Flags and Emblems is a punk rock album by the band Stiff Little Fingers, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music).

Track listing

“(It’s a) Long Way to Paradise (From Here)” (Burns)

“Stand Up and Shout” (Taylor/Burns)

“Each Dollar a Bullet” (Burns)

“The ‘Cosh’ ” (Burns)

“Beirut Moon” (Burns)

“The Game of Life”

“Human Shield” (Burns)

“Johnny 7″ (Cluney)

“Die and Burn” (Burns)

“No Surrender” (Burns)

Personnel

Jake […]

A production orientation dominated business thought from the beginning of capitalism to the mid 1950’s, and some argue it still exists in some industries. Business concerned itself primarily with production, manufacturing, and efficiency issues. This viewpoint was encapsulated in Say’s Law which states Supply creates its own demand. To put it another way, If a […]

Higher-order control is contrasted to first-order control. In second- and higher-order control, the way the mechanism is used may change.

It can be said that first-order control is how much something is done, second-order control is what is done, and third-order control is inventing new things to do.

Example: The problem is that people become addicted to […]

“I’d Die Without You” is a popular song by P.M. Dawn.

It was featured on the soundtrack of the 1992 film, Boomerang, that starred Eddie Murphy, Halle Berry and Robin Givens. It later appeared on P.M. Dawn’s own The Bliss Album…? (1993). In 2002, the song was covered by Brandy and her brother Ray J for […]

The florin coin (more commonly known as the two-shilling coin) was a pre-decimal coin and worth 1/10 of an Irish pound. The coin featured the salmon and 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 […]

Percy Hodge (born December 26, 1890 — died December 27, 1967) was a British athlete, winner of the 3000 m steeplechase at the 1920 Summer Olympics, held in Antwerp.

The 1920 Summer Olympics were the first to include a (now common) 3000 m steeplechase. This was run on a grass course, unlike later competitions. Percy Hodge […]

Opposition is a term used in positional astronomy and astrology to indicate when one celestial body is on the opposite side of the sky when viewed from a particular place (usually the Earth). In particular, two planets are in opposition to each other when their ecliptic longitudes differ by 180°.

The symbol of opposition is ☍. […]

The coinage of Ireland cover coins issued under a variety of local and national rulers, the Kingdom of Ireland, and the early years of Ireland’s membership of the United Kingdom, as well as those issued by the foreunner of the Republic of Ireland since 1928, the Irish Free State.

Hiberno-Norse Coins
Hiberno-Norse coins were first produced in […]

In economics, income velocity of money is the number of times an individual unit of currency turns over (i.e., is spent) in a specific period of time. Velocity affects the amount of economic activity generated by a given money supply.

The velocity of the money supply is Gross Domestic Product/money (be it M0, M1, M2, or […]

The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) is a third-party appraisal service for grading rare coins. It determines the condition and authenticity of each coin it grades to provide consumers with an independent knowledgeable rating on which to judge the coin. It was founded in 1986, and is located in Newport Beach, CA.

In the May 26 […]

Hyperchlorhydria refers to the state in the stomach where gastric acid levels are higher than the normal range. In humans, the normal pH is around 1 to 3, which varies throughout the day. The highest basal secretion levels are in the late evening (around 12AM to 3AM). Hyperchlorhydria is usually defined as […]

Index Fungorum, an international project to index all formal names (scientific names) in the Kingdom Fungi. Somewhat comparable to IPNI, but with more contributing institutions.

Another difference is that where IPNI does not indicate correct names, the Index Fungorum does indicate the status of a name. In the returns from the search page a currently […]

The getaddrinfo() function is part of the POSIX standard API in support for using it as a function to resolve a DNS hostname and IP addresses from their human-readable text form into a format for the operating system’s networking API.

The reverse function is getnameinfo().

Example
The following example uses getaddrinfo() to get a result, then calls getnameinfo()<tt> […]

Medallic orientation (or medal alignment or variations of these) is a feature of coins. When viewing one side of a coin with medallic orientation, correct side up, the coin must be flipped about its vertical axis in order to see the other side the correct way up. In other words, the image on one […]

George Washington Orton (January 10, 1873 – June 26, 1958) was a Canadian middle-distance runner. In 1900, he became the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal.

Born in sadusky ohio, Orton did his undergraduate studies in at the University of Toronto, before switching to the University of Pennsylvania in 1893. By then, he was already […]

KYRK (The New 104.1) is an Active rock outlet serving the New Orleans area. The Clear Channel Communications station is licensed to Houma, Louisiana and broadcasts at 104.1 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW.

History
When it originally signed on the air in 1968 it only targeted the Houma area. But in 1989 it moved its […]

William Forsythe (born December 30 1949 in New York City) is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Dresden in Saxony. He is known internationally for his work with the Frankfurt Ballet and his reorientation of classical ballet.

Forsythe trained at the Joffrey Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre in New York City (taking additional classes […]

The bigger fool theory or greater fool theory (also called survivor investing) is the belief held by one who makes a questionable investment, with the assumption that they will be able to sell it later to “a bigger fool”; in other words, buying something not because you believe that it is worth the price, but […]

Wetmore Glacier () is a glacier about 40 miles (64 km) long, flowing southeast between the Rare Range and Latady Mountains into the north part of Gardner Inlet. It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, under Ronne, who named this feature for Alexander Wetmore, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who assisted […]

“Moist Vagina” is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. It is a B-side on their 1993 double A-side single “All Apologies/Rape Me.” A demo version appears on the band’s 2004 box set, With the Lights Out. On UK copies of the single, and on the box set, it is listed by the censored […]

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 […]

The shilling coin was a pre-decimal coin and worth 1/20 of an Irish pound. The coin featured the bull and the original minting of the coin from 1928 until 1942 contained 75% silver, this Irish coin had a higher content than the equivalent British coin. It is believed that this was done so that the […]

The following roads are numbered 18:

Canada

Alberta Highway 18

British Columbia Highway 18

Manitoba Highway 18

Prince Edward Island Route 18

Saskatchewan Highway 18

Japan

Route 18 (Japan)

Russia

M18 Motorway running from Saint Petersburg to Murmansk

United Kingdom

A18

road that links Doncaster with Ludborough in Lincolnshire
M18 Motorway in Yorkshire running from Rotherham to Goole

United States

U.S. Route 18

State Route […]

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)

Coin orientation (or coin alignment or variations of these) is a feature of coins. When viewing one side of a coin with coin orientation, correct side up, the coin must be flipped about its horizontal axis in order to see the other side the correct way up. In other words, the image on one face […]