The Variations on the name “Abegg” in F major was a piece for piano by Robert Schumann, composed between 1829 and 1830 and published as his Opus 1. The name refers to Schumann’s friend, Meta Abegg, whose name Schumann used in composing the variations. The first five notes of the theme are A-B-E-G-G (the B […]

An off-axis optical system is an optical system in which the optical axis of the aperture is not coincident with the mechanical center of the aperture.

The principal applications of off-axis optical systems are to avoid obstruction of the primary aperture by secondary optical elements, instrument packages, or sensors, and to provide ready access to instrument […]

A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Provençal picaioun, meaning “small coin”. Besides being used in Spanish territories, it was also a common coin in the south of the United States, and the name has sometimes been used for the […]

Craig Stuart Sives (born 9 April 1986 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing for Dundee on loan from Heart of Midlothian.

Sives attended Oxgangs Primary school and Firrhill High school, and played for youth club Hutchison Vale, before signing for boyhood favourites Hearts in June 2002. After impressing in the clubs under 19 […]

Rare earth elements and rare earth metals are a collection of sixteen chemical elements in the periodic table, namely scandium, yttrium, and fourteen of the fifteen lanthanoids (excluding promethium), which naturally occur on the Earth. The former two are included as they tend to occur with the latter in the same ore deposits. […]

A moidore is a Portuguese gold coin, minted from 1640 to 1732. The moidore was current in western Europe and the West Indies, particularly Barbados, for a long period after it ceased to be struck. It was the principal coin current in Ireland at the beginning of the 18th century, and spread to the […]

Metallurgical converter is a vessel used in the operation of converting (metallurgy). Two kinds of converters are widely used in extractive metallurgy: horizontal and vertical.

Horizontal converters of the Pierce-Smith type prevail in the metallurgy of non ferrous metals. Such a converter is a horizontal barrel lined with refractory material inside. A hood for the purpose […]

In geometry, a number of tests for congruence and similarity involve comparing corresponding sides. In such tests, each side in one figure is paired with a side in the second figure, taking care to preserve the order of adjacency - in other words, if side A in figure #1 is adjacent to sides B and […]

Hippus, also known as pupillary athetosis, is spasmodic, rhythmic dilating and contracting pupillary movements between the sphincter and dilator muscles. It is particularly noticeable when pupil function is tested with a light.Cassin, B. and Solomon, S. Dictionary of Eye Terminology. Gainsville, Florida: Triad Publishing Company, 1990. It is usually normal.

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Joseph Jastrow (January 30, 1863– January 8, 1944) was an American psychologist, born in Warsaw, Poland. He was the son of Talmud scholar Marcus Jastrow. Joseph Jastrow came to Philadelphia in 1866, graduated at Penn in 1882, was a fellow in psychology at Johns Hopkins (1885-86), and was a professor at the University […]

Flip Flop is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting February 25, 2000, it is played for a four-digit prize, worth between $3,000 and $9,898.

Gameplay
The contestant is shown a four digit price split between the first two digits and the last two digits. Each of these groupings is […]

John Thomas “Jack” Rimmer (April 27, 1878 - June 6, 1962) was a British athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

Born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, John Rimmer won the British AAA Championships in 4 miles in 1900.

At the Paris Olympics, Rimmer at first participated in the 1500 m, where he finished eighth. […]

Euro Disney S.C.A. is the company that owns and operates Disneyland Resort Paris and that projected the Val d’Europe urban area in Marne-la-Vallée, France. 39.78% of shares are held by The Walt Disney Company, 10% by the Saudi Prince Alwaleed and 50.22% by other shareholders. The stock is traded on Euronext Paris.

Disneyland Resort Paris is […]

Prov Sadovsky was the stage name of Prov Mikhailovich Yermilov (1818-1872), a Russian actor who founded the famous Sadovsky theatrical family, which was regarded as the foremost interpreters of the plays by Alexander Ostrovsky in the Malyi Theatre until the mid-20th century. It has been said that Sadovsky and his relatives made of Ostrovsky’s rather […]

The one pound coin was introduced on 20 June 1990. The design is of a red deer, by the Irish artist Tom Ryan, and based on photographs taken by Sean RyanThe Wild Red Deer of Killarney, Sean Ryan, ISBN 1-902011-09-0 of red deer from the Irish national deer herd in Killarney National Park. In 2000 […]

Zero Delta is a set of enterprise-wide methods that are designed to integrate the corporate planning and strategy formulation processes with initiative and programme execution processes. The objective of Zero Delta is to eliminate the deltas between ‘what an organization sets out to accomplish’ and ‘what an organization actually accomplishes’ vis-a-vis its business and […]

In Coin collecting, brockage refers to a type of error coin in which a side of the coin has both the normal image and a mirror image of the opposite side impressed on it. This is caused by an already minted coin sticking to a die and impressing onto another coin. Brockage is […]

This article is about a coin. For other meanings, and similar words, see Pistol (disambiguation).

Pistole is the French name given to a Spanish gold coin in use in 1537; it was a double escudo, the gold unit. The name was also given to the Louis d’Or of Louis XIII of France, and to other European […]

Florin may refer to:

Modern currency

Aruban florin, the currency of Aruba

Hungarian forint, the official currency of Hungary

The currency sign “ƒ”, called the florin sign

Obsolete coins

Italian coin florin, minted in Florence in 1252 (origin of name “florin”), first gold coin minted after the Dark Ages in Western Europe; see also, Bezants

Dutch gulden, […]

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In telecommunications, a secondary frequency standard is a frequency standard that does not have inherent accuracy, and therefore must be calibrated against a primary frequency standard.

Secondary standards include crystal oscillators and rubidium standards. A crystal oscillator depends for its frequency on its physical dimensions, which vary with fabrication and environmental conditions. A rubidium standard is […]

Nickle may refer to:

Nickle programming language, a numeric oriented programming language

Nickle, another name for the European woodpecker

Nickle is an alternative, rarely-used spelling for:

nickel, the chemical element

Nickel (Canadian coin), a five-cent coin

Nickel (United States coin), a five-cent coin

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Nickel (disambiguation)

Summer Sun EP Now thiw is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down, and i’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, i’ll tell you all about an EP by Kula Shaker. All the tracks on the EP had previously appeared as B-Sides to the band’s UK singles.

Track […]

The quinarius was a small Roman coin silver coin valued at half a denarius.

The quinarius was struck for a few years, along with the silver sestertius, following the introduction of the denarius in 211 BC. At this time the quinarius and was valued at 5 asses. The coin was reintroduced in 101 BC as a […]

First hand is where one experiences something personally, in effect, within reach of one’s hands, also known as first person.

Other points of view include second hand and third person.

See also

Hand

Right Hand

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