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Perizoma affinitata. Perizoma affinitata, the rivulet, is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by James Francis Stephens in 1831 and it is found in most of Europe. Its wingspan is 24–30 mm and is characterized by the narrow white postmedian band of the forewing and especially by the dark... |
Hu Di. Hu Di (Chinese: 胡底; 1905 – September 1935) was a Chinese filmmaker and Communist secret agent during the Republic of China era. After the Kuomintang (KMT) began the Shanghai massacre in 1927, Hu worked as a mole in the Kuomintang secret service, together with Qian Zhuangfei and Li Kenong. Chinese Premier Zhou En... |
Pori. Pori (Finnish: [ˈpori]; Swedish: Björneborg [bjœːrneˈborj] ⓘ; Latin: Arctopolis)[8] is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Satakunta. It is located on the west coast of the country, on the Gulf of Bothnia. The population of Pori is approximately 83,000, while the sub-region has a population of approxima... |
Hu Die (TV host). Hu Die (Chinese: 胡蝶; pinyin: Hú Dié; born February 16, 1983), also known as Fang Yuan, is a Chinese television hostess for China Central Television. She is from Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.[1] In December 2007, she became the winner of CCTVs 5th host contest.[2] In 2005, Hu Die became a hostess. She host... |
Order of the British Empire. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities.[2] It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight i... |
Concord Music Group. Concord Music Group was an American independent music company based in Beverly Hills, California, with worldwide (including the U.S.) distribution through Universal Music Group.[2][3] The company specialized in recordings and music publishing. On April 1, 2015, Concord Music Group merged with Bicy... |
Samuel French. Samuel French (1821–1898) was an American entrepreneur who, together with British actor, playwright and theatrical manager Thomas Hailes Lacy, pioneered in the field of theatrical publishing and the licensing of plays.[1] French founded his publishing business in New York City in 1854. In 1859, he visite... |
King Street, St Jamess. King Street is a street in the St Jamess district of the City of Westminster. It runs south-west to north-east from St Jamess Street to St Jamess Square. King Street was probably named after Charles II, and is first mentioned in ratebooks in 1673, having been known before as Charles Street.[1] ... |
Hu (surname). Hu (胡) is a Chinese surname. In 2006, it was the 15th most common surname in China.[1][2] In 2013, it was the 13th most common in China, with 13.7 million Chinese sharing this surname.[3] In 2019, Hu dropped to 15th most common surname in mainland China.[4] Some other, less common surnames pronounced Hu i... |
Montriond. Montriond (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tʁijɔ̃]; Arpitan: Meûryan) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is just north of the ski resorts of Morzine and Avoriaz in the Portes du Soleil ski resorts area. Just east lies Lac de Montriond, a small... |
Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters. The Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters[1] or the Table of Standard Typefaces for Frequently-Used Chinese Characters[2] (Chinese: 常用國字標準字體表; pinyin: Chángyòng Guózì Biāozhǔn Zìtǐ Biǎo) is a list of 4,808 commonly used Chinese characters. The stand... |
Cinema of China. The cinema of China is the filmmaking and film industry of mainland China, one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan. China is the home of the largest movie and drama production complex and film studios in the wor... |
St Jamess. St Jamess is a district of Westminster, and a central district in the City of Westminster, London, forming part of the West End. The area was once part of the northwestern gardens and parks of St. Jamess Palace and much of it is still owned by the Crown Estate. During the Restoration in the 17th century, t... |
John Hare (actor). Sir John Hare (16 May 1844 – 28 December 1921), born John Joseph Fairs, was an English actor and theatre manager of the later 19th– and early 20th centuries. Born and brought up in London, with frequent visits to the West End, Hare had a passion for the theatre from his childhood. After acting as an... |
St. James Theatre (disambiguation). St. James Theatre is a Broadway theatre in New York City. St. James Theatre may also refer to: |
John Braham (tenor). John Braham (c. 1774 – 17 February 1856) was an English tenor opera singer born in London. His long career led him to become one of Europes leading opera stars. He also wrote a number of songs, of minor importance, although The Death of Nelson is still remembered. His success, and that of his offs... |
List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters. The List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters (Chinese: 常用字字形表; Jyutping: soeng4 jung6 zi6 zi6 jing4 biu2) is a list of 4762 commonly used Chinese characters and their standardized forms prescribed by the Hong Kong Education Bureau. The list is meant ... |
Toyotomi clan. The Toyotomi clan (Japanese: shinjitai: 豊臣氏 / kyujitai: 豐臣氏, Hepburn: Toyotomi-shi) was a Japanese clan that ruled over the Japanese before the Edo period. The most influential figure within the Toyotomi was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the three unifiers of Japan. Oda Nobunaga was another primary unifier ... |
Imperial Court in Kyoto. The Imperial Court in Kyoto was the nominal ruling government of Japan from 794 AD until the Meiji period (1868–1912), after which the court was moved from Kyoto (formerly Heian-kyō) to Tokyo (formerly Edo) and integrated into the Meiji government.[1] Upon the court being moved to Kyoto from Na... |
Capital of Japan. The capital of Japan is Tokyo.[1][2][3] Throughout history, the national capital of Japan has been in locations other than Tokyo. The oldest capital is Nara. While no laws have designated Tokyo as the Japanese capital, many laws have defined a capital area (首都圏, shuto-ken) that incorporates Tokyo. Art... |
Paulownia. Six to 17 species, including: Paulownia catalpifolia Paulownia elongata Paulownia fargesii Paulownia fortunei Paulownia kawakamii Paulownia taiwaniana Paulownia tomentosa Paulownia (/pɔːˈloʊniə/ paw-LOH-nee-ə) is a genus of seven to 17 species of hardwood trees (depending on taxonomic authority) in the fami... |
Nitta clan. The Nitta clan (新田氏, Nitta-shi; Japanese pronunciation: [ɲiꜜt.ta(.ɕi)][1]) was one of several major families descended from the Seiwa Genji, and numbered among the chief enemies of the Hōjō clan regents, and later the Ashikaga shogunate. The common ancestor of the Nitta, Minamoto no Yoshishige (1135–1202), ... |
Mikawa Province. Mikawa Province (三河国, Mikawa no Kuni; Japanese pronunciation: [mʲiꜜ.ka.wa (no kɯ.ɲi), mʲi.ka.waꜜ-][1]) was an old province in the area that today forms the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture.[2] Its abbreviated form name was Sanshū (三州 or 参州). Mikawa bordered on Owari, Mino, Shinano, and Tōtōmi Provinces... |
Matsudaira clan. The Matsudaira clan (松平氏, Matsudaira-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan. It originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province (modern-day Aichi Prefecture). During the Sengoku period, the chieftain of the main line of the Matsudaira clan, M... |
Minamoto clan. Minamoto (源; Japanese pronunciation: [mʲi.na.mo.to][1]) was a noble surname bestowed by the Emperors of Japan upon members of the imperial family who were excluded from the line of succession and demoted into the ranks of the nobility since 814.[2][3][4] Several noble lines were bestowed the surname, the... |
Wake no Kiyomaro. Wake no Kiyomaro (和気 清麻呂; 733–799) was a high-ranking Japanese official during the Nara period. He was born in Bizen Province (now Wake, Okayama) to a family of politically important, devoted Buddhists who hoped to keep Buddhism and politics separate through religious reform. He became a trusted advis... |
Hong Kong. Hong Kong[e] is a special administrative region of China. Situated on Chinas southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million residents in a 1,114-square-kilometre (430 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated ... |
Government Seal of Japan. The Government Seal of Japan, one of the countrys national seals, is the emblem (mon) of paulownia used by the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and the executive branch of the Government of Japan on official documents. It is generally known as the 5-7 Paulownia (五七桐, Go-shichi (no) Kiri), used by ... |
Nagaoka-kyō. Nagaoka-kyō (長岡京) was the capital of Japan from 784 to 794. Its location was in Otokuni District, Yamashiro Province, corresponding to a 4.3 x 5.3 kilometer area spanning the borders of modern cities of Mukō and Nagaokakyō, Kyoto, the town of Ōyamazaki, and the Nishikyō-ku ward of the city of Kyoto. The r... |
Heraldic badge. A heraldic badge, emblem, impresa, device, or personal device worn as a badge indicates allegiance to, or the property of, an individual, family or corporate body. Medieval forms are usually called a livery badge, and also a cognizance. They are para-heraldic, not necessarily using elements from the coa... |
Emblem. An emblem is an abstract or representational pictorial image that represents a concept, like a moral truth, or an allegory, or a person, like a monarch or saint.[1] Although the words emblem and symbol are often used interchangeably, an emblem is a pattern that is used to represent an idea or an individual. An ... |
Public security. Public security or public safety is the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety and security of the public from significant danger, injury, or property damage. It is often conducted by a state government to ensure the protection of citizens, persons in their territory, o... |
Chinese Character Simplification Scheme. The Chinese Character Simplification Scheme is a list of simplified Chinese characters promulgated in 1956 by the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China. It contains the vast majority of simplified characters in use today. To distinguish it from the second round of sim... |
Community service. Community service is unpaid work performed by a person or group of people for the benefit and betterment of their community.[1] In many cases, people doing community service are compensated in other ways, such as getting a lunch for free. In many countries, there are programs to incite people to do c... |
Human geography. Human geography, also known as anthropogeography, is a branch of geography that studies how people interact with places. It focuses on the spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their environments. Examples include patterns like urban sprawl and urban redevelopment.... |
Health care. Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement or maintenance of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, den... |
List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters. The List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters is the current standard list of 8,105 Chinese characters published by the government of the Peoples Republic of China and promulgated in June 2013. The project began in 2001, originally named the Table of Standard ... |
List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese. The List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代汉语通用字表; traditional Chinese: 現代漢語通用字表; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ Tōngyòngzì Biǎo) is a list of 7,000 commonly used Chinese characters in Chinese. It was created in 1988 in the Peoples Republic ... |
Pejorative. A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something.[1] It is also used to express criticism, hostility, or disregard. Sometimes, a term is regarded as pejorative... |
Public health. Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.[1][2] Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it f... |
Penny dreadful (disambiguation). A penny dreadful is a 19th-century British fiction publication that cost a penny. Penny Dreadful or Penny Dreadfuls may also refer to: |
Serial (literature). In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments. The instalments are also known as numbers, parts, fascicules or fascicles, and may be released either as separate publicatio... |
General List of Simplified Chinese Characters. The General List of Simplified Chinese Characters (simplified Chinese: 简化字总表; traditional Chinese: 簡化字總表; pinyin: Jiǎnhuàzì zǒngbiǎo) was the standard list of simplified Chinese characters published in China in 1964. It largely ratified and revised the Chinese Character Si... |
Penny (British pre-decimal coin). The British pre-decimal penny was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄240 of one pound or 1⁄12 of one shilling. Its symbol was d, from the Roman denarius. It was a continuation of the earlier English penny, and in Scotland it had the same monetary value as one pre-1707 Scottish... |
Inca (disambiguation). The Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. Inca, Inka, or İncə may also refer to: |
Seal (emblem). A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made. The original purpose was to authenticate a document, or to prevent interference with a package or envelope by applying a seal which had to be brok... |
Short Story (Gershwin). Short Story is a piece for violin and piano composed by George Gershwin in 1925.[1] Gershwin composed the duet from two other short works that premiered at the same time as his Three Preludes. He combined a section of the Novelette in Fourths and another slower work (the forgotten Rubato prelude... |
Mingxing, Shanxi. Mingxing (Chinese: 明星; pinyin: Míngxīng) (formerly Taigu or Taiku) is a town and township-level division and seat of Taigu County, Shanxi, China. It is a seat of a third order administration division.[1] It lies southwest of Jinzhong and comprises nine administrative villages, eleven communities, with... |
Incan (disambiguation). Incan is of or pertaining to the Incas, their culture or empire, the Inca Empire. Incan may also refer to: |
Second round of simplified Chinese characters. The second round of Chinese character simplification[b] was an aborted script reform promulgated on 20 December 1977 by the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). It was intended to replace the first round of simplified characters already in use. The complete proposal contained ... |
Dick Turpin. Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his fathers trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, l... |
Wade–Giles. Wade–Giles (/weɪd ˈdʒaɪlz/ wayd JYLZ) is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from the system produced by Thomas Francis Wade during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert Giless A Chinese–English Dictionary (1892). The romanization systems in common use until t... |
Story paper. A story paper is a periodical publication similar to a literary magazine, but featuring illustrations and text stories, and aimed towards children and teenagers. Also known in Britain as boys weeklies, story papers were phenomenally popular before the outbreak of the Second World War. Among the most well-... |
List of Even Stevens episodes. The following is a list of episodes for the Disney Channel Original Series, Even Stevens. The series ran from June 17, 2000, to June 2, 2003 with 65 episodes produced spanning 3 seasons. Ren hosts a slumber party, but Louis plans to sell tickets to watch the party in order to buy a suit... |
List of Casualty specials. Casualty is a British medical drama television series that premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 6 September 1986.[1] It is the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world,[2] and the most enduring medical drama broadcast on primetime television in the world... |
Short Story (horse). Short Story (1923 – 1939) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. After showing considerable promise as a two-year-old, Short Story finished third in the 1000 Guineas in the following spring and then won the Epsom Oaks by four lengths. She never won again but was placed in the Nassau St... |
North Pacific (sidewheeler). North Pacific was an early steamboat operating in Puget Sound, on the Columbia River, and in British Columbia and Alaska. The vessels nickname was the White Schooner which was not based on the vessels rig, but rather on speed, as to schoon in nautical parlance originally meant to go fast.[1... |
Edward S. Ellis. Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author.[1][2] Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles[3] that he produced by his name and by a number of pen names. Notable fiction stories by Ellis include... |
North Pacific Airlines. North Pacific Airlines (NPA) was a commuter air carrier formed in 1987 which operated scheduled passenger service on behalf of United Airlines via a code sharing agreement as a United Express carrier initially from the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA) to three destinations in Washingto... |
North Pacific Steamship Company. The North Pacific Steamship Company was a shipping company operating along the west coast of the United States and to South America during the late 19th century and early 20th century. The North Pacific Steamship Company was chartered in March 1869 in Oregon, with a capital of $5,000,00... |
Northern Pacific Railway. The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was an important American transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the Western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest between 1864 and 1970. It was approved and chartered by the 38th Congress of the Uni... |
Magazine (disambiguation). A magazine is a kind of periodical publication. Magazine may also refer to: |
Paper mill. A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags, and other ingredients. Prior to the invention and adoption of the Fourdrinier machine and other types of paper machine that use an endless belt, all paper in a paper mill was made by hand, one sheet at a tim... |
Cellulose fiber. Cellulose fibers (/ˈsɛljʊloʊs, -loʊz/)[1] are fibers made with ethers or esters of cellulose, which can be obtained from the bark, wood or leaves of plants, or from other plant-based material. In addition to cellulose, the fibers may also contain hemicellulose and lignin, with different percentages of... |
Short Stories (The Statler Brothers album). Short Stories is the seventeenth studio album by American country music group The Statler Brothers. It was released in 1977 via Mercury Records.[1] The album peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. |
Lignocellulosic biomass. Lignocellulose refers to plant dry matter (biomass), so called lignocellulosic biomass. It is the most abundantly available raw material on the Earth for the production of biofuels.[1] It is composed of two kinds of carbohydrate polymers, cellulose and hemicellulose, and an aromatic-rich polym... |
Short Stories (Jon and Vangelis album). Short Stories is the debut album by Jon and Vangelis, the collaboration between Jon Anderson of the progressive rock band Yes and electronic music pioneer Vangelis. This was not the first time that the two had worked together: Vangelis had auditioned to be Rick Wakemans replaceme... |
Short Stories (magazine). Short Stories was an American fiction magazine published between 1890 and 1959. Short Stories began its existence as a literary periodical, carrying work by Rudyard Kipling, Émile Zola, Bret Harte, Ivan Turgenev and Anna Katharine Green.[1] The magazine advertised itself with the slogan Twent... |
North Pacific Coast Railroad. The North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPC) was a common carrier 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge steam railroad begun in 1874 and sold in 1902 to new owners who renamed it the North Shore Railroad (California) (NSR) and rebuilt the southern section into a standard-gauge electric railway.[1] The NP... |
Quartering (heraldry). Quartering is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division.[1] Typically, a quartering consists of a division into four equal parts, two above and two below (party per cross)... |
Fiber crop. Fiber crops are field crops grown for their fibers, which are traditionally used to make paper, cloth, or rope.[1] Fiber crops are characterized by having a large concentration of cellulose, which is what gives them their strength. The fibers may be chemically modified, like in viscose (used to make rayon ... |
O. E. Middleton. O.E. (Osman Edward or Ted) Middleton (born 25 March 1925 in Christchurch, died 14 August 2010 in Dunedin) was a New Zealand writer of short stories, described as belonging to the vernacular critical realist tradition of Frank Sargeson.[1] He was the brother of noted New Zealand novelist Ian Middleton,... |
Short Stories (Harry Chapin album). Short Stories is the third studio album by the American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1973. (see 1973 in music). W.O.L.D., Mr Tanner and Mail Order Annie remained amongst his most popular works for the rest of his life.[citation needed] W.O.L.D. went to number 36 on th... |
Drug. A drug is any chemical substance other than a nutrient or an essential dietary ingredient, which, when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect.[1][2] Consumption of drugs can be via inhalation, injection, smoking, ingestion, absorption via a patch on the skin, suppository, or dissolution... |
Violence. Violence is characterized as the use of physical force by humans to cause harm to other living beings, such as pain, injury, disablement, death, damage and destruction. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against onesel... |
Libido. In psychology, libido (/lɪˈbiːdoʊ/ lih-BEE-doh; from Latin libīdō) is a desiring energy, usually conceived of as sexual in nature, but sometimes also encompasses other forms of needs.[1] The term was originally developed by Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psychoanalysis. Initially it referred only to specific se... |
Wood. Wood is a structural tissue/material found as xylem in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic material – a natural composite of cellulosic fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary... |
Periodical literature. Periodical literature (singularly called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) consists of published works that appear in new releases on a regular schedule (issues or numbers, often numerically divided into annual volumes). The most familiar example of periodical literature is the ne... |
Harpers Magazine. Harpers Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in New York City in June 1850, it is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States.[a] Harpers Magazine has won 22 National Magazine Awards.[1] The magazine has published ... |
Means of communication. Means of communication or media are used by people to communicate and exchange information with each other as an information sender and a receiver. Diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication are called mass media. Many different materials are used in communication... |
Obscenity. An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time.[1] It is derived from the Latin obscēnus, obscaenus, boding ill; disgusting; indecent, of uncertain etymology.[2] Generally, the term can be used to indicate strong moral repugnance and outrage in expressions such... |
Dead zone. Dead zone may refer to: |
Hypoxia (environmental). Hypoxia refers to low oxygen conditions. Hypoxia is problematic for air-breathing organisms, yet it is essential for many anaerobic organisms. Hypoxia applies to many situations, but usually refers to the atmosphere and natural waters.[3] Atmospheric hypoxia occurs naturally at high altitudes. ... |
Anoxic waters. Anoxic waters are areas of sea water, fresh water, or groundwater that are depleted of dissolved oxygen. The US Geological Survey defines anoxic groundwater as those with dissolved oxygen concentration of less than 0.5 milligrams per litre.[1] Anoxic waters can be contrasted with hypoxic waters, which a... |
South Pacific (novel). South Pacific (1992) is a book by American author James A. Michener. As retold by Michener, the book is based on Rodgers and Hammersteins award-winning musical, South Pacific based on Micheners 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, about the lives of officers, nurses, a French expatriate, and na... |
Tales of the South Pacific. Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of sequentially related short stories by James A. Michener about the Pacific campaign in World War II. The stories are based on observations and anecdotes he collected while stationed as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy ... |
Ocean deoxygenation. Ocean deoxygenation is the reduction of the oxygen content in different parts of the ocean due to human activities.[2][3] There are two areas where this occurs. Firstly, it occurs in coastal zones where eutrophication has driven some quite rapid (in a few decades) declines in oxygen to very low lev... |
Teppanyaki. Teppanyaki (鉄板焼き, teppan-yaki), often called hibachi (火鉢, fire bowl) in the Western world,[1] is a post-World War II style[2] of Japanese cuisine that uses an iron griddle to cook food. The word teppanyaki is derived from teppan (鉄板), the metal plate on which it is cooked, and yaki (焼き), which means grille... |
South Pacific (1958 film). South Pacific is a 1958 American romantic musical film based on the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which in turn is loosely based on James A. Micheners 1947 short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific. The film, directed by Joshua Logan, stars Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi... |
Privately held company. A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the companys stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also... |
Pornography. Pornography (colloquially called porn or porno) is sexually suggestive material, such as a picture, video, text, or audio, intended for sexual arousal.[a] Made for consumption by adults, pornographic depictions have evolved from cave paintings, some forty millennia ago, to modern-day virtual reality prese... |
Pacific–Farallon Ridge. The Pacific-Farallon Ridge was a spreading ridge during the Late Cretaceous that extended 10,000 km in length and separated the Pacific Plate to the west and the Farallon Plate to the east. It ran south from the Pacific-Farallon-Kula triple junction at 51°N to the Pacific-Farallon-Antarctic trip... |
Pacific Rim. The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Basin includes the Pacific Rim and the islands in the Pacific Ocean.[1] The Pacific Rim roughly overlaps with the geological Pacific Ring of Fire. This is a list of countries that are generally considered to be a part of... |
Pacific, California. 38°45′37″N 120°30′26″W / 38.76028°N 120.50722°W / 38.76028; -120.50722 Pacific is a small unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.[1] It is located 3.25 miles (5 km) east of Pollock Pines,[2] at an elevation of 3396 feet (1035 m).[1] It lies along U.S. Highway 50. The ZIP cod... |
South Pacific (musical). South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, running for 1,925 performances. The plot is based on James A. Micheners Pulitzer Prize–winning ... |
Pacific–Kula Ridge. The Pacific-Kula Ridge is a former mid-ocean ridge that existed between the Pacific and Kula plates in the Pacific Ocean during the Paleogene period. Its appearance was in an east–west direction and the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain had its attribution with the ridge.[1] The Pacific-Kula Ridge lay... |
Oxygen. Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and a potent oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements as well as with other compounds. Oxygen is the most abundant element in Earths cr... |
Pacific Ocean. Main five oceans division: Further subdivision: The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earths five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Au... |
Western Pacific Airlines. Western Pacific Airlines, or WestPac, was an airline which operated in the United States from 1995 to 1998. A low-cost carrier, it was formed in 1994 under the name Commercial Air, later changed to Western Pacific, and began operating scheduled passenger flights on April 28, 1995, with eight ... |
Pacific–Antarctic Ridge. The Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (PAR, Antarctic Pacific Ridge, South Pacific Rise, South Pacific Ridge)[4] is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located on the seafloor of the South Pacific Ocean, separating the Pacific plate from the Antarctic plate. It is regarded as the southern section of the... |
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