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206587 | William Halsey Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Halsey%20Jr. | William Halsey Jr.
of hostilities, Halsey, still aggressively cautious of Japanese kamikaze attacks, ordered Third Fleet to maintain a protective air cover with the following communiqué:
He was present when Japan formally surrendered on the deck of his flagship, , on September 2, 1945.
# Postwar years.
Immediately a... | 5,100 |
206587 | William Halsey Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Halsey%20Jr. | William Halsey Jr.
becoming the fourth and still the most recent naval officer awarded that rank. Fleet Admiral Halsey made a goodwill flying trip, passing by Central and South America, covering nearly 28,000 miles and 11 nations. He retired from active service in March 1947 but, as a Fleet Admiral, he was not taken of... | 5,101 |
206587 | William Halsey Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Halsey%20Jr. | William Halsey Jr.
top of the ITT Building at 67 Broad Street, New York City in the late 1950s. He was involved in a number of efforts to preserve his former flagship as a memorial in New York Harbor. They proved fruitless, as it was not possible to secure sufficient funding to preserve the ship.
# Death.
Halsey died... | 5,102 |
206587 | William Halsey Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Halsey%20Jr. | William Halsey Jr.
at the University of Virginia he met Frances Cooke Grandy (1887–1968) of Norfolk, Virginia, who Halsey called "Fan." After his return from the Great White Fleet's circumnavigation of the globe and upon his promotion to the rank of full lieutenant he was able to persuade her to marry him. They married... | 5,103 |
206587 | William Halsey Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Halsey%20Jr. | William Halsey Jr.
also the great-uncle of actor Charles Oliver Hand, known professionally as Brett Halsey, who chose his stage name as a reference to him.
# Dates of rank.
Halsey never held the rank of lieutenant (junior grade), as he was appointed a full lieutenant after three years of service as an ensign. For adm... | 5,104 |
206587 | William Halsey Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Halsey%20Jr. | William Halsey Jr.
staff specialties.
# Awards and decorations.
## Foreign awards.
# In popular culture.
- Halsey was portrayed by James Cagney in the 1959 bio-pic, "The Gallant Hours"; by James Whitmore in the 1970 film, "Tora! Tora! Tora!"; and by Robert Mitchum in the 1976 film, "Midway".
- Halsey makes a brief... | 5,105 |
206587 | William Halsey Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Halsey%20Jr. | William Halsey Jr.
Richard X. Slattery, and in the 1988 miniseries adaptation of "War and Remembrance" by Pat Hingle.
- Halsey has been portrayed in a number of other films and TV miniseries, played by Glenn Morshower ("Pearl Harbor", 2001), Kenneth Tobey ("MacArthur", 1977), Jack Diamond ("Battle Stations", 1956), Jo... | 5,106 |
206587 | William Halsey Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Halsey%20Jr. | William Halsey Jr.
of William Halsey.
- On March 4, 1951, Halsey appeared as a mystery guest on episode No. 40 of the game show, "What's My Line", where the panel correctly deduced his identity.
- In the television series, "McHale's Navy", one of Captain Binghampton's catchphrases whenever he would get frustrated wit... | 5,107 |
206587 | William Halsey Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Halsey%20Jr. | William Halsey Jr.
a real book of the same title); Ramius reveals his awareness of the book and expresses disdain for Ryan's assessment of Halsey, saying, "Your conclusions were all wrong, Ryan. Halsey acted stupidly."
- The fictional aircraft carrier USS "William Halsey" in Darren Sapp's novel, "Fire on the Flight De... | 5,108 |
206587 | William Halsey Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Halsey%20Jr. | William Halsey Jr.
fter Admiral Halsey.
- Halsey appears as a purchasable general in the Easytech mobile game "World Conqueror 4".
# See also.
- List of Fleet and Grand Admirals
- List of United States military leaders by rank
- List of military figures by nickname
- Gene Markey
# Bibliography.
- (The book is o... | 5,109 |
206601 | UNIVAC 1105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UNIVAC%201105 | UNIVAC 1105
UNIVAC 1105
The UNIVAC 1105 was a follow-on computer to the UNIVAC 1103A introduced by Sperry Rand in September 1958. The UNIVAC 1105 used 21 types of vacuum tubes, 11 types of diodes, 10 types of transistors, and three core types.
The UNIVAC 1105 had either 8,192 or 12,288 words of 36-bit magnetic core m... | 5,110 |
206601 | UNIVAC 1105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UNIVAC%201105 | UNIVAC 1105
in ones' complement format. Floating-point numbers had a one-bit sign, an eight-bit characteristic, and a 27-bit mantissa. Instructions had a six-bit operation code and two 15-bit operand addresses.
A complete UNIVAC 1105 computer system required 160 kW of power (175 KVA, 0.9 power factor) and an air condi... | 5,111 |
206601 | UNIVAC 1105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UNIVAC%201105 | UNIVAC 1105
a Univac 1105 located in the basement of Phillips Hall of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was one of three computers of its type. It was intended primarily for the United States Census Bureau, which had one of its own; Armour Institute of Technology had the other. The Chapel Hill unit cost $... | 5,112 |
206601 | UNIVAC 1105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UNIVAC%201105 | UNIVAC 1105
ed States Census Bureau, which had one of its own; Armour Institute of Technology had the other. The Chapel Hill unit cost $2.4 million, with the improvements to the basement, including 16-inch concrete walls to protect it from nuclear attack, added $1.2 million. Its memory was less than 50 kilobytes, or on... | 5,113 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
Lunar geologic timescale
The lunar geological timescale (or selenological timescale) divides the history of Earth's Moon into five generally recognized periods: the Copernican, Eratosthenian, Imbrian (Late and Early epochs), Nectarian, and Pre-Nectarian. The boundaries of this time scale are r... | 5,114 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
lunar regolith samples with geological units on the Moon is difficult, and most lunar radiometric ages have been highly affected by an intense history of bombardment.
# Lunar stratigraphy.
The primary geological processes that have modified the lunar surface are impact cratering and volcanism... | 5,115 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
as late as 1.2 Ga. Impact events are by far the most useful for defining a lunar stratigraphy as they are numerous and form in a geological instant. The continued effects of impact cratering over long periods of time modify the morphology of lunar landforms in a quantitative way, and the state ... | 5,116 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
taken to imply that any fundamental changes in geological processes have occurred at these boundaries. The Moon is unique in the solar system in that it is the only body (other than the Earth) for which we possess rock samples with a known geological context. By correlating the ages of samples ... | 5,117 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
and these deposits are sometimes labeled as just Pre-Imbrian.
## Pre-Nectarian.
The Pre-Nectarian period is defined from the point at which the lunar crust formed, to the time of the Nectaris impact event. Nectaris is a multi-ring impact basin that formed on the near side of the Moon, and its... | 5,118 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
of the Nectaris and Imbrium impact basins. 12 multi-ring impact basins are recognized in the Nectarian period, including the Serenitatis and Crisium basins. One of the scientific objectives of the Apollo 16 mission was to date material excavated by the Nectaris impact basin. Nevertheless, the a... | 5,119 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
basins. The Imbrium basin is believed to have formed at 3.85 Ga, though a minority opinion places this event at 3.77 Ga. The Schrödinger basin is the only other multi-ring basin that is Lower Imbrian in age, and no large multi-ring basins formed after this epoch.
The Late Imbrian is defined as... | 5,120 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
ejecta. About two-thirds of the Moon's mare basalts erupted within the Upper Imbrian Series, with many of these lavas filling the depressions associated with older impact basins.
## Eratosthenian.
The base of the Eratosthenian period is defined by the time at which craters on a geological uni... | 5,121 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
materials on the lunar surface are generally bright and that they become darker over time as a result of space weathering processes. Operationally, this period was originally defined as the time at which impact craters lost their bright ray systems. This definition, however, has recently been s... | 5,122 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
is the youngest geological period of the Moon. Originally, the presence of a bright ray system surrounding an impact crater was used to define Copernican units, but as mentioned above, this is complicated by the presence of compositional ray systems. The base of the Copernican period does not c... | 5,123 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
extremely useful for ordering geological events in a relative manner, it is important to realize that the boundaries do not imply any fundamental change of geological processes. Furthermore, as the oldest geological periods of the Moon are based exclusively on the times of individual impact eve... | 5,124 |
206589 | Lunar geologic timescale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar%20geologic%20timescale | Lunar geologic timescale
ss, at least one notable scientific work has advocated using the lunar geological time scale to subdivide the Hadean eon of Earth's geologic time scale. In particular, it is sometimes found that the Hadean is subdivided into the Cryptic, Basin Groups 1-9, Nectarian, and Early Imbrian. This nota... | 5,125 |
206603 | Sabrina (actress) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sabrina%20(actress) | Sabrina (actress)
Sabrina (actress)
Norma Ann Sykes (19 May 1936 – 24 November 2016), better known as Sabrina or Sabby, was a 1950s English glamour model who progressed to a minor film career. She was best known for her hourglass figure of breasts coupled with a tiny waist and hips.
Sabrina was one of "a host of exot... | 5,126 |
206603 | Sabrina (actress) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sabrina%20(actress) | Sabrina (actress)
School there, before moving with her mother to Blackpool. She spent some time in hospital with rheumatic fever. At the age of 16 she moved to London, where she worked as a waitress and did some nude modelling, posing for Russell Gay in a photoshoot that led to her appearance on the five of spades in a... | 5,127 |
206603 | Sabrina (actress) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sabrina%20(actress) | Sabrina (actress)
Beney, of Walton Films, released a 100-foot 9.5 mm short glamour film "At Home With Sabrina" around July 1955.
"Goodnight with Sabrina" (c.1958, 3:49 mins) is included with "Beat Girl", in 2016, newly remastered by "BFI Flipside"
She made her film debut in "Stock Car" in 1955. She then appeared in a... | 5,128 |
206603 | Sabrina (actress) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sabrina%20(actress) | Sabrina (actress)
penultimate film role was in the western "The Phantom Gunslinger" (1970), in which she starred alongside Troy Donahue. Her final film was the horror movie "The Ice House" (1969), in which she replaced Jayne Mansfield, who had died in a car crash two years earlier.
On 27 November 1967 Sabrina married ... | 5,129 |
206603 | Sabrina (actress) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sabrina%20(actress) | Sabrina (actress)
in 2007 there were further newspaper reports that Sabrina had become a hermit, "living in squalor" in a Spanish-style house on a street known as 'Smog Central', under the flightpath of Burbank Airport. Sabrina admitted that she was confined to the house due to back problems, but denied living in squal... | 5,130 |
206603 | Sabrina (actress) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sabrina%20(actress) | Sabrina (actress)
Hour", Sid James plays the editor of a sleazy gossip magazine that has carried an embarrassing story about Tony Hancock. James tells Hancock that his readers "will believe anything. ... If I told them that Sabrina was Arthur Askey's mother, they'd believe me." Hancock replies, "Well, I don't", pauses ... | 5,131 |
206603 | Sabrina (actress) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sabrina%20(actress) | Sabrina (actress)
the aircraft. Similarly, in the late 1950s, when ERF, a British firm that made lorries (trucks), produced a semi-forward control heavy goods vehicle (HGV) with a short protruding bonnet, these vehicles were nicknamed "Sabrinas" because they had "a little more in front".
The 1959 Triumph TR3S 1985 cc ... | 5,132 |
206603 | Sabrina (actress) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sabrina%20(actress) | Sabrina (actress)
Television appearances.
- "Before Your Very Eyes" (1955–1956, ten episodes)
- "Double Your Money" (1955)
- "Tarzan" (one episode, 1967)
- "This Is Your Life" (Arthur Askey, 1974)
# Acting credits.
- "Stock Car" (1955)
- "Ramsbottom Rides Again" (1956)
- "Blue Murder at St Trinian's" (1957)
- ... | 5,133 |
206603 | Sabrina (actress) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sabrina%20(actress) | Sabrina (actress)
Your Money" (1955)
- "Tarzan" (one episode, 1967)
- "This Is Your Life" (Arthur Askey, 1974)
# Acting credits.
- "Stock Car" (1955)
- "Ramsbottom Rides Again" (1956)
- "Blue Murder at St Trinian's" (1957)
- "Goodnight with Sabrina" (1958)
- "Make Mine a Million" (1959)
- "Satan in High Heels"... | 5,134 |
206607 | Partisan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Partisan | Partisan
Partisan
Partisan may refer to:
# Politics.
- Partisan (politics), a committed member of a political party
# Military.
- Partisan (weapon), a pole weapon
- Partisan (military), paramilitary forces engaged behind the front line
- Albanian Resistance of World War II, the Partisans of Albania during World ... | 5,135 |
206607 | Partisan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Partisan | Partisan
during World War II
- Werwolf, Germany's World War II movement
- Germany's planned World War II Alpine National redoubt
- Greek Resistance, in World War II and after
- Italian resistance movement, in World War II
- Jewish partisans, among the Jewish resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe
- Bielski p... | 5,136 |
206607 | Partisan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Partisan | Partisan
in Estonia, during World War II against Nazi-Germany
- Yugoslav Partisans, in World War II and after
# Films.
- Partisan film, a subgenre of war films in Yugoslavia
- "Partisan" (film), a 2015 Australian film
- "Partisans", a 1974 Yugoslavian partisan film
# Music.
- Po šumama i gorama, a Yugoslav Parti... | 5,137 |
206607 | Partisan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Partisan | Partisan
rench patriotic song from World War II
- "The Partisan", a song written by Anna Marly and later covered by both Leonard Cohen and 16 Horsepower
- The Partisans (band), a 1980s punk and Oi! band
- Partisan Records, an American independent record label based in Brooklyn, New York
- The Partisan Seed, music m... | 5,138 |
206606 | Criccieth Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Criccieth%20Castle | Criccieth Castle
Criccieth Castle
Criccieth Castle () is a native Welsh castle situated on the headland between two beaches in Criccieth, Gwynedd, in North Wales, on a rocky peninsula overlooking Tremadog Bay. It was built by Llywelyn the Great of the kingdom of Gwynedd, but was heavily modified following its capture ... | 5,139 |
206606 | Criccieth Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Criccieth%20Castle | Criccieth Castle
with twin D-shaped towers that was protected by a gate and portcullis, with murder holes in the passage, and outward facing arrowslits in each tower. This design might have been copied from English designs on the Marches at Beeston Castle, Cheshire or Montgomery Castle, Powys. The two towers of the gat... | 5,140 |
206606 | Criccieth Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Criccieth%20Castle | Criccieth Castle
although not a proper concentric design, now had two circuits of circular defences.
Criccieth was taken by English forces in 1283. Under James of Saint George, another two storey rectangular tower connected to the rest of the castle by a curtain wall, the "Engine Tower" (now in ruins) might have been ... | 5,141 |
206606 | Criccieth Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Criccieth%20Castle | Criccieth Castle
a great hall, were erected within the inner ward.
# History.
A Motte and bailey stood at a different site in Criccieth before the masonry castle was built. In 1283 the castle was captured by English under the command of Edward I. It was then remodelled by James of St George.
In 1294, Madoc ap Llywel... | 5,142 |
206606 | Criccieth Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Criccieth%20Castle | Criccieth Castle
Gruffydd, known as Howell the Axe, who fought for Edward III at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.
The castle was used as a prison until 1404 when Welsh forces captured the castle during the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr. The Welsh then tore down its walls and set the castle alight. Some stonework still sho... | 5,143 |
206606 | Criccieth Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Criccieth%20Castle | Criccieth Castle
iccieth was also one of several locations Romantic artist Joseph Mallord William Turner used for his famous series of paintings depicting shipwrecked mariners.
# Present day.
The castle is maintained by Cadw. It includes exhibits and information on Welsh castles as well as the 12th century Anglo-Norm... | 5,144 |
206609 | Caprifoliaceae | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caprifoliaceae | Caprifoliaceae
Caprifoliaceae
The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade of dicotyledonous flowering plants consisting of about 860 species in 42 genera, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and eastern Asia, while they are absent in tropical and sou... | 5,145 |
206609 | Caprifoliaceae | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caprifoliaceae | Caprifoliaceae
spreading lobes or points, and are often fragrant. They usually form a small calyx with small bracts. The fruit is in most cases a berry or a drupe. The genera "Diervilla" and "Weigela" have capsular fruit, while "Heptacodium" has an achene.
# Taxonomy.
Views of the family-level classification of the t... | 5,146 |
206609 | Caprifoliaceae | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caprifoliaceae | Caprifoliaceae
broadly treated Caprifoliaceae "s.l." are separated by some but not all authors; these are treated as subfamilies in the listing of selected genera below, along with estimated numbers of species.
Diervilloideae
- "Diervilla" (Bush honeysuckle): 3 species
- "Weigela": 10 species.
Caprifolioideae "s.s.... | 5,147 |
206609 | Caprifoliaceae | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caprifoliaceae | Caprifoliaceae
"
- "Morina"
- "Zabelia"
Dipsacoideae
- "Cephalaria"
- "Dipsacus " (Teasel): 15 species
- "Knautia"
- "Pterocephalus": 25 species
- "Scabiosa" (Scabious, pincushion flower): 30 species
- "Succisa"
- "Succisella"
- "Triplostegia"
Valerianoideae
- "Centranthus": 12 species
- "Fedia"
- "Nardo... | 5,148 |
206609 | Caprifoliaceae | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caprifoliaceae | Caprifoliaceae
" (Seablushes): 5 species
- "Valeriana" (Valerians): 125 species
- "Valerianella "(Cornsalads): 20 species
# Uses.
The plants belonging to this family are mainly hardy shrubs or vines of ornamental value, many of which are popular garden shrubs, notably species belonging to the genera "Abelia", "Loni... | 5,149 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
Comparative
In general linguistics, the comparative is a syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison between two (or more) entities or groups of entities in quality or degree - see also comparison (grammar) for an overview of comparison, as well as positive and superlative degrees of compari... | 5,150 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
ellipsis). The interaction of the various mechanisms complicates the analysis.
# Absolute and null forms.
A number of fixed expressions use a comparative form where no comparison is being asserted, such as "higher education" or "younger generation". These comparatives can be called "absolute".
Similarly,... | 5,151 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
in a null comparative is. In other cases, the speaker or writer has been deliberately vague, for example "Glasgow's miles better".
Scientific classification, taxonomy, and geographical categorization conventionally include the adjectives "greater" and "lesser", when a "large" or "small" variety of an item ... | 5,152 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
panda entails a giant panda variety, and a gazetteer would establish that there are the Lesser Antilles as well as the Greater Antilles. It is in the nature of grammatical conventions evolving over time that it is difficult to establish when they first became widely accepted, but both "greater" and "lesser"... | 5,153 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
of London, or Greater New York versus New York City, it is not part of the "comparative" in the grammatical sense of this article. A comparative always compares something directly with something else.
# Comparative coordination vs. comparative subordination.
At times the syntax of comparatives matches the... | 5,154 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
b-sentences involving comparatives is closely similar to the structure of the a-sentences involving coordination. Based on this similarity, many have argued that the syntax of comparatives overlaps with the syntax of coordination at least some of the time. In this regard, the "than" in the b-sentences shoul... | 5,155 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
(subordinate conjunction), e.g.
Since the parallel structures associated with coordinate structures, i.e., the conjuncts, cannot be acknowledged in these sentences, the only analysis available is one in terms of subordination, whereby "than" has the status of a subordinator (as in sentences a-d) or of a pr... | 5,156 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
subdeletion". The existence of comparative deletion as an ellipsis mechanism is widely acknowledged, whereas the status of comparative subdeletion as an ellipsis mechanism is more controversial.
## Comparative deletion.
Comparative deletion is an obligatory ellipsis mechanism that occurs in the "than"-cla... | 5,157 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
is not deleted because it is distinct from its counterpart in the main clause. In other words, comparative subdeletion occurs when comparative deletion does not because the constituents being compared are distinct, e.g.
Accounts that acknowledge comparative subdeletion posit a null measure expression in th... | 5,158 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
qualitatively different from sentences in which comparative deletion occurs, e.g., "He has more cats than you have ___ ."
# Independent ellipsis mechanisms in "than"-clauses.
There are a number of independent ellipsis mechanisms that occur in the "than-"clauses of comparative constructions: gapping, pseud... | 5,159 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
fact that the five independent ellipsis mechanisms (and possibly others) can occur in the "than"-clauses of comparatives has rendered the study of the syntax of comparatives particularly difficult. One is often not sure which ellipsis mechanisms are involved in a given "than"-clause. One thing is clear, how... | 5,160 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
English and African American Vernacular English, though they were common in Early Modern English and were used by Shakespeare.
# Universals of comparative constructions.
Russell Ultan (1972) surveyed 20 languages and observed that the comparative and superlative are inflected forms of (near-)identical bas... | 5,161 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
suppletive, then its so would its comparative.
Bobaljik proposes the Containment Hypothesis: "The representation of the superlative properly contains that of the comparative (in all languages that have a morphological superlative)". Indeed:
- in many languages (Persian, Ubykh, Cherokee, Chukchi, etc.) the... | 5,162 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
See also.
- Coordination
- Ellipsis
- Gapping
- Pseudogapping
- Stripping
- Subordination
- Verb phrase ellipsis
# References.
- Bobaljik, J. D. 2012. Universals in Comparative Morphology. MIT Press.
- Bresnan, J. 1973. Syntax of the comparative clause construction in English. Linguistic Inquiry 3... | 5,163 |
206610 | Comparative | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparative | Comparative
Pullum. 2002. The Cambridge gammar of the English Language.
- Lechner, W. 2004. Ellipsis in comparatives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Napoli D.J. 1983. Comparative ellisis: A phrase structure analysis. Linguistic Inquiry 14, 675-694.
- Osborne, T. 2009. Comparative coordination vs. comparative subordina... | 5,164 |
206611 | Dolwyddelan Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dolwyddelan%20Castle | Dolwyddelan Castle
Dolwyddelan Castle
Dolwyddelan Castle () is a Welsh castle located near Dolwyddelan in Conwy County Borough in North Wales. It is thought to have been built in the early 13th century by Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd and Wales. Though the castle was then only one tower with two floors, a seco... | 5,165 |
206611 | Dolwyddelan Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dolwyddelan%20Castle | Dolwyddelan Castle
in the early 13th century. The first floor would have consisted of a main chamber with a fireplace, with a trapdoor for entrance to the basement, and the main keep's doorway would have been covered by a porch or forebuilding.
The second two-storey tower was added by Edward I during the repairs in 12... | 5,166 |
206611 | Dolwyddelan Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dolwyddelan%20Castle | Dolwyddelan Castle
during which time the battlements were added.
# History.
The Welsh castle, built in the early 13th century, functioned as a guard post along a main route through North Wales. It was reputed to be the birthplace of Llywelyn the Great, though it is now thought that he was born at Tomen Castell, a sma... | 5,167 |
206611 | Dolwyddelan Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dolwyddelan%20Castle | Dolwyddelan Castle
until at least 1286 for occupation by an English garrison with recorded repairs including carpentry, the bridge, and the water mill.
Edwardian troops maintained a military presence here until 1290. As the long-term strategy of control in Wales began to rely on military and administrative centres acc... | 5,168 |
206611 | Dolwyddelan Castle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dolwyddelan%20Castle | Dolwyddelan Castle
8. It was restored and partly re-modelled in the 19th century by Lord Willoughby de Eresby, who added the distinctive battlements. It was reported that in around 1810 one of the towers may have collapsed.
In 1930 the building was placed under the guardianship of the Ministry of Works. The castle is ... | 5,169 |
206613 | Scillus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scillus | Scillus
Scillus
Scillus or Skillous () was a town of Triphylia, a district of ancient Elis, situated 20 stadia south of Olympia. In 572 BCE the Scilluntians assisted Pyrrhus, king of Pisa, in making war upon the Eleians; but they were completely conquered by the latter, and both Pisa and Scillus were razed to the grou... | 5,170 |
206613 | Scillus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scillus | Scillus
after the Battle of Leuctra, in 371 BCE. He has left us a description of the place, which he says was situated 20 stadia from the Sacred Grove of Zeus, on the road to Olympia from Sparta, It stood upon the river Selinus, which was also the name of the river flowing by the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and like ... | 5,171 |
206613 | Scillus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scillus | Scillus
inus, which was also the name of the river flowing by the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and like the latter it abounded in fish and shell-fish. Here Xenophon, from a tenth of the spoils acquired in the Asiatic campaign, dedicated a temple to Artemis, in imitation of the celebrated temple at Ephesus, and institu... | 5,172 |
206612 | Arthur L. Bristol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20L.%20Bristol | Arthur L. Bristol
Arthur L. Bristol
Arthur LeRoy Bristol, Jr. (July 15, 1886 – April 27, 1942), was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, who held important commands during World War I and World War II, and was an early aircraft carrier commander.
# Early life and career.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he e... | 5,173 |
206612 | Arthur L. Bristol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20L.%20Bristol | Arthur L. Bristol
and one-half as a naval attaché. In June 1913, he returned home to command the new destroyer "Cummings" (Destroyer No. 44) upon her completion at Bath Iron Works. A year later, he received the concurrent command of "Terry" (Destroyer No. 25) and the 2nd Division, Reserve Torpedo Flotilla, U.S. Atlanti... | 5,174 |
206612 | Arthur L. Bristol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20L.%20Bristol | Arthur L. Bristol
I, he became aide and flag secretary for Commander, Cruiser Force, Atlantic Fleet. After serving in that capacity into the following winter, Bristol was awarded the Navy Cross for his service as flag secretary and acting chief of staff to Commander, Cruiser and Transport Force. While holding that post... | 5,175 |
206612 | Arthur L. Bristol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20L.%20Bristol | Arthur L. Bristol
then commanded "Breckinridge" (DD-148) and "Overton" (DD-239) in succession, serving in the latter during that ship's operations in the Black Sea during the capitulation of White Russian forces to the Bolsheviks in November 1920. For his services rendered during the evacuation of the Crimea, a gratefu... | 5,176 |
206612 | Arthur L. Bristol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20L.%20Bristol | Arthur L. Bristol
him from July 1922 to May 1923, and he next served as an instructor on the staff of that institution from May 1923 to May 1924. Following a brief tour as aide for Commander, Scouting Fleet, he sailed to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to join the American naval mission there.
Reporting to the battleship "Ari... | 5,177 |
206612 | Arthur L. Bristol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20L.%20Bristol | Arthur L. Bristol
tender "Jason" (AV-2) and later, as Commander, Aircraft Squadrons, Asiatic Fleet.
Detached in the spring of 1931, he checked in briefly at the Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington before proceeding on to the United Kingdom to become naval attaché in London on October 1, 1931. A brief stop in th... | 5,178 |
206612 | Arthur L. Bristol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20L.%20Bristol | Arthur L. Bristol
took "Ranger" to South American waters on shakedown and commanded her thereafter until June 1936, when he became Commanding Officer NAS, San Diego. During the latter tour, he served on the Hepburn Board, participating in the investigations into suitable base sites in the United States and its possessi... | 5,179 |
206612 | Arthur L. Bristol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20L.%20Bristol | Arthur L. Bristol
Chief of Naval Operations on January 25, 1941.
# World War II.
With increasing American alarm over the course of the Battle of the Atlantic, the Roosevelt administration took steps to aid the British. To help escort convoys across the Atlantic, the Navy established the Support Force, U.S. Atlantic F... | 5,180 |
206612 | Arthur L. Bristol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20L.%20Bristol | Arthur L. Bristol
h America's entry into the global conflict on December 7, of that year. Designated vice admiral on February 27, 1942, Bristol remained in that important command until he suffered a fatal heart attack at NS Argentia, Newfoundland, on April 27, 1942.
# Namesake.
The destroyer escort USS "Arthur L Bris... | 5,181 |
206614 | NGC 2264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NGC%202264 | NGC 2264
NGC 2264
NGC 2264 is the designation number of the New General Catalogue that identifies two astronomical objects as a single object: the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. Two other objects are within this designation but not officially included, the Snowflake Cluster, and the Fox Fur Nebula.
All ... | 5,182 |
206614 | NGC 2264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NGC%202264 | NGC 2264
Cluster and the Christmas Tree Cluster have formed in this emission nebula. For reference, the Stellar Snowflake Cluster is located 2,700 light years away in the constellation Monoceros. The Monoceros constellation is not typically visible by the naked eye due to its lack of colossal stars.
The Snowflake Clus... | 5,183 |
206614 | NGC 2264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NGC%202264 | NGC 2264
As seen in the photographs taken by the Spitzer Space telescope, we are able to differentiate between young, red stars and older blue stars.
With varying youthful stars, comes vast changes to the overall structure of the clusters and nebula. For a cluster to be considered a Snowflake, it must remain in the or... | 5,184 |
206614 | NGC 2264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NGC%202264 | NGC 2264
ucture of the clusters and nebula. For a cluster to be considered a Snowflake, it must remain in the original location the star was formed.
When referring to this emission nebula overall, there are several aspects that contribute to the prominent configuration of a snowflake and/or Christmas tree cluster. The... | 5,185 |
206618 | NGC 7742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NGC%207742 | NGC 7742
NGC 7742
NGC 7742 also known as Fried Egg Galaxy is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus.
The galaxy is unusual in that it contains a ring but no bar. Typically, bars are needed to produce a ring structure. The bars' gravitational forces move gas to the ends of the bars, where it for... | 5,186 |
206618 | NGC 7742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NGC%207742 | NGC 7742
formation of the ring. O. K. Sil'chenko and A. V. Moiseev proposed that the ring was formed partly as the result of a merger event in which a smaller gas-rich dwarf galaxy collided with NGC 7742. As evidence for this, they point to the unusually bright central region, the presence of highly inclined central ga... | 5,187 |
206634 | Helix Nebula | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helix%20Nebula | Helix Nebula
Helix Nebula
The Helix Nebula, also known as NGC 7293, is a planetary nebula (PN) located in the constellation Aquarius. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, probably before 1824, this object is one of the closest to the Earth of all the bright planetary nebulae. The distance, measured by the "Gaia" mission... | 5,188 |
206634 | Helix Nebula | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helix%20Nebula | Helix Nebula
information.
The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula, formed by an intermediate to low-mass star, which sheds its outer layers near the end of its evolution. Gases from the star in the surrounding space appear, from our vantage point, as if we are looking down a helix structure. The remnant c... | 5,189 |
206634 | Helix Nebula | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helix%20Nebula | Helix Nebula
based on its measured expansion rate of 31 km·s.
# Structure.
The Helix Nebula is thought to be shaped like a prolate spheroid with strong density concentrations toward the filled disk along the equatorial plane, whose major axis is inclined about 21° to 37° from our vantage point. The size of the inner ... | 5,190 |
206634 | Helix Nebula | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helix%20Nebula | Helix Nebula
for the inner disk. Spectroscopically, the outer ring's expansion rate is 40 km/s, and about 32 km/s for the inner disk.
## Knots.
The Helix Nebula was the first planetary nebula discovered to contain cometary knots. Its main ring contains knots of nebulosity, which have now been detected in many nearby ... | 5,191 |
206634 | Helix Nebula | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helix%20Nebula | Helix Nebula
while each of the cusp knots are optically thick due to Lyc photons from the PNN. There are more than 20,000 cometary knots estimated to be in the Helix Nebula.
The excitation temperature varies across the Helix nebula. The rotational-vibrational temperature ranges from 1800 K in a cometary knot located i... | 5,192 |
206634 | Helix Nebula | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helix%20Nebula | Helix Nebula
k due to Lyc photons from the PNN. There are more than 20,000 cometary knots estimated to be in the Helix Nebula.
The excitation temperature varies across the Helix nebula. The rotational-vibrational temperature ranges from 1800 K in a cometary knot located in the inner region of the nebula are about 2.5′... | 5,193 |
206620 | Johann Gottfried Galle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Gottfried%20Galle | Johann Gottfried Galle
Johann Gottfried Galle
Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he wa... | 5,194 |
206620 | Johann Gottfried Galle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Gottfried%20Galle | Johann Gottfried Galle
Early life.
Galle was born in the Papsthaus (a house in the Pabst wood) 2 km west of Radis in the vicinity of the town of Gräfenhainichen, as the first son of Marie Henriette "née Pannier" (1790–1839) and Johann Gottfried Galle (1790–1853), an operator of a tar oven. He attended the Gymnasium in... | 5,195 |
206620 | Johann Gottfried Galle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Gottfried%20Galle | Johann Gottfried Galle
next 16 years, making use especially of a Fraunhofer-refractor with 9 Zoll (~22.5 cm) aperture. In 1838 he discovered an inner, dark ring of Saturn. From 2 December 1839 to 6 March 1840 he discovered three new comets.
In 1845 Galle was awarded a Dr. phil.. His doctoral thesis was a reduction and... | 5,196 |
206620 | Johann Gottfried Galle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Gottfried%20Galle | Johann Gottfried Galle
of the orbit of the planet Uranus and from this he derived the position of a still undiscovered planet, and requested Galle to search in the corresponding section of sky. The very same night (after Encke gave permission to search, against his own judgement), in collaboration with his assistant He... | 5,197 |
206620 | Johann Gottfried Galle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Gottfried%20Galle | Johann Gottfried Galle
as the discoverer of Neptune; he attributed the discovery to Le Verrier.
In 1847 Galle was designated as the successor to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel as Director of Königsberg Observatory. Before the enacted nomination from Friedrich Wilhelm IV effected "de facto", Galle withdrew his application at... | 5,198 |
206620 | Johann Gottfried Galle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Gottfried%20Galle | Johann Gottfried Galle
At Breslau he dealt with the exact determination of planetary orbits and developed methods for calculating the height of the aurorae and the path of meteors, and consolidated the data for all 414 comets discovered up to 1894 into one work (with the help of his son). Otherwise he concerned himself... | 5,199 |
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