Archive for November, 2007
An Adirondack chair (or in some parts of Canada, a Muskoka chair) is a type of chair used primarily in an outdoors setting. The precursor to today’s Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee in 1903. He was on vacation in Westport, New York and needed outdoor chairs for his summer home. He tested the […]
“The One With the Lesbian Wedding” is the eleventh episode of season two of the television situation comedy Friends. It attracted controversy and censorship as a result of its portrayal of gay marriage.
First aired: January 18, 1996
Plot
Ross’s ex-wife Carol announces her plans to marry her lesbian life partner, Susan and Ross’ sister, Monica caters the […]
KCPQ is the FOX television affiliate serving the Seattle/Tacoma, Washington media market. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 13, and its digital signal on UHF channel 18. Its transmitter is located on Gold Mountain in Bremerton, Washington.
Though licensed to Tacoma, the station’s offices and broadcasting center are located on the west shore of […]
A mosquito bar is an alternate form of a mosquito net. It is constructed of a fine see-through mesh fabric mounted on and draped over a box-shaped frame. It is designed to fit over an area or item such as a sleeping bag to supply protection from insects. A mosquito bar is designed for used […]
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects is a book co-created by media analyst Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore, and coordinated by Jerome Agel. It was published by Bantam books in 1967 and became a bestseller and a cult classic.
The book itself is 160 pages in length and composed […]
Xcalc is an Xbase-Client calculator tool for X. It includes many features of a scientific calculator as well.
See also
Xbase Clients
External links
Descriptions of the applications found in the xbase-clients package
Winer Observatory is an astronomical observatory near Sonoita, Arizona in the United States. It is a private, non-profit observatory, operated by Mark Trueblood since 1983. It has been the site of a number of significant small telescopes and famous robotic telescopes. It has been the site of the Iowa Robotic Observatory. The facility also hosted […]
Wat Pho (), also known as Wat Phra Chetuphon วัดพระเชตุพน) or The Temple of the Reclining Buddha, is a Buddhist temple in Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, Thailand, located in the Rattanakosin district directly adjacent of the Grand Palace. Its official full name is Wat Phra Chetuphon Vimolmangklararm Rajwaramahaviharn (Thai: วัดพระเชตุพนวิมลมังคลาราม ราชวรมหาวิหาร).
The temple is also known […]
Can-ar Coach Lines is a chartered coach operator in Toronto.
Can-ar operated Vaughan Transit on behalf of the City of Vaughan, Ontario as well as:
Newmarket Transit
Reference
Can-car Coach Services - Tokmakjian Inc Group
A system of Chinese arts including:
Li style T’ai Chi Ch’uan
Kai Men & Tao Yin (Breathing exercises, usually taugh as part of T’ai Chi Ch’aun or Feng Shou)
Feng Shou (Kung Fu)
Chi Shu (Throwing Art)
Anmo Massage (Taoist massage and healing arts)
Chang Ming (Diet)
As taught by Master Chee Soo & Prof. Li […]
In the Roman Republic, and later the empire, the curule chair (Latin, sella curulis, supposedly from currus, “chariot”) was the chair upon which senior magistrates or promagistrates owning imperium were entitled to sit including dictators, masters of the horse, consuls, praetors, censors, and the curule aediles. Additionally, the Flamen of Iuppiter (Flamen Dialis) […]
An office chair, or desk chair, is a chair that is designed for use at a desk in an office. It is generally comfortable and adjustable and can swivel 360 degrees.
History
With the advent of railroad in the mid-1800s, businesses began to expand beyond the traditional model of a family business with little emphasis on […]
The Windsor chair can be defined as any chair that is built with a wooden seat into which are fixed the backrest and undercarriage. Typically, the backrest and sometimes the arm pieces are formed from steam bent pieces of wood.
History
It is generally agreed that Windsor chairs were developed in the late 17th century […]
The Crab is the name given to an unorthodox posture sometimes seen in basic gymnastics, yoga, and breakdancing. The body is supinated so that the back faces the ground, the legs are bent like sitting in a chair, and the arms extend straight backward. Only the feet and hands touch the ground, and the torso […]
Bear Valley is a ski area located on highway 4 between Lake Tahoe and Yosemite—about three hours southeast of Sacramento, California. It is about one hour from Angels Camp, California.
For years, Bear Valley Mountain Resort has been known by very few people, and is a favorite over other resorts because of its hometown resort feel.
The […]
Locomotives operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
Steam locomotives
Class A: 4-4-0 and 4-4-2
Class B: 2-10-2
Class C: 0-6-0, 0-8-0, 0-10-0, and Shays
Class E: 2-6-0
Class F: 4-6-0 and 4-6-2
Class G: 2-8-0
Class H: 2-6-6-2, 2-8-8-2, 2-6-6-6
Class H ws used for the 2-6-6-2, 2-8-8-2, and 2-6-6-6 Allegheny types
Chesapeake and Ohio Class H-1 2-6-6-2
Chesapeake and Ohio […]
Peter D. Clark (born January 27, 1938 in Windsor, Ontario) was Regional Chair of Ottawa-Carleton from 1991-1997.
He received a BComm degree from the University of Windsor in 1964 and an MBA from the University of Michigan in 1974. He was mayor of Cumberland Township, Ontario from 1980 to 1989. Clark was defeated by Bob Chiarelli […]
Egg chair
Designer : Arne Jacobsen
Date : 1958
Country : Denmark
Materials : Steel frame. Fabric cover.
Style/Tradition : Modernist
Dimensions: (WxDxH)
Colours : originally red, (now variable)
The Egg is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958 for the Radisson SAS hotel in Copenhagen. It is manufactured by Fritz Hansen.
The Egg was designed in a typical Jacobsen style, where there was no fear of […]
Brookstone is a chain of retail stores in the United States. Its first store was opened in 1973 in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Its headquarters are currently located in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
Brookstone sells many types of products ranging from radar detectors to massage chairs. The company has its own brand and makes many electronic […]
This article covers business divestments, for the social and political uses of divestment, see Disinvestment.
In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for either financial goals or ethical objectives. A divestment is the opposite of an investment.
Divestment for financial goals
Often the term is used as a […]
The phrase Silver Chair (or Silverchair) may refer to one of several things:
The novel The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis, part of the Chronicles of Narnia series
The Australian rock band Silverchair
The Harkonnen Capo Chair is one of H. R. Giger’s furniture designs. It is manufactured by hand chiefly out of aluminium or black fiberglass and made to resemble a human skeleton. The chair was initially designed for an unproduced movie version of the novel Dune that was originally slated to be directed by Alejandro […]
Administrative Templates are a feature of Group Policy, a Microsoft technology for centralised management of machines and users in an Active Directory environment.
Administrative Templates facilitate the management of registry-based policy. An ADM file is used to describe both the user interface presented to the Group Policy administrator and the registry keys that should be updated […]
The Ballbarrow was a type of wheelbarrow designed by James Dyson and released in 1974 in the United Kingdom. It featured a moulded plastic hopper on a steel frame and a spherical plastic wheel. This benefited all-terrain use as the ball did not dig into the ground like a conventional wheel and steering […]
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Jerry White (February 12, 1948 – December 4, 1995) was executed by electric chair in the state of Florida in 1995 for the murder of James Melson. According to the state of Florida, White committed the offense on March 8, 1981; he was sentenced on May 4, 1981, and he entered prison on May 4, […]
The Exotic Sounds of the Alter Boys is the debut album by The Alter Boys released on March 8 2005.
Track listing
“Pigs & Pineapples” – 2:47
“Can’t Cool Down” – 2:29
“Famine Ghost” – 4:04
“Little White Lies” – 5:22
“Where Have You Gone” – 4:07
“A Little Pain Goes a Long Way” – 7:21
[…]
The Yugoslavia national football team refers to the national football team that represented the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1920-1929), Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929-1941), Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia (1946-1963), and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1963-1992). (For the team under the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia see Serbia and Montenegro national football team.)
The first […]
Henkin is a Jewish lastname and may refer to the following people:
Leon Henkin, logician and mathematician
Henkin quantifier, a concept he pioneered
Dr. William A. Henkin, marriage therapist and promoter of consensual sadomasochism.
Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, famous Orthodox rabbi
Louis Henkin, legal academician and writer
Yehudah Herzl Henkin, famous Orthodox rabbi is a nephew of Louis Henkin and grandson […]
Nuat phaen boran or ancient massage is known in Thailand as นวดแผนโบราณ. It is a type of Thai massage that involves stretching and deep massage.
Other Translations
“Nuat phaen boran” is the Thai name for a type of body work native to Thailand (nuat=massage, phaen=manner, boran=ancient). It short for the longer form “Phaen Boran Ráksãa Thaang […]
Ragged Mountain is a privately owned ski and golf resort in Danbury, New Hampshire in the United States. As of July 2004, it was the only New Hampshire ski resort to have a six-person chairlift. It is also the only ski resort in New Hampshire to offer a championship golf course at its […]
Oklahoma State Senator Maxine Horner was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1933. She graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and received her BA from Langston University. She is married to the late Donald M. Horner and they have two children, Shari Tisdale, and Donald M Horner Jr. She has several grandchildren, […]
The Corporate Executive Board Company (CEB) is a commercial, for-profit, public firm that provides general best practices research, executive education, and decision support tools to organizations.
CEB has more than 40 specialized programs, each geared toward a specific corporate function. The programs are distributed across 9 larger practice areas. The practice areas roughly correspond […]
O7 can mean:
O7 star, a subclass of O-class stars
OzJet IATA airline designator
_o7, which also redirects here, is an emoticon for a person scratching his head.
o7, which is here, is an emoticon for a person saluting.
Fothergill’s sign is a medical sign. It can be elicited by:
Making the patient touch his chest using his chin
While in this position, press on the patient’s abdomen
While the abdomen is being pressed, ask the intensity of the pain
If the pain felt is increased or has the same intensity, then it is positive, this means […]
The word ’shampoo’ or ‘champi’ was popularized in England in 1785 by Mr Dean Mahomed who was the first Indian writer to be published in English with his book “The Travels of Dean Mahomet”. He opened a bath in Brighton and also became assistant to Sir Basil Cochrane at his vapour bath in Cochrane Square, […]
1550s . 1560s in architecture . 1570s
other events: 1560s . Architecture timeline
Contents
1 Buildings
2 Events
3 Births
4 Deaths
Buildings
1560 - Construction of Mexico City Cathedral, begins
1563 - Construction of El Escorial (completed 1584), designed by Juan de Herrera, begins
c.1566 - Construction of Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy, designed by Andrea […]
A dining room is a room for consuming food. In modern times it is usually adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving, although in medieval times it was often on an entirely different floor level. Historically the dining room is furnished with a rather large dining table and a number of dining […]
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Ilmari Tapiovaara(1914-1999) is a Finnish designer noted for his furnishings and textiles. In 1937 he graduated in interior design and in the following year worked for Asko. He is noted for the Domus chairs among other things.
External links
r20th century
Tapiovaara.fi
Finnish design page
This article is about the musician, for the birth order see Only children.
Only Child is DJ and musician, Justin Crawford. He was formerly a member of the British band New Fast Automatic Daffodils.
Crawford is now signed to Grand Central Records independent record label under the moniker Only Child.
He is also one half of The Unabombers, […]
The Metamorphic Technique is a gentle form of foot, hand and head massage that can be carried out by anyone with a brief training in the technique. It draws on reflexology in its theory and approach.
It does not claim any specific healing power but uses the idea that the massage helps the individual’s own innate […]
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In Mathematics and Physics, a non-perturbative function or process is one that cannot be accurately described by Perturbation theory. An example is the function
<math>f(x)=e^{-1/x^2}</math>.
The Taylor series for this function is exactly zero to all orders in perturbation theory, but the function is non-zero if x ≠ 0.
The implication of this for Physics is that there […]
Hot Stone Massage can be a dual purpose massage. Due to the heat of the stones, it is always a highly relaxing, stress reduction massage. The hardness of the stones allows the therapist to address specific problem areas with more detailed work or deeper pressure.
Basalt stones of various sizes, shapes and weights […]
Massage chairs come in 2 main types.
Traditional massage chairs
Ergonomically designed chairs for positioning a person who will be receiving a massage, similar in function to a massage table. Chairs may be either stationary or portable models.
Massage chairs are easier for the therapist to maneuver than massage tables, and clients do not need to disrobe […]
A bosun’s chair or boatswain’s chair is a device used to suspend a person from a rope in order to perform work aloft. It is distinguished from a climbing harness by the inclusion of a more or less rigid seat, providing more comfort than even the best-padded straps for long-term use. In exchange, the bosun’s […]
MT or mt may stand for:
Automotive
Honda MT, a motorcycle
Hyundai Mega Truck, a medium-duty truck
Manual transmission, part of a car
Motor Trend, an automotive magazine
Computing and the Internet
.mt, the top-level Internet domain for Malta
Monotype Corporation, a font company
Machine translation, a subfield of computational linguistics
Mauritius Telecom, a a telecommunications and […]
The internal pudendal artery is an artery that branches off the internal iliac artery, providing blood to the external genitalia.
The internal pudendal artery is the terminal branch of the anterior trunk of the internal iliac artery. It is smaller in the female than in the male.
Path
It exits the pelvic cavity through the greater sciatic […]
A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth or virtual instrument is a computer program for digital audio generation. Computer software which can create sounds or music is not new, but advances in processing speed are allowing softsynths to accomplish the same tasks as dedicated hardware. Softsynths can be cheaper and more portable […]
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