Archive for October, 2007

Oct
31

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Oct
31

Sr. Elizabeth Barton (known as The Nun of Kent, The Holy Maid of London, The Holy Maid of Kent and later The Mad Maid of Kent; 1506? – April 20 1534) was executed for prophesying that if King Henry VIII of England married Anne Boleyn against the wishes of the Pope, he would die within […]

Oct
31

The Akershus University Hospital (, abbreviated to Ahus) is a Norwegian public university hospital located in the Lørenskog municipality, in the county of Akershus, east of the Norwegian capital Oslo. It is one of four university hospitals affiliated with the University of Oslo. The hospital has 4,000 employees.

Akershus University Hospital has 515 beds in somatic […]

Oct
30

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, […]

Oct
30

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 […]

Oct
30

Divčibare

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ДивчибареDivčibare

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Kolubara District, Valjevo municipality

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Divčibare (Serbian: Дивчибаре) is a small town and a well-known mountain resort situated on Mt. Maljen (1104m), south-east of Valjevo, at the altitude of 980 metres above sea level. The population of the town is 235 people (2002 census).

The local […]

Oct
30

In geology, the Llandovery Group refers to the lowest division of the Silurian period (Upper Silurian) in Britain. It is named after the town of Llandovery in Wales, although Charles Lapworth had proposed the name Valentian (from the Roman British province of Valentia) for this group in 1879. It includes the Tarannon Shales (1000-1500 ft.), […]

Oct
29

Renziehausen Park Rose Garden and Arboretum (258 acres) is a city park with rose garden and arboretum located on Eden Park Boulevard off Walnut Street, in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. It is open to the public daily without charge.

The rose garden contains some 1,200 rose bushes in 28 beds, plus an additional 3 […]

Oct
29

Skeet shooting is one of the three major types of competitive shotgun shooting at targets (the others are trap shooting and sporting clays). There are several types of Skeet, including one with Olympic status (often called Olympic Skeet or International Skeet), and many with only national recognition.

History, general principles and modern American competition
Skeet was invented […]

Oct
28

Clay pot cooking is a technique of cooking food in an unglazed clay pot which has been soaked in water so as to release steam during the cooking process. This technique has a long history, stretching back at least to ancient Roman times, and is commonly used in several cuisines in Southeast and East […]

Oct
28

The Leicester Royal Infirmary is a large National Health Service hospital in Leicester, England. It is located to the south-west of the city centre. It has Leicester’s accident and emergency department, and is part of the University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust.

The hospital was originally founded in 1771 by Reverend William Watts hosting 40 […]

Oct
27

Aridisols

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Aridisols (or desert soils) are a soil order in USA soil taxonomy. Aridisols (from the Latin aridus, for “dry”) form in an arid or semi-arid climate. Aridisols dominate the deserts and xeric shrublands which occupy about one third of the Earth’s land surface. Aridisols have a very poor concentration of organic matter […]

Oct
27

Summerlin Hospital for-profit hospital is owned and operated by Universal Health Services and is the only hospital in Summerlin, Clark County, Nevada. The hospital, which provides 281 beds, is on Town Center Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada and is located in the Summerlin village of The Crossings.

The hospital also contains a 17 bed neonatal intensive care […]

Oct
26

Quaquaversal means “turned in whatever way”, from Latin quisquis.

In geology it means “dipping in all directions”. This would refer (for example) to the lava beds formed from the central crater of a dome-shaped volcano.

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Oct
26

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 […]

Oct
25

Bunk bed

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A bunk bed is a type of bed in which one bed is stacked on top of another. The nature of bunk beds allows two people to sleep in the same room while maximizing available floor space. This leads to them being used in places with limited floor space, such as on ships and in […]

Oct
25

Quaquaversal means “turned in whatever way”, from Latin quisquis.

In geology it means “dipping in all directions”. This would refer (for example) to the lava beds formed from the central crater of a dome-shaped volcano.

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Oct
25

A SAN file system is an enterprise storage file system which has been optimized to be shared by multiple clustered servers over a storage area network. SAN file systems are like network attached storage (NAS) protocols (like SMB and NFS) in that they allow multiple computers to access the same file system (and even […]

Oct
24

Twin Lakes Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Minnesota:

Twin Lakes Township, Carlton County, Minnesota

Twin Lakes Township, Mahnomen County, Minnesota

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Oct
24

Aries is the designation of an United States rocket derived from the LGM-30 Minuteman missile which is used for the testing of anti-missile defense systems. The Aries has a length of 9.20 meters, a diameter of 1.16 meters, a launch weight of 6.3 tons, a launch thrust of 200 kN and a ceiling of 500 […]

Oct
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 […]

Oct
23

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 […]

Oct
23

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 […]

Oct
23

W8

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W8 or W-8 may be:

London W8, a London postal district

W8 London Bus Route

W8 engine

Cargojet Airways (W8 IATA airline designator)

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Oct
22

Haematoxylin, hematoxylin, Natural Black 1, or C.I. 75290 is extracted from the wood of the logwood tree. When oxidised it forms haematein, a compound with rich blue-purple colour, and is used, together with a suitable mordant (most commonly Fe(III) or Al(III) salts), to stain cell nuclei prior to examination under a microscope. Structures that stain […]