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Accident of birth Accident of birth is a phrase pointing out that no one has any control of, or responsibility for, the circumstances of their birth or parentage. With a modern scientific understanding of genetics, one can reasonably call any human being's entire genome an accident of birth.
Accidental Ascendant In Horary astrology, an accidental Ascendant is determined according to the time and date of the question that is being asked, and the querent's is rotated to the point where the Ascendant of the native's horoscope becomes the sign and degree of the Ascendant of the question. This enables the astrologer to answer the question and predict trends by combining the influences of the horoscope for both the native and the question.
Accidental complexity Accidental complexity is an avoidable problem of complexity in computer programs or their development process (computer programming). While essential complexity is inherent and unavoidable, accidental complexity may be caused by misunderstanding of problems, ineffective planning, or low priority placed on a project.
Accidental death and dismemberment insurance Accidental death and dismemberment insurance (also known as AD&D) covers death or dismemberment as a result of an accident. In constrast to life insurance, AD&D generally would not pay survivor benefits in the case of death by illness.
Accidental dignity In astrology, accidental dignity occurs when a planet or other celestial body is posited in a house of its natural rulership. The houses of the horoscope correspond with the signs of the zodiac, so accidental rulerships are as follows:-
Accidental discharge Accidental discharge is the event of a firearm discharging (firing) by means other than a deliberate pull of the trigger, such as dropping a loaded weapon. Accidental discharges (sometimes called ADs by military and police personnel and referred to as negligent discharges by several armies) are usually the result of poor maintenance, poor design, defective ammunition or the use of substandard materials in the weapon itself.
Accidental Empires Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date (1992, ISBN 0-88730-855-4; 1996 (with new material) ISBN 0-14-025826-4), is the title of a book written by Robert X. Cringely.
Accidental Lovers Accidental Lovers (Sydän kierroksella) is an interactive musical comedy series on Television. Viewers can affect the love relationship between 61-year-old cabaret singer Juulia (Kristiina Elstelä) and 30-year-old pop star Roope (Lorenz Backman) by sending mobile text messages to the show.
Accidental Necessity In philosophy and logic, accidental necessity, often stated in its Latin form, necessitas per accidens, refers to the necessity attributed to the past by certain views of time. It is a controversial concept: its supporters argue that it has intuitive validity while others contest it creates a contradiction in terms by positing such a thing as a "contingent necessity.
Accidental release source terms Accidental release source terms are the mathematical equations that quantify the flow rate at which accidental releases of air pollutants into the ambient environment can occur at industrial facilities such as petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, natural gas processing plants, oil and gas transportation pipelines, chemical plants, and many other industrial activities. Governmental regulations in a good many countries require that the probability of such accidental releases be analyzed and their quantitative impact upon the environment and human health be determined so that mitigating steps can be planned and implemented.
Accidental sampling Accidental sampling is a type of non- probability sampling which involves the sample being drawn from people/items that are readily available and convenient. The researcher using such a sample cannot scientifically make generalizations about the total population from this sample because it would not be representative enough.
Accidentally in Love "Accidentally in Love" is a song by Counting Crows on the soundtrack of Shrek 2 (2004). Counting Crows lead singer and songwriter Adam Duritz, best known for melancholy adult contemporary music, thought himself an unlikely candidate to write the love theme to a movie and found writing the song difficult, but fell in love shortly after and found the inspiration to write the song.
Accidents & Accusations Tour The Accidents & Accusations Tour was a 2006 concert tour by the Dixie Chicks. It was their first tour where tickets were sold after "the incident" in 2003 when lead singer Natalie Maines publicly criticized President George W.
Accion International ACCION International is a non-profit organization founded in 1961 whose mission it is to provide small loans and technical assistance to those around the world who are under-serviced by local banks. As a Microfinance Organization, ACCION's provides loans, sometimes as small as $75, to help small business owners start or maintain their companies when traditional banks won't offer them a loan.
Accipitridae The Accipitridae is one of the two major families within the order Falconiformes (the diurnal birds of prey). Many well-known birds like hawks, eagles, kites, harriers and Old World vultures are included in this group.
Accipitriformes In a common but inaccurate way in which the raptors are classified, the order Accipitriformes includes most of the diurnal birds of prey: hawks, eagles, vultures, and many others: about 225 species in all. It is not used in classification schemes which regard the Falconidae (falcons and caracaras) as part of the same group as the Accipitridae (hawks, eagles and allies).
Acclaim Entertainment Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed, and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sega's Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and Game Gear, Nintendo's NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance, Sony's PlayStation and PlayStation 2, Microsoft's Xbox, and, to a lesser extent, personal computer systems and arcade games.
Acclaim Games Acclaim Games, based in Beverly Hills, California, is a private online video game company that offers free MMORPG games on its website upon registration. The company was founded in 2006 and is the successor of Acclaim Entertainment in terms of brand name.
Acclaim Cheltenham Acclaim Cheltenham was a game studio in Cheltenham, England that made Extreme-G 3 and XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association before Acclaim declared bankrupty in 2004. Before 2001, the developer was Probe Entertainment.
Acclaim Studios Teesside Acclaim Studios Teesside (AST) was formerly known as Iguana UK (the British half of Iguana Entertainment) and was acquired by Acclaim Entertainment in 1995. The studio adopted the Acclaim name a couple of years later.
Acclaim Wireless The Acclaim Wireless is a primitive wireless controller for the Nintendo Entertainment System, produced in the 1980s. When working properly, the device used infrared signals to transmit data up to several feet away, allowing for wireless game play.
Acclamatio In Ancient Roman tradition, acclamatio was the public expression of approbation or disapprobation, pleasure or displeasure, etc, by loud acclamations. On many occasions, there appear to have been certain forms of acclamations always used by the Romans; as, for instance, at marriages, Io Hymen, Hymenaee, or Talassio; at triumphs, Io triumphe, Io triumphe; at the conclusion of plays the last actor called out Plaudite to the spectators; orators were usually praised by such expressions as Bene et praeclare, Belle et festive, Non potest melius, etc.
Acclamator-class assault ship The 752-meter-long Acclamator-class Assault Ship/Transport in the fictional Star Wars Universe and is a relative of later Star Destroyers. The Acclamator was the first capital ship designed for use with the Grand Army of the Republic, referred sometimes simply as the "Republic assault ship.
Acclimatization Acclimatization is the process of an organism adjusting to changes in its environment, often involving temperature or climate. Acclimatization usually occurs in a short time, and within one organism's lifetime (compare adaptation).
Accommodation (law) Accommodation is a term used in United States contract law under the Uniform Commercial Code to describes a delivery of nonconforming goods meant as a partial performance of a contract for the sale of goods, where a full performance is not possible. The accommodation must be specified as such in a writing from the seller to the buyer.
Accommodation (religion) Accommodation is a theological principle linked to divine revelation within the Christian church. Also called condescension, the principle of Accommodation is that God, while being in his nature unknowable and unreachable, has nevertheless communicated with mankind in a way in which humans can understand and respond.
Accommodation address Accommodation address is a term used mostly in the United Kingdom to denote a location where mail can be delivered in the name of a person or business for retrieval. The service is similar to Poste restante and Post office boxes, but is generally supplied by a private company, or even an individual.
Accommodation Bill An Accommodation Bill is as its name implies, is a bill of exchange accepted and sometimes endorsed without any receipt of value in order to afford temporary pecuniary aid to the person accommodated. For more information see: Bill of Exchange.
Accommodation reflex The accommodation reflex is a reflex action of the eye, in response to focusing on a near object, then looking at distant object (and vice versa), comprising coordinated changes in vergence, lens shape and pupil size. It is dependent on cranial nerve II (afferent limb of reflex), higher centres and cranial nerve III.
Accompaniment In music, accompaniment is the art of playing along with a soloist or ensemble, often known as the lead, in a supporting manner as well as the music thus played. An accompaniment figure is a gesture used repeatedly in an accompaniment, such as:
Accomplice At law, an accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even though they take no part in the actual criminal offence. For example, in a bank robbery, the person who points the gun at the teller and asks for the money is guilty of armed robbery.
Accordion cut An accordion cut is a technique in butchery, similar to butterflying, in which a thick piece of meat is extended into a thin one with a larger surface area. A series of parallel cuts are made from alternating sides of a roast almost all the way through, creating "hinges" which allow the meat to unfold into a long, flat, piece.
Accordion effect In non-linear physics, the accordion effect occurs when fluctuations in the motion of a travelling body causes disruptions in the flow of elements following it. This can happen in road traffic, foot marching, bicycle racing, and, in general, to processes in a pipeline.
Accot-Zhai steering law The Accot-Zhai steering law, also known as Accot's law (Accot is pronounced ah-caught in English and ah-koh in French) or the steering law, is a model of human movement. It predicts the average time necessary to navigate, or steer, a pointing device (such as a mouse or stylus) through a 2D path or tunnel or trajectory, where the user must travel from one end of the path to the other as quickly as possible, while staying within the confines of the path.
Accotink Bay Wildlife Refuge Accotink Bay Wildlife Refuge is a nature preserve on the grounds of Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia, USA. Several other parks, including Mason Neck Park, Pohick Bay Park, and the Jackson Miles Abbott Wetland Refuge are located nearby.
Account In accountancy, an account is a label used for recording and reporting a quantity of almost anything. Most often it is a record of an amount of money owned or owed by or to a particular person or entity, or allocated to a particular purpose.
Account aggregation Account aggregation is a method that involves compiling information from different accounts, which may include bank accounts, credit card accounts, investment accounts, and other consumer or business accounts, into a single place. This may include a database or may be provided through "screen-scraping" where a user provides the requisite account-access information for an automated system to gather and compile the information into a single page.
Account planning "Account Planning is the discipline that brings the consumer into the process of developing advertising. To be truly effective, advertising must be both distinctive and relevant, and planning helps on both counts.
Accountability Accountability is a concept in ethics with several meanings. It is often used synonymously with such concepts as answerability, responsibility, blameworthiness, liability and other terms associated with the expectation of account-giving.
Accountable Fundraising Accountable Fundraising is the term used to describe a Non-profit organization holding its members "accountable" for their donations by showing them the direct impact of their fundraising efforts. This accountability usually comes in the form of a vote, where the members select a specific program or charity that they would like their money to go to.
Accountancy Accountancy (profession) or accounting (methodology) is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about financial information primarily used by managers, investors, tax authorities and other decision makers to make resource allocation decisions. The names come from the use of financial accounts.
Accountancy Investigation and Discipline Board The Accountancy Investigation and Discipline Board (AIDB) is the independent, investigative and disciplinary body for accountants in the United Kingdom. The AIDB Scheme establishes the framework and sets in place the legal formalities of participation between the AIDB and the Participating Accountancy Bodies i.
Accountant Accountant, or Qualified Accountant, or Professional Accountant, or Accountancy Practitioner, is an accountancy and financial experts legally certified in different jurisdictions to originally worked only in public practices, selling advice and services to other individuals and businesses, but today in addition many work within private corporations, financial industry and government bodies.
Accountant General The Accountant General or Accountant-General was formerly an officer in the English Court of Chancery who received all moneys lodged in court, and by whom they were deposited in bank and disbursed. The office was abolished by the Chancery Funds Act of 1872, and the duties transferred to the paymaster-general.
Accountant-client privilege Accountant-client privilege is a confidentiality privilege, or more precisely, a group of privileges, available in American federal and state law. Accountant-client privileges may be classified in two categories: evidentiary privileges and non-evidentiary privileges.
Accounting Intelligence A specialist form of Business Intelligence, Accounting Intelligence is the general name for the set of technologies used to extract , analyse and present information from accounting and ERP applications such as J.D.
Accounting management Accounting Management (Business) is the practical application of management techniques to control and report on the financial health of the organization. This involves the analysis, planning, implementation, and control of programs designed to provide financial data reporting for managerial decision making.
Accounting method In computational complexity theory, the accounting method is a method of amortized analysis based on accounting. The accounting method often gives a more intuitive account of the amortized cost of an operation than either aggregate analysis or the potential method.
Accounting reform Accounting reform is an expansion to accounting rules that goes beyond the realm of financial measures for both individual economic entities and national economies. It is advocated by those who consider the focus of the present standards and practices wholly inadequate to the task of measuring and reporting the activity, success, and failure of modern enterprise, including government.
Accounting scandals Accounting scandals, or corporate accounting scandals are political and business scandals which arise with the disclosure of misdeeds by trusted executives of large public corporations. Such misdeeds typically involve complex methods for misusing or misdirecting funds, overstating revenues, understating expenses, overstating the value of corporate assets or underreporting the existence of liabilities, sometimes with the cooperation of officials in other corporations or affiliates.
Accounting software Accounting software is computer software that records and processes accounting transactions within functional modules such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and trial balance. It functions as an accounting information system.
Accounts Committee The Accounts Committee of each Parish in Jersey is responsible for ensuring that appropriate accounting methodologies are employed in the preparation of the annual Constable's accounts in order that the Parish Assembly can rely on the information provided in order to set the Parish Rate.
Accounts payable Accounts payable is one of a series of accounting transactions covering payments to suppliers owed money for goods and services. The average household performs this task by writing cheques each month to such suppliers as the electric company, telephone company, cable television or satellite dish service, newspaper subscription, and other such regular services.
Accounts receivable Accounts receivable is one of a series of accounting transactions dealing with the billing of customers who owe money to a person, company or organization for goods and services that have been provided to the customer. This is typically done in a one person organization by writing an invoice and mailing or delivering it to each customer.
Accra International Conference Center The Accra International Conference Center is perhaps the most popular venue in Accra where large events are held. Other venues include the Ghana Trade Fair and the National Theatre, but the Conference Center is more popular due to it being significantly larger than the National Theatre, and at the same time smaller than the Ghana Trade Fair Centre (which was built to host pan-African events).
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology ABET, Inc., formerly the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, is a non-profit organization that serves the public by accrediting United States postsecondary degree programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology.
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) is a non-profit accreditation agency recognized by Council on Higher Education Accreditation and the US Department of Education. It was established in 1932 and based in Chicago for accrediting professional degree programs in pharmacy and providers of continuing pharmacy education.
Accreditation mill Accreditation mill refers to an accreditation group with low educational standards and without recognition from government and mainstream academia. Much like a diploma mill, many schools get accreditation from a group with low standards or the school sets up its own accreditation board.
Accredited Symbian Developer Accredited Symbian Developer (ASD) is an accreditation program for software developers using Symbian OS, a mobile phone operating system. The scheme is operated independently on Symbian's behalf by Majinate Limited.
Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) is a non-profit education corporation recognized by the United States Secretary of Education and Council for Higher Education Accreditationas an independent and autonomous national accrediting body that accredits institutions of higher education offering programs of study through the master's degree level.
Accretion disc An accretion disc (or accretion disk) is a structure formed by material falling into a gravitational source. Conservation of angular momentum requires that, as a large cloud of material collapses inward, any small rotation it may have will increase.
Accretion expense In accounting, accretion expense is the expense created when updating the present value of an instrument. For example, if one originally recognizes the present value of a liability at $650, which has a future value of $1000, every year one must increase the PV of the liability as it comes closer to its FV.
Accrington Cricket Club Accrington Cricket Club, based at Thorneyholme Road in Accrington, Lancashire, are a cricket club in the Lancashire League, who will play in the senior league in the 2006 season. Their captain is batsman Matt Wilson.
Accrington Pals The Accrington Pals was a British First World War Pals battalion of Kitchener's Army raised in and around the town of Accrington in Lancashire. When the battalion was taken over by the British Army it was officially named the 11th Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment.
Accrued interest In finance, accrued interest is the interest that has accumulated since the principal investment, or since the previous interest payment if there has been one already. For a financial instrument such as a bond, interest is calculated and paid in set intervals.
Accrued liabilities Accrued liabilities are liabilities which have occurred, but have not been paid or logged under accounts payable during an accounting period; in other words, obligations for goods and services provided to a company for which invoices have not yet been received. Examples would include accrued wages payable, accrued sales tax payable, and accrued rent payable.
Accu-chek Accu-chek is the brand of blood sugar-testing devices manufactured by Roche Diagnostics, largely for the diabetic market. Kits consist of an electronic monitor which measures blood-sugar via inserted one-time-use "strips" and a "fingerstick" device which fires a sharp needle marginally through the empidermis of the finger in order to allow a small amount of blood to be squeezed onto the strip in the monitor.
Accubita Of Ancient Roman furniture, accubita was the name of couches used in the time of the Roman emperors, instead of the triclinium, for reclining upon at meals. The mattresses and feather-beds were softer and higher, and the supports (fulcra) of them lower in proportion, than in the triclinium.
Acculturation Acculturation is the exchange of cultural features which result when groups come into continuous firsthand contact. Either or both groups of the original cultural patterns may be changed a bit, but the groups remain distinct overall.
Accumulated cyclone energy Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is a measure used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to express the activity of Atlantic hurricane seasons. It uses an approximation of the energy used by a tropical system over its lifetime and is calculated every six-hour period.
Accumulation by dispossession Accumulation by dispossession is a concept presented by the Marxist academic David Harvey, which define the neoliberal changes in many western nations from the 1970s and to the present day, as being guided by mainly four practices. These are privatization, financialization, management and manipulation of crises, and state redistributions.
Accumulation zone On a glacier, the accumulation zone is the area above the firn line, where snowfall accumulates and exceeds the losses from ablation, (melting, evaporation, and sublimation). The annual Glacier equilibrium line separates the accumulation and ablation zone annually.
Accumulation/distribution index Accumulation/Distribution index is a technical analysis indicator created by Marc Chaikin. It's a cumulative total volume, adding or subtracting each day's volume in proportion to where the close is between the day's high and low.
Accumulator (computing) In a computer CPU, an accumulator is a register in which intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored. Without a register like an accumulator, it would be necessary to write the result of each calculation (addition, multiplication, shift, etc.
Accumulator (energy) An accumulator is an apparatus by means of which energy can be stored, such as a rechargeable battery or a hydraulic accumulator. Such devices may be electrical, fluidic or mechanical and are sometimes used to convert a small continuous power source into a short surge of energy or vice versa.
Accumulator head machinery Accumulator Head Machinery is used for the extrusion blow molding of large industrial hollow parts. Examples of parts produced on this machinery include drums, trash cans, automotive panels, playground equipment, and large containers, such as Jerry Cans, for liquid storage.
Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA The Accumulatoren-Fabrik Hagen (AFA) was a large industrial company located first in Austria and then Nazi Germany. Established in 1888 and led by Adolph MĂĽller, with time it became the leading supplier of batteries in Austria and Germany.
Accuracy and precision In the fields of science, engineering, industry and statistics, accuracy is the degree of conformity of a measured or calculated quantity to its actual (true) value. Accuracy is closely related to precision, also called reproducibility or repeatability, the degree to which further measurements or calculations will show the same or similar results.
Accuracy in Media Accuracy In Media (AIM) is an American organization which monitors the news media in the United States. Founded in 1969 by Reed Irvine, at the time an economist with the Federal Reserve, AIM describes itself as "a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage".
Accuracy International Accuracy International is a British firearms manufacturer based in Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom best known for producing the Accuracy International Arctic Warfare series of rifles. The company was established in 1978 by Olympic shooter Malcolm Cooper, and its weapons are used by many militaries and police departments around the world.
Accuracy International Arctic Warfare The Accuracy International Arctic Warfare rifle is a family of bolt-action sniper rifle designed and manufactured by the British company Accuracy International. It has proved popular as a civilian, police and military rifle since its introduction in the 1980s.
Accuracy paradox In Predictive Analytics, it is important to analyze the quality of a predictive Model and to compare the quality of two or more alternative models. The Accuracy Paradox for predictive analytics states that predictive models with a given level of Accuracy may have greater Predictive Power than models with higher accuracy.
Accuride Accuride Corporation is a diversified manufacturer and supplier of commercial vehicle components in North America. Based in Evansville, Indiana, the company engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of commercial vehicle components.
Accusations against Israel of war crimes during the Al-Aqsa Intifada Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have condemned Israel's responses to the al-Aqsa Intifada as violating international law. Such accusations of criminal conduct generally fall under three categories: reckless endangerment and deliberate killing of civilians, the use of torture and illegal detention and collective punishment.
Accusations regarding the Six-Day War The Six-Day War, also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. By its end Israel controlled the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.
Accusative and infinitive In grammar, accusative and infinitive is the name for a syntactic construction of Latin and Greek, also found in various forms in other languages such as English and Spanish. In this construction, the subject of a subordinate clause is put in the accusative case and the verb appears in the infinitive form.
Accusative case The accusative case (also called the fourth case) (abbreviated ACC) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb. The same case is used in many languages for the objects of (some or all) prepositions.
Accusative verb An accusative verb is a verb that can be used transitively or intransitively, with the subject of the transitive verb becoming the argument of the intransitive verb. Some examples in English are murder, see, love.
Ace The word "ace" comes from the Old French word 'as' (from Latin 'as') meaning 'a unit', from the name of a small Roman coin. It originally meant the side of a die with only one mark, before it was a term for a playing card.
Ace (1913 automobile) The Ace was a British car that was built between 1912 and 1916 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. It was a light car,748cc, 8 hp, four-cylinder water-cooled monobloc engine with Stethnos carburettor,it had a 2 speed gearbox and chain-drive built by the same manufacturer as the Salmon and Baguley cars, and sold for ÂŁ100 to ÂŁ125.
Ace (1920 automobile) The Ace was an American-assembled car made in Ypsilanti, Michigan, which emphasized "square" coachwork lines. It was built between 1920 and 1922, and used Continental and Herschell-Spillman six-cylinder engines, as well as a Gray four.
Ace (band) Ace were a British rock music band who enjoyed moderate success in the 1970s. They are notable for their part in the early career of Paul Carrack, who later became famous as a solo artist, and as a member of several other groups.
Ace (comics) Ace is a member of the Royal Flush Gang, which is group of villains modeled on the cards in a royal flush in poker. The first Ace was Amos Fortune, who shaped his childhood gang into the first Royal Flush Gang.
Ace (Doctor Who) Ace (given name Dorothy) is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A 20th-century Earth teenager from the London suburb of Perivale, she was a companion of the Seventh Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1987 to 1989.
Ace (tennis) An ace in tennis is a single-stroke point won by the server who produces a legal service that his opponent does not touch with his racket and thus fails to return. By definition, an ace will not occur should the opponent touch the ball in any way, even if the return is illegal.
Ace (Wild Cards) In the fictional Wild Cards universe, an Ace is one of the classifications given to a person that was infected by the Wild Card virus and gained one or more supernatural powers as a result. To be classified as an Ace, the person must still be basically human in appearance and generally be able to "pass" in society as normal people--as opposed to the physical mutations affecting those known as Jokers, resulting in various physical deformities or debilitating conditions.
Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company The Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company was established in Wichita, Kansas in 1929 by Orland Corben to market the world's first homebuilt aircraft, a machine of his own design called the Baby Ace. The enterprise did not last long before US regulations changed to restrict homebuilt aircraft, and Corben was forced to stop marketing his design.
Ace Andres Ace Andres is an American songwriter guitarist and vocalist who plays lead guitar (born on June 20 1956) is one of Rock Music's few "conservative" and "politically incorrect" musicians. In an industry dominated by liberal politics; Ace's songs are about conservative Talk Radio or Pro Life.
Ace Combat 3 Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere is the third installment in the Ace Combat series of games. A major departure from every other game in the series, it featured a futuristic storyline involving a war between a group of multinational corporations, shades of the Armored Core series of games.
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War is a video game that takes place 15 years before the events of Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War. The game revolves around the rising of tensions between Belka and the combined forces of Osea, Yuktobania, Ustio, and Sapin.

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