Archive for February, 2008



The design of the Israeli 10 agorot coin was briefly a subject of controversy. In a press conference called by Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat in Geneva, in December 13, 1988, he claimed that the obverse design of this coin incorporates a map of a “Greater Israel” that “goes from the Mediterranean to Mesopotamia, […]

Nickle || type of coin

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

Also see

Nickel (disambiguation)

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Fals || States coinage

The fals (plural fulus) was a copper coin produced by the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates beginning in the late 7th century. The name is a corruption of follis, a Roman and later Byzantine copper coin. The fals usually featured ornate Arabic script on both sides. Various copper fals were produced until the 19th century.

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“Graduates Song Goodbye” is a song written by F.Rico, relating to the future of students graduating from the school. It is the main school song of Vajiravudh College, and is sung by the graduating students in the graduation ceremony.

The Words:
Chorus: VAJIRAVUDH, GOOD BYE,

‘TIS TIME FOR ME TO GO,

MY IDEAL IS HIGH

FOR YOU TAUGHT ME TO […]

Scrappy Mouse is a cartoon character created by Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi. He is a young male toon mouse who lives in the fictitious city Mouseville. He originated in the TV series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (in which he was voiced by Dana Hill) that initially aired on CBS from 1987-1988, and later […]

Ewing Island || rare and

Ewing Island () is an ice-covered, dome-shaped island 8 miles in diameter, lying 15 miles northeast of Cape Collier, off the east coast of Palmer Land. It was discovered from the air on November 7, 1947 by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), under Ronne, who named it for Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University, […]

Obverse and reverse || medallic

See Obversion for the use of “obverse” in logic.

The term obverse, and its opposite, reverse, describe the two sides of units of currency and many other kinds of two-sided objects, most often in reference to coins, but also to flags, medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art. The terms may respectively be […]

Trace (semiology) || words

The trace in semiotics is a concept developed by Jaques Derrida in Writing and Difference to denote the history that a sign carries with it as the result of its use through time. Words like “black”, for example, carry the trace of all their previous uses with them, making them sensitive, loaded words when used […]

Magic Mirror || a mirror

Magic Mirror is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in January, 1946.

It depicts a mirror standing vertically on wooden supports on a tiled surface. The perspective is looking down at an angle at the right hand side of the mirror. There is a sphere at each side […]

In genetics, dyad symmetry refers to two areas of a DNA molecule whose base pair sequences are repeats of each other, inverted relative to each other, or are palindromes.

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Impressment (colloquially, “the Press” or “press-ganging“) is the act of conscripting people to serve in the military or navy, usually by force and without notice. It was used by the Royal Navy, beginning in 1664, during the 18th century and early 19th century, in time of war as a means of crewing warships, although […]

Brockage || brockage

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 […]

The livre tournois (”Tours pound”) was:

one of numerous currencies used in France in the Middle Ages; and

a money of account (i.e., a monetary unit used in accounting) used in France in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.

Circulating currency
The denier tournois coin was initially minted by the abbey of Saint Martin in […]

Catoptromancy (Gk. katoptron, mirror, and manteia, divination), also known as captromancy or enoptromancy, is divination using a mirror.

Pausanias, an ancient Greek traveler, described as follows:

Before the Temple of Ceres at Patras, there was a fountain, separated from the temple by a wall, and there was an oracle, very truthful, not for all events, but for […]

In 3D graphics software, particles are the name for large amounts of automatically created animation, like rain, fire, smoke, a flock of birds or falling leaves. The script generating the animation is adjusted until just right.

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Shekinester || alignment

In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Shekinester is the threefold deity of the nagas. She can appear as the aspect of spirit nagas, water nagas, and guardian nagas.

Shekinester’s The Court of Light is found on the plane of the Outlands.

References

McComb, Colin. On Hallowed Ground (TSR, 1996).

Redman, Rich and James Wyatt. […]

The koban (小判, alternately ōban) was a Japanese oval gold coin in Edo period feudal Japan, equal to ten ryō, another early Japanese monetary unit (a ryō can be imagined as worth a thousand dollars, although the value of the coin, like the value of the dollar, varied considerably).

The Keichō koban, a gold piece, contained […]

The sixpence coin was a pre-decimal coin and worth 1/40 of an Irish pound. The coin was originally struck in nickel, like the threepence coin and was very well wearing. The metal was changed to cupronickel in 1942 as the metal became more valuable; this coin is less well wearing and consisted of 75% copper […]

Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out is an album by Petra Haden, an entirely a cappella interpretation of The Who’s classic album The Who Sell Out. Haden supplies all of the vocals. ”Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out was released in 2005 on Bar None Records. The recording was inspired by […]

Neugroschen || The Coin

The neugroschen is a coin that was introduced in 1841 in Saxony. It was equivalent to the Prussian silbergroschen but was divided into 10 pfennig, not 12 as in Prussia.

See also

Grosch

Silbergroschen

Groschen

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The synoptic scale in meteorology (also known as large scale or cyclonic scale) is a horizontal length scale of the order of 1000 kilometres (about 620 miles) or more American Meteorological Society. Cyclonic scale. Retrieved on 2007-05-10.. This corresponds to a horizontal scale typical of mid-latitude depressions. Most high and low pressure areas […]

Sometimes words are alternatively spelled (or intentionally misspelled) in order to create a new word with more narrow definition, or with completely different definition. Sometimes this is done to create a trademark, a musical band name, or similar.

Words in which a pronunciation was substantially changed are not intended to be on this list.
Words which […]

Meyrifab || other words

MEYRIFAB, a small semi-nomad tribe of Africans of Semitic stock, settled on the east bank of the Nile near Berber. Contrary to Arab custom, it is said[Please name specific person or group] they never marry slaves.

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Samples per inch (SPI) is a measurement of the resolution of an image scanner, in particular the number of individual samples that are taken in the space of one linear inch. It is sometimes misreferred to as dots per inch, though that term more accurately refers to printing resolution. Generally, the greater the SPI of […]

Random access || flipped about

In computer science, random access is the ability to access an arbitrary element of a sequence in equal time. The opposite is sequential access, where a remote element takes longer time to access. A typical illustration of this distinction is the ancient scroll (sequential) and the book where any random page can be […]