Archive for August, 2007

Aug
24

Portland stone is limestone from the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively throughout the UK, notably in major public buildings in London such as St Paul’s Cathedral and Buckingham Palace. It is also exported […]

Aug
24

The Bullock Creek Fossil site is one of three known vertebrate fossil sites in the Australia’s Northern Territory, along with the Alcoota Fossil Beds on Alcoota Station and the Kangaroo Well site on Deep Well Station. It is located about 550km south-southeast of Darwin, on Camfield Station.

The Bullock Creek Fossil Site is part of the […]

Aug
24

Boulder clay in geology, is a deposit of clay, often full of boulders, which is formed in and beneath glaciers and ice-sheets wherever they are found, but is in a special sense the typical deposit of the Glacial Period in northern Europe and America. Boulder clay is variously known as till or ground moraine (Ger. […]

Aug
24

The Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, is a purpose-built 247 bed hospital situated in the north-west of Edinburgh near the Western General Hospital. It is the main geriatric assessment and rehabilitation hospital for the north of Edinburgh and comprises a Medical Assessment/Rehabilitation Unit with 200 beds, and a Psychiatry of Old Age Unit with 47 […]

Aug
24

Going Away

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Going Away is the debut release of Montreal-based Brit-Rock act The Beds.

Track listing

“Vacation” – 2:36

“Listen” – 3:15

“Circles” –3:12

“Can’t Sleep” – 1:52

“Mistakes” – 3:33

“Mexico” – 3:46

“Thoughts” – 3:06

“Road Trip” – 3:47

“Jeanie” – 4:02

“Give it All” – 3:24

“Everything is Okay” – 1:05

“Sleepyhead” – 9:09

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Aug
23

Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California (TMMBC) is an automobile manufacturing plant in Baja California, Mexico. The plant was established in 2002.

TMMBC builds Tacoma pickup trucks and Tacoma truck beds. The plant has an annual capacity of 180,000 truck beds and 30,000 Tacoma pickup trucks. The truck beds are used in production both at […]

Aug
23

The Medusa class superdreadnought SD(P) is a major breakthrough in military tactics and technology. Prior to the commissioning of the first Medusas, both Allied and Peep warships alike towed missile pods to be used in the first salvo of an engagement. Due to limitations in tractor beams, compensator efficiency, wedge area, and wedge power, pod […]

Aug
23

Gustaf Lindström (27 August 1829 - 16 May 1901) was a Swedish paleontologist.

He was born in Visby on Gotland. In 1848 he entered Uppsala University, and in 1854 he took his doctor’s degree. Having attended a course of lectures in Stockholm by Sven Lovén, he became interested in the zoology of the Baltic, and published […]

Aug
23

Up-Hill

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Up-Hill is the title of one of the poems by Christina Rossetti. The work is presented below:

Does the road wind up-hill all the way?

Yes, to the very end.

Will the day’s journey take the whole long day?

From morn to night, my friend.

But is there for the night a resting place?

A roof for when […]

Aug
23

Barton Beds

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Barton Beds is the name given to a series of fourteen softish grey and brown clays, with layers of sand, of Upper Eocene age, which are found in the Hampshire Tertiary basin, where they are particularly well exposed in the cliffs of Barton, Hordwell, and in the Isle of Wight. The area was covered with […]

Aug
23

Teleoceras

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Teleoceras is an extinct genus of grazing rhinoceros that lived in North America during the Miocene epoch, which ended about 5.3 million years ago, all the way to the early Pliocene epoch. Teleoceras had shorter legs than modern rhinos, and a barrel chest, making its build more like that of a hippopotamus than a […]

Aug
22

Dorum

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Dorum is a municipality in the district of Cuxhaven, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Aug
21

An adjustable bed (also called a Semi-Fowler bed) can be adjusted to a number of different positions. For individuals with certain types of back problems, sleeping on an adjustable bed that is at a slight incline (”semi-Fowler position“, e.g. 30 to 45 degrees) may be comfortable, with the upper body positioned higher up than the […]

Aug
21

The Clay People is The Clay People’s fourth full-length release, and their most successful. Released on Slipdisc Records (a Mercury affiliate) in 1998.

Track listing

Awake (3:29)

Plug (5:17)

Mechanized Mind (4:02)

Calling Spaceship: Damien Grief (5:22)

Car Bomb (Am I Human?) (4:21)

Fade Away (4:15)

Raygun Girls (2:54)

Dying To Be You (4:02)

Thread (4:39)

Ghostwishing (3:55)

Who Am I? (4:48)

Credits

Daniel Neet: Vocals

Dan Dinsmore: Drums

Brian McGarvey: […]

Aug
21

Murphy

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Murphy may refer to:

People named Murphy
Murphy (family name) is a common Irish surname:

Anthony Murphy, Irish soccer player

Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), Irish actor and playwright

Audie Murphy, US actor, war hero

Austin J. Murphy, US Congressman from Pennsylvania

Brian Murphy, several people

Brittany Murphy, US actress

Caitlin Murphy, actress who plays the Yellow […]

Aug
20

Yixing clay

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Yixing clay (宜興, pronounced ‘ee-shing’) is a type of stoneware clay produced in the region near the city of Yixing in Jiangsu province of China. Its use dates back to the Song Dynasty. From the 17th century on, the ware was commonly exported to Europe. The finished stoneware, which is used for teaware and […]

Aug
20

Red Clay Creek is a tributary of White Clay Creek, approximately 15 miles (24 km) long, in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States.

The East and West Branches both rise in West Marlborough Twp., near the hamlet of Upland, and flow south through Kennett Square before uniting just north of the Delaware border. The […]

Aug
19

St. Rose Dominican Hospital - Rose de Lima Campus is owned and operated by Catholic Healthcare West and is located in Henderson, Nevada. The hospital provides 138 beds.

History
The Adrian Dominican Sisters purchased Basic Hospital in 1947 to found what would become St. Rose Dominican Hospital.

St. Rose Dominican Hospital was the first fully accredited hospital in […]

Aug
19

“Long Beach High School” could refer to:

Long Beach Polytechnic High School, serving Long Beach, California.

Long Beach High School (New York), serving Long Beach, New York, and the surrounding school district.

Waterbed specialists in Wales, stocking the largest selection of The largest stockist of Akva waterbeds in Wales and the UK, with more than 35 years […]

Aug
19

Retinite

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Retinite a general name applied to various resins, particularly those from beds of brown coal, which are near amber in appearance, but contain little or no succinic acid. It may conveniently serve as a generic name, since no two independent occurrences prove to be alike, and the indefinite multiplication of names, no one of them […]

Aug
19

The Great Beds Light sits in the Raritan Bay in South Amboy, New Jersey. Over the years the lighthouse has become the symbol for the city of South Amboy.

History
Built in 1880, the 60 foot (18 m) tall Great Beds Lighthouse sits atop a caisson. It is constructed of white steel plates. […]

Aug
19

Halton Healthcare Services is a multi-site healthcare organization. It is composed of three community hospitals in Ontario, Canada. It serves the communities of Milton, Oakville, Clarkson and Halton Hills. The three hospitals serve over 200,000 residents. It is supported by more than 1,900 employees, 900 volunteers and 238 physicians.

Member Hospitals
The three community hospitals are:

Oakville-Trafalgar […]

Aug
18

The Space Gods Revealed is a book written in 1976 by Ronald Story. It is a careful refutation of the theories and evidence in Erich von Däniken’s most famous work, Chariots of the Gods, almost page by page.

Release details

The Space Gods Revealed - ISBN 0-06-014141-7 (hardback), ISBN 0-450-03370-8 (paperback).

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Aug
18

Bone bed

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A bone bed is any geological stratum or deposit which contains bones of whatever kind. Inevitably, such deposits are sedimentary in nature. Not a formal term, it tends to be used more to describe especially dense collections. It is also applied to brecciated and stalagmitic deposits on the floor of caves, which frequently contain osseous […]

Aug
17

Isla Del Caño is a small island in the Bahia de Coronado (Bay of Coronado) in Costa Rica. It is on the Pacific Ocean side of Costa Rica, east of the Peninsula de Osa. It has been established as a protected national park, with a permanent ranger station on the island. Nonetheless, it is a […]