Archive for July, 2008



A beam homogenizer is a device that smooths out the irregularities in a laser beam profile and creates a more uniform one. Most beam homogenizers use a multifaceted mirror with square facets. The mirror reflects light at different angles to create a beam with uniform power across the whole beam profile (a “top hat” profile). […]

Ecodynamics || money.

Ecodynamics is a part of applied economics. It covers the lore of the monetary value, the usage of money and the money flow. It deals with labour and capital.

References

Ecodynamics : a new theory of societal evolution / by Kenneth E. Boulding

- Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publ., 1981. ISBN 0-8039-1683-3

Nuart Theatre || showing

The Nuart Theatre is L.A.’s premier art house movie venue and the flagship movie theater of the Landmark Theatres chain in the United States of America. Located on Santa Monica Boulevard, one block from the 405 freeway, it hosts a weekly midnight movie showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show featuring shadowcast Sins O’ The […]

Bodle || States coinage

A bodle or boddle or bodwell, also known as a half groat or Turner was a Scottish copper coin, of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny, first issued under Charles II. Its name may derive from Bothwell (a mint-master).

It is mentioned in one of the songs of Joanna Baillie:

Black […]

Nick, Ruell, and Ned the Band is a United States musical group that is based in Springfield, Missouri. The band performed every Friday and Saturday night at McSalty’s Pizza Cafe on Battlefield Road in Springfield. Their last show at the Battlefield Road location was Saturday the 7th of October, 2006. After a break, the […]

Side by Side may refer to:

Side By Side (band), an American hardcore punk band

“Side by Side (1927 song)”, a song by Harry Woods, popularized by Kay Starr

Side by Side (pricing game), a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right

Side by Side (game series), a racing game series by Taito Corporation […]

Fold-Pak is a product of GSD Packaging LLC in Atlanta. It is commonly used to contain Chinese and Thai carry-out foods.

The design comes in a variety of sizes and can be stored flat and easily set up when it is ready to be used. When set up is very durable and light weight. Its special […]

Size-weight illusion is also known as Charpentier illusion (or Charpentier-Koseleff illusion). It is named after French physician Augustin Charpentier. The illusion is manifested in the tendency to underestimate the weight of the bigger object (for example a box) when compared to a similar smaller object of same physical mass, and vice versa. Also, when having […]

The half-crown coin was a pre-decimal coin worth 1/8 of an Irish pound. The coin featured the Irish hunter, a breed of horse; the original minting of the coin from 1928 until 1943 contained 75% silver, a higher content than the equivalent British coin. It is believed that this was done so that the new […]

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 […]

Rare-earth magnets are strong, permanent magnets made from alloys of rare earth elements. Rare-earth magnets are substantially stronger than ferrite or alnico magnets. The magnetic field typically produced by rare-earth magnets can be in excess of 1.2 teslas. Ferrite or ceramic magnets typically exhibit fields of 50 to 100 milliteslas.

Applications

Common Applications […]

The dollar coin may refer to coins of currencies that are named dollar. Note that some of these currencies may have banknotes (bills) for 1 dollar instead.

See also

One dollar coin (Australian)

Loonie (1 Canadian dollar coin)

Dollar (United States coin)

This is a table of Lego computer and video games.

Title

GBC

GBA

NDS

N64

GC

Xbox

PS1

PS2

PC

MAC

Xbox 360

PSP

Wii

PS3

Alpha Team

Bionicle Heroes

Bionicle: The Game

Lego Chess

Lego Creator

Lego Digital Designer

Drome Racers

Lego Friends

Lego Island

Lego Island Xtreme Stunts

Lego Knights’ Kingdom

Legoland

Lego […]

Walkathon || walking

A walkathon (walk-a-thon), or walking marathon is a type of community or school fundraiser where participants raise money by collecting donations or pledges for walking a predetermined distance or course. They are similar in format to other physical activity based fundraising events such as marathons and cycling races, but are usually non-competitive and lower […]

In coin collecting, a key date refers to a date (or date and mint mark combination) of a given coin series or set that is harder to obtain than other dates in the series. The next level of difficult to obtain coins in series are often referred to as semi-key dates or simply semi-keys.

For […]

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 […]

London Scottish Bank PLC is a British bank specialising in:

Direct lending

Personal loans

Home collected credit

Debt collecting

Secured Lending

Factoring

Reinsurance

External links

www.london-scottish.com Corporate homepage

Hand Solitaire is a solitaire game using one deck of playing cards, but it can be played in the hand, making it ideal when space is limited.

The deck is held, face down, in the hand. One card at a time is flipped face up from the back of the deck. Once four cards are in […]

Wooden ships used to have their hulls waterproofed using tar. To facilitate the application of tar below the waterline, shipyards built a square ballast pond in shallow water with an entrance port on one side. A ship would enter the ballast pond and be tied to one wall. Then on the low tide, […]

Sunshine Records was a small California based record label of the early 1920s, producing 6 double-sided gramophone records of early jazz and blues.

The labels of Sunshine Records say that they were “Manuf. by Spikes Bros. Phonograph Co. Inc. Los Angeles”, but they were all actually manufactured by Nordskog Records, and also issued by Nordskog. Most […]

Israeli whist is a variant of whist popular among Israeli soldiers and travelers.

After the cards are dealt, the players place bids in order to decide which is the trump suit. A player’s bid consists
of which suit he wants to play as trump and how many tricks he is about to win (anywhere from 5 […]

Five pence || famous coin

5P redirects here. You may be looking for the Five Pillars of Wikipedia.

Five pence may refer to:

A British five pence coin, a decimal subdivision of the pound sterling.

An Irish five pence coin, a decimal subdivision of the now defunct Irish pound.

1 Right Price is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on September 11, 1975’s show, it is played for two prizes.

Gameplay

The contestant is shown a price and two prizes, and is asked to determine which prize it belongs to. A correct decision wins both prizes.

The game is […]

The three-pence coin was a pre-decimal coin worth 1/80 of an Irish pound. The Irish name (leath reul) literally meant “half reul“, the reul being a sixpence coin worth the same as the Spanish real.

The design was by the English artist Percy Metcalf. Originally it was struck in nickel and was very hard-wearing. In 1942, […]

In numismatics, a mule is a coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece. These can be intentional or produced by error. This type of error is highly sought after, and examples can fetch steep prices from collectors.

Several prominent mule errors have been discovered in recent […]