Archive for January, 2008

Jan
29

The Space Odyssey series is a science fiction series of novels and films created from 1948 to 1997 primarily by the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and by the film director Stanley Kubrick. The series consists of two films and four novels. The two films were directed by Kubrick and by Peter Hyams, respectively. The […]

Jan
29

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 […]

Jan
29

Furth

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Furth (not to be confused with the city Fürth) is the name of several communes in Germany and Austria

Furth im Wald, Bavaria

Furth bei Landshut, Bavaria

Furth an der Triesting, Lower Austria

Furth bei Göttweig, Lower Austria

Furth - part of the city Gloggnitz, Lower Austria

Furth - part of Maria-Anzbach

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Jan
29

Sand wedge

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A sand wedge is a golf club used to stroke a golf ball from a sand bunker, also known as a sand trap, bunker or hazard. Designed in 1930 by Gene Sarazen the short-shafted sand wedge is often the heaviest of the 14 clubs, weighing nearly 40 ounces (1150 grams) with a typical loft angle […]

Jan
29

Clay Sampson (born February 24, 1976) is an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League and the South Australian Football League.

Career

Melbourne:

1995-96, 13 games, 1 goal.

Adelaide: 1997-98, 24 games, 16 goals.

Richmond: 1999-2000, 27 games, 18 goals.

South Adelaide Football Club

Player Honours

1997 Premiership Player AFC

2003-2006 South Adelaide Captain

2001 South Adelaide […]

Jan
29

David Ross (born April 30, 1950) is a Canadian trampolining coach and manufacturer of trampolines and trampoline equipment. Ross is probably the person most responsible for Canadian trampolinists becoming competitive on the international scene.

As a physics student at Queen’s University, Canada, David Ross became interested in competitive trampolining. He finished 2nd in his first Canadian […]

Jan
29

Shattock & Rust are a Contemporary Christian Music group based in London. They consist of Geoff Shattock (vocals and guitar) and Godfrey Rust (vocals and guitar), normally supported on bass, drums, keyboard, backing vocals and other instruments. Their occasional supporting musicians have included Dave Fitzgerald, Terl Bryant, John Pantry and Jenny Legg.

History
Shattock & Rust formed […]

Jan
28

The Lambeth Group, also known as the Reading Beds and the Woolwich Beds, is a geological formation comprising a complex of vertically and laterally varying gravels, sands, silts and clays deposited between 56-55 million years before present during the Lower Eocene Epoch. It is found throughout the London Basin with a thickness between 10m […]

Jan
28

Victor Alexander Barton (born 6 October 1867 in Hound, Netley, Hampshire, England; died 23 March 1906 in Belle Vue, Southampton, Hampshire, England) was a cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club in 1889 and 1890 before committing himself to the Army. It was while he was in the Army that he was selected for […]

Jan
28

Ascot is a small town within the civil parish of Sunninghill and Ascot, in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. It is most notable as the location of Ascot Racecourse, home of the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting. The region is split into three distinct areas: Ascot itself, North Ascot (partially in the […]

Jan
28

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 […]

Jan
28

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is located in a mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak and holds spectacular remnants of the earth’s prehistoric life. Huge petrified redwoods and incredibly detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants reveal a very different landscape in Colorado of long ago. Almost 35 million years ago, enormous volcanic eruptions […]

Jan
28

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument near Hagerman, Idaho, contains the largest concentration of Hagerman Horse fossils in North America. The 4,351-acre (17.6 km²) Monument is internationally significant because it protects the world’s richest known fossil deposits from a time period called the late Pliocene epoch, 3.5 million years ago. These plants and animals represent the […]

Jan
28

The Yoredale Series, in geology, is a local phase of the lower Carboniferous rocks of the north of England. The name was introduced by J. Phillips on account of the typical development of the phase in Yoredale (Wensleydale), Yorkshire.

Properties and Condition
In the Yorkshire dales the Carboniferous rocks assume an aspect very different from that which […]

Jan
28

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 […]

Jan
28

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 […]

Jan
28

Plinth

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A plinth is the base of a cabinet in cabinet making.

It is also a word used in the popular internet game word whomp.

In architecture, a plinth is the platform or base upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument, or structure rests.

Notes

See also

Set-off (architecture)

Socle (architecture)

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Jan
28

Monark 540

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The Monark 540 is a relatively small sailboat (5.40 meters long), from around 1975. It has four beds and a small kitchen under one of the beds. It is not a fast sailboat but it is relatively safe, due to its small sails.

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Jan
28

In mathematics, the term symmetric space has several different meanings.

In general topology, a symmetric space, or R0 space, is a topological space whose Kolmogorov quotient is T1. See R0 space.

In Riemannian geometry, see Riemannian symmetric space.

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Jan
28

In geology, Caradoc Series is the name introduced by Roderick Murchison in 1839 for the sandstone series of Caer Caradoc in Shropshire, England. It is the fifth of the six subdivisions (in ascending order) of the Ordovician System, comprising all those rocks deposited worldwide during the Caradocian Age (458 to 448 million years ago).

The limits […]

Jan
28

Plinth

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A plinth is the base of a cabinet in cabinet making.

It is also a word used in the popular internet game word whomp.

In architecture, a plinth is the platform or base upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument, or structure rests.

Notes

See also

Set-off (architecture)

Socle (architecture)

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Jan
28

A deep sand bed (sometimes abbreviated DSB and also called a “plenum”) is a filtration method used in some saltwater aquariums. A deep sand bed, similar to the Berlin Method, is designed to cultivate anaerobic bacteria in the bottom layers of sand, converting nitrate to nitrogen gas to remove toxic nitrates.

Operation
A deep sand bed commonly […]

Jan
28

Blacktown Hospital is an acute care hospital in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. Together with Mount Druitt Hospital and associated community health centres, it forms Blacktown-Mt Druitt Health, which is a unit within the Sydney West Area Health Service.

Blacktown hospital has approximately 400 beds, and major clinical services cover medicine, surgery and obstetrics and gynaecology. […]

Jan
28

Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation are sites in Greater London, United Kingdom which contain the best examples of London’s natural habitats. They are sites which contain particularly rare species, rare assemblages of species or important populations of species, or sites which are of particular significance. There are 1,400 in London.London Wildweb - About Wildweb

They […]

Jan
28

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 […]