Archive for September, 2007

Sep
15

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 […]

Sep
15

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 […]

Sep
14

ISHOF

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ISHOF may refer to:

The International Space Hall of Fame in Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA

The International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

The International Snowmobile Hall of Fame in Bovey, Minnesota, USA

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Sep
14

Fimbles

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Fimbles is a British television programme designed for pre-school children. The Fimbles are Fimbo, Florrie and Baby Pom, who all live in a bright, lush and colourful place called Fimble Valley. Fimbles is produced by Novel Entertainment who created the characters.

The snouted and concentrically ringed appearance of the Fimbles was based on the eponymous […]

Sep
13

Queens Medical Center is a private non-profit hospital in downtown Honolulu. Founded in 1859 by Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV, it is the largest private hospital in Hawaii, licensed to operate with 505 acute care beds and 28 sub-acute beds. The medical center has more than 3,000 employees and over 1,200 physicians on […]

Sep
13

Murphy bed

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A Murphy Bed or Wallbed is a bed that flips up at the head end for storage inside a closet. To achieve this, the mattress is attached to the bed frame, often with a bolt at each corner. Murphy beds are used for space-saving purposes, much like a trundle bed is. Due […]

Sep
13

The San Leandro Oyster Beds in San Leandro, California, were the origin of the oyster industry in the U.S. state of California. During the 1890s the oyster industry thrived until it became the single most important fishery in the state. Moses Wicks is supposed to have been the first to bring seed oysters around Cape […]

Sep
13

The Clay Springs and Apopka Railroad ran from the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad’s Orlando Division southeast of Apopka, north and northeast across the Florida Midland Railroad at East Apopka, to Clay Springs (now Wekiwa Springs). It was operational from around 1890 to sometime after 1919. If it had not already been shut down, the […]

Sep
13

Murphy bed

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A Murphy Bed or Wallbed is a bed that flips up at the head end for storage inside a closet. To achieve this, the mattress is attached to the bed frame, often with a bolt at each corner. Murphy beds are used for space-saving purposes, much like a trundle bed is. Due […]

Sep
12

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 […]

Sep
12

Clay Oliver Hill, born October 1, 1953 in Rochelle, IL and residing in Orlando, FL as of 2004, was the Populist Democratic Viking Party challenger in the 2004 United States presidential election. He has run for various political positions, including campaigns for the House of Representatives in 1998 and 2000, also taking part in […]

Sep
12

Varner Unit

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The Varner Unit is a high-security state prison in Arkansas, United States. It is located near the small town of Grady in Lincoln County.

The Varner Unit was opened in 1987 with 300 beds, and its capacity was soon increased to 700 beds. Further construction has brought the total capacity to over 1600 prisoners, a […]

Sep
12

The Coal Measures is a lithostratigraphical term used mainly in the British Isles for the coal-bearing part of the Upper Carboniferous System. It represents the remains of fluvio-deltaic sediment, and consists mainly of clastic rocks (claystones, shales, siltstones, sandstones, conglomerates) interstratified with the beds of coal. In most places, the Coal Measures are underlain by […]

Sep
12

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 […]

Sep
11

Lazy bed

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Lazy bed is a method of arable cultivation. Rather like cord rig cultivation, parallel banks of ridge and furrow are dug by spade although lazy beds have banks that are bigger, up to 2.5m in width, with narrow drainage channels between them.

Although it is largely extinct, it is still to be found in parts of […]

Sep
11

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 […]

Sep
11

Raised bed gardening is a form of gardening in which the soil is formed in 3–4 foot (1.0–1.2 m) wide beds, which can be of any length. The soil is about 0.5–1 foot (15–30 cm) above the surrounding soil, sometimes enclosed by a frame generally made of wood or concrete blocks, and enriched with compost […]

Sep
11

Green Clay

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Green Clay (August 14, 1757 – October 31, 1828) was born in Virginia in Powhatan county.

When he was a young boy he moved to Kentucky and became a surveyor, a job that made him a fortune. He also became involved in politics while in Kentucky, first being elected Kentucky representative to the Virginia legislature. […]

Sep
11

This is a list of residences occupied by the British Royal family, noting the seasons of the year they are traditionally occupied.

Members of the British Royal Family inhabit a range of residences around the UK. Some are royal palaces, owned by the state and held in trust by the monarch; others are privately owned. Balmoral […]

Sep
11

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
10

Trundle beds (or truckle beds) are usually considered a pair of beds, one slightly smaller than a twin bed that is on rollers or casters so that it may be put beneath the upper twin bed for storage. Trundle beds allow for two separate beds to be available when necessary, but do not require […]

Sep
10

ProSpace

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ProSpace is a nonprofit citizens Space advocacy group that focuses on opening the space frontier for all individuals.<ref> ProSpace About ProSpace</ref>

Every year in March many of the group’s members travel to Washington, D.C. for an event called “March Storm.” Annually, these members speak to the congressional leaders and push initiatives that will lead to the […]

Sep
10

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
08

Bradford Clay in geology, is a thin, rather inconstant bed of clay or marl situated in England at the base of the Forest Marble, the two together constituting the Bradfordian group in the Bathonian series of Jurassic rocks. The term “Bradford Clay” appears to have been first used by J. de. C. Sowerby in […]

Sep
08

Williamsdale is village on the New South Wales - Australian Capital Territory border in Australia on the Monaro Highway. The postcode is 2620.

Geology
To the east of Williamsdale is the Williamsdale Volcanics. These are made up from blue-green crystal tuff. The crystals are sized from 0.3 mm to 1 mm and are embedded in […]