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Jun
24

Diesis

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This article is about the musical interval. For the use of diesis in typography, see Dagger (typography).

A diesis is a musical interval, usually meaning the difference between three justly tuned major thirds (tuned in the frequency ratio ) and an octave (in the ratio 2:1), equal to 128:125 or about 41.06 cents. In 1/4 comma […]

Jun
23

Hesperoyucca is a small genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Agavaceae, closely related to and recently split from Yucca, but distinct in having dehiscent fruit and a scape more than 2.5 cm diameter with reflexed (not erect) bracts. It is also distinct in DNA analysis. The genus is native to Mexico […]

Jun
23

Events

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission is set up under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986.

Births

April 13 - Sachit Sethi, Indian Entrepreneur

September 9 - Sana Saeed, actress

December 24 - Piyush Chawla, cricketer

Deaths

August 12 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, spiritual leader

Jun
22

Swad

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Swad is a food distributor that is known mostly for its distribution of Indian food products. The major distributor of Swad products in the United States of America is Raja Foods.

External links

Raja foods, the main distributor of Swad Products in the US

Jun
21

The Constitution Act is the name of several actions, notably:

Several laws in the Constitution of Canada, such as,

The Constitutional Act of 1791

The Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly called the British North America Act, 1867)

The Constitution Act, 1982

Some laws in the Constitution of New Zealand:

New Zealand Constitution Act 1852

Constitution Act 1986

Constitution (Amendment No. 27) Act 1936

Niue Constitution […]

Jun
21

A pipeline inspection gauge or pig in the pipeline industry is a tool that is sent down a pipeline and propelled by the pressure of the product in the pipeline itself. It is the chief device used in pigging.

There are four main uses for pigs:

physical separation between different liquids being transported in pipelines;

internal […]

Jun
21

Canister shot was a kind of anti-personnel ammunition used in cannons. It was similar to grape shot. It saw particularly heavy usage in the 19th Century in various wars.

Canister shot consisted of a closed cylindrical metal canister typically filled with round lead or iron balls, normally packed with sawdust to add more solidity to […]

Jun
20

Bunkobon

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In Japan, bunkobon (文庫本) are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.

The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size. They are sometimes illustrated, and (like other Japanese paperbacks) usually have a dust wrapper over a plain cover.

They are used for similar purposes as Western mass market paperbacks: for cheaper editions of books […]

Jun
20

The Smug E.P. was the third album (actually an E.P.) from Irish alternative band Toasted Heretic.

Track listing

Don’t You Wish You Were Good?

They Didn’t Teach Music in My SchooL

Sun Says Hi

Let’s Get Drunk

Jun
20

Focal point

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A focal point may mean:

Focus (optics), the point at which initially collimated rays of light meet after passing through a convex lens, or reflecting off of a concave mirror.

In mathematics:

Focus (geometry), a special point used in describing conic sections.

Focal point is a critical point of a distance function.

In an antenna […]

Jun
19

Billie Mae Richards (1921- ) is a Canadian voice actress best known for playing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in the 1964 television special, and Tenderheart Bear in the first two Care Bears movies.

Richards has been disappointed with her involvement in the Rudolph special. Despite the fact that Canadian actors at the time of its premiere […]

Jun
19

In mathematics, in particular topology, a topological space X is called semi-locally simply connected if every point x in X has a neighborhood U such that the homomorphism from the fundamental group of U to the fundamental group of X, induced by the inclusion map of U into X, is trivial. That is, every […]

Jun
18

The alternative press consists of printed publications that provide a different or dissident viewpoint than that provided by major mainstream and corporate newspapers, magazines, and other print media. As long as there have been mass media there have been alternative media, and the alternative press is a subset of them.

The alternative press often engages in […]

Jun
18

Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions or SAUCE, as it is most commonly known, is an open metadata protocol for tagging and describing ASCII text files and other files, most of which generally center around or date back to the era of BBSing. SAUCE is very similar in nature to the MP3 ID3 tag […]

Jun
17

Liliana Berry Davis Mumy (born April 16, 1994) is an American child actress and voice talent.

The daughter of former child star Bill Mumy and sister of child actor Seth Mumy, Mumy has appeared in several motion pictures. Her most recent and notable film appearances are in Cheaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the […]

Jun
16

Ryan Richards is the drummer of the Welsh post-hardcore band Funeral for a Friend, as well as previously for the band Hondo Maclean. Ryan also does screaming backing vocals in the band, but recently the band has decided to stop using such vocals, with only one song featuring screaming on Hours and none on their […]

Jun
14

The Equal Opportunity program in the Canadian province of New Brunswick was created to ensure equal services would be provided to citizens in all parts of the province regardless of the wealth in the area.

Prior to the implementation of this program, New Brunswick’s health and education systems were governed and funded by county governments. […]

Jun
14

Tridecane

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Tridecane is an alkane hydrocarbon with the chemical formula CH3(CH2)11CH3. It is a light, combustible colourless liquid that is used in the manufacture of paraffin products, the paper processing industry, in jet fuel research and in the rubber industry; furthermore, tridecane is used as a solvent and distillation chaser. n-tridecane is also one of the […]

Jun
14

GC was a short-lived, purple, anthropomorphic cat puppet, created by Televisa’s Canal 5 channel as a sidekick (and possible replacement) of the aging Tio Gamboin. The name GC comes from the channel’s call sign XHGC, which was given to the station honoring Gillermo González Camarena, the Mexican inventor of an early color television transmission system. […]

Jun
14

Hot Wax Records was a Detroit, Michigan-based record label, created by Eddie Holland, Jr., Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland in 1968 when they left Motown Records. Hot Wax Records recorded female vocal groups such as The Honey Cone and The Flaming Ember, as well as soul singers like rhythm and blues artist, Freda Payne. Their […]

Jun
14

Paraffin

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Paraffin is a common name for a group of alkane hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH2n+2, where n is the number of carbon atoms. The simplest paraffin molecule is that of methane, CH4, a gas at room temperature. Heavier members of the series, such as that of octane C8H18, appear as liquids at […]

Jun
14

Welfare Cadillac is a political phrase used in the United States for an anecdote intended to illustrate a case of a person or group receiving public benefits where the benefits are not actually needed by the recipient or are obtained by fraud.

The imagery is of a person arriving at a welfare office in a Cadillac […]

Jun
14

A soy milk maker is a small kitchen appliance which automatically cooks soy milk, a non-dairy beverage made from soy beans. Some soy milk makers can also be programmed to make almond milk and other vegetable-based beverages.

Home-made soy milk is usually at most one third as expensive as store bought soy milk—approximately $0.20 per quart. […]

Jun
13

Litigarchy

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Jun
11

Penne

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Penne (IPA UK: [’pɛni], US: [’pɛneɪ]) is a type of pasta. Pieces have a cylindrical shape and, usually, their ends are cut diagonally. Penne is the plural form of the Italian penna, deriving from Latin penna (meaning “feather” or “quill”).

In Italy, penne are produced in two variants: “penne lisce” (smooth) and “penne rigate” (furrowed), the […]

Jun
11

Chicken Selects, sold at McDonald’s in the United States and Canada, are chicken strips similar to Chicken McNuggets. They were introduced in early 2002 for a limited time and offered again in late 2003. In the UK, they were launched on the “Pound Saver Menu”, which offers various menu items for £0.99. They are available […]

Jun
11

Much One Hit Wonders is a CD released by Canadian company MuchMusic.

Information
This 2-disc compilation album is a collection of one hit wonders.

Track listing

Groove Is In The Heart

Jump Around

Rapper’s Delight

Ice Ice Baby

Bust A Move

Good Vibrations

I’m Too Sexy

Hot Hot Hot

Who Let The Dogs Out

[…]

Jun
11

Carnauba is a wax derived from the leaves of a plant native to northeastern Brazil, the carnauba palm (Copernicia prunifera). It is known as “queen of waxes” and usually comes in the form of hard yellow-brown flakes. It is obtained from the leaves of the carnauba palm by collecting them, beating them to loosen the […]

Jun
10

The art and science of food photography is a specialisation in general commercial photography. Food and Drink Photography is one of the most challenging aspects of still life work.

The main areas of food photography are: Editorial for Magazine and Books on food including but not limited to cook books, advertising and packaging design1.

The near perfection, […]

Jun
10

Japan wax

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Japan wax is a pale-yellow, waxy, water-insoluble solid with a gummy feel, obtained from the berries of certain sumacs native to Japan and China, such as Rhus verniciflua (Japanese sumac tree) and R. succedanea (Japanese wax tree).

Japan wax is a byproduct of lacquer manufacture. It is not a true wax but a fat that contains […]

Jun
09

Nova akropola (New acropolis in Slovene) was the second album by Laibach. It was released in 1985.

Track listing

“Vier Personen” (Jan Novak) – 5:26

“Nova akropola” (Jan Novak/Fras Milan/Dejan Knez) – 6:55

“Krvava gruda-Plodna zemlja” (Jan Novak/Fras Milan/Dejan Knez) – 4:07

“Vojna poema” (Jan Novak) – 3:12

“Ti, ki izzivaš (Outro)” (Novak) – 1:20

“Die […]

Jun
09

CCGS Limnos

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The CCGV Limnos is a Canadian Coast Guard Coastal Research & Survey vessel.

She has served on joint missions, on the Great Lakes with vessels from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

References

Official Limnos web-page, Canadian Coast Guard

Great Lakes: Significant Activities Report: October-December 2004, Environmental Protection Agency

Jun
08

The Dornier Do 23 was a 1930’s German bomber. It was the designation given to the aircraft resulting from a redesign of the Dornier Do 11 after a failed attempt resulting in the Do 13. The Do 23 finally corrected many of the faults that had plagued the earlier designs but remained of mediocre performance. […]

Jun
08

In mathematics, Bôcher’s theorem, named after Maxime Bôcher, states that the finite zeros of the derivative <math> r’(z) </math> of a nonconstant rational function <math> r(z) </math> that are not multiple zeros are also the positions of equilibrium in the field of force due to particles of positive mass at the zeros of <math> r(z) […]

Jun
07

Ammonium acetate is a chemical compound with the formula NH4C2H3O2. It is a white solid, which can be derived from the reaction of ammonia and acetic acid. It is available commercially, and depending on grade, can be rather inexpensive.

Uses and distinctive properties
As the salt of a weak acid and a weak base, ammonium acetate […]

Jun
07

Hithane

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Hithane is a mixture of hydrogen and methane usable as an alternative fuel. Burning hithane produces about a third less carbon dioxide than burning gasoline (petrol), so it is proposed as an intermediate step in the transition to hydrogen-powered vehicles.

External links

BBC News article on potential hithane production in Wales

Jun
06

The Captain’s Chest was originally a lockable box belonging to the captain of a ship where important ship’s equipment (maps, astrolabes and secret orders) could be stored along with his personal effects. In modern usage, it is often a slang term for the safe on a ship or submarine.

History
The necessity of […]

Jun
06

A one-electron reduction in organic chemistry involves the transfer of an electron from a metal to an organic substrate. It serves to differentiate between true organic reductions and other reductions such as hydride transfer reactions that actually involve two-electron species.

The first intermediate in a one-electron reduction is often a radical anion which then engages in […]

Jun
04

In theoretical physics, Whitehead’s theory of gravitation was introduced by the distinguished mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead in 1922.

Principal features of the theory
Whitehead’s theory is said to feature a prior geometry. It has the curious feature that electromagnetic waves propagate along null geodesics of the physical spacetime (as defined by the metric determined […]

Jun
03

Big Dumb Boosters (BDB) are a general class of launch vehicle built around the idea that it is cheaper to mass build and operate a large, strong, heavy rocket of simple design than it is to build a few smaller, lighter, more cleverly-designed ones. Even though the large booster is less efficient for an […]

Jun
03

Diamond was, according to legend, Sir Isaac Newton’s favorite dog, which, by upsetting a candle, set fire to manuscripts containing his notes on experiments conducted over the course of twenty years. According to one account, Newton is said to have exclaimed: “O Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done.”Alfred Rupert Hall, Isaac […]

Jun
03

Return of Wax is an album by The Upsetters, released in 1975.

Track listing

Side one

“Last Blood”

“Deathly Hands”

“Kung Fu Warrior”

“Dragon Slayer”

“Judgement Day”

Side two

“One Armed Boxes”

“Big Boss”

“Fists of Vengeance”

“Samurai Swordsman”

“Final Weapon”

Jun
03

A sanctuary lamp, altar lamp, or eternal flame is a light that shines before the altar of sanctuaries in many denominations of Jewish and Christian places of worship.Ask the Pastor: Sanctuary Lamps Prescribed in Exodus 27:20-22 of the Hebrew Bible, this icon has taken on different meanings in each of the religions that have […]

Jun
03

A parliamentary assembly is part of many international organizations. Examples include:

European Parliamentary Assembly (now the European Parliament)

NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO-PA)

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)

Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) (proposed)

There is also a much called for but not yet achieved parliamentary assembly of […]

Jun
03

The Wirth-Weber relationship between a pair of symbols <math>(V_t \cup V_n)</math> is necessary to dwetermine if a formal grammar is a Simple precedence grammar, and in such case the Simple precedence parser can be used.

The goal is to identify the when the viable prefixes have the pivot and must be reduced. A <math>\gtrdot</math> means that […]

Jun
03

The Commodore Amiga 3000UX is a model of the Amiga computer family that was released with Amiga Unix, a full port of AT&T Unix System V Release 4 (SVR4), installed along with AmigaOS. The system was otherwise equivalent to the standard A3000, once the Right-Mouse-Button initiated a boot to KickStart (Amiga’s BIOS).

At one point, Sun […]

Jun
02

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May
31

The postalveolar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .

Features
Features of the postalveolar ejective affricate:

Its manner of articulation is sibilant affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then directing it through […]

May
31

The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture created on December 1, 1994, and is the focal point within the USDA where scientific research is linked with the nutritional needs of the American public.

The creation of the Center came at a time when the American public […]

May
31

Wax

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Wax has traditionally referred to a substance that is secreted by bees (beeswax) and used by them in constructing their honeycombs.

It is an imprecisely defined term generally understood to be a substance with properties similar to beeswax, namely

plastic (malleable) at normal ambient temperatures

a melting point above approximately 45 °C (113 °F) (which differentiates waxes from […]

May
31

Blyth, Inc.

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Blyth, Inc. is a Greenwich, Connecticut based marketing and manufacturing company that sells personal and decorative products. The company reported having 4,000 employees as of January 2007 and is incorporated in Delaware. In 2001, it was the largest candlemaker in the United States.Michael Maiello, “Blyth: Blyth Spirit,” Forbes, Jan. 2001.

Subsidiaries include Candle Corporation Of America, […]

May
30

Chicken piccata is a dish made of chicken breast scaloppine (cutlets), capers, lemon, and white wine. The term piccata is also used for an Italian dish traditionally made with veal.

A chicken breast used to prepare chicken piccata is usually butterflied, or sliced along its width, and then flattened either with a tenderizer or between two […]

May
30

Burning Image are a deathrock band from Bakersfield, California, USA.

They were an anomaly in the punk pantheon of the 1980s. At the time, hardcore punk was the rage but was becoming formulaic and dumbed down as quickly as the songs were getting faster and shorter. Burning Image had more in common with the English “batcave” […]

May
29

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It leads to the title in accordance with the naming conventions for common names and can help writing.

For more information, follow the category link.

May
29

In chemistry a protic solvent is a solvent that carries a hydrogen bond between an oxygen as in a hydroxyl group or a nitrogen as in an amine group. More generally, any molecular solvent which contains dissociable H+, such as hydrogen fluoride, is called a protic solvent. The molecules of such solvents can […]

May
28

Families USA is an American non-profit consumer health-care advocacy organization. It was founded by attorney Ron Pollack, its executive director.

Pollack was Dean of Antioch School of Law, and argued cases involving food aid for low-income Americans before the Supreme Court.

In 1997, President Clinton appointed Pollack as the sole consumer representative on the Presidential Advisory Commission […]

May
28

Wet cell

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A wet cell is a galvanic electrochemical cell with a liquid electrolyte. A dry cell, on the other hand, is a cell with a pasty electrolyte. Wet cells were a precursor to dry cells and are commonly used as a learning tool for electrochemistry. It is often built with common laboratory supplies, like beakers, for […]

May
27

Local purchasing is a preference to buy locally produced goods and services over those produced more distantly. It is very often abbreviated as a positive goal ‘buy local’ to parallel the phrase think globally, act locally common in green politics.

On the national level, the equivalent of local purchasing is import substitution, the deliberate industrial policy […]

May
27

Released in 1985, Company of Justice would be Play Dead’s final studio album. After a series of signing with multiple flopping independent record labels, Play Dead created their own record label called Tanz in early 1985 just after the end of the From the Promised Land tour.

The songs “Last Degree” and “Burning Down (long version)” […]

May
27

Nude weather reports are weather reports performed in the nude, either on television or on radio, or in any other context.

Počasíčko (a diminutive of the Czech word for weather) is the name of a late-night weather report that ran on TV Nova in the Czech Republic. In this reverse strip tease, a model would appear […]

May
27

16 Questions On the Assassination was a paper by Bertrand Russell, published in the September 6, 1964 issue of M.S. Arnoni’s The Minority of One. Bertrand Russell, then in his nineties, wrote the paper questioning the conclusions of the Warren Commission on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It begins:

The Sixteen Questions

Why were […]

May
26

In photography, palladiotype is a monochrome printing process, a rather obscure variant of the platinotype.

The process was in use after World War I, because the platinum used in the fairly popular platinotype quickly became too expensive for use in photography.
Photographers tried to replace the platinum with the much cheaper palladium which gave similar effects. The […]

May
26

Many schools are named Washington School including:

Washington School (Appleton, Wisconsin), listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Washington School (Mississippi), Greenville, Mississippi

Washington School (Monroe City, Missouri), listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Washington School, North Las Vegas, Nevada, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Washington School (Park City, Utah), listed on the National […]

May
26

Alternative Press EP, sometimes simply referred to as the “AP EP”, is an EP by AFI. Released by Alternative Press in mid 1999, this CD was a bonus when purchasing a copy of their magazine. Cardboard fold-out case. All of the songs on this EP were released on AFI’s fourth album Black Sails in the […]

May
25

Jacob SmithCalifornia Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. Ancestry.com (born January 21, 1990) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role in the film Cheaper by the Dozen and its 2005 sequel.

Biography

Personal life
Jacob Smith was born in Monrovia, California. He has a brother, […]

May
24

Radio Yerevan, or Armenian Radio jokes have been very popular in the Soviet Union and in other Communist countries of the ex-Eastern bloc since the second half of the 20th century.

These jokes of Q&A type are allegedly from the Question & Answer series of the Armenian Radio. A typical format of a joke was:

The Armenian […]

May
24

Michael Cudahy may be:

Michael Cudahy (electronics) (born 1924)

Michael Cudahy (meat packing) (1841 - 1910)

Michael Cudahy, aka The Millionaire, member of musical group Combustible Edison

Michael Cudahy (politics/journalism) (born 1951)

May
24

Emel

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Emel can refer to:

Emel Müftüoğlu - Turkish pop singer, popularly known as simply Emel

Emel magazine - British Muslim lifestyle magazine

The Sonic the Hedgehog character, Emerl is mistakenly referred to as “Emel” in the Sonic X English dub.

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link referred you here, you may […]

May
21

Michelina’s is an American frozen food company based in Duluth, Minnesota. Founded by frozen food tycoon Luigino Paulucci, the company is named after Paulucci’s mother, Michelina. Today, Michelina’s frozen foods has over 70 brands of food.

External links

Official Website

May
21

The casing of a submarine is a light metal structure, usually incorporating a deck, built-up and-over the upper surface of the vessel’s pressure hull.

The pressure hull of a submarine is usually cylindrical and possesses a low freeboard when in the water, which makes walking on the hull when on the surface dangerous in high seas […]

May
20

Pacific High School is an alternative high school in the Sitka School District located in Sitka, Alaska. It serves as an educational alternative to Sitka High School.

See also

List of high schools in Alaska

External links

Official page

May
20

Charles Delaunay (born January 18, 1911, in Vineuil-Saint-Firmin, France; died February 16, 1988, Paris was a French author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France.

The son of painters Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay, Charles Delaunay was one of the founders of the Hot Club de France. Together with Hugues Panassié […]

May
19

Synthonia

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Synthonia is short for Synthetic Ammonia, a product produced by chemical company I.C.I.. ICI produced this product at one of its many plants in Billingham in the 20th century. Many local facilities took on the name due to sponsorship from this local firm including Billingham Synthonia F.C., Cricket Club and Synthonia Scout troop […]

May
17

An elastic modulus, or modulus of elasticity, is the mathematical description of an object or substance’s tendency to be deformed elastically (i.e. non-permanently) when a force is applied to it. The elastic modulus of an object is defined as the slope of its stress-strain curve in the elastic deformation region:

<math>\lambda \ \stackrel{\text{def}}{=}\ \frac […]

May
15

In the United States, the FDA approves drugs. Before a drug can be prescribed, it must undergo an extensive FDA approval process. This process involves first testing the drug on animals or in medical labs. If found to be safe by the FDA and approved for the next phase of study, the drug is then […]