List of famous pairs - List of famous pairs The following is a list of famous pairs. See also list of twins and Twin cities. Pairs are human beings unless otherwise noted. Pairs are actual persons (living or dead), places, or things, unless identified otherwise. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Aachen & Aix-la-Chapelle (geographical; juxtapositions) (German and French names for the same town) Abbott & Costello (colleagues; entertainers) Abelard & Heloise (couples) Abercrombie & Fitch (commercial partners) Adam & Eve (Biblical; couples) Addison & Steele (colleagues; writers) Adenine & thymine (scientific; complementary) (DNA base pair) Albireo (astronomical; juxtapositions) (the double star Beta Cygnus) Alcock & Brown (colleagues; aviators) John.
Netlist - Instance based net based. Netlists can also be Flat Hierarchical Hierarchical Netlists can be Folded Unfolded. Contents and Structure of a Netlist Most netlists either contain or reference descriptions of the parts or devices used. Each time a part is used in a netlist, this is called an "instance". Thus, each instance has a "master", or "definition". These definitions will usually list the connections that can be made to that kind of device, and some basic properties of that device. These connection points are called "ports" or "pins", among several other names. An "instance" could be anything from a vacuum cleaner, microwave oven, or light bulb, to a resistor, capacitor, or integrated circuit chip. Instances have "ports". In the case of a vacuum cleaner, these ports would be the two (or.
Lists of people - Lists of people This is a list of real people who are known by a non-Wikipedian name and who are mentioned in articles. This list does not include fictional characters, e.g., people like Arthur the Knight are included but King Arthur is not. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 By name 2 By date 3 Lists of people by category 4 Names 5 Other categories of famous people 5.1 People by associated physical condition/characteristic 5.2 People by lifestyle (in certain cases with a possibly biological role) 5.3 People by belief 5.4 People by achievements 5.5 People by occupation 5.6 People by studies 5.7 People by circumstance By name A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K.
List of Canadian sports personalities - List of Canadian sports personalities See also: Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Automobile Racing 2 Baseball 2.1 current players 3 Basketball 4 Biathlon 5 Bobsleigh 6 Boxing 7 Curling 8 Figure Skating 9 Football 10 Golf 11 Horse racing 12 Ice hockey 13 Lacrosse 14 Multiple sports 15 Professional wrestling 16 Rowing, Kayaking 17 Skiing 18 Snowboarding 19 Speed skating 20 Swimming - Diving 21 Synchronized swimming 22 Track and field 23 Triathlon 24 Weightlifting Automobile Racing Patrick Carpentier Scott Goodyear Greg Moore, (1975-1999) Paul Tracy Gilles Villeneuve, (1950-1982) Jacques Villeneuve, (born 1971), son of Gilles Baseball Reggie Cleveland Ferguson Jenkins - MLB Hall of Fame member Joseph Lannin - owner of the Boston Red Sox who signed Babe Ruth.
List of relational topics - List of relational topics Topics can be created based on a relationship between two entities. Although such categorizations can and probably should be listed at their constituent pages, a relational topic can help bring together information which might otherwise only be listed at one page. Moreover, such a page as this can help draw attention to interrelationships in a particular domain at a glance. Note: This page should probably not be a list of people, items, etc. which are often collocated or fixed expressions (e.g., peanut butter and jelly although a separate page could perhaps be listed for this such as famous pairs). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Between States 2 Between Components of Society 3 Between Fields 4 Between Persons Between States China and the.
List of people by name: Sa-Sb - List of people by name: Sa-Sb List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Sa-Sb - Sc-Sd - Se - Sf-Sg - Sh - Si-Sj - Sk - Sl - Sm - Sn - So - Sp-Sq - Sr-Ss - St - Su - Sv - Sw-Sx - Sy - Sz Sa Saadi, (died 1283), Persian poet Saar, Betye, (born 1929), painter Saarinen, Eero, (1910-1961), Finnish architect Saarinen, Eliel, (1873-1950), Finnish architect Saba, Umberto, pseudonym of Italian poet.
Goddess - refer to goddessing meaning Goddess culture, Goddess way of life, Goddess practice, or 'my goddessing' as in my individual interpretation and experience of Goddess. Thealogy Thealogy is 'reflection on the divine in feminine or feminist terms' Caron 1992. It was first proposed by Naomi Goldenberg 1976. Frequently used to mean analysis of Goddess thought and mysticism, it can also be used more liberally to mean any kind of divine, not just deity divine, as in meditation, ethics, ritual pragmatics. Polytheism and monotheism Polytheist religions -- which recognise many deities as forms of the divine -- such as Hinduism and most ancestral religions, have no difficulty in including female deities. In "women's religions", a Goddess is surprisingly not typical, although such religions certainly never centre on a monotheist God (Sered Goddess, Mother,.
Great Pyramid of Giza - Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and the most famous pyramid in the world, served as a tomb for the 4th dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (also known under his Greek name Cheops). The estimated date of its completion is 2570 BC and it is the earliest and largest of the three great pyramids in the Giza necropolis on the outskirts of modern Cairo, Egypt. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Description 2 Construction 3 Paranormal interest and encoded numbers 4 See also 5 External Links Description Great Pyramid of Giza 19th century stereopticon card photo'' South-west of Khufu's Great Pyramid lies the pyramid of Khafre, one of Khufu's successors who also built the Sphinx, and further south-west there's the pyramid of Menkaure, Khafre's successor. Both of these.
Gymnastics - only by women, and involves the performance of five separate routines with the use of five props (ball, ribbon, hoop, clubs, role) on a floor area, with a much greater emphasis on the aesthetic rather than the acrobatic. Rhythmic routines are scored out of a possible 30 points. Sports aerobics involves the performance of routines by individuals or pairs, emphasising strength, flexibility, and aerobic fitness rather than acrobatic or balance skills. Routines are peformed on a small floor area and last 90 seconds (? - check this), being judged out of a total of (check how many points is maximum). Trampolining routines involve a build-up phase during which the gymnast jumps repeatedly to achieve height, followed by a sequence of leaps without pauses during which the gymnast performs a sequence of.
Dassault Mirage III - rocket motor, and renaming to "Mirage I", the prototype attained Mach 1.3 in level flight without the rocket, and Mach 1.6 with the rocket lit in late 1955. However, the small size of the Mirage I restricted its armament to a single air-to-air missile, and even before this time it had been prudently decided the aircraft was simply too tiny to carry a useful warload. After trials, the Mirage I prototype was eventually scrapped. Dassault then considered a somewhat bigger version, the "Mirage II", with a pair of Turbomeca Gabizo turbojets, but no aircraft of this configuration was ever built. The Mirage II was bypassed for a much more ambitious design that was 30% heavier than the Mirage I and was powered by the new 43.2 kN (4,400 kg / 9,700.
Taoism - more than 2,000 years. Taoism places emphasis upon individual freedom and spontaneity, non-interventionist government and social primitivism and ideas of self-transformation. Thus, Taoism represents in many ways the antithesis to Confucian concern with moral duties, social cohesion, and governmental responsibilities, even if Confucius' thought includes those Taoist values, as one can read in the Analects. Traditionally, Taoism has been attributed to three sources: The oldest, the mythical 'Yellow Emperor'; the most famous, the book of mystical aphorisms, the 'Dao De Jing' (or in Wade-Giles spelling, 'Tao Te Ching'), said to be written by Lao Zi (Wade-Giles, Lao Tse), who, according to legend, was an older contemporary of Confucius; and the third, the works of the philosopher Zhuang Zi (Wade-Giles, Chuang Tse). Other books have developed Taoism, as the True Classic of.
1976 in sports - in sports, other events of 1976, 1977 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Auto Racing 2 Baseball 3 Basketball 4 Boxing 5 Cycling 6 Figure Skating 7 Football (Soccer) 8 Football (American) 9 Canadian Football League 10 Golf 11 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 12 Harness Racing 13 Ice Hockey 14 Skiing 15 Tennis 16 General sporting events 17 Births 18 Deaths Auto Racing Stock car racing: David Pearson won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Cale Yarborough Indianapolis 500 - Johnny Rutherford USAC Racing - Gordon Johncock won the season championship Formula One Championship: James Hunt of Great Britain Niki Lauda's famous accident occurred during the German Grand Prix at Nurburgring. 24 hours of Le Mans: the team of Jacky Ickx / Gijs van.
1955 in sports - in sports, other events of 1955, 1956 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Auto Racing 2 Baseball 3 Basketball 4 Boxing 5 Cycling 6 Figure Skating 7 Football (Soccer) 8 Football (American) 9 Canadian Football League 10 Golf 11 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 12 Harness Racing 13 Ice Hockey 14 Tennis 15 General sporting events 16 Births 17 Deaths Auto Racing NASCAR Championship - Tim Flock AAA Racing: Bob Sweikert won the Indianapolis 500 Bob Sweikert won the season championship Formula One Championship - Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina 24 hours of Le Mans: the team of Mike Hawthorn / Ivor Bueb won, driving a Jaguar D-type Rally racing: the team of Per Malling / Gunnar Fadum won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a.
Admiral Robert Blake - important commanders during the Commonwealth period of English history, and the most famous British Admiral until eclipsed by Horatio Nelson. Born the son of a merchant in Bridgwater, Somerset, UK, he was a late starter, being elected to Parliament in 1640 and with no substantial experience of military or naval matters. In Politics In 1640 Blake was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bridgwater in the Short Parliament. When the English Civil War broke out during the period of the Long Parliament, Blake began his military career on the side of the parliamentarians. He returned to serve in the Barebones Parliament 1653 for some months due to ill health, before returning to sea. On Land Blake's most famous explots on land were at the Siege of Bristol July 1643, Siege.
Anton Bruckner - of his energies on writing symphonies. However these symphonies were poorly received, considered "wild" and "nonsensical". He later accepted a post at the Vienna University in 1875. Overall, he was quite unhappy in Vienna, musically dominated by the critic Eduard Hanslick. At that time there was a feud between those who liked Wagner's music and those who liked Brahms's music. By aligning himself with Wagner, Bruckner made an enemy out of Hanslick without wanting to. He did have supporters, famous conductors such as Artur Nikisch and Franz Schalk, who were constantly trying to bring his music to the public, and for this purpose proposed many 'improvements' for making Bruckner's music more acceptable to the public, and while Bruckner allowed these changes, he also made sure in his will to bequeath his.
Arnold Schoenberg - some of the audience began to shout out abuse. Later in the concert, during a performance of some songs by Berg, fighting broke out, and the police had to be called in. Schoenberg's music had made a break from tonality, which greatly polarised responses to it: his followers and students saw him as one of the most important figures in music, while critics hated his work, on the whole. Another of his most important works from this period is Pierrot Lunaire of 1912, a cycle of songs set to a text by Albert Girard that was unlike anything that preceded it. Utilizing the technique of Sprechstimme, or speak-singing recitation, the work pairs a female singer, in a Pierrot costume, with a small orchestra of 13 musicians, who in each of the.
Asteroid - patch. The troughs run parallel to the asteroid's long dimension. Click on the image to see an enlarged version. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Earth's Solar System 2 Asteroid groups and families 2.1 Groups out to the orbit of Earth 2.2 Groups out to the orbit of Mars 2.3 Groups out to the orbit of Jupiter 2.4 Groups beyond the orbit of Jupiter 3 Asteroid Discovery 4 Asteroid Deflection 5 Asteroid Exploration 6 Asteroid Classification 7 External Links Earth's Solar System More than 9000 asteroids have been discovered within Earth's solar system. The largest asteroid in Earth's inner solar system is Ceres, with a diameter of 900-1000km. Two other large asteroids are Pallas and Vesta; both have diameters of ~500km. See also a list of interesting or noteworthy asteroids in our.
Category theory - mathematical structures and relationships between them. It is half-jokingly known as "abstract nonsense". See list of category theory topics for a breakdown of the relevant Wikipedia pages. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Background 2 Historical notes 3 Categories 3.1 Definition 3.2 Examples 4 Types of morphisms 5 Special objects 6 Functors 6.3 Definition 6.4 Examples 7 Natural transformations and natural isomorphisms 7.5 Definition 7.6 Examples 8 Equivalence of categories 8.7 Definition 8.8 Examples 9 Further concepts and results 10 Types of categories 11 Literature Background A category attempts to capture the essence of a class of related mathematical objects, for instance the class of groups. Instead of focusing on the individual objects (groups) as has been done traditionally, the morphisms, i.e. the structure preserving maps between these objects, are emphasized. In.
Two - natural numbers, 2 is identified with the set {0,1}. This latter set is important in category theory: it is a subobject classifier in the category of sets. Two is a Fibonacci number and a primorial, as well as its own factorial. Cultural meaning The duality of all things is an important notion in most cultures and religions. The most common philosophical dichotomy is perhaps the one of good and evil, but there are many others. See dualism for an overview. In Hegelianian dialectic, the process of antithesis creates two perspectives from one. Two is a good number in Chinese culture. There is a Chinese saying "good things come in pairs". It is common to use double symbols in product brandnames, e.g. double happiness, double coin, double elephants etc. Cantonese people like.
Stamp collecting - growth. Stamp collectors collect: postage stamps Postal stationery - includes government-issued post cards, aerograms, air letter sheets, etc.; interestingly, the earliest postal stationery predates the earliest stamps- the Kingdom of Sardinia issued the first postal letter sheets in 1819. revenue stamps Postage Due stamps Duck stamps (stamps for duck hunting licenses, mainly U.S. with some other countries such as Canada); the first Duck stamp was designed by noted conservationist Ding Darling, and was issued in 1934. Each year, a contest is held, in which thousands of wildlife artists compete to design the new duck stamp. The winner of the contest becomes instantly famous. Duck stamp collecting is very popular with hunters, and U.S. Duck stamps are sold by the Department of the Interior, as well as by individual states. The revenues.
