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Gakkō no Kaidan (movie) Gakkō no Kaidan (学校の怪談) is the first of a series of Japanese horror movies based in the book series created by Toru Tsunemitsu. Unlike most horror flicks, this movie was intended to receive a family-friendly rating by Japanese standards.
Gakti Gakti is a variety of clothing worn by the Sami of northern Scandinavia, Finland and Russia, both in ceremonial contexts and while working, particularly when herding reindeer. The clothes are characterized by a dominate blue color adorned with red bands, plaits and tin arts, and a high collar.
Gakugei Daigaku Gakugei Daigaku is a stop on the Tokyu Toyoko Line which connects Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan. It is the fourth stop from Shibuya by local train or the second stop by express, an 8 minute and a 5 minute trip, respectively.
Gakushuin The or Peers School (Gakushuin School Corporation) was an educational institution established in Tokyo in 1877, during the Meiji period, for the education of the children of the Japanese aristocracy, though it eventually also opened its doors to the offspring of extremely wealthy commoners. Famous alumni include the late Showa Emperor Hirohito, the currently reigning emperor Akihito, the deceased author Yukio Mishima, and John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono.
Gakushuin University Gakushuin University (学習院大学 Gakushūin Daigaku) is a higher educational institution in Tokyo which was established after World War II as an affiliate of the Gakushuin School Corporation, the privatized successor to the original Peers School which had been setup during the Meiji era to educate the children of the Japanese Nobility.
Gal class submarine The Type 540 Gal Class submarine was built in Vickers shipyards at Barrow in Furness in England according to Israeli designs, based on Germany's HDW Type 206 submarine class, for the Israeli Navy. "Gal" (גל - Hebrew for "wave") was the name of the son of Abraham (Ivan) Dror, 3rd commander of the squadron and head of the project.
Gal Fridman Gal Fridman (Hebrew: גל פרידמן) (born 16 September 1975 in Hadera, Israel and living in nearby Karkur) is an Israeli windsurfer and an Olympic gold medalist. Fridman won a bronze medal at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics.
Gala Rizzatto Gala Rizzatto (born September 6 1975 in Milan, Italy), is an Italian singer/songwriter who scored one of her biggest hits in the 1990s with "Freed from Desire". The song was a smash hit across Europe, and was followed by other singles which didn't make such a big impact but were nonetheless successful.
Gala Water The Gala Water (Lowland Scots: Gala Watter; Scottish Gaelic An Geal Ath) is a river in the Scottish Borders and tributary of the River Tweed. It is sometimes known as the "Gala", which nickname is also shared with Galashiels, which it flows through.
Galabovo Galabovo ( , from гълъб, galab, "dove" + -ovo) is a town in southern Bulgaria, part of Stara Zagora Province. It is located in the southeastern part of the Upper Thracian Plain, in a region economically important due to the extraction of coal and production of electricity in the region.
Galactagogue A galactagogue is a substance, typically a herb, that increases lactation. The most commonly used herbal galactagogues are fenugreek, brewer's yeast, blessed thistle, and alfalfa; others include anise, astragalus root, burdock, nettle, fennel, flax, soapwort, vervain, and marshmallow root.
Galactic Galactic is a funk and jazz group from New Orleans. Originally formed in 1994 as an octet (under the name Galactic Prophylactic) and including singer Chris Lane and guitarist Rob Gowen, the group was soon pared down to an instrumental sextet comprised of: guitarist Jeff Raines, bassist Robert Mercurio, drummer Stanton Moore, saxophonist Ben Ellman and Hammond organist Rich Vogel, later adding Theryl DeClouet on vocals.
Galactic astronomy Galactic astronomy is the study of our own Milky Way galaxy and all its contents. This is in contrast to extragalactic astronomy, which is the study of everything outside our galaxy, including all other galaxies.
Galactic Alliance The Galactic Federation of Free Alliances is a fictional government from the Star Wars novel series, more commonly called the Galactic Alliance for short. Extrinsically, "GFFA" (the acronym for the Galactic Alliance) stands for Galaxy Far, Far Away, and refers to the Star Wars galaxy as a whole.
Galactic Barrier (Star Trek) In the science fiction universe of Star Trek, the Galactic Barrier, often referred to as the "Energy Barrier", or "The Great Barrier", is an energy field that surrounds the Milky Way Galaxy. The field completely encompasses the galactic disk and prevents conventional starship travel beyond the edge of the galaxy.
Galactic coordinate system Many galaxies, including the Milky Way in which our Sun and Earth are located, are disk-shaped: the majority of their visible mass (excluding possible dark matter) lies very close to a plane. Also the Milky Way galaxy rotates and so has an axial center as the Earth does.
Galactic Center The Galactic Center is the rotational center of the Milky Way galaxy. It is located about 8 kiloparsecs (26,000 LY) away from the Earth, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, where the Milky Way appears brightest.
Galactic Clone Marines The Clone Marines, originally known as the 21st Nova Corps of the 4th Sector Army, was an elite Clone Trooper unit, it was created to serve as the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars, they specialize in assaulting and protecting Spaceships, and planetary assault, they were also usually selected to test new equipments due to their elite status and fames adaptality.This elite troopers were predecessors of the Imperial Snowtroopers, Wore similar armors except for the color and the backplate.
Galactic Confederacy In higher levels of Scientology doctrine, The Galactic Confederacy refers to the political unit formerly ruled by the alien tyrant Xenu. This is part of what is termed space opera in Scientology jargon: real incidents that occurred in past lives.
Galactic Empire (Asimov) In Isaac Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation series of novels, the Galactic Empire is an empire consisting of planets settled by humans across the whole galaxy. Unlike galactic empires in more recent science fiction, Asimov's Galactic Empire appears to be a benign or mostly benign institution.
Galactic Empire (Brøderbund) Galactic Empire was the first game in the Galactic Saga. It was the game that launched Brøderbund software, and though little-known today, exerted a seminal influence on modern space conquest games such as Spaceward Ho!
Galactic Empire (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) A "former Galactic Empire" is mentioned in several adaptations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. By the time set in the Hitchhiker's series, the government of the Milky Way galaxy is referred to as the "Imperial Galactic Government", though it is further explained that "the term is kept, though it is now an anachronism.
Galactic Empire (Star Wars) In the fictional Star Wars universe, the Galactic Empire is the regime established by the series' leading antagonist, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, to replace the Galactic Republic in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The Galactic Empire is introduced in A New Hope as the totalitarian, galaxy-spanning regime.
Galactic Milieu Series Julian May's Galactic Milieu Series of science fiction novels is the sequel (and prequel) to her "Saga of Pliocene Exile." It comprises four novels: Intervention, Jack the Bodiless, Diamond Mask and Magnificat.
Galactic North Galactic North (ISBN 193789575079113, published by Victor Gollancz Ltd) is a collection of short stories by the science fiction author Alastair Reynolds. It includes 8 stories set in the Revelation Space universe.
Galactic quadrants (Star Trek) In the television series Star Trek and its spin-offs, the term quadrant refers to an area of the Galaxy. In the original run, it referred to an area interchangeable with a sector, but since the 1990s, a system of four Galactic Quadrants, designated by the Greek letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta, has been used.
Galactic Republic (Star Wars) The Galactic Republic is the name of the interplanetary government used in the fictional Star Wars universe prior to the establishment of the Galactic Empire. By the time of the original Star Wars trilogy, it is referred to as the Old Republic.
Galactic year The galactic year is the period of time it requires for the solar system to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Estimates of the length of one orbit range from 225 to 250 million terrestrial years, and the present age of the solar system is estimated at between 18 and 22 galactic years.
Galactik Football Galactik Football is an animated television series, co-produced by Alphanim and France 2 for Jetix. It follows the story of a futuristic football team - The Snow Kids - as they try to win the Galactik Football Cup for their home planet Akilian, with the help of The Flux - a mystical energy, specific for every planet.
Galactik Football - The Flux The Flux is a fictional fluid/force used in Galactik Football when in action, allowing players to perform amazing feats of acrobatic and athletic prowess. It is portrayed in Galactik Football as a constantly shifting aura around the person using it, and although it's primary use is for physical enhancement (i.
Galactomannan Galactomannans are polysaccharides consisting of a mannose backbone with galactose side groups (more specifically, a (1-4)-linked beta-D-mannopyranose backbone with branchpoints from their 6-positions linked to alpha-D-galactose, i.e.
Galactorrhea Galactorrhea or galactorrhoea is the spontaneous flow of milk from the breast, unassociated with childbirth or nursing. It can be due to dysregulation of certain hormones or local causes such as nipple stimulation.
Galactus Galactus, sometimes called the Devourer of Worlds or Ravager of Planets, is a fictional character, a cosmic entity that appears in publications from Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby — prompted by Lee's suggestion to Kirby to "have the FF fight God" Origin of the Fantastic Four Comic Book URL last checked 2006-11-26.
Galago Galagos, also known as bushbabies, bush babies or nagapies (meaning "night monkeys" in Afrikaans), are small, nocturnal primates native to continental Africa, and make up the family Galagidae. They are sometimes included as a subfamily within the Lorisidae or Loridae.
Galago (software) Galago is a desktop presence information framework, designed to transmit presence information between programs. It takes information on who is online and their away/idle states from an instant messenger (such as Gaim) or other similar programs and lets other programs (such as Novell Evolution and Beagle) make use of it.
Galahad Sir Galahad is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. He is the bastard son of Sir Lancelot and Elaine of Carbonek, and is renowned for his gallantry and purity.
Galahad library The Galahad library is a thread-safe library of packages for the solution of optimization—or mathematical programming—problems. The areas covered by the library are unconstrained and bound-constrained optimization, quadratic programming, nonlinear programming, systems of nonlinear equations and inequalities, and nonlinear least squares problems.
Galahad's Hope Galahad's Hope is the current title of the eighth and final book in the Seafort Saga of science fiction novels, and the sequel to Children of Hope. The manuscript was reportedto be complete before the death of author David Feintuch], but no publishing date has been set,
Galach Galach is the universal language in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert, Inglo-Slavic in origin (essentially, it is a creole language descended from English and Russian). Galach is the official language of the Imperium and is used in official texts and in the Royal Court on Kaitain.
Galaksija The Galaksija (pronounced Galaxiya, meaning Galaxy) was originally a build-it-yourself computer designed by Voja Antonić. It was featured in the special edition Računari u vašoj kući(Computers in your home, written by Dejan Ristanović) of a popular eponymous science magazine, published late December 1983 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Galaksija BASIC Galaksija BASIC was the BASIC interpreter of the Galaksija built-it-yourself home computer from Yugoslavia. While being based on Microsoft Level 1 BASIC, the extensive modifications of Galaksija BASIC—such as to include rudimentary array support, video generation code (as the CPU itself did it in absence of dedicated video circuitry) and generally improve the language—is said to have left not much more than flow-control and floating point code remaining from the original.
Galaksija Character ROM Character ROM of home computer Galaksija is a 2716 EPROM chip that contains graphical definitions of Galaksija's character set. It had no special name and was labeled "2716" after the type of 2 KiB EPROM required.
Galaksija ROM "A" ROM "A" of home computer Galaksija is a 2732 EPROM chip that contains original Galaksija BASIC and control code, including the code that drove the rudimentary video subsystem. It was labeled as "A" by the creator of Galaksija, Voja Antonić, but was commonly referred to as "ROM 1" or just "ROM".
Galaksija ROM "B" ROM "B" of home computer Galaksija is a 2732 EPROM chip that contains extensions to original Galaksija BASIC available in computer's base ROM ("A"). It was labeled as "B" by the creator of Galaksija, Voja Antonić, but was commonly referred to as "ROM 2".
Galaktika Galaktika was the greatest Science Fiction anthology of Hungary between 1972 and 1995. The peak of 94,000 copies was very high (compared to the population of Hungary [10 million] while Analog magazine was printed in 120,000 copies in the USA [pop.
Galaktoboureko Galaktoboureko (γαλακτομπούρεκο 'milk burek') is a Greek dessert of custard (sometimes flavored with lemon) in phyllo. It may be made in a pan, with phyllo layered on top and underneath, or rolled into individual 10cm long servings.
Galalith Galalith, which name originates from Greek "gala" (milk) and "lithos" (stone) was first discovered by the German Carl Kunth in 1890's by chemical reactions on milk protein. It is described as an early form of plastic but is dissimilar from bakelite.
Galand Charles-François Galand (1832-1900) was a French gunsmith who operated out of Liege and Paris, France. He manufactured many revolvers for civilian and military use, including the Galand Revolver (also called the Galand-Sommerville or Galand-Perrin), the Tue Tue, and the tiny Le Novo.
Galangal Galangal, Malay lengkuas, Mandarin (Traditional)/(Simplified), Cantonese lam keong, also known as blue ginger), is a rhizome with culinary and medicinal uses, best known in the west today for its appearance in Southeast Asia cuisine but also common in recipes from medieval Europe. It resembles ginger in appearance.
Galant In music, Galant was a term referring to a style, principally occurring in the third quarter of the 18th century, which featured a return to classical simplicity after the complexity of the late Baroque era. This meant (in some implementations) simpler music, with less ornamentation, decreased use of polyphony (with increased importance on the melody), musical phrases of regular length, a reduced harmonic vocabulary (principally emphasizing tonic and dominant), and a less important bass line.
Galantamine Galantamine (trade names Razadyne®, Razadyne ER®, Reminyl®, Nivalin®) is a drug developed by Janssen Pharmaceutica, and used for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. It is an alkaloid that is obtained from the bulbs and flowers of Caucasian snowdrop (Voronov’snowdrop), Galanthus woronowii (Amaryllidaceae) and related species.
Galante (pedigree) Galante was a Jewish family which flourished at the beginning of the 16th century in Rome, and the head of which, Mordecai, was a Spanish exile of the Angel family. His courteous manners won for him from the Roman nobles the surname "Galantuomo" (gentleman), a name which the family retained.
Galante music A new style of European classical music, fashionable from the 1720s to the 1770s, was called Galante music. It consciously simplified contrapuntal texture and intense composing techniques that realized a pattern on the page and substituted a clear leading voice with a transparent accompaniment.
Galantine A galantine is a French dish of boned, stuffed meat, most commonly poultry, or fish that is poached and served cold coated with aspic. Galantines are often stuffed with forcemeat, and pressed into a cylindrical shape.
Galapagar Galapagar is a town northwest from Madrid, Spain. Of all the towns in the area, it is experiencing the most growth, mostly because of immigration and the conversion of old livestock fields into terrain for construction.
Galapagos bullhead shark The Galapagos bullhead shark, Heterodontus quoyi, is a bullhead shark of the family Heterodontidae, found in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean between latitudes 0° S to 10° S, at depths of between 3 and 40 m. Its length is up to 1.
Galapagos Microplate The Galapagos Microplate is a small tectonic plate off the west coast of South America near the Galapagos Islands. It differs from most other crustal plates in that it is rotating clockwise between three much larger crustal plates around it, the Nazca, Cocos and Pacific Plates.
Galapagos National Park In 1959, Ecuador designated 97% of the land area of Galapagos as a National Park, and then in 1986. The Galapagos Marine Reservewas created in 1998, by the Special Law for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Galapagos Province.
Galapagos Rise The Galapagos Rise is a divergent boundary located between the South American coast and the triple junction of the Nazca Plate, the Cocos Plate, and the Pacific Plate. The volcanically active Galapagos Islands exist on a hotspot above the Galapagos Rise.
Galarrwuy Yunupingu Galarrwuy Yunupingu AM (born 30 June, 1948) is a leader in the Australian Indigenous community, and has been involved in the fight for Land Rights throughout his career. He was named the 1978 Australian of the Year.
Galashiels Galashiels (Gaelic: An Geal Ath) is a burgh in the Scottish Borders, on the Gala Water river and is the main town of the region (taking its new position from the decline of its rival town, Hawick.) It is often abbreviated to colloquially as "Gala".
Galashiels Academy Galashiels Academy is the high school in Galashiels, Scotland, that serves the surrounding area as well as Stow (which does not have its own high school). Although refounded in 1938, the school's history goes back as far as 1696.
Galata Bridge The Galata Bridge (in Turkish Galata Köprüsü) is a bridge that spans the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey. From the end of the 19th century in particular, the bridge has featured in Turkish literature, theater, poetry and novels.
Galata Tower The Galata Tower (Turkish: Galata Kulesi), also called Christea Turris (Tower of Christ) by the Genoese and Megalos Pyrgos (The Great Tower) by the Byzantines, is located in Istanbul, Turkey, to the north of the Golden Horn. One of the city's most striking landmarks, it is a huge, cone-capped cylinder that dominates the skyline on the Galata side of the Golden Horn.
Galata Tower (old) The old Tower of Galata was a tower which stood on the north side of the Golden Horn in Constantinople, in the town called Galata. The tower marked the north end of the great chain, which was stretched across the mouth of the Golden Horn to prevent enemy ships from entering the harbor.
Galatea (computer game) Galatea is a work of interactive fiction by Emily Short. Winner of the Best of Show Award at the 2000 Interactive Fiction Art Show, it alters the typical interactive fiction game mechanics by concentrating instead on the player's interactions with a single NPC, the eponymous Galatea.
Galatea (Justice League Unlimited) Galatea (or Tea, for short) is the name of an age-accelerated clone of Supergirl created by Professor Hamilton and Project Cadmus on the animated series Justice League Unlimited. The episode in which this character debuts, "Fearful Symmetry" was initially titled, and is sometimes referred to as "Galatea".
Galathea National Park Galathea National Park is a National Park located in the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is located on the island of Great Nicobar in the Nicobar Islands, which lie in the eastern Indian Ocean (Bay of Bengal).
Galati Brothers Galati Brothers Supermarkets was a family owned and run Italian grocery store chain in the Toronto area. Founded in 1958 by Tony Galati, the stores were smaller than traditional supermarkets and carried many Italian items.
Galatia Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Galatia was bounded on the north by Bithynia and Paphlagonia, on the east by Pontus, on the south by Lycaonia and Cappadocia, and on the west by the remainder of Phrygia, the eastern part of which the Gauls had invaded.
Galation Saint Galation or Galaction was supposedly a martyr with his wife Episteme, whom he converted. The story is that he was the son of Saints Clitaphon and Leucippe, and that he became a hermit, while Episteme joined a community of virgins.
Galatsi Galatsi (Greek, Modern: Γαλάτσι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), older spellings Galatsio, Galatsion, is a suburb in the northern part of Athens, Greece. Galatsi is located about 5 km N of Athens from a SW to NE avenue linking Patissia.
Galatyn Park Station Galatyn Park Station is a DART light rail station located in Richardson, Texas at Central Expressway near Lookout Drive. It opened on July 1, 2002 and is a station on the Red Line, serving part of Richardson's Telecom Corridor including the Renaissance and The Richardson Hotel (formerly The Omni), as well as the facilities for Nortel Networks, SBC and MCI.
Galax-Arena Galax-Arena, by Gillian Rubinstein, is a 1995 science fiction novel following 3 children who are kidnapped by aliens, though it is not particularly science fiction (in fact, in some ways it is anti-science fiction). It deals with issues of slavery, what we know vs what we believe to be true, the difference between children and adults, street people (children), and spirituality, to an extent.
Galaxia In Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Earth, Galaxia is (or will be) a living organism which contains all the lifeforms and rocks and other materials in the galaxy. It is a utopia, the successor of the similar (although encapsulating only one planet)
Galaxidi Galaxidi (Greek, Modern: Γαλαξίδι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -ον), is a town and a municipality located in the southern part of the prefecture of Phokida. It A small harbor which connects with the Crisaean Gulf is north of Galaxidi.
Galaxie Galaxie is a Canadian digital broadcasting or digital television radio service, which offers 45 commercial-free music channels, each devoted to a particular genre of music, using no live, on-air disc jockeys. It is distributed with digital cable or direct broadcast satellite services such as Rogers Digital Cable, Bell ExpressVu and StarChoice and launched in 1997.
Galaxies in fiction Galaxies other than the Milky Way are popular settings for creators of science fiction, particularly those working with broad-scale space opera settings. Among the most common settings are the Andromeda Galaxy, the Magellanic Clouds, and the Triangulum Galaxy, all part of the Local Group close to the Milky Way.
Galaxiid The Galaxiids are a family of mostly small freshwater fish. Representatives occur throughout the southern hemisphere, including South Africa, South America, New Zealand, Australia, Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia and the Falkland Islands.
Galaxy A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and an unknown type of dark matter. Typical galaxies contain ten million to one trillion (107 to 1012) stars, all orbiting a common center of gravity.
Galaxy (chocolate) Galaxy is a brand of milk chocolate made and marketed by by the Mars company (one of several related products punning upon the name Mars or "Master Foods" by using an astronomical name). It is most popular in the United Kingdom and the Middle East, where it is the leading brand in many countries.
Galaxy (television) Galaxy, one of the five channels run by British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB), was the General Entertainment channel, it carried quite a few American imports as well as a few home grown shows, fans will remember the soap set in space Jupiter Moon, and the magazine show 31 West, who got their name from the actual placing of the Marcopolo Satellite at 31 degrees west, that was broadcasting the channel. It also included repeats from the BBC library - Doctor Who, Secret Army, Grange Hill, Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, Are You Being Served?
Galaxy 1 Galaxy 1 was the first in a line of communications satellites launched by Hughes Communications in 1983. It was the first satellite exclusively devoted to cable television, and carried many such services as HBO, Cinemax, The Movie Channel, Showtime, The Disney Channel, TBS, CNN, among some.
Galaxy 3C Galaxy 3C is a geostationary communications satellite located at 95° W. It was launched on June 15, 2002, with a Sea Launch vehicle, and is currently active on the C and Ku-bands, with 24 transponders for each.
Galaxy 4R Galaxy 4R is a Panamsat-owned communications satellite at an orbital location of 99° W, a slot once occupied by the Galaxy IV, which suffered a failure in 1998. G4R was launched on April 18, 2000, with an Ariane launch vehicle, and currently covers North America with twenty-four transponders each on the C- and Ku bands.
Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 was a Lockheed L-188 Electra 4-engine turboprop, registration N5532, operating as a non-scheduled charter flight from Reno, Nevada to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The flight took off from runway 16R at Reno-Cannon International Airport — now Reno/Tahoe International Airport — at 1:04am on January 21, 1985.
Galaxy class starship (Star Trek) The Galaxy class is a fictional class of starship in the science fiction franchise Star Trek. The most notable Galaxy class starship is the USS Enterprise-D, the primary setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Galaxy filament In physical cosmology, filaments are the largest known structures in the universe, thread-like structures with a typical length of 70 to 150 megaparsec that form the boundaries between large voids in the universe. Filaments consist of galaxies; parts where a large number of galaxies are very close to each other are called superclusters.
Galaxy groups and clusters [galaxies of HCG 87], about four hundred million light-years distant. The large edge-on spiral, the fuzzy elliptical galaxy immediately to its right, and the spiral near the top of the image are members of the group, while the small spiral galaxy exactly in the middle is a more distant background galaxy.
Galaxy Game The Galaxy Game is the earliest known coin-operated video game. It was installed at the Tresidder Union at Stanford University in September, 1971, two months before the release of Computer Space, the first commercially available game.
Galaxy High Galaxy High was an American animated series that premiered on September 13 1986 on CBS and ran for 13 episodes until September 5 1987. The series was created by movie director Chris Columbus and featured music and a theme song composed by Eagles member Don Felder.
Galaxy in Flames Galaxy in Flames is a Science Fiction novel by Ben Counter based in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, published by the Black Library. This is the third book of the Horus Heresy series, which began with Horus Rising and continued in False Gods.
Galaxy IV Galaxy IV was a model HS-601 satellite built by Hughes Space and Communications Company (HSC). The satellite, which carried a payload of both C band and Ku band transponders, was launched on June 24, 1993 and operated by PanAmSat Corporation.
Galaxy morphological classification Astronomers classify galaxies based on their overall shape (elliptical, spiral or barred spiral) and further by the specific properties of the individual galaxy (for example degree of ellipse, number of spirals or definition of bar). The system of galaxy classification is called the Hubble "tuning fork" diagram, and is the Hubble sequence.
Galaxy Manchester Galaxy is a local radio station owned by the Chrysalis Group as part of its Galaxy Network specialising in dance music and R'n'B. It is based in Manchester, and broadcasts from studios in the Triangle shopping centre, formerly the Corn Exchange.
Galaxy Network Galaxy is a network of radio stations operated in the United Kingdom by Chrysalis Group. It comprises stations in Manchester, Birmingham, Yorkshire and Newcastle plus Galaxy Digital on Sky Digital and DAB Digital Radio in many parts of the UK, and specialises in dance and R'n'B music.
Galaxy North East Galaxy North East is a regional radio station owned by the Chrysalis Group as part of its Galaxy Network of stations specialising in dance music and R'n'B. It is based in Wallsend, at the Silverlink Business Park, near the junction of the A1058 and the A19, near the Billy Mill roundabout.
Galaxy Song The Galaxy Song is an upbeat and somewhat nihilstic song from the movie Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, later released on the album Monty Python Sings. The lyrics include a number of scientific theories about the creation of the Universe, as well as a small number of astronomical facts, many of which are surprisingly accurate.
Galaxy Yorkshire Galaxy Yorkshire is the largest regional British radio station outside of London and is owned by the Chrysalis Group as part of its Galaxy Network of stations specialising in dance music and R'n'B. It is based in Leeds.
Galaxyland Galaxyland is the world's largest indoor amusement park situated in the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is home to the world's tallest (14 stories), and longest, indoor roller coaster, Mindbender.

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