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Arqa Arqa (originally Irqata, Arkite in the Bible) is a village near Miniara in the Akkar district of northern Lebanon, 22 km northeast of Tripoli, near the coast. It is significant for the Tell Arqa, an archaeological site that goes back to Neolithic times, and during the Crusades there was a strategically significant castle.
Arqana Arqana is a European auction house that operates horse auctions including the Ventes de Deauville, one of the world's largest auctions for Thoroughbred yearlings held in August of each year in Deauville, France.
Arquebus The Arquebus (sometimes spelled harquebus or hackbut- possibly related to German 'Hakenbuechse') was a primitive firearm used in the 15th to 17th centuries. Like its successor, the musket, it was a smoothbore firearm although somewhat smaller than its predecessors, which made it easier to carry.
Arquillians In the 1997 science-fiction comedy Men in Black, the Arquillians are an extremely small, but very powerful race. They control an empire, which is apparently at war with a highly aggressive species known as the "Bugs.
Arquitectonica Arquitectonica is a postmodernist architecture, interior design and planning firm that began in Miami in 1977 as an experimental studio. Led by peruvian architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia and his wife Laurinda Spear, the studio has grown over the years, having designed such famous buildings as the Atlantis Condominiums and the Westin Times Square in New York.
Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth is a historical and media archive which is maintained by the Brazilian State University of Campinas (Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp), located in the city of Campinas, in the state of SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil. It was started by a donation of the media collection assembled by Brazilian journalist and publisher Edgard Leuenroth.
Arracacha The arracacha is a garden root vegetable originally from the Andes, somewhat intermediate between the carrot and celery. Its starchy taproot is a popular food item in South America, especially in Brazil where it is a major commercial crop.
Arrack Arrack refers to the strong spirits distilled mainly in South and South East Asia from fermented fruits, grains, sugarcane, or the sap of coconuts or other palm trees. The word itself originated from the Arabic word 'araq', which means "juice".
Arraignment Arraignment is a common law term for the formal reading of a criminal complaint, in the presence of the defendant, to inform him of the charges against him. In response to arraignment, the accused is expected to enter a plea.
Arrakis Arrakis, (presumably derived from the Arabic name الراقص ar-rāqiṣ, "the dancer") later Rakis (known colloquially as Dune) is a fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert; it is the home of the Fremen (Zensunni wanderers) and later, the Imperial Capital under the Atreides Empire. Arrakis is the third planet orbiting the star Canopus, and it in turn is orbited by two moons, one of which has the image of the desert kangaroo-rat, Muad'Dib, on it; the other possesses the image of a human hand.
Arram railway station Arram railway station serves the small village of Arram in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Yorkshire Coast Line and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services.
Arran (Azerbaijan) Arran (ar-Ran) is currently the term is used in the Azerbaijan Republic to signify the territory consisting of the lowland Karabakh plains situated between Kura and Aras rivers, including the Mil plain and parts of the Mughan plain. In Iran and by some scholars abroad, the term Arran is sometimes used to designate today's Azerbaijan Republic.
Arran Single Malt Arran Single Malt is a Single Malt Scotch whisky distilled by the Arran Distillery, Lochranza, Scotland, the only distillery on the Isle of Arran. Arran Distillery was founded in 1995 and is the first legal distillery built on the Isle of Arran in over 150 years.
Arran-Elderslie, Ontario The Municipality of Arran-Elderslie is a township in western Ontario, Canada in Bruce County. The township is located at the headwaters of the Sauble River, and the Saugeen River forms the northwestern boundary.
Arranged marriage An arranged marriage is a marriage that is established before involving oneself in a lengthy relationship, and often involves the arrangement of someone else other than the person getting married. Such marriages are common in the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia.
Arranged marriages in India Arranged marriage have been an integral part of Indian society for centuries and even today it is quite normal for people to have their marriages planned by their parents and other respected family-members. Arranged matches were made after taking into account factors such as the compatibility of the couples' horoscopes, the backgrounds of their families (wealth, social standing) and perhaps most importantly, their castes.
Arrangement In music, an arrangement refers either to a rewriting of a piece of existing music with additional new material or to a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch, such as a lead sheet. If a musical adaptation does not include new material, it is more accurately termed a transcription.
Arranger's chorus In jazz, an arranger's chorus is the last chorus of a tune, where the arranger uses particularly elaborate techniques to exhibit his skill and to impress the listener. This may include use of counterpoint, reharmonization, tone color, or any other arranging device.
Arranmore Arranmore Island (Árainn Mhór in Irish) is the largest inhabited island in County Donegal, and the second largest in all of Ireland, with a population of 528 in 2006, down from 543 in 2002, and over 600 in 1996. The island is part of the Donegal Gaeltacht.
Arranmore Island transmitter The Arranmore Island transmitter is a relay station used by RTÉ Networks Limited and Highland Radio to provide coverage to Arranmore Island, Ireland, and much of The Rosses, which are shielded by mountains from the main transmissions. Two towers exist, the smaller of which belongs to Highland, and the significantly larger to RTÉ Networks.
Arrano beltza The arrano beltza ("black eagle" in Basque) is an ancient Basque and Navarre symbol which displays a black eagle upon a yellow background and is mostly, though not exclusively, used by Basque nationalists as a symbol of Euskal Herria, the Basque Country.
Arrapha Arrapha (Syriac: ܐܪܦܗܐ, ) was an ancient Assyrian city that existed in what is today the city of Kirkuk, Iraq. The city was founded around 2000 BC and derived its name from the old Assyrian word Arabkha which was later changed to Arrapha.
Arras Arras () is a town and commune in northern France, préfecture (capital) of the Pas-de-Calais département. The historic centre of the Artois region, its local speech is nonetheless characterized as a Picarde dialect.
Arras culture The Arras culture is a name given by archaeologists to an Iron Age culture from what is today eastern Yorkshire. It is named after the cemetery site of Arras near Market Weighton in East Yorkshire which was discovered in the nineteenth century.
Arras Football Arras Football is a French association football team founded in 1901. They are based in Arras, France and are currently playing in the Championnat de France Amateurs 2 Group A, the fifth tier in the French football league system.
Arrau Medal The Arrau Medal was established by The Robert Schumann Society to memorialize its first honorary member, Claudio Arrau, who died in 1991. The medal is awarded to a pianist who is especially committed to the spirit and tradition of Claudio Arrau's keyboard artistry.
Array In computer programming, a group of element]s of a specific [[data type is known as an array, one of the simplest data structures. An array is similar to, but different from, a vector or list (for one-dimensional arrays) or a matrix (for two-dimensional arrays).
Array comparative genomic hybridization Microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (a-CGH) is a method to detect chromosome copy number changes, at a higher resolution level than conventional chromosome-based comparative genomic hybridization (CGH).
Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors The Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (ALEXIS) X-ray telescopes feature curved mirrors whose multilayer coatings reflect and focus low-energy X-rays or extreme ultraviolet light the way optical telescopes focus visible light. The satellite and payloads were funded by the Department of Energy and built by Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California-Space Sciences Lab.
Array slicing In computer programming, array slicing is an operation that extracts certain elements from an array and packages them as another array, possibly with different number of indices (or dimensions) and different index ranges. Two common examples are extracting a substring from a string of characters (e.
Arrayán Arrayán (plural Arrayánes) is a Spanish word which in Spain refers to Common Myrtle (Myrtus communis), an evergreen Mediterranean shrub that is used widely in gardens, including in the famous Patio de los Arrayanes (Court of the Myrtles) in the Alhambra.
Arrayed waveguide grating Arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG) are commonly used as optical (de)multiplexers in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) systems. These devices are capable of multiplexing a large number of wavelengths into a single optical fiber, thereby increasing the transmission capacity of optical networks considerably.
Arregui, La Noticia del DĂ­a Arregui, La Noticia del DĂ­a (English language: The Notice of the Day) is a 2001 Argentine comedy film drama directed and written by MarĂ­a Victoria Menis with Diana Iceruk. The film premiered on 2 August 2001 in Buenos Aires.
Arrernte (area) The Arrernte land is controlled by Arrernte Council which in turn is controlled by Central Land Council from Alice Springs. Arrernte is the traditional language of Alice Springs, which is the centre of Arrernte land.
Arrernte Council The Arrernte Council of Central Australia Aboriginal Corporation is an Australian Aborigine council for the Arrernte, Eastern Arrernte, Central Arrernte and Western Arrernte people of Central Australia. Their offices are located in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Arrernte people The Arrernte people are a group of people that traditionally live in the Arrernte lands of central Australia. Some Arrernte people live in other areas a distance from their homeland, and may even live in Sydney or Melbourne or overseas.
Arrest An arrest is the action of the police, or person acting under the law, to take a person into custody so that they may be forthcoming to answer for the commission of a crime. In many legal systems, an arrest requires mere verbal information to persons that they are under arrest; the laying of hands or restraints upon the arrested person is usually not required to effect an arrest.
Arrest & Trial Arrest & Trial was a syndicated American nonfiction television program which followed individual criminal cases (commission, police investigation, and actual trial) via a combination of reenactments and real trial footage. Episodes ran for 30 minutes, and the program aired during the 2000 television season.
Arrestable offence The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 defined certain offences in English and Welsh law as Arrestable Offences. This then gave police certain powers in relation to these offences including entry to premises, arrest, searches following arrest and certain provisions whilst detained in custody.
Arrestandis bonis ne dissipentur Arrestandis bonis ne dissipentur, in English law, is a writ for him whose cattle or goods are taken by another, who, during the controversy, is likely to run off with them, and will hardly be able to sustain them afterwards; in other words, the cattle or goods will likely die or be wasted.
Arrestin The arrestins are a family of proteins that are important for regulating signal transduction within cells. Arrestins were originally described as proteins that bind specifically to active (phosphorylated) G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), and arrest or reduce signaling by these receptors.
Arresto facto super bonis mercatorum alienigenorum Arresto facto super bonis mercatorum alienigenorum (literally, "Stoppage made upon the goods of a foreign merchant"), in English law, was a writ against the goods of aliens found in the country, as compensation for goods taken from a denizen in a foreign country, after he was denied restitution there.
Arrestor cables Arrestor cables or arrestor wires are thick steel cables fitted to the aft end of the flight deck on CATOBAR and STOBAR aircraft carriers. The cables allow aircraft to land safely on the short runway by catching one of these cables with a tailhook.
Arreton Down Arreton Down () is a 29.77 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the Isle of Wight, originally notified in 1979 for its geological interest and then renotified in 1987, but for its biological interest only.
Arrhabonarii The Arrhabonarii were a sect who held that the Eucharist is neither the real flesh or blood of Jesus Christ, nor yet the sign of them, but only the pledge or earnest thereof. The word is derived from the Greek , Arrha, "earnest".
Arrhamphus A genus of halfbeak found across in coastal waters of the Indo-West Pacific around Papua New Guinea and Australia, and in the freshwaters of adjacent river systems. Considered a a good game fish, but of little commercial value either as food or as an aquarium fish.
Arrhenatherum elatius Arrhenatherum elatius (False oat-grass, Tall oat-grass, Tall meadow oat) a species of grass, common in the temperate regions of Europe, which is often used as an ornamental plant. It is found especially in praries, at the side of roads and in uncultivated fields.
Arrhenius (lunar crater) Arrhenius is a lunar impact crater that is located just on the far side of the Moon, near the southwest limb. In this location the vicinity of the crater can be viewed during favorable librations, although it is viewed from on edge.
Arrhenius equation The Arrhenius equationIUPAC Goldbook definition of Arrhenius equation is a simple, but remarkably accurate, formula for the temperature dependence of a chemical reaction rate, more correctly, of a rate coefficient, as this coefficient includes all magnitudes that affect reaction rate except for concentration. The equation was first proposed by the Dutch chemist J.
Arrhidaeus Arrhidaeus (in Greek Aρριδαιoς or Aριδαιoς; lived 4th century BC), one of Alexander the Great's generals, was entrusted with the conduct of Alexander's funeral to Egypt in 323 BC. On the murder of Perdiccas in Egypt, 321 BC, he and Peithon were appointed regents, but through the intrigues of the queen Eurydice they were obliged soon afterwards to resign their office at Triparadisus in Northern Syria.
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD, also known as arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy or ARVC) is a type of nonischemic cardiomyopathy that involves primarily the right ventricle. It is characterized by hypokinetic areas involving the free wall of the right ventricle, with fibrofatty replacement of the right ventricular myocardium, with associated arrhythmias originating in the right ventricle.
Arri bayonet Arri bayonet is a lens mount developed by Arri for use with both 16 mm and 35 mm movie cameras. Lenses are distinguished by "outer wings" which both control aperture and bayonet alignment, and are placed in the mount while two pressure tabs are simultaneously depressed at the side of the lens mount on the camera.
Arria In Roman mythology, Arria was a woman whose husband, Caecina Paetus, was ordered by the emperor to commit suicide. He wasn't capable of forcing himself to do so until Arria grabbed the dagger from him, stabbed herself and then gave it back, informing him that it didn't hurt ("Non dolet, Paete!
Arriba el TelĂłn o el Patio de la Morocha Arriba el telĂłn o el patio de la morocha (English language:(Roughly (Up the curtain of the Morocha Patio) is a 1951 Argentine musical drama film directed by Manuel Romero and written by Catulo Castillo and Mariano Mores.The film premiered in early 1951 in Buenos Aires.
Arriba Juventud Arriba juventud (English title: Youth has Arrived) is a 1971 Argentine musical film comedy directed and written by Leo Fleider based around a muscial group. The film premiered on 4 March 1971 in Buenos Aires.
Arriflex 435 The Arriflex 435 is a movie camera product line created by Arri in 1995 to replace the Arri III line. The number reflects its position as a successor camera to the Arri III and the fact that it is designed for 35 mm film.
Arrilaser The Arrilaser is a digital film recorder made by Arri which writes digital movie files onto film after compositing and audio mastering on the computer. Files are sent to the device via a fast gigabit Ethernet connection.
Arrington Arrington is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 389 (2001 census). The village is on the A1198 road (the old Ermine Street), and is about six miles north of Royston in Hertfordshire.
Arris Arris is an architectural term that describes the sharp edge formed by the intersection of two planes, such as the corner of a masonry unit; the junction between two planes of plaster or any intersection of divergent architectural details. Also the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column.
Arriscope In 1989, Germany's Isco Optic developed a line of Anamorphic Lenses especially for Arriflex, which were given the moniker Arriscope. ArriScope and ArriVision are a form of the CinemaScope/Panavision process with an aspect ratio of 2.
Arriva Arriva plc is a British-based international public transport operator, headquartered in Sunderland. It has bus and/or rail operations in Denmark, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Arriva Fox County Arriva Fox County is a bus company operating in Leicester and Leicestershire. It was formed in 1981, as Midland Red East with the breakup of the old Midland Red bus company, and then became known as Midland Fox in 1984.
Arriva North-West & Wales Arriva North-West & Wales is a division of Arriva that operates bus services around North West England and Wales. It was made up of previous bus operators including the North Western Road Car Company (in Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire), most of MTL North (formerly Merseybus / Merseyside PTE), the Bee Line Buzz Company (in Greater Manchester) and most of what was once Crosville Motor Services in Cheshire and Wales.
Arrival (song) "Arrival" was the instrumental title track from ABBA's 1976 album of the same name. It was the second and last song from the Swedish music group not to contain lyrics, following 1975's "Intermezzo No.
Arrival (The Prisoner) "Arrival" is the title of the first episode of the British science fiction-allegorical series, The Prisoner. It originally aired in the UK on ITV on October 1, 1967 and was first broadcast in the United States on CBS in the summer of 1968.
Arrival and Departure Arrival and Departure (1943) is the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy concerning the conflict between morality and expediency (as described in the postscript to the novel's 1966 Danube Edition). The first volume, The Gladiators, is about the subversion of the Spartacus revolt, and the second, Darkness at Noon, is the celebrated novel about the Soviet Show trials.
Arrive All Over You Arrive All Over You is Danielle Brisebois' debut album, released on May 10 1994 by Epic Records. It includes the singles "What If God Fell From The Sky", "Gimme Little Sign" and "I Don't Wanna Talk About Love".
Arrochar Alps The Arrochar Alps are a group of mountains located around the head of Loch Long, near the village of Arrochar in Argyll, Scotland. The mountains are especially popular with hillwalkers, due to their proximity and accessibility from Glasgow.
Arrochar, Staten Island Arrochar is a neighborhood in northeastern Staten Island in New York City in the United States. It is located directly inland of Fort Wadsworth and South Beach, on the east side of Hylan Boulevard south of the Staten Island Expressway; the community of Grasmere borders it on the west.
Arromanches (R 95) The fourth and last HMS Colossus (R15) had a relatively brief time with the Royal Navy. She was the name-ship of the Colossus-class Light Fleet aircraft carriers, and were basically smaller derivatives of the Illustrious-class carriers.
Arron Asham Arron Asham (Born - April 13, 1978 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian professional hockey forward in the National Hockey League who has played for the Montreal Canadiens and New York Islanders.
Arron Sears Arron Eugene Sears (born October 25, 1984) is a senior offensive tackle for the University of Tennessee football team. Sears was recently named an All American and is expected to be an early pick in the 2007 NFL Draft.
Arrondi Arrondi, or arrondie, in heraldry, as in cross-arrondi, or rounded, is that whose arms are composed of sections of a circle, not opposite to each other, so as to make the arm bulge out thicker in one part than another; but both the sections of each arm lie the same way, so that the arm is of a uniform thickness throughout. All of them terminate at the edges of the escutcheon like the plain cross.
Arrondissements of Belgium The federalized country Belgium geographically consists of 3 regions, of which only Flanders ( = the Flemish Region) and Wallonia (= the Walloon Region) are subdivided into 5 provinces each; the Brussels-Capital Region is neither a province nor is it part of one.
Arrondissements of Lyon The city of Lyon, in central France, is divided into 9 arrondissements. Unlike the spiral pattern of the Arrondissements of Paris, or the meandering pattern of those in Marseille, in Lyon they are laid out almost at random, with no obvious pattern.
Arrondissements of Paris The city of Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements municipaux (“municipal boroughs,” approximately, in English), more simply referred to as arrondissements (pronounced , or as in French: ). These are not to be confused with departmental arrondissements, which subdivide the 100 French départements.
Arrouaise (Abbey and Order) The Abbey of Arrouaise was the centre of a form of the Augustinian monastic rule, the Arrouaisian Order, which was popular among the founders of abbeys during the decade of the 1130s. The community began to develop when Heldemar joined the hermit Ruggerius in 1090 but its first abbot, elected in 1121, was called Gervaise.
Arrow (symbol) An arrow is a graphical symbol like →, ←, used to point or indicate direction, being in its simplest form a line segment with a triangle affixed to one end, and in more complex forms a representation of an actual arrow (e.g.
Arrow crab The arrow crab (Stenorhynchus seticornis) is a saltwater invertebrate that resembles a harvestman (daddy long-legs) that may grow up to a length of about 6 inches (15 cm). It may be found in the wild on the tropical and subtropical Atlantic coasts of the Americas.
Arrow Canyon Range The Arrow Canyon Range is a small yet stunning mountain range that runs south to north in Clark County, Nevada. Its length is approximately 25 miles at a latitude 36Ëš35' - 36Ëš47', and its width is roughly 7 miles at a longitude of 114Ëš54' - 114Ëš47'.
Arrow Comics Arrow Comics was one of the original independent publishers of black-and-white comics in the mid 1980s, starting out in Ypsilanti, Michigan by founders Ralph Griffith and Stuart Kerr. Griffith and Kerr were just getting ready to publish a local comic fanzine called Fantastic Fanzine (which they later discovered was a previously published title), when the first issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came out.
Arrow Creek (Montana) Arrow Creek is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 45 miles (73 km) long, in Montana in the United States. It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest near Highwood Baldy in the Highwood Mountains in southern Chouteau County.
Arrow Cross The Arrow Cross (Nyilaskereszt) symbol originated in Hungary in the 1930s as the symbol of the leading Hungarian fascist political party, the Arrow Cross Party, led by Ferenc Szálasi, an ex-major of the army. Leaders of National Council of the Arrow Cross after Szálasi included Jenö Szöllösi, József Gera and Ferenc Kassai-Schallmajer.
Arrow Cross Party The Arrow Cross Party (Hungarian: Nyilaskeresztes Párt-Hungarista Mozgalom, literally "Arrow Cross Party-Hungarianist Movement") was a pro-German anti-Semitic fascist party led by Ferenc Szálasi which ruled Hungary from October 15, 1944 to January 1945. During its short rule, 80,000 Jews, including many women, children and old people were deported from Hungary to their deaths .
Arrow Dynamics Arrow Dynamics was a roller coaster design company based in Clearfield, Utah. In 2002, the company went bankrupt but was quickly bought by fellow amusement ride manufacturer S&S Power to form S&S-Arrow.
Arrow Flash Arrow Flash is a horizontal scrolling shooter video game created by Telenet in 1990 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. The game can be considered a multi-scrolling shooter, in that there are horizontal and vertically scrolling levels, although the ship does not change orientation when this happens.
Arrow heads Arrow heads are sharpened or flintknapped stones, flakes, and chips of rock that are sharpened enough for the tip of an arrow. Prehistoric peoples often used various stone spear heads and arrow heads for their weapons and hunting tools.
Arrow keys Arrow keys are buttons on a computer keyboard that move the cursor in a specified direction. They are typically located at the bottom of the keyboard to the side of the numeric keypad, usually arranged in an inverted-T layout but also found in diamond shapes.
Arrow Lakes The Arrow Lakes in British Columbia, Canada, divided into Upper Arrow Lake and Lower Arrow Lake are widenings of the Columbia River. Situated between the Selkirk Mountains to the east and the Monashee Mountains to the west.
Arrow missile The Arrow Interceptor (טיל חץ, Hebrew: "Til Hetz") is a theater missile defense (TMD) system; it is the first missile developed by Israel that was specifically designed and built to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles on a national level. It is the only anti-ballistic missile system able to intercept its targets high in the stratosphere (other systems, such as RIM-161, are intended to kill in outer space; Others, such as PAC-3, are designed to meet their targets in lower atmosphere).
Arrow of time In the natural sciences, time’s arrow, or arrow of time as it is also known, is a term coined in 1927 by British astronomer Arthur Eddington used to distinguish a direction of time on a four-dimensional relativistic map of the world; which, according to Eddington, can be determined by a study of organizations of atoms, molecules, and bodies.
Arrow Safety Device Company A manufacturer of lighting and safety equipment for trucks & vehicles. The company was formed in 1930 and with the main office located in Mount Holly, New Jersey and an assembly plant in Georgetown, Delaware.
Arrow Supermarkets (Australia) Arrow Supermarkets was a Australian supermarket chain, which operated until the early 1990's. Arrow was marketed as a discount supermarket and were often located in neighbourhood shopping centres incorporating a Arrow Supermarket, Target Discount Deparment Store, Apple Restaurant, and a number of specialty shops.
Arrow's impossibility theorem In voting systems, Arrow’s impossibility theorem, or Arrow’s paradox, demonstrates that no voting system based on ranked preferences can possibly meet a certain set of reasonable criteria when there are three or more options to choose from. These criteria are called unrestricted domain, non-imposition, non-dictatorship, monotonicity, and independence of irrelevant alternatives, and are defined below.
Arrow-Debreu model The Arrow-Debreu model, also referred to as the Arrow-Debreu-McKenzie model (ADM model) is the central model in the General (Economic) Equilibrium Theory and often used as a general reference for other microeconomic models. It is named after Kenneth Arrow, Gerard Debreu and Lionel W.
Arrowhawk In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the arrowhawk is an outsider from the Elemental Plane of air. It resembles a bird, perhaps most closely a raptor or vulture, only it has no legs, and 4 wings, which when spread, form an X shape.
Arrowhead (Herman Melville) Arrowhead (1780) was the home of American author Herman Melville during his most productive years from 1850-1863. In this house Melville wrote his best work: the novels Moby-Dick, Pierre (dedicated to nearby Mount Greylock), The Confidence-Man, and Israel Potter; a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales and including "I and My Chimney," "Benito Cereno," "Bartleby the Scrivener," and "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids"; all his magazine stories; and some of his poetry.
Arrowhead device The Arrowhead device is a decoration of the United States Army which is issued as an attachment to certain service medals. The Arrowhead device is awarded to any service member who participates in an amphibious assault, a combat parachute drop, a helicopter assault landing, or a combat glider attack.
Arrowhead Highway The Arrowhead Highway or the Arrowhead Trail was the first all-weather road connecting Los Angeles, California to Salt Lake City, Utah by way of Las Vegas, Nevada. Built primarily in the late 1910s and viable roughly contemporaneously with Route 66, the road has since been supplanted by Interstate 15 and U.
Arrowhead SF Arrowhead is the name that science fiction writer James Blish and his wife, literary agent and science fiction writer Virginia Kidd, gave to their home in Milford, Pennsylvania. The Virginia Kidd Literary Agency has been operating continuously at Arrowhead since the 1950s.

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