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343723 | National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National%20Space%20Grant%20College%20and%20Fellowship%20Program | National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program
an online internship application system for STEM majors. This was done for the people to meet the increasing demand for citizens with STEM majors.
Virginia Earth System Science Scholars
The Virginia Earth System Science Scholars is a STEM-centered program where part... | 50,900 |
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centered programs were created.
# Participating institutions.
As of 2002, there are over 850 participating institutions.
- Alabama Space Grant Consortium
- Auburn University
- University of Alabama
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- University of Alabama i... | 50,901 |
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Jonesboro
- Arkansas Tech University, Russellville
- Harding University, Searcy
- Henderson State University, Arkadelphia
- Hendrix College, Conway
- Lyon College, Batesville
- Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia
- Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia
-... | 50,902 |
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Obispo
- California State University, Long Beach
- California State University, Los Angeles
- California State University, Sacramento
- California State University, San Bernardino
- Grossmont–Cuyamaca Community College District
- San Diego State University
- Sa... | 50,903 |
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Colorado Boulder
- Colorado Mesa University
- Colorado State University
- Colorado School of Mines
- University of Denver
- University of Northern Colorado
- Adams State College
- Fort Lewis College
- Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Pikes Peak Commu... | 50,904 |
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University
- Yale University
- Connecticut Community Colleges
- Delaware Space Grant Consortium
- University of Delaware
- Florida Space Grant Consortium
- Astronauts Memorial Foundation
- Bethune-Cookman University
- Brevard Community College
- Eckerd Colleg... | 50,905 |
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University of Miami
- University of North Florida
- University of South Florida
- University of West Florida
- Georgia Space Grant Consortium
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- University of Georgia
- Hawaii Space Grant Consortium
- University of Hawaii at Ma... | 50,906 |
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Purdue University
- Purdue University Calumet
- Taylor University
- University of Evansville
- University of Southern Indiana
- Valparaiso University
- Iowa Space Grant Consortium
- Iowa State University
- University of Iowa
- University of Northern Iowa
- D... | 50,907 |
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Saint Joseph's College of Maine
- Bates College
- Bowdoin College
- Colby College
- Southern Maine Community College
- York County Community College
- Maine Maritime Academy
- College of the Atlantic
- Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership
- Bigelow Labor... | 50,908 |
343723 | National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National%20Space%20Grant%20College%20and%20Fellowship%20Program | National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program
Community College
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- University of Maryland, College Park
- United States Naval Academy
- University of Maryland Eastern Shore
- Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University ... | 50,909 |
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Community College
- Meridian Community College
- Mississippi Delta Community College
- Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
- Northeast Mississippi Community College
- Mississippi University for Women
- Mississippi Valley State University
- University of So... | 50,910 |
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University (Consortium Associate)
- William Jewell College (Consortium Associate)
- Montana Space Grant Consortium
- Aaniiih Nakoda College
- Blackfeet Community College
- Carroll College
- Chief Dull Knife College
- Dawson Community College
- Flathead Valley ... | 50,911 |
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Western
- Nebraska Space Grant Consortium
- University of Nebraska Omaha
- Nevada Space Grant Consortium
- University and Community College System of Nevada
- New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium
- University of New Hampshire
- New Jersey Space Grant Consortium... | 50,912 |
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Technology
- Union County College
- New Mexico Space Grant Consortium
- New Mexico State University
- New York Space Grant Consortium
- Cornell University, Lead Institution
- Alfred University
- Barnard College
- City College of New York
- Clarkson University... | 50,913 |
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North Carolina Space Grant Consortium
- North Carolina State University
- North Dakota Space Grant Consortium
- University of North Dakota
- Ohio Space Grant Consortium
- Ohio Aerospace Institute
- Air Force Institute of Technology
- Case Western Reserve Univer... | 50,914 |
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College
- Oregon Institute of Technology
- Pacific University
- Portland Community College
- Portland State University
- Southern Oregon University
- University of Oregon
- University of Portland
- Western Oregon University
- Pennsylvania Space Grant Consorti... | 50,915 |
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Angelo State University
- Texas A&M University
- University of Texas at Austin
- Lamar University
- Rice University
- Utah Space Grant Consortium
- Brigham Young University
- University of Utah
- Utah State University
- Vermont Space Grant Consortium
- Unive... | 50,916 |
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iversity of Vermont
- Virginia Space Grant Consortium
- College of William & Mary
- Hampton University
- Old Dominion University
- University of Virginia
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Washington D.C. NASA Space Grant Consortium
- Amer... | 50,917 |
343691 | Big Game (American football) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Game%20(American%20football) | Big Game (American football)
Big Game (American football)
Big Game is the name given to the Cal–Stanford football rivalry. It is an American college football rivalry game played by the California Golden Bears football team of the University of California, Berkeley and the Stanford Cardinal football team of Stanford Un... | 50,918 |
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oldest college football rivalry in the West.
While an undergraduate at Stanford, future U.S. President Herbert Hoover was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams. He helped organize the inaugural Big Game, along with his friend Cal manager Herbert Lang. Only 10,000 tick... | 50,919 |
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the school that could win the football game two years in a row. Berkeley responded by shutting Stanford out in 1898 and 1899, and the sculpture was installed on the Berkeley campus atop a stone pedestal engraved with the names of the players and the donor during a dedication ceremony held M... | 50,920 |
343691 | Big Game (American football) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Game%20(American%20football) | Big Game (American football)
blazing furnace. In total 22 men, mostly boys, where killed with more than 100 severely injured. To this day, the Thanksgiving Day Disaster remains the deadliest accident to kill spectators at a U.S. sporting event.
In 1906, citing concerns about the violence in football, both schools drop... | 50,921 |
343691 | Big Game (American football) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Game%20(American%20football) | Big Game (American football)
was the disagreement over Stanford's play of freshmen their varsity team, however it was apparent that Cal intended to withdraw from the agreement to play rugby and instead play football against western schools that continued playing football or switched back several years earlier. Cal's Bi... | 50,922 |
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Stanford's football team was composed of volunteers from the Student Army Training Corps stationed at Stanford, some of whom were not Stanford students. Cal won 72-0. In 1919, Stanford officially switched back to playing football.
The first incidence of card stunts was performed by Cal fan... | 50,923 |
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football program due to World War II. A handful of Stanford starters—including guards Jim Cox, Bill Hachten and Fred Boensch, running back George Quist and halfback Billy Agnew—shifted to Cal in order to continue playing. Quist returned to Stanford, playing against Cal in the 1946 Big Game.... | 50,924 |
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history, having been stolen on several occasions by both sides, starting in 1899, when the Axe was introduced when Stanford yell leader Billy Erb used it at a baseball game between the two schools.
In March 2007, the National Football League announced that it intended to trademark the phra... | 50,925 |
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years at Stanford and even-numbered years at Cal. However, several days later Cal declined the offer.
# Pregame traditions.
In the week before the game, both schools celebrate the occasion with rallies, reunions, and luncheons. Cal students hold a traditional pep rally and bonfire at the ... | 50,926 |
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game between the members of the two schools' newspapers. In addition, the two schools compete in a blood drive called "Rivals for Life."
## Cal.
The Big Game Bonfire Rally is a pep and bonfire rally that takes place at University of California, Berkeley in Hearst Greek Theatre on the eve ... | 50,927 |
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alumni show up to perform traditional rituals. A tradition unique to Cal is the performance of the Haka, a traditional Maori war dance/chant. Traditionally performed by an alumni Yell Leader, the Haka performed was written in the 1960s by a Cal rugby player of Maori descent. The traditional... | 50,928 |
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of a speech known as the "Andy Smith Eulogy" or "The Spirit of California". Written by Garff Wilson in remembrance of the fabled Cal football coach, who led the Bears to five straight undefeated seasons starting in 1919 before tragically dying of pneumonia in 1925, the speech closes the Ral... | 50,929 |
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slot to October 20, and the Greek Theatre was already booked for the Bob Dylan concert. This was the first time the bonfire had not been held since 1892. The bonfire portion of the rally was cancelled again in 2015 due to the ongoing drought.
## Stanford.
For decades, Stanford also held a... | 50,930 |
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told by Hal Mickelson, and the Axe Yell is performed by the Yell Leaders of The Stanford Axe Committee. The rally ends with a performance by the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band and a fireworks show. A student-produced play called "Gaieties," an annual Big Game week tradition... | 50,931 |
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came into the game unbeaten with a berth in the 1925 Rose Bowl on the line. With its star Ernie Nevers sidelined due to injuries, Stanford trailed 20–6 with under 5 minutes to go, but rallied to score twice to force a 20–20 tie and earn the Rose Bowl bid.
## 1947.
In the 50th Big Game, wi... | 50,932 |
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touchdown pass to Steve Sweeney for a last-second 24–22 Cal victory.
## 1974.
Mike Langford nailed a 50-yard field goal on the final play for a 22–20 Stanford triumph over the 19th-ranked Bears.
## 1982.
### The Play.
The conclusion of the 85th Big Game on November 20, 1982 would go do... | 50,933 |
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the ball five times on a kickoff return with four seconds left on the clock. Kevin Moen, who was also the initial ball carrier, ran for a touchdown while knocking down the final Stanford "defender," trombone player Gary Tyrrell, who had run onto the field with the rest of the band to celebr... | 50,934 |
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whereas in many Stanford publications it is recorded as Stanford 20, Cal 19 due to Stanford's contention that a Cal ball carrier had his knee down and the last lateral was actually an illegal forward pass, either of which would have resulted in the end of the play.
## 1986.
Cal was 1-9 in... | 50,935 |
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tied, Cal marched to the Stanford 3-yard line with 4 seconds remaining in the game. Called "the Cadillac of kickers in college football" by Cal coach Bruce Snyder, all Pac-10 and future all-American Robbie Keen lined up for a 21-yard field goal attempt to win the game on the final play. Whe... | 50,936 |
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before jubilant Cardinal fans, with stunned Bear fans looking on. This was the only Big Game to end in a tie after 1953 and under current overtime rules may be the last Big Game to end tied.
## 1990.
This game had echoes of the 1982 game due to late seesaw scoring, the critical role of fa... | 50,937 |
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6:03 left. Stanford stopped Cal on a third and 6 on the Stanford 46 with 2:06 left to play. After Cal's punt, Stanford took its final possession on its own 13 with 1:54 left. Escaping two near interceptions and converting a 4th and 6, Stanford moved the ball to the Cal 19 with 0:17 left. Qu... | 50,938 |
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12 seconds left and now kicking from the 50 yard line, Hopkins bounced the ensuing onside kick off a Cal player and, after being touched by seven players, the ball was recovered by Stanford's Dan Byers on the Cal 37. With 9 seconds left and no time outs, a pass attempt to McCaffrey to set u... | 50,939 |
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and 2 TD's) and Stanford's Glyn Milburn (196 yards and 1 TD). Milburn also led Stanford receiving with 9 receptions for 66 yards and had 117 return yards. His 379 all-purpose yards set a Pac-10 record at the time and remained Stanford's record until it was eclipsed by Christian McCaffrey's ... | 50,940 |
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record for most points scored in a Big Game.
## 2013.
Winning 63–13, #10 Stanford set the record for most points scored in a Big Game, shattering the previous record of 48 shared by Cal in 1975 and Stanford in 2010. The 50-point victory margin also set a Big Game record, breaking the prev... | 50,941 |
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in a row, setting a new record for longest winning streak in the rivalry.
## 2018.
The 2018 Big Game was originally scheduled to be played on November 17, but was rescheduled to December 1 at 12:00 noon, because of unhealthy air quality in the Bay Area caused by the Camp Fire. Stanford co... | 50,942 |
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Men's and women's rowing - The "Big Row" now in honor of Cal coxswain Jill Costello who died of stage 4 lung cancer in 2010.
- Men's and women's track and field - The "Big Meet"
- Volleyball – The "Big Spike"
- Men's basketball - The "Big Tipoff"
- Water polo – The "Big Splash"
- Ice h... | 50,943 |
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he "Scrum Axe". In men's basketball the semiannual matchups are sometimes labeled the "Big Game" but it is not official. In women's basketball, the meetings are simply called the "Battle of the Bay."
# See also.
- List of NCAA college football rivalry games
- Most-played rivalries in NCA... | 50,944 |
343696 | King Biscuit Time | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=King%20Biscuit%20Time | King Biscuit Time
King Biscuit Time
King Biscuit Time is the longest-running daily American radio broadcast in history. The program is broadcast each weekday from KFFA in Helena, Arkansas, United States, and has won the George Foster Peabody Award for broadcasting excellence. In 2018, certain selections of "King Biscu... | 50,945 |
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Lockwood played live in the studio and were the key musicians in the original studio band, the 'King Biscuit Entertainers.' Other musicians who joined the original band were Pinetop Perkins on piano and James Peck Curtis on drums. Williamson left the program in 1947, but returned for a stint in 1965 j... | 50,946 |
343696 | King Biscuit Time | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=King%20Biscuit%20Time | King Biscuit Time
it reached an audience throughout the Mississippi Delta region. It inspired blues musicians including B.B. King, Robert Nighthawk, James Cotton, and Ike Turner. The show's 12:15 pm time slot was chosen to match the lunch break of workers in the Delta.
"King Biscuit Time" celebrated its 17,000th broad... | 50,947 |
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associated with the program, and important blues artists continue to perform live.
# Influence and related projects.
The popularity of the program made Helena a major blues center. Helena became a stopping place for blues musicians on their way from the Delta region to the Chicago blues nightclubs a... | 50,948 |
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of imitators. By 1947 the first black disc jockey in the South, Early Wright, had been signed at WROX across the river. WDIA in Memphis soon became the first radio station in the South with an all black staff (including deejay B.B. King) and musical format based on the success of "King Biscuit Time".
... | 50,949 |
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r.
Musician King Biscuit Boy was given that stage name by Ronnie Hawkins.
The "King Biscuit Flower Hour" is a one-hour syndicated rock and roll radio program, the name of which was derived from "King Biscuit Time".
In 1986, the first annual King Biscuit Blues Festival (later renamed to "Arkansas Bl... | 50,950 |
343705 | The Peoples of Middle-earth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Peoples%20of%20Middle-earth | The Peoples of Middle-earth
The Peoples of Middle-earth
The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996) is the 12th and final volume of "The History of Middle-earth", edited by Christopher Tolkien from the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien. Some characters (including Anairë, the wife of Fingolfin) only appear ... | 50,951 |
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Tolkien in which he has collected a great part of all that his father John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote of Middle-earth and Valinor. In this book is traced the devising of the history of the later ages in the Northwest of Middle-earth after the Great Battle and the Fall of Morgoth."
### The ... | 50,952 |
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on languages, family trees, and calendars, as well as the history of the "Akallabêth", "The Tale of Years" (chronologies of the Second and Third Ages), the heirs of Elendil, and the making of Appendix A.
### Late Writings.
Materials mostly post-dating 1969, consisting of the essays "Of Dw... | 50,953 |
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Rivendell, and Círdan the Shipwright.
### The Teachings of Pengoloð.
A brief narrative going back to the "Book of Lost Tales" period, presenting information provided by Pengoloð of Gondolin to Ælfwine of England in regard to the sundering of the Elven tongues.
### Incomplete Tales.
Two... | 50,954 |
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ow.
"The New Shadow" is a sequel to "The Lord of the Rings", set a little over a century later in the time of King Eldarion, Aragorn's son. Tolkien wrote three versions of the beginning of this story, but all were abandoned after a few pages.
#### Tal-Elmar.
"Tal-Elmar" is set in the Seco... | 50,955 |
343725 | National Sea Grant College Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National%20Sea%20Grant%20College%20Program | National Sea Grant College Program
National Sea Grant College Program
The National Sea Grant College Program is a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the U.S. Department of Commerce. It is a national network of 33 Sea Grant Colleges and universities involved in scientific resea... | 50,956 |
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institutions, called Sea Grant colleges, many but not all of which are located along the coast. The program was instituted in 1966 when Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act.
Sea Grant colleges are not to be confused with land-grant colleges (a program instituted... | 50,957 |
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Grant colleges in universities that wished to develop oceanic work. The name "Sea Grant" was chosen to draw a parallel with the land grant college program that was funded by grants of western lands to the states by the 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862. Early in the legislative proc... | 50,958 |
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by:
Encouraging and developing programs consisting of instruction, practical demonstrations, publications, and otherwise, by sea grant colleges and other suitable institutes, laboratories, and public and private agencies through marine advisory programs with the object of imparting u... | 50,959 |
343725 | National Sea Grant College Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National%20Sea%20Grant%20College%20Program | National Sea Grant College Program
the Office of Sea Grant was transferred from the National Science Foundation to the newly organized National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where the program has resided ever since.
# Participating institutions.
A map showing the locations of and links to the institutions i... | 50,960 |
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Texas A&M University
- Louisiana State University
- Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium
- Auburn University
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab
- Jackson State University
- Mississippi State University
- University of Alabama
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- University of Mi... | 50,961 |
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State University
- Coastal Carolina University
- University of South Carolina
## Mid-Atlantic Region.
- North Carolina State University
- East Carolina University
- College of William & Mary
- Virginia Institute of Marine Science
- Old Dominion University
- Virginia Tech
- U... | 50,962 |
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Georgian Court University
- Kean University
- Marine Academy of Science and Technology
- Middlesex County College
- Monmouth University
- Montclair State University
- New Jersey City University
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Princeton University
- Ramapo College of Ne... | 50,963 |
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State University of New York at Buffalo
- Cornell University
- University of Connecticut at Avery Point
- University of Rhode Island
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- University of Vermont (also participates in the Great Lakes Regio... | 50,964 |
343725 | National Sea Grant College Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National%20Sea%20Grant%20College%20Program | National Sea Grant College Program
niversity of Rhode Island
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- University of Vermont (also participates in the Great Lakes Region)
- University of New Hampshire
- University of Maine
## Great Lakes Region.
- Pennsylvania State Univers... | 50,965 |
343731 | Blue Mosque | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Mosque | Blue Mosque
Blue Mosque
Blue Mosque may refer to:
# Buildings.
- Blue Mosque, Yerevan, Armenia
- Blue Mosque, Tabriz, Iran
- Blue Mosque (Amsterdam), Netherlands
- Great Mosque of Herat, Afghanistan
- Shrine of Ali, Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan
- Ajdarbey Mosque, Baku, Azerbaijan
- Aqsunqur Mosque, Egypt
- King... | 50,966 |
343732 | Digital cable | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital%20cable | Digital cable
Digital cable
Digital cable is the distribution of cable television using digital video compression for distribution. The technology was originally developed by General Instrument before being acquired by Motorola and subsequently acquired by ARRIS Group. Cable companies converted to digital systems duri... | 50,967 |
343732 | Digital cable | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital%20cable | Digital cable
the high incidence of cable theft which occurred in analog systems.
# History.
In 1990, General Instrument (now owned by ARRIS Group) demonstrated that it was possible to use digital compression to deliver high quality HDTV in a standard 6 MHz television channel. Using the same technology General Instru... | 50,968 |
343732 | Digital cable | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital%20cable | Digital cable
as DirecTV, Dish Network, and PrimeStar caused cable providers to seek new ways to provide more programming. Customers were increasingly interested in more channels, pay-per-view programming, digital music services, and high speed internet services. By 2000, most cable providers in the US were offering so... | 50,969 |
343732 | Digital cable | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital%20cable | Digital cable
and interactive television services. In addition, digital cable technology allows for error correction to ensure the quality of the received signal and uses a secure digital distribution system (i.e. a secure encrypted signal to prevent eavesdropping and theft of service.)
Most digital cable providers us... | 50,970 |
343732 | Digital cable | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital%20cable | Digital cable
used. Many cable providers are able to fit about 10 digital SD channels or 2 digital HD channels on a single analog channel frequency. Some providers are able to squeeze more channels onto a single frequency with higher compression, but often this can cause the video quality of the channel to degrade.
Th... | 50,971 |
343732 | Digital cable | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital%20cable | Digital cable
is a logical channel of data within the physical channel. Technically there can be up to 1024 subchannels in a physical channel, though in practice only a few are used (as the bandwidth must be divided among all the subchannels).
There are two ways providers try to make this easier for consumers. The fir... | 50,972 |
343732 | Digital cable | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital%20cable | Digital cable
and sub-channels. For example, a cable company might call channel 5-1 "channel 732" and channel 5-2 "channel 733". This also allows the cable company to change the frequency of a channel without changing what the customer sees as a channel number. In such arrangements, the physical/sub-channel numbers are... | 50,973 |
343732 | Digital cable | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital%20cable | Digital cable
CableCards receive the channel mapping and can communicate that to the set-top box.
# Technical information.
The standard for signal transmission over digital cable television systems in the United States is now fixed as both "64-QAM" and "256-QAM" (quadrature amplitude modulation), which is specified i... | 50,974 |
343732 | Digital cable | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital%20cable | Digital cable
of local channels, and some cable channels are available.
Digital cable allows for the broadcast of EDTV (480p) as well as HDTV (720p, 1080i, and eventually 1080p). By contrast, analog cable transmits programs solely in the 480i format (the lowest television definition in use today).
The Advanced Televi... | 50,975 |
343732 | Digital cable | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital%20cable | Digital cable
that delivers digital channels by satellite to small cable systems).
Digital cable channels typically are allocated above 552 MHz, the upper frequency of cable channel 78. (Cable channels above channel 13 are at lower frequencies than UHF broadcast channels with the same number, as seen in North American... | 50,976 |
343732 | Digital cable | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital%20cable | Digital cable
g all the way to 864 MHz, there is space for 52 6-MHz channels (364–624 SDTV channels).
In the U.S., digital cable systems with 750 MHz or greater activated channel capacity are required to comply with a set of SCTE and CEA standards, and to provide CableCARDs to customers that request them.
# See also.... | 50,977 |
343745 | Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard%20d'Ansse%20de%20Villoison | Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison
Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison
Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse (or Dannse) de Villoison (5 March 1750 (or 1753) – 25 April 1805) was a classical scholar born at Corbeil-sur-Seine, France.
He belonged to a noble family (De Ansso) of Spanish origin, and took his surn... | 50,978 |
343745 | Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard%20d'Ansse%20de%20Villoison | Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison
famous codex Venetus A, with ancient "scholia" and marginal notes, indicating supposititious, corrupt or transposed verses. After leaving Venice, he accepted an invitation of the duke of Saxe-Weimar to come to his court. Some of the fruits of his research in the library of the... | 50,979 |
343745 | Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard%20d'Ansse%20de%20Villoison | Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison
of Homer, which created a sensation in the learned world. When the French Revolution broke out, being banished from Paris, he lived in retirement in Orléans, occupying himself chiefly with the transcription of the notes in the library of the brothers Valois (Valesius).
Upon t... | 50,980 |
343745 | Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard%20d'Ansse%20de%20Villoison | Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison
ome importance, "Anecdota Graeca" (1781), from the Paris and Venice libraries, contains the "Ionia" (violet garden) of the empress Eudocia, and several fragments of the Neoplatonists Iamblichus and Porphyry, Procopius of Gaza, Choricius, and the Greek grammarians. Materials fo... | 50,981 |
343739 | Barbizon school | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbizon%20school | Barbizon school
Barbizon school
The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870. It takes its name from the village of Barbizon, France, near the ... | 50,982 |
343739 | Barbizon school | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbizon%20school | Barbizon school
directly from nature. Natural scenes became the subjects of their paintings rather than mere backdrops to dramatic events. During the Revolutions of 1848 artists gathered at Barbizon to follow Constable's ideas, making nature the subject of their paintings. The French landscape became a major theme of t... | 50,983 |
343739 | Barbizon school | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbizon%20school | Barbizon school
Émile van Marcke, and Alexandre Defaux.
Millet extended the idea from landscape to figures — peasant figures, scenes of peasant life, and work in the fields. In "The Gleaners" (1857), for example, Millet portrays three peasant women working at the harvest. Gleaners are poor people who are permitted to ... | 50,984 |
343739 | Barbizon school | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbizon%20school | Barbizon school
their everyday hard work.
In the spring of 1829, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot came to Barbizon to paint in the Forest of Fontainebleau, he had first painted in the forest at Chailly in 1822. He returned to Barbizon in the autumn of 1830 and in the summer of 1831, where he made drawings and oil studies, ... | 50,985 |
343739 | Barbizon school | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbizon%20school | Barbizon school
late 1860s, the Barbizon painters attracted the attention of a younger generation of French artists studying in Paris. Several of those artists visited Fontainebleau Forest to paint the landscape, including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille. In the 1870s those artis... | 50,986 |
343739 | Barbizon school | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbizon%20school | Barbizon school
the Hungarian painter János Thorma studied in Paris as a young man. In 1896 he was one of the founders of the Nagybánya artists' colony in what is now Baia Mare, Romania, which brought impressionism to Hungary. In 2013 the Hungarian National Gallery opens a major retrospective of his work, entitled, ""J... | 50,987 |
343739 | Barbizon school | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbizon%20school | Barbizon school
tive of his work, entitled, ""János Thorma, the Painter of the Hungarian Barbizon", 8 February - 19 May 2013, Hungarian National Gallery
# Related artists.
- Karl Bodmer
- Eugène Boudin
- Hippolyte Boulenger
- Gustave Courbet
- Antonio Fontanesi
- Nicolae Grigorescu
- Winckworth Allan Gay
- H. ... | 50,988 |
343749 | Tockus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tockus | Tockus
Tockus
Tockus is a genus of birds in the hornbill family, Bucerotidae, which are native to Africa.
# Description.
Hornbills in the genus Tockus are small sized African birds with triangular shaped curved bills. They can be found in tropical and sub-tropical African grasslands, forests and savannahs. They all ... | 50,989 |
343749 | Tockus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tockus | Tockus
hich are black on the exterior and white on the interior.
# Species.
- Monteiro's hornbill ("Tockus monteiri")
- Red-billed hornbill group
- Northern red-billed hornbill ("Tockus erythrorhynchus")
- Damara red-billed hornbill ("Tockus damarensis")
- Southern red-billed hornbill ("Tockus rufirostris")
- Ta... | 50,990 |
343752 | Anorrhinus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anorrhinus | Anorrhinus
Anorrhinus
Anorrhinus is a genus of hornbills (family Bucerotidae) found in forests of Southeast Asia (just barely extending into adjacent parts of India and China). They are social and typically seen in groups, but only the dominant pair are believed to breed, while other group members act as helpers.
# T... | 50,991 |
343752 | Anorrhinus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anorrhinus | Anorrhinus
ominant pair are believed to breed, while other group members act as helpers.
# Taxonomy.
This genus is sometimes limited to the bushy-crested hornbill, in which case the two remaining species, which are sometimes considered conspecific, are placed in the genus "Ptilolaemus". A molecular phylogenetic study... | 50,992 |
343753 | Anthracoceros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthracoceros | Anthracoceros
Anthracoceros
Anthracoceros is a genus of birds in the family Bucerotidae.
The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1849. The type species was subsequently designated as the Malabar pied hornbill ("Anthracoceros coronatus"). The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek w... | 50,993 |
343754 | Buceros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buceros | Buceros
Buceros
Buceros is a genus of large Asian hornbills (family Bucerotidae).
# Description.
Hornbills in the genus Buceros include the largest hornbills in the world with the largest being the Great hornbill. All the hornbills in this genus have a large and hollow bony casque on their upper beak that can be use... | 50,994 |
343754 | Buceros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buceros | Buceros
hornbills in this genus have a large and hollow bony casque on their upper beak that can be useful to scientists and bird watchers to recognise their age, sex and species. Their wingspan can be up to 1.8 meters (6 foot) and they have the largest wingspan out of all the hornbills.
# Species.
Species included i... | 50,995 |
343727 | Sultan Ahmed Mosque | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sultan%20Ahmed%20Mosque | Sultan Ahmed Mosque
Sultan Ahmed Mosque
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque () is a historic mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A popular tourist site, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque continues to function as a mosque today. The Blue Mosque, as it is popularly known, was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its ... | 50,996 |
343727 | Sultan Ahmed Mosque | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sultan%20Ahmed%20Mosque | Sultan Ahmed Mosque
Sultan Ahmet I decided to build a large mosque in Istanbul to reassert Ottoman power. It would be the first imperial mosque for more than forty years. While his predecessors had paid for their mosques with the spoils of war, Ahmet I procured funds from the Treasury, because he had not gained remarka... | 50,997 |
343727 | Sultan Ahmed Mosque | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sultan%20Ahmed%20Mosque | Sultan Ahmed Mosque
the south. Big parts of the south shore of the mosque rest on the foundations, the vaults of the old Grand Palace.
# Architecture.
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque has five main domes, six minarets, and eight secondary domes. The design is the culmination of two centuries of Ottoman mosque development. It ... | 50,998 |
343727 | Sultan Ahmed Mosque | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sultan%20Ahmed%20Mosque | Sultan Ahmed Mosque
On the upper side it has a big chain. The upper area is made up of 20000 ceramic tiles each having 60 tulip designs. In the lower area it has 200 stained glass windows.
## Interior.
At its lower levels and at every pier, the interior of the mosque is lined with more than 20,000 handmade İznik styl... | 50,999 |
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