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Alyx Vance Alyx Vance is a fictional character and digital actor from Valve's 2004 First Person Shooter computer game Half-Life 2, and its following episode: Half-Life 2: Episode One. Alyx is portrayed as a young woman in her early or mid-twenties, and is a prominent figure in the human resistance against the rule of the alien race called the Combine and their human representative, Dr.
Alyxia Alyxia is an Australasian genus with 106 species from the Dogbane family (Apocynaceae). It consists of shrubs, climbers or scramblers (a plant with long stems, often with thorns to help it support itself as it climbs through shrubs).
Alzatea Alzatea verticillata is a small flowering tree, native to the Neotropics. It inhabits moist submontane forests from Costa Rica and Panama in Central America south to Peru and Bolivia in tropical South America.
Alzey-Land Alzey-Land is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district Alzey-Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located around the town Alzey, which is the seat of Alzey-Land, but not part of the Verbandsgemeinde.
Alzey-Worms Alzey-Worms is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the district GroĂź-Gerau (Hesse), the city of Worms and the districts of Bad DĂĽrkheim, Donnersbergkreis, Bad Kreuznach and Mainz-Bingen.
Alzhan Zharmukhamedov Alzhan Zharmukhamedov (; born 2 October 1944 in Tavaksai, Tashkent Oblast, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union) is a retired Uzbek basketball player who played for the USSR. He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow.
Alzheimer Society of Ontario The Alzheimer Society of Ontario is a charitable organization that strives to alleviate the personal and social consequences of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders and to promote research. It is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Alzheimer's Association The Alzheimer's Association, founded on April 10, 1980, is an American voluntary organization which specializes in research for the diagnosis, cure, treatment, and prevention of Alzheimer's disease. Alzeimer's & Dementia is the official publication of the Association, published since July 2005 by Elsevier for the dissemination of original research, comprehensive reviews, clinical trial results and other information related to Alzheimer's.
Alzira (opera) Alzira is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the play Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire. First performance: Teatro San Carlo, Naples, August 12, 1845.
Alzira, Valencia Alzira (its official and Valencian name; in Spanish: Alcira) is a town and municipality of 43,253 people (2006) in eastern Spain. It is the capital of the comarca Ribera Alta in the province of Valencia and is located on the left bank of the JĂşcar river, and on the Valencia-Alicante railway
Alzou The Alzou is a short river in the Lot département, southern France, a right tributary of the Ouysse. It flows through the town Rocamadour, and joins the Ouysse, itself a left tributary of the Dordogne, downstream of Rocamadour.
AL-6XN The AL-6XN alloy is a superaustenitic stainless steel which was developed by Allegheny Ludlum Corporation. It exhibits far greater resistance to chloride pitting, crevice corrosion and stress-corrosion cracking than exhibited by the standard 300 series stainless steels, and is less costly than the traditional nickel-base corrosion resistant alloys.
AL-7 The AL-7 is an assault rifle designed by Izhmash engineer Youriy Alexandrov in the early 1970s. The AL-7 uses a type of operation developed by TsNIITochmash (Central Institute for Precision Machine Building) in the mid 1960s known as Balanced Automatics.
ALA-LC romanization for Russian The ALA-LC Romanization tables for Slavic alphabets is a set of standards for romanization of texts in various writing systems used in North American libraries and publications. The latest version was published by the American Library Association & Library of Congress in 1997.
ALARM ALARM (Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile) is a British anti-radiation missile designed primarily to destroy enemy radars for the purpose of Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (SEAD). It is similar in this role to the American AGM-88 HARM missile but not in its method of operation.
ALARP ALARP stands for As Low As Reasonably Practicable, and is a term often used in the milieu of safety-critical and high-integrity systems. The ALARP principle is that the residual risk shall be as low as reasonably practicable.
ALAS ALAS was a mid 1970s, mostly instrumental progressive rock group in argentine rock. They were also one of the major players in the tango-rock movevement in Argentina during that period, alongside Rodolfo Mederos's group and Invisible.
ALBA Berlin ALBA Berlin is a is a prominent German basketball club based in Berlin, and is also known as Berlin Albatrosses. The team won seven consecutive Bundesliga titles between 1997 and 2003, as well as five German Cups.
ALBA Graduate Business School ALBA was founded in 1992 and operates under the auspices of the Federation of Greek Industries (FGI), the leading employers' union in Greece, the Hellenic Management Association (HMA), the leading executives’ association in Greece and the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). It has considerable experience in European Project management and Implementation and is a leading academic institution in Greece, active in the field of innovation with regards to enterprises.
ALBW ALBW is a file format for storing a complete album which may be broken down into individual files for each of the album's tracks. Files of this format are usually identifiable as such since their names typically contain a "_ALBW" identifier.
ALCAP Control plane protocol for the transport layer is called ALCAP (Access Link Control Application Protocol). Basic functionality of ALCAP is multiplexing of different users onto one AAL2 transmission path using channel IDs (CIDs).
ALCO boxcab The ALCO boxcabs were diesel-electric switcher locomotives, otherwise known as AGEIR boxcabs as a contraction of the names of the builders. Produced by a partnership of three companies, ALCO built the chassis and running gear, General Electric the generator, motors and controls, and Ingersoll Rand the diesel engine.
ALCO Black Maria The ALCO DL-203 diesel-electric locomotive (almost always called Black Maria) was an experimental freight locomotive produced by ALCO of Schenectady, New York. It was a predecessor to much better known ALCO FA.
ALCO Century 855 The ALCO Century 855 was ALCO's most powerful diesel-electric locomotive and, at the time, the most powerful diesel locomotive ever built. Powered by a pair of ALCO's 251C diesel engines, and rated at 5500 horsepower (4.
ALCO Century Series locomotives The ALCO Century Series locomotives were a series of diesel locomotives announced in 1963 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). By the end of the 1950s the dieselization of American railroads was essentially complete.
ALCO DH643 The ALCO DH643, also known as the Century 643DH, was a twin-engine diesel-hydraulic locomotive, the first diesel-hydraulic unit built in the United States. It had a C-C wheel arrangement and generated 4,300 hp (3,200 kW).
ALCO DL-109 The ALCO DL-109 is one of six models of A1A-A1A diesel locomotives built to haul passenger trains by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between December, 1939 and April, 1945 ("DL" stands for Diesel Locomotive). They were of a cab unit design, and both cab-equipped lead A units DL-103b, DL-105, DL-107, DL-109 and cabless booster B units DL-108, DL-110 models were built.
ALCO FA The ALCO FA was a family of B-B diesel locomotives designed to haul freight trains. The locomotives were built in Schenectady, New York, by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between January 1946 and May 1959.
ALCO HH series The ALCO HH series were an early series of switcher diesel-electric locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York between 1931 and 1940, when they were replaced by the S series; the 660 hp S-1 and 1,000 hp S-2. They were ALCO's first diesel switchers to enter true series production, and among the very first land vehicles anywhere to utilise the revolutionary diesel-electric power transmission.
ALCO PA The ALCO PA was a family of A1A-A1A diesel locomotives built to haul passenger trains built in Schenectady, New York in the United States by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between September, 1946 and December, 1953. They were of a cab unit design, and both cab-equipped lead A unit PA and cabless booster B unit PB models were built.
ALD-52 ALD-52 or N-acetyl-LSD, is a chemical analogue of LSD-25 (D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide), originally discovered by Albert Hofmann, but later just filed away until the rise in popularity of psychedelics in the 1960s.
ALEGRA The Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian General Research Applications (ALEGRA) code is a next-generation large-deformation shock physics code created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory. This code uses an "Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian" (ALE) formulation on an unstructured mesh, allowing one to designate whether material should flow through a stationary mesh (pure Eulerian), whether the mesh should move with the material (pure Lagrangian), or whether the mesh should be allowed to move independently of the material motion (arbitrary).
ALF (programming language) ALF is a programming language which combines functional and logic programming techniques. Its foundation is Horn clause logic with equality which consists of predicates and Horn clauses for logic programming, and functions and equations for functional programming.
ALGOL ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which became the de facto standard way to report algorithms in print for almost the next 30 years. It was designed to avoid some of the perceived problems with FORTRAN and eventually gave rise to many other programming languages (including Pascal).
ALGOL 58 ALGOL 58 is the first language in the ALGOL programming language family. It was an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL 60; ALGOL 58 introduced the fundamental notion of compound statement, but it was restricted to control flow only, and it was not tied to identifier scope.
ALGOL 68 ALGOL 68 (short for ALGOrithmic Language 1968) is an imperative computer programming language that was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 programming language, designed with the goal of a much wider scope of application and more rigorously defined syntax and semantics. Contributions of ALGOL 68 to the field of computer science are deep and wide ranging, although some of them were not publicly identified until they were passed, in one form or another, to one of many subsequently developed programming languages.
ALGOL 68C The ALGOL68C computer programming language compiler was developed for the CHAOS OS for the CAP capability computer at Cambridge University in 1971 by Stephen Bourne and Mike Guy as a dialect of ALGOL 68. Other early contributors were Andrew Birrell and Ian Walker.
ALGOL 68G ALGOL 68G or Algol 68 Genie is an ALGOL 68 interpreter. ALGOL 68G is a nearly full implementation of ALGOL 68 as defined by the Revised Report and also implements partial parametrisation, which is an extension of ALGOL 68.
ALGOL Y ALGOL Y was the name given to a speculated successor for the ALGOL 60 programming language that incorporated some radical features that were rejected for ALGOL 68 and ALGOL X. ALGOL Y was intendeded to be a "radical reconstruction" of ALGOL.
ALH84001 ALH 84001 (Allan Hills 84001) is a meteorite found in Allan Hills, Antarctica in December 1984 by a team of US meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project. Like other members of the group of SNCs (shergottite, nakhlite, chassignite), ALH 84001 is thought to be from Mars.
ALL (band) ALL is a spin off punk band formed by members of The Descendents. After the departure of singer Milo Aukerman from the Descendents in 1987 to pursue a graduate degree in biochemistry, the three remaining bandmembers formed ALL, naming themselves after the Descendents' last record.
ALL MY GIRLS ALL MY GIRLS was the first major label release and first mini-album by May J.. Despite not gaining public interest in Japan, as reflected by it's debut at #85 on the Oricon charts, the album was generally well-recieved by Western fans.
ALMA de Mexico AerolĂ­neas Mesoamericanas (Commercial name is ALMA de Mexico) is a new Mexican low cost airline which plans to start operations based in Guadalajara, Mexico. On late May 2006 using 2 Bombardier CRJ-200 regional jets, and plans to increase its fleet to 8 Bombardier CRJ-200s over the next 5 months, and expects to expand this to 35 aircraft within 5 years.
ALOGPS ALOGPS is a program to calculate lipophilicity partition coefficient log P and aqueous solubility of chemical compounds. It can be used interactively or requested as a standalone version for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS or Linux.
ALOHAnet ALOHAnet, also known as ALOHA, was a pioneering computer networking system developed at the University of Hawaii. It was first deployed in 1970, and while the network itself is no longer used, one of the core concepts in the network is the basis for the almost-universal Ethernet.
ALPHA Collaboration The ALPHA collaboration consists of scientists from a number scientific institutions whose goal it is to trap neutral antimatter in the form of antihydrogen in a magnetic trap and consecutively conduct experiments with the trapped antiatoms. The ultimate goal of this endeavour is to test the CPT theorem.
ALQ-144 The AN/ALQ-144,AN/ALQ-147 and AN/ALQ-157 are US infra-red guided missile countermeasure devices (IRCM). They were developed by Sanders Associates in the 1970s to counter the threat of infra-red guided surface to air missiles like the SA-7 Grail.
ALR-2002 The AN/ALR-2002 Radar Warning Receiver is designed to warn an aircraft's crew of potentially hostile radar activity. British Aerospace Australia (BAE SYSTEMS) was the sole contractor for the AN/ALR-2002 Australian indigenous System
ALR-67 Radar Warning Receiver The AN/ALR-67 Radar Warning Receiver is designed to warn an aircraft's crew of potentially hostile radar activity. It is an airborne threat warning and countermeasures control system built to be successor to the United States Navy's AN/ALR-45.
ALS Therapy Development Foundation The ALS Therapy Development FoundationALS Therapy Development Foundation website (ALS TDF) is a nonprofit biotechnology company seeking effective treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ALS TDF was founded in 1999 by James Heywood and Robert Bonazoli after James' brother, Stephen Heywood, was diagnosed with the disease.
ALT (band) ALT (1995) was a 1 off recording experiment featuring former New Zealand band Split Enz frontman Tim Finn, Northern Irish singer/songwriter Andy White & the frontman of the Irish band Hothouse Flowers, Liam Ă“ MaonlaĂ­.
ALT Linux ALT Linux is a set of GNU/Linux distributions based upon its development project, ALT Linux Sisyphus. There are single-disk desktop versions (Junior and Compact) and "huge" universal product suiting both server, desktop and development uses (Master).
ALT-J - Research in Learning Technology ALT-J (Research in Learning Technology) is a peer-reviewed journal which aimes to promote good practice in the use of learning technologies in education and industry and to facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers.
ALZA ALZA Corporation is a pharmaceutical and medical systems company founded in 1968 by Dr Alejandro Zaffaroni; the company's name is a portmanteau of his name. In addition to a variety of pharmaceuticals, ALZA makes a range of drug delivery systems.
Am Blues vorus Am Blues vorus is a documentary film about Bernese rock band ZĂĽri West. The main plot is a film crew accompanying the band during the development of their 2001 album Radio zum GlĂĽck, from writing the songs to performing them live after album release.
Am Ende der Distanz (At the End of Distance) is a The Movies film about a man who roams the street night after night. Hidden under his hat and rain jacket he strives for one goal: to find the culprit- the one whom he can make responsible for his suffering.
Am286 AMD started in the x86 business as a second-source manufacturer for Intel's chip designs. IBM demanded all suppliers have a second manufacturing source, and Intel had to license another company to secure the IBM PC contract.
Am386 The Am386 central processing unit microprocessor was released by AMD in 1991. A 100%-compatible clone of the Intel 80386 design, it sold millions of units and positioned AMD as a legitimate competitor to Intel, rather than just a second source for Intel's x86 CPUs.
Am486 The Am486 was a 80486-class family of computer processors that were produced by AMD in the 1990s. Intel beat AMD to market by nearly four years, but AMD priced its 40 MHz 486 at or below Intel's price for a 33 MHz chip, offering about 20% better performance for the same price.
Am730 am730, operated by AM730 Media Limited, is the third free Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong, the prior two being Headline Daily and Metropolis Daily. Shih Wing-ching, chairman of the Centaline Holdings property agency, is the founder of the newspaper.
Ama Ata Aidoo Ama Ata Aidoo (born March 23, 1942) is a Ghanaian author and playwright who was born Christina Ama Aidoo in Abeadzi Kyiakor. She grew up in a Fante royal household and was sent by her father to the Wesley Girl's High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to 1964.
Amaama Tofilau Gidlow Amaama Tofilau Gidow is the Current Minister of Health in Samoa. She was appointed to the portfolio by Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi following the March 2006 General elections in which she was elected for the first time.
Amabile Choirs of London, Canada The Amabile Choirs of London, Canada is a not-for-profit organization with the purpose of bringing together young singers from London and surrounding areas. This family of choirs began in 1985 with the founding of the Amabile Youth Singers (John Barron and Brenda Zadorsky) and has since grown to seven choirs under the direction of eight conductors.
Amable du Fond River The Amable du Fond River is a river in Northern Ontario which flows from Pipe Lake through Kawawaymog, North Tea, Manitou and Kioshkokwi Lakes in northwestern Algonquin Park to join the Mattawa River at Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park. It is 84 km in length.
Amabutho (album) Amabutho was the debut release by the South African isicathamiya group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It was released to great acclaim in South Africa, and featured signature tracks like Nomathemba, Nkosi Yamakhosi, among others.
Amacrine cell Amacrine cells are interneurons in the retina which operate at the Inner Plexiform Layer (IPL), the second synaptic retinal layer where bipolar cells and ganglion cells synapse. The cell nuclei of amacrine cells are found in the Inner Nuclear Layer (INL).
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (Manhufe, Amarante, November 24, 1887 -Espinho, October 25, 1918) was a Portuguese painter of modern art, working in the style of the vanguard of his time. Although he lived a short life, his workmanship was legendary
Amadeo Roldán Amadeo Roldán y Gardes (June 12, 1900, in Paris – March 7, 1939, in Havana) was a Cuban composer and violinist. Born in France to Cuban parents, he studied music theory and violin at the Madrid Conservatory, graduating in 1916.
Amadeo, Prince of Achaea Amadeus or Amadeo of Savoy (1363 – 7 May 1402) was the son of James of Piedmont and his third wife Marguerite de Beaujeu. By James' will of 16 May 1366, he was declared his firstborn (his elder half-brother was considered a traitor by their father) and heir.
Amadergaan amaderGaan is an website/organization devoted to the spread of Bangladeshi music through various activities such as the arranging of concerts, get-togethers and album releases. amaderGaan also maintains a website that reviews up-and-coming band and solo artist albums, profiles news artists, and is involed in creating websites for many musical groups.
Amadeus Amadeus is the title of a stage play written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. Amadeus was inspired by Mozart and Salieri, a short play by Aleksandr Pushkin (later adapted into an opera of the same name by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov), and was itself later adapted into the film Amadeus.
Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy Amadeus VIII (September 4, 1383 – January 7, 1451) surnamed the Peaceful was the Count of Savoy from 1391 to 1416 and was elevated by Emperor Sigismund to the Duke of Savoy in 1416. Amadeus was also the antipope Felix V from November 1439 to April 1449.
Amadeus William Grabau Amadeus William Grabau was an German-American paleontologist and geologist who was born on January 9, 1870 in Cedarburgh, Wisconsin in the United States and died on March 20, 1946 in Peking, China. He was employed as faculty at MIT and Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute.
Amadinda Percussion Group Amadinda Percussion Group was formed in 1984 in Budapest by four musicians, just after having graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. Since founding the ensemble, the central point of their activity has been double.
Amadis (Lully) Amadis or Amadis de Gaule (Amadis of Gaul) is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Nicolas Herberay des Essarts' adaptation of Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo's Amadis de Gaula. It was premiered at the Paris Opéra January 18 1684.
Amadis (Massenet) Amadis is an opera in three acts with prologue by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jules Claretie based on the Spanish knight-errantry romance Amadis de Gaula, originally of Portuguese origin, by Garci RodrĂ­guez de Montalvo.
Amadis de Gaula Amadis de Gaula (original Portuguese version) (English: Amadis of Gaul, Spanish: Amadís de Gaula) is a landmark work among the knight-errantry tales which were in vogue in 16th century Iberian Peninsula, and formed the earliest reading of many Renaissance and Baroque writers. The first known printed edition was published in Zaragoza in 1508, by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (or Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo).
Amadis of Greece Amadis of Greece (Amadís de Grecia) is a tale of knight-errantry written by Feliciano de Silva, a “sequel-specialist” who continued the adventures of Amadis de Gaula in this ninth installment. Its full title is Noveno libro de Amadís de Gaula, crónica del muy valiente y esforzado príncipe y caballero de la Ardiente Espada Amadís de Grecia, hijo de Lisuarte de Grecia, emperador de Constantinopla y de Trapisonda, y rey de Rodas.
Amado V. Hernández Amado Vera Hernández (September 13, 1903-March 24, 1970) was a Filipino writer and labor leader who was known for his criticism of social injustices in the Philippines and was later imprisoned for his involvement in the communist movement. He was the central figure in a landmark legal case that took 13 years to settle.
Amadocus Amadocus (in Greek Aμαδoκoς; lived 4th century BC) was a ruler in Thrace, who inherited in conjunction with Berisades and Cersobleptes the dominions of Cotys, on the death of the latter in 358 BC. Amadocus was probably a son of Cotys and a brother of the other two princes, though this is not stated by Demosthenes.
Amadok Point Amadok Point (Nos Amadok 'nos a-ma-'dok) is a point on the south coast of Livingston Island, Antarctica which projects 400 m into the Bransfield Strait. The point was named after the Thracian King Amadokos, 415-384 BC.
Amadori rearrangement The Amadori rearrangement is an organic reaction describing the acid or base catalyzed isomerization or rearrangement reaction of the N-glycoside of an aldose or the glycosylamine to the corresponding 1-amino-1-deoxy-ketose. W.
Amadou Amadou is a spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi. The species generally used is Fomes fomentarius (formerly Ungulina fomentaria or Polyporus fomentarius) which in English is also called horse's hoof fungus or tinder fungus.
Amadou & Mariam Amadou and Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Mariam Doumbia (vocals) (born in Mali's capital Bamako 15 April 1958) and Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) (born in Bamako 24 October 1954). The pair, known as "the blind couple from Mali" met at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind, and found they shared an interest in music.
Amadou Bamba Ahmadou Bamba (1850-1927) (Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke in Wolof, Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb Allāh in Arabic, also known as Khadīmu 'l-Rasūl or "The Servant of the Prophet" in Arabic, and as Sëriñ Tuubaa or "Holy Man of Tuubaa" in Wolof), muslim Sufi religious leader in Senegal, founder of the large Mouride Brotherhood (the Muridiyya). See Muslim brotherhoods of Senegal.
Amadou Diallo Amadou Bailo Diallo (September 2, 1975 – February 4, 1999) was a 23 year old immigrant to the United States from the African republic of Guinea, who was shot and killed by four New York Police Department plain-clothed officers on February 4, 1999. Diallo was unarmed at the time of the shooting and a firestorm of controversy erupted subsequent to the event as the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both within and outside New York City.
Amadou Gakou Amadou Gakou (born March 25, 1940) is a retired Senegalese athlete who competed in the 400 metres. He participated at three Olympic Games, and finished fourth at the 1968 Olympics, running in a national record of 45.
Amadu Amadu Amadu Amadu (died 1862) was the last ruler of the Fula Massina Empire in what is now the Mopti Region of Mali. Amadu Amadu was the grandson of the Empire's founder, Seku Amadu and assumed the throne following his father Amadu Seku's 1852 abdication.
Amae Amae (甘え) is a Japanese word used to describe behavior of a person attempting to induce an authority figure, such as a parent, spouse, teacher or boss, to take care of him. The person who is carrying out amae may beg or plead, or alternatively act selfishly while secure in the knowledge that the caregiver will forgive and indulge.
Amagasaki mayoral election, 2002 Amagasaki City held a mayoral election on November 17 2002. Shirai Aya, backed by Japanese Communist Party (JCP) and the local group Amagasaki Residents Group for Democratic City Administration defeted Miyata Yoshio.
Amagasaki rail crash The Amagasaki rail crash occurred on 25 April, 2005 at around 9:18 local time (0:18 UTC), just after the local rush hour. The Rapid Service bound for DĹŤshisha-mae on the Gakkentoshi Line via the JR Tozai Line (a seven-car commuter train) came off the tracks on the JR West Fukuchiyama Line (JR Takarazuka Line) in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, near Osaka, just before Amagasaki Station, and the front two carriages rammed into an apartment building.
Amagasaki Station (JR West) is a train station on the TĹŤkaidĹŤ Main Line (KĹŤbe Line), Fukuchiyama Line (JR Takarazuka Line) and JR Tozai Line of JR West, located in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, opened in 1874. Until 1997, Amagasaki was only a local stop, but it has since become a major junction with the opening of the Tozai Line.
Amagat's law Amagat's law or the Law of Partial Volumes is used to describe the behaviour and properties of (non-ideal) gas mixtures. In chemistry, Amagat's law (1880) states the volume of a gas mixture is equal to the sum of volumes of two gases, if the temperature and the pressure stays the same.
Amagatsu Ushio Amagatsu Ushio (天児牛大), born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan in 1949, is a Japanese choreographer known for the creation of the Butoh troupe Sankai Juku (山海塾). Amagatsu formed the internationally celebrated and innovative modern dance group in 1975.
Amager's International School Amager's International School is located in Copenhagen, Denmark and is notable and unique as being the only Scientology Study Technology school in the entire region. to the Copenhagen Pisa report] statistics, 98 percent of the school's students go on to higher education.
Amago clan The Amago clan (尼子氏), also Amako, was a samurai family that fought the Ōuchi clan and Mōri clan, who had been among their vassals, during Japan's Sengoku period. Originally from the Chūgoku region, the Amago gained power during the Ōnin War when Amago Tsunehisa conquered the Oki Islands and Izumo province.
Amago Tsunehisa Amago Tsunehisa (尼子 経久; 1458 - 1541) was a powerful warlord who gained the hegemony in Chūgoku region, Japan starting as a vassal of the Rokkaku clan. He ruled the domains of Inaba, Hoki, Izumo, Iwami, Oki, Harima, Mimasaka, Bizen, Bitchu, Bingo, and Aki.
Amah An amah (, Portuguese: ama, Medieval Latin: amma ; or ayah Hindi:āyā, Portuguese:aia, Latin:avia) is a woman employed by a family to clean, look after children, etc. This word is particularly common in East Asia and India (ayah, though, is a more common variant in India).
Amahl and the Night Visitors Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti on an original English libretto by the composer. It was first performed on 24 December 1951 in New York City, at the NBC studios, where it was broadcast on television.
Amahuaca Amahuaca is an indiginous American Panoan-family language spoken by several dozen people in the Amazon Basin in PerĂş but up to 130 and also in Brazil by 220 people. It is also known as Amawaka, Amaguaco, Ameuhaque, Ipitineri, and Sayaco.

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