Wake Shield Facility is an experimental science platform that was placed in low-earth orbit by the Space Shuttle. It is a 3.7 meter (12 ft) diameter, free-flying stainless steel disk.

The WSF is deployed in the wake of the Space Shuttle at an orbital altitude of over 300 kilometers (186 mi), within the thermosphere, where the atmosphere […]

The Streit Slumber Chair is an easy chair and footstool manufactured by C. F. Streit Mfg. Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio from the late 19th century to the 1950s. Manufactured in a wide range of designs, the chair features an upholstered seat and back element which is supported within a base frame on a rack which […]

Nihon Kaifuku Anma is the Japanese restoration massage. It is used in some Japanese martial arts.
Anma Massage is the art of Japanese massage originated in China 3000 years ago and was introduced to Japan about 1300 years ago. Swedish and Shiatsu are among the massage forms that grew out of this rich tradition. Anma is […]

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 […]

The Lincoln Imp is the symbol of the City of Lincoln, the county town of Lincolnshire, England.

According to a 14th-century legend two mischievous creatures called imps were sent by Satan to do evil work on Earth. After causing mayhem elsewhere in Northern England the two imps headed to Lincoln Cathedral where they smashed tables and […]

Scottish Blend is Scotland’s second most popular brand of tea.

Manufactured by Unilever UK Foods, who also make PG Tips and Lipton, it is specially blended to taste good in the soft waters of Scotland.

It was the first tea to take the needs of the Scottish market in to account when blending tea.

It has been sold […]

IEEE 802.1w is a Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) that can be seen as an evolution of the 802.1 standard. In most cases, RSTP performs better than Cisco Systems’ proprietary extensions without any additional configuration. 802.1w is also capable of reverting back to IEEE 802.1D in order to interoperate with legacy bridges (thus dropping the […]

Andrew Gordon is a prominent scholar of modern Japanese history. He is a faculty member at Harvard University and chairs the Department of History there.

Selected works

The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955. (1985) ISBN 0-674-27130-0.

Postwar Japan as History (ed). (1993) ISBN 0-520-07475-0.

Great Grandma’s Rocking Chair is a 2001 children’s picture book, published by Small World Publishing, Canada. It was written and illustrated by Carol Biberstein. The book is about great grandma Allen and her old wooden rocking chair. Madison, Allen’s great granddaughter, sits up on her great grandma’s lap.

ISBN 1-894627-15-6

A deckchair is a folding chair with a fabric or vinyl backrest and seat. It may have an extended seat that is meant to be used as a leg rest and may have arm rests. It is meant for leisure, originally on a cruise ship’s deck.

To “rearrange the deck chairs” is a popular saying […]

Naprapathy (Czech náprava, correction - from napravit, to correct) - is a branch of medicine, (manual medicine) that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions. Doctors of Naprapathy are connective tissue specialists.

Doctors of Naprapathy are not Doctors of Medicine (MD) (physicians) - an important distinction,

Naprapathic treatment consists of naprapathic manipulative techniques, adjunctive […]

Public Insight Journalism is a new approach to journalism pioneered by Minnesota Public Radio. It recognizes that broadcast media today operate in a changed media environment, and need to expand the resources available to journalists when deciding what is news and reporting on that news, as well as be responsive to audience desires […]

A detachable chairlift or high-speed chairlift is a type of passenger aerial lift, which, like a fixed-grip chairlift, consists of numerous chairs attached to a constantly moving wire rope (called a haul rope) that is strung between two (or more) terminals over intermediate towers. They are now commonplace at all but the smallest of ski […]

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The Twelve Chairs () (1928) is a classic satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. Its main character, Ostap Bender, reappears in the book’s sequel, The Little Golden Calf.

Plot
In the novel, the con man, Ostap Bender, meets dispossessed nobleman, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobianinov. Vorobianinov has just discovered, during the deathbed confession of his […]

John Christopher Lowe (born Scotland 25 January 1949) is a widely respected BBC News broadcaster, currently with BBC News 24. He presents Friday between 7pm and 10pm, and Saturday and Sunday between 7pm and 12 midnight. His co-presenter is Annita McVeigh, and he previously worked with Joanna Gosling.

He has wide ranging experience as a newsreader […]

Meadow Lea is an Australian brand of polyunsaturated margarine spread, produced by the Goodman Fielder food company.

For the method of execution nicknamed The Chair, see electric chair.

For the game show known as The Chair, see The Chair (game show).

The Chair is a fence jumped during the Grand National horse race at Aintree, Liverpool, England.

It is one of only two fences (the other being the Water Jump) in the race […]

Gruesome Gertie was the nickname given by death row inmates to the Louisiana electric chair.

The 1940 Louisiana legislature had changed the method of execution, making execution by electrocution effective from June 1, 1941. Louisiana’s electric chair did not have a permanent home at first, and was taken from parish to parish to perform the executions. […]

For the video game see Trauma Center: Second Opinion

“Second Opinion” is the thirty-third episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the seventh of the show’s third season. It was written by Lawrence Konner, directed by Tim Van Patten and originally aired on Sunday April 8 2001.

Guest starring roles

Tom Aldredge as Hugh De […]

On a metalworking lathe a back gear is a set of gears that reduces the spindle speed in half.

Since 1947, the Democratic members of the United States Senate have elected a policy committee chairman. From 1947 to 2000, the Democratic leader was also the policy committee chairman. From 1989 to 1999, there was a co-chairman. Starting in 1999, the co-chairman was dropped and the position of policy committee chairman became a separate elected […]

The Mazatecan languages are a closely related group of indigenous Mesoamerican languages spoken in the northern part of the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, and in some communities in the states of Puebla and Veracruz. They are classified, linguistically, as a division of the Popolocan family of the Oto-Manguean language family. They are called […]

RMT is an abbreviation for:

National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers

Random Matrix Theory

RateMyTeachers

Real-money trading

Recovered memory therapy

Registered Massage Therapist

Reiki Master Teacher

Registered Music Therapist

Remote Maintenance Technologies

A wide range of garden types exist, including:

Alpine garden

Arboretum

Beer garden

Botanic garden

Butterfly garden

Communal garden

Community garden

Color garden, such as White garden

Container garden

Cottage garden

Desert garden

Flower garden

Hanging garden

Heirloom garden

Indoor garden

Kitchen garden

Organic garden

Palace garden

Paradise garden

Pinetum

Public park

Rock garden

Sacred grove

Shade garden

Sculpture garden

Vegetable garden

Water garden

Wildlife garden

Zoological garden

There is also a set of garden types based on either a historical period in which the […]

Something Special was George Strait’s fifth album of new material, released on MCA Records in 1985. It is ceritfied platinum by the RIAA.

A music video was made for “The Chair.”

Singles

The Chair

You’re Something Special To Me

Track listing

“You’re Something Special to Me” – 3:20

“Last Time the First Time” – 2:14

“Haven’t You Heard” – 2:56

“In […]

The International Monetary Market (IMM), largely the creation of Leo Melamed, is part of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest in the world after Eurex, for the trading of futures contracts and options on futures. The IMM was started on May 16, 1972. […]

Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx (d.c.1587) was an Italian violinist whose Ballet Comique de la Reine, first performed at the Louvre in 1581, is generally regarded as the first ballet. The performance was a five-and-a-half hour interpretation of the legends regarding the mythological enchantress Circe performed to celebrate the marriage of Joyeuse and Marguerite of Lorraine.

Harriet Greville Spicer is a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Commission. She was born on 24th April 1950 to James Spicer, the then owner of Spicer’s Paper and Patricia Palmer. She lived in Chelsea before attending Lillsden School for Girls and then Benenden School. She went on to graduate from St. Annes College, Oxford […]

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, […]

Effleurage is a massage stroke used to warm up the muscle before deep tissue work using petrissage.

This is a soothing, stroking movement used at the beginning and the end of the facial massage. It is also used as a linking move between the different strokes and movements.

Effleurage can be firm or light without dragging the […]

Something Special was George Strait’s fifth album of new material, released on MCA Records in 1985. It is ceritfied platinum by the RIAA.

A music video was made for “The Chair.”

Singles

The Chair

You’re Something Special To Me

Track listing

“You’re Something Special to Me” – 3:20

“Last Time the First Time” – 2:14

“Haven’t You Heard” – 2:56

“In […]

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) […]

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, […]

The Great Outdoor Games is a series of outdoor games created by ESPN.

Great Outdoor Games individual events include:

Fishing Events

Fly Fishing

Freshwater Doubles

Sporting Dog Events

Retriever Trials

Agility Disc Drive

Big Air

Target Events

Archery

Rifle

Shotgun

Timber Events

Boom Run

Log rolling

Team Relay

Endurance

Speed Climbing

Tree Topping

Hot Saw

Springboard

External links

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A body treatment, spa treatment, or cosmetic treatment is non-medical procedure to help the health of the body. It is often performed at a resort, destination spa, day spa, beauty salon or school.

Typical treatments include:

facials — facial cleansing with a variety of products

massage

waxing — the removal of body hair with hot wax

body wraps

aromatherapy

skin exfoliation […]

The Wishing-Chair series by Enid Blyton contains three novels:

Adventures of the Wishing-Chair, first published in 1937

The Wishing-Chair Again, first published in 1950

More Wishing-Chair Stories, first published in 2000

More Adventures Of the Wishing-Chair, unreleased copy of 2000’s More Wishing-Chair Stories.

Adventures of the Wishing-Chair has the distinction of being Enid Blyton’s first full-length book — although it […]

Mass decontamination (abbreviated mass decon) is the decontamination of large numbers of people, in the event of industrial, accidental, or intentional contamination by toxic, infective, caustic, polluted, or otherwise unhealthful or damaging substances.

An example is when large numbers of persons fleeing from the September 11, 2001 attacks were detained by officials, so that they […]

The terms exotic dancer and exotic dance can have different meanings in different parts of the world and depending on context.

In a non-erotic sense, the word “exotic” applies to the fact that something is out of the ordinary or perceived by spectators as unusual. It can also apply to those dancers who master a rare […]

Nnachi is the one of the founding fathers of the city of Arochukwu, the largest town in Abia State in southeastern Nigeria. During the conclusion of the 17th century, he was a travelling Edda priest-doctor from near Afikpo. The Igbo clan lead by Eze Agwu in the Aro region called on him for help during […]

William James “Kimo” Wall was born in Hawaii in 1943. (”Kimo” is the Hawaiian equivalent of “Jim”.) At the age of six he began training in Goju-ryu karate under teachers who had studied with Miyagi Chojun during his three-year stay in Hawaii. In 1961 he joined the US Marine Corps and was stationed […]

Donald Andrew Clune (born August 31, 1952 in Havertown, Pennsylvania) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned All-American honors in both football and track. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the 1974 NFL Draft. […]

Fox Movie Channel, formerly fXM, is a television channel that concentrates on showing movies uncut and commercial-free. Fox Movie Channel mostly shows movies from 20th Century Fox’s library from the mid-1930s to the 1990s, including some television movies. Both pan and scan and letterbox versions are shown whenever both versions are available. All films shown […]

PEBKAC is an acronym which stands for “Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair”.The Jargon File, version 4.4.7, maintained by Eric S. Raymond The phrase is used by computer experts as a semi-humorous* PEBKAC in the webcomic User Friendly way to describe user errors.

Other variations are POBCAC (”Problem Occurs Between Computer and Chair”), PIBKAC (”Problem Is […]

An articulated robot is a robot with rotary joints (e.g. a legged robot). Articulated robots can range from simple two-jointed structures to systems with 10 or more interacting joints.
They are powered by a variety of means, including electric motors.

Some types of robots, such as robotic arms, can be articulated or non-articulated. http://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_iv/otm_iv_4.html […]

Joseph Betts was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford in 1765.

Watsu, a portmanteau of water and shiatsu, is a form of body massage performed while lying in warm water (around 35 °C or 95 °F). The receiver of Watsu treatment is continuously supported by the therapist while he or she rocks and gently stretches the body. Because it is performed in the water, the body […]

This article is about the ‘memory’ observed in batteries. For other uses, see Memory (disambiguation).

Memory effect, also known as lazy battery effect, is an effect observed in some rechargeable batteries that causes them to hold less charge. In its original meaning it describes one very specific situation in which certain NiCd batteries gradually lose […]

OMB Circular A-123 is an US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular that defines the management responsibilities for internal financial controls in Federal agencies. It was issued by OMB’s Office of Federal Financial Management on 21 December 2004 and addressed to all Federal Chief Financial Officers, Chief Information Officers, and Program Managers. The […]

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