Lower Twin Island is a bar island on the Ohio River in the city of Wheeling, West Virginia. Lower Twin Island and its twin, Upper Twin Island, lie northwest of Wheeling’s Warwood neighborhood. The island is a part of the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
See also
List of islands of West Virginia
External […]
Bleib tapfer is the second album by WIZO.
Track listing
“Bei Dir” (Beside You) – 1:31
“Mein Tod” (My Death) – 3:21
“Nice Day” – 4:18
“Bleib Tapfer” (Stay Brave) – 3:30
“Es ist vorbei” (It’s Over) – 4:35
“&?#§$)% ?” – 0:21
“Geisterfahrer” (Wrong-way driver) – 2:32
“Alte Frau” (Old Lady) – 3:31
“Nix & Niemant” (Nothing And No One) – 2:48
“Leichen” (Corpses) – […]
Sir Lancelot was a clipper ship, measuring 197.6ft x 33.7ft x 21ft, and of 886 tons net. She was built in 1865 by Robert Steele & Co, Greenock, called the Yacht of the Indian Ocean. Hong Kong to London 98 days in 1870/71. Channel to Shanghai 100 days 1874. Best run Shanghai […]
Carnival Triumph
Built:
1999
Status:
in service
Tonnage:
101,509 gross tons
Length:
893 feet
Beam:
116 feet
Speed:
21 knots
Decks:
13
Complement:
2,758 passengers, 1,100 crew
Carnival Triumph is a Destiny Class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Lines and has a “Great Cities of the World” theme.
Her amenities include the Paris Dining Room, the London Dining room, the Rome Lounge, Club Rio featuring music, and a workout center and […]
A spife is a tool where the blade of a knife used as the handle of the spoon, often used for cutting kiwi fruit. Its name is a portmanteau, using the words “spoon” and “knife”. More commonly today, a spife is sold with a handle guard that covers the blade of the handle to prevent […]
A visibility graph is a graph of intervisible locations. Each node or vertex in the graph represents a point location, and each edge represents a visible connection between them (that is, if two locations can see each other, an edge is drawn between them).
Special classes are visibility graphs for points in the plane, in […]
Josias Tayler (1787-??) was a merchant, judge and political figure in Upper Canada.
He was born in England in 1787. He served in the British Army, came to Upper Canada during the War of 1812 and later settled in Perth. He was named justice of the peace in the Johnstown District in 1821 and in the […]
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 […]
A bone bed is any geological stratum or deposit which contains bones of whatever kind. Inevitably, such deposits are sedimentary in nature. Not a formal term, it tends to be used more to describe especially dense collections. It is also applied to brecciated and stalagmitic deposits on the floor of caves, which frequently contain osseous […]
The year 1627 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Technology
Astronomy
Exploration
The Dutch ship the Gulden Zeepaert, skippered by Francois Thijssen, sails along the south coast of Australia
Medicine
Physics
Births
January 25 - Robert Boyle, a founder of modern chemistry (died 1691)
November 29 - John Ray, English naturalist (died 1705)
Deaths
Separate Tables is a 1954 play by Terence Rattigan.
It was premièred in Liverpool in 1954. It was later staged on Broadway in 1956, with Margaret Leighton in the lead role, and filmed in 1958.
External links
List of Rattigan’s plays
IBDB entry for Separate Tables
Simmons® Mattresses - Air and Water Beds Couples will enjoy the comfort […]
Santa Bárbara is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango. Santa Bárbara may be the poorest municipality in the largely impoverished department. Elevations in the municipality range between 1500 meters an 3000 meters. Natural forest in the area has been obliterated by the constant quest for cooking fuel so land erosion is […]
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 […]
Coracias is a genus of the rollers, an Old World family of near passerine birds related to the kingfishers and bee-eaters. They share the colourful appearance of those groups, blues and browns predominating. The two inner front toes are connected, but not the outer one.
These are insect eaters, usually catching their prey in the […]
‘Bhavitha is a resource support organisation (RSO) of the Dalit Bahujan Shramik Union based in Hyderabad with a mission to educate / develop the Dalit-Bahujan children.
Bavitha has considerable experience in new methods of education particularly suited to the School drop out children.
In geology, the Purbeckian refers to the highest and youngest member of the Jurassic system of rocks, also known as the Purbeck Beds. Either name is derived from the district known as the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset where the strata are splendidly exposed in the cliffs west of Swanage. The rocks include clays, shales […]
Stable storage is a classification of computer data storage technology that guarantees atomicity for any given write operation and allows software to be written that is robust against some hardware and power failures. To be considered atomic, upon reading back a just written-to portion of the disk, the storage subsystem must return either the […]
The Edward VIII abdication crisis refers to events which occurred in 1936, when King-Emperor Edward VIII of the British Empire precipitated a constitutional crisis throughout his realms by his desire to marry his mistress, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American socialite.
The marriage was opposed by the King’s governments in the United Kingdom and the Dominions […]
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Permian Basin Campus is a branch of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) in Odessa, Texas. It opened as a School of Medicine in 1979, beginning in the basement of Medical Center Hospital.
Since 1994, TTUHSC Permian Basin has included a School of Allied Health, offering a […]
A monarch (see sovereignty) is a type of ruler or head of state. Monarchs almost always inherit their titles and are rulers for life; that is, they have no term limit. Historically monarchs have been more or less absolute rulers. Modern monarchs are often figureheads who either have power, but do not exercise it personally […]
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, […]
A four poster bed is a bed with four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, or upper (usually rectangular) panel. There are a number of antique four poster beds extant dating to the 16th century and earlier; many of these early beds are highly ornate and are made from oak. […]
The Iarnród Éireann 8200 Class electrical multiple units were built for the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART). The units are two-car sets, of which here are five. They are numbered in the sequence 8201+8401, etc… The units first entered service in 2000. The units have operated in multiple with the 8500 and 8510 classes.
As of […]
Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) is a role-playing game based on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, specifically The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, under license from Tolkien Enterprises, which was published by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) until they lost the license on 22 Sep 1999.merp.com
Setting
The setting for MERP is an expanded version of J. […]
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 […]