title: Merchandising content: being marketed as "dads and grads" in June (though most college semesters end in May; the grads portion usually refers to high school graduation, which ends one to two weeks after Father's Day in many U.S. states). Summer merchandise is next, including patriotic-themed products with the American flag, out by Memorial Day in preparation for Independence Day (with Flag Day in between). By July, back-to-school is on the shelves and autumn merchandise is already arriving, and at some arts and crafts stores, Christmas decorations. (Often, a Christmas in July celebration is held around this time.) The back-to-school market is promoted


title: Merchandising content: heavily in August, when there are no holidays to promote. By September, particularly after Labor Day, summer merchandise is on final closeout and overstock of school supplies is marked-down some as well, and Halloween (and often even more of the Christmas) merchandise is appearing. As the Halloween decorations and costumes dwindle in October, Christmas is already being pushed on consumers, and by the day after Halloween retailers are going full-force with advertising, even though the "official" season doesn't start until the day after Thanksgiving. Christmas clearance sales begin even before Christmas at many retailers, though others begin on the day


title: Merchandising content: after Christmas and continue on at least until New Year's Day but sometimes as far out as February. Merchandising also varies within retail chains, where stores in places like Buffalo might carry snow blowers, while stores in Florida and southern California might instead carry beach clothing and barbecue grills all year. Coastal-area stores might carry water skiing equipment, while ones near mountain ranges would likely have snow skiing and snowboarding gear if there are ski areas nearby. In Eastern Europe, particularly in Russian, the term "merchandising" is commonly used within the trading industry and denotes all marketing and sales stimulation


title: Merchandising content: activities around PoS (point of sale): design, creation, promotion, care, and training of the sales staff. A merchandiser is someone who is continuously involved in business promotion by buying and selling of goods. In Asian countries, such as India, this term is more synonymous with activities right from sampling and idea conception to dispatching of the shipment. It is a job description that involves leading and working with different departments within the organization, suppliers and buyers to deal with timely deadlines and accepted quality levels. In the supply chain, merchandising is the practice of making products in retail outlets available


title: Merchandising content: to consumers, primarily by stocking shelves and displays. While this used to be done exclusively by the stores' employees, many retailers have found substantial savings in requiring it to be done by the manufacturer, vendor, or wholesaler that provides the products to the retail store. In the United Kingdom there are a number of organizations that supply merchandising services to support retail outlets with general stock replenishment and merchandising support in new stores. By doing this, retail stores have been able to substantially reduce the number of employees needed to run the store. While stocking shelves and building displays is


title: Merchandising content: often done when the product is delivered, it is increasingly a separate activity from delivering the product. In grocery stores, for example, almost all products delivered directly to the store from a manufacturer or wholesaler will be stocked by the manufacturer's/wholesaler's employee who is a full-time merchandiser. Product categories where this is common are Beverage (all types, alcoholic and non-alcoholic), packaged baked goods (bread and pastries), magazines and books, and health and beauty products. For major food manufacturers in the beverage and baked goods industries, their merchandisers are often the single largest employee group within the company. For nationwide branded


title: "Boxer TV Access" content: Boxer TV Access Boxer TV Access is a Swedish company providing pay television channels on the digital terrestrial television network in Sweden. Modeled on the British ITV Digital, it was founded in October 1999. Some channels on the Swedish DTT are free-to-air, but most of the channels require subscription from Boxer. Boxer has claimed to have around 500,000 subscribers by June 2016 when it was acquired by ComHem. Boxer offers dozens of channels, with the number of channels varying depending on location and how one wants to count. As of early 2008, channels from Boxer broadcast on four national transmitter


title: Safe content: Safe A safe (also called a strongbox or coffer) is a secure lockable box used for securing valuable objects against theft and/or damage from fire. A safe is usually a hollow cuboid or cylinder, with one face being removable or hinged to form a door. The body and door may be cast from metal (such as steel) or formed out of plastic through blow molding. Bank teller safes typically are secured to the counter, have a slit opening for dropping valuables into the safe without opening it, and a time-delay combination lock to foil robbers/and or thieves. One significant distinction


title: Safe content: between types of safes is whether the safe is secured to a wall or structure or if it can be moved around. A less secure version (only suitable for petty cash) is usually called a cash-box. In 1835, English inventors Charles and Jeremiah Chubb in Wolverhampton, England, received a patent for a burglar-resisting safe and began a production of safes. The Chubb brothers had produced locks since 1818. Chubb Locks was an independent company until 2000 when it was sold to Assa Abloy. On November 2, 1886, inventor Henry Brown patented a "receptacle for storing and preserving papers." The container


title: Safe content: was fire retardant and accident resistant as it was made from forged metal. The box was able to be safely secured with a lock and key and also able to maintain organization by offering different slots to organize important papers. Specifications for safes include some or all of the following parameters: It is often possible to open a safe without access to the key or knowledge of the combination; this activity is known as safe-cracking and is a popular theme in heist films. A diversion safe, or hidden safe, is a safe that is made from an otherwise ordinary object


title: Safe content: such as a book, a candle, a can, or even a wall outlet plug. Valuables are placed in these hidden safes, which are themselves placed inconspicuously (for example, a book would be placed on a book shelf). Fire resistant record protection equipment consists of self-contained devices that incorporate insulated bodies, doors, drawers or lids, or non-rated multi-drawer devices housing individually rated containers that contain one or more inner compartments for storage of records. These devices are intended to provide protection to one or more types of records as evidenced by the assigned Class rating or ratings; Class 350 for paper,


title: Safe content: Class 150 for microfilm, microfiche other and photographic film and Class 125 for magnetic media and hard drives. These types of enclosures can be rated for periods of ½, 1, 2 and 4 hour durations. In addition, these enclosures may be rated for their impact resistance, should the safe fall a number of feet to a lower level or have debris fall upon it during a fire. Burglary resistant safes are rated as to their resistance to the type of tools to be used in their attack and also the duration of the attack. The attack durations are for periods


title: Safe content: of 15 min., 30 min. and 60 min. Safes can also contain hardware that automatically dispenses cash or validates bills as part of an automated cash handling system. For larger volumes of heat-sensitive materials, a modular room-sized vault is much more economical than purchasing and storing many fire rated safes. Typically these room-sized vaults are utilized by corporations, government agencies and off-site storage service firms. Fireproof vaults are rated up to Class 125-4 Hour for large data storage applications. These vaults utilize ceramic fiber, a high temperature industrial insulating material, as the core of their modular panel system. All components


title: Safe content: of the vault, not just the walls and roof panels, must be Class 125 rated to achieve that overall rating for the vault. This includes the door assembly (a double door is needed since there is no single Class 125 vault door available), cable penetrations, coolant line penetrations (for split HVAC systems), and air duct penetrations. There are also Class 150 applications (such as microfilm) and Class 350 vaults for protecting valuable paper documents. Like the data-rated (Class 125) structures, these vault systems employ ceramic fiber insulation and components rated to meet or exceed the required level of protection. In


title: Safe content: recent years room-sized Class 125 vaults have been installed to protect entire data centers. As data storage technologies migrate from tape-based storage methods to hard drives, this trend is likely to continue. A fire-resistant safe is a type of safe that is designed to protect its contents from high temperatures or actual fire. Fire resistant safes are usually rated by the amount of time they can withstand the extreme temperatures a fire produces, while not exceeding a set internal temperature, e.g., less than . Models are typically available between half-hour and four-hour durations. In the UK the BS EN-1047 standard


title: Safe content: is set aside for data and document safes to determine their ability to withstand prolonged intense heat and impact damage. These conditions are maintained for the duration of the test. This is usually at least 30 minutes but can extend to many hours depending on grade. Both kinds of safe are also tested for impact by dropping from a set height onto a solid surface and then tested for fire survivability once again. In the USA, both the writing of standards for fire-resistance and the actual testing of safes is performed by Underwriters Laboratories. An in-floor safe installed in a


title: Safe content: concrete floor is very resistant to fire. However, not all floor safes are watertight and will often fill with water from fire hoses, therefore everything stored inside should be placed in either double zip lock bags, dry bags, or sealed plastic containers. Reinforced, fireproof cabinets are also used for dangerous chemicals or flammable goods. Wall safes are designed to provide hidden protection for documents and miscellaneous valuables. Adjustable depth allows the maximization of usable space when installed in different wall thicknesses. Some wall safes feature pry resistant recessed doors with concealed hinges for anti-theft protection. A painting can be hung


title: Stucco content: Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture. Stucco may be used to cover less visually appealing construction materials, such as metal, concrete, cinder block, or clay brick and adobe. In English, stucco usually refers to a coating for the outside of a building and plaster one for interiors; as described below, the material itself is often little different. However, other European languages,


title: Stucco content: notably including Italian, do not have the same distinction; "stucco" means "plaster" in Italian and serves for both. This has led to English often using "stucco" for interior decorative plasterwork in relief, especially in art history and older sources. The difference in nomenclature between stucco, plaster, and mortar is based more on use than composition. Until the latter part of the nineteenth century, it was common that plaster, which was used inside a building, and stucco, which was used outside, would consist of the same primary materials: lime and sand (which are also used in mortar). Animal or plant fibers


title: Stucco content: were often added for additional strength. In the latter nineteenth century, Portland cement was added with increasing frequency in an attempt to improve the durability of stucco. At the same time, traditional lime plasters were being replaced by gypsum plaster. Traditional stucco is made of lime, sand, and water. Modern stucco is made of Portland cement, sand, and water. Lime is added to increase the permeability and workability of modern stucco. Sometimes additives such as acrylics and glass fibers are added to improve the structural properties of the stucco. This is usually done with what is considered a one-coat stucco


title: Stucco content: system, as opposed to the traditional three-coat method. Lime stucco is a relatively hard material that can be broken or chipped by hand without too much difficulty. The lime itself is usually white; color comes from the aggregate or any added pigments. Lime stucco has the property of being self-healing to a limited degree because of the slight water solubility of lime (which in solution can be deposited in cracks, where it solidifies). Portland cement stucco is very hard and brittle and can easily crack if the base on which it is applied is not stable. Typically its color was


title: Stucco content: gray, from the innate color of most Portland cement, but white Portland cement is also used. Today's stucco manufacturers offer a very wide range of colors that can be mixed integrally in the finish coat. Other materials such as stone and glass chips are sometimes "dashed" onto the finish coat before drying, with the finished product commonly known as "rock dash", "pebble dash", or also as roughcast if the stones are incorporated directly into the stucco, used mainly from the early 20th through the early 21st Century. As a building material, stucco is a durable, attractive, and weather-resistant wall covering.


title: Stucco content: It was traditionally used as both an interior and exterior finish applied in one or two thin layers directly over a solid masonry, brick, or stone surface. The finish coat usually contained an integral color and was typically textured for appearance. Then with the introduction and development of heavy timber and light wood-framed construction methods, stucco was adapted for this new use by adding a reinforcement lattice, or lath, attached to and spanning between the structural supports and by increasing the thickness and number of layers of the total system. The lath added support for the wet plaster and tensile


title: Stucco content: strength to the brittle, cured stucco; while the increased thickness and number of layers helped control cracking. The traditional application of stucco and lath occurs in three coats — the scratch coat, the brown coat and the finish coat. The two base coats of plaster are either hand-applied or machine sprayed. The finish coat can be troweled smooth, hand-textured, floated to a sand finish or sprayed. Originally the lath material was strips of wood installed horizontally on the wall, with spaces between, that would support the wet plaster until it cured. This lath and plaster technique became widely used. In


title: Stucco content: exterior wall applications, the lath is installed over a weather-resistant asphalt-impregnated felt or paper sheet that protects the framing from the moisture that can pass through the porous stucco. Following World War II, the introduction of metal wire mesh, or netting, replaced the use of wood lath. Galvanizing the wire made it corrosion resistant and suitable for exterior wall applications. At the beginning of the 21st century, this "traditional" method of wire mesh lath and three coats of exterior plaster is still widely used. In some parts of the United States (California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Florida), stucco is


title: Stucco content: the predominant exterior for both residential and commercial construction. Stucco has also been used as a sculptural and artistic material. Stucco relief was used in the architectural decoration schemes of many ancient cultures. Examples of Egyptian, Minoan, and Etruscan stucco reliefs remain extant. In the art of Mesopotamia and ancient Persian art there was a widespread tradition of figurative and ornamental internal stucco reliefs, which continued into Islamic art, for example in Abbasid Samarra, now using geometrical and plant-based ornament. As the arabesque reached its full maturity, carved stucco remained a very common medium for decoration and calligraphic inscriptions. Indian


title: Stucco content: architecture used stucco as a material for sculpture in an architectural context. It is rare in the countryside. In Roman art of the late Republic and early Empire, stucco was used extensively for the decoration of vaults. Though marble was the preferred sculptural medium in most regards, stucco was better for use in vaults because it was lighter and better suited to adapt to the curvature of the ceiling. Baroque and Rococo architecture makes heavy use of stucco. Examples can be found in churches and palaces, where stucco is mostly used to provide a smooth, decorative transition from walls to


title: "Santa Ana River" content: opportunities. The Santa Ana River has 70 significant crossings, bridges and dams. This list places them from mouth to source. Santa Ana River The Santa Ana River is the largest river entirely within Southern California in the United States. It rises in the San Bernardino Mountains and flows for most of its length through San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, before cutting through the northern Santa Ana Mountains via Santa Ana Canyon and flowing southwest through urban Orange County to drain into the Pacific Ocean. The Santa Ana River is long, and its drainage basin is in size. The Santa Ana


title: Prada content: Prada Prada S.p.A. (; ) is an Italian luxury fashion house, specializing in leather handbags, travel accessories, shoes, ready-to-wear, perfumes and other fashion accessories, founded in 1913 by Mario Prada. The company was started in 1913 by Mario Prada and his brother Martino as a leather goods shop – Fratelli Prada – in Milan, Italy. Initially, the shop sold animal goods and imported English steamer trunks and handbags. Mario Prada did not believe that women should have a role in business, and so he prevented female family members from entering his company. Ironically, Mario's son harbored no interest in the


title: Prada content: 23 September 2008 in Milan, got infamous coverage because of the fact that all the models on the catwalk were tottering – several of them stumbled, while two models fell down in front of the photographers and had to be helped by spectators to get up. They removed their shoes in order to continue their walk. One more model (Sigrid Agren) even had to stop and go back during the finale walk as she couldn't manage walking in her high heels any longer. Interviewed right after the show, one model declared: "I was having a panic attack, my hands were


title: Prada content: Herzog & de Meuron, to design flagship stores in various locations. 1913 - The original Prada store opened in Milan in inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. 1983 - Retail expansion sees a new boutique opened in Milan, as well as New York, Madrid, London, Paris and Tokyo. 1991 - Further retail expansion and more boutiques open in New York City, China, and Japan. 2001 - Broadway Epicenter in New York City by OMA opens. 2003 - Toyko Epicenter by Herzog & de Meuron opens. 2004 - Los Angeles Epicenter by OMA group opens. Restored in 2012. 2008 - A


title: Prada content: group called the Prada Transformer in Seoul. The building was first used to display the "Waist Down - Skirts by Miuccia Prada" exhibition, and later changed into a movie theater. In 2012, Mrs. Prada, along with designer Elsa Schiaparelli, was the subject of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition, "Impossible Conversations". In 2014, an exhibition called "Pradasphere" bowed in Hong Kong and London, highlighting the Prada universe. In 2015 Prada opened a permanent home for Foundazione Prada in Milan. Located in a former distillery redesigned by Rem Koolhaus's OMA group, it hosts a permanent collection of site-specific art as well


title: Prada content: phones with LG Electronics. Three mobile phones resulted from this collaboration: LG Prada (KE850), LG Prada II (KF900) and LG Prada 3.0. Production of watches started in 2007 and was suspended in 2012. One of the watch models produced by Prada, the Prada Link, is compatible with bluetooth technology and can connect with the LG Prada II mobile phone. The 1999 feature film 10 Things I Hate About You features the following exchange extolling the virtues of Prada ownership: "Bianca: You know, there’s a difference between like and love. I like my Skechers but I love my Prada backpack. Chastity:


title: "Ted Knight" content: and the two sang a duet of Vinton's hit My Melody of Love in Polish. Knight was also featured in a production number featuring his own record "I'm In Love With Barbara Walters". In 1975, Knight recorded an album of mostly novelty songs, "Hi Guys", on the Ranwood label (which was co-founded by Lawrence Welk and re-released many of his earlier albums). The title track, in which Knight tries to get out of various embarrassing situations by using his signature "Hi, Guy!" line, received some play on the Dr. Demento show. Knight used some of this character's style for regional


title: "Basal-cell carcinoma" content: are obtained per specimen (see figure 2 of reference). When in doubt, a patient should demand that either Mohs surgery or frozen section histology with either margin control (ccpdma) or thin serial bread-loafing is utilized when dealing with a tumour on the face. The pathologist processing the frozen section specimen should cut multiple sections through the block to minimize the false negative error rate. Or one should simply process the tissue utilizing a method approximating the Mohs method (described in most basic histopathology text books or described in this reference ) during frozen section processing. Unfortunately, these methods are difficult


title: "Shelley Morrison" content: 68 episodes from 1999 to 2006 (as well as a brief cameo appearance on the September 2016 "Will & Grace" webisode in support of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign). The role was originally created for a brief one-episode appearance, but Rosario was so popular with viewers that she became a recurring character. In addition to sparring with her libertine and very spoiled employer, Karen Walker (Megan Mullally), Rosario married Karen's gay friend Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes) to prevent her impending deportation. Among approximately 25 film appearances and 200 television appearances, Morrison has portrayed a maid or housekeeper on 32 separate occasions.


title: "Bachelor party" content: Bachelor party A bachelor party, also known as a stag party, stag night, stag do, stag weekend (in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth countries, and Ireland), or a buck's night (in Australia) is a party held for the man who is to shortly enter marriage. A bachelor party is usually planned by the groomsman, occasionally with the assistance of a bachelor party planning company. The first references to Western bachelor parties in the Oxford English Dictionary date to the 19th century. Traditionally, bachelor parties involved a black tie banquet hosted by the father of the groom that included a toast in


title: "Bachelor party" content: honour of the groom and bride. Since the 1980s, bachelor parties in the United States have involved vacationing to a foreign destination, or have featured female company such as strippers or topless waitresses. The bachelor party dates back as early as the 5th century B.C. The ancient Spartans celebrated the groom's last night as a single man in which they held a dinner and made toasts on his behalf. In 1896, Herbert Barnum Seeley, a grandson of P. T. Barnum, threw a stag party (known as the "Awful Seeley Dinner") for his brother at restaurant Sherry's in New York City.


title: "Bachelor party" content: The party had a dancer, nicknamed "Little Egypt", who allegedly danced naked in desserts. The party was dissolved in the early morning by an officer. Afterwards, the Seeley family brought the police officer to the police board trial for "conduct unbecoming to an officer of the law." At that time, that incident brought the light to the "behind closed doors" matters with bachelor parties. The term "bachelor", originally meaning "a young knight-in-training", was firstly mentioned in the 14th century to refer to an unmarried man in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales". In 1922, the term "bachelor party" was published in


title: "Bachelor party" content: William Chambers's "Journal of Literature, Science and Arts" and was described as a "jolly old" party. The equivalent event for the bride-to-be is known as a bachelorette party or hens' night. Some also choose instead to hold a so-called "stag and doe" party in the US, or a "hag party" or "hag do" in the UK ("hag" being a combination of the words "hen" and "stag"), in which both the bride and groom attend. In Germany, this event is called "Junggesellenabschied", which literally means "bachelor farewell". There is also a separate event that the couple celebrates together on the evening


title: "Bachelor party" content: prior to their wedding, called "Polterabend". At the Polterabend, the guests break old porcelain and earthenware to bring luck to the couple's marriage. The tradition is said to go back to pre-Christian times; by noisily breaking ceramics, evil spirits – especially spirits of envy – are supposed to be driven out. In the last couple of years, Anglo-style bachelor parties have become more and more popular among bachelors. In parts of northern Germany that lack a Carnival tradition, funny costuming has become a popular part of bachelor or bachelorette parties. Some parts of Germany have a related custom, in which


title: "Bachelor party" content: a person who is not yet married by their 30th birthday, is made to dress up in an embarrassing fashion by their friends and to do silly tasks that most often include some kind of cleaning work. In France and in many French-speaking regions such as Quebec, the bachelor party is called ', which literally means "(the) burial of the life as a boy" or "burial/funeral of the life as a bachelor". For women it is ', translated as "burial/funeral of the life as a young girl/maiden". As in English-speaking countries, such parties often feature heavy drinking and various (although


title: "Bachelor party" content: gentle) humiliations, and sometimes the presence of a stripper. In Israel, the bachelor party is called "", literally meaning a party of single men. Such parties may feature heavy drinking and sometimes the presence of strippers, or else other recreational bonding activities undertaken together, such as paintball or an overseas trip lasting a few days. In the United Kingdom, it is now common for the party to last for more than one evening, hence the increasing prevalence of the phrase "stag weekend", or "stag do". A spin-off has been the growth of the stag weekend industry in the UK with


title: "Bachelor party" content: various companies taking over the preparation of the event. In the UK, stag weekend trips are becoming mini-holidays with the groups taking part in various day-time activities as well as the expected night out on the town. They may involve travelling to another location in the UK or going abroad, with Kraków, Dublin, and Riga topping the list, followed by Prague, Amsterdam, Bratislava, and Budapest. Stag parties abroad have been known to involve visits to brothels and prostitutes. In the United States, Las Vegas is both a popular bachelor party destination and location for the wedding itself. Increasingly, "destination bachelor


title: "Bachelor party" content: parties" are replacing standard nights out, with Americans traveling to Montreal, Quebec or Mexico. Bachelor parties in the US stereotypically entail the mass consumption of alcohol, hiring a stripper, and general rowdiness toward which the bride might not have a positive reaction; in fact, the defining feature of the bachelor party is that the fiancée is not present. Increasingly, bachelor parties have come to symbolize the last time when the groom is free of the influence of his new wife/partner. Pop out cakes are sometimes associated. Canadian bachelor parties generally consist of a group of bachelors celebrating their singleness. Canadian


title: "Bachelor party" content: cities such as Vancouver or Niagara Falls are popular stag party destinations due to their large number of strip clubs with "dance contact" (lap dancing). Montreal in particular is popular for this purpose with both Canadians and Americans alike. As an alternative, the best man may plan an activity in secret with friends that they feel the groom will enjoy. Many grooms-to-be have been treated to camping trips with friends, fishing trips, sporting events, video games, poker, barbecuing, and other activities. Bachelor party A bachelor party, also known as a stag party, stag night, stag do, stag weekend (in the


title: "Dig Dug" content: Dig Dug Atari also obtained the license for home versions of "Dig Dug", and released it for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, VIC-20, Commodore 64, IBM PC, and TI-99/4A. Namco ported "Dig Dug" to the Famicom in 1985. Gakken made a table top handheld game of "Dig Dug" in 1982. It was one of a series of 3 flip-top games with VFD screen and magnifying Fresnel lens. The objective of "Dig Dug" is to eliminate underground-dwelling monsters, either by inflating them with an air pump until they explode, or by dropping


title: "Dig Dug" content: rocks on them. There are two kinds of enemies in the game: "Pookas" (a race of cute round red monsters, said to be modeled after tomatoes, that wear yellow goggles) and "Fygars" (a race of green dragons that can breathe fire when their wings flash). The player's character is the eponymous Dig Dug, dressed in white and blue and able to dig tunnels through dirt. Dig Dug will be killed if he is caught by either a Pooka or a Fygar, burned by a Fygar's fire, or crushed by a rock. It takes four (three in some versions) 'pumps' with


title: "Dig Dug" content: the player's action button to inflate a monster until it explodes. A partially inflated monster will deflate and recover after a few seconds, but half-inflating is a useful way to stun an enemy for a few moments, especially to make sure it remains in the path of a falling rock. The player can also pass through the enemy while it is deflating. In some versions, deflating is slow enough that the player can execute rapid, partial inflate actions and pop a monster much more quickly than just holding the 'pump' button down. The monsters move horizontally on the surface and


title: "Dig Dug" content: both horizontally and vertically through the tunnels in the dirt. While in the tunnels they can also turn into ghostly eyes which slows their movement but gives them the added advantage of diagonal travel through the solid dirt and rock. The last remaining enemy in each round will attempt to escape to the surface and off the top left side of the screen. More points will be awarded for exploding an enemy further down in the dirt (the levels are color-coded). Additionally, Fygars are worth double points if exploded horizontally, since they can only breathe fire horizontally in the direction


title: "Dig Dug" content: they are facing. Extra points are also awarded for dropping rocks on enemies in order to eliminate them rather than inflating them. If one enemy is killed by the rock, it is worth 1000 points. The next two add 1500 points each, and any after that add 2000. The act of mining is itself worth points—giving 10 points for each block mined—so some players will do as much of it as possible when the threat from the remaining monsters is minimal. After the player drops two rocks, a bonus item appears at the center of the screen, awarding points if


title: "Dig Dug" content: greatly with the PC remake "Dig Dug Deeper", where the hero is simply named "Dig Dug". "Dig Dug" was rated the sixth most popular coin-operated video game of all time by the Killer List of Video Games website. In 1984 "Softline" readers named computer versions of "Dig Dug" the tenth-worst Apple and fourth-worst Atari program of 1983. Some bootleg arcade versions of "Dig Dug" were made, under the name "Zig Zag". One version looked exactly like the original, and the other changed both the sounds and colors, as well as adding a pickaxe power-up that made the player move faster.


title: "Dig Dug" content: from "Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2"'s "Dig Dug Arrangement" but still has the concept of being an updated variant of "Dig Dug" by having new graphics, obstacles, enemies, boss battles, power-ups, and so on. The "Battle Collection" edition of "Dig Dug Arrangement" was also released as part of "Namco Museum Virtual Arcade" for the Xbox 360, but with the multiplayer features removed. The "Dig Dug Arrangement" from "Namco Museum Battle Collection" was also ported to iOS renamed "Dig Dug Remix" with the original "Dig Dug" included, but all multiplayer features were removed from that port. In 2005, Namco Networks released


title: Planchette content: 25 March 1907 edition of the Washington Post famously depicted President Teddy Roosevelt as a scribbling planchette in their satirical "Political Planchette Board" cartoon. The illustration depicts Roosevelt's struggle between Independent Democracy on one hand, and Progressive Republicans on the other. Roosevelt's planchette form is writing out "Victory" over the two factions with the planchette's pencil. Plachette is played in The Acceptance World, the third volume of A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. Artist Frederick Sands depicted the planchette in use in his watercolor "La Planchette" in the 1960s. Drag queen Sharon Needles wore a "Mystic


title: "Georgia Aquarium" content: aquarium as a whole was designed around the whale shark exhibit. Their importation from Taiwan (by air, truck and boat) had never been attempted previously. They were taken from Taiwan's annual fishing kill quota, under which they would have been eaten had they not been purchased by the aquarium. The aquarium's most famous specimens were four young whale sharks from Taiwan named Ralph, Norton, Alice, and Trixie, after the primary characters from "The Honeymooners". Ralph and Norton died in 2007 but that same year the aquarium received two more whale sharks ("Taroko", commemorating Taroko Gorge National Park, and "Yushan" after


title: Toothpick content: Toothpick A toothpick is a small thin stick of wood, plastic, bamboo, metal, bone or other substance with at least one and sometimes two sharp ends to insert between teeth to remove detritus, usually after a meal. Toothpicks are also used for festive occasions to hold or spear small appetizers (like cheese cubes or olives) or as a cocktail stick, and can be decorated with plastic frills or small paper umbrellas or flags. Known in all cultures, the toothpick is not just the oldest instrument for dental cleaning, but predates the arrival of early modern humans, for the skulls of


title: Toothpick content: The Mayo Clinic recommends using a dental pic in lieu of a wooden toothpick to clean one's teeth, as they clean more effectively and one does not risk injuring the gums. Nowadays other means of dental hygiene are preferred such as dental floss and toothbrushes. In September 2012, Ed Cahill set a world record in Ireland by placing 3,107 toothpicks in his beard in just under three hours. Toothpick A toothpick is a small thin stick of wood, plastic, bamboo, metal, bone or other substance with at least one and sometimes two sharp ends to insert between teeth to remove


title: "Nissan Violet" content: Nissan Violet The Nissan Violet appeared in Japan in 1973, and was exclusive to Japanese Nissan dealerships called "Nissan Cherry Store " as a larger companion to the Nissan Cherry. The second generation was then split into two additional lines in 1977, and was called the Nissan Auster and the Nissan Stanza. All three bore the A10 series identifier, and were built in Japan at both Hiratsuka and Yokosuka assembly plants to meet demand. The Stanza was exclusive to Japanese Nissan dealerships called "Nissan Satio Store" as a larger companion to the smaller Nissan Sunny, and the Auster triplet was


title: "George Raft" content: a hotel and casino company which owned the Flamingo Las Vegas. Ray Danton played Raft in "The George Raft Story" (1961), which co-starred Jayne Mansfield. Raft himself, however, excoriated the film upon its release due to inaccuracies. In the 1991 biographical movie "Bugsy", the character of George Raft was played by Joe Mantegna. Raft has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for contributions to motion pictures at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard, and for television at 1500 Vine St. Raft married Grace Mulrooney (1902-1970) in 1923, long before his stardom. The pair separated soon thereafter, but the devoutly Catholic Mulrooney


title: "Yvonne De Carlo" content: and other Florentine dancers busy entertaining troops at USO shows. A skilled horserider, she appeared in a number of West Coast rodeos. De Carlo sang and danced in a three-minute Soundies musical, "The Lamp of Memory" (1942), shown in coin-operated movie jukeboxes, and later released for 16mm home movie showings and television by Official Films. De Carlo was cast as an island girl in "The Road to Morocco" (1942) at Paramount. She was given a screen test for a role in "The Moon and Sixpence", but lost the part to Elena Verdugo. Paramount called her back for a small part


title: "The Magicks of Megas-tu" content: giant wrapper of Fruit Stripe gum". He thought that the revelation of Lucien as the Devil and the punchline ending to the episode could not be repeated in modern television. In January 2014, Witney Seibold when writing for Crave Online, said that "The Magicks of Megas-tu" was the best episode of "The Animated Series". Seibold said that it opened up a number of questions, such as "Does the most evil creature in existence deserve rights as an individual?", and added that the action sequence where Captain Kirk fires lightning out of his hands was "really cool". However, Michelle Erica Green


title: "Alpine states" content: Alpine states The term Alpine states or Alpine countries refers to the territory of eight countries associated with the Alpine region, as defined by the Alpine Convention of 1991: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland. This territory includes 83 NUTS 3-level local administrative divisions and about 6,200 municipalities. In a narrow sense, the term "Alpine states" could be applied to Austria (28.7% of the total area), Italy (27.2%), and France (21.4%), which represent more than 77% of the Alpine territory and more than three quarters of the Alpine population. However, the Alpine share of the larger Italian


title: "Custard pie" content: Custard pie A custard pie is any type of uncooked custard mixture added to an uncooked or partially cooked crust and baked together. In North America, custard pie commonly refers to a plain mixture of milk, eggs, sugar, salt, vanilla extract and sometimes nutmeg combined with a pie crust. It is distinctly different from a cream pie, which contains cooked custard poured into a cooled, precooked crust. In the United Kingdom, the comical or political act of pieing is conventionally done with a "custard pie". Some common custard pies include pumpkin pie, lemon and buttermilk chess pie, and coconut custard.


title: "Custard pie" content: Kent, England. Custard pie A custard pie is any type of uncooked custard mixture added to an uncooked or partially cooked crust and baked together. In North America, custard pie commonly refers to a plain mixture of milk, eggs, sugar, salt, vanilla extract and sometimes nutmeg combined with a pie crust. It is distinctly different from a cream pie, which contains cooked custard poured into a cooled, precooked crust. In the United Kingdom, the comical or political act of pieing is conventionally done with a "custard pie". Some common custard pies include pumpkin pie, lemon and buttermilk chess pie, and


title: "Street light" content: Street light A street light, light pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. When urban electric power distribution became ubiquitous in developed countries in the 20th century, lights for urban streets followed, or sometimes led. Many lamps have light-sensitive photocells that activate automatically when light is or is not needed: dusk, dawn, or the onset of dark weather. This function in older lighting systems could have been performed with the aid of a solar dial. Many street light systems are being connected underground instead


title: "Street light" content: of wiring from one utility post to another. The use of street lighting was first recorded in the city of Antioch from the 4th century. Later it was recorded in the Caliphate of Córdoba from the 9th–10th centuries, especially in Cordova. In the Middle Ages, so-called "link boys" escorted people from one place to another through the murky winding streets of medieval towns. Before incandescent lamps, candle lighting was employed in cities. The earliest lamps required that a lamplighter tour the town at dusk, lighting each of the lamps. According to some sources, illumination was ordered in London in 1417


title: "Street light" content: by Sir Henry Barton, Mayor of London though there is no firm evidence of this. In 1524, Paris house owners were required to have lanterns with candles lit in front of their houses at night, but the law was often ignored. Following the invention of lanterns with glass windows, which greatly improved the quantity of light, in 1594 the police of Paris took charge of installing lanterns in each city neighborhood. Still, in 1662, it was a common practice for travelers to hire a lantern-bearer if they had to move at night through the dark, winding streets. Lantern bearers were


title: "Street light" content: still common in Paris until 1789. In 1667, under King Louis XIV, the royal government began installing lanterns on all the streets. There were three thousand in place by 1669, and twice as many by 1729. Lanterns with glass windows were suspended from a cord over the middle of the street at a height of twenty feet and were placed twenty yards apart. A much-improved oil lantern, called a "réverbère", was introduced between 1745 and 1749. These lamps were attached to the top of lampposts; by 1817, there were 4694 lamps on the Paris streets. During the French Revolution (1789–1799),


title: "Street light" content: the revolutionaries found that the lampposts were a convenient place to hang aristocrats and other opponents. The first widespread system of street lighting used piped coal gas as fuel. Stephen Hales was the first person who procured a flammable fluid from the actual distillation of coal in 1726 and John Clayton, in 1735, called gas the "spirit" of coal and discovered its flammability by accident. William Murdoch (sometimes spelled "Murdock") was the first to use this gas for the practical application of lighting. In the early 1790s, while overseeing the use of his company's steam engines in tin mining in


title: "Street light" content: Cornwall, Murdoch began experimenting with various types of gas, finally settling on coal-gas as the most effective. He first lit his own house in Redruth, Cornwall in 1792. In 1798, he used gas to light the main building of the Soho Foundry and in 1802 lit the outside in a public display of gas lighting, the lights astonishing the local population. In Paris, gas lighting was first demonstrated in November 1800 at a private residence on the rue Saint-Dominique, and was installed on a covered shopping street, the Passage des Panoramas, in 1817. The First gas lamps on the streets


title: "Street light" content: of Paris appeared in January 1829 on the place du Carrousel and the rue de Rivoli, then on rue de la Paix, place Vendôme, rue de Castiglione; by 1857 the Grands Boulevards were all lit with gas. A Parisian writer enthused in August, 1857: "That which most enchants the Parisians is the new lighting by gas of the boulevards...From the church of the Madeleine all the way to rue Montmartre, these two rows of lamps, shining with a clarity white and pure, have a marvelous effect." The gaslights installed on the boulevards and city monuments in the 19th century gave


title: "Street light" content: the city the nickname "The City of Light." The first public street lighting with gas was demonstrated in Pall Mall, London on 28 January 1807 by Frederick Albert Winsor. In 1812, Parliament granted a charter to the London and Westminster Gas Light and Coke Company, and the first gas company in the world came into being. Less than two years later, on 31 December 1813, the Westminster Bridge was lit by gas. Following this success, gas lighting spread to other countries. The use of gas lights in Rembrandt Peale's Museum in Baltimore in 1816 was a great success. Baltimore was


title: "Street light" content: the first American city with gas streetlights, provided by Peale's Gas Light Company of Baltimore. The first place outside London in England to have gas lighting, was Preston, Lancashire in 1816, this was due to the "Preston Gaslight Company" run by revolutionary Joseph Dunn, who found the most improved way of brighter gas lighting. Oil-gas appeared in the field as a rival of coal-gas. In 1815, John Taylor patented an apparatus for the decomposition of "oil" and other animal substances. Public attention was attracted to "oil-gas" by the display of the patent apparatus at Apothecary's Hall, by Taylor & Martineau.


title: "Street light" content: The first modern street lamps to use kerosene were introduced in Lviv in what was then the Austrian Empire in 1853. In Brest, street lighting with kerosene lamps reappeared in 2009 in the shopping street as a tourist attraction. "Farola fernandina" is a traditional design of gas street light which remains popular in Spain. Essentially it is a neo-classical French gas lamp style dating from the late 18th century. It may be either a wall-bracket or standard lamp. The standard base is cast metal with an escutcheon bearing two intertwined letters 'F', the Royal cypher of King Ferdinand VII of


title: "Street light" content: well in testing environments. In 2007, the Civil Twilight Collective created a variant of the conventional LED streetlight, namely the Lunar-resonant streetlight. These lights increase or decrease the intensity of the streetlight according to the lunar light. This streetlight design thus reduces energy consumption as well as light pollution. Two very similar measurement systems were created to bridge the scotopic and photopic luminous efficiency functions, creating a Unified System of Photometry. This new measurement has been well-received because the reliance on V(λ) alone for characterizing night-time light illuminations requires more electric energy. The cost-savings potential of using a new way


title: "Oscar Mayer" content: Oscar Mayer The Oscar Mayer Company is an American meat and cold cut production company, owned by the American food company Kraft Heinz. It is known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon, ham and Lunchables products. German immigrant Oscar F. Mayer (1859–1955), born in Kösingen, Germany, began working at a meat market in Detroit, Michigan, and later in Chicago, Illinois. In 1883, Mayer and his brother Gottfried leased the Kolling Meat Market on the near-northside of Chicago. The Mayer brothers sold bratwurst, liverwurst, and weißwurst which was popular in the predominantly German neighborhoods around their Chicago meat market. As the


title: "Oscar Mayer" content: meat market's popularity grew, it expanded its storefront and participated in sponsoring local events including the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. By 1900, the company had 43 employees and Chicago-wide delivery service. In 1904, Oscar Mayer began branding its meats to capitalize on their popularity, beginning an industry-wide trend. Early company specialties were "Old World" sausages and Westphalian hams, soon followed by bacon and wieners. In 1906, Oscar Mayer & Co. was among the first to volunteer to join the newly created federal meat inspection program. In 1919, the company made its first major expansion, with the purchase of a processing


title: "Oscar Mayer" content: plant in Madison, Wisconsin. The plant quickly proved to be a profitable, efficient operation and in 1919 Madison became the corporate headquarters. For nearly a century, Oscar Mayer remained an independent company owned primarily by descendants of the Mayer brothers who started it. In 1981, Oscar Mayer stockholders elected to sell the company to General Foods. Four years later, Philip Morris acquired General Foods, and in 1989 merged General Foods with the newly acquired Kraft Foods Inc. Shares of Kraft foods were first offered to the public via an initial public offering in 2001. Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris) spun


title: "Oscar Mayer" content: off remaining shares of Kraft Foods to Altria shareholders in 2007. On November 4, 2015, owner Kraft Heinz announced it would move the Oscar Mayer headquarters and the company's U.S. meats business from Madison, Wisconsin, to Chicago. The company also announced plans to consolidate its production facilities during the two following years, resulting in the shutdown of seven North American manufacturing facilities: Fullerton, California; San Leandro, California; Federalsburg, Maryland; St. Marys, Ontario; Campbell, New York; Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania; and the one in Madison. In August 2017, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that the company planned to spend $10 million to reinvent the


title: "Oscar Mayer" content: hot dog for a more health conscious consumer. According to company research, this new strategy could increase sales of their hot dog by six percent. Oscar Mayer had several advertisements on TV involving young children, including the Oscar Mayer Wiener ad in 1965. The commercial shows a young girl leading a group of children, singing about what they'd get if they "were an Oscar Mayer wiener". It was written by Richard D. Trentlage. A 1974 TV commercial featured four-year-old Andy Lambros holding a fishing rod and sandwich while singing, "My bologna has a first name, it's 'O-S-C-A-R'...". It became one


title: "Oscar Mayer" content: of the longest-running TV commercials in the country. Oscar Mayer is known for its Wienermobile, which has toured the United States for over 70 years. The first Wienermobile was created in 1936. Oscar Mayer The Oscar Mayer Company is an American meat and cold cut production company, owned by the American food company Kraft Heinz. It is known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon, ham and Lunchables products. German immigrant Oscar F. Mayer (1859–1955), born in Kösingen, Germany, began working at a meat market in Detroit, Michigan, and later in Chicago, Illinois. In 1883, Mayer and his brother Gottfried leased


title: Wienermobile content: Wienermobile "Wienermobile" is a series of automobiles shaped like a bun which are used to promote and advertise Oscar Mayer products in the United States. The first version was created in 1936 by Oscar Mayer's nephew, Carl G. Mayer, and variants are still used by the Oscar Mayer company today. Drivers of the Wienermobiles are known as "Hotdoggers" and often hand out toy whistles shaped as replicas of the Wienermobile, known as "Wienerwhistles". The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile has evolved from Carl Mayer's original 1936 vehicle to the vehicles seen on the road today. Although fuel rationing kept the Wienermobile off


title: Wienermobile content: This version held a record for numerous suspension problems, most leading to the chassis not being able to hold the large weight of the Oscar Mayer Wiener. In 2004, Oscar Mayer announced a contest whereby customers could win the right to use the Wienermobile for a day. Within a month, the contest had generated over 15,000 entries. Source: Oscar Mayer In June 2017 the company introduced three new Wienermobiles, the WienerCycle, WeinerRover and the WienerDrone. There are currently eleven active Wienermobiles, six of which are the full-sized familiar models, each assigned to their own section of the United States; and


title: "Absolute geometry" content: geometry. The theorems of absolute geometry hold in hyperbolic geometry, which is a non-Euclidean geometry, as well as in Euclidean geometry. Absolute geometry is inconsistent with elliptic geometry: in that theory, there are no parallel lines at all, but it is a theorem of absolute geometry that parallel lines do exist. However, it is possible to modify the axiom system so that absolute geometry, as defined by the modified system, will include spherical and elliptic geometries, that have no parallel lines. Absolute geometry is an extension of ordered geometry, and thus, all theorems in ordered geometry hold in absolute geometry.


title: "Barron Hilton" content: Barron Hilton William Barron Hilton (born October 23, 1927) is an American business magnate, socialite, and hotel heir. The son and successor of hotelier Conrad Hilton, he is the retired chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hilton Hotels Corporation and chairman emeritus of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Hilton was also a founding partner of the American Football League and the original owner of the Los Angeles Chargers. Hilton was born in Dallas, Texas, to Mary Adelaide (née Barron) and Conrad Nicholson Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels. Hilton grew up with three siblings: Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Jr., Eric Michael


title: "Barron Hilton" content: Richard Howard Hilton, Daniel Kevin Hilton, and Ronald Jeffrey Hilton. Their oldest, William Barron Hilton, Jr., was born in 1948 and their youngest, Ronald Jeffrey Hilton, was born in 1963. Barron Hilton has 15 grandchildren, including Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton Rothschild; both of them are Richard Hilton's daughters. Barron Hilton's principal residence in Holmby Hills was originally designed in the 1930s for Jay Paley by architect Paul Williams. It was used as the 'Colby mansion' in exterior scenes for "The Colbys" television series. Hilton is a member of a duck club on Venice Island in the Sacramento – San


title: "Richard Hilton" content: a degree in hotel and restaurant management. His brothers and sisters are: William Barron Hilton Jr. (born 1948), Hawley Anne Hilton (born 1949), Steven Michael Hilton (born 1950), David Alan Hilton (born 1952), Sharon Constance Hilton (born 1953), Daniel Kevin Hilton (born 1962), and Ronald Jeffrey Hilton (born 1963). Hilton joined the New York office of Eastdil Secured, a real estate investment banking firm. He specialized in securing participation of institutional investors and pension funds in various transactions. In 1984, he formed Hilton Realty Investment to handle commercial real estate. He obtained his broker license on 29 November 1985. Hilton


title: Quavers content: shown in 1996 (animated by Aardman), which featured Quentin trying to catch a Quaver that had blown out of his bedroom window, ending with the slogan "They're floaty light!" Quavers Quavers are a British snack food, originally made by Smiths, and now produced by Walkers. Walkers, owned by PepsiCo, purchased the Quavers brand in 1997, when it became one of the Frito Lay International brand names. Quavers were launched in 1968 with the advertising slogan "you get a lovely lot of Quavers in a bag". Packaging described them as "curly potato puffs". In 2007, Walkers changed the packaging for all


title: "Bras d'Or Lake" content: has a 75-slip marina with full services which opened in May 2013. The community operated Barra Strait Marina in Grand Narrows reopened in 2012. Sailboat racing is a long tradition in the Bras d'Or, with the various yacht clubs around lake hosting annual Regattas and race weeks. Regatta Week hosted by the Bras d'Or Yacht Club has been an annual tradition for over 100 years. The East Bay Regatta, held the last weekend in July since 1984, features races and other social events. In some years as many as 40 boats participate. Race the Cape was a point-to-point sail race


title: "San Diego Convention Center" content: San Diego Convention Center The San Diego Convention Center is the primary convention center in San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive. The center is managed by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation, a non-profit public benefit corporation created by the City of San Diego. The corporation also manages the San Diego Civic Theatre through a subsidiary called San Diego Theatres Inc. San Diego approved a measure to fund construction of a new convention center in 1983 on land owned by the Port of


title: "Rømer scale" content: Rømer scale The Rømer scale (; notated as °Rø), also known as Romer or Roemer, is a temperature scale named after the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Rømer, who proposed it in 1701. It is based on the freezing point of pure water being 7.5 degrees and the boiling point of water as 60 degrees. In this scale, the zero was initially set using freezing brine. The boiling point of water was defined as 60 degrees. Rømer then saw that the freezing point of pure water was roughly one eighth of the way (about 7.5 degrees) between these two points, so


title: "Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class" content: Urban Whip is a white roadster built by Boulevard Customs, NBS Performance. Based on the GLK 350 4Matic, it included custom-made wide-body kit developed with RoBrady Design, body lowered by 64mm with custom lowering springs, 26-inch Asanti AF 150 chrome wheels with custom black accents and 295/25 ZR26 Pirelli Scorpion tires, front and rear Brembo performance brake kit with 381mm 2-piece floating rotors and 8-pot front callipers and 344mm 2-piece floating rotors with 4-piston rear callipers, 5.7 kW custom stereo system with eight HD amps and six new JL Audio 13TW5 flat subwoofers. Brabus Widestar included a 320 Bluetec engine


title: "Rainbow Brite" content: The large Rainbow Brite dolls came with three pots of Color-Glo Paint and a brush, while the small dolls included a single pot of Color-Glo Paint and a brush. The large doll was released in two different boxes, the first lacking a window so buyers could not see the doll inside. As the doll was sold with three different wardrobes, buying one was a gamble regarding which look she would have (unless one read the small code box on the bottom of the package indicating the doll's shoe color). The large doll later came in a window box with a


title: "Armenian dram" content: Armenian dram The dram (; sign: ֏; code: AMD) is the monetary unit of Armenia and the neighboring unrecognized Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). It is subdivided into 100 luma (). The word "dram" translates into English as "money" and is cognate with the Greek drachma and the Arabic dirham, as well as the English weight unit dram. The first instance of a dram currency was in the period from 1199 to 1375, when silver coins called dram were issued. On 21 September 1991, a national referendum proclaimed Armenia as an independent republic from the Soviet Union. The Central Bank of


title: "Armenian dram" content: and forced to introduce separate currencies. Armenia was one of the last countries to do so when it introduced the dram on 22 November 1993. In 1995 the currency sign for the Armenian dram was designed.The Armenian dram sign (֏, image: ; ; code: AMD) is the currency sign of the Armenian dram. In Unicode, it is encoded at . After its proclamation of independence, Armenia put into circulation its own national currency – Armenian Dram, the usage of which revealed the necessity for a monetary sign. As the result of common business practice and the unique pattern of Armenian


title: "Armenian dram" content: was introduced in denominations of 10-, 20-, 50-, 100-, 200 and 500 dram. A first series of banknotes was issued in November 1993. It was withdrawn from circulation by 2005. A second series was issued from 1998 onwards which is still in use at present. On 22 November 1993, banknotes of 10, 25, 50, 100, 200 and 500 dram were issued. Notes for 1,000 and 5,000 dram were put into circulation later. Banknotes of 50-, 100, and 500 dram are rarely seen in circulation. The 50, 100, and 500 dram coins are used instead.<br> A commemorative 50,000 dram note was


title: "Armenian dram" content: denominations, 10,000 , 20,000 and 50,000 , were issued on November 22, 2018. The final three denominations, 1,000 , 2,000 and 5,000 will be issued on December 25, 2018. The modern dram came into effect on 22 November 1993, at a rate of 200 rubles = 1 dram (1 USD : 404 AMD). The dram is not pegged to any currency other than the Artsakh dram. Armenian dram The dram (; sign: ֏; code: AMD) is the monetary unit of Armenia and the neighboring unrecognized Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). It is subdivided into 100 luma (). The word "dram" translates


title: "L'Escalade" content: known as ""Mère Royaume"," poured boiling hot vegetable soup on soldiers climbing up the walls of the city. Other traditions include mulled wine, a large serving of soup, and children in various types of costumes knocking on people's doors and singing Escalade songs for money. It is also common for children in school to prepare vegetable soup, which is served to parents and families that night. Teenagers tend to throw eggs, shaving cream, and flour at each other as part of the celebration. The high school students parade together by first going to "conquer" each other and end up in


title: "Red-eye flight" content: Red-eye flight In commercial aviation, a red-eye flight is a flight scheduled to depart at night and arrive the next morning. While any overnight flight may be considered a red-eye, the term is most commonly used for west-to-east flights that take advantage of time differences in order to move passengers long distances without the loss of a business day. For example, in North America red-eye flights typically depart from the West Coast between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. and arrive on the East Coast between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. the next day. Due to time changes and prevailing jet


title: "Red-eye flight" content: for noise reasons, limiting the number of airports from which red-eye flights can depart. Films involving red-eye flights include "Airplane!" (1980), "The Langoliers (miniseries)" (1995), "Red Eye" (2005), "Snakes on a Plane" (2006), "Flightplan" (2005), "Turbulence" (1997), and "Non-Stop" (2014). Red-eye flight In commercial aviation, a red-eye flight is a flight scheduled to depart at night and arrive the next morning. While any overnight flight may be considered a red-eye, the term is most commonly used for west-to-east flights that take advantage of time differences in order to move passengers long distances without the loss of a business day. For


title: "Thigh-high boots" content: Fifré), a crotch-length, skin-tight boot with hidden platform, a chunky mid-thigh boot (Contente), and a chunky platform mid-thigh boot. In addition to one heeled thigh boot featuring an elastic cuff just above the knee and two pairs of flat over-the-knee boots in their couture line, Jimmy Choo's limited edition capsule collection for H&M featured a mid-thigh black leather boot with a four-inch heel. Givenchy kicked off the thigh boot trend conspicuously out of season in early 2009 with a western-style thigh boot in black leather. Fendi supported the thigh boot cause in Autumn 2008 with a chunky suede boot that


title: "Economic regions of Russia" content: Economic regions of Russia Russia is divided into twelve economic regions (, "ekonomicheskiye rayony", sing. "ekonomichesky rayon")—groups of federal subjects sharing the following characteristics: No federal subject can belong to more than one economic region. Economic regions are also grouped into economic zones (also called "macrozones"). An economic region or its parts can belong to more than one economic zone. Establishment and abolition of economic regions and economic zones or any changes in their composition are decided upon by the federal government of Russia. This division into economic regions is different from the division into federal districts—the former is done


title: Zebroid content: Zebroid A zebroid is the offspring of any cross between a zebra and any other equine: essentially, a zebra hybrid. In most cases, the sire is a zebra stallion. Offspring of a donkey sire and zebra dam, called a zebra hinny, or donkra, and offspring of a male horse and a female zebra called a hebra do exist, but are rare and are usually sterile and infertile. Zebroids have been bred since the 19th century. Charles Darwin noted several zebra hybrids in his works. Zebroid is the term generally used for all zebra hybrids. The different hybrids are generally named


title: Zebroid content: using a portmanteau of the sire's name and the dam's name. Generally, no distinction is made as to which zebra species is used. Many times, when zebras are crossbred, they develop some form of dwarfism. Breeding of different branches of the equine family, which does not occur in the wild, generally results in infertile offspring. The combination of sire and dam also affects the offspring phenotype. A zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion and a horse mare. This cross is also called a zebrula, zebrule, or zebra mule. The rarer reverse pairing is sometimes called a horbra, hebra,


title: Zebroid content: zebrinny, or zebret. Like most other animal hybrids, the zorse is sterile. A zony is the offspring of a zebra stallion and a pony mare. Medium-sized pony mares are preferred to produce riding zonies, but zebras have been crossed with smaller pony breeds such as the Shetland, resulting in so-called "Zetlands". A cross between a zebra and a donkey is known by many terms, including: zonkey, zebonkey, zebronkey, zebrinny, zebrula, zebrass, zedonk, and zebadonk. Donkeys are closely related to zebras and both animals belong to the horse family. These zebra donkey hybrids are very rare. In South Africa, they occur


title: Zebroid content: where zebras and donkeys are found in proximity to each other. Like mules and hinnys, however, they are generally genetically unable to breed, due to an odd number of chromosomes disrupting meiosis. Donkeys and wild equids have different numbers of chromosomes. A donkey has 62 chromosomes; the zebra has between 32 and 46 (depending on species). In spite of this difference, viable hybrids are possible, provided the gene combination in the hybrid allows for embryonic development to birth. A hybrid has a number of chromosomes somewhere in between. The chromosome difference makes female hybrids poorly fertile and male hybrids generally


title: Zebroid content: sterile due to a phenomenon called Haldane's rule. The difference in chromosome number is most likely due to horses having two longer chromosomes that contain similar gene content to four zebra chromosomes. Horses have 64 chromosomes, while most zebroids end up with 54 chromosomes. Zebroids physically resemble their nonzebra parent, but are striped like a zebra. The stripes generally do not cover the whole body, and might be confined to the legs or spread onto parts of the body or neck. If the nonzebra parent was patterned (such as a roan, Appaloosa, pinto horse/paint, piebald, or skewbald), this pattern might


title: Zebroid content: be passed down to the zebroid, in which case the stripes are usually confined to nonwhite areas. The alternative name "golden zebra" relates to the interaction of zebra striping and a horse's bay or chestnut colour to give a zebra-like black-on-bay or black-on-chestnut pattern that superficially resembles the extinct quagga. Zebra-donkey hybrids usually have a dorsal (back) stripe and a ventral (belly) stripe. Zorses combine the zebra striping overlaid on colored areas of the hybrid's coat. Zorses are most often bred using solid-color horses. If the horse parent is piebald (black and white) or skewbald (other color and white), the


title: Zebroid content: zorse may inherit the dominant depigmentation genes for white patches. The tobiano (the most common white modifier found in the horse) directly interacts with the zorse coat to give the white markings. Only the nondepigmented areas will have zebra striping, resulting in a zorse with white patches and striped patches. This effect is seen in the zebroid named Eclyse (a hebra rather than a zorse) born in Stukenbrock, Germany, in 2007 to a zebra mare called Eclipse and a stallion called Ulysses. Zebroids are preferred over zebra for practical uses, such as riding, because the zebra has a different body


title: Zebroid content: shape from a horse or donkey, and consequently it is difficult to find tack to fit a zebra. However, a zebroid is usually more inclined to be temperamental than a purebred horse and can be difficult to handle. Zebras, being wild animals, and not domesticated like horses and donkeys, pass on their wild animal traits to their offspring. Zebras, while not usually very large, are extremely strong and aggressive. Similarly, zorses have a strong temperament and can be aggressive. In 1815, Lord Morton mated a quagga stallion to a chestnut Arabian mare. The result was a female hybrid which resembled


title: Zebroid content: both parents. This provoked the interest of Cossar Ewart, Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh (1882–1927) and a keen geneticist. Ewart crossed a zebra stallion with pony mares to investigate the theory of telegony, or paternal impression. In "Origin of Species" (1859), Charles Darwin mentioned four coloured drawings of hybrids between the ass and zebra. He also wrote "In Lord Morton's famous hybrid from a chestnut mare and male quagga, the hybrid, and even the pure offspring subsequently produced from the mare by a black Arabian sire, were much more plainly barred across the legs than is even the pure


title: Zebroid content: Kitchener, and was photographed by W S Berridge. Zebras are resistant to sleeping sickness, whereas purebred horses and ponies are not, and zebra mules hopefully would inherit this resistance. Grevy's zebra has been crossed with the Somali wild ass in the early 20th century. Zorses were bred by the US government and reported in "Genetics in Relation to Agriculture" by E. B. Babcock and R. E. Clausen (early 20th century), in an attempt to investigate inheritance and telegony. The experiments were also reported in "The Science of Life" by H G Wells, J Huxley, and G P Wells (around 1929).


title: Zebroid content: riding and draft animals, and as curiosities in circuses and smaller zoos. Zorses are bred in Africa and used for trekking on Mount Kenya; the zebra parent gives resistance to the nagana pest disease. A zorse (more accurately a zony) was born at Eden Ostrich World, Cumbria, England, in 2001, after a zebra was left in a field with a Shetland pony. It was referred to as a Zetland. Usually, a zebra stallion is paired with a horse mare or donkey mare, but in 2005, a Burchell's zebra named Allison produced a zonkey called Alex sired by a donkey at


title: Zebroid content: Highland Plantation in the parish of Saint Thomas, Barbados. Alex, born 21 April 2005, is apparently the first zonkey in Barbados. In 2007, a stallion, Ulysses, and a zebra mare, Eclipse, produced a zebroid named Eclyse, displaying an unusually patchy color coating. The Wild Animal Safari in Springfield, Missouri, and its sister location in Pine Mountain, Georgia, have several zedonks as of 31 March 2010. In July 2010, a zedonk was born at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Dahlonega, Georgia. Another zebra–donkey hybrid, like the Barbados zonkey sired by a donkey, was born 3 July 2011 in Haicang Safari Park,


title: Zebroid content: Haicang, Xiamen, China. A zonkey, Ippo, was born 21 July 2013 in an animal reserve, in Florence, Italy. Khumba, the offspring of a zebra dam and a dwarf albino donkey sire, was born on 21 April 2014 in the zoo of Reynosa in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. More recently, in November 2018 at a farm in Somerset, a cross between a donkey stallion and a zebra mare was born. The male foal was described as a zonkey by its owner and has been named Zippy. Zorses have appeared in several TV shows and movies. In the "Viva La Bam"


title: Zebroid content: episode "Groundhog Day". in the final race, Brandon Dicamillo's sled is a zorse. It was colored pink, blue, purple. and red. On the 'uncommentary' on the DVD seasons of "Viva La Bam", Tim Glomb says, "If you send me a list of all the episodes where the zorse is, I'll give you a dollar". The 2007 movie "I'm Reed Fish" features a zorse named Zabrina. In the movie "Racing Stripes", an animated zorse appears in the alternate ending. He is the son of Stripes, a zebra stallion and Sandy, a grey Arabian mare. Zorses have also appeared in books. They


title: Zebroid content: are briefly mentioned several times in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of fantasy novels. Sutton Coleman wrote a sonnet about zorses and published it in his 2007 book, "Ligers, Tigons, and Zorses, Oh My!" In Roald Dahl's book "Going Solo", several other characters and he speculate on how nice it would be to own a zorse, although they admit it would be difficult to train. The video game "Red Dead Redemption" has the "Zebra Donkey" available as a multiplayer mount. In "", the characters' school's mascot is the famed Zebra Donkey. Zebroid A zebroid is


title: "Anna Sokolow" content: and ensemble work set to the music of Alban Berg, "Lyric Suite" was noteworthy for its lack of a narrative and its "suite form" design. The New Dance Group sponsored the first showing of "Lyric Suite" in March 1954. Sokolow considered this piece as the beginning of a new era in her choreography. Another one of Sokolow's signature works was "Rooms" (1955), a piece that explored loneliness. The music - composed by Kenyon Hopkins - was originally a jazz score. "Rooms" was divided into six sections: Dream, Escape, Desire, Panic, Daydream, and The End? The piece featured eight dancers and


title: "Ham sandwich theorem" content: Ham sandwich theorem In mathematical measure theory, for every positive integer the ham sandwich theorem states that given measurable "objects" in -dimensional Euclidean space, it is possible to divide all of them in half (with respect to their measure, i.e. volume) with a single -dimensional hyperplane. It was proposed by Hugo Steinhaus and proved by Stefan Banach (explicitly in dimension 3, without bothering to automatically state the theorem in the n-dimensional case), and also years later called the Stone–Tukey theorem after Arthur H. Stone and John Tukey. The ham sandwich theorem takes its name from the case when and the


title: "Ham sandwich theorem" content: bisects the volumes of . In measure theory, proved two more general forms of the ham sandwich theorem. Both versions concern the bisection of subsets of a common set , where has a Carathéodory outer measure and each has finite outer measure. Their first general formulation is as follows: for any suitably restricted real function formula_13, there is a point of the -sphere such that the surface , dividing into and , simultaneously bisects the outer measure of . The proof is again a reduction to the Borsuk-Ulam theorem. This theorem generalizes the standard ham sandwich theorem by letting .


title: "Ham sandwich theorem" content: Their second formulation is as follows: for any measurable functions over that are linearly independent over any subset of of positive measure, there is a linear combination such that the surface , dividing into and , simultaneously bisects the outer measure of . This theorem generalizes the standard ham sandwich theorem by letting and letting , for , be the -th coordinate of . In discrete geometry and computational geometry, the ham sandwich theorem usually refers to the special case in which each of the sets being divided is a finite set of points. Here the relevant measure is the


title: "Ham sandwich theorem" content: of red points or the number of blue is odd, but also in specific configurations with even numbers of points, for instance when all the points lie on the same line and the two colors are separated from each other (i.e. colors don't alternate along the line). A situation where the numbers of points on each side cannot match each other is provided by adding an extra point out of the line in the previous configuration. In computational geometry, this ham sandwich theorem leads to a computational problem, the ham sandwich problem. In two dimensions, the problem is this: given


title: "Ham sandwich theorem" content: 2–dimensional plane is mapped to a 5–dimensional plane via: Ham sandwich theorem In mathematical measure theory, for every positive integer the ham sandwich theorem states that given measurable "objects" in -dimensional Euclidean space, it is possible to divide all of them in half (with respect to their measure, i.e. volume) with a single -dimensional hyperplane. It was proposed by Hugo Steinhaus and proved by Stefan Banach (explicitly in dimension 3, without bothering to automatically state the theorem in the n-dimensional case), and also years later called the Stone–Tukey theorem after Arthur H. Stone and John Tukey. The ham sandwich theorem


title: "Universal Orlando" content: Universal Orlando The Universal Studios Orlando Resort, commonly known as Universal Orlando, formerly Universal Studios Escape, is an American theme park and entertainment resort complex based in Orlando, Florida. The resort is operated by Universal Parks & Resorts. It is wholly owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast. Universal Orlando is the second-largest resort in Greater Orlando, after the Walt Disney World resort, covering 541 aces of land. Universal Orlando consists of two theme parks (Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure), a water park (Volcano Bay), a night-time entertainment complex (Universal CityWalk Orlando), and six Loews Hotels (Loews


title: "Universal Orlando" content: Aquos Theatre has been moved for construction of Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit, a roller coaster which opened in mid-2009. Construction on the coaster also resulted in the replacement of The Boneyard by The Universal Music Plaza Stage and the entrance of Rockit, and the reconfiguration of the queue of Twister...Ride it Out. Universal Orlando features a large group of characters varying from Woody Woodpecker to Spider-Man. Visitors have three ways of dining with characters. At Loews Royal Pacific Resort, guests can eat breakfast with Universal Characters on select days also. Throughout the day characters have meet and greets within the


title: "Silver gull" content: Silver gull The silver gull ("Chroicocephalus (Larus) novaehollandiae") is the most common gull seen in Australia. It has been found throughout the continent, but particularly at or near coastal areas. It is smaller than the pacific gull, which is also found in Australia. The silver gull should not be confused with the herring gull, which is called "silver gull" in many other languages (scientific name "Larus argentatus", German "Silbermöwe", French "Goéland argenté", Dutch "zilvermeeuw"), but is a much larger, robust gull with no overlap in range. The South African Hartlaub's gull ("C. hartlaubii") was formerly sometimes considered to be subspecies


title: "Thomas Andrews" content: at a painting, "Plymouth Harbour", above the fireplace, arms folded over his chest, his lifejacket lying on a nearby table. The painting depicted the entrance to Plymouth Sound, which "Titanic" had been expected to visit on her return voyage. Although this has become one of the most famous legends of the sinking of the "Titanic" – published in a 1912 book ("Thomas Andrews: Shipbuilder" by Shan Bullock) and thereby perpetuated – Stewart, in fact, left the ship in a lifeboat at approximately 1:40 a.m., half an hour before his reputed sighting of Andrews. There were testimonies of sightings of Andrews


title: "Chevrolet El Camino" content: V8 with , and a 454 4-barrel V8 with . Hardened engine valve seats and hydraulic camshafts made these engines reliable for many miles, and allowed them to accept the increasingly popular unleaded regular gasoline. The three-speed manual transmission was standard; 4-speed manual and Turbo Hydra-Matic 3-speed automatic transmissions were optional. Crossflow radiators and coolant reservoirs prevented overheating. The SS, then a trim option, included a black grill with SS emblem, bodyside striping, bright roof drip moldings, color-keyed dual sport mirrors, special front and rear stabilizer bars, rally wheels, 70-series raised white-lettered tires, special instrumentation and SS interior emblems. The


title: Twill content: Twill Twill is a type of textile weave with a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs (in contrast with a satin and plain weave). This is done by passing the weft thread over one or more warp threads then under two or more warp threads and so on, with a "step," or offset, between rows to create the characteristic diagonal pattern. Because of this structure, twill generally drapes well. Twill weaves can be classified from four points of view: In a twill weave, each weft or filling yarn floats across the warp yarns in a progression of interlacings to the right


title: Twill content: or left, forming a pattern of distinct diagonal lines. This diagonal pattern is also known as a "wale". A "float" is the portion of a yarn that crosses over two or more perpendicular yarns. A twill weave requires three or more harnesses, depending on its complexity and is the second most basic weave that can be made on a fairly simple loom. Twill weave is often designated as a fraction, such as , in which the numerator indicates the number of harnesses that are raised (and thus threads crossed: in this example, two), and the denominator indicates the number of


title: Twill content: harnesses that are lowered when a filling yarn is inserted (in this example, one). The fraction is read as "two up, one down" (the fraction for plain weave is .). The minimum number of harnesses needed to produce a twill can be determined by totaling the numbers in the fraction; for the example described, the number of harnesses is three. Twill weave can be identified by its diagonal lines. Twill fabrics technically have a front and a back side, unlike plain weave, whose two sides are the same. The front side of the twill is called the "technical face" and


title: Twill content: the back the "technical back". The technical face side of a twill weave fabric is the side with the most pronounced wale; it is usually more durable and more attractive, is most often used as the fashion side of the fabric, and is the side visible during weaving. If there are warp floats on the technical face (i.e. if the warp crosses over two or more wefts), there will be filling floats (the weft will cross over two or more warps) on the technical back. If the twill wale goes up to the right on one side, it will go


title: Twill content: up to the left on the other side. Twill fabrics have no "up" and "down" as they are woven. Sheer fabrics are seldom made with a twill weave. Because a twill surface already has interesting texture and design, printed twills (where a design is printed on the cloth) are much less common than printed plain weaves. When twills are printed, this is typically done on lightweight fabrics. Soiling and stains are less noticeable on the uneven surface of twills than on a smooth surface, such as plain weaves, and as a result twills are often used for sturdy work clothing


title: Twill content: and for durable upholstery. Denim, for example, is a twill. The fewer interlacings in twills as compared to other weaves allow the yarns to move more freely, and therefore they are softer and more pliable, and drape better than plain-weave textiles. Twills also recover from creasing better than plain-weave fabrics do. When there are fewer interlacings, the yarns can be packed closer together to produce high-count fabrics. With higher counts, including high-count twills, the fabric is more durable, and is air- and water-resistant. Twills can be divided into "even-sided" and "warp-faced". Even-sided twills include foulard or surah, herringbone, houndstooth, serge,


title: Twill content: sharkskin, and twill flannel. Warp-faced twills include cavalry twill, chino, covert, denim, drill, fancy twill, gabardine, and lining twill. Unrelated to textiles and weaving, the hashtag #twill is often used on Twitter for tweets related to Illinois politics. #twill is a portmanteau of Twitter and Illinois. Twill Twill is a type of textile weave with a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs (in contrast with a satin and plain weave). This is done by passing the weft thread over one or more warp threads then under two or more warp threads and so on, with a "step," or offset, between rows


title: "Henrys Lake" content: The average size in 2015 was 15 inches, with biologists finding some fish over 20 inches. The second most prevalent species is rainbow-cutthroat hybrids, which make up 24 percent of the population. The average size is 19 inches, although Idaho Fish and Game found hybrids longer than 25 inches. Brook trout make up 21 percent of the population. The average length is 16 inches, with biologists finding several brook trout that exceeded 20 inches in length. There is a fish hatchery on the north side of the lake that helps to replenish the lake. On the south shore on the


title: "FTSE 250 Index" content: FTSE 250 Index The FTSE 250 Index ( ) is a capitalisation-weighted index consisting of the 101st to the 350th largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. Promotions and demotions to and from the index occur quarterly in March, June, September, and December. The Index is calculated in real-time and published every minute. Related indices are the FTSE 100 Index (which lists the largest 100 companies), the FTSE 350 Index (which combines the FTSE 100 and 250), the FTSE SmallCap Index and the FTSE All-Share Index (an aggregation of the FTSE 100 Index, the FTSE 250 Index and the


title: "OGC Nice" content: OGC Nice Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice Côte d'Azur (), commonly referred to as OGC Nice or simply Nice, is a French association football club based in Nice. The club was founded in 1904 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the top tier of French football. Nice plays its home matches at the Allianz Riviera. Nice are managed by former French international Patrick Vieira and captained by Brazilian defender Dante. Nice was founded under the name "Gymnaste Club de Nice" and is one of the founding members of the first division of French football. The club has won Ligue 1 four


title: "OGC Nice" content: club. "For a complete list of OGC Nice players, see " OGC Nice Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice Côte d'Azur (), commonly referred to as OGC Nice or simply Nice, is a French association football club based in Nice. The club was founded in 1904 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the top tier of French football. Nice plays its home matches at the Allianz Riviera. Nice are managed by former French international Patrick Vieira and captained by Brazilian defender Dante. Nice was founded under the name "Gymnaste Club de Nice" and is one of the founding members of the first


title: "Chief Seattle Council" content: of the late Professor Edmund Meany, first Scout commissioner for Seattle. This camp was merged into Camp Parsons in 1941 and that camp's dining hall served as the dining hall for Camp Parsons until the summer 2014 after which it was razed and a new dining hall was constructed and dedicated in June 2015. Thousands of Scouts from the Pacific Northwest and throughout the United States and Canada attend camp each summer. Camp Parsons is one of the few Boy Scout Camps that use a salt water beach for all aquatic activities. Camp Parsons also has hiking treks for Scouts


title: Alfajor content: the same paper. Once individually wrapped, they may be packaged in wood or cardboard boxes, but never in plastic. Traditional "alfajores" in Argentina, Peru, and Uruguay consist of two round, sweet biscuits made of wheat flour or corn starch joined together with dulce de leche (known as "manjar blanco" in Peru), and optionally coated with powdered sugar. More modern "industrial" varieties in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina, are coated with dark or white chocolate (many "alfajores" are sold in "black" and "white" versions), or simply covered with powdered sugar. These are also known as a "Chilean Oreo". One variation is called


title: "Christian politics in New Zealand" content: and joined the Christian Democrats, blaming Capill for the collapse of the Coalition. A number of other senior Christian Heritage members, led by a former Deputy Leader, Geoff Hounsell, also resigned; and the party expelled others. Ex-members joined the Christian Democrats following an unsuccessful attempt to have Christian Heritage agree to a merger with Christian Democrats. The Christian Heritage Party remained somewhat bitter about the collapse of the Christian Coalition. While considerable tension had existed between Christian Heritage and the Christian Democrats, Graham Capill apparently believed a resolution possible. After the Christian Democrats left, however, Christian Heritage re-affirmed all its


title: "Tropicana Las Vegas" content: Tropicana Las Vegas The Tropicana Las Vegas is a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Penn National Gaming and is a franchise of Hilton's DoubleTree chain. It offers 1,467 rooms, a gaming floor, and of convention and exhibit space. This location, the Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection, has the most hotel rooms of any intersection in the world. Pedestrians are not allowed to cross at street level. Instead, the Tropicana is linked by overhead pedestrian bridges to its neighboring casinos: to the north across Tropicana Avenue, the MGM


title: "Tropicana Las Vegas" content: 2011. On November 9, 2010, Tropicana imploded a wing which contained rooms adjacent to Tropicana Avenue. The rooms were the resort's oldest, dating back to 1957. The section was removed to make room for a second entrance to the property and open up space for additional parking. In February 2011, the Tropicana opened a new sports book, operated by Cantor Gaming. In 2012, the Tropicana announced an affiliation with DoubleTree by Hilton. In August 2015, Penn National Gaming purchased the Tropicana for $360 million. In December 2016, as part of Penn's Interactive Division, the Tropicana created an online experience for


title: "Tropicana Las Vegas" content: bar; and a wedding chapel. The Tropicana also contains the resort office for Virgin Holidays. Tropicana Las Vegas The Tropicana Las Vegas is a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Penn National Gaming and is a franchise of Hilton's DoubleTree chain. It offers 1,467 rooms, a gaming floor, and of convention and exhibit space. This location, the Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection, has the most hotel rooms of any intersection in the world. Pedestrians are not allowed to cross at street level. Instead, the Tropicana is linked by


title: "Leyland P76" content: with Riley 4/72 tail lights, a unique full width grille and a 2.4-litre 6-cylinder version of the 1622 cc B-series engine; the Wolseley was a 6-cylinder version of the Wolseley 16/60); and the 1971 Austin "X6" Tasman and Kimberley (facelifted Austin 1800s with the 6-cylinder 2.2-litre E-series engine). Each of these cars was a compromise, and the motoring public largely rejected as challengers to the dominant local models. Nonetheless, the Freeway, 24/80 and the X6 each developed a loyal following. The shape was penned by Giovanni Michelotti. The entry-level P76 featured an enlarged 2623 cc version of the 6-cylinder engine


title: "Wipeout (series)" content: of the Liverpudlian studio were given development kits for what was then dubbed a "Next Generation Portable", a group was set up within the team to brainstorm ideas. Among these included the proposal of a touchscreen device, which was not yet conceived by Sony at the time, and two analogue sticks—both features eventually made it onto the console. "Wipeout Omega Collection (stylised as WipE<nowiki>'out"</nowiki> OMEGA COLLECTION)" is a remaster of the previous two titles in the "Wipeout" series: "Wipeout HD" (with its "Wipeout HD Fury" expansion) and "Wipeout 2048". "Wipeout HD" itself contained content from "Wipeout Pure" and "Wipeout Pulse".


title: "Chynna Phillips" content: Chynna Phillips Chynna Gilliam Phillips (born February 12, 1968) is an American singer and actress, and a member of the vocal group Wilson Phillips. She is the daughter of The Mamas & the Papas band members John and Michelle Phillips, and the half-sister of Mackenzie Phillips and Bijou Phillips. Phillips was born Chynna Gilliam Phillips in Los Angeles. Phillips began her career in acting. She appeared in films such as "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Caddyshack II", "Say Anything" and as the title character Roxanne Pulitzer in the 1989 television biographical film, "Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer". In 1995, she returned to


title: "David Canary" content: David Canary David Hoyt Canary (August 25, 1938 – November 16, 2015) was an American actor. Canary is best known for his role as Adam Chandler in the television soap opera "All My Children", for which he received sixteen Daytime Emmy Award nominations and won five times. Canary was born in Elwood, Indiana, but grew up in Massillon, Ohio. He was the middle son of Hilary and Lorena Canary. His brothers are actor John Canary, who once had a role on "All My Children", and writer H. Glenn Canary (1934–2008). The brothers are purportedly great-great-nephews of Martha Jane Canary, a.k.a.


title: "David Canary" content: play "Clarence Darrow". David Canary David Hoyt Canary (August 25, 1938 – November 16, 2015) was an American actor. Canary is best known for his role as Adam Chandler in the television soap opera "All My Children", for which he received sixteen Daytime Emmy Award nominations and won five times. Canary was born in Elwood, Indiana, but grew up in Massillon, Ohio. He was the middle son of Hilary and Lorena Canary. His brothers are actor John Canary, who once had a role on "All My Children", and writer H. Glenn Canary (1934–2008). The brothers are purportedly great-great-nephews of Martha


title: "Herbert O. Sparrow" content: stroke and had to be transferred to RUH in Saskatoon where he died less than a week later. His ever-faithful wife of many years died in 2015, and the last member of his remaining family died in late 2012. He is survived by six children: Ken Sparrow, Joanne Sparrow, Bryan Sparrow, Rob Sparrow, Lauren Sparrow and Ron Sparrow. Herbert O. Sparrow Herbert Orval Sparrow, (January 4, 1930 – September 6, 2012) was a Canadian politician. At the time of his retirement, Sparrow was the longest-serving member of the Senate of Canada, and was the last remaining member of the Upper


title: Loganberry content: jelly or jam is without an equal. The seeds are very small, soft and not abundant, being greatly different from both its parents in this respect. The vines are enormous bearers, and the fruit is very firm and carries well. The fruit begins to ripen very earlythe bulk being ripe and gone before either blackberries or raspberries become plentiful. In filling in a place just ahead of these fruits the market value of the Loganberry is greatly enhanced. In ordinary seasons the fruit begins to ripen from the middle to the last of May. When extensively planted and generally known,


title: "Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film)" content: Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film) Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 American action adventure comedy film based on Jules Verne's novel of the same name. It stars Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan and Cécile de France. The film is set the nineteenth century and centers on Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), here reimagined as an eccentric inventor, and his efforts to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. During the trip, he is accompanied by his Chinese valet, Passepartout (Jackie Chan). For comedic reasons, the film intentionally deviated wildly from the novel and included a number of


title: "Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film)" content: "B+" on an A+ to F scale. While some reviewers criticized it for having little to no resemblance to the novel it is based on, others such as Roger Ebert praised it for its visual style and for being "goofy fun". In 2014, the "Los Angeles Times" listed the film as one of the most expensive box office flops of all time. The film was nominated for two Razzie Awards - Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Supporting Actor (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film) Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 American action


title: "Jennifer Hale" content: "The Legend of Korra" and "Totally Spies!". She also voices Cinderella and Princess Aurora in Disney Princess media. Hale was born in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada. Her mother was what she called "a wandering master's degree pursuer", and her stepfather was a microbiologist. In an interview with Tom Bissell of "The New Yorker", she revealed that her biological father was an outdoorsman. She grew up in the American South, residing mainly in Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama. When she was a teenager, she got a voice-over spot at a local radio station where she was paid 35 dollars just for


title: Riverdance content: Riverdance Riverdance is a theatrical show consisting mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. With a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, featuring Irish dancing champions Jean Butler and Michael Flatley. Shortly afterwards, husband and wife production team John McColgan and Moya Doherty expanded it into a stage show, which opened in Dublin on 9 February 1995. Since then, the show has visited over 450 venues worldwide and been seen by over 25 million people, making it one of the most successful dance productions in the world. "Riverdance"