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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 - […]
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 […]