Mode (Musique)

Diatomaceous Earth

Diatomaceous earth also known as diatomite or kieselgur, is a naturally occurring, soft, siliceous sedimentary rock that is easily crumbled into a fine white to off-white powder. It has a particle size ranging from less than 1 micron to more than 1 millimeter, but typically 10 to 200 microns.

Baltimore Orioles (Minor League)

The city of Baltimore, Maryland has been home to two minor league baseball teams called the Baltimore Orioles.

Christian Dior

Christian Dior (21 January 1905, Granville, Manche 24 October 1957), was an influential French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior. He was born in Granville, Manche, a seaside town on the coast of France.

Milgem Class Corvette

Ada or Milgem class corvette, from the Turkish words Milli Gemi, is the name of one of two Turkish national warship programs, the purpose of which is to build a modern littoral combat warship with indigenous capabilities, extensively using the principles of stealth technology in its design. Construction of the first Milgem class corvette, F-511 TCG Heybeliada, began on 26 July 2005.

Diplomatic Security Service

Mark Healey

Mark Healey is a British computer games developer. Healey started his career making games for the Commodore 64 home computer - his first published game was KGB Super Spy for Codemasters which led to developing the Educational Fun School series of games for Europress Software.

Aaron Klug

Sir Aaron Klug, OM, PRS is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.

Adolf von Baeyer

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer October 31, 1835 - August 20, 1917) was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[2] Born in Berlin, he initially studied mathematics and physics at Berlin University before moving to Heidelberg to study chemistry with Robert Bunsen.

French Academy of Sciences

The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the forefront of scientific developments in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Labrys

Labrys is the term for a symmetrical doubleheaded axe, known to the Classical Greeks as pelekus or sagaris, and to the Romans as a bipennis. The double-bitted axe remains a forestry tool to this day, and the labrys certainly functioned as a tool, hewing wood, and wielded in war before it was invested with symbolic function.

Governor (device)

A governor, or speed limiter, is a device used to measure and regulate the speed of a machine, such as an engine. A classic example is the centrifugal governor, also known as the Watt or fly-ball governor, which uses weights mounted on spring-loaded arms to determine how fast a shaft is spinning, and then uses proportional control to regulate the shaft speed.

Hong Xiuquan

Hóng Xiùquán was a Hakka Chinese who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, establishing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over varying portions of southern China, with himself as the "Heavenly King" and self- proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ.

Arthur Evans

Sir Arthur John Evans was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete at Kephala Hill and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts there and elsewhere in Crete and the eastern Mediterranean. Evans was the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B as well as an earlier pictographic writing.

Cliodynamics

Arminius

Gaius Julius Arminius, also known as Arminius, Armin or Hermann (b. 18 BC/17 BC in Magna Germania, d.

Ban (Law)

A ban is, generally, any decree that prohibits something.Smoking is banned in public buildings in many parts of the world.

Expulsion of the Acadians

The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, The Deportation, the Acadian Expulsion, and called by the deportees, Le Grand Dérangement, was the forced population transfer of the French Acadian population from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to other British controlled colonies between 1755 and 1763. It was ordered by British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council, and led to the deaths of thousands of Acadians.

Ceramic

A ceramic is an inorganic, non-metallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous (e.

Gooseberry

The gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa is a species of Ribes, native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia. It is one of several similar species in the subgenus Grossularia, for the other related species, see the genus page Ribes.

2008 American League Championship Series

The 2008 American League Championship Series (ALCS), the second round of the 2008 American League playoffs, was a best-of-seven series matching the two winners of the American League Division Series. The AL East Division champion Tampa Bay Rays were paired with the wild-card Boston Red Sox, who finished second in the AL East.

Battle of Port Royal

The Battle of Port Royal was one of the earliest amphibious operations of the American Civil War, in which a United States Navy fleet and United States Army expeditionary force captured Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, between Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina, on November 7, 1861. The sound was guarded by two forts on opposite sides of the entrance, Fort Walker on Hilton Head Island to the south and Fort Beauregard on Phillip's Island to the north.

Mind machine

A mind machine uses pulsing rhythmic sound and/or flashing light to alter the brainwave frequency of the user. Mind machines are said to induce deep states of relaxation, concentration and in some cases altered states of consciousness, that have been compared to those obtained from meditation and shamanic exploration.

Cone Snail

Cone snails, cone shells, or "cones", are common names for a taxonomic family of sea snails known scientifically as the Conidae, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. The family Conidae is currently dominated by one genus, Conus, which has about 500 living species.

Application software

Application software is computer software designed to help the user to perform a particular task. Such programs are also called software applications, applications or apps.

Casper (Film)

Casper is a 1995 family feature film starring Christina Ricci and Bill Pullman and based on the Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons and comic strips. The ghosts featured in the film were created through computer-generated imagery.

Hydrogen Atom

A hydrogen atom is an atom of the chemical element hydrogen. The electrically neutral atom contains a single positively-charged proton and a single negatively-charged electron bound to the nucleus by the Coulomb force.

Deck (Building)

In architecture, a deck is a flat surface capable of supporting weight, similar to a floor, but typically constructed outdoors, often elevated from the ground, and usually connected to a building. The term is a generalization of decks as found on ships.

Desmond Rebellions

The Desmond Rebellions occurred in 1569-1573 and 1579-1583 in the Irish province of Munster. They were rebellions by the Earl of Desmond - head of the FitzGerald dynasty in Munster - and his followers, the Geraldines and their allies against the threat of the extension of Elizabethan English government over the province.

Airborne Lifeboat

Airborne lifeboats were powered lifeboats that were made to be dropped by fixed-wing aircraft into water to aid in air-sea rescue operations. An airborne lifeboat was to be carried by a heavy bomber specially modified to handle the external load of the lifeboat.

Ben Wallace

Ben Camey Wallace (born September 10, 1974) is an American basketball player. He currently plays in the National Basketball Association with the Detroit Pistons.

Hugh Trumble

Hugh Trumble (12 May 1867 14 August 1938) was an Australian cricketer who played 32 Test matches as a bowling all-rounder between 1890 and 1904. He captained the Australian team in two Tests, winning both.

Marlborough College

Marlborough College is a British co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils, located in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, the school now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs.

Menelik II of Ethiopia

Emperor Menelik II GCB, GCMG baptized as Sahle Maryam (17 August 1844 12 December 1913), was Negus of Shewa (1866-1889), then n gusä nägäst of Ethiopia from 1889 to his death. At the height of his internal power and external prestige, the process of territorial expansion and creation of the modern empire-state hade been completed by 1898.

Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park in inner Melbourne, home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the largest stadium in Australia, and holds the world record for the highest light towers at any sporting venue.

Chad Michael Murray

Chad Michael Murray (born August 24, 1981) is an American actor, former fashion model and spokesperson. Murray became an international household name after landing the lead role in The CW television series One Tree Hill where he portrayed Lucas Scott for six seasons.

Freddy Krueger

Freddy Krueger is a fictional character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror films. He first appears in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as a disfigured dream stalker who uses a glove armed with razors to kill children and teenagers in their dreams, which ultimately results in their death in the real world.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 superhero film based on the fictional Dark Horse Comics character Hellboy. The film is directed by Guillermo del Toro and is a sequel to the 2004 film Hellboy, which del Toro also directed.

Can't Hardly Wait

Can't Hardly Wait is a 1998 United States romantic comedy teen film written and directed by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. It stars Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green, and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Mythologie

Adam Style

The Adam style is an 18th century neoclassical style of interior design and architecture, as practised by the three Adam brothers from Scotland, of which Robert Adam and James Adam were the most important.The Adam brothers were the first to advocate an integrated style for architecture and interiors, with walls, ceilings, fireplaces, furniture, fixtures, fittings and carpets all being designed by the Adams as a single uniform scheme.