Inch - Inch An inch is an Imperial unit of length. Sweden also briefly had a "decimal inch" based on the metric system: see below for more. According to some sources, the inch was originally defined informally as the distance between the tip of the thumb and the first joint of the thumb. Another source says that the inch was at one time defined in terms of the yard, supposedly defined as the distance between Henry I of England's nose and his thumb. There are twelve inches in a foot, and three feet in a yard. Historically, the inch has referred to several slightly different units of length, used in different parts of the world. Today there are two units called the "inch" still in use, both being.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a off-Broadway musical/play (1998) and movie (2001) about a fictional rock band. The text was written by John Cameron Mitchell and the music and lyrics were by Stephen Trask. It has become something of a cult hit. It draws on the androgynous glam rock era of David Bowie, as well as influences from Iggy Pop and the later gender bender fashions of the early 1980s. It also draws on aspects of Greek mythology as well as the New York transsexual culture. The plot revolves around Hedwig, a transsexual rock star, leader of the band called The Angry Inch. In the story, Hedwig, a German cross-dresser, decides to go "all the way" and have gender reassignment surgery, but.
Kamal - used primarily by the Chinese and Arabs in the 18th and 19th century. The kamal consists of a rectangular wooden card about 2 inches by 1 inch, to which a string with several equally spaced knots is attached through a hole in the middle of the card. The kamal is used by placing one end of the string in the teeth while the other end is held away from the body roughly parallel to the ground. The card is then moved along the string, positioned so the lower edge is even with the horizon, and the upper edge is occluding a target star, typically Polaris because its angle to the horizon does not change with longitude or time. The angle can then be measured by counting the number of knots from.
KDM Sælen (S323) - officers and men Armament: eight 533mm (21-inch) torpedo tubes, eight torpedoes KDM Sælen (S323), is one of the three Tumleren-class small coastal submarines of the Kongelige Danske Marine (Royal Danish Navy). She was built as a Type 207 submarine by Rheinstahl-Nordseewerke of Emden, Germany in 1965 for the Kongelige Norske Marine (Royal Norwegian Navy) and served for 25 years as KNM Uthaug before being purchased by Denmark in 1990. Her international call sign is OUCJ. On 4 December 1990, Sælen sank while being towed from Copenhagen to Aarhus. On 17 December, she was raised by the German floating crane Roland and taken to Aarhus for repair. On 10 August 1993, diving approval was issued and the boat was recommissioned. Sælen served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq from May 2002 until.
Kenny McCormick - they'd be censored if they weren't. He has a colorful sense of humor and a perverted mind. Kenny's lines in the South Park theme song are: I like girls with big vaginas; I'm also a fan of big, fat titties. In season 3, this changed to: I have got a ten inch penis; Use your mouth to help me clean it. In season seven, this changed to Someday I'll be old enough to stick my dick in Britney's butt. Kenny's family is extremely poor, with his father an alcoholic, and his friends (especially Cartman) often tease him about it. Despite these problems, Kenny is often portrayed as the hero of the group; indeed, several of his deaths have been acts of heroic self-sacrifice. Matt & Trey tried to kill him off.
Knife - onto the edge and be cut. Quillions should be rounded so that they do not cut fingers, and strong enough so that they do not bend before the knife breaks. A nice feature is to curve the top quillion so a thumb can be placed on it. Some knives have a choil, a crack, finger-hole or other space between the edge and the handle. A functional choil is a circular cut-out between the blade and the handle. It's often knurled. A functional choil lets the user grip a knife with the bottom quillion between the index and middle finger. This lets one use the index finger to feel where the edge is cutting. For less-delicate cuts, the index finger is kept safe behind the quillion. Some pocket knives have only a.
Ko-hyoteki class submarine - surfaced, 19 knots submerged Complement: one commander, one crewman Armament: two 18-inch torpedoes muzzle-loaded into tubes, one 300-pound scuttling charge (big enough not only to destroy the sub but to disable any ship it was near) The ko-hyoteki (甲標的, "Type 'A' Target") class of Japanese midget submarines had no names, but were referred to by the designations of their "mother" I-16 class submarines, plus the suffix "tou" (艟). Thus, the midget carried by I-16 was known as I-16tou. They also had hull numbers beginning with the character "ha" (は), which can only be seen on a builder's plate inside the hull. They carried one commander and one crewman. Twenty ko-hyoteki were built. The "Type 'A' Target" name was assigned as a ruse -- if their design was prematurely discovered by Japan's.
Kudzu - Description Deciduous leaves are alternate and compound, with three broad leaflets up to four inches (10 cm) across. Leaflets may be entire or deeply 2-3 lobed with hairy margins. Leaflets are entire or coarsely and palmately lobed, up to eight inches long, pubescent underneath. Flowering kudzu Individual flowers, about ½-inch (1 cm) long, are purple, highly fragrant, tufted at nodes at the rachis, and borne in long hanging clusters (see image). The flowers are copious nectar producers and are visited by many species of bees, butterflies and skippers. Flowering occurs in late summer and is soon followed by production of brown, hairy, flattened, seed pods, each of which contains three to ten hard seeds. Every part of the plant is edible. The young leaves can be used for salad or cooked.
Kubotan - a pair of yawara, is a short bar, about 6 inches long (15 cm) and half an inch thick (1cm). It is made from hard plastic or aluminium, ribbed, and has a rounded tapered point at one end. It sometimes has a hole in the other end allowing it to hold keys or the like. Unlike a yawara (which is intended to break bones), kubotans are generally used to inflict pain without causing any physical danger to the target..
James Blish - Black Easter and The Day after Judgement, were written using the assumption that the ritual magic for summoning demons as described in grimoires actually worked. In the first book, a wealthy arms manufacturer comes to a black magician with a strange request: he wishes to release all the demons from hell for one night to see what might happen. The book mainly consists of a lengthy description of the summoning ritual, and the grotesque figures of the demons as they appear. The book ends with Baphomet announcing to the participants that the demons can not be compelled to return to hell: the War is over, and God is dead. The Day After Judgment shows the characters from the first book, and the realisation that God may not be dead, as something.
Jarrah - above and paler below. The stalked buds appear in clusters of seven to 11. Each bud has a narrow, conical bud cap five to nine millimeters long. The flowers are white and bloom in spring and early summer. The fruits are spherical to barrel-shaped, and nine to 16 millimeters (one-third to two-thirds of an inch) long. The characteristic eucalyptus bark is not shed in patches as it is with many gums, but it splits into fibrous strips. Jarrah trees are also unusual in that they have a lignotuber, a large underground swelling which stores carbohydrates and allows even young trees to re-grow after a fire. Because they are deep-rooted (as much as forty meters deep), jarrah are drought resistant, able to draw water from great depths during dry periods. Jarrah blossoms.
Jasper - mineral. For other uses see Jasper (disambiguation) Jasper pebble, one inch long (2.5 cm) Jasper is an opaque, impure variety of quartz that is red, yellow or other colors. This mineral breaks with a smooth surface that is used for ornamentation or as a gemstone. It can be highly polished and is used for vases, seals, and at one time for snuff boxes. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper. See also: List of minerals.
Veroboard - is a general-purpose single-sided printed circuit board (PCB), which is pre-drilled with a regular grid of holes on a standard spacing, 0.1 inch being the most popular. Each row of holes is connected by a copper track on one side of the board. The board itself is made of synthetic-resin-bonded-paper (SRBP). The 0.1 inch spacing allows most standard through-mounted components to be mounted and soldered to the board. The continuous tracks may be easily and neatly cut as desired to form breaks between conductors using a 5mm twist drill or a hand cutter made for the purpose. Tracks may be linked up on the component side of the board using wire links or lengths of insulated wire. With practice, very neat and reliable assemblies can be created, but such a method.
Japanese gunboat Akagi - and completed in July 1890. Akagi was one of four vessels of the Maya class of gunboats. After serving in the Japanese fleet, Akagi was sold in 1912. Armament was one 8.2-inch gun and one 4.7-inch gun. Akagi carried 60 tons of coal, had a maximum speed of around 12 knots and displaced 612 tons normal. The vessel was 135 feet from perpendicular to perpendicular in length, with a beam of 22 feet and draught of 8 feet 6 inches. See also: Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War.
Verne Troyer - movies, a character which is a miniature clone of Doctor Evil. He also appeared as himself in an Apple Computer commercial for its 12-inch and 17-inch PowerBooks, in which he used the larger computer and 7'5" (2.26 m) Chinese NBA star Yao Ming used the smaller one. External Links Verne Troyer at IMDb.
Victoria, British Columbia - reasonably temperate, with very few daily temperatures above 30°C (86°F) or below 0°C (32°F). In January, the average daily high and low temperatures are 6.9°C (44.4°F) and 0.7°C (33.3°F), respectively. In July, Victoria enjoys considerably warmer temperatures, averaging a daily high of 21.9°C (71.4°F) and low of 10.8°C (51.4°F). The record daily high temperature was 36.1°C (97.0°F) on July 16, 1941, and the record daily low temperature was -15.6°C (3.9°F) on January 28, 1950. Concerning precipitation, Victoria is fairly wet during the winter, but suffers from several weeks of drought-like conditions during the summer. In July, Victoria only receives an average of 19.5 mm (0.8 inch) of rain. In January, Victoria receives an average of 121.8 mm (4.9 inches) of rain, but only an average of 15.2 cm (6.1 inches) of.
Video cassette recorder - to record the signal on a particular channel during a particular time interval. History Before the advent of the VCR proper, portable video recorders using half-inch wide tape on 7 inch reels were marketed by Sony. These did not have timers, and were mainly used by schools and colleges to record educational programmes, and by businesses as a means of distributing training films. Even earlier, in the 1950s, British enthusiasts could buy home kinescope kits which allowed the filming of TV shows on 16mm film. In 1958, Ampex took its color video tape recorder to Russia and demonstrated it before Vice President Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the USSR. A color video recording was brought back to the US and seen on American television. RCA also had taken color.
Johnny Cash - 1980s his records failed to make a major impact on the country charts, though he continued to tour successfully. In the mid 1980s he recorded and toured with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson as the Highwaymen, making two hit albums. As his relationship with record companies and the Nashville establishment soured, he occasionally lapsed into self-parody, notably on "Chicken In Black". His career was rejuvenated in the 1990s. Unwanted by major labels he signed with Rick Rubin's "American Recordings" label, better known for rap and hard rock than country music. Under Rubin's supervision he recorded the album American Recordings (1994) in his front room, accompanied only by his guitar, which was well received by critics, while his versions of songs by more modern artists such as heavy metal band.
Video Home System - after competing with Sony's Betamax and, to a lesser extent, Philips's Video 2000. The physical looks of a VHS cassette. A VHS-cassette contains a long 1/2 inch magnetic tape which is wound from one of two spools to the other, allowing it to slowly pass by the reader head of the video cassette recorder. Several improved versions of VHS exist, most notably S-VHS, an improved analog standard, and D-VHS, which records digital video onto a VHS form factor tape. VHS-C tapes (C for compact) was used in camcorders and could be played back in a regular VHS player with an adapter. VHS tapes have an approx. 3 MHz horizontal resolution and 250 lines vertical resolution. Although VHS officially stands for Video Home System some early reports claimed that the initials originally.
Joseph Whitworth - surfaces. This led to an explosion of development of precision instruments using his flat surfaces as a basis for further construction of precise shapes. His next innovation, in 1840, was a measuring technique called "end measurements" that used a precision flat plane and measuring screw, both of his own invention. The system, with an accuracy of one millionth of an inch, was demonstrated at the Great Exhibition of 1851. In 1841 Whitworth devised the first standardised system for screw threads. Its adoption by the railway companies, who until then had all used different screw threads, led to its widespread acceptance. It later became a British Standard, "British Standard Whitworth", abbreviated to BSW and governed by BS 84:1956. Whitworth was commissioned by the War Department of the British government to design a.
