Archive for April, 2007



Walk… Don’t Walk was a 1968 short film by Rich Allen. It starred Chevy Chase as a pedestrian about to cross the street, when the walk/don’t walk light starts changing just before he begins to cross, as if it were playing a practical joke on him. The film lasted for 5 minutes.

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In automotive engineering, a longitudinal engine, also sometimes known as a north-south engine, is an internal combustion engine in which the crankshaft is oriented along the long axis of the vehicle, front to back. Most rear wheel drive vehicles use this engine orientation, while most modern front wheel drive vehicles use a side-to-side transverse […]

Sneaky Snakes is a 1991 video game designed by Rare Ltd. released on the Nintendo Game Boy. It is the sequel to the NES game, Snake Rattle ‘n’ Roll. The original sequel that was planned was to be called Snakes In Space, however it was never developed.

In this game, the two snakes Attila and Genghis […]

UT was a company which manufactured model cars in the 80’s and 90’s. They were typically of good to high quality and were a bit more expensive than the competitors. The company is now out of business but was turned into AUTOart models. Famous UT models include the Porsche 993 series as well as […]

Solidus || Coin

Solidus can refer to:

Solidus (punctuation), the “/” or “⁄” punctuation character

solidus (chemistry), a concept in chemistry, materials science, and physics

solidus (coin), a coin used in Ancient Rome

Solidus Snake, a character in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

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The halfpenny coin was the second smallest denomination of the pre-decimal Irish pound at 1/480 of the pound. The artist was given the choice of a boar, sow or ram and ultimately the sow, with a litter was chosen.

The design was by Percy Metcalf, an English artist, and the coin had a diameter of 1.005 […]

The ten shilling coin was a pre-decimal coin worth ½ of an Irish pound, the highest value coin in the pre-decimal system. The coin featured Cúchulainn, the mythical Irish hero; the coin was produced for the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising and commenced circulation on April 12 1966 and was designed by T Hugh […]

A collaboration of Blood Axis and LJDLP celebrating the virtues of Absinthe. The complete tracks from ATNR 016. Tracks 1-10 recorded live in Sintra, Portugal, 22 Oct. 2001. Released by Athanor.

Track listing

“La Folie Verte” (2:12)

“Variations Musicales” (2:03)

“Au Fond Du Verre” (0:47)

“Absinthe Patriote” (7:07)

“Minutes D’Absinthe” (1:09)

“Avec Les Fleurs” (1:56)

“L’Oxygenee” (2:35)

“Absinthe Eternelle” (2:55)

“Folie Verte” (2:59)

“La Buveuse […]

Okito box || Coin

The okito box is a cylindrical box fitted to the size of a coin, used to perform coin magic. A coin placed in the box seems to vanish, appear, penetrates the box, and so forth.

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The hexagram was a large silver coin of the Byzantine Empire issued primarily during 7th century AD during the reigns of Heraclius, Constans II, and Constantine IV. It weighed about 6 grams. It was not as common as bronze or gold coinage.

See also: Byzantine coinage.

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Weiss domains are small areas in a crystal structure of a ferromagnetic material with uniformly oriented magnetic momenta. They were named after the French physicist Pierre-Ernest Weiss (1865–1940).

Weiss discovered in 1907<ref></ref> that the magnetic moment of atoms (”elementary magnets”) of ferromagnetic materials become oriented, even without an external magnetic field. The size of these oriented […]

Jacobus || Coin

A Jacobus is an English gold coin of the reign of James I, worth 25 shillings.

The correspondence of Isaac Newton refers to the coin:

The Jacobus piece coin’d for 20 shillings is the 41th: part of a pound Troy, and a Carolus 20s piece is of the same weight. But a broad Jacobus (as I […]

The Broad was a British coin worth 20 shillings (20/-) issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. It was a milled gold coin weighing 9.0–9.1 grams, with a diameter of 29 or 30 millimetres, designed by Thomas Simon (also called Symonds).

The obverse of the coin depicts the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell as a laureated […]

Sidestroke || side

The sidestroke is a swimming stroke, so named because the swimmer lies on one side. It is helpful as a lifesaving technique and is often used for long-distance swimming. The sidestroke allows the swimmer great endurance. Instead of working both arms and legs simultaneously in the same way, the side stroke uses them simultaneously but […]

Triens || Coin

The triens was an Ancient Roman bronze coin produced during the Roman Republic valued at one-third of an as (4 unciae). The most common design for the triens was the bust of Minerva and four pellets (indicating four unciae) on the obverse and the prow of a galley on the reverse. It was not a […]

The two pence coin was the third smallest denomination of the Irish pound which was decimalised on Decimal Day, February 15, 1971. It was the third of three new designs introduced all in bronze.

The coin was designed by the Irish artist Gabriel Hayes and the design is adapted from the Second Bible of Charles the […]