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Altaville, California Altaville is an unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California, located in northwest portion of the city of Angels Camp. It sits at an elevation of 1,540 feet (467 m) above sea level and is located at , at the intersections of California State Highways CA-49 and CA-4.
Altay Mountains The Altay Mountains (alternative spelling Altai) is a mountain range in central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together, and where the great rivers Irtysh, Ob and Yenisei have their sources. Altay Mountains are known as the Turkic peoples birthplace.
Altay Prefecture Altay Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 阿勒泰地区; pinyin: Ālètài Dìqū; Uyghur: ئالتاي ۋىلايىتى / Altay Vilayiti) is located in northern Xinjiang, China. It has a area of 118,015 km² and a population of 561,667 (2000).
Altay, Xinjiang Altay or Aletai (Chinese: 阿勒泰; pinyin: Ālètài) is a city in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in the People's Republic of China. It is the administrative centre of Altay Prefecture, 142,000 inhabitants.
Altazimuth mount An Altazimuth or alt-azimuth mount is a simple mount used for moving a telescope, camera, helostatic mirror, or solar panel along two perpendicular axes of motion. The vertical movement is known as the altitude, while the horizontal motion is called the azimuth.
Altındağ Altındağ is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province of Turkey. The district's territory partly covers the area corresponding to the older "Ankara" that was merely a regional Ottoman center-town before the city's having become the capital of the Republic of Turkey.
Altınkaya Dam Altınkaya Dam is located on the Kızılırmak River and 23 km south of Bafra town 35 km west of Province of Samsun in the northern region of Turkey, and contains a hydroelectric power plant.Otherwise it feeds lake of Derbent.
Altbayern Altbayern (also written Altbaiern, English meaning: Old Bavaria) is a term used to describe the three oldest parts of the Free State of Bavaria, which were earlier known as Kurbayern. It also describes the people who live in the area (cf.
Altbib ALTBIB stands for Bibliography on Alternatives to the Use of Live Vertebrates in Biomedical Research and Testing. The bibliography is available online to assist in identifying methods and procedures helpful in supporting the development, testing, application, and validation of alternatives to the use of vertebrates in biomedical research and toxicology testing.
Altcar and Hillhouse railway station Altcar and Hillhouse railway station was a station located on the Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway near Great Altcar Lancashire. It was also used by the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway whose line joined between Altcar and Mossbridge, the next station toward Southport.
Alte Mozart-Ausgabe The Alte Mozart-Ausgabe is a name given to the first complete edition of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, published by Breitkopf & Härtel from January 1877 to December 1883, with supplements published until 1910. The name Alte Mozart-Ausgabe (abbreviated "AMA") is actually a modern invention to distinguish the edition from the second Mozart complete works edition, the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe; the publication title of Breitkopf & Härtel's edition was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Werke.
Altea Online Altea Online is the online version of the Altea game series started by Bladestrife and now being developed by Deep Blue Games. It has a planned beta release in mid 2006 and a planned full release by the end of 2006, or the beginning of 2007.
Alteisen The Alt Eisen is a fictional robot in the Super Robot Wars series. It has appeared as a playable unit in Super Robot Wars Compact 2 Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, Super Robot Wars Impact and the Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation series.
Altenberg (Bergisches Land) Altenberg is an Ortsteil (area) in the municipality of Odenthal in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and was formerly the seat of the Counts of Berg. Over the course of time they created around their Residence a small dominion, which later came to be called the Bergisches Land.
Altenberg, Germany Altenberg is a town in the WeiĂźeritzkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Ore Mountains, close to the border with the Czech Republic, 15 km northwest of Teplice, and 32 km south of Dresden.
Altenburger Land Altenburger Land is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the district of Greiz, the Burgenlandkreis (Saxony-Anhalt), and the districts Leipziger Land, Mittweida, Chemnitzer Land, Zwickauer Land in Saxony.
Altenholz Altenholz is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated near the Baltic Sea coast, approximately 20 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Eckernförde, and 9 kilometers (6 mi) north of Kiel.
Altenkirchen (district) Altenkirchen is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the North Rhine-Westphalian districts Rhein-Sieg, Oberbergischer Kreis, Olpe and Siegen-Wittgenstein, and the districts of Westerwaldkreis and Neuwied.
Altenstein Altenstein, in Germany, is a castle upon a rocky mountain in Saxe-Meiningen, on the south-western slope of the Thuringian Forest, not far from Eisenach. It is the summer residence of the dukes of Meiningen, and is surrounded by a noble park, which contains, among other objects of interest, a remarkable underground cavern, 500 ft.
Altepetl The altepetl, in Pre-Columbian and conquest-era Aztec society, was the local, ethnically-based political entity. The word is a combination of the Nahuatl words "atl", meaning "water", and "tepetl", meaning "mountain".
Alter Bridge Alter Bridge is an American hard rock band. It was formed by Mark Tremonti (former lead guitarist of Creed), and the band also consists of Brian Marshall (original bassist for Creed), Scott Phillips (former drummer of Creed), and Myles Kennedy (lead vocals, guitar, and formerly of The Mayfield Four).
Alter ego An alter ego (Latin, "the other I") is a second self, a second personality or persona within a person. The term is commonly used in literature analysis and comparison to describe characters who are psychologically identical.
Alter Ego (band) Alter Ego is an acid music group made of Roman Flügel & Jörn Elling Wuttke. They achieved notability in 2004 with their track "Rocker", which became one of the year's defining Dance anthems, especially in Europe, and getting played on heavy rotation amongst the most popular Electroclash DJs such as Felix Da Housecat and 2 Many DJs.
Alter Ego (fanzine) Alter Ego was one of the earliest superhero comics fanzines, founded in 1961 by Jerry Bails and later taken over by Roy Thomas. It was later revived as a slick magazine, under Thomas' editorship, and is currently being published by TwoMorrows Publishing.
Alter Ego (Peruvian band) Alter Ego is the original Peruvian neo-progressive rock band whose style goes from the ever changing Art-rock from the 1990s mixed with new sounds from the 1970s. Their style crosses between symphonic rock, hard rock to power ballads and R&B.
Alter Ego de Palmer Alter Ego de Palmer was first produced in the 1998 vintage, the result of a new approach to selecting and blending. This was also the first wine produced under the Chateau's technical director Philippe Delfaut.
Alter Hof The Alte Hof (Old Court) in the center of Munich is the former imperial residence of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor and consists of five wings Burgstock, Zwingerstock, Lorenzistock, Pfisterstock and Brunnenstock.
Alter Channel Alter Channel/Alter TV better known as Alter, is a private network in Greece. This channel is similar to the WB network and Kids WB along with 4Kids TV (formerly the Fox Box) in the International market based in the United States.
Alter Road Alter Road is a north-south thoroughfare of approximately four miles length in southeastern Michigan's Wayne County. Although Alter Road itself is completely within the Detroit city limits, it is a symbolic dividing line between the overwhelmingly African-American City of Detroit and the likewise overwhelmingly Caucasian City of Grosse Pointe Park.
Alter-globalization Alter-globalization (or Alter-mondialization from the French altermondialisme) is the name of a social movement which supports the international integration of globalization but advocates that values of democracy, economic justice, environmental protection, and human rights be put ahead of purely economic concerns.
Alteration In music alteration, an example of chromaticism, is the use of a neighboring pitch in the chromatic scale in place of its diatonic neighbor such as in an altered chord. This should not be confused with borrowing (as in borrowed chord), in which pitches or chords from the parallel key are used in place of those of the original key.
Altered Carbon Altered Carbon (2002) is a hardboiled science fiction novel by Richard Morgan (his first). Set some five hundred years in the future in a universe in which the "United Nations Protectorate" oversees a number of planets settled by human beings, it features protagonist Takeshi Kovacs (the final "cs" is pronounced "ch").
Altered Evidence: Late Night Remixes (album) Altered Evidence: Late Night Remixes is a remix album of music by the US trip hop and electronica group Karmacoda, released in 2004. Altered Evidence features dance and club remixes of the songs featured on Karmacoda's second album Evidence.
Altered Realities Campaign ARC or Altered Realities Campaign is a LARP organized by Dirk Parham, in 2003. The game is heavily based on Call of Cthulhu material, and embodies connections to an earlier Call of Cthulhu LARP organized by Xanodria Productions, Inc.
Altered scale In music, an altered scale is a scale in which all of the notes of the scale except the tonic have been flattened (lowered in pitch) by an interval of a half step from a major scale. For example, while the C major scale consists of the notes
Altered state of consciousness An altered state of consciousness is any state which is significantly different from a normative waking beta wave state. The expression was coined by Carlos Castaneda and describes induced changes in one's mental state, almost always temporary.
Altered Space Altered Space: A 3-D Alien Adventure was the name of a video game produced for the Nintendo Game Boy. The basic concept is that the player is an astronaut trapped on an alien spaceship who has to try to find his way out while avoiding aliens and continually replenishing his oxygen supply.
Altered Species Altered Species (also known as Rodentz) is a 2001 horror film, about a scientist who has found a way to regenerate damaged tissue in the body. He has tried his experiment on rats, but the effects are disastrous.
Alterity Alterity means 'otherness', strictly being in the sense of the other of two (Latin alter). It is generally now taken as the philosophical principle of exchanging one's own perspective for that of the "other.
Altern base Altern base, in trigonometry, is a term used in distinction from the true base. Thus, in oblique triangles, the true base is the sum of the sides, and then the difference of the sides is the altern base; or the true base is the difference of the sides, and then the sum of the sides is the altern base.
Alternanthera (aquarium) There are only a few aquatic plants of species Alternanthera suitable for aquarium use. They are considered difficult to grow and maintain, because they are sensitive to certain parameters of light, water, and fertilizers.
Alternate casting cost alternate casting cost (ACC) or Alternate playing cost (APC) is a term from the card game Magic: The Gathering, and refers to a cost to play a spell that is an alternative to the mana cost in the upper right hand corner of the card. This alternate cost may be some amount of life that its caster pays, some number of cards discarded from the caster's hand, or any number of other drawbacks that can be used to help balance the fact that the card's mana cost does not need to be played in order to play the card.
Alternate director An alternate director is a person who is appointed to attend a board meeting on behalf of the director of a company where the principle director would be otherwise unable to attend. The law relating to alternate directors varies from country to country, but in most jurisdictions, the alternate director has the same powers to attend, speak and vote at meetings as the principal director would have had, had the alternate not been appointed.
Alternate ending Alternate ending is a term used (usually in movies) to describe the ending of a story that was planned or debated but ultimately unused in favor of the actual ending. Generally, alternate endings are considered to have no bearing on the canonical narrative.
Alternate future In science fiction stories involving time travel, an alternate future or alternative future is a possible future which never comes to pass, typically because someone travels back into the past and alters it so that the events of the alternate future cannot occur.
Alternate Frame Rendering Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) is a parallel graphics rendering architecture, which combines the renderings of two or more graphics cards into a single monitor, in order to improve or accelerate the video rendering performance. This technique is useful for rendering 3D video sequences in real time, generating and/or filtering textured polygons and performing other computationally intensive rendering tasks, typically associated with computer gaming, CAD and 3D modeling.
Alternate history Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of speculative fiction (or some would say of science fiction) that is set in a world in which history has diverged from history as it is generally known. Alternate history literature asks the question, "What if history had developed differently?
Alternate hypothesis The alternate hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, or maintained hypothesis, together with the null hypothesis are the two rival hypotheses whose likelihoods are compared by a statistical hypothesis test. Usually the alternate hypothesis is the possibility that an observed effect is genuine and the null hypothesis is the rival possibility that it has resulted from random chance.
Alternate character An Alternate character, often referred to in slang as alt, alt char, or multi, is a character that a player creates in addition to his or her "primary" player character. Usually, the player makes this connection between either him/herself or the primary character clear — sometimes this is required by server policy, sometimes via direct technological means — but sometimes they try to keep this connection secret.
Alternate picking Alternate picking is a guitar playing technique, necessarily used only by pick users, that employs strictly alternating downward and upward picking strokes in a continuous run, and is the most common method of plectrum playing. If this technique is performed on a single note at a high speed, then it may also be referred to as tremolo picking.
Alternate reality game An alternate reality game (ARG) is a type of game that overlaps the game world with reality, by utilizing real world media, in order to deliver an interactive narrative experience to the players -- a kind of surrealism.
Alternate Reality (computer game) Alternate Reality (AR) is an unfinished computer role-playing game (RPG) series that has achieved cult status among many fans of RPGs. It was created by Philip Price, who formed a development company called Paradise Programming.
Alternate side parking Alternate side parking is a traffic law that dictates on which side of a street cars can be parallel parked on a given day. The law is intended to ensure the most efficient flow of traffic, as well as allowing street sweepers and snowplows to reach the curb without parked cars impeding their progress.
Alternate theories regarding the Plame affair The Plame affair (also widely known as Plamegate) has resulted in a federal criminal investigation (also widely known as the "CIA leak investigation") into allegations that one or more White House officials revealed the undercover CIA status of Valerie E. Wilson (aka Valerie Plame), resulting in federal indictment of Lewis Libby and a civil suit filed by Mrs.
Alternate universes and omake theater in Megatokyo Megatokyo, Fred Gallagher's manga-influenced webcomic, occasionally includes alternate universes containing some of the same characters as Megatokyo, but bearing no relation to the world of Megatokyo. These often contain references to video games or anime series.
Alternate Universes in Archie Comics This is a list of various alternate universes regarding the characters from Archie Comics. While continuity between the "mainstream" Archie stories is loose at best and nonexistent at worst, there is a series of stories that definitely do not cross over into these regular stories.
Alternate versions of cartoon characters While most cartoons do not feature aging characters, there are some shows which show cartoon characters in a different form: they age, or they have a counterpart who is really similar to them, or they are found in an alternate universe. Some are found in cartoons, others are found in comics, video games, or, to a lesser extent, live action television series.
Alternating current An alternating current (AC) is an electrical current whose magnitude and direction vary cyclically, as opposed to direct current, whose direction remains constant. The usual waveform of an AC power circuit is a sine wave, as this results in the most efficient transmission of energy.
Alternating finite automaton In automata theory, an alternating finite automaton (AFA) is a nondeterministic finite automaton whose transitions are divided into existential and universal transitions. For example, let A be an alternating automaton.
Alternating sign matrix In mathematics, an alternating sign matrix is a square matrix of 0s, 1s, and −1s such that the non-zero entries of each row begin and end with 1 and alternate in sign, and the non-zero entries of each column have the same property. These matrices arise naturally when using Dodgson condensation to compute a determinant.
Alternating Turing machine In computational complexity theory, an alternating Turing machine (ATM) is a non-deterministic Turing machine (NTM) with a rule for accepting computations that generalizes the rules used in the definition of the complexity classes NP and co-NP. The concept of an ATM was set forth by Chandra and Stockmeyer in 1976 (see References).
Alternative (Kamen Rider) In the tokusatsu production Kamen Rider Ryuki, Alternatives are mimicries of the 13 Kamen Riders developed by Shiro Kanzaki. 2 Alternative suits were known to have been produced - a prototype called Alternative and a production model called Alternative Zero.
Alternative 3 Alternative 3 is a television programme, broadcast in the UK in 1977. Purporting to be an investigation into Britain's contemporary 'brain drain', it uncovered a plan to make the moon and Mars habitable in the event of a terminal environmental catastrophe on Earth.
Alternative assessment In the education industry, alternative assessment or portfolio assessment is in direct contrast to what is known as performance evaluation, traditional assessment, standardized assessment or summative assessment. Alternative assessment is also known under various other terms, including:
Alternative biochemistry Alternative biochemistry is the biochemistry of alien life forms that differ radically from those on Earth. It includes biochemistries that use atoms other than carbon to construct primary cellular structures and/or use solvents besides water.
Alternative Brand Studios Alternative Brand Studios, or Altbrand for short, is a collective of seven creators (six originally but Bob Roberds joined later). Altbrand was the first (or one of the first) small-scale collectives for webcomics where the creators collectively worked to support each other by pooling their complementary talents.
Alternative comedy Alternative comedy is a style of comedy that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and 1980s which would eventually go on to become mainstream in the 1990s and up to the present day. It has its roots in British nonsense writings of the Victorian Era, and their logical extension through the works of Canadian author Stephen Leacock and his influence over the Marx Brothers and The Goons.
Alternative comics The term "alternative comics" is one of several labels applied to a range of comics that have appeared since about 1980, in the wake of the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 70s. Typically, these are authored independently by a single creator; they are aimed at adult readers and are often formally experimental.
Alternative compensation system Various alternative compensation systems (ACSes) have been proposed as ways to allow the widespread reproduction of digital copyrighted works while still paying the authors and copyright owners of those works. This article only discusses those proposals which involve some form of government intervention.
Alternative complement pathway The alternative pathway of the complement system is a humoral component of the immune system's natural defence against infections which can operate without antibody participation. The cascade begins with the spontaneous activation and attachment of the complement protein C3 to a pathogen, creating a catalytic activator that decays both spontaneously and quickly, but can lead to the creation of a C3 convertase.
Alternative culture Alternative culture is a type of culture which exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or popular culture, usually under the domain of one or more subcultures. These subcultures may have little or nothing in common besides the relative obscurity of their culture, but cultural studies uses this common basis of obscurity to classify them as alternative cultures, or, taken as a whole, the alternative culture.
Alternative currency Alternative currency is a term that refers to any currency used as an alternative to the dominant national or multinational currency systems (usually referred to as national or fiat money). Alternative currencies can be carefully created by an individual, corporation, or organization, they can be created by national, state, or local governments, or they can arise naturally as people begin to use a certain commodity as a currency.
Alternative dance Alternative dance (known primarily as indie dance in the United Kingdom) is a term used for the genre of music combining elements of dance-pop (or other forms of electronic dance music such as house or techno) and alternative rock genres such as indie pop. Alternative dance music is typically predominantly electronic, with programmed beats from drum machines or sampled drum loops and sequenced synthesizer melodies, and thus musically very similar to commercial dance-pop.
Alternative display facility Alternative display facility (ADF) is an equity trading facility created in the United States by NASD, a self-regulatory organization (SRO). The ADF is an alternative to the exchange for publishing quotations and for comparing and reporting trades.
Alternative dispute resolution Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) includes dispute resolution processes and techniques that fall outside of the government judicial process. Despite historic resistance to ADR by both parties and their advocates, ADR has gained widespread acceptance among both the general public and the legal profession in recent years.
Alternative Democratic Reform Party The Alternative Democratic Reform Party (Luxembourgish: Alternativ Demokratesch Reformpartei, French: Parti réformiste d'alternative démocratique, German: Alternative Demokratische Reformpartei), abbreviated to ADR, is a political party in Luxembourg.
Alternative DNS root In addition to the Internet's main DNS root (currently consisting of 13 nominal root nameservers working in agreement with ICANN), several organizations operate alternative DNS roots (often referred to as alt roots). Each alternative root has its own set of root nameservers and its own set of top-level domains (TLDs).
Alternative education Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, is a broad term which may be used to refer to all forms of education outside of traditional education (for all age groups and levels of education). This may include both forms of education designed for students with special needs (ranging from teenage pregnancy to intellectual disability) and forms of education designed for a general audience which employ alternative educational philosophies and/or methods.
Alternative electronic Alternative electronic is an umbrella term used to describe a range of lesser-known electronic music genres which are related in some fashion to industrial (and sometimes noise) music. The exact definition of what constitutes alternative electronic music varies, but is generally considered to include industrial, ebm, elektro, futurepop, aggrotech, technoid, power noise and power electronics.
Alternative Egyptology Egyptology is the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian antiquities and is a regional and thematic branch of the larger disciplines of ancient history and archaeology. A practitioner of the discipline is an Egyptologist.
Alternative Energy Development Board The Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) is located Islamabad, Pakistan. The government of Pakistan created the Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) in May 2003 to act as the central national body on the subject of renewable energy in Pakistan.
Alternative for Change Alternative for Change (Spanish: Alternativa por el Cambio - AC), formerly known as "Christian Alternative," was founded by dissidents from the Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path (CCN), most notably Orlando Tardencilla. In the 2006 presidential elections, the party fielded Edén Pastora as its presidential candidate, but Pastora only managed to obtain 0.
Alternative fuel Alternative fuel (alternate fuel), also known as non-conventional fuels, is any material or substance that can be used as a fuel, other than fossil fuels, or conventional fuels of petroleum (oil), coal, propane, and natural gas. The term "alternative fuels" usually refers to a source of which energy is renewable.
Alternative fuel vehicle Alternative Fuel Vehicle refers to a vehicle that run on a fuel other than traditional gasoline or diesel; any method of powering an engine that does not involve petroleum. Heavy taxes on fuel, particularly in Europe, tightening environmental laws, particularly in California, and the possibility of further restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions, work on alternative power systems for vehicles has become a high priority for governments and vehicle manufacturers around the world.
Alternative Freedom Alternative Freedom is an independent documentary film produced and directed by Twila Raftu and Shaun Cronin. The film is comprised of footage from six interviews, stock-footage gathered from the Internet Archive, and an original soundtrack.
Alternative giving Alternative giving or virtual giving is a form of gift giving where the donor, instead of buying a gift for the recipient, makes a donation to a charitable organization in the recipient’s name and the organization provides a certificate or card for the recipient.
Alternative history Alternative history or alternate history develops out of historiography to identify historical points of view that have been ignored, overlooked, or unseeable. It usually denotes a history told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view (actual or ascribed, obvious or inferred) of imperialists, conquerors or explorers.
Alternative High School (Calgary) Alternative High School (AHS) is a public senior high (secondary) school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; which teaches grades 10 through 12. AHS is currently located at the Clinton Ford Centre, which was home to the former Clinton Ford Elementary School.
Alternative information centre The alternative information centres were a feature of the anarcho-pacifist attempt at social engineering from the bottom up which took place from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s and which was referred to as the alternative society. One of these centres was in West London and was called Bit, a name which came from the computer usage of the term.
Alternative investment management company Alternative investment management companies are the structural (legal, corporate) entities that manage controversial alternative investment instruments such as hedge funds. Because hedge funds themselves are hard to define, a single AIMC may run several "funds" over the course of its existence, and because a many AIMCs are involved in other activities besides tending to the hedge funds that they run (for example, many essentially act as venture capitalists in certain sectors), the term has come into being to distinguish the financial instruments such as hedge funds from the legal entities that run them.
Alternative Investment Market The Alternative Investments Market (AIM) is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller companies to float shares with a more flexible regulatory system than is applicable to the Main Market. The AIM was launched in 1995 and has raised almost ÂŁ24 billion for more than 2,200 companies.
Alternative libertaire Alternative libertaire is a French anarchist organization formed in 1991 which publishes a monthly magazine, actively participates in a variety of social movements, and is a member of International Libertarian Solidarity.
Alternative lifestyle An alternative lifestyle is a lifestyle (a mode or style of conducting one's life) which carries the implication that it is not within the generally perceived cultural norm. Usually, but not always, it implies an affinity or identification within some matching subculture (examples include Hippies, Goth and punk).
Alternative Livelihood Alternative Livelihood Programs are the name given to government attempts, especially in South America to replace the illicit cultivation of banned substances, such as opium or coca, with alternative, legal crops or other activities as a source of income.
Alternative manga Alternative manga are Japanese comics that are published outside of the more commercial manga market, or also manga that have different art styles, themes, and narratives, then commonly found in the most popular manga magazines.
Alternative media (U.S. political left) This refers to alternative media espousing the views of the American political left. The piece covers alternative media sources including talk radio programs, blogs and other alternative media sources, as well as a few print publications.
Alternative media (U.S. political right) Alternative media rooted in the American conservative movement often emphasize the presumption (on the part of many conservatives) that the American mainstream media is biased toward American liberalism and that modern journalism's goal of "objectivity" is essentially moot. Frequently, the stated goal is to redress or outflank that perceived bias and disseminate news with a conservative point of view in order to achieve balance in the reporting of news and opinion.
Alternative media in South Africa South Africa has a long history of alternative media. During the eighties there was a host of community and grassroots newspapers that supplied content that ran counter to the prevailing attitudes of the times.
Alternative metal Alternative metal is an eclectic form of rock music that gained popularity in the early 1990s alongside grunge. In many instances, it can be accurately described as a fusion of heavy metal and alternative rock, especially the indie rock of the 1980s.
Alternative Miss Ireland Alternative Miss Ireland is an alternative pageant conceived by Frank Stanley, Ross Elliot Tallon and Niall Sweeney. Inspired by Andrew Logan's Alternative Miss World the competition was originally held as a one off event in Sides night club on April Fool's Day 1987, Dublin, Ireland.

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