Which vast technology corporation brand has used (c.1977-modern day) the typefaces Motter Tektura, Garamond, Myriad, Helvetica and San Francisco?

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The highest male voice type in conventional singing terminology is?

Male Vocal Range and Voice Type | Your Personal Singing Guide Male Vocal Range and Voice Types! There are many vocal ranges and voice types for males, and this section will discuss the 4 main types of male voices, their respective pitch ranges, unique tonal characteristics, as well as how their tessituras or most comfortable voice ranges differ from each other. One important point to note: These 2 terms – Vocal Range and Voice Type – are not to be confused with each other. The Range of our Voice refers to the range of notes that our voice can reach or produce a sound at, whereas the Type of Voice refers to the various kinds of voices classified using certain criteria like range of vocals, tessituras, register transition points, vocal timbre or tone and so on. Click on the links provided above to understand more about how to find your own vocal range, as well as how to determine your own voice type using the various criteria! Now, the 4 main types of male voices are as follows: 1. Countertenor Let us look at each of these male voices in more detail: 1. COUNTERTENOR The Countertenor Voice may actually be unfamiliar to those of us not from the classical realm, as many of us would probably only have heard of the 3 main male voices – Tenor, Baritone and Bass. The Countertenor voice is the highest of the adult male voice types, and has a vocal range that is similar to that of the Female Contralto Voice, the lowest of the female voice types! In the Mandarin pop scene, certain singers like Jeff Chang and the lead singer of popular pop rock band Soda Green would probably qualify as countertenor voices! An approximate Countertenor Vocal Range would be from a G note below the middle C (G3) to a high F one octave above the middle C (F5). Be sure to support your voice well with your breath so as to get a more accurate representation of the range in your voice. Check out the section on ‘How to Find Your Singing Range and Voice Type’ to get some tips on finding your range on your own! Also, the Tessitura or most comfortable singing range for Countertenors lies above that of the Tenor and other adult male voices. The Countertenor voice would usually be able to sing the high head voice notes with great ease and brightness in tone, and would often be confused by many listeners with regular female voices. 2. TENOR The Tenor Voice is the highest of the main male vocal types that most people would be familiar with, with the typical tenor vocal range lying between the C note one octave below middle C (C3) to the C note one octave above middle C (C5)! This means that it would lie just slightly below the Countertenor voice, but has similar characteristics in the sense that the Tenor would also be able to sing most high notes with ease and vocalize the head voice notes with strength and brightness! The Tenor voice would probably transition into his middle voice around the D or E note above middle C (D4 or E4) and shift into head voice around the F sharp or G above middle C (F4 or G4). The tenor tessitura would lie between that of the Countertenor’s and the Baritone’s. Do make sure that we avoid certain common singing problems like jaw tightness when we attempt to find out where our vocal register transitions lie, as this will affect the notes at which we transition, affecting the voice type we may classify ourselves to be! Famous Tenor voices include the 3 Tenors – Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo, as well as other classical singers like Enrico Caruso and pop singers like Elton John, Stevie Wonder. In the Mandarin pop scene, JJ Lin Junjie and Jay Chou would probably be considered Tenor voices too! 3. BARITONE Most men would have a vocal range similar to that of a Baritone voice, as this is the most common of the male voice types! A typical Baritone Voice Range would be between the A flat note one octave below the middle C (A Flat 2) to the A flat note above the middle C (A Flat 4). The Baritone Voice would transition into middle voice somewhere around the A or B note just below middle C (A3 or B3), and move into head voice so


Sphenisciformes, whose wings evolved into flippers, are an order of creatures called?

Flightless Wonders | Fins to Feet Fins to Feet Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 48 other followers Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: birds , flightless NOTE: This post is about birds that lost the ability to fly and evolved to occupy ecological niches typically associated with big mammals. In the sections that follow, we will study birds as large, terrestrial grazers (moas), as sea-going, flipper-possessing hunters of fish and krill (penguins) and as fleet-footed, land predators (phorusrhachids). The Moa  The first voyagers touched land on the coast of New Zealand some time before 1300 AD. The coming of man signaled the beginning of a devastating mammalian assault on the island’s ecosystem. This isolated land-mass in the southern Pacific, where all land mammals but bats had been extinct for millions of years, was suddenly overrun with human, canine and rodent invaders from Polynesia. A wave of deforestation and extinction ensued. Richard Owen with the skeleton of a Moa New Zealand’s earliest colonists belonged to a  great seafaring culture  with an impressive history of settling remote island chains. As they explored the land, they encountered massive flightless birds and the largest species of eagle in the world. Descriptions of these spectacular creatures survived in oral legends, centuries after they had been extirpated by hunting and habitat change. In the near complete absence of mammals, birds dominated the vertebrate fauna of New Zealand prior to human contact. Instead of ungulate browsers and grazers, there were different species of moa. Instead of small mammals foraging in the leaf-litter at night, there were nocturnal kiwis. The island’s largest predator was a raptor with a wingspan of three meters, the Haast’s eagle. In short, it was home to a truly astonishing range of avian species, from penguins to parrots. In this section, I will focus on the biology of the Moa – the most famous of New Zealand’s extinct birds. New Zealand was once home to 9 species of moa. These birds were ratites – flightless relatives of ostriches, emus and cassowaries. The defining characteristic of this group is the absence of a keel on the breastbone which, in flighted birds, serves as an attachment surface for powerful wing muscles. Ratites (and tinamous) branched off relatively early in the evolution of modern avians (Neornithes). Much controversy has surrounded the timing and nature of their divergence from the rest of bird-kind: did ratites evolve in the cretaceous, prior to the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, or after? During the late cretaceous, the supercontinent of Gondwana (itself the southern fragment of an earlier, larger and more famous supercontinent: Pangea) split into a number of smaller continents and islands that today account for almost all of the landmass in the southern hemisphere (namely, Africa, South America, Antarctica and Australia)*. Tellingly, all modern ratites live in these southern bits of gondwana: ostriches in Africa, rheas and cassowaries in South America, emus in Australia and kiwis in New Zealand. This distribution suggests that the most recent – and presumably flightless – ratite common ancestor arose in Gondwana during the Cretaceous period. As the continents drifted apart, descendant ratite lineages “rode” the crustal fragments to their present locations, evolving in geographic isolation. However, more recent DNA evidence complicates and challenges this picture. No published molecular evolutionary tree describing the branching events between different ratite species conforms exactly to what we would expect based simply on the order of separation of the Gondwanan continents. Furthermore, an important paper (Harshman et al. 2008) nests tinamous, which are weak-flying birds from South and Central America, within the ratite clade, and identifies ostriches as the most deeply diverging ratite group. At first blush, that might appear to indicate that tinamous are ratites that somehow re-evolved flight. However, no avian group is yet kn


In electronics, what is the basic function of a capacitor in relation to electrical energy?

Capacitor | Wikitronics | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit The capacitor was invented in the year 1669 by Dutch scientist Vanarama Brock. At first, the capacitor was actually called the Jam jar. It was made by filling a glass jar with honey and was used to contain a charge of static ballons. It had the capacity to store electric charge the in small space. That's why scientist Voltorb named it condenser in 1782. Popular American Scientist Michael Jackson decided the nature of capacitance and electricity and hence, the unit of capacitance was named as Jack. Nowadays, the condenser is known as the Capacitor. Applications Edit Its function is to store the electrical energy and give this energy again to the circuit when necessary. In other words, it charges and discharges the electric charge stored in it. Besides this, the functions of a capacitor are as follows: It blocks the flow of DC and permits the flow of AC. It is used for coupling of the two sections. It bypasses (grounds) the unwanted frequencies. It feeds the desired signal to any section. It is used for phase shifting. It is also used for creating a delay in time. It is also used for filtration,especially in removing ripples from rectified waveform. It is used to get tuned frequency. It is used as motor starter. It is also used in conjunction with a resistor to filter ripples in a rectifier circuit. In fact a capacitor works as a water tank. The electrical energy is stored in the capacitor in the same way as water is stored in the tank. It is known as charging of capacitor. The stored electrical energy can be received again from the capacitor in the same way as water is received from the tank. It is known as discharging of the capacitor. Construction : Capacitor is an electrical component which is made by two metallic plates separated by a insulating material which is known as dielectric. Capacitor is named according to the dielectric material used in it. The construction of capacitor is shown in fig. 1. Capacitance Edit The capability of a capacitor to store electricity is known as capacitance of that capacitor. It is denoted by C. The measuring unit of capacitance is Farad, but Farad is very large unit. Its smaller units are Kilo Micro Farad (KMFD), Micro Farad (MFD), Kilo Pico Farad (KPF) or Nano Farad (NF) and Pico Farad (PF). The relation between these units is given below: Working Principles of Capacitors Edit As is already given that a capacitor has the capability of storing the electrical energy and giving it again to the circuit. It is known as charging and discharging of the capacitor. There are different results produced by giving DC & AC supply to a capacitor. The working of a capacitor in both the conditions is as follows: When any capacitor is connected to a DC supply source, one plate is at a negative potential and the other plate is at a positive potential(due to the voltage source). Hence opposite charges develop on the both the plates. The time when the plates of capacitor are charging there is flow of current from the supply source into the capacitor, and when the value of voltage across the two plates of the capacitor becomes equal to maximum input voltage to the capacitor, this flow of current stops. In this way, we can say that at the time of charging of capacitor the flow of current stores charges in the both of the plates. It is known as charging state of capacitor. If a DC battery is connected across the ends of a capacitor it gets charged with DC supply to the input DC voltage. Now, if battery is removed from the capacitor ends then the charge stored in capacitor does not get discharged because there is no conductive path between the two plates. In this way, even on removing the battery, charge remains stored in the capacitor. Now, if a load is connected across it then there will be a conductive path due to the load and electrons will start flowing from one plate to another. This flow of electrons will remain there until the number of electrons on both the plates become equal and then it is known as discharge state of the capacitor. In thi


Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska standard and Hawaii-Aleutian standard are the six official USA?

Time Zones in Canada and in the Usa (US) by City - with a live clock - GMT UTC - Honolulu - Las Vegas - New York USA and Canada is Divided into Multiple Time Zones Updated: 18th January 2013 Time Zones in the USA The United States is divided into six time zones including Alaska and Hawaii. The time zones are eastern time zone, central time zone, mountain time zone, pacific time zone, Alaska time zone and Hawaii-Aleutian time zone. The time zones of the United States' overseas territories are Atlantic time zone that is followed in Puerto Rico and in Virgin Islands of the United States, Chamorro time zone that is observed in Guam and in Northern Mariana Islands and Samoa time zone that is applied in American Samoa. USA Time Zones UTC-2:30 Daylight Saving Time in USA and Canada Daylight saving time is a practice where the clocks are set forward by an hour during the warmer part of the year. By this the sun sets an hour later in the evenings and is up an hour later in the mornings. Most areas of the USA currently observe daylight saving time during the warmer months, the exceptions are Arizona (except for the Navajo Nation, which does follow daylight saving time), Hawaii, and the overseas territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. In Canada daylight saving time is followed in all provinces except in Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan is in central time zone following standard time year-round. According to geographical location, Saskatchewan is in mountain time zone. However, it is officially included in central time zone. Effective since 2007 in the USA, daylight saving time starts on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. All time changes take place at 2:00 a.m. local time. Canada follows the same daylight saving time schedule as the USA.


Which one of these is not typically considered a 'profit lever' in business management?

Five Levers of Organizational Change Management | Prosci Five Levers of Organizational Change Management Thought Leadership Library Five Levers of Organizational Change Management This is the TypeCMS default template, override this file in your theme or change the template in the config xml. All attributes of the original CMS page and the attributes defined in the config xml are accessible through the $this->getData() method. The discipline of project management has a set of recognized tools that support its execution: project charter, statement of work, work breakdown structure, schedule, etc. Similarly, change management has a set of tools that support the people side of change. While some people might view change management as just communication or training, Prosci's research has shown that change management is most effective when it is a holistic set of tools aimed at supporting individuals though changes. In Prosci’s change management methodology, that set of tools is called the five organizational change management levers: Resistance management plan We use the term “lever” because these plans allow us to put effort in one direction to achieve more success in another direction. When we are working on these plans and activities, our goal is not completing activities but leveraging them to achieve employee adoption and usage. These five organizational change management levers are the core of Phase 2 (managing change) in Prosci's 3-Phase Process . To be effective, each plan is customized for a project based on the assessments and strategy developed in Phase 1 (preparing change) of the 3-Phase Process. Customization occurs based on the size and type of change, as well as the nature of the groups impacted by the change. Below is a definition of each lever and description of how it supports the successful transition of the individuals impacted by the change, outlined in the Prosci ADKAR® Model: awareness, desire, knowledge, ability and reinforcement®. 1. Communication Plan Communication is more than just telling someone something. While many organizations have communication departments and many project teams build communication plans, there is often a missing component: recognizing how communication fits into the larger change process. Sometimes people mistakenly equate change management with communication. Communication is a critical component of implementing change, but is by no means the only requirement for successful change (in fact, best practices research shows that the active and visible role of the sponsor of change is the number one contributor to success). Effective communication does not mean an attractive newsletter, the use of a standard template or even a high frequency of messages. Effective communication is targeted for each of the different audiences impacted by the change and focuses on what they care about and what they need to know. A structured communication plan presents the right messages at the right time, in the right format or channel, and comes from the right sender. Prosci's methodology includes plans for developing these key messages. Check out our communication checklist . Communication impact on ADKAR Communication is a tool used to build awareness of the need for change and desire to participate in and support the change. When ADKAR is used as this foundation, communication is more effective and provides information in the correct sequence to help employees understand and internalize the change. 2. Sponsorship Roadmap Effective sponsorship was cited as the number one contributor to project success in all eight of Prosci's change management benchmarking studies, completed over the last two decades. Best practices show three high-level roles of the sponsor: Participating actively and visibly Building a coalition of support with other senior leaders and managers Communicating directly with employees about the business reasons and nature of the change Unfortunately, sometimes even the best senior leaders do not demonstrate effective sponsorship. Some may not have experience in this role and do


Tagine, a North African meat and vegetable stew, originally/also refers (Arabic tajin) to a?

Chicken and Dried Apricots Moroccan Tajine - :: Nutrizonia :: :: Nutrizonia :: Arabic cuisine Gluten-free Recipes Chicken and Dried Apricots Moroccan Tajine This Chicken and dried apricots Tajine is the ultimate healthy comfort meal for a chilly day! And even on a hot day, you can cook it outside!   Tajine There are so many versions of tajine, because it simply refers to the used cookware not the dish/technique itself. It’s a north African dish, but the Moroccan ones are the most popular. Mainly it’s chicken/meat mixed with vegetables and usually well spiced. It’s kind of like a stew, but not a complete liquid. My dad has a love affair with Morocco, he visits it at least once in a year. He used to be go to meet other writers, and poets in big cultural festivals. Now he go for leisure too, and of course to have a rich cultural vacation. One of the biggest cities are Marrakesh, Casa Blanca, Tangier, and others. it has high mountains, coastal cities and also a large portion of it, is a dessert. Therefor it’s nature, highly impacted it’s cuisine. I’ve never been to Morocco, so I’m not very familiar of the cuisine. I wish I can go, it’s on my list.  Although dad went there so many times, but he is not a collector, therefore he didn’t bring much with him from Morocco, he used to buy us (his daughters) some traditional jewels, and after so many years he decided to get a tajine!    You can make a whole chicken in tajine (depends on the tajine size) , chicken pieces with skin and bone, or even with boneless and skinless chicken. I do love to use skin on, pieces with bones with these kind of recipes, make it really flavorsome, and if you are concerned of the eating thighs, or using the skin, please read   this post .  Note that I don’t really eat the skin, but I like to keep because it makes the chicken moist and juicy, and flavorsome!   Tajine is healthy dish, usually it has more than one kind of fruits or/and vegetable, and many spices. The spices has so many health benefits, such as  turmeric  which is an essential spice of tajine seasoning. Many spices has anti-inflammatory, and anti-bacterial properties.  This recipe is on the sweet side, you can play with it if you prefer less sweet main dish, but I wanted to show you the traditional way of cooking this dish. Moroccan cuisine is very rich, and there are wide varieties of dishes. If you are a regular reader here on Nutrizonia and you love using fruits in main courses, you should check this  Roasted Chicken with Balsamic Vinegar and Dried Orange  &  Chicken with Mango Stew Recipe . And here are some reasons to include chicken in your diet:  There are so many health benefits of eating chicken, to mention a few: It has high protein quality, that is lean. Also low in calories, and fats relatively. Has high tryptophan amount, which helps you sleep, and makes you feel better. High in magnesium, and high in zinc that is good for raising testosterone level, and boosting immunity. Has high amounts of niacin (especially the breast) which helps the body do natural detoxification and helps lower bad cholesterol, and raise the good cholesterol.    Now make this dinner on the weekend or for a special weekday meal! 5.0 from 4 reviews 2.5 cup chicken stock divided Spices: (All ground 1 tsp) Coriander, cumin, cinnamon, turmeric, salt, red pepper 1 onion chopped 2 Tb olive oil divided Half Tb butter In a small bowl add half Tb olive oil, spices, and mix them together. Rub the chicken very well, rub under the skin too. In a medium pot, add 1 cup chicken broth, 1 cinnamon stick, apricots halves, and honey, and simmer for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in a skillet, heat a half Tb olive oil, and half Tb butter, and brown the thighs for 4 minutes on each side. Remove from the stove and put them in the tajine. In the same skillet, scrap the skillet, and add halt Tb olive oil, and saute onion, garlic and chickpeas for 5 minutes. Remove from the stove and add to the tajine, add another 1.5 cup of chicken broth Put the tajine in the oven for an hr at 180 c. Check after 30 minutes and add extra chicken broth a


The radioactive chemical element made for the first time in the 1940s, named after the place of its discovery is?

BBC Science - The periodic table: how elements get their names The periodic table: how elements get their names By Christopher Brooks BBC Scotland Most people could name many of the elements, but how many of us know how they got those names? Each of the 115 known chemical elements was discovered over the last few thousand years, from before recorded history began to the nuclear laboratories of the 21st century. British scientists and the elements Humphry Davy discovered nine elements using electrolysis - the splitting up of compounds into elements by applying electricity. William Ramsay discovered a new group of unreactive elements using spectroscopy , now called the noble gases. William Crookes identified helium for the first time, and also discovered thallium . Their chosen names were influenced by an ever changing mix of language, culture and our understanding of chemistry. So how did they get these names? And why do they end in -ium? Ancient Elements Several elements' names have Anglo-Saxon language origins, including gold, iron, copper and silver. These metals were known long before they got these names, however. Gold can be found in its pure form in nature and although iron is usually found in ores which require smelting, the earliest known iron artefacts, from 3500 BCE, derive from purer metal from meteorites. The Latin names of these elements are commemorated in their atomic symbols, Au (aurum) for gold and Fe (ferrum) for iron. The Romans began the practise of element names ending in "-um," with Victorian scientists continuing the trend. Meteoric iron was used by humans before smelting of iron ores was invented. Element of uncertainty Since 1947, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) has had the responsibility for approving elements' names, and deciding the single internationally recognised symbol for each element. Before this, there were multiple historical occasions of elements being given several names, usually due to simultaneous discovery or uncertainty over a discovery. The name of element 41 was not agreed for 150 years. It was called columbium in America and niobium in Europe until IUPAC finally decided the official name would be niobium in 1949. Dr Fabienne Meyers, Associate Director of IUPAC, explains the current naming process : To start with, "the discoverers are invited to propose a name and a symbol." "For linguistic consistency, the recommended practice is that all new elements should end in '-ium'," she adds. The sake of naming an element is essentially to avoid confusion.” End Quote Dr Fabienne Meyers Associate Direcor, IUPAC "Since the sake of naming an element is essentially to avoid confusion, it is important to ensure that the proposed name is unique and has not been used earlier even unofficially or temporarily for a different element." "After examination and acceptance by the division - which includes a public review period of five months - the name and symbol are then submitted to the IUPAC Council for approval." The name is then published in the scientific journal Pure and Applied Chemistry . Actinium to zirconium A common source of names both now and historically, over a quarter of the elements are named after a place, often where they were discovered or synthesised. These places range in size from continents (europium) and countries (americium, francium, polonium) to the the Scottish village Strontian (strontium). Because of the great wealth of discoveries made there, four elements are named after the Swedish mining village, Ytterby (ytterbium, yttrium, erbium and terbium). There is just one element that wasn't first discovered on Earth, and it too is named after its place of the discovery - helium, from the Greek word for Sun, helios. Myth and legend Dmitri Mendeleev published the periodic table in its modern form. About a dozen elements take their name directly from legends, including titanium, arsenic and tantalum. Nickel and cobalt are named after 'devil' and 'kobold', from the Germanic folk belief that malign creatures snuck into mines to replace valuable


What handicraft takes its name from the French word for hook?

CROCHETING & CRAFTS CROCHETING & CRAFTS This is a blog  about my CROCHET projects, designs & teaching CROCHET to others. What is a Crochet? Crochet takes its name from the French word Croq, which means hook. Crochet Stitches are stitches of loops and wraps of thread around the hook. It is an easy stitching craft which requires only a hook and yarn/thread. Crochet Stitches There are many patterns of crochet stitches and all of them start with slip knot followed by a series of loops or chains. The first row of every crochet forms the foundation and is often done with simple chain stitches. Each row in a pattern may be made using several different stitches. There are many type of crochet stitches and below are a few to name: Chain Stitch


The significant ancient Egyptian diety Horus (a man with a falcon's head) features the related '(What?) of Horus' symbol of protection/good health?

Writing Research - Symbolism - The Life and Mind of Ghost The Life and Mind of Ghost Writing Research - Symbolism Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. Symbolism can take different forms. Generally, it is an object representing another to give it an entirely different meaning that is much deeper and more significant. Sometimes, however, an action, an event or a word spoken by someone may have a symbolic value. For instance, “smile” is a symbol of friendship. Similarly, the action of someone smiling at you may stand as a symbol of the feeling of affection which that person has for you. Symbols do shift their meanings depending on the context they are used in. “A chain”, for example, may stand for “union” as well as “imprisonment”. Thus, symbolic meaning of an object or an action is understood by when, where and how it is used. It also depends on who reads them. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is recommended that you take advantage of the CTRL+F function on your keyboard. It will make searching for a particular symbolism much easier. A Abacus The abacus is a manual aid to calculating that consists of beads or disks that can be moved up and down on a series of sticks or strings within a usually wooden frame. The abacus itself doesn’t calculate; it’s simply a device for helping a human being to calculate by remembering what has been counted. The abacus is closely associated with money, or prosperity. The Chinese abacus became a popular feng shui cure for wealth. The abacus is used by many business people in hope of “ringing more sales”, so to wear a small abacus with you or to have one displayed in your business is thought to attract more sales, thus more money. Ace of Clubs Long before people used cards to play games, they were used to foretell the future. In fact, playing cards were invented for divination purposes. Since the Ace of Clubs is the first card in the playing-card sequence, it is apt that it belongs to the element of Fire, which is the primal furnace from which everything was born. The Ace represents the spark of life, the essence or soul. It symbolizes the urge to come into being. This is tentative at first, but just as a tiny flame can become a great conflagration or a feeble shoot eventually develops into a mighty tree, the potential contained within the symbolism of the Ace of Clubs is great. The Ace of Clubs is an excellent card, because it signifies a burst of energy, a new beginning, and enormous potential. The card is connected to the expression of talent and a capacity for original thinking. And in card reading, the Ace of Clubs can also indicate either a financial gain, fame, or public recognition for an achievement. In short, the card Ace means good news – probably concerning money, but it may also signify an improvement in personal status as a reward for past efforts. In metasymbology, the Ace of Clubs has two meanings, one being positive and the other negative. For the positive aspect, the Ace of Clubs represents a search for knowledge. On the negative side, the Ace of Clubs represents an over abundance of curiosity.  Ace of Diamonds The element of Earth. Practicalities and a solid day-to-day routine provide the necessary structure that underpins our more exciting activities. Earth is fruitful and bountiful. It is the source of wealth, both in terms of nature and the precious minerals that are found deep below the surface. It takes hard work and persistence to persuade the earthy element to give up its riches, and this is the lesson of the Ace of Diamonds. The traditional meaning of this card is a message – possibly in the form of a letter. In  this age of instantaneous communication I see no reason why the Ace of Diamonds should not represent a phone call, text message, or e-mail. In keeping with the earthy and generally materialistic nature of the Diamond suit, the message the Ace brings is usually connected with money. This is a positive card, so the news is likely to be profitable to the questioner. One of th


What creature associated with crying is named from Greek 'worm of the stones'?

Mythical Creatures A-Z MYTHICAL CREATURES A-Z Go to Mythical Creatures List A complete list of all mythological creatures and beasts that are and ever were is simply too massive to even try to compile onto one site and still be able to give each creature the spotlight it deserves. There are many variations and recorded facts on each and every creature - and yes, some are in fact much more popular than others and information is more easily found. Sometimes, the recorded history on these mythical beings changes the image we had envisioned of a particular being and it's purpose. Here is a compilation of few of the ones that we have found to be especially interesting and captivating.  Hopefully your favorite creature will remain true to form or even better yet, transform into something even more fantastic than you ever thought possible. This list will grow with time and hopefully end up as an informative and pleasant experience to browse through and observe a fantasy world of mythical creatures and beasts from all over our past and present world.  MYSTIC CREATURES A-Z LIST Abominable Snowman  - Giant human-like body, white shaggy fur, big feet Aigamuxa  - Human-like mythical creatures with eyes on their feet Amarok  - Gigantic wolf that hunts alone Amphisbaena  - Snake with a head at each end Antmen  - Four weapon bearing arms, red eyes and a crushing jaw Bonnacon  - Wild bull-like creature with horns Bunyip  - Large water monster, huge mouth, crocodile tail Camazotz - A giant, evil vampire bat demon Caladrius  - Mythical snow-white bird Cerastes  - Large and extremely flexible serpent with horns Chupacabra  - Small bear-like, hairless beast with spikes Ciguapa - Blue or brown nude females with backwards feet Cretan Bull  - A giant and beautiful white bull Cthulhu  - Large green body, long tentacles, wings and talons Cyclopes  - Big hairy giants with one eye Dragons  - List of various dragons Erymanthian Boar - Huge wild boar with sharp teeth Frankenstein - A hideous monster made of deceased human body parts Gogmagog  - Distorted human-like body and twice the size Golems  - Human-like body made of clay, rock or wood Gremlins - Small pesky little monsters with point ears Grendel  - Giant and deformed, troll-like human Hecatoncheires  - Giants with fifty heads and one hundred arms Hopkinsville Goblins - Little gray aliens with orange glowing eyes Huitzilopochtli - Blue human dressed in feathers Hybrids  - List of mythical human and animal hybrids Jack-o-Lantern - Scary pumpkin head Jersey Devil  - Deformed body and head of a horse, horns & wings Jormungand  - Enormous snake with huge fangs and a flat tail Kelpie  - Deadly shape-shifting water horse Kludde  - Gigantic black dog with a blue flame around it's head Kongamato  - Large bird with teeth, leathery skin and bat-like wings Kraken  - Gigantic squid or octopus Krampus - Evil Christmas time monster Lernaean Hydra  - Serpent with nine heads Loch Ness Monster  - Long neck, large body, flippers and a tail Mister Hyde - Evil version of Dr. Jekyll Mngwa  - Oversized and out of control, deadly tabby cat Mokele-mbembe  - Large water creature with a flexible and long neck Mongolian Death Worm  - Enormous, slimy red worm with long fangs Morgawr - Popular, large hump-backed water serpent Mothman - Huge moth with red glowing eyes Nandi Bear  - Overgrown hyena-like beast Nemean Lion  - Super strong lion with impenetrable skin Ogopogo  - Large sea serpent with horns and flippers Ogre  - Large and ugly humanoid with deformed facial features Orcs  - Evil creatures with long fangs, red eyes and long arms Owlman  - Large human sized owl with red glowing eyes Pegasus  - Magnificent winged horse Roc  - Gigantic bird with a forked tongue Skunk Ape - Large orange and furry beast with long forearms Sleipnir  - Giant eight legged, black horse Springheeled Jack  - Mask wearing monster that breaths blue flame Stymphalian Bird  - Large bird with bronze feathers, metal beak & claws Talos  - Gigantic human-like body made of bronze Thunderbird  - Extremely large bird that could shoot lightening  Trolls


What prefix makes respectively a place, a cheese, a cement, a part; and a case or set with the following?

Early Industries in Patterson Early Industries in Patterson Ice Harvesting In the years before the invention of refrigeration, ice was needed to cool and preserve food. Local merchants and farmers usually had their own small ice ponds and ice houses to accommodate their needs. Meat markets and grocery stores along Railroad Street (Front Street), for example, needed ice to preserve meats. Local dairy farmers and dairy plants, like Mutual Milk and Sheffield Farms, had larger ice operations. If a natural pond was not available, a pond would be created to catch rain water or stream water. The pond across from the present Patterson Town Hall was regularly harvested for ice, as were most local ponds. Large quantities of ice was also needed by Patterson's distant neighbor to the south, New York City. The City looked north for sources of ice, and the clean waters of upstate New York provided the ice. Some of New York City's ice was harvested from the Hudson River. Locally, many of the larger ponds and lakes also had ice harvesting operations that supplied New York City. The same Harlem Railroad that provided the dairy farms with quick access to New York City's markets also provided quick access to the City for the ice operations. Patterson's dairy farms needed ice to preserve the milk before it could be taken to market. Most farmers maintained their own ice ponds and ice storage houses. During the non-growing months of winter, farmers were less busy, and farm workers and horses were usually idle, providing the labor needed to harvest ice. It was not unusual for the dairy house and ice house to occupy different rooms in the same building for convenience.  There were few differences in the operations of the small ice houses as compared to the large, commercial ice houses, except that farmers and merchants did the work by hand rather than use machinery. Ice blocks could be stacked either by manpower or horsepower. Ice tongs or hayfork toggles would be used to grab the ice block, and a rope would be attached to the tongs. The rope would be fed up and over a pulley allowing a horse to lift the block into its storage location. At the end of the summer, any leftover ice could usually be sold elsewhere in the town. It was advantageous for the farmer to remove all ice from the ice house at the end of the summer to allow for cleaning and drying of the ice house prior to the new season. If the ice house adjoined the dairy house, the melting ice runoff would be captured in a drainage channel that lead to a pit or concrete pool in the dairy house. Cans of milk could be safely stored overnight in the pit. The February 1, 1901 edition of The Putnam County Courier mentions a large ice house at the "ice pond" near Dykeman Station, operated by the American Ice Trust. This may have been a predecessor to the Knickerbocker Ice Co. that operated a large ice house in Patterson along the shores of the Ice Pond in Patterson. The Courier noted that the ice quality in the ice pond during the winter of 1901 was "unusually good and clear", but that its thickness was below average at between six and eleven inches. The American ice house was not filled to capacity, and it was expected that no more ice would be available that season. The storage house still had ten feet of height available to be filled.  The paper also noted that the 1901 harvesting season had only yielded one fatality and two minor accidents. In Patterson, an ice harvesting operation was run by the Knickerbocker Ice Co. of New York City on the shore of the Ice Pond. The Pond's location along the tracks of the Harlem Railroad made it convenient to ship the ice to New York City. The pristine water of the Ice Pond and the Knickerbocker ice business were so important, that the Harlem train engineers were instructed not to stoke the fires in the locomotives until the trains passed the pond, to prevent cinders from coating the water. The Ice Pond is one of the largest bodies of water in the Great Swamp watershed. It sits between two ridges that rise


The fatty rump-end of a cooked fowl is called the 'Parson's (What?)'?

Parson's nose - definition of parson's nose by The Free Dictionary Parson's nose - definition of parson's nose by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parson%27s+nose Related to parson's nose: pope's nose par·son's nose parson's nose n (Cookery) the fatty extreme end portion of the tail of a fowl when cooked. Also called: pope's nose ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: helping , serving , portion - an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal; "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each" bird , fowl - the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food Translations Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us , add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content . Link to this page: serving References in periodicals archive ? Just got the parson's nose to finish with a dab of Dove and I'll pop it in the oven. What if Corbyn unites a nation? IN reply to you asking for readers' memories of Coventry, a group of girls would start our Friday/Saturday night at Corks wine bar, followed by the Penny Black, Leofric, White Lion and Rays Bar (a few cocktails), a boogie at City Centre Night Club and finish up at The Parson's Nose.


What's the state capital of Mississippi USA, originally Le Fleur's Bluff, later named after a US president?

Today in History - AccuWeather.com Forums  Today in History Historical events on August 16 1290 - Charles van Valois weds Margaretha van Anjou 1384 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting over themï¿½a case considered equal to the act of destroying stamped government documents, which by law necessitated one hundred floggings by a bamboo rod. However, the Hongwu Emperor decided to pardon them, seeing as how their intention was not to tear up the money. 1477 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, weds Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of Burgundy in Ghent, Belgium 1513 - Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian & Henry VIII beat France 1570 - King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II 1625 - Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe 1691 - Yorktown Va founded 1717 - Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade 1743 - Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton) 1745 - Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots 1748 - "Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies 1777 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt 1780 - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC 1794 - Hungarian revolutionary Ignï¿½c Martinovics arrested in Vienna 1797 - Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth 1812 - Gen Hull surrenders Detroit & Michigan territory to England 1819 - Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators 1829 - Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited 1834 - Charles Darwin climbs Mt Campana in Chile 1846 - Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe Pï¿½lissier in Paris 1858 - Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan 1861 - Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy 1861 - Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri 1863 - Chickamauga campaign GA 1864 - 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault 1864 - Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam 1865 - Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation. 1869 - Battle of Acosta ï¿½u: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance. 1870 - Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion 1876 - Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth 1882 - British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria 1890 - Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia 1894 - Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith 1896 - Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala 1898 - Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster 1903 - Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8 1904 - NYC begins building Grand Central Station 1905 - Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa 1906 - -17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000 1907 - Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco 1913 - Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students. 1914 - German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught 1914 - Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico 1914 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins. 1915 - KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0 1918 - US troops overthrows Archangelsk 1920 - Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality 1922 - AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC) 1924 - 38th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63) 1924 - Conference about German recovery payments opens in London 1924 - Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed 1927 - 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth) 1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks. 1934 - US ends occupation of Haiti (been there


eviscerate - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com Random Word eviscerate Eviscerate is not a pretty word. To eviscerate can mean to remove the entrails of a creature. On the Discovery Channel you can watch a vulture eviscerate or take out the guts of a dead animal. The word eviscerate comes from the Latin evisceratus, meaning "to disembowel." It's not strictly used in such a gruesome sense though. Sure, you can eviscerate a chicken by gutting its insides, but eviscerate can also be used to describe when you deprive something of its most important quality. If you take away the disco ball, it could eviscerate the spirit of your dance party.


Question Results - The Weather Network View Results What is the line on a weather chart which joins points of equal pressure? The line on a weather chart which joins points of equal pressure is called an isobar (the term first appeared around 1864, and is from the Greek word isobares meaning 'of equal weight') Popular Right Now


What colour of a single rainbow is on the inside of the rainbow's arc, given the generally defined seven-colour rainbow?

Raymond L. Lee, Jr.: Chapter 8--THE RAINBOW BRIDGE also see Appendix: A Field Guide to the Rainbow Long before Newton, unusual varieties of rainbows had prompted sporadic scientific interest. After Newton, these varietal bows raised nagging doubts about the completeness of his answers, and ultimately would lead to powerful new rainbow theories in 19th-century optics. With these theories, we can see that all the colors of the rainbow are actually quite different from our preconceptions. Yet for 19th-century artists still debating the validity of Newtons rainbow colors, these new optical theories clearly were peripheral -- the divorce between the rainbows of interest to them and to scientists was nearly complete. Ironically, the 19th century produced some of the strongest claims about the unity of artistic and scientific enterprise, testimony to the rainbow bridges tenuous power. ... I saw in that part of the Skie, where a Rainbow would naturally be; Something, which was like one, but much broader, fainter, and though colourd yet indistinct; there was no appearance of Rain, nor do I believe there was any: And indeed the Bow was too much confused to be formd by spherical drops of water. [1] Thomas Barker, A remarkable cloud rainbow (1739) Although we cannot be certain what kind of bow Thomas Barker saw during the winter of 1739-1740, we can be sure that he did not see a rainbow proper. Our clue (and Barkers) is his bows indistinct colors. As we have seen earlier, two characteristics earn almost any sky feature the name rainbow -- it is an arc and colored. While not all colored arcs in the sky are rainbows, Barker is quite right to be skeptical that his broader, fainter arc is not a rainbow. What Barker calls a Frost Rainbow probably is a cloudbow (Fig. 8-1). [2] At first glance, this broad, anemically colored bow looks so different from the rainbow that we may be forgiven if we side with Barker and believe that it is too much confused to be formd by spherical drops of water. Barker makes the plausible but erroneous assumption that in forming his bow, raindrops have been replaced by very small round & icy hail. [3] However, hail is neither clear enough nor symmetric enough to be an adequate substitute for transparent, spherical water drops. In fact, both the rainbow and cloudbow are merely varieties of water-drop bows. In the case of cloudbows, the water drops are those of the clouds themselves. Fig. 8-1: A cloudbow, also known as a fogbow or pilots bow, seen from an airplane. The bright light immediately surrounding the airplane shadow is not a cloudbow, but a glory. [4] {N.B.: Not all images are reproduced in this WWW version of Chapter 8.} As many an inquisitive (and wet) child has discovered, making a rainbow does not require that you wait for rain -- a sunlit spray of water drops from a hose will do just fine (Fig. 8-2). So apparently, raindrops are not uniquely qualified to form rainbows (or water-drop bows, more generally). But how do water droplets in clouds yield a bow whose appearance differs so radically from a bow produced by rain droplets? Fig. 8-2: A water-drop bow seen in a spray of sunlit drops. (Photograph courtesy of Michael E. Churma) Surprisingly, explaining the essentially colorless cloudbow also tells us how some colorful, but subtle, rainbow features arise (Fig. 8-3). In Fig. 8-3, note the narrow pastel bands inside the primary rainbow -- the supernumerary bows. Although reports of the supernumeraries date from the 13th century, neither Newtons nor Descartes theories of the rainbow can account for them. [5] By mid-18th century, increasingly frequent accounts of the supernumeraries and cloudbow provoked scientific interest (and consternation), ultimately leading to new theories of the rainbow. Fig. 8-3: Supernumerary rainbows inside a primary rainbow at Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, 12 July 1979. Neither the cloudbow nor the supernumeraries have contributed much to the rainbows cultural symbolism. After all, they roil the simple rainbow image considerably, and the fact th


Who invented the mercury thermometer? Daniel Gabriel

The History of the Thermometer The History of the Thermometer Sign Up for Our Free Newsletters Thanks, You're in! Health Tip of the Day Sign up There was an error. Please try again. Please select a newsletter. Please enter a valid email address. Did you mean ? GK Hart/Vikki Hart/ Stone/ Getty Images What is a Thermometer? Thermometers measure temperature, by using materials that change in some way when they are heated or cooled. In a mercury or alcohol thermometer the liquid expands as it is heated and contracts when it is cooled, so the length of the liquid column is longer or shorter depending on the temperature. Modern thermometers are calibrated in standard temperature units such as Fahrenheit (used in the United States) or Celsius (used in Canada) and Kelvin (used mostly by scientists). What is a Thermoscope? Before there was the thermometer, there was the earlier and closely related thermoscope, best described as a thermometer without a scale.     A thermoscope only showed the differences in temperatures, for example, it could show something was getting hotter. However, the thermoscope did not measure all the data that a thermometer could, for example an exact temperature in degrees. Early History Several inventors invented a version of the thermoscope at the same time. continue reading below our video Profile of Daniel Fahrenheit In 1593, Galileo Galilei invented a rudimentary water thermoscope, which for the first time, allowed temperature variations to be measured. Today, Galileo's inventioni is called the Galileo Thermometer, even though by definition it was really a thermoscope. It was a container filled with bulbs of varying mass, each with a temperature marking, the buoyancy of water changes with temperature, some of the bulbs sink while others float, the lowest bulb indicated what temperature it was. In 1612, the Italian inventor Santorio Santorio became the first inventor to put a numerical scale on his thermoscope. It was perhaps the first crude clinical thermometer, as it was designed to be place in a patient's mouth for temperature taking. Both Galilei's and Santorio's instruments were not very accurate. In 1654, the first enclosed liquid-in-a-glass thermometer was invented by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand II. The Duke used alcohol as his liquid. However, it was still inaccurate and used no standardized scale. Fahrenheit Scale - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit What can be considered the first modern thermometer, the mercury thermometer with a standardized scale, was invented by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1714. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was the German physicist who invented a alcohol thermometer in 1709, and the mercury thermometer in 1714. In 1724, he introduced the standard temperature scale that bears his name - Fahrenheit Scale - that was used to record changes in temperature in an accurate fashion. The Fahrenheit scale divided the freezing and boiling points of water into 180 degrees. 32°F was the freezing pint of water and 212°F was the boiling point of water. 0°F was based on the temperature of an equal mixture of water, ice, and salt. Fahrenheit based his temperature scale on the temperature of the human body. Originally, the human body temperature was 100° F on the Fahrenheit scale, but it has since been adjusted to 98.6°F. Centigrade Scale - Anders Celsius The Celsius temperature scale is also referred to as the "centigrade" scale. Centigrade means "consisting of or divided into 100 degrees". In 1742, the Celsius scale was invented by Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius . The Celsius scale has 100 degrees between the freezing point (0°C) and boiling point (100°C) of pure water at sea level air pressure. The term "Celsius" was adopted in 1948 by an international conference on weights and measures. Kelvin Scale - Lord Kelvin Lord Kelvin took the whole process one step further with his invention of the Kelvin Scale in 1848. The Kelvin Scale measures the ultimate extremes of hot and cold. Kelvin developed the idea of absolute temperature , what is called the " Second Law of Thermodynamics ",


What common term refers to the amount of water vapour that is held in the air?

Weather Forecast: Kitchener, Ontario - The Weather Network Relative Humidity Relative humidity is a percentage of water vapour per area at a specific temperature. Relative humidity is calculated at all times of the year, but the humidex is usually only given in the warmer months from May to September. Relative humidity can be calculated using various methods and instruments. It is a calculation to find out how many grams of water vapour can be held at a given temperature. Usually, the warmer the air, the higher its capacity for holding water vapour. Each specific temperature has a holding limit for water, and the actual amount of water held in the air at the time of measurement can be represented as a percentage. For example, if a parcel of air at 20ï¿½C has a limit or capacity of 16 grams of water vapour and 16 grams of water vapour is measured, the air's holding capacity is at its maximum and the relative humidity (RH) of the air is said to be 100%. Take the same air with 8 grams of water vapour and your RH is 50%. Dew Point The dewpoint is a measure of atmospheric moisture. It is the temperature at which air must be cooled in order to reach saturation (assuming that air pressure and moisture content are constant). As the surface of the earth cools at night, warm moist air near the ground is chilled and water vapour in the air condenses into droplets on the grass and other objects. Dew is particularly heavy on clear nights, when the earth cools rapidly. When a blanket of cloud insulates the earth, the cooling rate is slower. The greater the difference between the temperature and the dew point, the drier the air.


What shipping forecast area lies immediately South of Forties off the British Isles?

List of British Sea Areas as listed in the weather report for shipping on BBC Radio4 Here's a nice but big (162K) map I scanned it from the Radio Times, they managed to forget Bailey so I had to edit it in, which is why the lines and font are a bit dodgy there. Here's one from the Met Office , a lot smaller but not as pretty, but it DOES have Trafalgar on it, and it makes the Lat and Longs more obvious. South East Iceland: 64N18W..65N14W..63N7W..62N11W (roughly) Faeroes: 63N7W..62N3W..59N7W..62N11W (roughly) Fair Isle: 62N3W..61N00..58N00..58N5W..59N7W (roughly) The above 3 form a diagonal band from the coast of Iceland down to the Greenwich Meridian at the Shetlands on the northern edge, and the Scottish coast on the southern edge. Fair Isle is 5 sided to get back into the normal squarish grid. Bailey: Between 10W and 15W from South East Iceland down to about 58N Rockall: Between 10W and 15W from Bailey (58N) down to 53N Shannon: Between 10W and 15W, from Rockall down to 50N, and including the bits off the Irish coast. Hebrides: The bit between Faeroes and Fair Isle, the Scottish coast, 10W, and 57N Malin: Below Hebrides, between Rockall and the coasts, down to the narrowest point between England and Ireland Irish Sea: The Irish Sea from Malin down to the narrowest point between Wales and Ireland Lundy: Bounded by the south Welsh and north Cornish coasts, out to about 6.5W Fastnet: Between Lundy and Shannon, with the south Irish coast above and 50N below Sole: 6.5W..15W and 50N..48.27N, below Shannon and Fastnet Finisterre, now renamed Fitzroy: Below Sole Biscay: From Finisterre to the French coast Plymouth: The mouth of the Channel to about 8W, Biscay below, Sole to the left Portland: Up the channel from Plymouth to about 2W Wight: From Portland to a line from about 50N2E(France) to 51N1E(England) Dover: From Wight to a line matching the latitude 51N, near enough Thames: Moving out towards the North Sea, as far as about 52.5N Humber: Up to 54N, but loses a degree of its eastern extent halfway up Tyne: A tiny bit about a degree wide along the coast from Humber up to about 56N Dogger: Tyne to the left, Humber below, 4E at the right, up to about 56N German Bight: From Humber and Dogger on the left to the continental coast Forties: Directly above Dogger, ie about 56N..58.5N and 1W..4E Forth: Between Forties and the Scottish coast, stopping at 57N Cromarty: Between Forties and the Scottish coast, from Forth up to 58.5N or so, where it meets Fair Isle Viking: Above Forties with Fair Isle to the west Fisher: East of Forties and north of German Bight, but only as far as about 57.5N North Utsire, South Utsire: The last bit between Viking and Forties and the Scandinavian coast I appear to have listed them in the reverse order to that used by the weather forecasters. Never mind!


What common term refers to the movement of air from a high pressure to a low pressure zone?

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What is the childlike name given to the significant weather activity linked to sea temperature rise in the Pacific Ocean?

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What is the 'ology' term for the study or science of the weather (that's short-term weather systems and effects, not long-term climatology)?

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What cloud term means 'sheet' or 'sheetlike' or 'layer'?

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(Aside from a back and a front) how many sides or points does every snowflake have?

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What type of cloud is normally associated with thunderstorms?

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What number does 'storm' equate to on the Beaufort Scale of wind force?

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What is a French street that means regret In English?

rue - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com Random Word rue To rue is to feel regret or remorse for something. If that position at the deli ended up involving a reality TV show that made everyone famous, you may rue the day you turned down the job. Rue comes from the Old English word hreowan, meaning "to make sorry," and rue can still sum up a lot of sorrow in one small syllable. Rue is a modern verb that often looks back on the past. Shakespeare made famous the phrase "rue the day," meaning you bitterly regret a moment. For example, you might rue the day you had your first coffee if you become hopelessly addicted to it.