Archive for March, 2008

Mar
26

Barcelona Chair and Ottoman

Designer : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich

Date : 1929

Country : Germany

Materials : Chrome or steel frame. Leather cushions filled with PU-foam.

Style/Tradition : Modernist

Dimensions: 75×75×75cm (WxDxH)

Colours : Black, white, brown, red, ivory

The Barcelona chair and ottoman was designed by Mies van der Rohe for the German Pavilion in the 1929 World’s Expo in Barcelona, Spain. […]

Mar
26

The Sand River Convention was a convention whereby Great Britain formally recognised the independence of the Boers living beyond the Vaal River. In return, the Boers promised that slavery would be outlawed in the Transvaal and that they would not interfere in the Orange River Sovereignty’s affairs.

The convention was signed on 17 January 1852 by […]

Mar
26

Time offset

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A time offset is defined by international convention as a number of hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time in Greenwich, England. Many time zones employ two time offsets, one for standard time and one for daylight saving time.

Here is a table of time offsets for the United States of America with current times:

This page […]

Mar
26

The SIPDE process is a system taught in Driver’s Ed classes to help drivers drive safely. The acronym stands for:

S—Sweep, Search, and Scan (keep your eyes moving at all times to effectively see imminent danger)

I—Identify hazards, Identify what’s happening (road-way features) (take notice of things that could cause trouble)

P—Predict which hazards could potentially come into […]

Mar
26

An asteroid occultation occurs when an asteroid passes in front of a star (occults a star), temporarily blocking its light (as seen from Earth). From any particular place such events occur almost every night, although most require a telescope to see.

Asteroid occultations are useful for measuring the size and position of asteroids much more precisely […]

Mar
26

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

External links

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Mar
26

AFB

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AFB is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:

Absolute fairness bound

Acid-fast bacilli

Air Force Base

American Farm Bureau

American foulbrood, a honeybee disease

American Foundation for the Blind

Amt für Berufsbildung, Lucerne

Anaerobic fluidized bed

Anglo-Franco-Belge

Anti-friction bearing

Arbeitsstelle Friedensforschung Bonn

Atmospheric fluidized bed

SIL code for spoken Gulf Arabic

Waterbeds - Find Waterbeds […]

Mar
26

Pothook

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Pothooks are S-shaped metal hooks for suspending a pot over a fire. While one extremity is hooked to the handle of the pot, the other is caught upon an iron crane moving on a pivot over the fire. Modern stoves have obviated the necessity for this arrangement, but it is still to be seen in […]

Mar
25

In the 1950’s, Dr. Rudolf Schulten - professor at RWTH Aachen University - was the originator of the pebble bed reactor design, which compacts silicon carbide-coated uranium granules into hard, billiard-ball-like spheres to be used as fuel for a new high temperature, helium-cooled type of nuclear reactor. The idea took root and in […]

Mar
25

Filer

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Filer is the name of two places in the United States:

Filer, Idaho

Filer Charter Township, Michigan

Other uses

“Filer”, a device that converts network protocols such as CIFS or NFS to storage protocols such as Fiber Channel; the device is usually on the front end to the Network-attached storage

Simmons® Mattresses - Air and Water Beds Couples will enjoy […]

Mar
24

Grenland Bridge (in Norwegian Grenlandsbrua) is Norway’s highest cable-stayed bridge with a tower height of 166 meters. The bridge, which opened in 1996, is on route E18. It crosses the Frierfjord, a fjord which separates the municipalities of Porsgrunn and Bamble in Telemark county. When built, it replaced Brevik Bridge as the primary route across […]

Mar
24

The list of Dragonlance creatures attempts to list the races that can be found in the Dragonlance setting.

Dragons
Dragons. Creatures of legend. Stories told to children. Dragons are the children of the gods, the first to inhabit Krynn. Dragons grow to giant proportions, living for centuries and amassing huge sums of treasure. All dragons possess the […]

Mar
24

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 […]

Mar
24

Devon County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Devon and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy.

The club is based at Exmouth and also plays matches at Budleigh Salterton, Bovey Tracey and […]

Mar
24

For the guitarist, see Kieran Murphy (musician)

James Kieran Murphy (Irish name Séamus Ciarán Ó Murchú) is a business entrepreneur and founder of Nica-Sol. He has studied business and rural culture in Nicaragua while living there in 2004. He is a graduate of the Executive MBA program at the University of Denver and holds a Master […]

Mar
24

Martha Jefferson Hospital is a nonprofit community hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was founded in 1903 by eight local physicians. In 2004, the facility had a capacity of 201 beds, including 176 acute-care beds. The hospital employed a staff of 1,500 and had 365 affiliated physicians.

In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, Martha Jefferson […]

Mar
23

Configuration space may also refer to PCI Configuration Space.

In classical mechanics, the configuration space is the space of possible positions that a physical system may attain, possibly subject to external constraints. The configuration space of a typical system has the structure of a manifold; for this reason it is also called the configuration manifold.

For example, […]

Mar
23

Sargent and Greenleaf, more commonly known among locksmithing circles as S&G, is a U.S. company that manufactures combination locks, key-operated safe and safe deposit box locks and associated equipment.

The company was established in 1865 when James Sargent and Halbert Greenleaf became partners. A manufacturing facility was built in Rochester, New York, and the company remained […]

Mar
23

Muschelkalk

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Muschelkalk (German for “shell limestone”) is the term in geology for the middle member of the German Triassic. It consists of a series of calcareous, many and dolomitic beds which lie conformably between the Buntsandstein and Keuper formations.

The name Muschelkalk (Fr., calcaire coquillier; concijylien, formation of D’Orbigny) indicates a characteristic feature in this series, viz, […]

Mar
23

A trampoline, when used in the context of a sailboat, is a very high strength material under high tension woven together in strips to provide flat areas in between hull members on Catamarans or Trimarans. This results in a lightweight decking that allows water to pass through, as holes are intentionally left in the […]

Mar
23

The Sørlandet is Kristiansand’s Norway school ship. It was built in 1927. Originally built without an engine, the engine and propeller were installed in 1958.

Technical data

Total length: 57 m

Deplacement: 499 tons

External links

http://www.fullriggeren-sorlandet.no/english/

Solent Sports Dive Ribs for sale , Solent 5.4 m - Boats And Outboards Length, 5.40 meters sale - Classic Sailing Boats (160) […]

Mar
23

Hyperradiant fresnel lenses are fresnel lenses larger than “first order” lenses, so they are larger than 12 feet (3.7 m) tall and 6 feet (1.8 m) across, with a focal length larger than 36 inches (0.91 m). They were the largest ever built and were installed in fewer than a dozen major “landfall” beacons around […]

Mar
22

Uskmouth

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Uskmouth () is an area in south-east Newport in the west of the village of Nash. It includes part of the Newport Wetlands Reserve (a notable wildlife reserve) with reed beds and grasslands that attract breeding birds such as lapwings, redshanks, oystercatchers, little ringed plovers and ringed plovers, as well as visitors such as wigeons, […]

Mar
22

Segrià

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Segrià is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain. As of 2001, over two thirds of its population live in the capital city of Lleida.

Municipalities

Aitona - pop. 2,218

Els Alamús - pop. 691

Albatàrrec - pop. 1,306

Alcanó - pop. 258

Alcarràs - pop. 4,903

Alcoletge - pop. 1,899

Alfarràs - pop. 2,881

Alfés - pop. 320

Alguaire - pop. 2,872

Almacelles - […]

Mar
22

In watchmaking, a barrel is a wheel composed of a toothed disc and a cylindrical box closed by a cover. The barrel turns freely on an arbor and contains a spring such as the mainspring. The spring is hooked to the barrel at its outer end and to the arbor at its inner end. The […]