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Burt Henry Covered Bridge | II and also covered

Monday, March 31st, 2008

The Burt Henry Covered Bridge, also known as Henry Covered Bridge or just Henry Bridge, is a covered bridge that spans the Walloomsac River near Bennington, Vermont.

The bridge is approximately 120 feet (36.5 m) long and 12 feet (3.7 m) wide. It has a Town lattice type truss. The bridge was originally built ca. 1840, and rebuilt in 1989 by the Vermont Agency of Transportation. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

The historic Henry House is nearby.

There is another Henry Covered Bridge in Washington County, Ohio [1].


References


External links

  • Henry Bridge information from Bennington Chamber of Commerce/Town of Bennington
  • http://www.tc2u.com/home/Vermont_Covered_Bridges_Main/Henry/Henry_Covered_Bridge_VT_Index_01.html

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Business information | Business for the ‘Bollocks

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Business Information is one of the three main segments of the Information Industry. The other two segments are Scientific, Technical & Medical (“STM”) and Educational & Training content.

The Business Information industry is presently estimated to be a more than $358 Billion market, according to industry analysts Outsell, Inc. Where much of the content industry revenues are advertising-driven, the Business Information segment remains largely driven by paid content, either via subscription or transaction (pay-per-view).

The primary forms of business information include:

  • News
  • Market Research
  • Credit and Financial Information
  • Company and Executive Profiles
  • Industry, Country and Economic Analysis
  • IT Research

While Wall Street’s thirst for information traditionally drove the business information market, its use is much more widespread today. In addition to the financial markets, business information is used heavily for sales and marketing, competitive intelligence, strategic planning, human resources and many other strategic business functions.

Today, there are more than 200 http://www.alacrawiki.com/index.php?title=Premium_Business_Information_Databases providers of business information. While the Internet has made it easier for business information publishers to deliver content directly to their users, there remains a strong market for aggregators of such content which package business information in ways to meet an industry or customer’s workflow.


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Parks in Warrington | park.

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Here is a list of parks and areas of natural interest in Warrington, England.

  • Bank Park
  • Birchwood Forest Park
  • Black Bear Park
  • Burtonwood
  • Culcheth Linear Park
  • Lumb Brook Valley
  • Lymm Dam
  • Orford Park
  • Peel Hall Park
  • Risley Moss
  • Rixton Claypits
  • Sankey Valley Park
  • Trans Pennine Trail
  • Victoria Park
  • Walton Hall and Gardens
  • Woolston Park
  • New Park

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Magic Kingdom Parade | theme

Monday, March 31st, 2008

The Magic Kingdom Parade is a large theatrical presentation at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World which dates back to the beginning of the theme park.

It is comprised of many floats, each of which has its own theme music which is synchronised with a rhythm track that plays underneath the theme music for all floats simultaneously. As the floats move through the park, the appropriate theme music plays through loudspeakers on each float as well as through land-based loudspeakers along the route. A complex electronic tracking system manages the sound so that the correct theme music plays alongside each float as it travels by and pans from one group of loudspeakers to the next synchronously.

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Air travel | ticket

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Air travel is a form of traveling using an airplane.

The comfort on traveling by air depends on several factors starting with the airport, the choice of the airline and the travel class.

Travel class on an airplane is usually split into a two or four class model. National flights usually have two classes: economy Class cabin and business class cabin, whereas long haul flights usually have four classes: an economy class cabin, a premium economy cabin, a business class or a club class cabin and finally, a first class cabin.

With the differences between premium economy and economy being moderately significant, the cost is not greatly altered upon purchase of a premium Economy ticket. The price of an economy class ticket and a first class ticket are often extremely different, with prices for a first class ticket being at least $1700 (£850) more expensive. The difference between standard Class and first Class when travelling by rail is often not as expensive, but tickets $1200 (£600) more expensive are not uncommon.

Any air travel starts and ends at a commercial airport. The typical procedure is check-in, border control, airport security check of baggage and passengers before entering the gate, boarding, flying and pick-up of luggage and - limited to international flights - another border control at the host country border.


See also

  • Airport Check-in
  • Punctuality


External links

  • Chasing the Sun - History of commercial aviation, from PBS

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SlimFTPd | previous years

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

SlimFTPd is a standards-compliant FTP server from WhitSoft Development under a BSD license. It has no interface and is configured through a single configuration file. A utility to register it as a Windows Service is included. However, prudent use of this tool should be limited to private internal networks as the tool has not had enough exposure to the community for bug reports. All previous versions should be updated to at least 3.181 as “remote code execution” and “denial of service” holes where found on previous releases.


See Also

  • WhitSoft UnFREEz Animated GIF maker


External links

  • SlimFTPd Home

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The Little Whirlwind | Mickey

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The Little Whirlwind is a 1941 animated short subject, part of the Mickey Mouse series, produced by John Sutherland for Walt Disney Productions. Directed by Riley Thomson, the short was released by RKO Radio Pictures on February 14, 1941. The short involves Mickey’s attempts to help Minnie with her yard work, despite the pretense of several (anthropomorphic) twisters as foils.


Synopsis

Walking by Minnie Mouse’s house one day, Mickey Mouse is enticed by the aroma of a cake Minnie is baking. Promised a slice if he cleans the yard, Mickey immediately jumps into raking up the fall leaves littering Minnie’s lawn. While working in the yard, a small tornado as tall as Mickey comes along and makes his work more complicated. Mickey tries to fight the tornado away, but while chasing it, he encounters a bigger one which in turn chases him.

When the twister finally sucks Mickey in, he is sent for a spin until he ends up falling into Minnie’s water fountain. Minnie comes out, and she finds her yard a far worse mess than before. However, Mickey still gets the cake for his hard work - right in his face.


Animation notes

Much of the animation of the big tornado is taken from the 1935 Mickey Mouse cartoon The Band Concert.

The Little Whirlwind marks the final appearance of Mickey Mouse in his trademark red button-down shorts during his cartoon series’ original theatrical run. The shots would not be restored until Runaway Brain in 1995. In addition, The Little Whirlwind was the debut for a newly updated Mickey Mouse design: Mickey was given ears that worked in perspective (veruss his traditional, unchanging circles for ears), in addition to a slimmer body, larger head, hands and feet and the removal of his tail. This cosmetic change was relatively short-lived, and only lasted for the duration of World War II.

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Libya at the 1996 Summer Olympics | 1996

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Libya competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.


Results by event


Athletics

Men’s Marathon

  • Abdel Adili → 88th place (2:32.12)


Reference

  • Official Olympic Reports

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USS O’Brien | are served throughout

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

USS O’Brien has been the name of five ships of the United States Navy, in honor of Jeremiah O’Brien (1744–1818):

  • O’Brien (TB-30), a torpedo boat, built in 1900 and served until 1909.
  • O’Brien (DD-51), an O’Brien-class destroyer, which served from 1915 until 1922.
  • O’Brien (DD-415), a Sims-class destroyer, served from 1940 until she was sunk by an enemy torpedo in 1942.
  • O’Brien (DD-725), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, served from 1944 until 1972.
  • O’Brien (DD-975), a Spruance-class destroyer, launched in 1976 she served until 2004.

See also: SS Jeremiah O’Brien, a Liberty ship, which served during World War II.

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List of Special Areas of Conservation in Northern Ireland | special

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Special Areas of Conservation in Northern Ireland are part of the European Natura 2000 network of sites with special flora or fauna.

Northern Ireland has 43 SACs:

  • Ballynahone Bog
  • Banagher Glen
  • Bann Estuary
  • Binevenagh
  • Black Bog
  • Breen Wood
  • Carn/Glenshane Pass
  • Cladagh (Swanlinbar) River
  • Cuilcagh Mountains
  • Garry Bog
  • Garron Plateau
  • Magilligan
  • Main Valley Bogs
  • Moneygal Bog
  • Montiaghs Moss
  • North Antrim Coast
  • Owenkillew River
  • Peatlands Park
  • Rathlin Island
  • Rea’s Wood & Farr’s Bay
  • Strangford Lough
  • Upper Ballinderry River
  • Upper Lough Erne
  • Wolf Island Bog

See also:

  • Special Area of Conservation
  • Special Protection Area

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Bhringi | Continued and The Best

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

According to Hindu mythology, Bhringi (the wanderer) was an ancient sage (rishi), and a great devotee of Shiva,the Hindu God of destruction and rejuvenation. The legend states that he had three legs. According to mythology, all the rishis once paid homage to both Shiva and Parvati, the second consort of Shiva, but Bhringi would not worship Parvati and dedicated himself solely to Shiva. Enraged, Parvati reduced Bringi to a skeleton. In this form he was not able to stand and so Shiva provided him with a third leg. Bhringi remained undaunted, and continued to worship only Shiva. To force him to worship Parvati as well, Shiva transformed himself into his androgynous form of Ardhnarishvar, in which state he was combined with his consort Parvati. Bringi remained undeterred. Transformed himself in a bee, he bored his way through the male part of androgynous Shiva and continued his worship. He generally appears beside Shiva during his cosmic dance of tandava.


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David Grimal | in 1973. Though

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

David Grimal (born 1973) is a French violinist.

Considered one of the most interesting musicians of his generation, he is invited to perform all over the world.

He plays the ex Roederer Stradivarius of 1710.


External links

  • David Grimal’s official website

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God Bless the Prince of Wales | written and performed

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

“God Bless the Prince of Wales” (in Welsh, “Ar Dywysog Gwlad y Bryniau”) is a song written to mark the occasion of the marriage of the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom to Alexandra of Denmark.

The song was first proposed at the Caernarfon Eisteddfod of 1862. The words were written by the poet, John Ceiriog Hughes and the music by Henry Brinley Richards. The English words are by George Linley. The song was completed and performed in 1863. The opening lyrics are:

“Among our ancient mountains,
And from our lovely vales,
Oh! Let the prayer re-echo
God bless the Prince of Wales!”

In parts of Scotland and Ireland the tune is used to sing the loyalist song Derry’s Walls.

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Billboard Comprehensive Albums | appears on the albums

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Billboard Comprehensive Albums is a weekly albums chart produced by Billboard magazine that ranks the biggest selling albums in the United States regardless of the product’s age or method of sales.

Albums which are over two years old (from the date of release) and have dropped below position 100 on The Billboard 200 are removed from that chart and placed on the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart.

Additionally, albums sold as an “exclusive” to a particular retail outlet (such as Wal-Mart or Starbucks) are not eligible for the Billboard 200.

Billboard Comprehensive Albums includes any album, old or new, sold anywhere. Generally, the Billboard Comprehensive Albums is nearly identical to the Billboard 200, with the exception of approximately twenty to thirty “catalog” albums that still sell well enough to be one of the top 200-selling albums in any given week.

Billboard Comprehensive Albums is not published in the print edition of Billboard magazine. Instead, it can be viewed via paid subscription to Billboard’s online service.

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Liberty Legion | Who’d

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

The Liberty Legion is the name of two fictional superhero teams in the Marvel Comics universe. The first and most extensively published was created in 1976 and set during World War II. Comprised of existing heroes from Marvel’s 1940s Golden Age predecessor, Timely Comics, the team was assembled and named by writer Roy Thomas in a story arc running through The Invaders #5-6 (March & May 1976) and Marvel Premiere #29-30 (April & June 1976).

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Publication history

Never headlining its own series except for the two issues of the showcase title Marvel Premiere, the Liberty Legion guest-starred in The Invaders #35-37 (Dec. 1978 - Feb. 1979); in the final two-thirds of a three-part story arc running through The Fantastic Four Annual #11, Marvel Two-in-One Annual #1 (both 1976), and Marvel Two-in-One #20 (Oct. 1976); and in issue #3 (June 1993) of the 1990s miniseries The Invaders.

The Thin Man would go on to co-star in the 2004-05 series The New Invaders.

In the 2007 series , a new, unrelated version of the Liberty Legion is based in Pennsylvania.


Fictional team biography


Liberty Legion (1940s)

“America’s Homefront Heroes of World War II”, the Liberty Legion differed from the Invaders by confronting Axis plots and influence in and around the United States as well as fifth columnists rather than in the overseas theaters of war, and by consisting of mostly obscure Timely Comics superheroes, rather than stars Captain America, the Sub-Mariner, and the original android Human Torch, and sidekicks.

The Liberty Legion, indeed, included only two of even the company’s secondary tier (the Whizzer and Miss America, members of Timely’s first superteam, the post-war All-Winners Squad), skipping past the popular Angel, Blazing Skull, and Destroyer to instead revive several third-string characters who, in the team’s modern-day retcon origin, were assembled in 1942 by Captain America sidekick Bucky, the only Invaders member to escape a brainwashing trap by the Red Skull. To rescue his teammates, he gathered:

• The Blue Diamond (introduced Daring Mystery Comics #7, April 1941)

• Jack Frost (USA Comics #1, Aug. 1941)

• Miss America (Marvel Mystery Comics #49, Nov. 1943)

• The Patriot (Marvel Mystery Comics #21, July 1941)

• Red Raven (Red Raven Comics #1, Aug. 1940)

• The Thin Man (Mystic Comics #4, July 1940)

• The Whizzer (USA Comics #1, Aug. 1941)

The Blue Diamond (a super-strong, superhumanly durable anthropologist), Jack Frost (the mythological spirit of winter), and the Thin Man (comics’ first stretching hero, predating Plastic Man by just over a year) were here reintroduced into Marvel continuity, appearing for the first time since the Golden Age. Unofficial team leader the Patriot (styled after Captain America) had appeared as a simulacrum projected from the mind of Rick Jones in The Avengers vol. 1, #97 (March 1972), but was otherwise reintroduced here. The winged Red Raven, who’d starred in the single issue of a namesake title in 1940, had re-entered the modern Marvel universe with [Uncanny] X-Men #44 (May 1968). The Whizzer had returned as an older character in Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Aug. 1974), relating how he and the since-deceased Miss America had married each other years before.


See also

  • The Crusaders


References

  • Jess Nevins’ “A Guide To Marvel’s Golden Age Characters”: The Liberty Legion
  • America’s Homefront Heroes…The Liberty Legion
  • The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
  • The Grand Comics Database

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Dorcas Society | Thanksgiving

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

A Dorcas Society is a local group of people, usually based in a church, with a mission of providing clothing to the poor.

The original society was founded in Douglas, Isle of Man on December 1, 1834, as part of the community’s thanksgiving for being spared from an outbreak of cholera. The poorer families in town had their clothes and bedding destroyed as part of the effort to prevent the disease. Today there are other Dorcas societies around the world, providing clothing and other physical needs.

The society is named after a character (Tabitha, also called Dorcas) described in the Acts of the Apostles (Chapter 9, v. 36).


References

  • Isle of Man Dorcas Society

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D7 | versions It was covered

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

D7 may refer to:

  • D7 is the second note in the seventh octave, a note in the whistle register
  • D-7 (song), a song written by the Wipers and covered by Nirvana
  • Borland Delphi 7.0 one of the most popular versions of Delphi programming language
  • A chord (music) consisting of the notes D, F#, A, and C
  • Dinar Lineas Aereas airline’s IATA code
  • FlyAsianXpress airline’s IATA code
  • A class of Klingon Starship in the Star Trek universe
  • polyhedral die that is seven-sided
  • The SMPTE D-7 standard (SMPTE 306-M:1998), based on Panasonic’s DVCPRO; a variant of the DV digital video recording format
  • A severance package, i.e. an internal code for being terminated and collecting monetary compensation (e.g. severance)
  • D7, a Star Trek Klingon starship

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Ricky Ball | hard ticket

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Ricky Ball is a musician from New Zealand. He played drums in the following bands: the Beatboys, the Courtiers, Challenge, Ticket, Jimmy Sloggett Band, Tommy Ferguson’s Goodtime Band, Rainbow, Hello Sailor, Woody, the Pink Flamingos (briefly, at the beginning) and Beaver.

Woody (consisting of three-quarters of Ticket among the line up) was a resident band at Jilly’s in Auckland, one of several nightclubs in New Zealand run by Maurice Greer, formerly of Human Instinct.

According to Stranded In Paradise, Ricky Ball owned a boutique when he joined the Pink Flamingos and left when they were likely to be more than a resident band at Jilly’s.


References


External links

  • Ticket at New Zealand Music of the 60’s and 70’s
  • Hello Sailor at New Zealand Music of the 60’s and 70’s

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The Temptations Christmas Card | Christmas is a Christmas

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The Temptations Christmas Card is a 1970 Christmas album by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. The group’s first holiday release, Christmas Card features each Temptation leading on various popular Christmas standards and original Christmas songs.


Track listing

  1. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
  2. “My Christmas Tree”
  3. “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
  4. “Silent Night”
  5. “Someday at Christmas”
  6. “White Christmas”
  7. “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”
  8. “Silver Bells”
  9. “The Christmas Song”
  10. “Little Drummer Boy”


Personnel

  • Dennis Edwards: vocals
  • Eddie Kendricks: vocals
  • Paul Williams: vocals
  • Melvin Franklin: vocals
  • Otis Williams: vocals

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