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Vincent Kartheiser Vincent Paul Kartheiser (born May 5, 1979) is an American actor best known for playing Pete Campbell in "Mad Men" and Connor in the WB TV series "Angel".
Howard Hesseman Howard Hesseman (born February 27, 1940) is an American actor best known for playing disc jockey Johnny Fever on "WKRP in Cincinnati", Captain Pete Lassard in "" and schoolteacher Charlie Moore on "Head of the Class".
Scott Christopher Scott Christopher (born January 13, 1967) is an American film and television actor known for his roles in "The Best Two Years" and "Granite Flats".
Richard Gunn (actor) Richard Gunn is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Calvin "Sketchy" Theodore in the Fox series "Dark Angel" (2000–2002), Chief of Police John Sanders in the BYU TV series Granite Flats, and Aitor Quantic in the third and final season of the Netflix original series "Hemlock Grove".
Stephen W. Burns Stephen W. Burns (November 15, 1954 – February 22, 1990; also credited as Stephan W. Burns and Stephan Burns) was an American actor best known for playing Pete Stancheck in "Herbie Goes Bananas" and Jack Cleary in the miniseries "The Thorn Birds".
John Ioannou John Ioannou is an actor best known for his role as "Pete Riley" and "Alex Yankou" on the "Degrassi" series.
Vinod Kovoor Vinod Kovoor is an Indian film actor best known for his work in Malayalam cinema. He got fame with his role Moidu in the popular comedy show "Marimayam" broadcast by Mazhavil Manorama, which conveys a real picture of public offices in Kerala. He is also known for his role as "Moosakka" in "M80 Moosa", a se...
Charlie Plummer Charlie Plummer (born May 24, 1999) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing the lead roles of Timmy Sanders and Jack in the series "Granite Flats" and film "King Jack", respectively.
Gage Clarke Gage Clarke (March 3, 1900 – October 22, 1964) was an American character actor best known for his role as the principal in "Mister Peepers". His other work consisted largely of one-shot appearances in television series such as seven major supporting roles as different characters in "Maverick", twelve roles ...
Hugh Farrington Hugh Farrington was an American actor best known for his recurring role as Detective Pete O'Brien on the television series "T. J. Hooker". Farrington was injured while serving as an aviator in the United States Navy and acted while using a wheelchair.
Highland Historic District (Waterloo, Iowa) The Highland Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Waterloo, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Because of industrial growth the city's population doubled between 1890 and 1900, and then ...
Avery Street Historic District Avery Street Historic District, is a national historic district located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It is to the east of the Julia-Ann Square Historic District and south of the Parkersburg High School-Washington Avenue Historic District. Primarily residential, it encompass...
Terrace Park Historic District The Terrace Park Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Marion, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. At the time of its nomination it consisted of 27 resources, which included 20 contributing buildings a...
Elmwood Historic District–West Elmwood Historic District–West is a national historic district located at Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The district encompasses 1,971 contributing buildings, 4 contributing structures, and 13 contributing objects in the Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo. It is built around the Bu...
Shadow Brook Farm Historic District Shadow Brook Farm Historic District is located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is a historic district that includes six re-purposed farm buildings related to the former 'Shadowbrook' mansion destroyed by fire in 1956. Designed by architect H. Neill Wilson with landscaping by Freder...
Maysville Historic District (Mobile, Alabama) The Maysville Historic District is a historic district in Mobile, Alabama. The district covers 451 acre and contains 1121 properties located southwest of downtown and directly south of the Leinkauf Historic District. Platted in 1871 in the midst of a recession in Mobile, th...
West Hill Historic District (Muscatine, Iowa) The West Hill Historic District in Muscatine, Iowa is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. At that time, it included 258 contributing buildings, two contributing objects, two contributing sites, and 67 non-contributing bui...
Woodvale Historic District Woodvale Historic District is a national historic district located at Broad Top Township, Bedford County; Wells Township, Fulton County; and Wood Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 79 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in t...
Downtown Winters Historic District The Downtown Winters Historic District, also known as the Main Street Historic District, is a historic district in Winters, Yolo County, California which includes the block of Main Street between Railroad Avenue and First Street. The district is the commercial center of Winters and in...
Elmwood Historic District–East Elmwood Historic District–East is a national historic district located at Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The district encompasses 2,405 contributing buildings, 31 contributing structures, and 14 contributing objects in the Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo. It is bounded on the nor...
Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel, 524 U.S. 498 (1998), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act (Coal Act) constituted an unconstitutional regulatory taking of property which required the Act to be invalidated. The import of...
Westendorp v R Westendorp v R, [1983] 1 S.C.R. 43 was a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the scope of the federal Parliament's criminal law power under section 91(27) of the Constitution Act, 1867. A unanimous Court found that a municipal by-law that prohibited standing in the street for the purpose of prosti...
Spaziano v. Florida Spaziano v. Florida, was two United States Supreme Court cases dealing with the imposition of the death penalty. In the first case, 454 U.S. 1037 (1981), the Supreme Court, with two dissents, refused Spaziano's petition for certiorari. However, the Florida Supreme Court would reverse Spaziano's deat...
List of United States state supreme court cases Every year, each of the 50 United States state supreme courts decides hundreds of cases. Of those cases dealing with state law, a few significantly shape or re-shape the law of their state or are so influential that they later become models for decisions of other states o...
Commercial speech Commercial speech is a U.S. legal term relating to speech done on behalf of a company or individual for the intent of making a profit. It is economic in nature and usually has the intent of convincing the audience to partake in a particular action, often purchasing a specific product. Generally, the U...
Evans v. Jordan Evans v. Jordan, 13 U.S. 199 (1815) , was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that someone who had copied a patented invention after the patent had expired, and before the patent was restored by a private bill, would be liable for damages for patent infringement for any use contin...
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC Turner Broadcasting v. Federal Communications Commission, 512 U.S. 622 (1994), is the first of two United States Supreme Court cases dealing with the must carry rules imposed on cable television companies. "Turner Broadcasting v. Federal Communications Commission (II)", 520 U.S. ...
Cooley v. Board of Wardens Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 53 U.S. 299 (1852), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a Pennsylvania law requiring all ships entering or leaving Philadelphia to hire a local pilot did not violate the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. Those who did not comply w...
Lochner era The "Lochner" era is a period in American legal history from 1897 to 1937 in which the Supreme Court of the United States is said to have made it a common practice "to strike down economic regulations adopted by a State based on the Court’s own notions of the most appropriate means for the State to implemen...
Stephen Halbrook Stephen P. Halbrook is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and an author and lawyer known for his litigation on behalf of the National Rifle Association. He has written extensively about the original meanings of the Second Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment (the latter as applied to Second...
The Maze Runner The Maze Runner is a 2009 young adult post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner and the first book released in "The Maze Runner" series, although it is the third chronologically. The novel was published on October 7, 2009 by Delacorte Press, an imprint of ...
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (stylized onscreen simply as The Scorch Trials) is a 2015 American dystopian science fiction action thriller film based on James Dashner's novel "The Scorch Trials", the second novel in "The Maze Runner" book series. The film is the sequel to the 2014 film "...
The Kill Order The Kill Order is a 2012 young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner and published on August 14, 2012 by Delacorte Press. It is the first prequel book in "The Maze Runner" series and the fourth installment overall. The book is set prior to the events of "The Fever...
The Death Cure The Death Cure is a 2011 young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American writer James Dashner and the third book, fifth chronologically, in the "Maze Runner" series. It was published on October 11, 2011 by Delacorte Press and was preceded by "The Maze Runner" and "The Scorch Trials" and f...
Maze Runner: The Death Cure Maze Runner: The Death Cure (also known simply as The Death Cure) is an upcoming American dystopian science-fiction action thriller film directed by Wes Ball, based on "The Death Cure", the final book in "The Maze Runner" trilogy, written by James Dashner, with a screenplay by T.S. Nowlin. I...
The Fever Code The Fever Code is a 2016 young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner and published on September 27, 2016 by Delacorte Press. It is the second prequel book in "The Maze Runner" series and the fifth installment overall. The book is chronologically set in between the...
Dylan O'Brien Dylan O'Brien (born August 26, 1991) is an American actor. He first received attention as "Stiles" Stilinski in the MTV series "Teen Wolf", and transitioned to film in projects such as "The First Time", "The Internship" and "Deepwater Horizon", and as the lead in the dystopian science-fiction adventure se...
The Scorch Trials The Scorch Trials is a 2010 young adult post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner and the second book, fourth chronologically, in "The Maze Runner" series. The novel was published on September 18, 2010 by Delacorte Press. It is preceded by "The Maze Runn...
The Maze Runner (series) The Maze Runner is a series of young adult dystopian science fiction novels written by American author James Dashner. The series consists of "The Maze Runner" (2009), "The Scorch Trials" (2010) and "The Death Cure" (2011), as well as the two prequel novels, "The Kill Order" (2012) and "The Feve...
The Maze Runner (film) The Maze Runner is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction action thriller film directed by Wes Ball, in his directorial debut, based on James Dashner's 2009 novel of the same name. The film is the first installment in "The Maze Runner" film series and was produced by Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Wyck...
Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum The Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum is based in Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains, Australia. The property is a stone cottage on a 17 ha block of land known as Springwood which was originally owned by the Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay. The property also contains some ...
Division of Lindsay The Division of Lindsay is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division is named after Sir Norman Lindsay, the prominent Australian artist, writer and sculptor. The division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 October 1984 and was first contested at the 1984 ...
Jack Lindsay Jack Lindsay (20 October 1900 – 8 March 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex. He was born in Melbourne, but spent his formative years in Brisbane. He was the eldest son of Norman Lindsay and brother of author Philip Lindsay.
Philip Lindsay Philip Lindsay (1906–1958) was an Australian writer, who mostly wrote historical novels. He was the son of Norman Lindsay, an Australian artist and a younger brother of writer Jack Lindsay. He was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane, and emigrated to England in 1929. Most of his no...
Percy Lindsay Percival (Percy) Charles Lindsay (17 September 1870 – 21 September 1952) was an Australian landscape painter, illustrator and cartoonist, born in Creswick, Victoria. Percy was the first child born to Jane Lindsay (née Williams) and Dr Robert Charles Lindsay. His siblings included the well-known artists: S...
Halfway to Nowhere Halfway to Nowhere is a 1972 Australian TV play based on the novel by Norman Lindsay. It was part of a series of Lindsay adaptations on the ABC.
Ruby Lindsay Ruby Lindsay (20 March 1885 – 12 March 1919) was an Australian illustrator and painter, sister of Norman Lindsay and Percy Lindsay.
A Curate in Bohemia A Curate in Bohemia is a 1972 Australian TV play based on a 1913 novel by Norman Lindsay. It was one of a series of adaptations of Lindsay works on the ABC in 1972.
Two Kinds "Two Kinds" is a short story from the book "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan. It was first published in 1989. The short story outlines the main character Jing-mei Woo’s childhood and the effects of her mother’s high expectations for her life. It is clear that some of the events in the short story reflect events ...
Age of Consent (film) Age of Consent (also known as Norman Lindsay's Age of Consent) is a 1969 Australian film which was the penultimate feature film directed by British director Michael Powell. The romantic comedy-drama stars James Mason (co-producer with Powell), Helen Mirren in her first major film role, and Irish c...
Listen Without Prejudice (Regine Velasquez album) Listen Without Prejudice is the debut international studio album and sixth studio album in overall of Filipino singer-actress Regine Velasquez. It was released on 1994 through Mercury Records, making her the second Filipino artist to be signed on an international record...
I'll Be Alright (Anggun song) "I'll Be Alright" (French: "Juste avant toi") is a song recorded by Indonesian singer Anggun for the special edition of her third international studio album "Luminescence". It was written by the singer alongside Evelyne Kral, Alice L.B., and Cyril Paulus, and was produced by FB Cool and SD...
Snow on the Sahara Snow on the Sahara (English version) / Au nom de la lune (French version) is the first international studio album by Indonesian singer Anggun. The French version was first released in France on 24 June 1997 by Columbia Records, while the English version was later released internationally by major lab...
Snow on the Sahara (song) "Snow on the Sahara" is a song by Indonesian singer Anggun from her first international studio album "Snow on the Sahara". Written originally in French by Erick Benzi titled "La neige au Sahara", the song was adapted to English by Nikki Matheson. The French version was recorded for Anggun's fi...
Louder (Charice song) "Louder" is the second single of Filipino pop and R&B singer Jake Zyrus from her second international studio album "Infinity" released on May 20, 2011, ahead of its planned May 30 release. It was credited under the name Charice, a name Zyrus used prior to his gender transition. This song was writt...
Jake Zyrus discography The discography of Jake Zyrus, a Filipino singer, consists of two studio albums, two extended plays (EP), four singles, six promotional singles, and six music videos. Jake recorded under the name Charice before coming out in 2017 as a transgender man . In 2008, Zyrus released his debut EP under S...
Chapters (Yuna album) Chapters is the third international studio album by Malaysian singer-songwriter, Yuna released on May 20, 2016, through Verve Records. The album is the follow-up to her second international studio album "Nocturnal" (2013), and features guest appearances from Usher and Jhené Aiko. "Chapters" made i...
Infinity (Charice album) Infinity (stylized as ∞) is the second international studio album (fifth overall release) by Filipino pop and R&B singer Jake Zyrus. The album was released exclusively early in Japan on October 5, 2011 by Warner Bros. Records. The album was credited under the name Charice, Zyrus' name prior to ...
Wanda Jackson albums discography The albums discography of Wanda Jackson, an American recording artist, consists of forty-five studio albums, one international studio album, seven tribute and cover albums, four live albums, twenty-one compilation albums, and two box sets. In 1954 at age sixteen, Jackson signed with Dec...
Charice (album) Charice is the first international studio album (third overall release) by Filipino pop singer Jake Zyrus. It was released on May 11, 2010, under Reprise Records, making her the third Filipino singer to be signed on an international record label, the first being Lea Salonga (on Atlantic Records in 1993)...
Olympian Hiawatha The Olympian and its successor the Olympian Hiawatha were passenger trains operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (the "Milwaukee Road") between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. The "Olympian" operated from 1911 to 1947 and was, along with its running mate the "Columbian",...
Watertown Subdivision The Watertown Subdivision or Watertown Sub is a railway line in Wisconsin operated by Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) through its primary United States subsidiary, the Soo Line Railroad. It meets CP's Tomah Subdivision in the west in Portage and runs to Milwaukee in the east where it meets the C&M S...
Mainstreeter The Mainstreeter was a passenger train on the Northern Pacific Railway between Chicago, Illinois, and the Pacific Northwest from 1952 to 1971. When the "North Coast Limited" got a faster schedule in November 1952 the Mainstreeter was introduced, running roughly on the North Coast's old schedule but via Hel...
Pacific Northwest languages The Pacific Northwest languages are the indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest of North America. This is a geographic term and does not imply any common heritage for these languages. In fact, the Pacific Northwest is an area of exceptional linguistic diversity and contains languages b...
Rocky Iaukea Rocky Iaukea is a retired American professional wrestler, known by his ringname Prince Iaukea, who competed in the Pacific Northwest and Southeastern United States with the National Wrestling Alliance during the 1980s, and in Japan during the early 1990s. From 1987 to 1990, he wrestled as Abbuda Dein in Pa...
Pacific Northwest Bell Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company was an AT&T majority-owned Bell System company that provided local telecommunications services in Oregon, Washington, and northern Idaho. Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company was formed on July 1, 1961 when it was spun off from the Pacific Telephone an...
Nashville Terminal Subdivision The Nashville Terminal Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. State of Tennessee. The Subdivision is broken up into 5 sections all in Nashville, Tennessee. The northern part of the Terminal is in Madison, Tennessee at milepost 000/0BA 174 on the southern en...
Empire Builder The Empire Builder is a daily passenger train operated by Amtrak that runs between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. The route has two segments west of Spokane that serve two termini, Seattle and Portland.
Mike Miller (wrestler) James Michael Hillman (born October 14, 1951), better known by the ring name "Mean" Mike Miller, is an American professional wrestler who had great success in Pacific Northwest Wrestling. Mean Mike was brought in to professional wrestling by Herb Welch. In Pacific Northwest Wrestling he wrestled ...
Galt Subdivision Canadian Pacific's Galt Subdivision is Canadian Pacific's 114.6 mile long section of its Montréal-Detroit freight corridor. It is located in Southern Ontario, Canada. Getting its name from the historic City of Galt (now the City of Cambridge) that it passes through, the track runs from the bustling hub...
AHIKU As a specialized company in mobile video services, Ahiku Corp. develops live broadcasting platform and service that help people communicate more efficiently, and it also provides a new concept of video service that combines social network services.
Summer Games Done Quick 2016 Summer Games Done Quick 2016 (sometimes abbreviated as SGDQ 2016) was a speedrun charity marathon hosted by the Speedruns Live community on 3–9 July, 2016. Held at the Hilton Minneapolis Downtown in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the event consisted of 177 consecutive speedruns, spread over seven ...
Dash Radio Dash Radio is a digital radio broadcasting platform with more than 80 original stations. These stations are curated by DJs, radio personalities, musicians, and music tastemakers. The platform includes partner stations curated by Snoop Dogg, Odd Future, Kylie Jenner, Lil Wayne, Tech N9ne, Borgore, B-Real of C...
Speed Demos Archive Speed Demos Archive (commonly known as simply SDA) is a website dedicated to video game speedruns. SDA's primary focus is hosting downloadable, high-quality speedrun videos, and currently has runs of over eleven hundred games, with more being added on a regular basis. SDA also hosts two annual speed...
Flash (video gamer) Lee Young-ho (born 5 July 1992 이영호) is a South Korean "" and "StarCraft II" player who played Terran for the Korean pro-gaming team KT Rolster under the alias By.FlaSh or simply Flash. He is widely considered the best "StarCraft" player of all time. Lee began playing "StarCraft II" competitively in ...
Noirhouse Noirhouse is an award winning Australian dark comedy indie web series, starring Melanie Irons, Nathan Spencer and Mick Davies. It plays on film-noir archetypes, featuring three main characters - a shady detective, femme fatale and Russian mobster. It premiered in September 2013 with an early screening at the ...
Trihex Mychal Ramon Jefferson, better known under the screen name Trihex, is an American professional gamer and speedrunner. Active at the biannual Games Done Quick events, Trihex is best known for his runs of "Jet Set Radio" and "Yoshi's Island". He is a very popular livestreamer, with over 200,000 followers on Twitch...
Games Done Quick Games Done Quick is a biannual video game speedrun charity marathon held in the United States, originally organized by the Speed Demos Archive and Speedruns Live communities. Since 2015, it has been handled by Games Done Quick, LLC. Held since 2010, the events have raised money for several charities; t...
Live365 LIVE365 is an Internet radio broadcasting and listening network where users are able to create their own online radio stations, or choose to listen to thousands of human curated stations created by people from around the globe. LIVE365 is unique in that online radio stations on the LIVE365 network were created ...
Quake Done Quick Quake done Quick is a series of machinima and speedrun movies in which Quake, its mission packs, and a few of its related games, are completed as fast as possible, utilizing any shortcut or trick, such as bunny hopping and rocket jumping (but not cheats) necessary. These movies are available in the gam...
Kaiyuan, Liaoning Kaiyuan () is a county-level city in the northeast of Liaoning, People's Republic of China, bordering Jilin for a small section to the north. It is under the administration of Tieling City, the centre of which lies 33 km to the southwest.
Wei Junxing Wei Junxing (; born October 1955) is a Chinese politician who spent most of his career in Liaoning province in northeast China. In January 2015, Wei was put under investigation by the Communist Party of China's anti-corruption agency. Previously he served as Deputy Secretary-general of Liaoning provincial g...
Racial threat Broadly speaking, the term racial threat refers to how people react to those of a different race. More specifically, the racial threat hypothesis or racial threat theory proposes that a higher population of members of a minority race results in the dominant race imposing higher levels of social control on...
Demography of the United Kingdom According to the 2011 census, the total population of the United Kingdom was around 63,182,000.<ref name="2http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_292378.pdf |title=2011 Census: Population Estimates for the United Kingdom |publisher=Office for National Statistics |date=27 March 2011 |access...
Du Zheheng Du Zheheng () (1910–1975) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Kaiyuan, Liaoning. In 1936, after attending Northeastern University, he went to Xi'an to participate in the Xi'an Incident. In 1937, he joined the Communist Party of China. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was a memb...
Repartition of Ireland The repartition of Ireland has been suggested as a possible solution to the continuing political disagreement in Northern Ireland. The essential problem was that the partition of Ireland was gerrymandered, and as a result Northern Ireland contains a large Irish nationalist minority. Much of the I...
Permanent Population Committee The Permanent Population Committee (PPC) (Arabic: اللجنة الدائمة للسكان) is a national authority in the state of Qatar whose mission is to realize the aptness of population requirements to sustainable development. To do so, PPC bases its action on Islamic Sharia principles and communal va...
Kaiyuan West Railway Station Kaiyuan West Railway Station is a railway station of Hada Passenger Railway and located in Liaoning, China
Eco-cities An eco-city is a city built from the principles of living within environment means. The ultimate goal of many eco-cities is to eliminate all carbon waste (zero-carbon city), to produce energy entirely through renewable resources, and to merge the city harmoniously with the natural environment; however, eco-c...
Qinghe District, Tieling Qinghe District () is a district of Tieling, Liaoning province, People's Republic of China. However, it is located closer to Kaiyuan City than it is to downtown Tieling, which lies 39 km to the southwest.
Electron Blue "Electron Blue" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released as the third single from their thirteenth studio album "Around the Sun" on February 28, 2005. Written by group members Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, the song features a synthesizer-heavy arrangement. Its lyrics ...
Isotopes of zirconium Naturally occurring zirconium (Zr) is composed of four stable isotopes (of which one may in the future be found radioactive), and one very long-lived radioisotope (Zr), a primordial nuclide that decays via double beta decay with an observed half-life of 2.0×10 years; it can also undergo single bet...
Stellacyanin Stellacyanin is a member of the blue or type I copper protein family. This family of copper proteins is generally involved in electron transfer reactions with the Cu center transitioning between the oxidized Cu(II) form and the reduced Cu(I) form. Stellacyanin is ubiquitous among vascular seed plants. It i...
Alcian blue stain Alcian blue or alcian blue ( ) is any member of a family of polyvalent basic dyes, of which the Alcian blue 8G (also called Ingrain blue 1, and C.I. 74240, formerly called Alcian blue 8GX from the name of a batch of an ICI product) has been historically the most common and the most reliable member. It...
Heavy fermion material In solid-state physics, heavy fermion materials are a specific type of intermetallic compound, containing elements with 4f or 5f electrons in unfilled electron bands. Electrons are one type of fermion, and when they are found in such materials, they are sometimes referred to as heavy electrons. H...
Membrane contact site Membrane contact sites (MCS) are close appositions between two organelles. Ultrastructural studies typically reveal an intermembrane distance in the order of the size of a single protein (10 nm). These zones of apposition are highly conserved in evolution but not much is understood about their bio...
Fimbria (bacteriology) In bacteriology, a fimbria (plural fimbriae), also referred to as an "attachment pilus" by some scientists, is an appendage that can be found on many Gram-negative and some Gram-positive bacteria that is thinner and shorter than a flagellum. This appendage ranges from 3-10 nanometers in diameter ...
Positron-Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator The Positron-Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator (PETRA) is one of the particle accelerators at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. From 1978 to 1986 it was used to study electron–positron collisions. It was here that the TASSO collaboration found the first direct evidence for gluons in thr...
Lanthanum hexaboride Lanthanum hexaboride (LaB, also called lanthanum boride and LaB) is an inorganic chemical, a boride of lanthanum. It is a refractory ceramic material that has a melting point of 2210 °C, and is insoluble in water and hydrochloric acid. It has a low work function and one of the highest electron emis...
Wilhelm Walcher Wilhelm Walcher (7 July 1910 in Kaufbeuren – 9 November 2005 in Marburg) was a German experimental physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club; he worked on mass spectrometers for isotope separation. After the war, he was director of the...