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April Bowlby April Michelle Bowlby (born 30 July 1980) is best known for her recurring role as Alan Harper's ditzy girlfriend Kandi on Two and a Half Men. She was born in Vallejo, California, and moved to Manteca, California as a child.
April Divine April Divine (formerly Starfuck and Bloody April) is a Swedish rock band based in the northern town of Ornskoldsvik, Sweden. The band consists of Joakim (Jocke) Åström playing guitar and vocals, Andreas (Ante) Lundqvist playing bass, Per Karlsson on drums and Niklas (Nicke) Westberg playing guitar.
April Fifth Action The April Fifth Action (), named after the first Tiananmen incident of April 5, 1976 (also known as the April Fifth Movement) is a small and radical, socialist group in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The most famous member of the group is Leung Kwok-hung, better known as "long-hair" locally.
April Fools' Day April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day, though not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends and neighbors, or sending them on fools' errands, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible.
April Fools' Day RFC Every April Fools' Day (1 April) since 1989, the Internet Engineering Task Force has published one or more humorous RFC documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC titled ARPAWOCKY. The following list also includes humorous RFCs published on other dates.
April Fronzoni April Fronzoni (born February 18, 1982 in Kingston, Pennsylvania) is a field hockey striker from the United States, who earned her first international senior cap versus Ireland on January 14, 2004 at Stanford, California. Fronzoni attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
April Greiman April Greiman (born 1948) is a highly influential contemporary designer. She is recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design tool starting in 1984 when she bought a new Macintosh and, to a lesser extent, for introducing the New Wave aesthetic to the United States.
April Heinrichs April Heinrichs (born February 27, 1964 in Denver, Colorado) was among the first players on the United States women's national soccer team, and was captain of the United States team which won the first ever FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991. She finished her international playing career with 47 caps and 38 goals.
April Lawton April Lawton was a guitarist, singer, and composer who rose to some prominence in the early to mid 1970s as a member of the band Ramatam, which also included former Iron Butterfly guitarist Mike Pinera and former Jimi Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell. She was hailed as the female Jimi Hendrix by many, and her style was an inimitable mix of Jeff Beck, Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Alan Holdsworth.
April Margera April Margera (born March 28, 1956 in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, United States) aka "Ape" to fans of MTV's Viva La Bam, Jackass, and the CKY videos. April is the mother of Viva La Bam host Bam Margera, CKY drummer Jess Margera, and is married to Phil Margera.
April March April March (real name Elinor Blake, born in California, April 20, 1965) has had one of the more interesting dual careers, as a cartoon animator (including a stint as a principal animator for the Ren and Stimpy show) and as an indie pop singer/songwriter, more popular in France than in Brooklyn, where she was raised, or in her current home of Ohio. She is married to Warren Zanes, musician and Vice-President of Education at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, Ohio.
April O'Neil April O'Neil is a fictional character in the Mirage Studios franchise Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In each of the many TMNT continuities, she is good friends with the Turtles: Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo.
April Revolution The April Revolution, sometimes called the April 19 Revolution or April 19 Movement, was a popular uprising in April 1960, led by labor and student groups, which overthrew the autocratic First Republic of South Korea under Syngman Rhee. It led to the peaceful resignation of Rhee and the transition to the Second Republic.
April Ryan April Ryan is a fictional character from the best-selling and award-winning adventure game The Longest Journey (2000) and its sequel Dreamfall (2006). In the former, she is the protagonist, and in the latter, one of the three primary characters.
April Torres April Torres is a newscaster on Naked News. She has a very diverse background – she was born in South America to multiracial parents, she has travelled the world, worked in diverse fields from modelling to health sciences, and practices a variety of sports from golfing to Alpine skiing.
April Uprising The April Uprising (, Aprilsko vastanie) was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876, the indirect result of which was the establishment of Bulgaria as an independent nation in 1878.
April Verch April Verch is a Canadian fiddler and step dancer born and raised in Pembroke, Ontario. While she is best known for playing traditional Ottawa Valley style fiddle tunes, Verch's repertoire branches into many other fiddle styles.
Aprilaire Aprilaire is the brand under which Research Products Corporation markets indoor air quality appliances and the two names are now largely synonymous. Research Proucts is based in Madison, Wisconsin, United States and manufactures humidifiers, air cleaners and zone control HVAC systems.
Aprilia RS3 Cube The RS3 Cube is a prototype race motorcycle that was developed by Aprilia to compete in the 2002 and 2003 MotoGP seasons. It was unveiled at the Bologna Motor Show in December 2001 by Aprilia's president, Ivano Beggio, and their race boss, Jan Witteveen.
Aprilov National High School The Aprilov National High School (Национална Априловска гимназия) in Gabrovo is the first modern secular school in Bulgaria. It was opened on 2 January 1835, when Bulgaria was still part of the Ottoman Empire, with the financial help of Vasil Aprilov, Nikola Palauzov, Vasil Rasheev and other wealthy Bulgarians and was based on the Bell-Lancaster method.
Apriori algorithm In computer science and data mining, Apriori is a classic algorithm for learning association rules. Apriori is designed to operate on databases containing transactions (for example, collections of items bought by customers, or details of a website frequentation).
Aprisma Management Technologies Aprisma Management Technologies was created after Cabletron Systems was broken up into 5 smaller pieces, as the business unit to continue the highly successful SPECTRUM software management suite. It was acquired in early 2005 by Concord, which in turn was acquired by Computer Associates.
Apristurus albisoma Apristurus albisoma, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western Pacific from southern New Caledonia, and slopes of the seamounts of the Norfolk and Lord Howe ridges, from depths of between 935 and 1,565 m. Its length is up to 60 cm.
Aprite le finestre "Aprite le finestre" (English translation: "Open The Windows") was the first Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 (Contest rules allowing two entries per country at this Contest only), performed in Italian by Franca Raimondi.
Aprotinin Aprotinin, also known as bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, BPTI (Trasylol®, Bayer) is a protein, that is used as medication administered by injection to reduce bleeding during complex surgery, such as heart and liver surgery. Its main effect is the slowing down fibrinolysis, the process that leads to the breakdown of blood clots.
Apsaalooke Citizen's Leadership Network The Apsaalooke Citizen's Leadership Network, or ACLN, is a non-profit organization comprised of Crow (Apsaalooke) Tribal members who are interested in working together to achieve such common goals as positive role modeling, community improvement, and optimistic dialogue. The ACLN is not a political action committee and it does not endorse political candidates for public office.
Apsaras An Apsaras (Sanskrit: अप्सरा: , plural अप्सरस: , stem apsaras-, a feminine consonant stem) or Accharā (Pāli), is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Despite ending in -s, "apsaras" is to be construed as singular.
Apsat River The Apsat River is a great river at Kodar Range, on the eastern side of Lake Baikal (about 1500 km), in Siberia, Russia. Wild nature, beautiful mountains and absence of people attract many serious outdoor travellers to this area.
ApsĂ» The apsĂ» (also known as abzu or engur) was the name for the mythological underground freshwater ocean in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology. Lakes, springs, rivers, wells, and other sources of fresh water were thought to draw their water from the apsĂ».
Apsci Apsci is an alternative hip hop group consisting primarily of Bronx native Ra Lamotta and his Filipino-Australian wife Dana Diaz-Tutaan. The duo, which has been performing together since meeting in 1998, have received added attention after being signed to underground hip hop label Quannum Projects in 2004.
Apse In architecture, the apse (Latin absis "arch, vault"; sometimes written apsis; plural apses) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault. In Romanesque, Byzantine and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral and church architecture, the term is applied to the semi-circular or polygonal section of the sanctuary at the liturgical east end beyond the altar.
Apse (band) Apse is an American rock band signed to Spanish label Acuarela Discos. The band has has moved through many different musical styles since its inception, weaving together at various times shoegazer, heavy metal, gothic rock, post-punk, prog-rock, industrial, and post-rock influences; while at the same time dabbling in tribal, experimental, ambient and ethereal atmospheres.
Apsis In astronomy, an apsis, plural apsides (IPA: //) is the point of greatest or least distance of the elliptical orbit of a celestial body from its center of attraction, which is generally the center of mass of the system.
Apsley House Apsley House, also known as Number One, London, was the London residence of the Dukes of Wellington and stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of Hyde Park, facing south towards the busy traffic circulation system.
Apstar VI The Apstar VI is a communications satellite built by Alcatel Space, a subsidiary of Alcatel, and was boosted into orbit on April 12, 2005 by Long March 3B launcher from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China. It provides APT Satellite Holdings Limited (APT), a satellite operator in the Asia Pacific region, with broadband media and television services.
Apsyeoxic Two words that appear to be spelled identically but are actually sequences of characters from different scripts are said to be apsyeoxic /æpsiˈaːksɪk/. This term is derived from the graphic similarity between the string of Roman letters apsyeoxic and the visually confusable string of Cyrillic letters арsуеохiс.
Apt Pupil (film) Apt Pupil is a 1998 film, directed by Bryan Singer and starring Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro. The screenplay by Brandon Boyce is adapted from a novella of the same name by Stephen King, originally published in Different Seasons (1982).
Apt test The Apt test is a medical test which can be used in the work-up of gastro-intestinal bleed in infants. The test allows the clinician to determine whether the blood originates from the infant or from the mother.
Apt-rpm apt-rpm is a version of the Advanced Packaging Tool modified to work with the RPM Package Manager. It was originally ported to RPM by Alfredo Kojima and then further developed and improved by Gustavo Niemeyer, both working for the Conectiva Linux distribution at the time.
Apt, Vaucluse Apt (Provençal Occitan: At / Ate in both classical and Mistralian norms) is a market town and a commune in the Vaucluse département, in south-eastern France, on the left bank of the Coulon, 41 miles east of Avignon by rail. It is the principal town of the Luberon mountains.
Aptamer Aptamers are oligonucleic acid or peptide molecules that bind a specific target molecule. Aptamers are usually created by selecting them from a large random sequence pool, but natural aptamers also exist in riboswitches.
Aptana Aptana is a cross-platform, free and open source JavaScript-focused Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for building dynamic web applications. It includes coding assistance features for JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, an outliner of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure, error and warning notification and the possibility to customize and extend the UI.
Aptenodytes ridgeni Ridgen's Penguin (Aptenodytes ridgeni) is an extinct species of penguin from the Early (possibly Late) Pliocene of New Zealand. It was intermediate in size between its living congeners, standing an estimated 90-100 cm tall.
Aptera Aptera (Greek for "wingless"), a term in zoological classification applied by Carolus Linnaeus to various groups of wingless arthropods, including some of the insects, the centipedes, the millipedes, the Arachnida (scorpions, spiders, etc.) and the Crustacea.
Apteral Apteral (from the Greek απτερος, "wingless": α-, "without" + πτερον, "wing") is an architectural term applied to amphiprostyle temples which have no columns on the sides. In the temple Athena Nike known as "Nike Apteros", the adjective is used, not as applying to the goddess of victory but to the absence of any peristyle on the sides.
Apterygota The name Apterygota is sometimes applied to a subclass of small, agile insects, distinguished from other insects by their lack of wings in the present and in their evolutionary history. Their first known occurrence in the fossil record is during the Devonian period, 417-354 million years ago.
Apu Mallku Apu Mallku is an Aymara title meaning "supreme leader" or "king" conferred on a Mallku or "prince". The Apu Mallku's mandate is to oversee the vast network of Ayllus, an ancient Andean system of governing councils that predates even the Inca empire.
Apulet An apulet (plural apulettes) is a component of the Cell computer architecture consisting of a bundle comprising a data object and the code necessary to perform an action upon it. The Cell architecture calls for several APUs (Attached Processing Units) which do the primary processing of the system, under the control of a single Processing Element (PE).
Apulia Apulia (official Italian name: Puglia ['pua]) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Ă’tranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. Its southern portion known as Salento, a peninsula, forms the heel of the Italian "boot.
Apulian Plate The Adriatic or Apulian Plate is a small tectonic plate that broke away from the African plate along a large transform fault in the Cretaceous period. The name Adriatic plate is used only when the northern part of the plate is concerned.
Apur Sansar Apur Sansar (Bengali: অপুর সংসার Opur Shôngshar, ) is the third and final installment of the famous film series, the Apu Trilogy, about a boy named Apu in early twentieth century Bengal by Satyajit Ray. Released in 1959, Apur Sansar focuses on Apu's adult life, and also introduces the actors Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore, who would go on to appear in many subsequent Ray films.
ApurĂ­mac River RĂ­o ApurĂ­mac (IPA ) ("apu"=divinity "rimac"=oracle, talker) rises from glacial meltwater of the ridge of Nevado Mismi, a 5,597-meter high mountain in the Arequipa Province in southern Peru, at .
Apure River The Apure River is a river of western Venezuela, formed by the confluence of the Sarare and Uribante at in the Colombian Andes, entering Venezuela near San Cristobal, Táchira State and flowing eastward across the Venezuelan llanos, into the Orinoco. Its drainage area thus includes the slopes of both Colombian and Venezuelan Andes.
Apus Apus (IPA: , , from , meaning "no-feet") is a faint southern constellation, not visible to the ancient Greeks. The constellation was one of twelve constellations created by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597, and it first appeared in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603.
Apuseni Mountains The Apuseni Mountains (Romanian: Munţii Apuseni; Hungarian: Erdélyi-Szigethegység) is a mountain range in Transylvania, Romania, which belongs to the Western Carpathians. Their name translates from Romanian as Mountains "of the sunset" i.
Aputula, Northern Territory Aputula () is a remote Indigenous Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is south of Alice Springs, 159 km east of the Stuart Highway, near the South Australia and Northern Territory border.
Apyrase Apyrase is a calcium-activated plasma membrane-bound enzyme(Magnesium can also activated it) () that catalyses the hydrolysis of ATP to yield AMP and orthophosphate. It can also act on ADP and other nucleoside triphosphates and diphosphates.
AP Biology Advanced Placement Biology (also known as AP Bio or AP Biology) is a course and examination offered by the College Board to high school students as an opportunity to earn placement credit for a college-level biology course.
AP Calculus Advanced Placement Calculus is the name of two distinct Advanced Placement courses and examinations offered by the College Board, AP Calculus AB and AP Calculus BC. This course usually is recommended for those students who are thinking about a math-related degree once in college.
AP Comparative Government and Politics Advanced Placement Comparative Government and Politics (or AP Comparative Government and Politics) is an examination given by the College Board through the Advanced Placement Program. It tests the topics of a first-semester college modern comparative government course.
AP Computer Science A Advanced Placement Computer Science A (also APCS) is a course and subsequent examination offered by the College Board to high school students as an opportunity to earn college credit for a college-level computer science course. APCS A emphasizes object-oriented programming methodology with an emphasis on problem solving and algorithm development and is meant to be the equivalent of a first-semester course in computer science.
AP Computer Science AB Advanced Placement Computer Science AB (also APCS) is a course and following examination offered by the College Board to high school students as an opportunity to earn college credit for a college-level computer science course. APCS AB includes all the topics of AP Computer Science A, as well as a more formal and a more in-depth study of algorithms, data structures, and data abstraction.
AP European History Advanced Placement European History (commonly known as AP European History, AP Euro, or APEH) is a course and examination offered by the College Board through the Advanced Placement Program. This course is for students who are interested in a freshman college-level course in European history.
AP Films AP Films or APF, later becoming Century 21 Productions, was a British independent film production company of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. The company became world-famous with its imaginative children's action-adventure marionette shows - most notably Thunderbirds - produced for British independent broadcasting companies Associated-Rediffusion, Granada, ABC Weekend TV and ATV.
AP French Language Advanced Placement French Language (also known as AP French Language or AP French) is a course offered by the College Board to high school students in the United States as an opportunity to earn placement credit for a college-level French course. Enrollment requirements for AP French Language differ from school to school, but students wishing to enter it should have a good command of French grammar and vocabulary as well as prior experience in listening, reading, speaking, and writing French.
AP French Literature Advanced Placement French Literature (or AP French Literature) is an Advanced Placement course and examination offered by the College Board. This course is designed to replicate a college French literature course for high school students.
AP German Language Advanced Placement German Language (also known as AP German Language or AP German) is a course and examination provided by the College Board through the Advanced Placement Program. This course is designed to give high school students the opportunity to receive credit in a college-level German language course.
AP Chemistry Advanced Placement Chemistry (AP Chemistry or AP Chem) is a course and examination offered by the College Board as a part of the Advanced Placement Program to American high school students the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities and earn college-level credit in chemistry.
AP Chinese Language and Culture Advanced Placement Chinese Language and Culture (commonly known as AP Chinese Language and Culture or AP Chinese) is a course offered by the College Board as a part of the Advanced Placement Program. Designed to be comparable to a fourth semester or equivalent college/university courses in Mandarin Chinese, these college courses deepen the students’ immersion into the language and culture of the Chinese-speaking world.
AP Italian Language and Culture Advanced Placement Italian Language and Culture (also known as AP Italian Language and Culture or AP Italian) is a course offered by the American College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program. It is intended to give students a thorough background in the Italian language and Italian culture equivalent to a college-level course.
AP Japanese Language and Culture Advanced Placement Japanese Language and Culture (also known as AP Japanese Language and Culture or AP Japanese) is a course offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program. It is intended to give students a thorough background in the Japanese language and Japanese social customs.
AP Latin Literature Advanced Placement Latin Literature (also AP Latin Lit) is an examination offered by the College Board's Advanced Placement Program for high school students to earn college credit for a college-level course in Latin literature.
AP Macroeconomics This course is for students interested in college-level work in economics. Study begins with fundamental economic concepts such as scarcity, opportunity costs, production possibilities, specialization, comparative advantage, demand, supply, and price determination.
AP Microeconomics This course is for advanced students interested in college-level work in economics and/or gaining advanced standing in college. The course begins with a study of fundamental economic concepts such as scarcity, opportunity costs, production possibilities, specialization, and comparative advantage.
AP Music Theory Advanced Placement Music Theory (or AP Music Theory) is a course and examination offered in the United States by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program to high school students who wish to earn credit for a college level music theory course.
AP Physics B AP Physics B is an advanced placement science course that is separated into five different sections of study: Newtonian Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Physics, Waves and Optics, and Atomic and Nuclear Physics.
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism is an Advanced Placement science course that studies electricity and magnetism. Methods of calculus are used wherever appropriate in formulating physical principles and in applying them to physical problems.
AP Physics C: Mechanics AP Physics C: Mechanics is an Advanced Placement science course that studies Newtonian mechanics. Methods of calculus are used wherever appropriate in formulating physical principles and in applying them to physical problems.
AP Poll The Associated Press (AP) Poll typically refers to a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I-A college football and Division I college basketball teams, though other AP polls exist as well. The rankings are compiled by polling sportswriters across the nation.
AP Psychology The Advanced Placement Psychology (or AP Psychology) course and corresponding exam is part of the College Board's Advanced Placement Program. This course is tailored for students interested in the field of psychology.
AP Statistics Advanced Placement Statistics (AP Statistics or AP Stats) is a high school mathematics course offered by the College Board that, upon successful completion, will provide college credit for the student. This course is equivalent to a non-calculus-based introductory college statistics course.
AP Stylebook The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, usually called the AP Stylebook, is the primary style and usage guide for most newspapers and newsmagazines in the United States. The stylebook is edited by longtime AP editor Norm Goldstein, and it is updated annually, usually in June.
AP United States Government and Politics Advanced Placement United States Government and Politics (or AP United States Government and Politics) is a college-level course and examination offered through the College Board's Advanced Placement Program. This course surveys the structure and function of American government and politics that begins with an analysis of the Constitution, the foundation of the American political system.
AP World History Advanced Placement World History (also known as AP World History or AP World) is a college-level course offered through the College Board's Advanced Placement Program designed to help students develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts and interactions between different types of Human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills.
AP-1 Binding Site The AP-1 binding site, also known as the AP-1 promoter site, is a DNA nucleotide sequence to which AP-1 (Activator Protein-1) is able to bind. The AP-1 binding site, in humans, has a nucleotide sequence of TGAGTCA.
AP2 aP2 is a protein that is produced in certain disease states and has no useful effect in the body. Blocking this protein either through genetic engineering or drugs has the possibility of treating heart disease, diabetes, asthma, obesity, and fatty liver disease Forbes health article July 14] [[2006]
AP2 adaptors The AP2 adaptor complex works on the plasma membrane to internalise cargo in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. It is a stable complex of four proteins which give rise to a structure that has a core domain and two appendage domains attached to the core domain by polypeptide linkers.
APA style American Psychological Association (APA) style is a widely accepted format for writing research papers, particularly for social science manuscripts and theses. APA style specifies, for example, the names and order of headings, formatting and organization of citations and references, and the arrangement of tables, figures, footnotes, and appendices.
APA taskforce on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control The APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control (DIMPAC) was formed at the request of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1983. The APA asked Margaret Singer, who was one of the leading proponents of coercive persuasion theories, to chair a taskforce to investigate whether brainwashing or "coercive persuasion" did play a role in recruitment in New religious movements and other groups.
APA/'zine APA/'zine is a cross between an Amateur press association and a fanzine, and often combines the closed membership qualities of an APA with the public readership of a fanzine, sometimes selling subscriptions to offer royalties for contributors.
APAC Customer Services APAC Customer Services, Inc. is a provider of customer interaction solutions to large corporations in the communications, financial services, insurance, healthcare, logistics, publishing, and hospitality industries.
APACE VFEG APACE is a charity organisation based at the University of Technology, Sydney that provides practical assistance for communities in developing countries to manage their own development in a sustainable way. Its emphasis is on providing electricity to villages.
APACS APACS (the UK payments association) is the UK trade association for payment systems provided by financial institutions. It promotes standards and interoperability for systems such as BACS, CHAPS and SWIFT, which are themselves separate companies.
APB (band) APB was a Scottish post-punk band, formed in 1979, that successfully blended funk-rock, punk rock and New Wave music. The group had only modest success during its brief run, yet their influence can be heard in the sound of such current bands as Franz Ferdinand, The Rapture, and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
APB (video game) APB (All Points Bulletin) is an unreleased open-ended MMORPG based in urban sprawls and featuring two sides, the Squads and the Gangs. Players may join either the 'cops' or the 'robbers' side, and form sub-groups in these.
APBRmetrics APBRmetrics is the analysis of basketball through objective evidence, especially basketball statistics. APBRmetrics is a cousin to the study of baseball statistics, known as Sabermetrics, and similarly takes its name from the acronym APBR, which stands for the Association for Professional Basketball Research.
APEP Kyperounda FC APEP Pitsilia (Greek: ΑΠΕΠ; Aθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρική Ένωση Πιτσιλιάς, Athlitikos Podosfairiki Enosi Pitsilia, Athletic Football Union Pitsilia) is a Cypriot football club, based in Kyperounda, a village in Pitsilia, which is a region in Limassol District.
APG system A modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The system is unusual in being based, not on total evidence, but on the cladistic analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes and one gene coding for ribosomes.
APG-63 and APG-70 radars AN/APG-63 and AN/APG-70 are designations for a family of all-weather multimode radar systems designed by Hughes Aircraft (now Raytheon) for the F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter, providing the "Eyes of the Eagle".
APG-65, APG-73, and APG-79 radars AN/APG-65, AN/APG-73 and AN/APG-79 are designations for a family of all-weather multimode airborne radar systems designed by Hughes Aircraft (now Raytheon) for the F/A-18 Hornet and used on a variety of fighter aircraft types.
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