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Appalachia Appalachia is a term used to describe a region in the eastern United States that stretches from southern New York state to northern Mississippi. Surrounding the Appalachian Mountains, it includes rural, urban, and industrialized regions.
Appalachia (Mesozoic) In the Mesozoic Era, Appalachia was a land area which is now an eastern part of the USA, separated from Laramidia by the Western Interior Seaway, which shrank and became the Pierre Seaway and finally dried up. Laramidia was roughly what is now the western cordillera area of the USA and Canada.
Appalachian Athletic Conference The Appalachian Athletic Conference is a collection of schools which compete in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. The members include Bluefield College, Brevard College, Bryan College, Covenant College, King College, Milligan College, Montreat College, Tennessee Wesleyan College, Union College, The University of Virginia's College at Wise and Virginia Intermont College.
Appalachian dulcimer The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, although contemporary versions of the instrument can have as many as twelve strings and six courses. The body extends the length of the fingerboard and traditionally has an hourglass, teardrop, triangular, or elliptical shape (also called the galax).
Appalachian English Appalachian English is a common name for the Southern Midland dialect of American English. This dialect is spoken in Southern West Virginia, Southwestern Virginia, Southeastern Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, the Upper Potomac and Shenandoah Valleys of Virginia and West Virginia, Western Maryland, East Tennessee, and Western North Carolina as well as northeastern Alabama.
Appalachian heritage Appalachian Heritage is a literary magazine of the Southern Appalachian Region. It began publication with the Winter 1973 issue sponsored by Alice Lloyd College in Knott County, deep in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky.
Appalachian League The Appalachian League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee region. It is a Rookie League, whose players are almost exclusively newly signed to professional contracts.
Appalachian Mountain Club The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is one of the United States' oldest outdoor groups. Created in 1876 to explore and preserve the White Mountains in New Hampshire, it has expanded throughout the northeastern U.
Appalachian Mountains The Appalachian Mountains (French: les Appalaches) are a vast system of North American mountains, partly in Canada, but mostly in the United States, forming a zone, from 100 to 300 miles wide, running from the island of Newfoundland some 1,500 miles south-westward to central Alabama in the United States (with foothills in northeastern Mississippi), although the northernmost mainland portion ends at the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. The system is divided into a series of ranges, with the individual mountains averaging around 3,000 ft (900 m).
Appalachian Power Park Appalachian Power Park is the current home field for the West Virginia Power, a minor league baseball team in the South Atlantic League and a Class A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, and also one of two home fields for the baseball programs of both Marshall University and the University of Charleston. The stadium, which opened in April 2005, is located in the East End of Charleston, West Virginia, just outside the city's downtown.
Appalachian Regional Commission The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is a United States federal-state partnership that works with the people of Appalachia to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life. The mission of ARC is to be a strategic partner and advocate for sustainable community and economic development in Appalachia.
Appalachian School of Law The Appalachian School of Law is a fully-accredited private law school in Grundy, Virginia, a small town near the convergence of Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The school offers a three-year Juris Doctor degree, and enrolls approximately 370 full-time students from numerous states and several foreign countries.
Appalachian Spring Appalachian Spring is a ballet score by Aaron Copland that premiered in October 1944, and achieved widespread popularity as an orchestral suite. The ballet, scored for a thirteen-member chamber orchestra, was created at the request of choreographer and dancer Martha Graham and commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge.
Appalachian State University Appalachian State University is a public university located in Boone, North Carolina and the sixth largest institution in the University of North Carolina system. Appalachian (pronounced app-uh-LATCH-an) State is sometimes referred to as AppState, ASU, or simply App.
Appalachian Trail (Metro-North station) The Appalachian Trail Metro-North Railroad station serves campers and hikers destined for the Appalachian Trail in Dutchess County, New York via the Harlem Line. Trains stop at Appalachian Trail on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays only.
Appalachian Trail Conservancy The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) (formerly Appalachian Trail Conference) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of the Appalachian Trail, which runs from Maine to Georgia. The Conference works to protect the trail's 2,175-mile, 250,000-acre greenway, and coordinates the work of some thirty hiking clubs performing trail maintenance.
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests The Appalachian-Blue Ridge Forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion of the Eastern United States delineated by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The ecoregion covers an area of about 61,500 square miles (159,300 square kilometers) in parts of the states of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, with small extensions into Kentucky, New Jersey, and New York.
Appalachiosaurus Appalachiosaurus (ap-a-LAYCH-ee-oh-SAWR-us; "Appalachian lizard") is a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of eastern North America. Like almost all theropods, it was a bipedal predator.
Appaloosa Horse Club The Appaloosa Horse Club, located in Moscow, Idaho is dedicated to preserving and promoting the Appaloosa breed. More than 630,000 Appaloosas have been registered with the Appaloosa Horse Club since its founding in 1938.
Appaloosa Interactive Appaloosa Interactive (formerly Novotrade International) is a corporation, founded in 1983 in Hungary, that produced numerous console games during the 1980's and 90's. The company's headquarters are currently in Palo Alto, California, and it is the parent company and owner of two software development companies in Budapest, Hungary.
Appanage The word apanage or appanage stems from the Late Latin apanare meaning "to give bread" (panem, compare the French court title Grand panetier), a pars pro toto for food and other necessities, hence for a "subsistence" income, notably in kind, as from assigned land.
Appanoose County Community Railroad The Appanoose County Community Railroad is based out of Centerville, Iowa. It is a shortline running to the community of Albia, Iowa, where it distributes cars from Centerville to be put on the BNSF Railway's trains.
Apparat (musician) Apparat is a German electronic musician (Sascha Ring) living in Berlin and one of the owners of Shitkatapult records. Starting out with dance floor-oriented techno, he later started to create ambient music and more recently became "more interested in designing sounds than beats".
Apparat Organ Quartet The Apparat Organ Quartet is an Icelandic band founded in 1999 by JĂłhann JĂłhannsson, a noted Icelandic composer and musician. The band, which plays several different organs and uses other devices such as a vocoder, has a sound reminiscent somewhat of German band Kraftwerk.
Apparat Singles Group Apparat Singles Group, aka Apparat, is a fictional comic book line and a label used to publish four one-shot comic books created by Warren Ellis and published by Avatar Press. The premise behind the line was that each one-shot represented a first issue of a comic published in an alternate reality where pulp stories made a direct transition into comics without spawning superhero comics.
Apparatus sacer ad scriptores Veteris et Novi Testamenti Apparatus sacer ad scriptores Veteris et Novi Testamenti, also simply called Apparatus sacer, is one of the most celebrated works of Antonio Possevino (the other being Bibliotheca selecta). It is an overview of the different interpretations of the Old and New Testament by ecclesiastical authors from the Church fathers up to his contemporaries.
Apparatus theory Apparatus theory, derived in part from Marxist film theory, semiotics, and psychoanalysis, was a dominant theory within cinema studies during the 1970s. It maintains that cinema is by nature ideological because its mechanics of representation are ideological.
Apparent authority Apparent authority is a term used in the law of agency to describe a situation in which a principal leads a third party to believe that an agent has authority to bind the principal, even where the agent lacks the actual authority to bind the principal. In such circumstances, the law will hold the principal liable for the acts of the agent, out of fairness to the third party.
Apparent magnitude The apparent magnitude (m) of a star, planet or other celestial body is a measure of its apparent brightness as seen by an observer on Earth. The brighter the object appears, the lower the numerical value of its magnitude.
Apparent mineralocorticoid excess Apparent mineralocorticoid excess is an autosomal recessive cause of hypertension and hypokalaemia which responds to glucocorticoid treatment. It results from mutations in the HSD11B2 gene, which encodes the kidney isozyme of 11Ăź-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase.
Apparent motion Apparent motion occurs when a stimulus is flashed in one location followed by another identical stimulus flashed in another location. It refers to both the phi phenomenon, an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession, and stroboscopic motion, the movement seen in movies and television, wherein a series of quickly flashed stills creates an illusion of movement.
Apparent weight An object's weight, henceforth called "actual weight", is the downward force exerted upon it by the earth's gravity. By contrast, an object's apparent weight is the (usually upward) force (the normal force, or reaction force), typically transmitted through the ground, that opposes the (usually downward) acceleration of a supported object, preventing it from falling.
Appeal An appeal is the act or fact of challenging a judicially cognizable and binding judgment to a higher judicial authority. In common law jurisdictions, most commonly, this means formally filing a notice of appeal with a lower court, indicating one's intention to take the matter to the next higher court with jurisdiction over the matter, and then actually filing the appeal with the appropriate appellate court.
Appeal (cricket) In the sport of cricket, an appeal is the act of a player on the fielding team asking an umpire for a decision regarding whether a batsman is out or not. According to the Laws of Cricket, an umpire may not rule a batsman out unless the fielding side appeals.
Appeal Group The Appeal group was a small group of Marxist Leninists, which broke away from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in 1971 on the basis that the CPGB had abandoned revolutionary Marxism-Leninism and that, after many attempts, it was impossible to change it from within except by breaking the rules. The group lasted for about five or six years.
Appeal to authority An appeal to authority or argument by authority is a type of argument in logic, consisting on basing the truth value of an otherwise unsupported assertion on the authority, knowledge or position of the person asserting it. It is also known as argument from authority, argumentum ad verecundiam (Latin: argument to respect) or ipse dixit (Latin: he himself said it).
Appeal to consequences Appeal to consequences, also known as argumentum ad consequentiam (Latin: argument to the consequences), is an argument that concludes a premise (typically a belief) to be either true or false based on whether the premise leads to desirable or undesirable consequences. This is based on an appeal to emotion and is considered to be a form of logical fallacy, since the appeal of a consequence does not address the truth value of the premise.
Appeal to emotion Appeal to emotion is a logical fallacy which uses the manipulation of the listener's emotions, rather than valid logic, to win an argument. This kind of appeal to emotion is a type of red herring and encompasses several logical fallacies, including:
Appeal to fear An appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metam or argumentum in terrorem) is a logical fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for her or his idea by increasing fear and prejudice toward a competitor. The appeal to fear is extremely common in marketing and politics.
Appeal to motive Appeal to motive is a pattern of argument which consists in challenging a thesis by calling into question the motives of its proposer. It can be considered as a special case of the ad hominem circumstantial argument.
Appeal to novelty The appeal to novelty (also called argumentum ad novitatem) is a logical fallacy in which someone prematurely claims that an idea or proposal is correct or superior, exclusively because it is new and modern. In a controversy between status quo and new inventions, an appeal to novelty argument isn't in itself a valid argument to solve it.
Appeal to pity An appeal to pity (also called argumentum ad misericordiam) is a logical fallacy in which someone tries to win support for their argument or idea by exploiting their opponent's feelings of pity or guilt. The appeal to pity is a specific kind of appeal to emotion.
Appeal to spite Appeal to spite (also called argumentum ad odium) is a logical fallacy in which someone attempts to win favor for an argument by exploiting existing feelings of bitterness, spite, or schadenfreude in the opposing party:
Appeal to tradition Appeal to tradition, also known as appeal to common practice or argumentum ad antiquitatem or false induction is a common logical fallacy in which a thesis is deemed correct on the basis that it has a long standing tradition behind. Essentially: "This is right because we've always done it this way.
Appearance Manager In the "classic" Mac OS, the Appearance Manager controlled the overall look of the Mac GUI widgets and supported several themes. The Appearance Manager was originally developed for Apple's failed Copland project, but with the cancellation of this project the system was moved into newer versions of the Mac OS, notably Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9.
Appearance of extrasolar planets The appearance of extrasolar planets is largely unknown because of the difficulty in making direct observations of extrasolar planets. In addition, many extrasolar planets have no analogues in our solar system, for example the hot Jupiters.
Appearance of impropriety Appearance of impropriety is a term often used in reference to a situation whose ethics is deemed questionable. It means that any layperson, without knowledge of the facts, would assume that something he/she saw or heard was inappropriate or a violation of a rule/regulation.
Appeasement Appeasement is a policy of accepting the imposed conditions of an aggressor in lieu of armed resistance, usually at the sacrifice of principles. Since World War II, the term has gained a negative connotation in the British government, in politics and in general, of weakness, cowardice and self-deception.
Appeasement of Hitler The most well-known case of appeasement is one which ultimately failed — the appeasement of Adolf Hitler by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government in the late 1930s. The Munich Agreement in particular stands as a major example of appeasement.
Appekunny Formation Appekunny Formation is a thick series of rock strata located in the Lewis Range within Glacier National Park. The formation is primarily mudstone and siltstone deposited in a shallow sea during the Proterozoic.
Appellant In law, an appellant is the party who, having lost part or all their claim in a lower court decision, is appealing to a higher court to have their case reconsidered. This is usually done on the basis that the lower court judge erred in the application of law, but it is also usually possible to appeal on the basis that the court misconducted itself, or that a finding of fact was an entirely unreasonable one to make on the evidence.
Appellate Body The Appellate Body of the WTO is a standing body of seven persons that hears appeals from reports issued by Panels in disputes brought by WTO Members. It was established in 1995 under Article 17 of the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (DSU).
Appellate jurisdiction Appellate jurisdiction refers to the power of a court to review and potentially modify the decisions made by another court or tribunal. The review process is known as an appeal, and is normally initiated by an action of the party who is dissatisfied with the decision of the lower court..
Appellate review Appellate review is the general term for the process by which courts with appellate jurisdiction take jurisdiction of matters decided by lower courts. It is distinguished from judicial review, which refers to the court's overriding constitutional or statutory right to determine if a legislative act or administrative decision is defective for jurisdictional or other reasons (which may vary by jurisdiction).
Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée Appellation d’origine contrôlée (AOC), which translates as "term of controlled origin" is the French certification granted to certain French geographical indications for wines, cheeses, butters, and other agricultural products, by the government bureau Institut National des Appellations d'Origine (INAO). Under French law, it is illegal to manufacture and sell a product under one of the AOC-controlled geographical indications if it does not comply with the criteria of the AOC.
Appendage An appendage in the broadest sense is an additional or subsidiary part existing on, or added to, something which can generally still function if the appendage has never existed or is later provided or grown, or will still perform a primary function if the appendage is removed.
Appendicular skeleton The appendicular skeleton is the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle, the upper limbs, the pelvic girdle, and the lower limbs. The appendicular skeleton and the axial skeleton together form the complete skeleton.
Appendix (horse) The Appendix or Appendix Quarter Horse is a cross between a Thoroughbred and an American Quarter Horse. The resulting offspring can be registered in the "appendix" of the American Quarter Horse Association's studbook, hence the nickname.
Appendix Vergiliana The Appendix Vergiliana is a collection of writings traditionally ascribed as juvenilia of Virgil, although there are general doubts as to their authorship. However, because the authors who were influenced by Virgil thought they were authentic, they are still studied today to trace their influence, regardless of who wrote them.
Appenzell Ausserrhoden (German; French: Appenzell Rhodes-Extérieures; in English sometimes Appenzell Outer Rhodes) is a canton of Switzerland. The seat of the government and parliament is Herisau, judicial authorities are in Trogen.
Appenzeller (cheese) Appenzeller cheese is a hard cow's-milk cheese produced in the Appenzell region of northeast Switzerland. An herbal brine, sometimes incorporating wine or cider, is applied to the wheels of cheese while they cure, which flavours and preserves the cheese while promoting the formation of a rind.
Appenzeller Sennenhund The Appenzeller Sennenhund is a medium-size breed of dog from Switzerland whose original purpose was as a flock guardian, a draft dog, and general farm dog. It is still used for these purposes but also excels in obedience competitions and Schutzhund.
Apperson The Apperson was a brand of American automobile manufactured from 1902 to 1926 in Kokomo, Indiana. The company was founded by the brothers Edgar and Elmer Apperson shortly after they left Haynes-Apperson; for a time they continued to use a front-mounted flat-twin engine, following it with a horizontal four.
Appetite suppression Many drugs have an appitite suppresressing side-effect to them, this makes the body "think" it is full, when in reality, the body seeks nurishment(food). If these drugs are taken and no actual eating occurs the body will lose weight drastically and eventually the person will die of starvation.
AppFuse AppFuse is an open-source project for developing Java EE web applications. It allows developers to get started quickly and easily using Java open-source technologies like Spring framework, Hibernate and Struts.
Appiano Buonafede Appiano Buonafede (1716-1793), Italian philosopher, was born at Comachio, in Ferrara, and died in Rome. He became professor of theology at Naples in 1740, and, entering the religious body of the Celestines, rose to be general of the order.
Appin Appin is a remote coastal district of the Scottish West Highlands bounded west by Loch Linnhe, south by Loch Creran, east by the districts of Benderloch and Lorne, and north by Loch Leven. It lies north-east to south-west, and measures 14 miles in length by 7 miles in breadth.
Appin Murder The Appin Murder is a noted unsolved murder which took place in 1752 in Appin in western Scotland. Taking place in the tumultuous aftermath of the Jacobite rising, the murder is featured in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped.
Applabs AppLabs Technologies is a global IT services company headquartered in the South Indian city of Hyderabad specializing in Quality Management, Testing, and Certification Solutions. Applabs was established in the year 2001.
Applause (film) Applause is a 1929 black and white "backstage" musical film, of early years of sound films, staged and directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starred by Helen Morgan. In December 2006 Applause was recognized as a culturally, historically and aesthetically significant film by the National Film Registry Librarian of Congress Adds Home Movie, Silent Films and Hollywood Classics to Film Preservation List
Applause Records Applause Records was a short-lived record label featuring popular standards performers, nearly all of them vocalists. It was founded in Beverly Hills, California in 1981 by record company executive and music publisher Arthur Mogull.
Apple 80 column card The Apple 80-Column Text Card was an expansion card for the Apple IIe computer to give it the option of displaying 80 columns of text instead of the usual 40 columns. Two models were available: the cheaper 80-column card had just enough extra RAM to double to video memory capacity; and the Extended 80-Column Text Card had an additional 64 kilobytes of RAM, bringing the total amount of RAM of 128kB.
Apple Adjustable Keyboard The Apple Adjustable Keyboard was an ergonomic and adjustable computer keyboard introduced by Apple Computer in 1992 for the Macintosh personal computers at a retail price of US$119. The keyboard attached to the CPU via the Apple Desktop Bus.
Apple Advanced Typography Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) is Apple Computer's computer software for advanced font rendering, supporting internationalization and complex features for typographers, a successor to Apple's little-used QuickDraw GX font technology of the mid-1990s. It is a set of extensions to the TrueType outline font standard, with similar smartfont features to Adobe and Microsoft's OpenType font format, and the open source Graphite.
Apple Attachment Unit Interface Apple Attachment Unit Interface (AAUI) is a mechanical re-design of the standard Attachment Unit Interface (AUI) used to connect Ethernet transceivers to computer equipment. AUI was popular in the era before the dominance of 10Base-T networking that started in the early 1990s; AAUI was an attempt to make the connector much smaller and more user friendly.
Apple box The term apple box, or apple crate, is used in the production of film or photography to indicate a mobile box or platform sturdy enough to support weight. The generally accepted dimensions for an apple box are 12" Ă— 8" Ă— 20" (30 Ă— 20 Ă— 50 cm), though they may vary by three to five inches (around 10 cm) in any direction.
Apple butter Apple butter is a highly concentrated form of applesauce, produced by long, slow cooking of apples with cider or water to a point where the sugar in the apples caramelizes. The concentration of sugar gives apple butter a much longer shelf life as a preserve than applesauce.
Apple Bank The Apple Bank for Savings provides private and commercial banking services to the greater New York City area. It is the 4th or 5th largest New York-based bank and has 49 branches in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx, as well as Westchester , Suffolk and Nassau counties.
Apple Branch The Apple Branch is Dianic tradition of Wicca tradition that branched off from the Old Dianic tradition (later renamed McFarland Dianic), combined with the Hyperborean/Faerie Faith of Mark Roberts and the more recent feminist witchcraft started by Z Budapest.
Apple certification Apple Certification refers to the certification programs designed to create a high level of technical proficiency among Macintosh service technicians, helpdesk support, technical support, system administrators and professional users. Apple certification exams are offered at Prometric testing centers and Apple Authorised Training Centres.
Apple cider Apple cider is the name for a non-alcoholic beverage produced from apples by a process of pressing, especially in the United States and parts of Canada. It is more sour and cloudy than conventional apple juice, retaining the tart flavor of the apple pulp which is lost in conventional fruit juice production.
Apple crisp Apple crisp is an American dessert consisting of baked apples topped with a crispy crust. Ingredients usually include cooked apples, butter, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and often oats and brown sugar, ginger, and/or nutmeg.
Apple Cup The Apple Cup is the annual college (American) football game between cross-state rivals the University of Washington (UW) and Washington State University (WSU), the two largest universities in Washington. The game is played in the weekend prior to Thanksgiving in November in either the UW's Husky Stadium in Seattle or WSU's Martin Stadium in Pullman.
Apple drops Apple drops are a type of hard candy often put into the penny sweet category which includes cola bottles and jelly beans. Ingredients can vary slightly depending on company brand but typically never stray from the long established formula which is as follows:
Apple Daily (Taiwan) The Apple Daily (Chinese: 蘋果日報 Pinyin: Píngguǒ-Rìbào) is a tabloid newspaper printed in Taiwan, published by a joint venture between Hong Kong-based Next Media and several Singapore state-owned companies, included Temasek Holdings, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, ST Telemedia, MediaCorp and DBS Bank. Next Media is based in Hong Kong and also prints the Apple Daily (Hong Kong).
Apple Design Awards The Apple Design Awards is a special event hosted by Apple Computer at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The event is meant to recognize the best and most innovative Macintosh software and hardware produced by independent developers, as well as the best and most creatives uses of Apple's products.
Apple Desktop Bus Apple Desktop Bus (or ADB) is an obsolete bit-serial computer bus connecting low-speed devices to computers. Used primarily on the Apple Macintosh platform, ADB equipment is still available but not supported by most Apple hardware manufactured since 1999.
Apple Display Connector The Apple Display Connector (ADC) is a proprietary modification of the DVI connector that combines analog and digital video signals, USB, and power all in one cable. Apple used ADC for their flat panel LCDs and their final CRT display, before deciding to use standard DVI connectors on later models.
Apple evangelist An Apple evangelist, also known as Mac(intosh) evangelist, and Mac advocate is a promoter of the Apple Macintosh platform. Mac zealot and Mac bigot are more pejorative terms for Mac evangelists, indicating that the advocacy has become excessive, or simply expressing disapproval.
Apple events Apple events are the canonical message-based interprocess communication mechanism in Mac OS, first appearing in System 7 and supported by every version since then, including Mac OS X. Apple events describe "high-level" events such as "open document" or "print file", whereas earlier OS's had supported much more basic events only, namely "click" and "keypress".
Apple Extended Keyboard The Apple Extended Keyboard is a keyboard that was sold on its own and prepackaged with Apple Professional Desktops during the early 1990s (starting with the Macintosh IIsi in October 1990). The keyboard is widely considered by enthusiasts to represent the golden era of Macintosh Keyboards and is fondly remembered by many.
Apple Filing Protocol The Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is a layer 6 (presentation layer) network protocol that offers file services for Mac OS X and Classic Mac OS. In Mac OS X, AFP is one of several file services supported including Server Message Block (SMB), Network File System (NFS), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and WebDAV.
Apple GS/OS GS/OS is an operating environment developed by Apple Computer for its Apple IIGS personal computer that uses the ProDOS filing system. It provides facilities for accessing the file system, controlling input/output devices, loading and running program files, and a system allowing programs to handle interrupts and signals.
Apple Hill "Apple Hill" is an area in the Sierra Mountain foothills in El Dorado County, California, that is a widely visited place for its rural ambiance, apples products including pies and cider. It is old fashioned and if you wish to take a day in the past, visit Apple Hill.
Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music is located in Nelson, New Hampshire (just outside of Keene), housed in the buildings of an old horse farm on Apple Hill Road, on the eponymous hill. The center was founded in 1973.
Apple Hong Apple Hong (Chinese: 洪乙心) is an entertainer from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her career in show-business started when she was awarded first-runner up in the Malaysian Star Search 1999, and was then known as ‘Malaysian Shu Qi’.
Apple iPod advertising Apple has used a variety of distinctive advertising campaigns to promote its iPod portable digital music player. The campaigns include television commercials, print ads, posters in public places and wrap advertising campaigns, and are unified by a distinctive, consistent style.
Apple Icon Image The Apple Icon Image format is the icon format used in Apple Computer's Mac OS X. It supports icons of 16Ă—16, 32Ă—32, 48Ă—48, 128Ă—128, 256Ă—256 and 512Ă—512 pixels, with both 1- and 8-bit alpha channels and multiple image states (example: open and closed folders).
Apple II peripheral cards One of the early strengths of the Apple II line, and one of the most important factors contributing to its success, was its open architecture, epitomized by its generous number of internal expansion card slots, or simply expansion slots. These slots accommodated a host of Apple II peripheral cards (which many users simply called "cards"), which added to and extended the functionality of the base system.
Apple II series The Apple II (sometimes written as Apple ][ or Apple //) was the first popular microcomputer manufactured by Apple Computer. Its direct ancestor was the Apple I, a limited production circuit board computer for electronics hobbyists which pioneered many features that made the Apple II a commercial success.

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