Archive for September, 2007

Sep
22

1 E0 m

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To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between one metre and ten metres.

Distances shorter than 1 m

Conversions
1 metre is:

100 centimetres

1000 millimetres

39.37 inches

3.28 feet

side of square with area 1 m²

edge of cube with surface area 6 m² and volume 1 m³

radius of circle with area […]

Sep
22

Tripiti (also Trypiti) is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement in southern Crete, Greece, close to the village of Sougia.

Geography
The Minoan settlement was built on a hill, 135 meters above sea level. It is 800 meters from the sea. There are three permanent fresh water springs in the area, one only […]

Sep
21

Hillenbrand Industries, Inc., is a holding company. It has two subsidiaries. Hill-Rom makes hospital beds, furniture, and other equipment. Batesville Casket Company makes caskets and cremation urns.

References

Hillenbrand Industries Annual Report 2004

External link

Company website

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Sep
21

Enterprise storage is the field of information technology focused on the storage, protection, and retrieval of data in large-scale environments (as is common in the field, the term ‘enterprise’ is used exclusively to mean large enterprises). It is differentiated from consumer storage in many practical ways, ranging from the size of the environment to […]

Sep
21

A four poster bed is a bed with four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, or upper (usually rectangular) panel. There are a number of antique four poster beds extant dating to the 16th century and earlier; many of these early beds are highly ornate and are made from oak. […]

Sep
21

Bala Series

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In geology, the Bala Series is a group of dark slates and sandstones with beds of limestone which occurs in the neighborhood of Bala, Gwynedd, in north Wales.

It was first described by Adam Sedgwick, who considered it to be the upper part of his Cambrian System. The series is now placed at the top of […]

Sep
20

Det Norske Studentersamfund (”The student society of Norway”) is Norway’s oldest student society. Established in 1813 in Oslo, it has been the centre of debate, culture and politics for over 200 years.

Studentersamfundet resides at Chateau Neuf, opened in 1971, where it runs a couple of cafes and a cinema. Studentersamfundet frequently arrange debates, lectures and […]

Sep
20

Southfleet

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Southfleet is a small compact village five miles SW of Gravesend in Kent; although it is a civil parish within Dartford Borough. The village is grouped around a crossroads and many of its buildings, including the Ship Inn, are extremely old. The parish church of St Nicholas has 14th century origins, although pre-Roman Christian remains […]

Sep
20

Healing railway station serves the village of Healing in North East Lincolnshire, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Rail.

Service
Monday to Saturdays there is a two hourly service eastbound to Cleethorpes and westbound to Barton-on-Humber.

Summer Sundays there are 4 trains in each direction but there is no service on […]

Sep
20

“How Bizarre” is a 1996 album by New Zealand group, OMC. It was first done under the huh! recording label, issued by PolyGram New Zealand, and manufactured and marketed by Mercury Records in the United States. The title track was very successful worldwide.

Track listing

“On the Run” – 4:01

“How Bizarre” – 3:43

“Never Coming […]

Sep
20

Det Norske Studentersamfund (”The student society of Norway”) is Norway’s oldest student society. Established in 1813 in Oslo, it has been the centre of debate, culture and politics for over 200 years.

Studentersamfundet resides at Chateau Neuf, opened in 1971, where it runs a couple of cafes and a cinema. Studentersamfundet frequently arrange debates, lectures and […]

Sep
20

“Can You Hear Me?” is a song written by David Bowie for his Young Americans album in 1975.

Other releases

It was released as the B-side of the single “Golden Years” in 1975.

Two picture discs have been released of the single in the RCA Life Time picture disc set and the Fashion Picture Disc […]

Sep
20

Rock Point Provincial Park is a park located on the north shore of Lake Erie near the mouth of the Grand River in the Carolinian zone of southwestern Ontario. It occupies an area of 1.87 km².

Habitats within the park include wetlands, forests and dunes. Limestone shelves along the lake shore contain the fossils of marine […]

Sep
19

Assise

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An assise (from the Fr., derived from Latin assidere, “to sit beside”), is a geological term for two or more beds or strata of rock united by the occurrence of the same characteristic species or genera.

References

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Sep
19

Hillenbrand Industries, Inc., is a holding company. It has two subsidiaries. Hill-Rom makes hospital beds, furniture, and other equipment. Batesville Casket Company makes caskets and cremation urns.

References

Hillenbrand Industries Annual Report 2004

External link

Company website

Waterbed supplies and accessories from Aquaglow Waterbeds Waterbed mattresses, sheets, conditioner, heaters and much more. Waterbeds delivered and fitted […]

Sep
19

Oswald Heer

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Oswald Heer (August 31, 1809 – September 27, 1883), Swiss geologist and naturalist, was born at Niederuzwil in Canton of St. Gallenand died in Lausanne .

He was educated as a clergyman and took holy orders, and he also graduated as Doctor of Philosophy and medicine. Early in life his interest was aroused in entomology, on […]

Sep
19

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Sep
18

Banket

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Banket, a South African mining term, applied to the beds of auriferous conglomerate, chiefly occurring in the Witwatersrand gold-fields. The name was given to these beds from their resemblance to a pastry, known in Dutch as banket, resembling almond hard-bake. The word is the same as banquet, and is derived ultimately from bank or bench, […]

Sep
18

Meringandan is a small town 20 km north of Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia. It contains 2 parks; it is also the gateway to Cooby Dam. Meringandan has 1 small school and is near Highfields. It has an annual rodeo where many people gather. The name Meringandan is derived from 2 aboriginal words […]

Sep
18

A rock or fault is younger than any rock (or fault) through which it cuts. This principle was developed by James Hutton.

Example

In a series of horizontal sedimentary beds, there is an igneous dyke which cuts vertically through them.
The dyke is younger than the sediment beds, as the beds would have had to be around before […]

Sep
18

Nashua

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Nashua is a varient spelling of Nashaway, a Native American tribe living in 17th Century New England. Derivative names include:

Places

United States of America

Nashua, New Hampshire (pop. 86,605)

The Nashua River in Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Nashua, Iowa (pop. 1,618)

Nashua, Montana (pop. 325)

Nashua, Minnesota (pop. 69)

Australia

Nashua, New South Wales

Other uses

The Nashua […]

Sep
17

Independence is an unincorporated community on Independence Mountain in Clay County, West Virginia, USA. It is located along West Virginia Route 16.

External links

Clay Theatre Advance Tickets and Landmark Discount Cards may also be purchased in person at the Clay Box Office during normal business hours. Stop by or call for details
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Sep
17

Cursorial

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Cursorial is a biological term that describes an organism as being adapted specifically to run. It is typically used in conjunction with an animal’s feeding habits or another important adaptation. For example, a horse can be considered a “cursorial grazer”, while a cheetah may be considered a “cursorial predator”

In evolutionary theory
The cursorial (or Ground-Up) theory […]

Sep
16

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. National Monument near Harrison, Nebraska. The main feature of the Monument is a valley of the Niobrara River.

The area largely consists of grass-covered plains. Plants on the site include prairie sandreed, blue grama, little bluestem and needle and thread grass, and the wildflowers lupine, spiderwort, western wallflower […]

Sep
16

Mami is a goddess in the Babylonian epic Atra-Hasis and in other creation legends. She was probably synonymous with Ninhursag. She was involved in the creation of mankind from clay and blood. As Nintu legends states she pinched off fourteen pieces of primordial clay which she formed into womb deities, seven on the left and […]