessors and microcontrollers from va ... |
| Remington 700 | B-Square offers forward scope mounts for building Scouts based upon the | , the Mauser, and the |
| Reddit | ... he participated in an "Ask Me Anything" session on the social media website | . The AMA turned into a PR disaster when Harrelson failed to make meaningf ... |
| AIM-120 AMRAAM | ... ploy the AIM-7 Sparrow medium-range AAM; more recent versions can equip the | . It can also carry other AAM; a wide variety of air-to-ground missiles, r ... |
| Alpha | ... continuing through 1997 and later with Motion Video Instructions (MVI) for | . SIMD instructions can be found, to one degree or another, on most CPUs, ... |
| Meredith Vieira | In media, alumni include | , journalist and TV personality; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., The New York ... |
| Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory | ... ed continuously since 1947. The world standard measurements are made by the | at Penticton, B.C., Canada and reported once a day at local noon in solar ... |
| Dreamcast | The first console-based MMORPG was Phantasy Star Online for the Sega | . The first console-based open-world MMORPG was Final Fantasy XI for the S ... |
| AEK-971 | ... elt recoil and muzzle rise. This balanced recoil system is derived from the | rifle |
| diesel | ... . It is the third most popular vehicle fuel in America, behind gasoline and | . In other parts of the world, propane used in vehicles is known as autoga ... |
| Motorola 68000 | ... company, bringing with him a version of the operating system TRIPOS for the | processor which he had previously worked on whilst a researcher at the Uni ... |
| DEC Alpha | ... 2 (including 65802, 65C816), Z80 (including Z180, eZ80 etc.), MCS-48, 8051, | , Altera Nios, Atmel AVR, SuperH, VAX, and, largely, PDP-11 |
| Williams tube | ... ful, and most of the problem was attributed to the fairly slow speed of the | s for main memory of 256 words. Forrester started looking at replacements, ... |
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| Zilog Z800 | ... ed on the Z80 microprocessor, while the MSX TurboR was based on an enhanced | known as the R800. The MSX TurboR was introduced in 1990 but was unsuccess ... |
| Williams tube | Originally BESK had a British | 40 bit memory with 40 cathode tubes, and 8 spare tubes. The memory was fro ... |
| DNA machine | 2000 was an active year for the Laboratories, in which | prototypes were developed; progressive geometry compression algorithm made ... |
| Commodore PET | ... inside a "closed" box with a built-in keyboard similar to machines like the | , the Commodore 64, and the Atari 8-bit family. Unlike those machines, the ... |
| EMS VCS 3 | ... rkshop now found itself in possession of various synthesisers including the | and the EMS Synthi 100 nicknamed the "Delaware" by the members of the Work ... |
| Persian wheels | ... doors and windows, and for well construction water pipes, upright posts of | , agricultural implements and shafts, spokes, fellows and yoke of carts. I ... |
| MSN Companion | ... reate the first in a line of small-scale, web-based computer systems called | s |
| soundtrack | ... ontributed a cover of the Beatles song "Because" to the closing credits and | of the film American Beauty. Although this was the only Beatles song that ... |
| FIM-43 Redeye | ... y conflict, since no fixed wing aircraft were used, the previous generation | was considered adequate |
| Multijunction photovoltaic cell | ... e, since dopant levels are usually of the order of a few parts per million. | s, developed for satellite power applications, are made by molecular beam ... |
| MSN Companion | ... or a mouse. To address these problems, the engineers at WebTV developed the | , which was another easy-to-use thin client which used an SVGA monitor and ... |
| VX gas | ... ed Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel (Harris) seize a stockpile of deadly | –armed rockets from a heavily guarded military bunker, reluctantly leaving ... |
| Bob Munden | ... of World Records museum opened in the Empire State Building. Speed shooter | then went on tour promoting the Guinness Book of World Records by performi ... |
| Harry Reasoner | ... irst with Frank Reynolds, then the following year with another CBS alumnus, | . He began making increasingly conservative commentaries, in particular ad ... |
| GlobalSecurity.org | ... were being discriminated and their religious rights were being suppressed. | reported that, in the early 1990s, journalists who did not conform to mili ... |
| NEC PC-9801 | An adventure game titled Aa! Megami-sama! for the | was released in 1993 by Banpresto. An enhanced port was later released in ... |
| Junkers Jumo 205 | The most-produced aviation diesel engine in history has been the | , which, along with its similar developments from the Junkers Motorenwerke ... |
| Nintendo Zapper Light Gun | In Duck Hunt, players use the | and attempt to shoot down either ducks or clay pigeons in mid-flight. Duck ... |
| hard disk | Apple introduced HFS out of necessity with its first 20 MB | offering for the Macintosh in September 1985. However, HFS was not widely ... |
| Paul Ricard | ... Formula One team's only fatality when he died in a testing accident at the | circuit. Derek Warwick, who replaced de Angelis, was close to scoring two ... |
| organ | Two | s are installed in the Cathedral. The main organ was built by the Steinmey ... |
| M61 Vulcan | ... lined seat to reduce g-force effects on the pilot. The F-16 has an internal | cannon in the left wing root and has 11 hardpoints for mounting various mi ... |
| SPARCstation 1 | ... algorithm is also used in the .au format, which dates back at least to the | as the native method used by Sun's /dev/audio interface, widely used as a ... |
| sling | ... urns to the left while the left arm is raised to his left shoulder with his | flung down behind his back. Michelangelo’s David has become one of the mos ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... e film currently holds a 90% "Fresh" rating on the review aggregate website | . It also holds a score of 77/100 (mostly favorable) on a similar review w ... |
| Apple II GS | ... had a keyboard built into the motherboard shell, with the exception of the | which featured an external keyboard. An upgrade kit was sold later to hous ... |
| PDP-10 | ... DEC was once again entering the 36-bit business with what would become the | . BBN started talks with DEC to get a paging subsystem in the new machine, ... |
| Nascom | ... raduate. While at the university in 1980, he began writing programs for the | microcomputer, including a Pascal compiler which was initially marketed as ... |
| IBM 7302 | ... IBM 1620 small scientific computer. (The 7030 used about transistors.) The | Model I Core Storage units were also used in the IBM 7090, IBM 7070 and IB ... |
| SU-76 | ... t was mainly Sukhoi Su-7, MiG-21 fighter jets, T-34 and Iosif Stalin tanks, | self-propelled guns, GAZ-69 4x4 light trucks of jeep class (in many versio ... |
| Four Treasures | Nuada's great sword was one of the | of the Tuatha Dé Danann, brought from one of their four great cities |
| Commodore 64 | ... ox with a built-in keyboard similar to machines like the Commodore PET, the | , and the Atari 8-bit family. Unlike those machines, the Sorcerer's keyboa ... |
| Bonneville Dam | ... forecasts for eight places along the river between Astoria and the base of | |
| Michelson interferometer | ... suspended at each of the corners of the L; it is known as a power-recycled | with Fabry–Pérot arms. A pre-stabilized laser emits a beam of up to 200 Wa ... |
| 9 mm | The Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, | semi-automatic handgun. It is based on a design by American firearms inven ... |
| De architectura | ... Pythagoreans held, by mathematical ratio, but by the ear. Vitruvius in his | paraphrases the writings of Aristoxenus on music. His ideas were responded ... |
| IBM 1130 | APL was first available in 1967 for the | as APL\1130. It would run in as little as 8k 16 bit words of memory, and u ... |
| M-48A3 | ... argo airplanes, 8 CH-53 helicopters, 40 unmanned aerial vehicles, 200 M-60/ | tanks, 250 armored personnel carriers, 226 utility vehicles, 12 MIM-72 Cha ... |
| GameSpot | ... rated the game positively. 1UP.com users gave it an 8.7 out of 10, and the | community gave the Mario-Duck Hunt package a 9.1 out of 10. It was rated t ... |
| PowerPC | ... ecture was little-endian before version 3 when it became bi-endian, and the | and Power Architecture descendants of IBM POWER are also bi-endian (see be ... |
| Oberheim DMX | ... e of musical backing tracks. In the case of "Sucker MCs", there was a loud, | drum machine, a few scratches and nothing else, while the rhymes harangued ... |
| Whirlwind | ... ver programs running in real-time. These had started in 1944 with the famed | which was originally developed to make a flight simulator for the US Navy, ... |
| Blabbermouth.net | As of March 2011, according to | , Bad Brains have begun work on new material for their next album, which i ... |
| Sten | ... . In this way the AK was able to procure submachine guns (copies of British | , indigenous Błyskawica and KIS), pistols (Vis), flamethrowers, explosive ... |
| 55 Cancri | For instance, in the | system the first planet – 55 Cancri b – was discovered in 1996; two additi ... |
| BBC Master | ... dore 64. Despite this, several features that would later be associated with | and Archimedes were first features of Electron expansion units, including ... |
| Intel i860 XP | ... nexpensive scalar MIMD approaches based on commodity processors such as the | became more powerful, and interest in SIMD waned |
| EPROM | The Montfort Brothers made an | PAC with a rechargeable battery inside and 16 kB RAM with an external writ ... |
| Fair Park | ... everly Hills, California, and George E. Kessler, who had previously planned | and most of downtown Dallas, were hired to design its layout in 1907 "as a ... |
| Meteosat | ... de the GOES series of spacecraft, the POES series, the DMSP series, and the | series. The GOES spacecraft have carried a X-Ray Sensor (XRS) which measur ... |
| Alan Pardew | ... ver from Terry Bullivant but lasted just 18 months before being replaced by | who had previously been reserve team manager before being released. In 200 ... |
| The Knee Plays | ... e wrote the Dirty Dozen Brass Band-inspired score for Robert Wilson's Opera | from . Some of the music from Byrne's orchestral album The Forest was orig ... |
| Julius Caesar | | initially supported Aristobulus against Hyrcanus and Antipater. Between th ... |
| Anime News Network | ... trends or have a marked influence on the course of anime." — Theron Martin, | |
| Paul McCartney | ... itled "A Little Help from My Friends") is a song written by John Lennon and | , released on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1 ... |
| Augustus | ... to Bohemia, where their king Maroboduus established a powerful kingdom that | perceived as a threat to Rome. Before he could act, however, the war in Il ... |
| Network of Workstations | ... le storage technologies. This technology was the forerunner to systems like | which are used for massively cooperative tasks such as web-searches and dr ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... ed) and processing power to take on the prevailing Sinclair ZX Spectrum and | . Despite this, several features that would later be associated with BBC M ... |
| AN/APG-80 | The F-16E/F is outfitted with Northrop Grumman's | Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, making it only the third ... |
| Love | In 2006, a version of the song was included on the album | . The version begins with the acoustic guitar intro from the song "Blackbi ... |
| Paganini Quartet | ... of Mirecourt 1820 (guitar). Four of these instruments are now played by the | |
| 1UP.com | ... a few rounds of play." Several user groups have rated the game positively. | users gave it an 8.7 out of 10, and the GameSpot community gave the Mario- ... |
| Augustus | ... re the descendants of the "melting pot" of the Roman legionnaires (moved by | to eastern Istria to colonize the borders of Italy) and the Aromanian shep ... |
| Rudolf Diesel | Diesel engines are a type of internal combustion engine. | originally designed the diesel engine to use coal dust as a fuel. He also ... |
| Bob Hawke | ... but after 1980 became increasingly critical and was a leading supporter of | 's reforming government after 1983. But from the 1970s the political influ ... |
| AN/FSQ-7 | ... in SAGE, and an industrial effort was started in order to mass-produce the | computers for this role |
| Yohkoh | ... research and space weather prediction and inspired the STEREO mission. The | spacecraft at LEO observed the Sun from 1991 to 2001 in the X-ray portion ... |
| DVD | ... omething that is somewhat analogous to the inclusion of deleted scenes with | releases of films. An example of this is the chapter The Town Ho's Story f ... |
| Safeguard Program | Of particular interest in Nekoma is the | anti-ballistic missile complex, with a structure visible from miles in eve ... |
| M48 Patton | ... ntry. In 1969, armored cavalry units (minus the 11th ACR which retained its | tank companies) began replacing their M48 Patton tanks, which in turn were ... |
| Northumbrian smallpipes | ... r Beardsley, Michael Carrick and Alan Shearer. John Dunn, inventor of keyed | , the most characteristic musical instrument in the region, lived and work ... |
| Martin Jol | ... Kevin Gallacher, Terry Gibson, Mark Hateley, Ian Wallace, Tommy Hutchison, | , Les Sealey, Robbie Keane, Gary McAllister, Steve Ogrizovic, Colin Stein ... |
| BBC Micro | The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the | with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for th ... |
| M48 Patton | However, the Sheridan did not get stuck in the mud as often as the 52 ton | tank did, nor did it throw its track off as often as the Patton. This alon ... |
| The Forest | ... Opera The Knee Plays from . Some of the music from Byrne's orchestral album | was originally used in a Wilson-directed theatre piece with the same name. ... |
| TRS-80 | ... t supporting color. In this respect the Sorcerer was similar to the PET and | in that it had only "graphics characters" to draw with, but at least on th ... |
| Hiten | ... spacecraft. This was the first aerobraking maneuver by a deep space probe. | (a.k.a. MUSES-A) was launched by the (ISAS) of Japan. Hiten flew by the Ea ... |
| drums | ... vocals), Oliver "Ollie" Riedel (bass guitar), Christoph "Doom" Schneider ( | and electronic percussion) and Christian "Flake" Lorenz (keyboards). They ... |
| CDC Star-100 | ... MD instructions was in vector supercomputers of the early 1970s such as the | and the Texas Instruments ASC, which could operate on a vector of data wit ... |
| Sidolówka | ... amethrowers, explosive devices, road mines and hand grenades (Filipinka and | ). Hundreds of people were involved in this manufacturing effort. AK did n ... |
| GameSpy | ... y the Japanese gaming industry as Japan's national game. William Cassidy of | claims that "the common wisdom is that if you ask someone from Japan to dr ... |
| Stirling engine | Kamen has worked extensively on a project involving | designs, attempting to create two machines; one that would generate power, ... |
| animatronic | ... heepdog. The main animal characters are played by a combination of real and | pigs and Border Collies |
| Texas Instruments ASC | ... n vector supercomputers of the early 1970s such as the CDC Star-100 and the | , which could operate on a vector of data with a single instruction. Vecto ... |
| Electronic circuit | ... ents such as resistors, capacitors, switches, transformers and electronics. | s contain active components, usually semiconductors, and typically exhibit ... |
| ultracapacitors | ... turbine can be run at optimum speed for its power output, and batteries and | can supply power as needed, with the engine cycled on and off to run it on ... |
| GEO 600 | ... averaged over all directions and polarizations. Also at this time, LIGO and | (the German-UK interferometric detector) began a joint science run, during ... |
| Allmusic | ... and number 184, "Please Please Me". According to Stephen Thomas Erlewine of | , "Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh", the covers ar ... |
| HAL 9000 | ... used it in the climactic scene of his screenplay for his novel , where the | computer sings the same song as it is being put to sleep by astronaut Dave ... |
| Celeron | ... Pentium III processors allowed dual CPU systems, except for the respective | s. This was followed by the Intel Pentium II Xeon and Intel Pentium III Xe ... |
| Nancy Spungen | ... has been the subject of a number of songs and the scene of the stabbing of | (allegedly by her boyfriend Sid Vicious) |
| load coil | ... ecause DSL operates above the 3.4 kHz voice limit, it cannot pass through a | . Load coils are, in essence, filters that block out any non-voice frequen ... |
| AN/FPS-35 | ... and it was taken over by United States Air Force which in 1958 built a wide | radar to detect incoming Soviet bombers. A massive building was built to h ... |
| Titan II | ... e Strategic Air Command's 390th Strategic Missile Wing (390 SMW) and its 18 | ICBM sites around Tucson were activated. The 390 SMW was one of only three ... |
| zero-crossing detector | ... cassette output worked the same as the speaker, and the input was a simple | that served as a relatively crude (1-bit) audio digitizer. Routines in the ... |
| Xeon | ... 64-bit memory addressing on the AMD64 Opteron in 2003 and Intel 64 (EM64T) | in 2005, systems are able to address much larger amounts of memory; their ... |
| carrier | ... cations, the AFSK-modulated signal normally is being used to modulate an RF | (using a conventional technique, such as AM or FM) for transmission |
| Filipinka | ... ols (Vis), flamethrowers, explosive devices, road mines and hand grenades ( | and Sidolówka). Hundreds of people were involved in this manufacturing eff ... |
| DEC Alpha | ... t time, the 32-bit Intel 80486 ran at 50 MHz and 50 MFlops. When the 64-bit | was introduced in 1992, it ran at up to 192 MHz and 192 MFlops, while the ... |
| Macintosh | ... tem which had been introduced over a year and a half earlier with the first | computer. HFS drew heavily upon Apple's first hierarchical SOS operating s ... |
| M1911 pistol | ... land Arms produces .45 ACP conversion kits for the Lee-Enfield action using | magazines |
| Alicia Keys | ... Furtado also hosted a program about AIDS on MTV, which also featured guests | and Justin Timberlake. On September 27, 2011, Furtado announced during Fre ... |
| .45 ACP | Rhineland Arms produces | conversion kits for the Lee-Enfield action using M1911 pistol magazines |
| Opana Radar Site | Just inland from the bay is the | , a National Historic Landmark that is not open to the public |
| Opteron | ... n of 64 GiB. With the introduction of 64-bit memory addressing on the AMD64 | in 2003 and Intel 64 (EM64T) Xeon in 2005, systems are able to address muc ... |
| PC/XT | ... . (Contrast this with all of the "family one" IBM PC desktop models—the PC, | , and PC AT—which required a display adapter installed in a slot in order ... |
| BBC Micro | The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the | educational/home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. It has 32 kilobytes ... |
| diesel | ... urbines accept most commercial fuels, such as petrol, natural gas, propane, | , and kerosene as well as renewable fuels such as E85, biodiesel and bioga ... |
| Rickenbacker 4001CS | ... by the aggressive picked tone he developed with his Chris Squire Signature | , which can clearly be heard on Tool's first full length album, Undertow |
| H engine | ... Napier started on the design of two new engines using the even more compact | layout. The 16-cylinder Rapier produced 400 hp (300 kW), the 24-cylinder D ... |
| Violone | ... pieces for the double bass. The double bass, then often referred to as the | used different tunings from region to region. The "Viennese tuning" (A 1 - ... |
| Fender Precision Bass | ... ed Fender Bass VI, most notably for the song "I Miss You". Hoppus also uses | which was first seen in "Dammit", "What's My Age Again?", and "All The Sma ... |
| tracer | ... many U.S. naval and marine aircrew were also issued red-tipped .38 Special | rounds using either a 120-grain or 158-grain bullet for emergency signalin ... |
| Galician gaita | ... a. The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, | s, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and ... |
| IBM Model B Electric typewriter | ... ls, the Type 30 vector graphics display, and a Soroban Engineering modified | that was used as a printer. The Soroban system was notoriously unreliable, ... |
| GEO 600 | The LIGO Laboratory, with support from National Science Foundation and the | Collaboration, and with participation by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration ... |
| Rolls-Royce R | ... then dropped by Supermarine in favour of a new engine from Rolls-Royce, the | which had been especially designed for racing |
| Stu Nahan | ... ion to the main cast several others had cameo appearances. Bill Baldwin and | returned as the fight commentators for the two Rocky-Lang fights. Veteran ... |
| Inferno operating system | ... atoms wide on microchips, was invented by Lloyd Harriott and his team. The | , an update of Plan 9, was created by Dennis Ritchie with others, using th ... |
| BBC Micro | Like the | , the Electron was constrained by limited memory resources. Of the 32 KB R ... |
| Intel 8086 | ... 1984 Compaq released the Compaq Deskpro, a 16-bit desktop computer using an | microprocessor running at 7.14 MHz. It was considerably faster than an IBM ... |
| Augustus | ... d others) competing with Rome in the 1st century BC. By the time of Emperor | , present-day Italy was included in the Roman Italy (Italia) as a province ... |
| PDP-11 | ... 1 model, inspired a generation of programmers and software developers. Some | systems more than 25 years old (software and hardware) are still being use ... |
| EFF DES cracker | ... ce attack mounted by a cyber civil rights group with limited resources; see | . 56 bits is now considered insufficient length for symmetric algorithm ke ... |
| Laser Interferometer Space Antenna | LISA, the | , is a proposed gravitational-wave detection project to build a laser inte ... |
| SV-328 | The system MSX most closely resembled was the Spectravideo | home computer (Spectravideo even claimed to be "MSX compatible" in adverti ... |
| Compaq Portable | ... ng at 7.14 MHz. It was considerably faster than an IBM PC and was, like the | , also capable of running IBM software. It was Compaq's first non-portable ... |
| Titan II | ... from the National Museum of the United States Air Force, including an inert | missile, Site 571-7 is now known as the Titan Missile Museum and is the so ... |
| delay | The time | between transmission and reception is translated into effective ionospheri ... |
| Pentium II | ... expanded SMP support with up to four processors natively. Later, the Intel | , and Intel Pentium III processors allowed dual CPU systems, except for th ... |
| Nuclear warfare | ... es of chemical substances as weapons. This type of warfare is distinct from | and Biological warfare, which together make up NBC, the military acronym f ... |
| Titan Missile Museum | ... Force, including an inert Titan II missile, Site 571-7 is now known as the | and is the sole remaining example of a Titan II missile site in existence. ... |
| AIM-7 Sparrow | ... ) target illumination for semi-active radar-homing (SARH) missiles like the | . Block 50/52 F-16s initially used the more reliable APG-68(V)5 which has ... |
| Lonely Planet | ... nizations have placed Greek destinations in the top of their lists. In 2009 | ranked Thessaloniki, the country's second-largest city, the world's fifth ... |
| terminate | At the exchange, a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) | s the DSL circuits and aggregates them, where they are handed off onto oth ... |
| Pentium III | ... with up to four processors natively. Later, the Intel Pentium II, and Intel | processors allowed dual CPU systems, except for the respective Celerons. T ... |
| PDP-10 | ... 360 and its successors such as System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture. The | also used big-endian addressing for byte-oriented instructions. SPARC hist ... |
| Bristol Hercules | ... its prime. Gradually, they fell further and further behind. By the time the | and the Rolls-Royce Merlin arrived in the late 1930s, the Lion was too sma ... |
| diyas | ... tes into "row of lamps". Diwali involves the lighting of small clay lamps ( | or dīpas) in ) filled with oil to signify the triumph of good over evil. T ... |
| Gil Noble | ... he 5,000 gathered there as he had earlier in the year to London. Journalist | called the concert "perhaps the most emotional and moving in Robeson's lon ... |
| Besa machine gun | ... r-Lyme produced the Hispano cannon, Leicester and Studley Road produced the | , Ruislip produced the Oerlikon 20mm cannon, Stafford produced rocket proj ... |
| Flip-Chip | ... anged. The same circuits were then packaged as the first "R" (red) series " | " modules. Later, other module series provided additional speed, much high ... |
| 6809 | ... e II database and the WordStar word processor. There was also a third-party | card that would allow OS-9 Level One to be run. The Mockingboard sound car ... |
| DVD | ... three episodes survive as 16mm telerecordings. These have been released to | , as have all of the Emma Peel and Tara King episodes, which were shot on ... |
| TV Guide | In 2004 and 2007, Dark Shadows was ranked #19 and #23 on | s Top Cult Shows Ever |
| Fender Bass VI | ... Hoppus was seen using one other bass guitar live on stage: the six-stringed | , most notably for the song "I Miss You". Hoppus also uses Fender Precisio ... |
| PDP-11 | ... PS-20, RSTS/E, RSX-11, RT-11, and OpenVMS. PDP computers, in particular the | model, inspired a generation of programmers and software developers. Some ... |
| Lime Rock Park | ... nually in the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center at Yale University in New Haven. | is a motorsport track home of American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am Rolex Spor ... |
| Forbidden Planet | A theremin was not used for the soundtrack of | , for which Louis and Bebe Barron built "disposable" oscillator circuits a ... |
| Metacritic | The game currently holds an 84 Metascore on | , indicating generally positive reviews from professional critics. EA Game ... |
| TRS-80 | ... least 4 million units, the Amstrad CPC sold 3 million units, and the Tandy | sold 250,000 units |
| DASK | ... versity of Lund, SAABs räkneautomat SARA, "SAAB's calculating machine", and | made in Denmark |
| Amstrad CPC | Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or | , it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being ... |
| Strela 2 | ... nd return safely. In 2006, an Apache helicopter was downed by a Soviet-made | (SA-7) in Iraq. The Apache is typically able to avoid hits by such missile ... |
| Michael Jackson | Along with the 1987 | music video "Bad", in 1986 Scorsese made The Color of Money, a sequel to t ... |
| Il Cannone Guarnerius | ... e refused to take it back. This particular violin would come to be known as | . On a later occasion in Parma, he won another valuable violin (also by Gu ... |
| Chevaline | ... d penetrate the ABM screen around Moscow. The result was a programme called | that added multiple decoys, chaff, and other defensive countermeasures. It ... |
| VX | ... el Box, two ships were loaded with over 100,000 shells containing Sarin and | where taken from the U.S. Army weapons storage depots such as Miesau and t ... |
| SPARC | ... The PDP-10 also used big-endian addressing for byte-oriented instructions. | historically used big-endian until version 9, which is bi-endian, similarl ... |
| Cylons | ... Twelve Colonies have warred for decades with a cybernetic race known as the | , whose goal is the extermination of the human race. The Cylons offer peac ... |
| Little Chute Windmill | ... ambitious project to build a full-scale working windmill to be known as the | and Van Asten Visitor Center, serving as a museum and tourist attraction |
| Ritz Hotel | ... have entered the public consciousness through popular culture, such as the | in London, through its association with Irving Berlin's song, 'Puttin' on ... |
| Flip Chip | In 1964 DEC introduced its new | module design, and used it to re-implement the PDP-4 as the PDP-7. The PDP ... |
| Death Star | ... nous orbit within the world's atmosphere, and thus is often compared to the | of Star Wars fame |
| Stuart Pearce | ... ourton, George Hudson, Bobby Gould, Willie Carr, Ian St. John, Dion Dublin, | , Gerry Francis, Kevin Gallacher, Terry Gibson, Mark Hateley, Ian Wallace, ... |
| Amstrad CPC | ... II sold 6 million units, the Atari 8-bit sold at least 4 million units, the | sold 3 million units, and the Tandy TRS-80 sold 250,000 units |
| Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia | ... euterium fused depends to some extent on the composition of the object. The | includes objects up to 25 Jupiter masses, saying, "The fact that there is ... |
| IBM 5100 | ... he mid 1970s, the IBM mainframe interpreter was even adapted for use on the | desktop computer, which had a small CRT and an APL keyboard, when most oth ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... and its inhabitants received full Roman citizenship following the death of | in 44 BC |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... ce orchestras hadn't been invented in the 1400s." The aggregate review site | rated the movie as being 59% fresh along with 80% approval from the audien ... |
| Amati | Other instruments associated with Paganini include the Antonio | 1600, the Nicolò Amati 1657, the Paganini-Desaint 1680 Stradivari, the Gua ... |
| IBM 370 | Early IBM APL interpreters for IBM 360 and | hardware implemented their own multi-user management instead of relying on ... |
| Pentium Pro | ... ith the Intel Pentium technology supporting up to two processors. The Intel | expanded SMP support with up to four processors natively. Later, the Intel ... |
| Daimler-Benz DB 603 | ... een the Me 210 and 410 was the introduction of the larger and more powerful | A engines, which improved power to 1,750 PS (1,730 hp, 1,290 kW) compared ... |
| Fortezza | The NSA's Skipjack algorithm used in its | program employs 80 bit keys |
| Sir Frank Whittle | Coventry has been the home to several pioneers in science and engineering. | , the inventor of the jet engine, was from the city, as was the inventor J ... |
| Dreamcast | ... ft worked with Sega in that same year and developed Microsoft WebTV for the | game console. This is the first TV set-top box from a major vendor that of ... |
| Österreichring | ... echnology was not reliable at first; in 1976, Carlos Pace crashed at at the | circuit after heat build-up in the brakes boiled the brake fluid, leaving ... |
| Allmusic | ... Dury, Nick Lowe, Eddie and the Hot Rods and Dr. Feelgood; and according to | "angry, intelligent" singer-songwriters who "approached pop music with the ... |
| M51 SLBM | ... and Mirage 2000, the Airbus A380 cockpit, the boosters of Ariane 5, and the | missile |
| ARM architecture | ... orically used big-endian until version 9, which is bi-endian, similarly the | was little-endian before version 3 when it became bi-endian, and the Power ... |
| Mark McGhee | The appointment of | as player-manager, shortly after the takeover by John Madejski, in June 19 ... |
| AN/APG-68 | The | , an evolution of the APG-66, was introduced with the F-16C/D Block 25. Th ... |
| IED | Hamas has used | s and anti-tank rockets against the IDF in Gaza. The latter include standa ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... ard it was intended to be. For a comparison with rival 8-bit computers, the | sold 17 million units worldwide in its lifetime, the Apple II sold 6 milli ... |
| Z80 | ... xpansion cards – such as the Z80-card – that permitted the Apple to use the | processor and run a multitude of programs developed under the CP/M operati ... |
| STRIX | Short range weapons offered include Carl-Gustaf, AT4/AT4 CS, | and MBT LAW. Missile systems offered are RBS 70, RBS 23 BAMSE, RBS 15 |
| key | ... . Instruments that "transpose at the octave" are not playing in a different | from concert pitch instruments, but sound an octave higher or lower than w ... |
| transistorized | The IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBM's first | supercomputer. The first one was delivered to Los Alamos National Laborato ... |
| SparkNotes | ... lishing operation. This expansion was aided by the company’s acquisition of | , an educational website and publishing company. Further expansions of the ... |
| OLPC XO-1 | ... ayout having the traditional placing of the Control key and other keys. The | keyboard also has the Control key in this location. Keyboards for differen ... |
| PDP-7 | ... s new Flip Chip module design, and used it to re-implement the PDP-4 as the | . The PDP-7 was introduced in December 1964, and about 120 were eventually ... |
| Davy Crockett Weapon System | ... etween 10 tons and 1 kiloton of TNT. The W54 nuclear device was used in the | |
| Motorola 68020 | The Mac II featured a | processor operating at 16 MHz teamed with a Motorola 68881 floating point ... |
| Erieye | ... c Defence Systems offers airborne, ground based and naval radars, including | , ARTHUR and GIRAFFE |
| Sea-based X-band Radar | ... November 2005, Blue Marlin left Corpus Christi, Texas, to move the massive | to Adak, Alaska, via the southern tip of South America and Pearl Harbor, H ... |
| Apple II GS | The next member of the line was the | computer, released on September 15, 1986. A radical departure from the exi ... |
| Black Sluice | ... fly, it was on the main line from London to the North. The area between the | and the railway station was mainly railway yard and the railway company's ... |
| Sean McDonough | ... taff, which has produced the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, Mike Tirico, | , Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and Dick Stockton. Lou Reed also hosted a free ... |
| Britney Spears | ... kthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s. Other Female Teen Pop stars such as | , Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson then also became very popular at ... |
| Durendal | Durandal or | most often refers the legendary sword of the French hero Roland |
| Analog audio signal | ... he same during its storage, transformation, duplication, and amplification. | s are susceptible to noise and distortion, unavoidable due to the innate c ... |
| Symbian OS | ... ymbian Ltd. was a software development and licensing company, known for the | , a smartphone operating system, and other related technologies. Its headq ... |
| Apple IIGS | ... t Macintosh computer to use the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) introduced with the | for keyboard and mouse interface |
| Michael Jackson | ... nklin, Otis Redding, the Supremes, the Commodores, Jerry Lee Lewis and even | , are funky influences on the music. One of the most influential tracks in ... |
| Command key | Generally, the | , labeled with the symbol on Apple Macintosh computers, performs the equiv ... |
| digital-to-analog conversion | ... signals. Digital audio systems include analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), | (DAC), digital storage, processing and transmission components. A primary ... |
| gopichand | ... e resonators, has led to many variations, such as the dan bau (Vietnam) and | (India), and more recently, the "electric one-string", which amplifies the ... |
| Carl-Gustaf | Short range weapons offered include | , AT4/AT4 CS, STRIX and MBT LAW. Missile systems offered are RBS 70, RBS 2 ... |
| DVD | The movie was released on | as part of the 20th Century Fox Studio Classics collection |
| Talladega Superspeedway | ... from being built in the town and NASCAR officials built the large speedway | in Talladega, Alabama instead |
| M4 cannon | ... rly a century with armed forces across the world in a variety of roles. The | , a 37mm autocannon, was initially designed by Browning in 1921, and enter ... |
| Laser 128EX/2 | Many perceived the IIc Plus as Apple's attempt to compete with the | , a popular third party Apple-compatible machine that also had an accelera ... |
| DVD | ... o for extra features such as DualDisc, which includes both a CD layer and a | layer whereby the CD layer is much thinner, 0.9 mm, than required by the R ... |
| Amiga | ... were BlueBEEP, TLO, and others, and blue boxes for other platforms such as | were available as well |
| Florida Keys | ... place in Monroe County, Florida, on an island of the same name in the lower | . As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 1,695 |
| Jimmy Swaggart | ... l-known televangelists began during this period, most notably Oral Roberts, | , Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Fallwell, and Pat Robertson. Most devel ... |
| Luger | ... nd magazine capacity; almost twice that of contemporary designs such as the | or Mauser 1910. The pistol is often referred to as an HP (for "Hi-Power" o ... |
| AT4/AT4 CS | Short range weapons offered include Carl-Gustaf, | , STRIX and MBT LAW. Missile systems offered are RBS 70, RBS 23 BAMSE, RBS ... |
| LINC | ... vices that made it easy to interface with various analog lab equipment. The | proved to attract intense interest in the scientific community, and has si ... |
| Allmusic | ... ex progressive edge and the album showcased a much tighter sound, prompting | to cite Rust in Peace as "Megadeth's strongest musical effort". The album ... |
| Resistance thermometer | ... three elements are typically contained in one unit. A standard example is a | . The compare and compute functions are completed within the controller wh ... |
| M48 Patton series | Tanks of the ROK Army include the older | , as well as the more recent K1, K1A1 which bear a 120 mm smooth-bore gun ... |
| W54 | ... everal different types of lightweight nuclear devices. The main one was the | , a cylinder 40 by 60 cm (about 16 by 24 inches) that weighed 68 kg (150 l ... |
| Ishapore 2A1 rifle | ... y units and police forces. Indian police officers carrying SMLE Mk III* and | s were a familiar sight throughout railway stations in India after the Mum ... |
| MCP-1600 | ... the entire CPU was contained on four LSI chips made by Western Digital (the | chip set; a fifth chip could be added to extend the instruction set, as pi ... |
| soprano | ... example — have declined in popularity in favor of the standard versions (B | and tenor saxophone; B and A clarinets) |
| Annegret Richter | ... nning medals in all three once again. She was beaten for the 100 m title by | , and came third in a 200 m race with five German women in the first five ... |
| DVD | In September 2004, Jarre released AERO, both a | and a CD in one package. Purportedly the world's first album released for ... |
| Florida Keys | ... r Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, Windley Key and Plantation Key in the | |
| lens | ... causes light rays to be deflected much like light passing through an optic | . This phenomenon is known as gravitational lensing. Observations have bee ... |
| Macintosh SE | ... 0 MB or 40 MB) and an optional second floppy disk drive. It, along with the | , was the first Macintosh computer to use the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) intr ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... nutes later, a "CBS News Bulletin" slide suddenly came up on the screen and | gave the first report of the assassination |
| Dick Stockton | ... as, Marv Albert, Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and | . Lou Reed also hosted a free-format show on WAER during his time at Syrac ... |
| M2 Browning machine gun | ... tandard side arm of the Australian, British, and Canadian armed forces. The | , the timeless .50 caliber "Ma-Deuce", which was developed in 1918, entere ... |
| Upper Matecumbe Key | ... . Prior to this date, Islamorada was only considered to be on the island of | |
| Commodore 128 | ... BBC BASIC. Some other languages, such as the Monitor built into ROM on the | , used it to indicate octal instead, a convention that spread throughout t ... |
| hard drive | ... ransmitted. Digital audio storage can be on a CD, a digital audio player, a | , USB flash drive, CompactFlash, or any other digital data storage device. ... |
| Titan rockets | ... t the U.S. Air Force's SM-65 Atlas missile. It was the first in a series of | , but was unique among them in that it used LOX and RP-1 as its propellant ... |
| cannon | ... dive bombing. In the fighter role, the bomb bay was fitted with four 20 mm | s |
| MGM-51 Shillelagh | ... cult to lead moving targets. In response, the gun was also designed to fire | anti-tank missiles. The low launch velocity against longer-ranged targets ... |
| Plantation Key | ... of Tea Table Key, Lower Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, Windley Key and | in the Florida Keys |
| IBM 5100 | IBM's own | microcomputer (1975) offered APL as one of two built-in ROM-based interpre ... |
| Abbey Pumping Station | ... e of three coal mines that operated in Coalville from the 1820s until 1986. | houses four enormous steam powered beam engines built in Leicester in the ... |
| Q-Bus | ... It used a bus which was a close variant of the Unibus called the LSI Bus or | ; it differed from the Unibus primarily in that addresses and data were mu ... |
| Lisp machine | ... ially a fork of an earlier operating system originating on the MIT AI Lab's | s which Symbolics had used in common with LMI and Texas Instruments. Gener ... |
| MCM/70 | The first microcomputer implementation of APL was on the 8008-based | , the first general purpose personal computer, in 1973 |
| Jimmy Swaggart | On October 11, 1991 | was pulled over into an Indio gas station off Indio Blvd. Swaggart was wit ... |
| Windley Key | ... on the islands of Tea Table Key, Lower Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, | and Plantation Key in the Florida Keys |
| M50 Ontos | ... icles already mounted only ATGMs, or alternately recoilless rifles like the | , but these typically had limited utility in the infantry support role, or ... |
| organ | ... of Cordoba in Islamic Spain. In Rheims, he constructed a hydraulic-powered | with brass pipes that excelled all previously known instruments, where the ... |
| Michael Johnson | ... econds at that time. He also anchored his team's gold in the 4x100 m relay. | won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m, setting a new world record of 19.32 ... |
| ridden out of town on a rail | ... and King are captured by the townspeople, and are tarred and feathered and | |
| brass | ... nd Mozart are orchestrated to place emphasis on the strings, woodwinds, and | . However, often at least one pair of timpani is included, though they rar ... |
| shells | ... ll resources of the company at the disposal of the defenders, manufacturing | , defences, an armoured train and a gun named Long Cecil in the company wo ... |
| Cathedral of Notre Dame | ... the novel was to shame the City of Paris into restoring the much-neglected | , which was attracting thousands of tourists who had read the popular nove ... |
| Freelancin' Roundtable | ... systems incorporated chat features which were similar to instant messaging | ;was one prime example. The first dedicated online chat service was the Co ... |
| M1911 | ... k, or by pulling the slide to the rear and releasing it. In common with the | , the Hi-Power is therefore typically carried with the hammer cocked and t ... |
| Michael A. Monsoor | ... rine Corps Corporal Jason Dunham and Navy SEAL, Master-at-Arms Second Class | . In April 2003, Smith organized the defense of a prisoner of war holding ... |
| Browning Hi-Power | ... ins very popular amongst civilian shooters and some police departments. The | would have a similarly lengthy period of service outside the United States ... |
| Redstone Rocket | ... arted, the OGMC was given the mission to develop what eventually became the | . This rocket set the stage for America’s space program, as well as major ... |
| flute | The work is scored for 3 | s (all doubling on piccolo), 3 oboes (3rd doubles English horn), 3 clarine ... |
| strings | ... ince the time of Haydn and Mozart are orchestrated to place emphasis on the | , woodwinds, and brass. However, often at least one pair of timpani is inc ... |
| Summerland Key | ... s Highway) crosses the key at approximately mile markers 20.5 – 23, between | and Sugarloaf Key |
| Blue Gene | In the | system IBM deliberately used low power processors to deal with heat densit ... |
| Shift key | ... rform a special operation (for example, Control-Alt-Delete); similar to the | , the Control key rarely performs any function when pressed by itself. The ... |
| LORAN | ... ant, although widely available timing and navigation systems such as GPS or | are convenient |
| Color Computer | ... EX disk operating system, Radio Shack's TRS-80 machines used TRS-DOS, their | used OS-9, and most of the Intel 8080 based machines from IMSAI, MITS (mak ... |
| Julius Caesar | Pliny claims that this very painting had been part of the collection of | , but was destroyed when Caesar's mansion on the Palatine Hill burned down ... |
| Nintendo DS | ... video game market as it was overshadowed by Nintendo's other portable, the | |
| UCSD p-System | ... s, which were released by Apple at about the same time. These ran under the | operating system, which had its own disk format and emitted code for a "vi ... |
| Michigan International Speedway | ... yes State Park and Cambridge Junction Historic State Park which adjoins the | . The area was primarily a summer vacation spot for residents of metropoli ... |
| Michigan International Speedway | ... the area. With the nearby additions of Interstate 94 in the late 1950s and | in the late 1960s, Brooklyn established a year-round population. This city ... |
| Alt | ... dPerfect used almost every possible combination of function keys with Ctrl, | , and Shift modifiers. This was in contrast to early versions of WordStar, ... |
| Assemblies of God | ... the Southern Baptist Convention. However, Pentecostal churches such as the | , as well as Restorationist churches, like Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons ... |
| horns | ... -flat, alto saxophone in E-flat, 3 bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon), 4 | in F, 3 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, tuba, percussion (8 players), timpani, ... |
| woodwinds | ... time of Haydn and Mozart are orchestrated to place emphasis on the strings, | , and brass. However, often at least one pair of timpani is included, thou ... |
| Let It Be | ... ck album, it was not used when that project saw eventual release in 1970 as | . Instead, the 1969 photograph, along with an unused photograph from the 1 ... |
| BBC Micro | ... rum, a good range of games were available for the Electron. The traditional | publishers such as Acornsoft, Superior Software and Micro Power offered th ... |
| Soixante-Quinze | ... uns, and in particular the highly mobile, recoilless, field-gun, the French | , in the late 19th century |
| East of England Regional Assembly | ... pulation figures derived from the 2001 census are now an underestimate. The | estimated that 16,000 eastern Europeans were living in the city in 2006, o ... |
| Saab Variable Compression engine | One exception is the experimental | (SVC). This engine, designed by Saab Automobile, uses a technique that dyn ... |
| DB 605 | ... ch improved power to 1,750 PS (1,730 hp, 1,290 kW) compared to the 1,475 PS | s used on the Me 210C. The engine performance increased the Me 410's maxim ... |
| Julius Caesar | Another temple in Rome was planned by | and was erected after his death by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus on the site of ... |
| bells | ... th centuries to see harmonicas with special features on the covers, such as | , which could be rung by pushing a button |
| Augustus | ... der the empire, one public and one private. The Cursus publicus, founded by | , carried the mail of officials by relay throughout the Roman road system. ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... not as well supported by the biggest software publishers as rivals like the | and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a good range of games were available for the Ele ... |
| Caladbolg | ... Geoffrey. It is often considered to be related to the phonetically similar | , a sword borne by several figures from Irish mythology, although a borrow ... |
| Summerland Key | ... d. A more likely derivation for the name is offered by writer John Viele of | . He believes that Cudjoe, a very common West African name, was the name o ... |
| PDP-1 | ... August 1959, Ben Gurley started design of the company's first computer, the | . In keeping with Doriot's instructions, the name was an initialism for "P ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... based on the book, which was released in versions for the Commodore PET and | . One account states that there was a dispute as to whether valid permissi ... |
| Peder Østlund | ... ampionships were held here, and many world records were set, beginning with | who set four records in 1898. The only European Bandy Championship was hel ... |
| Michael P. Murphy | ... awarded for action in Afghanistan. The recipients were Navy SEAL Lieutenant | , Army Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti, Army Staff Sergeant Robert Jam ... |
| Martini-Enfield | A number of British Service Rifles, predominantly the Martini-Henry and | , but also the various Lee-Enfield rifles, have been produced by small man ... |
| PS/2 | ... ves is a NEC 765 FDC, used for the same purpose in the IBM PC/XT, PC/AT and | machines. Its features are not fully used in order to cut costs, namely DM ... |
| DB 605 | ... ening the fuselage, designated as lang ("long"). The Me 210C was built with | engines, as well as incorporating the changes to the airframe. The Hungari ... |
| 7400 series | ... 5400 series of ICs, with military temperature range, in 1964 and the later | , specified over a narrower range, and with inexpensive plastic packages i ... |
| DVD | American Beauty was released on VHS on May 9, 2000 and on | with the DTS format on October 24, 2000. Before the North American rental ... |
| PC/XT | ... face with the drives is a NEC 765 FDC, used for the same purpose in the IBM | , PC/AT and PS/2 machines. Its features are not fully used in order to cut ... |
| Second Division play-off final | ... ion in his first season in charge. Three years later he led the team to the | , but was sacked immediately after this after being accused of gross misco ... |
| MIM-104 Patriot | ... a). An example of area defence is the defence of Saudi Arabia and Israel by | missile batteries during the first Gulf War, where the objective was to co ... |
| MSX2 | ... , sound, and specific game elements. The game was first re-released for the | system and was published by Micro Cabin in Japan in June 1989. It had acce ... |
| acoustic guitar | ... , Smith began playing the piano, and at 10 began learning guitar on a small | bought for him by his father. At this age he also composed an original pia ... |
| Brown Thrasher | ... w-bellied Sapsucker, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern Phoebe, | , Eastern Bluebird, European Starling, Scarlet Tanager, Gray Catbird, Ceda ... |
| Alan Pardew | ... former managers of the club include Ian Branfoot, Mark McGhee, Tommy Burns, | and Steve Coppell |
| Mosin–Nagant | ... the second oldest bolt-action rifle design still in official service, after | ; Lee-Enfield rifles are used by reserve forces and police forces in many ... |
| PCW | Apart from Amstrad's other 3" machines (the | and the ZX Spectrum +3), the few other computer systems to use them includ ... |
| Baika | ... on the Fieseler Fi-103 Reichenberg (Fi 103R, a piloted V-1), and was named | ("plum blossom") |
| Commodore 64 | ... i 2600, NES, or Sega Master System, and in older home computers such as the | , Atari 800, and Sinclair Spectrum |
| Motorola 68881 | ... ac II featured a Motorola 68020 processor operating at 16 MHz teamed with a | floating point unit. The machine shipped with a socket for an MMU, but the ... |
| Bonneville Dam | ... s, adopted a constitution and incorporated after the 1938 completion of the | flooded Cascades Rapids; Still, in the 1930s, there were natives who lived ... |
| ATM | ... ardwalk or concessions. Visitors will need to bring cash since there are no | s on the island. Most of the gift shops, eating establishments, and overni ... |
| Teddington Lock | ... rging 400 m before the confluence with the River Thames, on the reach above | . (For the purposes of the remainder of this article, the River Mole and t ... |
| Mark McGhee | Notable former managers of the club include Ian Branfoot, | , Tommy Burns, Alan Pardew and Steve Coppell |
| Commodore PET | ... ed adventure game based on the book, which was released in versions for the | and Commodore 64. One account states that there was a dispute as to whethe ... |
| U.S. state slot machine ownership regulations | ... a list of state-by-state regulations on private slot machine ownership, see | |
| T-72 | ... tanks, they would not have been very effective against the Soviet-designed | s which comprised the bulk of the Iraqi Republican Guard. Their role was l ... |
| PDP-10 | ... ent was BKG 9.8. It was written by Hans Berliner in the late 1970s on a DEC | as an experiment in evaluating board game positions. Early versions of BKG ... |
| PubMed | ... GenBank and an index of biomedical research articles in PubMed Central and | , as well as other information relevant to biotechnology. All these databa ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... own incident of a leader extending his term indefinitely was Roman dictator | , who made himself "Perpetual Dictator" (commonly mistranslated as 'Dictat ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... onitor. Most home computers at that time such as Sinclair’s ZX- series, the | and the BBC Micro relied on the use of the domestic television set and a s ... |
| Nürburgring | The Ford GT40 was first raced in May 1964 at the | 1000 km race where it retired with suspension failure after holding second ... |
| Kobo eReader | The Nook competes with the Amazon Kindle, | , Sony Reader, Apple's iBooks for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and other r ... |
| Rouen-Les-Essarts | ... ouen was also home to the French Grand Prix, hosting the race at the nearby | track sporadically between 1952 and 1968. There was a campaign in 1999 by ... |
| SPARC | ... tems such as the K computer continue to use conventional processors such as | -based designs and the overall applicability of GPGPUs in general purpose ... |
| SKS | ... pite the presence and ready availability of more modern weapons such as the | and the AK-47 |
| Star | ... ocessor chip, which was not available in 1971. The 1973 Xerox Alto and 1981 | workstations, which introduced the graphical user interface, used TTL circ ... |
| Red Special | During the time in which Brian May and his father were building the | , May also produced plans to build a second guitar. However, so successful ... |
| Kristine Lilly | ... ucar, Lorrie Fair, Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopoulos, Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, | , Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, Chris ... |
| Augustus | ... ond century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of | ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor. The Areopag ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... slow pace of the peace process. In a 1977 interview with CBS News anchorman | , Sadat admitted under pointed questioning that he was open to a more cons ... |
| Augustus | ... to the revival of the clean shaven face fashion of the Roman emperors from | to Trajan, which was originally introduced among the Romans by Scipio Afri ... |
| Diana Ross | ... remony was emceed by Oprah Winfrey. In addition, Daryl Hall, Jon Secada and | gave musical performances. Ross was also supposed to kick a football into ... |
| alliterative | Cædmon's only known surviving work is Cædmon's Hymn, the nine-line | vernacular praise poem in honour of God which he supposedly learned to sin ... |
| Saab B engine | ... ine production facilities of Scania. In 1972 they started manufacturing the | , and in 1977 Saab took advantage of Scania's experience with turbocharger ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the Quantum Link online service for | computers offered user-to-user messages between concurrently connected cus ... |
| Sony Reader | The Nook competes with the Amazon Kindle, Kobo eReader, | , Apple's iBooks for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and other readers. The d ... |
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| Apple Extended Keyboard | ... ad the customer was offered the choice of the new ADB Apple Keyboard or the | as a separate purchase |
| 10 Gigabit Ethernet | ... dely used in 10BASE2 and 10BASE5 Ethernet networks. Fiber-optic gigabit and | utilize transceivers known as GBIC, SFP, SFP+, XFP, and XAUI |
| Amiga | Originally, AmigaOne was the name of a project for new | hardware, managed by Eyetech and designed by the German company Escena Gmb ... |
| Atari | Mature versions of the Commodore, SWTPC, | and Apple home computer systems all featured a disk operating system (actu ... |
| grounds | ... he same ASCII code on a teletypewriter because holding down the control key | (zeros the voltage on) the 2 wires used to carry the leftmost 2 bits from ... |
| Clos network | ... ent, and possibly even be created from standardized parts. This is called a | |
| TOW missile | ... a around the site. The device was determined to be a three-foot (.9-m) long | used in the training of federal agents and bomb-sniffing dogs; although ac ... |
| 10BASE2 | ... ium Attachment Units (MAUs) in IEEE 802.3 documents and were widely used in | and 10BASE5 Ethernet networks. Fiber-optic gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet ... |
| Madonna | ... ed after this city based on the results of a dart thrown randomly at a map. | was born here and once referred to Bay City as "a stinky, little town in N ... |
| Triumph Slant-4 engine | ... b-Scania AB. The merger meant that Saab no longer had to import the British | , and could instead use the engine production facilities of Scania. In 197 ... |
| Browning Citori | ... by FN, Browning Superposed shotguns, and their more affordable cousins, the | made in Asia, continue to be manufactured into the 21st Century, and come ... |
| Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | ... ple in Rome was planned by Julius Caesar and was erected after his death by | on the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored by Lucius Corne ... |
| Rolls-Royce Avon | ... Comet 2 had a slightly larger wing, higher fuel capacity and more powerful | engines, which all improved the aircraft's range and performance; its fuse ... |
| C melody saxophone | Because of tone quality issues, some C (concert pitch) instruments — the | , C soprano saxophone, and C soprano clarinet, for example — have declined ... |
| Gmane | ... are directly associated with the mailing list, but some organizations like | collect archives from multiple mailing lists hosted at different organizat ... |
| TripAdvisor | In 2011, | listed Vieques among the Top 25 Beaches in the World, writing "If you pref ... |
| mainframe | ... spectrum, and much earlier) IBM's System/360, 370 and (later) 390 series of | s (e.g., DOS/360: Disk Operating System / 360 and DOS/VSE: Disk Operating ... |
| Metacritic | The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics. On | , Pretty Woman received an average score of 51 out of 100 from the 17 revi ... |
| Paul McCartney | ... of bass has a tea chest as a resonator. Before the Beatles, John Lennon and | 's band, The Quarrymen, featured a tea-chest bass, as did many young bands ... |
| PID controller | A common closed-loop controller architecture is the | |
| Amazon Kindle | The Nook competes with the | , Kobo eReader, Sony Reader, Apple's iBooks for the iPhone, iPad, iPod tou ... |
| 10BASE5 | ... nt Units (MAUs) in IEEE 802.3 documents and were widely used in 10BASE2 and | Ethernet networks. Fiber-optic gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet utilize tra ... |
| hybrid circuit | ... Concorde were unique because it was the first commercial aircraft to employ | s. The principal designer for the project was Pierre Satre, with Sir Archi ... |
| AK-47 | ... sence and ready availability of more modern weapons such as the SKS and the | |
| DVD | Nearly all | players with SCART sockets output RGB video, which offers far superior pic ... |
| Apple I | The Macintosh II and Macintosh SE were the first Apple computers since the | to be sold without a keyboard. Instead the customer was offered the choice ... |
| BBC Micro | ... puters at that time such as Sinclair’s ZX- series, the Commodore 64 and the | relied on the use of the domestic television set and a separately connecte ... |
| ALU | ... the graphical user interface, used TTL circuits integrated at the level of | s and bitslices, respectively. Most computers used TTL-compatible "glue lo ... |
| Control key | Macintoshes also have a | , but it has different functionality. The original Apple mouse design redu ... |
| RBS 70 | Armies typically have air defence in depth, from integral MANPADS like | , Stinger and Igla at smaller force levels up to army-level missile defenc ... |
| Barbara Walters | ... ed as co-anchor at ABC until 1975, after which Reasoner anchored solo until | joined the broadcast a year later. Continuing as an analyst until 1979, Sm ... |
| W38 | The warhead of the Titan I was an AVCO Mk 4 re-entry vehicle containing a | thermonuclear bomb with a yield of 3.75 megatons which was fuzed for eithe ... |
| Mellotron | ... upon. The album's sound saw OMD's original synth-pop sound augmented by the | , an instrument previously associated with prog rock bands. They used it t ... |
| Malcolm McLaren | ... lph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, | , and Radclyffe Hall |
| Linn LM-1 | ... a real drum kit. Indeed, because the TR-808 came out a few months after the | (the first drum machine to use digital samples), professionals generally c ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... Messenger (AIM), discussed later). While the Quantum Link service ran on a | , using only the Commodore's PETSCII text-graphics, the screen was visuall ... |
| drums | Phil Collins played | and sang backing vocals on Grace and Danger and subsequently played drums ... |
| RPG-7 | ... and anti-tank rockets against the IDF in Gaza. The latter include standard | warheads and home-made rockets such as the Al-Bana, Al-Batar and Al-Yasin. ... |
| Gravity Pipe | ... pose supercomputers include Belle, Deep Blue, and Hydra, for playing chess, | for astrophysics, for protein structure computatio |
| capacitor coupling | ... te stages while coupling signals, transformers could be eliminated by using | . The transformer coupling the output of the amplifier to the loudspeaker, ... |
| Commodore PET | ... was not new, having been seen before on business-oriented machines and the | , but in the home computer space, it predated the Apple Macintosh by almos ... |
| Macintosh SE | The Macintosh II and | were the first Apple computers since the Apple I to be sold without a keyb ... |
| Eurocopter Tiger | ... H-64 Apaches under license from Boeing, following a competition between the | and the Apache for the British Army's new Attack Helicopter in 1995. Impor ... |
| acoustic guitar | The instrumentation of the recordings was primarily | , occasionally accompanied by brief electric guitar riffs or a small drum ... |
| Oprah Winfrey | ... President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. The ceremony was emceed by | . In addition, Daryl Hall, Jon Secada and Diana Ross gave musical performa ... |
| Browning Superposed | ... completed by his son, Val Browning. Commercially introduced in 1931 by FN, | shotguns, and their more affordable cousins, the Browning Citori made in A ... |
| Browning Hi-Power | ... the Fabrique Nationale GP35, it was more popularly known as the successful | pistol, a favorite of sportsman and law enforcement |
| DVD | ... are featured on Disney's official site as well as on the film's respective | release. The original actors were brought back to reprise their roles and ... |
| DVD | ... o be composed almost entirely of songs he did not write himself). A Worship | , which comprised a selection of songs from both albums, was recorded live ... |
| Binaural recording | ... d sounds will also only be heard only in one ear rather than from one side. | s use a different microphone technique to encode direction directly as pha ... |
| Control-Alt-Delete | ... onjunction with another key, will perform a special operation (for example, | ); similar to the Shift key, the Control key rarely performs any function ... |
| Soil Stradivarius | Perlman plays using the antique | violin of 1714, formerly owned by Yehudi Menuhin and considered to be one ... |
| Caesar Augustus | ... Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of | . His literary style was Atticistic — imitating Classical Attic Greek in i ... |
| VLSI | ... erations research, plant and facility layout, robotics, transportation, and | design" |
| Allmusic | ... arted as "a Gang of Four and Scratch Acid ripoff". Andy Kellman, writing in | , has even argued that Gang of Four's "germs of influence" can be found in ... |
| Eurocopter Tiger | ... that it may purchase as many as 52. A competition held in 1994 against the | and the AH-1 SuperCobra led to the Royal Netherlands Air Force ordering 30 ... |
| PowerPC | ... lier models were produced by Eyetech, and were based on the Teron series of | POP mainboards. In January 2010, A-Eon Technology announced a new computer ... |
| DVD | ... udio albums, four EPs, four compilation albums, a live album, a VHS tape, a | and released 20 singles |
| Brands Hatch | ... cer, Craig Jones, lived in city until his death after a high-speed crash at | ; as does Louis Smith, who at the 2008 games became 's first gymnast to wi ... |
| Browning Superposed | The premium priced | shotgun, an over-under shotgun design for the ages, was his last completed ... |
| Honda J | ... a Odyssey, Honda Pilot, and Honda Ridgeline are built there, as well as the | V6 engine |
| Commodore | Mature versions of the | , SWTPC, Atari and Apple home computer systems all featured a disk operati ... |
| PDP-1 | ... recursors of the PDP-8 include the PDP-5, LINC, the TX-0, the TX-2, and the | . Digital Equipment gave rise to a number of minicomputer companies along ... |
| C-melody saxophone | ... nd it put Beiderbecke in touch with another musician he had met before: the | player Frankie Trumbauer. The two hit it off, both personally and musicall ... |
| Symbian OS | ... ee software and accelerate innovation", and the pledged contribution of the | and user interfaces |
| VideoBrain Family Computer | The | , released in 1977, only had one programming language available for it and ... |
| H&K USP | ... g Pistols (known popularly as BAPs, or Browning Automatic Pistols) with the | automatic in 2007 |
| Nightfall in Middle-Earth | ... d, Blind Guardian, features a song titled "Battle of Sudden Flame" in their | album. The song is based directly on the battle |
| ClearSpeed | ... are available from ClearSpeed Technology, Ltd. and Stream Processors, Inc. | 's CSX600 (2004) has 96 cores each with 2 double-precision floating point ... |
| Lower Matecumbe Key | ... nty, Florida, United States. It is located on the islands of Tea Table Key, | , Upper Matecumbe Key, Windley Key and Plantation Key in the Florida Keys |
| Power Mac G4 | ... otherboard. While the MegArray connector is physically similar to the Apple | CPU daughtercard connector, it is not electrically compatible. There were ... |
| Reims-Gueux | ... ran at the front from the start of the season. At the French Grand Prix at | , Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championshi ... |
| Madonna | ... onymous Messiah (2001, Vitamin Records). Other tributes include material by | and Blondie |
| Baseball America | ... minor-leaguer Cameron Maybin, an athletic five-tool outfielder ranked #6 in | 's 2007 Top-100 Prospects. The Tigers suffered from injuries in the 2007 s ... |
| HeadFirst PD | ... s which produced discs of such software are BBC PD, Electron User Group and | |
| Symbian OS | ... a mobile malware worm known as Lasco.A began targeting mobile phones using | (Series 60 platform) using Bluetooth enabled devices to replicate itself a ... |
| IBM PC | In the 1980s, the | and its clones largely took over the small computer market, and DEC was un ... |
| 50 mm (2 in) KwK 39 L/60 | ... er. The BK 5 cannon - derived from the Panzer III tank's main armament, the | - allowed the Me 410s to shoot at their targets from over 914 m (1,000 yd) ... |
| Upper Matecumbe Key | ... States. It is located on the islands of Tea Table Key, Lower Matecumbe Key, | , Windley Key and Plantation Key in the Florida Keys |
| PDP-11 | BASIC-PLUS on the DEC | uses the ampersand as a short form of the verb PRINT |
| Stretham Old Engine | ... n windpumps were replaced with powerful coal-powered steam engines, such as | , which were themselves replaced with diesel-powered pumps and, following ... |
| Natalie du Toit | South African swimmer | , whose left leg was amputated following a motor scooter accident, qualifi ... |
| Paul McCartney | ... f concerts took place in the park, including performances by Van Halen, Sir | , Celine Dion, Rammstein, Sir Elton John and Metallica |
| DEC Professional | ... or the 16-bit PDP-11. A line of personal computers based on the PDP-11, the | series, failed commercially, along with other non-PDP-11 PC offerings from ... |
| Anatomy of a Murder | ... t innovation, such as jazz star Duke Ellington's score for Otto Preminger's | (1959) |
| 7400 series | The | of TTL integrated circuits started appearing in minicomputers in the late ... |
| CRV7 | ... ement to the Hellfire missile, either the American Hydra 70 or the Canadian | . In Britain, there was controversy over British-supplied components being ... |
| Radiation-hardened | ... gh-reliability parts are available for military and aerospace applications. | devices are offered for space applications |
| VLSI | Before the advent of | devices, TTL integrated circuits were a standard method of construction fo ... |
| Symbian OS | Symbian Ltd formerly developed and licensed | , an operating system for advanced 2.5G and 3G mobile phones. User interfa ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the | and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself pri ... |
| kora | ... he gyil. Ostinato figures are also played on string instruments such as the | , gankoqui bell ensembles, and ensembles of differently pitched drums. Ver ... |
| Simple machine | | | industry = Construction| application =| dimensions =| weight = Mass time ... |
| Air Motion Transformer | ... er technologies employed much less commonly for headphones include the Heil | (AMT); Piezoelectric film; Ribbon planar magnetic; Magnetostriction and Pl ... |
| binaural | Alan Blumlein carried out his research into | sound and stereo gramophone recording here. "Trains at Hayes Station" (193 ... |
| DEC Professional | The | series were desktop PCs intended to compete with IBM's earlier 8088 and 80 ... |
| anti-satellite missile | ... have also been developed – in 2007, China conducted a successful test of an | , and its first indigenous land-attack cruise missile, the CJ-10, entered ... |
| Z80 | ... mpatibility for Game Boy and Game Boy Color games is provided by an 4/8 MHz | coprocessor (which Game Boy Advance software can use the audio tone genera ... |
| Rolls-Royce Conway | ... er fuselage with five-abreast seating, a wing with greater sweep and podded | engines. Without support from the Ministry of Transport, the proposal lang ... |
| Titan II | When the storable-fueled | and the solid-fueled Minuteman I were deployed in 1963, the Titan I and At ... |
| AK-47 | ... e thanks to Charlie Wilson, replaced them with a mix of modern weapons like | s and mortars |
| M61 Vulcan | ... rol system that makes it a highly nimble aircraft. The F-16 has an internal | cannon and has 11 hardpoints for mounting weapons and other mission equipm ... |
| Symbian OS | ... ed as a potential (but not real) security threat to Bluetooth technology or | since the virus has never spread outside of this system. In August 2004, a ... |
| Madonna | ... f people to the city, and bringing famous celebrities like Adam Sandler and | |
| Tea Table Key | ... e in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It is located on the islands of | , Lower Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, Windley Key and Plantation Key ... |
| FROG-7 | On October 9, Syrian | surface-to-surface missiles struck the Israeli Air Force base of Ramat Dav ... |
| TOW | ... . Other notable foreign equipment in service with the ROK Army includes the | ATGM launchers and Mistral MANPADS |
| Motorola 6800 | ... he user's workstation, an IBM PC, where programs were entered and edited, a | processor that ran the APL interpreter, and the Analogic array processor t ... |
| Toyman | ... tar, Giganta, Heat Wave, Killer Frost, Lex Luthor, Sinestro, Star Sapphire, | and Volcana. They team up with the League to face Darkseid's invasion of E ... |
| incendiary | ... he 17th century during sieges, armies attempted to start fires by launching | shells filled with sulfur, tallow, rosin, turpentine, saltpeter, and/or an ... |
| Madonna | "No More Words" was also included as the B-side of | 's #1 hit of 1985, "Crazy for You". Both songs were part of the soundtrack ... |
| SM-65 Atlas | ... provided an additional nuclear deterrent to complement the U.S. Air Force's | missile. It was the first in a series of Titan rockets, but was unique amo ... |
| Metacritic | ... t a positive total rating of 86%. The film has also earned a score of 73 on | |
| DVD | ... terial is playable through a DVD-Audio player and standard DVD Players. The | side also included all 5 promo videos from the album |
| ADSL loop extender | ... ntly reduce the bandwidth usable on the wires, thus reducing the data rate. | s increase these distances substantially |
| analog-to-digital conversion | ... ng pulse-code modulation and digital signals. Digital audio systems include | (ADC), digital-to-analog conversion (DAC), digital storage, processing and ... |
| Augustus | ... a few Roman remains, which were constructed during the reign of the emperor | . There was a military camp at Dorlar and some Roman roadwork. The most im ... |
| Macintosh IIfx | ... was followed by a series of related models including the Macintosh IIx and | , all of which used the Motorola 68030 processor. It was possible to upgra ... |
| Hohner D6 Clavinet | ... udio by several Moog synthesizers. The ARP Odyssey, ARP String Ensemble and | also became popular at the time. A third feature is the shift of proportio ... |
| Amiga 4000 | ... 4000. It was to have connectors for an optionally attached Amiga 1200 or an | respectively, in order to use the old custom chips of an Amiga. This Amiga ... |
| TX-0 | ... test their new circuitry, they first built a small 18-bit machine known as | which first ran in 1956. When the TX-0 successfully proved the basic conce ... |
| MG 151/20 cannon | ... raft were armed with two 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine guns and two 20 mm | s in the nose and delivered as the Me 410 A-1 light bomber. The originally ... |
| Talladega Superspeedway | ... o a major Honda manufacturing plant, employing over 4,000 people. The famed | race track is located just outside the city |
| Madonna | ... enced many electro-pop, other synthpop, and mainstream performers including | , La Roux, Moby, Pet Shop Boys, and Little Boots. They have been sampled a ... |
| Malcolm McLaren | ... London SS was managed by Bernard Rhodes, a sometime associate of impresario | and a friend of the band McLaren managed, the Sex Pistols. Jones and his b ... |
| MG 131 machine gun | For defense, the Me 210's rear gunner was armed with two 13 mm (.51 in) | s. Each of these were fitted into half-teardrop-shaped Ferngerichtete Dreh ... |
| Ship of Fools | ... m their wells of Zohassadar can seek solace." Steve Goddard, of the website | said "Ned is an innocent abroad in a world of cynicism and compromise. We ... |
| Allmusic | ... middle of the 1960s, when the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan began his career. | editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine attributes The Beatles' shift toward intros ... |
| Motorola 68030 | ... odels including the Macintosh IIx and Macintosh IIfx, all of which used the | processor. It was possible to upgrade a Macintosh II to a Macintosh IIx or ... |
| Florida Keys | The | , islands off the south coast of Florida, are composed mainly of oolitic l ... |
| DVD | ... intended to simplify connecting audio-video equipment (including TVs, VCRs, | players and game consoles). To achieve this it gathered all of the analogu ... |
| Usain Bolt | Rogge commented that | 's gestures of jubilation and excitement after winning the 100 meters in B ... |
| Tianhe-I | ... ocessors (GPGPUs) has improved, a number of petaflop supercomputers such as | and Nebulae have started to rely on them. However, other systems such as t ... |
| sling | ... dvance in warfare was the development of the ranged weapons and notably the | . The next significant advance came with the domestication of the horses a ... |
| grounding | ... One particular polyphase configuration is the zigzag transformer, used for | and in the suppression of harmonic currents |
| Let It Be | ... and's debut also influenced the spirit of The Beatles' back-to-basics album | as well as The Rolling Stones' string of roots-infused albums that began w ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... 49 BC. She organized an army on the site but did not need to use it due to | 's arrival in Alexandria. Ashkelon was later placed under the rule of Hero ... |
| GameSpy | ... by publications such as Entertainment Weekly, Time, PC Gamer, Discover and | . Wright was also awarded the PC Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in Ja ... |
| ARM7 | For sound, the system features a Yamaha AICA Sound Processor with a 32-Bit | RISC CPU operating at 45 MHz, 64 channel PCM/ADPCM sampler (4:1 compressio ... |
| soundtrack | ... e event. The song "Are You That Somebody?" was featured on the Dr. Dolittle | , which earned Aaliyah her first Grammy Award nomination. The song peaked ... |
| Guitar amplifier | ... d in plate reverbs, to create and capture vibrations within a metal spring. | s frequently incorporate spring reverbs due to their compact construction ... |
| DVD | The 2004 remastered 2-disc edition includes Slipstream as a bonus | . This is the only official release of "Slipstream" on DVD |
| S-300 | ... capabilities. China has furthermore acquired and improved upon the Russian | surface-to-air missile system. Russia later produced the next-generation S ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... panning two seasons. The film has received 145 critical reviews on the site | , 124 "Fresh" and 21 "Rotten", giving it a positive total rating of 86%. T ... |
| GIRAFFE | ... ffers airborne, ground based and naval radars, including Erieye, ARTHUR and | |
| MIDI controller | ... e Moog Ethervox, while functionally still a theremin, can also be used as a | , and as such allows the artist to control any MIDI-compatible synthesizer ... |
| Leyden jar | ... cal in nature. He also explained the apparently paradoxical behavior of the | as a device for storing large amounts of electrical charge |
| Walter Cronkite | ... s," with space-suited astronauts as the actors, and proceedings narrated by | as if they were a NASA moon mission. "[Spacesuit transmission from astrona ... |
| ReserVec | ... 49; the maintenance base later also moved east. With the development of the | in 1953, TCA became the first airline in the world to use a computer reser ... |
| Secure Digital | ... ce, allowing replication to another device through use of removable media ( | , Compact Flash, etc.). The worm can render the mobile device unstable |
| Linn LM-1 | ... red essentially obsolete by the superior sound and ability to sample of the | . However, the much cheaper price of the TR-808 ($1,195 versus $5,000 for ... |
| BGM-109 Tomahawk | ... ts are underway on developing systems that could create as much damage as a | , but at a fraction of the cost. In February 2008 the US Navy tested a mag ... |
| Red Special | Most of May's electric guitar work live and in the studio was done on the | , which he built with his father during his teenage years. From 1975 onwar ... |
| TX-2 | ... ed the basic concepts, attention turned to a much larger system, the 36-bit | with a then-enormous 64 kWords of core memory. Core was so expensive that ... |
| circuitry | ... must combine a significant amount of the transmitter and receiver handling | . Similar devices include transponders, transverters, and repeaters |
| Macintosh IIx | The Macintosh II was followed by a series of related models including the | and Macintosh IIfx, all of which used the Motorola 68030 processor. It was ... |
| Paul McCartney | The Beatles often called Mardas the "Greek wizard", and | remembered being interested in his ideas: “Well, if you [Mardas] could do ... |
| DVD | ... ime. The audio material is playable through a DVD-Audio player and standard | Players. The DVD side also included all 5 promo videos from the album |
| wind | ... rum set player. The Headhunters' lineup and instrumentation, retaining only | player Bennie Maupin from Hancock's previous sextet, reflected his new mus ... |
| Seal of the City of Chico, California | The official city nickname is "City of Roses", according to the | . Chico has been designated a Tree City USA for 27 years by the Arbor Day ... |
| RPG-7 | ... ters, SA-2, SA-3, SA-6 and SA-7 antiaircraft missiles, T-55 and T-62 tanks, | antitank weapons, and the AT-3 Sagger anti-tank guided missile from the So ... |
| Numerical Wind Tunnel | ... ates and in Japan, setting new computational performance records. Fujitsu's | supercomputer used 166 vector processors to gain the top spot in 1994 with ... |
| Allmusic | Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor for | , described specifically Culture Club as a new wave band and generically a ... |
| Keith Olbermann | ... tates Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been mocked by commentator | and Maureen Dowd for incorrectly referring to the act as "Hoot Smalley," a ... |
| As.109-014 | ... ete V-1 airframe was delivered 30 August 1942, and after the first complete | was delivered in September, the first glide test flight was 28 October 194 ... |
| Leyden jar | ... sured this ratio by an experiment which involved charging and discharging a | and measuring the magnetic force from the discharge current, and found a v ... |
| Pinhole glasses | ... on glasses, which are then verified correct using a professional lensmeter. | are a type of corrective glasses that do not use a lens and are claimed to ... |
| Nigel Worthington | ... managers have included Ken Brown, Ron Saunders, Dave Stringer, Mike Walker, | and current manager Paul Lambert |
| Lance | ... n's nuclear stockpile. These were used in missiles ranging in size from the | surface-to-surface tactical missile to the megaton-class Spartan antiballi ... |
| Allmusic | ... wd, snatched up a fan, and bitten off his head." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of | commented that "their blend of industrial noise, grinding metal guitars, a ... |
| Cray-2 | ... 76, and it became one of the most successful supercomputers in history. The | released in 1985 was an 8 processor liquid cooled computer and Fluorinert ... |
| Julius Caesar's | ... ssed that of the Aediles under the Republic, as could have been seen during | Aedileship |
| Tactical High Energy Laser | ... ching what could be considered "experimental usefulness". In particular the | can be used in the anti-aircraft and anti-missile role. If current develop ... |
| The Daily Week | ... atire in the context of events and figures in history. The Canadian website | combines social and political satire with absurdity. Canadian songwriter N ... |
| Sebastian Coe | ... Vancouver Olympic Torch relay. He handed off the flame to the next runner, | |
| They Shoot, We Score | ... y. Their scores for these four films were collected on the 2008 compilation | |
| Dassault nEUROn | ... dar VTOL UAV. Aeronautics is also partner in the European joint UAV-project | , where Saab develop Avionics and is responsible for the overall architect ... |
| Anime News Network | ... . This was verified by a Toonami producer in a March 4, 2002 interview with | |
| RPGamer | ... ies is a sprawling classic with well written scripts and solid characters." | reported in July 2004 that Square was polling die-hard customers, testing ... |
| Octavian | ... the Roman Republic. It was a naval engagement fought between the forces of | and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. The battle took ... |
| Burnside carbine | ... and energy to the manufacture of the famous rifle that bears his name, the | . The Secretary of War under President James Buchanan, John B. Floyd, cont ... |
| diaphragm | ... it to rotate slightly one way or the other about the pivot thus moving the | to make sound |
| SPARC | ... erm for this class of system is "midrange computer", such as the higher-end | , POWER and Itanium-based systems from Oracle, IBM and Hewlett-Packard |
| Roundabout PlayPump | ... Water for Africa Music Festival. The event raised the funds to pay for two | water systems in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2009, the community continued its ... |
| transporter | ... erpoint to Spock's logic. McCoy is suspicious of technology, especially the | ; as a physician, he prefers less intrusive treatment and believes in the ... |
| DVD | ... isc. The CD side contained a newly remastered version of the album, and the | side contained the same album in its original stereo mix, plus a slightly ... |
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| Barbara Walters | On March 3, 1999, Lewinsky was interviewed by | on ABC's 20/20. The program was watched by 70 million Americans, which ABC ... |
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| Thomas Savery | The first real attempt at industrial use of steam power was due to | in 1698. He constructed and patented in London a low-lift combined vacuum ... |
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| Michael Jackson | In June 2009, after the death of pop superstar | , this message appeared to many internet users who were searching Google f ... |
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| BM-30 Smerch | ... -125 Neva/Pechora missile system and S-300 air-defence systems and also the | rocket artillery system. President Hugo Chavez stated that "Venezuela has ... |
| Death Star | Red Squadron was essential to the destruction of the | at the Battle of Yavin. After the battle, the squadron operated as two gro ... |
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| MSX | ... s promotional material, the keyboard is noticeably tilted to the front with | -style cursor keys above the numeric keypad that now carries "function key ... |
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| TX-2 | ... he important precursors of the PDP-8 include the PDP-5, LINC, the TX-0, the | , and the PDP-1. Digital Equipment gave rise to a number of minicomputer c ... |
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| propulsion of fluid | ... ve turbine efficiencies of well over 50%. The methods and apparatus for the | s and thermodynamic transformation of energy were disclosed in various pat ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... still received generally positive reviews with the review tallying website | reporting that 75% of the reviews they tallied for the film were positive ... |
| The Critical Badger | ... There is a strong community of local blogs including Althouse, dane101, and | |
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| Bart Veldkamp | ... is countryman Ådne Søndrål) and silver on the 10,000 m (behind Dutch skater | ) |
| Diana Ross | ... estrian ramps were used for a motorcycle chase scene with Michael Jackson & | |
| M1911 pistol | Browning's most successful designs include the | , the Browning .50 caliber machine gun, the Browning Hi-Power pistol, the ... |
| fisheye | ... George Luks and John French Sloan. Among other unusual techniques, bent and | camera perspectives were used to portray the way the film's hippies and ho ... |
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| A Hard Day's Night | ... uary 1987 in mono, as were their three subsequent albums, With The Beatles, | and Beatles for Sale. It was not released on vinyl or tape in the US until ... |
| Exocet | ... 1983 and 1985. They are equipped with the submarine-launched version of the | anti-ship missile. Four Daphné class submarines were completed between 197 ... |
| Kashtan CIWS | ... bridge the gap between guns and missiles, Russia in particular produces the | , which uses both guns and missiles for final defense. Two six-barreled 30 ... |
| CDC 6600 | ... gns and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance. The | , released in 1964, is generally considered the first supercomputer |
| Newcomen steam engine | ... ntroduced by Thomas Newcomen before 1712. Newcomen apparently conceived the | quite independently of Savery, but as the latter had taken out a very wide ... |
| noise cancellation | Interference from external sound can be reduced either by active | , or by attentuating noise getting into the ear. The two headphone types t ... |
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| M4 | ... e shot army anti-tank weapon. Their answer was found in the 37mm Oldsmobile | aircraft automatic cannon cannibalized from crashed P-39 Airacobra fighter ... |
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| A4W nuclear reactor | All ships of the class are powered by two | s, kept in separate compartments. They power four propeller shafts and can ... |
| Augustus | ... e Senate with the wish felicior Augusto, melior Traiano ("[be] luckier than | and better than Trajan"). Among medieval Christian theologians, Trajan was ... |
| St Paul's Cathedral | ... n route E15) broadly follows the path of the historic Great North Road from | in the heart of London, through Peterborough (Junction 17), continuing nor ... |
| Molotov cocktail | ... of Clyde Kennard had made him a prominent black leader. On May 28, 1963, a | was thrown into the carport of his home. On June 7 1963, Evers was nearly ... |
| G4 | ... aughtercard connector, it is not electrically compatible. There were G3 and | options with a maximum clock frequency of 800 MHz and 933 MHz. The G4 modu ... |
| Lonely Planet | In 2010, | ranked Greece's northern and second-largest city of Thessaloniki as the wo ... |
| TV Guide | In a 2007 article, | named The Price Is Right the "greatest game show of all time" |
| Michael Jackson | ... lings present at Reagan-UCLA Medical Center on June 25, 2009, after brother | was pronounced dead after suffering cardiac arrest. She was named as the i ... |
| KAI T-50 | ... s jet trainers beginning in 1997. This project eventually culminated in the | , dubbed the "Golden Eagle" which is used as a trainer for jet pilots, now ... |
| Zilog Z80 | The entire CPC series is based on the | A processor, clocked at 4 MHz |
| Jimmy Swaggart | ... ngs, includes a jab with an impression in the middle eight at televangelist | . The song "On the Fritz", the title track from Taylor's next studio album ... |
| mine | ... ditionally, a few PT boats were equipped to carry Naval Mines launched from | racks, but these were not in common usage |
| LM2500 | ... orer, Stena Voyager and Stena Discovery vessels use COGAG setups of twin GE | plus GE LM1600 power for a total of 68 MW. The slightly smaller HSS 900-cl ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... vs. Larry Flynt received positive reviews; based on 53 reviews collected by | , the film has an overall approval rating from critics of 87%, with an ave ... |
| Analog signal | ... .g. optical, acoustic, mechanical) means since the advent of communication. | data has been sent electronically since the advent of the telephone. Howev ... |
| Drill Purpose Rifle | The L59A1 was a conversion of the No4 Rifle (all Marks) to a | that was incapable of being restored to a firing configuration. It was int ... |
| LINC | ... tegrated circuits. The important precursors of the PDP-8 include the PDP-5, | , the TX-0, the TX-2, and the PDP-1. Digital Equipment gave rise to a numb ... |
| Dreamcast | The Nintendo GameCube, Wii, | , PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox and Xbox 360 can output ... |
| Fresnel lens | ... servicing. Later vessels carried fixed lamps, which were serviced in place. | es were used as they became available, and many vessels housed these in sm ... |
| Thomas Newcomen | The first safe and successful steam power plant was introduced by | before 1712. Newcomen apparently conceived the Newcomen steam engine quite ... |
| GE90-115B | ... g 777s and 46 Boeing 787-8s and -9s. All of the 777s will be powered by the | engine, and the 787-8s, by the engine. Deliveries of the 777s began in Mar ... |
| 8086 | Gary Campbell wrote his FCELL solver for DOS in | assembly language. This solver is 12 kilobytes, and is quite fast. FCELL w ... |
| DEC Alpha | ... s last major attempt to find a space in the rapidly changing market was the | 64-bit RISC processor architecture. DEC initially started work on Alpha as ... |
| Q-Bus | ... card slot, which was electrically, but not mechanically compatible with the | . The first versions had 32 KB onboard DRAM, half of which was used as vid ... |
| PowerPC | ... ne degree or another, on most CPUs, including the IBM's AltiVec and SPE for | , HP's PA-RISC Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions (MAX), Intel's MMX and i ... |
| BAR | ... ar with the United States Marines. The Colt 1911, Browning 1917/19, and the | saw action with US forces in World War I, World War II and the Korean War, ... |
| Very Large Telescope | ... twinkling) due to the atmosphere. Some terrestrial telescopes (such as the | ) can reduce atmospheric effects with adaptive optics. A telescope orbitin ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | The film received critical acclaim. Based on 143 reviews collected by | , the film has an overall approval rating from critics of 90%, with an ave ... |
| Disk II | ... IC. Programs were entered, then saved and loaded on cassette tape. When the | was implemented in 1978 by Steve Wozniak, a Disk Operating System or DOS w ... |
| Paul McCartney | ... ayed at the Colosseum in recent years have included Ray Charles (May 2002), | (May 2003), Elton John (September 2005), and (July 2006) |
| Michael Jackson | ... iz; it used the exterior pedestrian ramps for a motorcycle chase scene with | and Diana Ross. The 1960s-style decorations were removed in 1980. The bank ... |
| load | ... adigm for AC power transmission from a high voltage supply to a low voltage | was a series circuit. Open-core transformers with a ratio near 1:1 were co ... |
| TV Guide | ... e also appeared in The Good Night, playing two characters, Anna and Melody. | film critic Maitland McDonagh noted that in the film Cruz "expertly mines ... |
| Leslie speaker | ... st may swing the box around on a final sustain, or the rotating baffle of a | will spin the sound around the room |
| Metacritic | ... g from critics of 90%, with an average score of 7 July 2010. By comparison, | , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... hillfort". At Roman contact, it was a town of the Suessiones, mentioned by | (B. G. ii. 12). Caesar (B.C. 57), after leaving the Axona (modern Aisne), ... |
| Leclerc | ... ection system and reactive armor comparable to the American M1A2 and French | |
| Martini-Henry | A number of British Service Rifles, predominantly the | and Martini-Enfield, but also the various Lee-Enfield rifles, have been pr ... |
| Carnwennan | ... agger named Carnwennan and a spear named Rhongomyniad that belonged to him. | ("Little White-Hilt") first appears in Culhwch and Olwen, where it was use ... |
| Sword of Attila | ... but only a sword in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is known as the | , because of the Miholjanec legend and because Jordanes embellished the re ... |
| DVK | ... gn team at the time. It was also responsible for the more powerful UKNC and | micros. First released in 1985, they were based on the К1801ВМ1 (Soviet LS ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... tterly sui generis." Joe Versus the Volcano currently holds a 56% rating on | based on 25 reviews |
| K30 Biho | ... us , fitted with 8 missiles that fly at maximum speeds of mach 2.6, and the | series, which feature a 30 mm twin gun system for self-propelled anti-aeri ... |
| AK-47 | ... a Jungle Carbine-styled version chambered in 7.62x39mm Russian, which uses | magazine |
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| Superman III | ... ester named Clark Kent's former schoolmistress "Minnie Bannister" in 1983's | |
| M16 | ... MAS 49 and 49-56 rifles. The AR-15 and its military versions, the automatic | and M4 Carbine, are the most common and well-known weapons which utilize t ... |
| PDP-11 | ... and update their line, DEC replaced most of their smaller machines with the | in 1970, eventually selling over 600,000 units and cementing DECs position ... |
| PDP-11 | The Elektronika BK was a series of 16-bit | -compatible Soviet home computers developed by NPO Scientific Center, the ... |
| Goalkeeper CIWS | ... Guns are being increasingly pushed into specialist roles, such as the Dutch | , which uses the GAU-8/A Avenger 30 mm seven-barrel Gatling Gun for last d ... |
| Nakajima Hikari | ... used for simplicity. The aircraft was to be powered by the 529 kW (710 hp) | 1 nine-cylinder radial engine |
| PDP-11 | ... (despite the latter manufacturing the LSI-11 chipsets used in DEC's low end | /03 computers) |
| waterjet | Boeing launched its first passenger-carrying | -propelled hydrofoil Boeing 929, in April 1974. Those ships were powered b ... |
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| variant | ... 11 going on to serve as the U.S.'s standard military side arm until 1985; a | is still used by special operations units of the United States Marine Corp ... |
| Jungle Carbine | ... drilling and tapping the receiver. AIA also offers the AIA M10-A1 rifle, a | -styled version chambered in 7.62x39mm Russian, which uses AK-47 magazine |
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| UKNC | ... uter design team at the time. It was also responsible for the more powerful | and DVK micros. First released in 1985, they were based on the К1801ВМ1 (S ... |
| Starfire Optical Range | ... craft, one at Table Mountain Observatory in California and the other at the | in New Mexico. The Table Mountain site used a frequency doubled Neodymium- ... |
| PDP-10 | ... ailable; some of them were also used in other DEC systems like the PDP-8 or | |
| serpent | ... euphonium traces its ancestry to the ophicleide and ultimately back to the | . The search for a satisfactory foundational wind instrument that could su ... |
| Augustus | ... ereales, whose special duty was the care of the cereal (corn) supply. Under | the office lost much of its importance, its judicial functions and the car ... |
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| Rotten Tomatoes | ... azine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010. The review aggregator | records that 98% of its cited critics gave the film a positive review |
| MAJC | ... SSSE3, AMD's 3DNow!, ARC's ARC Video subsystem, SPARC's VIS and VIS2, Sun's | , ARM's NEON technology, MIPS' MDMX (MaDMaX) and MIPS-3D. The IBM, Sony, T ... |
| FN FAL | ... N's excellent marketing and superb product line-up (which also included the | rifle and FN MAG general purpose machine gun), it was adopted as the stand ... |
| nuclear war | ... government of the United States would be able to continue operating after a | . These plans were classified for many years, partly under the assumption ... |
| Atanasoff–Berry Computer | ... nic digital computer. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the | |
| Leslie speaker | A | (best known through its historical and popular association with the Hammon ... |
| T-90 | All modern Soviet/Russian tanks like the | are also able to perform deep fording operations, however unlike the Leopa ... |
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| Ctrl | ... e, WordPerfect used almost every possible combination of function keys with | , Alt, and Shift modifiers. This was in contrast to early versions of Word ... |
| Pentium D | ... ems use the x86 instruction set architecture and are based on Intel’s Xeon, | , Core Duo, and Core 2 Duo based processors or AMD’s Athlon64 X2, Quad FX ... |
| A4W | ... c systems used for propulsion on many modern warships, the carriers use two | pressurized water reactors which drive four propeller shafts and can produ ... |
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| Sequoia | ... a 20 PFLOPs supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, named | , based on the Blue Gene architecture which is scheduled to go online in 2 ... |
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| Leopard 2 | The | tank carries a snorkel that is in fact a series of rings which can be stac ... |
| Atari ST | ... der home computers (Amstrad CPC, later ZX Spectrum models, Commodore Amiga, | , BBC Micro and Acorn Archimedes, etc.) output RGB with composite sync sui ... |
| FN MAG | ... keting and superb product line-up (which also included the FN FAL rifle and | general purpose machine gun), it was adopted as the standard service pisto ... |
| Colt 1911 | ... saw action in the Spanish-American War with the United States Marines. The | , Browning 1917/19, and the BAR saw action with US forces in World War I, ... |
| Diana Ross | ... rior pedestrian ramps for a motorcycle chase scene with Michael Jackson and | . The 1960s-style decorations were removed in 1980. The banks of ramps res ... |
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| Madonna | ... istory of the United Kingdom charts, based upon a tally of her career hits. | would eventually succeed Ross as the most successful female artist in the ... |
| Mjöllnir | The poem Þrymskviða tells of Thor's loss of his hammer, | , to the jötnar and quest to get it back. At one point in the tale, the go ... |
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| SPARC | ... iwMMXt, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and SSSE3, AMD's 3DNow!, ARC's ARC Video subsystem, | 's VIS and VIS2, Sun's MAJC, ARM's NEON technology, MIPS' MDMX (MaDMaX) an ... |
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| BBC Micro | ... omputers (Amstrad CPC, later ZX Spectrum models, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, | and Acorn Archimedes, etc.) output RGB with composite sync suitable for SC ... |
| Intel 80386 | Newer microprocessor chips such as the Motorola 68000 (1979) and | (1985) also included 32-bit logical addressing. The mass-production of tho ... |
| its soundtrack | ... ildest Dreams" with Tina Turner. 1996 also saw the release of Space Jam and | , on which White had a duet with Chris Rock, called "Basketball Jones," a ... |
| W80 | ... 8), B83 (modern strategic bomb; 1979), W87 (Peacekeeper/MX ICBM; 1982), and | (Tomahawk GLCM; 1978). The W80, W87, and the B83 are the only LLNL designs ... |
| Browning 1917/19 | ... in the Spanish-American War with the United States Marines. The Colt 1911, | , and the BAR saw action with US forces in World War I, World War II and t ... |
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| Acorn Archimedes | ... rad CPC, later ZX Spectrum models, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, BBC Micro and | , etc.) output RGB with composite sync suitable for SCART use, but most us ... |
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| Walter Cronkite | ... nated by the Vietnam War more than ever. Following evening news broadcaster | 's editorial report during the Tet Offensive that the war was unwinnable, ... |
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| 2009 Copa del Rey Final | Barça beat Athletic Bilbao 4–1 in the | , winning the competition for a record-breaking 25th time. A historic 2–6 ... |
| SM EVM | ... DVK professional model microcomputers and industrial minicomputers like the | series, its meager 32 KB memory from which only 16 KB was generally availa ... |
| HP 200LX | There is also a version of 1-2-3 for the | , a palmtop released by Hewlett-Packard, a port for Tandy's Deskmate and f ... |
| Tatung Einstein | ... systems to use them included the Sega SF-7000 and CP/M systems such as the | and Osborne machines. They also found use on embedded systems |
| Pocono Raceway | ... nnsylvania, United States. The population was 4,983 at the 2000 census. The | is located within the township |
| Rotten Tomatoes | The response of major American movie reviewers was widely favorable. | , a film review aggregator counted 91% of critical reviews as favorable, g ... |
| The Texas Tribune | ... m Grande Communications.The most recent entrant on the Austin news scene is | , an on-line publication focused on Texas and Austin politics. The Tribune ... |
| L. Ron Hubbard | ... ious legal tactics to stop distribution of unpublished documents written by | . The Church of Scientology is often accused of through the filing of SLAP ... |
| Amiga 2000 | ... features placed it more squarely in competition with i386 based PCs and the | |
| E-flat clarinet | ... oes (3rd doubles English horn), 3 clarinets in B-flat (1st and 2nd doubling | ), bass clarinet in B-flat, alto saxophone in E-flat, 3 bassoons (3rd doub ... |
| Motorola 68000 | ... SOS rapidly became the RTOS of choice for all embedded systems based on the | family architecture, because it was written in 68000 assembler and was hig ... |
| Jupiter | ... tally. This Navy "Jupiter" missile is not to be confused with the U.S. Army | Intermediate-range ballistic missile. At Edward Teller's prompting, the Na ... |
| London Assembly | ... with some trains cancelled shortly before they are due to arrive. A recent | report described the service as "shabby, unreliable, unsafe and overcrowde ... |
| Opteron | ... Core Duo, and Core 2 Duo based processors or AMD’s Athlon64 X2, Quad FX or | 200 and 2000 series processors. Servers use those processors and other rea ... |
| Heil AMT | ... ; Ribbon planar magnetic; Magnetostriction and Plasma-ionisation. The first | headphone was marketed by ESS Laboratories and was essentially an ESS AMT ... |
| B83 | ... ssile; 1968), W79 (8-in. artillery gun; 1975), W82 (155-mm howitzer; 1978), | (modern strategic bomb; 1979), W87 (Peacekeeper/MX ICBM; 1982), and W80 (T ... |
| Allmusic | Liana Jonas of | described Conspiracy of One as The Offspring's "most musically mature coll ... |
| MacGuffin | ... , murder, and crime, although many of the mysteries function as decoys or " | s" meant only to serve thematic elements in the film and the extremely com ... |
| Augustus | ... e for the story is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of | . The event does not occur in Homer's Iliad, which ends before the fall of ... |
| Motorola 68000 | Newer microprocessor chips such as the | (1979) and Intel 80386 (1985) also included 32-bit logical addressing. The ... |
| Ross rifle | ... ther area of the plains was taken and, despite public protest, covered by a | factory, which included a water tank built upon the existing Martello towe ... |
| VAX | ... o the 1990s. Also known as DEC and using the trademark DIGITAL, its PDP and | products were the most successful (in terms of sales) minicomputers |
| Tapwave Zodiac | ... ld market were the Neo Geo Pocket Color, Bandai Swan Crystal, Game Park 32, | , and the Nokia N-Gage. Despite the competitors' best efforts, Nintendo ma ... |
| Berney Arms combined Mill and Windpump | Besides the pub, the main focus is | . This is the tallest windmill in Norfolk, a Scheduled Ancient Monument an ... |
| Analog signal | ... from a data source, for example a computer or a keyboard. It may also be an | such as a phone call or a video signal, digitized into a bit-stream for ex ... |
| VOR | ... n ILS Cat II landing system and offers the following radio navigation aids: | – DME – NDB |
| VAX | DEC's 32-bit successor to the PDP-11, the | (for "Virtual Address eXtension") overcame the 16-bit limitation, but was ... |
| arc | ... ems used alternating current exclusively and included those comprising both | and incandescent lamps, along with generators and other equipment |
| Brass knuckles | ... Pole match—whose name is usually derived from the object being hung; i.e. " | on a Pole", "Steel Chair on a Pole", "Singapore Cane on a Pole", "Paddle o ... |
| System X | ... cal for the multi-cabinet systems based on off-the-shelf processors, and in | a special cooling system that combined air conditioning with liquid coolin ... |
| Amstrad CPC | Many older home computers ( | , later ZX Spectrum models, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, BBC Micro and Acorn ... |
| AIM-92 Stinger | ... ache variant is based on the AH-64A. Japan's AH-64DJP can also equipped the | air-to-air missiles for defense |
| DVK | While the BK was somewhat compatible with larger and more expensive | professional model microcomputers and industrial minicomputers like the SM ... |
| Poseidon | The Polaris missile was gradually replaced in the US Navy by the | missile, beginning in 1972. During the 1980s, these missiles were replaced ... |
| XMM-Newton observatory | ... ly due to orbiting X-ray telescopes such as the Chandra observatory and the | . Infrared and ultraviolet are also greatly blocked |
| Michelle Malkin | The controversial conclusions drawn by Lowman were defended by pundit | in her book In Defense of Internment; The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in W ... |
| SS-20 | ... ched ballistic missiles or road-mobile nuclear missiles (such as the Soviet | ) which make nuclear weapons harder to locate and target |
| two-cycle | ... ngine and the four-cycle diesel engine. The diesel engine is made in both a | and a four-cycle version. Otto's company, Deutz AG, now primarily produces ... |
| Apple I | ... he Apple II was a major technological advancement over its predecessor, the | , a limited-production bare circuit board computer for electronics hobbyis ... |
| prosody | ... hed him among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in | (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a dar ... |
| Sage Thrasher | ... ins of Jackson Hole are favored areas for Sage Grouse, Brewer's Sparrow and | s, while the wetlands are frequented by Great Blue Heron, American White P ... |
| Trident | ... s, these missiles were replaced on the ten newest missile submarines by the | I missile |
| Association of Religion Data Archives | ... Greater Hartford, especially the suburb of West Hartford. According to the | , the largest Christian denominations, by number of adherents, in 2000 wer ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... osted many music concerts including David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, U2 and | |
| Maria Shriver | On April 26, 1986, Schwarzenegger married television journalist | , niece of President John F. Kennedy, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. ... |
| MBT LAW | Short range weapons offered include Carl-Gustaf, AT4/AT4 CS, STRIX and | . Missile systems offered are RBS 70, RBS 23 BAMSE, RBS 15 |
| Augustus | ... view that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was "the most foolish war since Emperor | in 9 sent his legions into Germany and lost them", a reference to the Batt ... |
| Mitsubishi Kinsei | ... blems. Power was increased by replacing the Hikari with the 626 kW (840 hp) | 3 in a redesigned cowling, and the vertical tail was enlarged to help with ... |
| Augustus | ... e. The name Austin is considered to be derived from Augustine, a variant of | . The location was seen as a convenient crossroads for trade routes betwee ... |
| Baen Free Library | These books are also available from the | |
| Model 1895 | ... hot Model 1885, and the lever-action Model 1886, Model 1892, Model 1894 and | rifles, most of which are still in production today in some form; over sev ... |
| B41 | ... cruise missile; 1955; joint with Los Alamos), W38 (Atlas/Titan ICBM; 1959), | (B52 bomb; 1957), W45 (Little John/Terrier missiles; 1956), W47 (Polaris S ... |
| Oprah Winfrey | ... al apartment buildings, an observatory, and a private marina. Boris Becker, | , and Mel Brooks are among the celebrities with homes on the island |
| mainframe | ... IDE integration, program animation, and visualization features. Some early | debuggers such as Oliver and SIMON provided this same functionality for th ... |
| AN/APG-66 | ... 6. The fuselage was lengthened by , a larger nose radome was fitted for the | radar, wing area was increased from to , the tailfin height was decreased, ... |
| cowbell | ... unds," “the ticky snare, the tishy hi-hats (open and closed) and the spacey | .” The Roland TR-808 would eventually be used on more hit records than any ... |
| Barnes & Noble Nook | ... f into an independent company. Barnes & Noble is also known for selling the | , as well as various incarnations of its mascot, a named "Barnsie" |
| FIM-92 Stinger | ... mm twin cannon and SAM Roland, while the British forces used the brand-new | . Both sides also used the Blowpipe missile |
| optical spectrophotometers | ... l range 200–900 nm and can be used as a wavelength calibration standard for | , and are available commercially |
| predictor | ... eed and small size. In 1944, Bell Labs started delivery of an anti-aircraft | fire-control system based on an analog computer, just in time for the Alli ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... ool teacher rather than a schoolgirl. Among Ross's costars were Lena Horne, | , Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell and Ted Ross. Upon its October 1978 releas ... |
| Florida Keys | ... h into the Florida Keys. Along with serving as the mainland entrance to the | , Florida City also serves as the gateway to the main section of |
| Maria Shriver | Schwarzenegger was married to | . The couple separated in 2011 after 25 years of marriage |
| Type 92 machine gun | ... ng 7.7 mm (.303 in) Type 97 machine guns, and one flexible 7.7 mm (.303 in) | in the rear cockpit for defense. Normal bombload was a single 250 kg (550 ... |
| Blowpipe missile | ... British forces used the brand-new FIM-92 Stinger. Both sides also used the | |
| Paul McCartney | ... " single was number one on the UK chart in July 1957, when Lennon first met | |
| DVD | ... single from his new album, Friendly Fire. A promotional trailer for the CD/ | package of Friendly Fire was leaked online in early 2006. The trailer feat ... |
| snare | ... ized the TR-808: a deep bass kick drum, "tinny handclap sounds," “the ticky | , the tishy hi-hats (open and closed) and the spacey cowbell.” The Roland ... |
| UltraSPARC | ... readily available non-x86 processor choices, including the Sun Microsystems | , Fujitsu SPARC64 III and later, SGI MIPS, Intel Itanium, Hewlett Packard ... |
| Red Special | Aided by the uniqueness of his guitar – the | – May was often able to create strange and unusual sound effects. For exam ... |
| Leyden jar | the famous | , a capacitor made from a glass jar, invented in Leiden by Pieter van Muss ... |
| Indianapolis Motor Speedway | ... dy car", used both for both the competition and the type of car used in it. | hosts three major motor racing events every year: the Indianapolis 500, th ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... received critical acclaim. Based on the reviews of 81 critics collected on | , 81% of critics gave the film a positive review, with the consensus being ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... iod, rarely play cuts from the teen idols of the era, with the exception of | , who began his career as a teen idol but whose career eventually evolved ... |
| W27 | ... ntiballistic missile. Over the years, LLNL designed the following warheads: | (Regulus cruise missile; 1955; joint with Los Alamos), W38 (Atlas/Titan IC ... |
| Harry Reid | On August 9, 2011, Senate Majority Leader | appointed Murray to co-chair the United States Congress Joint Select Commi ... |
| RBS 70 | ... ude Carl-Gustaf, AT4/AT4 CS, STRIX and MBT LAW. Missile systems offered are | , RBS 23 BAMSE, RBS 15 |
| St Paul's Cathedral | ... " is still held by the two senior members of the College of Minor Canons of | |
| Western Interconnection | ... k is known as the "national grid." North America has three major grids: the | ; the Eastern Interconnection and the Electric Reliability Council of Texa ... |
| Madonna | ... ls of the room containing Creed's work as a protest. At the prize ceremony, | gave him the prize and said, "At a time when political correctness is valu ... |
| drum pads | ... other instruments. Samplers have also been taken live by playing samples on | or synthesizers, assigning samples to a specific drum pad or key. MCs are ... |
| Maud Foster Tower Windmill | The seven-storeyed | , completed in 1819, by millwrights Norman & Smithson of Kingston upon Hul ... |
| purpose of reconnaissance | ... er observatories located in space that are pointed toward the earth for the | and other types of information gathering |
| Stinger | ... fire anti-tank missiles, and Hydra 70 general-purpose unguided rockets. The | and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and the AGM-122 Sidearm anti-radi ... |
| Speak & Spell | ... an, Other devices were produced primarily for educational purposes, such as | , produced by Texas InstrumentsBreslow, et al. April 27, 1982 in 1978. Fid ... |
| Rolls-Royce Avon | ... The General Electric LM2500, General Electric LM6000, Rolls-Royce RB211 and | are common models of this type of machine |
| UCSD Pascal | ... hree operating systems available for purchase from IBM, PC DOS, CP/M-86 and | . At US$240 per copy it sold poorly compared to the $40 PC DOS. Kildall la ... |
| Rough Guide | Newcastle was in the top ten of the country's top night spots, and The | to Britain placed Newcastle upon Tyne's nightlife as Great Britain's no. 1 ... |
| Wasserfall | ... s were several sophisticated radio, wire, or radar guided missiles like the | rocket. Due to the severe war situation for Germany all of those systems w ... |
| Itanium | Intel's | architecture (among others) solved the backward-compatibility problem with ... |
| Steel guitar | ... tatus Quo song "Pictures of Matchstick Men", their highest-charting single. | ist, guitarist and mandolin player David Immerglück (of the Ophelias) join ... |
| flipflop | ... l and internal circuitry on the non-RF portions. The APN-9A had vacuum tube | digital divider circuits so that TDs (time delays) between the primary and ... |
| Atari ST | Later models of the | also included a blitter co-processor, which was named in all capitals as t ... |
| B-family | ... rther develop their own modern engine designs past what the Austin's A- and | designs offered. The apex of the Austin-derived engines was the new design ... |
| Model 1897 | ... a series of rifles and shotguns, most notably the Winchester Model 1887 and | shotguns, the falling block single shot Model 1885, and the lever-action M ... |
| 1988 FA Cup Final | ... suffered just two defeats from 40 games. However, Dalglish's side lost the | to underdogs Wimbledon. Dalglish guided Liverpool to victory over Everton ... |
| Turboshaft | | engines are often used to drive compression trains (for example in gas pum ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... m in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son of | and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occ ... |
| RF MEMS | ... lations, although mechanical RF systems do exist (see mechanical filter and | ) |
| Commodore 64 | ... f sprites they could display, often between two (the Atari VCS) and eight ( | ). Blitters offered the ability to have any number of objects, limited onl ... |
| Indianapolis Motor Speedway | ... y the sanctioning fees for the race. The event was last held in 2007 at the | . A Formula One circuit will need to be built at an estimated cost of $250 ... |
| M48 | ... 113 APC), 930 M113s (APC/ACAVs), 120 V-100s (wheeled armored cars), and 190 | tanks; however on the , a US effort in November 1972 managed to transfer 5 ... |
| Washburn RR2V | ... erent electric guitars: a Stratocaster copy on "Play the Game" (1980) and a | on "Princes of the Universe" (1986) |
| organ | ... pleting the fourth series on BBC Two. These feature Johann Sebastian Bach's | works, filmed in performance by John Scott Whiteley on, mainly, authentic ... |
| AR-15 | ... t readily convertible. For example, the internal lower receiver of civilian | rifles is milled differently and has a much smaller cavity than that of th ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... in Starr, Temptations David Ruffin, and Dennis Edwards. A then-prepubescent | took Brown's shouts and dancing into the pop mainstream as the lead singer ... |
| Pentium 4 | ... s "Intel 64" (formerly known as IA-32e and EM64T), found in some of Intel's | and later chips |
| Data General Nova | ... 4 minutes (scanning two adjacent slices), and the computation time (using a | minicomputer) was about 7 minutes per picture. This scanner required the u ... |
| 10BASE5 | ... aling variants of the OSI physical layer in use with Ethernet. The original | Ethernet used coaxial cable as a shared medium. Later the coaxial cables w ... |
| Arutz Sheva | In June 2010, the journal | reported that tensions caused by differences of opinion over the recent Ga ... |
| Sword bayonet | ... Mk III, was introduced on 26 January 1907, along with a Pattern 1907 (P'07) | and featured a simplified rear sight arrangement and a fixed, rather than ... |
| David Gregory | On August 10, | moderated the panel discussion during the second half-hour of the broadcas ... |
| Winchester Model 1887 | ... h Winchester and designed a series of rifles and shotguns, most notably the | and Model 1897 shotguns, the falling block single shot Model 1885, and the ... |
| L series | ... duced the Datsun 240Z sports car which used a six-cylinder variation of the | engine. The 240Z was an immediate sensation and lifted Nissan to world cla ... |
| 2007 Recopa Sudamericana | ... next biggest highlight of the club, after the Libertadores victory, was the | . Amidst all the victories in 2006, International had a bad start to the 2 ... |
| quadrupole | ... are extracted through a series of cones into a mass spectrometer, usually a | . The ions are separated on the basis of their mass-to-charge ratio and a ... |
| Duratec 30 | ... ding a new front end and the 263 hp 3.5 L Duratec 35 V6, which replaces the | 3.0 L V6. The Five Hundred/Freestyle's ZF-Batavia CVT, which had a maximum ... |
| London Assembly | ... nstituency of Dagenham and Rainham. The borough is within the City and East | constituency, returning John Biggs AM, as the directly elected Assembly Me ... |
| Metacritic | ... om critics, with an 85% 'fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and 64 rating on | |
| UNIVAC I | ... a, Florida, and Texas. This election was the first in which a computer (the | ) was used to predict the results |
| Palm OS | ... s, including Linux, Mac OS, FreeBSD, DOS, Microsoft Windows, RISC OS, BeOS, | , Android, the Xbox console, the PSP and GP2X handhelds, the Wii console, ... |
| M79 grenade launcher | ... had provided the ARVN with 793,994 M1 carbines 640,000 M-16 rifles, 34,000 | s, 40,000 radios, 20,000 quarter-ton trucks, 214 M41 Walker Bulldog light ... |
| Apple IIe | ... upgrade kit was sold later to house the motherboard of an Apple II GS in an | case |
| Aegis | ... ts such as night vision goggles, rangefinders, the SPY-1 radar used in some | equipped warships, and the propulsion system of Arleigh Burke-class destro ... |
| Model 1894 | ... block single shot Model 1885, and the lever-action Model 1886, Model 1892, | and Model 1895 rifles, most of which are still in production today in some ... |
| Athlon 64 | ... x86-64 was implemented first by AMD as "AMD64", found in AMD's Opteron and | chips, and later implemented by Intel as "Intel 64" (formerly known as IA- ... |
| UV filter | ... rials are also sensitive to "invisible" light, which can be a nuisance (see | and IR filter), or a benefit (see infrared photography and full-spectrum p ... |
| AR-15 | ... eservist rifles for such purposes was approved in 1998. Popular weapons are | and semiautomatic variants of AK-47 and Finnish RKs, such as RK-92S and a ... |
| DVD | ... with a seventeen-CD collection called Thirty Days. In the early 2000s, the | format enhanced the availability of Beatles bootleg videos, covering filme ... |
| drums | ... Main Ballcourt at Tenochtitlan contained miniature whistles, ocarinas, and | . A pre-Columbian ceramic from western Mexico shows what appears to be a w ... |
| Itanium | Outside embedded processing markets, Intel's | IA-64 EPIC appears as the only example of a widely used VLIW CPU architect ... |
| Pattern 1853 Enfield | ... moured use of tallow (from cows) and lard (pig fat) in the newly introduced | rifle cartridges. Soldiers had to bite the cartridges with their teeth bef ... |
| National Marine Aquarium | ... rather than fish, due to the need to avoid duplicating the exhibits at the | in Plymouth. The project was subsequently taken on by Paignton Zoo Environ ... |
| M72 LAW | ... again on the night of October 21–22 and heavily damaged a missile boat with | rockets. During one of the raids, the commandos also blew up the port's ma ... |
| quadrant | ... ical Essays, concerning the design, use and construction of an astronomer's | , including tables for the latitude of Derby |
| Skysweeper | ... aircraft. Despite this, US efforts continued into the 1950s with the 75 mm | system, an almost fully automated system including the radar, computers, p ... |
| Opteron | ... 4 extension. x86-64 was implemented first by AMD as "AMD64", found in AMD's | and Athlon 64 chips, and later implemented by Intel as "Intel 64" (formerl ... |
| delay | ... y, then wait a preset amount of milliseconds, known as the secondary coding | , to transmit a response signal. In a given chain, each secondary's coding ... |
| Pacific DC Intertie | ... uddenly shut down. One prominent example of such a transmission line is the | located in the Western United States |
| Mecanum wheel | ... erted to low ground friction by using specially designed wheels such as the | |
| Atanasoff–Berry Computer | According to Atanasoff, several operative principles of the | (ABC) were conceived by the professor in a flash of insight during the win ... |
| A series engine | ... designs offered. The apex of the Austin-derived engines was the new design | in 1967. Also in 1967 Nissan introduced its new highly advanced four cylin ... |
| Sandia National Laboratories | ... ar weapons is undertaken. The others are Los Alamos National Laboratory and | |
| Teddington Lock | ... (approximately 500 m upstream of the present confluence, on the reach above | ) |
| Martha Rountree | ... on debut on November 6, 1947. It has been hosted by 11 moderators, first by | . The current host is , who assumed the role in December 2008. The show go ... |
| Model 1892 | ... the falling block single shot Model 1885, and the lever-action Model 1886, | , Model 1894 and Model 1895 rifles, most of which are still in production ... |
| Browning Automatic Rifle | ... ol, the Browning .50 caliber machine gun, the Browning Hi-Power pistol, the | , and the Browning Auto-5, a ground-breaking semi-automatic shotgun. These ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... risis and social unrest. Into this turbulent scenario emerged the figure of | . Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Cra ... |
| PowerPC | Widely used EABIs include | , ARM and |
| Julius Caesar | ... Among those who performed this duty in connection with particular roads was | , who became curator (67 BC) of the Via Appia, and spent his own money lib ... |
| Braveheart | ... ncluding The King's Speech, Martin Scorsese's The Departed, , Pulp Fiction, | and Batman were edited on Lightworks |
| RCA 1802 | The spacecraft was controlled by six | COSMAC microprocessor CPUs: four on the spun side and two on the despun si ... |
| NVAX | ... d expanded through several generations during the 1980s, culminating in the | microprocessor implementation and VAX 7000/10000 series in the early 1990s |
| M1 Garand | ... nd feeds cartridges vertically into the action. These may be fixed (as with | , in which case cartridges are loaded from the top of the weapon, with the ... |
| analogue circuitry | ... ter graphics on a CRT monitor and monaural sound hosted by a combination of | and a Texas Instruments SN76477 sound chip. Despite the specially develope ... |
| Pleiades | ... release of the TOP500 list places the Blue Gene/L supercomputer behind the | supercomputer in NASA/Ames Research Center, the Jaguar supercomputer in Oa ... |
| Brake pad | | s are designed for high friction with brake pad material embedded in the d ... |
| Mark Spitz | The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany saw swimmer | set seven World Records and win a record seven gold medals. The 1976 Summe ... |
| Renee Chenault-Fattah | Penn Law has also produced media professionals and artists, like | (co-anchor of weekday edition of WCAU NBC 10 News in Philadelphia), Mark H ... |
| MSX | ... instalments were released in Japan on NES and ported that same year to the | ; all four games have been remade for newer systems. Dragon Quest was firs ... |
| static port | In aircraft, an aneroid barometer measures the atmospheric pressure from a | outside the aircraft. Air pressure decreases with an increase of altitude— ... |
| Browning .50 caliber machine gun | Browning's most successful designs include the M1911 pistol, the | , the Browning Hi-Power pistol, the Browning Automatic Rifle, and the Brow ... |
| GameFAQs | ... aders' choice poll where EarthBound moved up to be 33rd on the list. A 2005 | poll of the 100 best games ever had EarthBound at the 37th spot. The game ... |
| Sir Charles Parsons | ... lileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, | , Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Gr ... |
| Mistel | ... oft or by launching them from a "piggy back" position (in the manner of the | , but in reverse) atop the aircraft. In the latter configuration, a pilot- ... |
| Allmusic | According to Bill Dahl at | |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... film received positive reviews from critics, with an 85% 'fresh' rating on | , and 64 rating on Metacritic |
| Saint Lawrence Seaway | The | and Great Lakes Waterway opened the Great Lakes to ocean-going vessels. Wi ... |
| Hispano cannon | ... rowning machine guns, Stoke, Corsham, and Newcastle-under-Lyme produced the | , Leicester and Studley Road produced the Besa machine gun, Ruislip produc ... |
| Sword of Attila | Der Spiegel commented on 6. November 1948 that the | was hanging menacingly over Austria |
| Model 1873 | ... , and trying to remove a Winchester from the scabbard on his horse. The two | rifles were still in the scabbards on the two horses when there were found ... |
| Rolls-Royce Conway | ... wing and JT4A engines, while the 707-420 was the same as the -320 but with | turbofan engines. British certification requirements relating to engine-ou ... |
| Caesar | ... later speculatively 'identified' by the writer Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) as | (100–44 BC) and Pompey (106–48 BC) responsible for the decline of the Roma ... |
| Compression ratio | ... , and is factor in a higher compression engine being more efficient. Higher | s also mean that the distance that the piston can push to produce power is ... |
| Sagger | ... k weapons—rocket-propelled grenades and the less numerous but more advanced | guided missiles, which proved devastating to the first Israeli armored cou ... |
| bell | King Louis XV sent a | to Kaskaskia in 1741 for its church, one of several constructed there. Dur ... |
| TripAdvisor | ... and foreign tourists. Baguio is the lone Philippine destination in the 2011 | Traveler's Choice Destinations Awards, Asia category, with the city being ... |
| Julius Caesar | at:44 text: | murdered. (44 BCE |
| Julius Caesar | ... e Saint-Paul. Bernadotte himself added Jules to his first names later, from | , in the classicizing spirit of the French Revolution |
| Pratt & Whitney JT3D | ... ith turbojet engines, the dominant engine for the Boeing 707 family was the | , a turbofan variant of the JT3C with lower fuel consumption as well as hi ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... n Aurelian's time. (It had already been damaged by fire during the visit of | to Alexandria. |
| Michael Johnson | ... -studded history: Pietro Mennea set a world best in 1983, Olympic champions | and Donovan Bailey went head-to-head over the distance in 1997, and improv ... |
| T-72 | ... USD $80 million worth of military equipment from Ukraine which included 20 | main battle tanks, 100 trucks and various small arms. 20 x T-72 have been ... |
| 486 | ... read, process and output 100 MB/s of data when the fastest PC was a 66 MHz | , while keeping various emulated chips (the Amiga chipset) all in sync and ... |
| Leyden jar | ... , with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of | s through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantia ... |
| tuned circuit | ... in its simplest form, a circuit with a capacitor and an inductor forming a | . The resonator amplifies oscillations within a particular frequency band, ... |
| Qamdo Bangda Airport | The longest public-use runway in the world is at | in China. It has a length of . The world's widest paved runway is at Ulyan ... |
| Spanish Super Cup | ... thus completing the sextuple, comprising the aforementioned treble and the | , UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup |
| anti-tank | ... Egyptians had armed their assault force with large numbers of man-portable | weapons—rocket-propelled grenades and the less numerous but more advanced ... |
| Fliegerfaust | ... hem were several guided and unguided systems. Unguided systems involved the | as the first MANPADS. Guided systems were several sophisticated radio, wir ... |
| Faraday cup | ... netic field, which diverts them into different sampling sensors, known as " | s", depending on their mass and level of ionization. On impact in the cups ... |
| W3Schools | According to web analytics data generated by | , from September 2003 to July 2011, Windows XP was the most widely used op ... |
| Chicago Pile-1 | ... 940. The money was used in studies which led to the first nuclear reactor — | , a massive "atomic pile" of graphite bricks and uranium fuel which went c ... |
| Suzuka Circuit | Prost took the 1989 world title after a collision with Senna at the | in Japan, the penultimate race of the season, which Senna needed to win to ... |
| .22-caliber | ... . The torso was "dressed out" like that of a deer. She had been shot with a | rifle, and the mutilations were made after death |
| Julius Caesar | In 42 BC, | was formally deified as "the divine Julius" (divus Iulius). His adopted so ... |
| Tab key | ... unction keys across the top of the keyboard. With the 1981 PC keyboard, the | and the related F4 (Indent) functions were adjacent. This plethora of keys ... |
| Julius Caesar | at:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~Antipater aid | at Alexandri |
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| Intel 8086 | ... rocomputers was the Rainbow 100, which ran an implementation of CP/M on the | processor. Applications from standard CP/M could be re-compiled for the Ra ... |
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| Symbian OS | ... (e.g. devices using operating systems such as Android, Blackberry OS, iOS, | , Windows Phone, et al.) |
| DVD | ... Theater in San Juan. At the end of the year, the concert was released in a | titled . Also, according to their website, they started working on a new a ... |
| Augustus | The governing structure was changed by | . In the course of his reconstitution of the urban administration he creat ... |
| Apple Lisa | Despite the introduction of the Motorola 68000-based | system in 1983, and its more successful cousin the Macintosh in 1984, the ... |
| PDP-11 | ... 3C100 transceiver in March 1981, and that year started selling adapters for | s and VAXes, as well as Multibus-based Intel and Sun Microsystems computer ... |
| Amiga | The Commodore | was the first personal computer to use a full-featured blitter, and the fi ... |
| Rolls-Royce Avon | ... ng previously specified Halford H.1 Goblin engines, four new, more powerful | s were to be incorporated in pairs buried in the wing roots; Halford H.2 G ... |
| 486 | ... Cx5x86 filled a gap by providing a medium-performance processor option for | Socket 3 motherboards (which are incapable of handling Intel's Pentium CPU ... |
| Allmusic | ... 79–1984) was "easily identified by its relatively simple raps" according to | , "the emphasis was not on lyrical technique, but simply on good times", o ... |
| Diesel engine | The second type of four-stroke engine is the | developed in 1893 by Rudolph Diesel, also of Germany. Diesel created his e ... |
| Malcolm McLaren's | ... s" magazine. In a November 1976 article in Melody Maker, Caroline Coon used | term "New Wave" to designate music by bands not exactly punk, but related ... |
| TRIAC | ... e or wall switch module can be used. These modules switch the power using a | solid state switch and are also capable of dimming the lamp load. Lamp mod ... |
| DVD | ... 0s, it was cut to 77 minutes. Universal Studios released the cut version to | on March 2, 2010, marking the film's first home video release |
| MacGuffin | ... riod. This film was also one of the first to introduce the concept of the " | ", a plot device around which a whole story seems to revolve, but ultimate ... |
| R-36M | ... RV missiles were equipped with electronic countermeasures and heavy decoys. | heavy missiles were carrying as many as 40 of them. These decoys would app ... |
| Frank Whittle | In 1930, having found no interest from the RAF for his idea, | patented the design for a centrifugal gas turbine for jet propulsion. The ... |
| great organ | The works included a major rebuilding of the | , originally built by "Father" Henry Willis in 1871 and rebuilt by Harriso ... |
| Bob Hawke | ... ged. The agreement originally made between the community and Prime Minister | that the climb to the top by tourists would be stopped was broken. The Abo ... |
| SM EVM | ... ed by competitors. The PDP-11 series was cloned in COMECON countries as the | series, and was produced in quantities comparable to original PDP-11 produ ... |
| VAX | ... eiver in March 1981, and that year started selling adapters for PDP-11s and | es, as well as Multibus-based Intel and Sun Microsystems computers. This w ... |
| Intel 8086 | ... ersion of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the | and Intel 8088. The commands are those of CP/M-80. Executable files used t ... |
| Pentium II | ... expected to run on. Many Amiga games and applications can run smoothly on a | -era system. The realization that a useful Amiga emulator could be written ... |
| Nintendo DS | ... tem, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, | , PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and Wii video game consoles, and several mode ... |
| PDP-11 | In 1976, DEC decided to extend the | architecture to 32-bits while adding a complete virtual memory system to t ... |
| 5"/38 caliber gun | ... ever sorted out. It was replaced by the Bofors 40 mm wherever possible. The | turned out to be an excellent anti-aircraft weapon, once the Proximity fuz ... |
| Jungle Carbine | ... orter, lighter rifle led to the development of the Rifle, No. 5 Mk I (the " | "). With a severely cut-down stock, a prominent flash hider, and a receive ... |
| Amiga | ... ct was ported to the Amiga 1000 and was upgraded through version 4.1 on the | platform despite rumors of its discontinuation. The company's efforts were ... |
| VAX | ... o the simple paging and memory protection of the PDP-11. The result was the | architecture. The first computer to use a VAX CPU was the VAX-11/780, whic ... |
| Cross Sound Cable | Operating merchant transmission projects in the United States include the | from Long Island, New York to New Haven, Connecticut, Neptune RTS Transmis ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... , the exterior pedestrian ramps were used for a motorcycle chase scene with | & Diana Ross |
| orchestral string family | ... ble bass is generally tuned in fourths, in contrast to other members of the | , which are tuned in fifths. The standard tuning (low to high) is E-A-D-G, ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... 84. It currently holds a 97% "Fresh" rating on the review aggregate website | . The film was voted as the eighth best film set in Los Angeles in the las ... |
| Intel 8088 | ... P/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the Intel 8086 and | . The commands are those of CP/M-80. Executable files used the relocatable ... |
| Ontario Motor Speedway | ... of the country. It is also the home of Ontario Mills and former home of the | |
| L. Ron Hubbard | Theodore Sturgeon vividly recalled being in the same room with | , when Hubbard became testy with someone there and retorted, "Y'know, we'r ... |
| Safeguard | ... Moscow for the USSR and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, since its | facility was already under construction, for the US |
| DVD | ... episodes-per-tape release scheme. Although similar individual multi-episode | s were released, it is now exclusively available as part of The Twilight Z ... |
| Cyrix 6x86 | Released in August 1995, four months before the more famous | , the Cyrix 5x86 was one of the fastest CPUs ever produced for Socket 3 co ... |
| Proximity fuze | ... 38 caliber gun turned out to be an excellent anti-aircraft weapon, once the | had been perfected |
| cookies | ... ranging in weight from 500 pounds to 4,000 pounds — the so-called two-ton " | ", also known as "blockbusters," because they had the power to destroy a c ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... ber 2 on the UK charts when sung by Nat King Cole in the 1950s. It was also | 's favourite song. "This Is My Song", written and composed by Chaplin for ... |
| SIGSALY | ... the photovoltaic cell was developed by Russell Ohl. In 1943, Bell developed | , the first digital scrambled speech transmission system, used by the Alli ... |
| incendiaries | ... roup of 254 Lancasters carrying 500 tons of high explosives and 375 tons of | , or fire bombs. There were 200,000 incendiaries in all, with the high-exp ... |
| Colt-Browning Model 1895 | ... utomatic weapons. He also developed the first gas-operated machine gun, the | —a system that surpassed mechanical recoil operation to become the standar ... |
| computer chips | ... ts applications, in particular combinatorial optimization and the design of | . The institute cooperates with IBM and Magma Design Automation. Researche ... |
| L42A1 | ... odified to Mk.3 standard) were later modified for use with the 7.62 mm NATO | Sniper Rifle. They were known by the designation Telescope Straight, Sight ... |
| MSX | ... umber of features to the genre. Installments of the series have appeared on | computers, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment Sys ... |
| Allmusic | ... were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time" and | writes, "rhymers like PE's Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Rakim bas ... |
| 486 | ... hese was the port rights checking and message validity. In benchmarks on an | DX-50, a standard UNIX system call took an average of 21μs to complete, wh ... |
| RD-180 | ... still used on the Zenit rocket. A half-sized derivative of the engine, the | , powers Lockheed Martin's Atlas V rocket. The quarter size derivative of ... |
| Amiga 4000 | ... ause an exception on an emulated 68040, just like it would perhaps do on an | /040 |
| Basslink | There is only one unregulated or market interconnector in Australia: | between Tasmania and Victoria. Two DC links originally implemented as mark ... |
| Q-Bus | ... t loop network adapter rated at 19200 bps, which could be inserted into the | slot. Based on ULA chip K1801VP1-035 (and later on K1801VP1-065), the adap ... |
| Series/1 | ... ents, such as the mass manufacture of the System/360 and development of the | mainframe computers, IBM's main complex was the birthplace of the IBM PC, ... |
| Just-in-time compilation | A major improvement was made in 2000 by Bernd Meyer with the use of | , which significantly improved the emulation speed, to the extent that ave ... |
| Pentium Overdrive | ... oards (which are incapable of handling Intel's Pentium CPUs, apart from the | ) |
| London Eye | River services operate from nearby Waterloo Pier next to the | |
| review aggregate | The Verdict holds a 96% "Fresh" rating on the | website Rotten Tomatoes. In a poll of 500 films held by Empire magazine, i ... |
| Allmusic | ... on was extremely positive; Pitchfork awarded the album a 9.7 out of 10, and | reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that it was "arguably Yo La Tengo's ... |
| Waits | ... hat were common in towns throughout Europe playing courtly dance music. See | |
| John Cameron Swayze | ... inkley in Washington, D.C. It succeeded the Camel News Caravan, anchored by | . The program ran for 15 minutes at its inception but expanded to 30 minut ... |
| Metacritic | ... atoes (75% for their "Cream of the Crop" designation) and a 76 metascore on | . The film led Roger Ebert to call Reiner "one of Hollywood's very best di ... |
| Madonna | ... its bands. Over the decades, the group have collaborated with Neneh Cherry, | , David Bowie, Mos Def, Elizabeth Fraser and Sinéad O'Connor amongst many ... |
| L42A1 | ... o 4 Mk I (T) sniper rifles were converted to the new calibre and designated | . The L42A1 sniper rifle continued as the British Army's standard sniper w ... |
| Newsarama | On June 6, 2006, comic news site | reported that Red Sonja, LLC (which holds rights to the Roy Thomas version ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... called "Unipressers" and were noted for their fiercely competitive streak. | , who started with United Press in Kansas City, gained fame for his covera ... |
| Roland TR-909 | In his DJ sets, Mills usually uses three decks, a | drum-machine, and up to seventy records in one hour. Mills' Exhibitionist ... |
| Augustus | ... ivine Augustus") is a remarkable account to the Roman people of the Emperor | ' stewardship. It listed and quantified his public expenditure, which enco ... |
| A-35 ABM system | ... arity with the US. This was achieved with the operational deployment of the | and its successors, which remain operational to this day |
| RPG-43 | ... isions that was to cross the canal had been equipped with RPG-7 rockets and | grenades, and reinforced with an anti-tank guided missile battalion, as th ... |
| Disk II | An external 5¼-inch floppy disk drive, the | , attached via a controller card that plugged into one of the computer's e ... |
| Motorola 68000 | ... for the Atari ST was designed from the ground up and was optimized for the | processor as well as Atari's GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) operating ... |
| Laser Mégajoule | The | will be one of the most powerful lasers in the world, allowing fundamental ... |
| Let It Be | ... y rough mixes by Glyn Johns of the Get Back album (which would later become | ). John Lennon may have been the unintentional source for one of the Get B ... |
| TV Guide | ... oward Stern Show around the time he sold his web site to Gemstar (owners of | ) |
| Sandra Schmirler | ... ardson curling team of the 1950s. In recent years Olympic Gold medal winner | and her rink occasioned vast civic pride; the Sandra Schmirler Leisure Cen ... |
| Pietro Mennea | ... States. The 150 metres, though rarely competed, has a star-studded history: | set a world best in 1983, Olympic champions Michael Johnson and Donovan Ba ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... for When Harry Met Sally... were mostly positive. It has a rating of 91% on | (75% for their "Cream of the Crop" designation) and a 76 metascore on Meta ... |
| Krampus | ... nd Tyrol (Austro-Bavarian speaking regions), St. Nicholas is accompanied by | , represented as a beast like creature, generally demonic in appearance |
| Croke Park | ... ootball team was scheduled to play the Tipperary team later the same day in | , the Gaelic Athletic Association's major football ground. Despite the gen ... |
| The Sounds of the Sounds of Science | ... tal score for eight short undersea documentaries by Jean Painlevé, entitled | . The program debuted at the San Francisco Film Festival and has been perf ... |
| AK-47 | ... s approved in 1998. Popular weapons are AR-15 and semiautomatic variants of | and Finnish RKs, such as RK-92S and a semiautomatic variant of RK-76 |
| TV Guide | In 1996 | ranked her number 23 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list |
| IKAROS | ... ance from the Sun. The concept has been successfully tested by the Japanese | solar sail spacecraft |
| Sinclair QL | ... d the ZX Spectrum, for £5 million. This included Sinclair's unsold stock of | s and Spectrums. Amstrad made more than £5 million on selling these surplu ... |
| coils | ... tion system of these engines comprised three independent sets of points and | , one for each cylinder, with the points mounted in a cluster around a sin ... |
| Type 99 | ... s ageing Soviet-derived tank inventory with numerous variants of the modern | tank, and upgrading its battlefield C3I systems to enhance its network-cen ... |
| Augustus | ... is possible that this temple was erected over the ruins of another temple. | , too, ordered the building of a temple, dedicated to Mars. On a slope of ... |
| GP2X | ... oft Windows, RISC OS, BeOS, Palm OS, Android, the Xbox console, the PSP and | handhelds, the Wii console, and even to AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS |
| TOP500 | ... number of the most powerful computer systems in the world, according to the | list, including Blue Gene/L, the world's fastest computer from 2004 until ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... st game was the helicopter action game Raid on Bungeling Bay (1984) for the | |
| Hipparcos | ... ever, greatly improved distance measurements to globular clusters using the | satellite and increasingly accurate measurements of the Hubble constant re ... |
| AR-15 | ... itself functions as a piston as in the French MAS 49 and 49-56 rifles. The | and its military versions, the automatic M16 and M4 Carbine, are the most ... |
| Chet Huntley | ... news program from October 29, 1956, until July 31, 1970. It was anchored by | in New York City, and David Brinkley in Washington, D.C. It succeeded the ... |
| Intel i860 | ... , at around the same period (i.e. 1989-1990), Intel implemented VLIW in the | , their first 64bit microprocessor; the i860 was also the first processor ... |
| DVD | In December 2003, a | was created containing nearly 10,000 items. At the time, this almost repre ... |
| BMW M10 | ... Repco engine 16 years previously, was based on a road car engine block, the | . Brabham continued to run the Cosworth-powered BT49D in the early part of ... |
| Tannerin | ... much like a Theremin, in fact the sound is made by an instrument called the | |
| Xerox Star | Delays in the standards process put at risk the market introduction of the | workstation and 3Com's Ethernet LAN products. With such business implicati ... |
| Techdirt | ... ismissed under the anti-SLAPP provisions of California law. Mike Masnick of | coined the term "Streisand effect" in January 2005 to describe the publici ... |
| IBM Roadrunner | ... e world's fastest computer from 2004 until Los Alamos National Laboratory's | supercomputer surpassed it in 2008. The Lab is a leader in technical innov ... |
| AMD K5 | ... more in common with fifth-generation processors such as the Cyrix 6x86, the | , and the Intel Pentium, and even the sixth-generation Intel Pentium Pro. ... |
| General Electric LM2500 | ... l machines. They are also used in the marine industry to reduce weight. The | , General Electric LM6000, Rolls-Royce RB211 and Rolls-Royce Avon are comm ... |
| Ibanez RG | All of Holland's | bodies are made out of mahogany and fitted with DiMarzio Super Distortion ... |
| Amstrad PCW | Amstrad followed their success with the CPC 464 by launching the | word-processor range, another Z80-based machine with a 3" disk drive and s ... |
| Chicago Pile-1 | ... go and began studies that led to the construction of the first nuclear pile | |
| 120 mm M1 gun | ... e possible. Also available to the Americans at the start of the war was the | stratosphere gun, which was the most powerful AA gun with an impressive al ... |
| Amiga 500 | ... upport of the Amiga chipset and by 1998 was able to more-or-less emulate an | at full speed |
| Rolls-Royce RB211 | ... try to reduce weight. The General Electric LM2500, General Electric LM6000, | and Rolls-Royce Avon are common models of this type of machine |
| Rotten Tomatoes | The film received very positive reviews, earning a 100% "fresh" score on | based on 9 reviews. It was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Pictu ... |
| CNN Money's | Billerica was a contender for | "Best Places to Live" in 2009 but did not make the top 100 list for the na ... |
| JL-2 | ... 9. In 2011, the Pentagon reported that China was believed to be testing the | missile, a submarine-launched nuclear ICBM with |
| PowerPC | ... ther Mac OS applications of its age, it requires the Classic environment on | Macs. While Intel Macs do not support Classic, emulators such as SheepShav ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... – began about 449 BC and lasted the approximately 400 years to the death of | in 44 BC. Many historians mark the end of the Republic on the passage of a ... |
| Solitude Grand Prix | ... en and gold. Jack Brabham took the team's first win at the non-championship | in 1963. Gurney took the marque's first two wins in the world championship ... |
| RPG-7 | ... five infantry divisions that was to cross the canal had been equipped with | rockets and RPG-43 grenades, and reinforced with an anti-tank guided missi ... |
| Otto engine | See | for more detail |
| Kerrison Predictor | The solution was automation, in the form of a mechanical computer, the | . Operators kept it pointed at the target, and the Predictor then calculat ... |
| M-16 rifle | The U.S. had provided the ARVN with 793,994 M1 carbines 640,000 | s, 34,000 M79 grenade launchers, 40,000 radios, 20,000 quarter-ton trucks, ... |
| Gladden Windmill | The | is listed on the National Register of Historic Places |
| General Electric LM6000 | ... used in the marine industry to reduce weight. The General Electric LM2500, | , Rolls-Royce RB211 and Rolls-Royce Avon are common models of this type of ... |
| CAIN project | According to the Sutton database of deaths at the University of Ulster's | , the UDA/UFF was responsible for 259 killings during the Troubles. 208 of ... |
| BBC Micro | ... stored elsewhere than floppy disks; among these exceptions were the British | 's optional Disc Filing System, DFS, offered as a kit with a disk controll ... |
| PID controller | ... ve been devised in the past years. These vary from extremely general ones ( | ), to others devoted to very particular classes of systems (especially rob ... |
| Paul McCartney | ... h-profile concerts. Linkin Park, The Prodigy, t.A.T.u., Shakira, Scorpions, | , Roger Waters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and other celebrities performed the ... |
| Electro-Theremin | ... fects and unconventional instruments such as bicycle bells, buzzing organs, | , dog whistles, trains, Coca-Cola cans and barking dogs, along with the mo ... |
| Pentium Pro | ... x86, the AMD K5, and the Intel Pentium, and even the sixth-generation Intel | . The chip featured near-complete support for i486 instructions, but very ... |
| Saint Lawrence Seaway | ... ding the territorial sea and contiguous zone as well as the Great Lakes and | ; such operations are provided by the RCMP's Federal Services Directorate ... |
| Joseph Gillott | ... ok place in Birmingham, England, in 1830. The invention of a new machine by | , William Mitchell and James Stephen Perry allowed mass manufacture of rob ... |
| W55 | ... ier missiles; 1956), W47 (Polaris SLBM; 1957), W48 (155-mm howitzer; 1957), | (submarine rocket; 1959), W56 (Minuteman ICBM; 1960), W58 (Polaris SLBM; 1 ... |
| artillery pieces | The following is a list of | captured by Forrest |
| SS Normandie | ... y threat to the docks, he said, had been manufactured by the sinking of the | directed by Anastasia's brother, Anthony Anastasio. The Normandie, a Frenc ... |
| B Reactor | ... as a general consultant. He was sitting in the control room of the Hanford | when it first went critical in 1944. His broad knowledge of many fields of ... |
| PDP | ... tion (DEC) from 1970 into the 1990s, one of a succession of products in the | series. The PDP-11 replaced the PDP-8 in many real-time applications, alth ... |
| Steve Fossett | More recently, in 2001, | passed over just south of Aitutaki in the balloon Solo Spirit during his r ... |
| Sir Paul McCartney | ... , are entitled to the honorific "Lady" before their husband's surname. Thus | 's ex-wife was formally styled Lady McCartney (rather than Lady Paul McCar ... |
| Paul McCartney | ... second greatest and most important cultural event of the rock and roll era. | , who participated in Uncuts poll stated, "It's the way [Presley] sings it ... |
| TV Guide | ... ident in Aspen, Colorado. After Bono's death, Mary told an interviewer from | that Sonny had been addicted to and was seriously abusing prescription dru ... |
| tomahawk | ... supplied with European arms, or were armed with more primitive weapons like | s and bows and arrows. A small number of colonists had training in the ope ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... village in Armorica, a province of Gaul (modern France), in the year 50 BC. | has conquered nearly all of Gaul for the Roman Empire. The little Armorica ... |
| AlphaSmart | ... from Texas Instruments and Intel. The processor is also used in some of the | line of portable word processors. Examples include the Dana and Dana Wirel ... |
| Kijiji or eBay Classifieds | ... or other kind of SKU (via Half.com); online classified advertisements (via | ); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); online money transfers (via ... |
| UCSD Pascal | ... he BASIC ROM expansion card. The language card was also required to use the | and FORTRAN 77 compilers, which were released by Apple at about the same t ... |
| DX2 | ... to run at 133 MHz on systems without official support for clock-multiplied | or DX4 486 processors. Like all Enhanced Am486, the Am5x86 featured write- ... |
| Cosworth DFV | ... powerful version of their V8 to maintain competitiveness against Ford's new | , but it proved very unreliable. Slow communications between the UK and Au ... |
| Mark 14 torpedo | ... ot subject to the same problems as the Mark 6 exploders on U.S. submarines' | es. Introduction of the Mark 13 torpedo to PT boats in mid-1943 all but el ... |
| Itanium | ... d without a compatible upgrade path. OpenVMS runs HP Alpha and Intel IA64 ( | ) CPU architectures |
| Indianapolis Motor Speedway | The | (IMS), located in Speedway, Indiana, is the site of the Indianapolis 500-M ... |
| BB gun | In 1952, Walker was accidentally wounded in the right eye by a shot from a | fired by one of her brothers. Because the family had no car, the Walkers c ... |
| W48 | ... 1957), W45 (Little John/Terrier missiles; 1956), W47 (Polaris SLBM; 1957), | (155-mm howitzer; 1957), W55 (submarine rocket; 1959), W56 (Minuteman ICBM ... |
| Carbon dioxide laser | ... as invented by Gerhard M. Sessler and James Edward Maceo West. In 1964, the | was invented by Kumar Patel. In 1965, Penzias and Wilson discovered the Co ... |
| Britney Spears | On September 4, 2003, | , Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, Aerosmith and others performed in a nati ... |
| Britney Spears | ... ured a soundtrack which included previously unreleased songs by 'N Sync and | . Bass collaborated with Joey Fatone, Mandy Moore, Christian Burns and Tru ... |
| Road America | ... and Heartland Park Topeka (2006–2008). Since 2009, the Runoffs are held at | in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, for a minimum of three years. The current SCCA ... |
| Polyus | The Energia was first test-launched on 15 May 1987, with the | spacecraft as the payload. A FGB ("Functional Cargo Block") engine section ... |
| GameSpot | ... Portable version was not as critically successful as the previous releases | ;'s Kevin VanOrd cited the visuals as its strongest enhancement, but state ... |
| Michael Jackson | In the beginning of the music video for the | song "Thriller", the heroine is terrorized by her monster boyfriend in wha ... |
| Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-200 | The powerplant first selected for the single-engined F-16 was the | afterburning turbofan, a slightly modified version of the F100-PW-100 used ... |
| W56 | ... ris SLBM; 1957), W48 (155-mm howitzer; 1957), W55 (submarine rocket; 1959), | (Minuteman ICBM; 1960), W58 (Polaris SLBM; 1960), W62 (Minuteman ICBM; 196 ... |
| organ | ... ray went to Rouen to study music with the abbots Bourgeois and Bourdon, and | with Haelling. This prepared him to enter the Paris Conservatoire. In 1911 ... |
| hard drives | ... rating system with its Service Pack 3. This Service Pack supported SATA and | that were larger than 137GB (48-bit LBA support) by default. The Microsoft ... |
| Mycin | ... proving, and expert systems, with varying success. Medical diagnosis (e.g., | ) was a major application area, as were games such as chess |
| DX4 486 | ... at 133 MHz on systems without official support for clock-multiplied DX2 or | processors. Like all Enhanced Am486, the Am5x86 featured write-back L1 cac ... |
| Michael Jackson | ... r album Rising. Sean also made appearances in film, featured in the cast of | 's 1988 Moonwalker and portraying a teenager experiencing visions of vario ... |
| Data General NOVA | DEC developed the 16-bit PDP 11 as a response to the introduction of the | , which had a 16-bit word length; DEC's previous PDP-8 had only 12 bit wor ... |
| Fou | ... inese art and culture dominated the ceremony. It opened with the beating of | drums for the countdown. Subsequently, a giant scroll was unveiled and bec ... |
| Judy Woodruff | On September 11, 2001, Clancy was interviewed by | on CNN. During the interview, he observed that Islam does not condone suic ... |
| FERMIAC | In 1947, Fermi invented the | , an analog computer that used the Monte Carlo Method to study neutron tra ... |
| Rolls-Royce Merlin | ... , dual magnetos, two spark plugs per cylinder, and so on. Packard built the | aero engine under license alongside the 4M-2500, but with the exception of ... |
| NEC PC-8801 | ... both designed by part-time employee Hironobu Sakaguchi and released on the | |
| Paul McCartney | Moon was | 's guest at a film preview of The Buddy Holly Story on the evening of 6 Se ... |
| incendiaries | ... ers on 16 January 1945, dropping 279 tons of high-explosives and 41 tons of | |
| Brainiac | During the two-part series finale, Lex Luthor tried to resurrect | by ordering the crew to transform the base into a spaceship, so that they ... |
| 68000 | ... of the PDP-11 influenced the design of microprocessors such as the Motorola | ; design features of its operating systems, as well as other operating sys ... |
| David Letterman | ... incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after | , who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host Lat ... |
| Ars Technica | | reported in March 2006 an RFID buffer overflow bug that could infect airpo ... |
| Croke Park | ... -weary populace continued with life. Approximately 5,000 spectators went to | for the Gaelic football match between Dublin and Tipperary, which began th ... |
| Council for the Development of French in Louisiana | The | , a state agency devoted to the preservation of the French language in Lou ... |
| Polyus | ... onal variants: Energia-Polyus, the initial test configuration, in which the | system was used as a final stage to put the payload into orbit, and Energi ... |
| GamesRadar | ... ng to see him in a future Mario spinoff game though. Wart was listed 4th in | editor Alan Bradley's article "A baker's dozen of gaming's hungriest basta ... |
| Allmusic | Mike DeGagne of | praised the album, saying that the songs on the album "rekindle some of St ... |
| W38 | ... lowing warheads: W27 (Regulus cruise missile; 1955; joint with Los Alamos), | (Atlas/Titan ICBM; 1959), B41 (B52 bomb; 1957), W45 (Little John/Terrier m ... |
| PopMatters | Adrien Begrand of | dismissed the original recording, but praised the re-release, writing "the ... |
| soundtrack | ... eave" for the John Hughes film Pretty in Pink. The song was featured on the | and became a huge hit in the US and Canada where it reached the Top 5. The ... |
| TRS-80 | ... 6800 and 6809 machines used TSC's FLEX disk operating system, Radio Shack's | machines used TRS-DOS, their Color Computer used OS-9, and most of the Int ... |
| keys | ... nt, such as the alteration of an ostinato line to fit changing harmonies or | |
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| IBM PC keyboard | ... control shift function keys. This was translated to the layout of the 1981 | , with two columns of function keys at the left end of the keyboard, but w ... |
| PDP-6 | While the PDP-5 introduced a lower-cost line, 1963's | was intended to take DEC into the mainframe market with a 36-bit machine. ... |
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| ARM | Some architectures (including | versions 3 and above, PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC V9, MIPS, PA-RISC and IA-64) f ... |
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| TOP500 | Since 1993, the fastest supercomputers have been ranked on the | list according to their LINPACK benchmark results. The list does not claim ... |
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| Alpha | Some architectures (including ARM versions 3 and above, PowerPC, | , SPARC V9, MIPS, PA-RISC and IA-64) feature a setting which allows for sw ... |
| Panzerfaust | ... office at HASAG that developed the successful one-man anti-tank weapon, the | . Later, she chose the composition "Hannelore" to be used as her first nam ... |
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| StarLAN | Ethernet on unshielded twisted-pair cables (UTP) began with | at 1 Mbit/s in the mid-1980s. In 1987 SynOptics introduced the first twist ... |
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| Brian Williams | | , the NBC Nightly News anchor, acted as moderator of the first show back a ... |
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| Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari | ... final race of the 1994 season, the San Marino Grand Prix, was held on the " | " circuit located in Imola, Italy. Imola had traditionally been considered ... |
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| Amiga | ... is a commonly used term for the integrated RAM used in Commodore's line of | computers. Chip RAM is shared between the central processing unit (CPU) an ... |
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| ARM | ... ll not run Windows CE programs. There is an ongoing project to port Wine to | processors, which may in the future be used as a base for a WineCE running ... |
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| Tom Brokaw | Following Russert's death, | was named the interim moderator through the 2008 general elections. Brokaw ... |
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| Petascale | ... combined into the shorthand "PFLOPS" (10 15 FLOPS, pronounced petaflops.) " | " supercomputers can process one quadrillion (10 15 ) (1000 trillion) FLOP ... |
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| Apple IIc | ... ur new replacement chips to give it some of the features of the later model | , including an upgraded processor called the 65C02) and the Apple IIe Plat ... |
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| UNIVAC II | The | was an improvement to the UNIVAC I that UNIVAC first delivered in 1958. Th ... |
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| Hipparcos | According to | , Alioth is 81 light years (25 parsecs) from Earth. Its spectral type is A ... |
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| Martini-Henry | ... adopted by the British Army in 1888, the Lee-Enfield superseded the earlier | , Martini-Enfield, and Lee-Metford rifles. It featured a ten-round box mag ... |
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| IBM System/38 | Today only a few proprietary minicomputer architectures survive. The | operating system, which introduced many advanced concepts, lives on with I ... |
| MB-1 Genie | A subvariant of the Sparrow I armed with the same nuclear warhead as the | was proposed in 1958, but was cancelled shortly thereafter |
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| Lee-Metford | ... the Lee-Enfield superseded the earlier Martini-Henry, Martini-Enfield, and | rifles. It featured a ten-round box magazine which was loaded with the .30 ... |
| Vajra | ... the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, his personal name) was Pema Dorje (, | Lotus/Lotus Vajra). Later, he was placed in . In 1405, he took his novice ... |
| Apple IIe | The Apple II Plus was followed in 1983 by the | , a cost-reduced yet more powerful machine that used newer chips to reduce ... |
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| Bessel | ... ave a 40 dB/decade (or 12 dB/octave) slope. Second-order filters can have a | , Linkwitz-Riley or Butterworth characteristic depending on design choices ... |
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| UNIVAC III | Sperry Rand began shipment of | in 1962, and produced 96 UNIVAC III systems. Unlike the UNIVAC I and UNIVA ... |
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