Kiosk - Kiosk A kiosk is a stall set up in a public place where one can obtain information, e.g., tourist information. The information may be provided by a human or by a computer. In the latter case, the data may be stored locally (e.g. on CD-ROM) or accessed via a network using some kind of distributed information retreival system such as Gopher or World-Wide Web. This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC, used with permission..
Villa Torlonia - Torlonia constructed a bomb shelter in the 3rd and 4th century Jewish catacombs that lie beneath the villa's famous landscaped park. The Villa houses part of the Torlonia collection of neo-Classic sculpture. In the park is a kiosk in the Moorish taste, one of thirteen garden pavilions representing exotic parts of the world. Villa Torlonia, the most famous 'English' landscape garden in Italy, became a part of the public park system of Rome in 1978. Villa Torlonia, Rome. At Frascati the grand Baroque terraced gardens and fountains of the Villa Torlonia, Frascati, bought by prince Torlonia in the 19th century, provided subjects for watercolors by the American painter John Singer Sargent. The land the Villa was built on belonged to the Abbey of Grottaferrata, which donated it in 1563 to Annibal.
Fast-food restaurant - restaurants are part of restaurant chains or franchise operations, which provide standardized foodstuffs to the individual restaurants, shipped from central locations. There are also simpler fast-food outlets, like just a stand or kiosk, with or without shelter for customers, and with or without a few chairs to eat sitting (for the UK, see also below). Because the capital requirements to start a fast-food restaurant are relatively low, particularly in areas with non-existent or little enforced health codes, small individually owned fast food restaurants are common throughout the world. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Overview 2 Modern fast-food restaurants 2.1 Australia 2.2 Canada 2.3 Finland 2.4 France 2.5 Greece 2.6 Hong Kong 2.7 Israel 2.8 Italy 2.9 Japan 2.10 Sweden 2.11 United Kingdom 2.12 United States 3 Fictional 4 Corporations 5 See.
Electronic voting - intent electronically. Electronic voting includes voting by kiosk, internet, telephone, punch card, and optical scan ballot (a.k.a. mark-sense). Voting takes place for a wide variety of issues, ranging from determining the next garden club officers to determining the next leader of a country. Different voting systems meet different requirements depending on the circumstances. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Direct Recording Electronic 2 Mark-Sense Voting 3 Punch Card Voting 4 Internet Voting 5 Telephone Voting 6 Six Commandments of Electronic Voting 7 Problems with Electronic Voting 8 External Links Direct Recording Electronic Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems tally votes directly to computer memory. The voting machines typically take the form of an automatic teller machine or a laptop computer. DRE voting systems are often favored because they can incorporate assistive technologies.
Afghanistan timeline August 2001 - security of humanitarian personnel in Afghanistan. August 30, 2001 Iran complained to the United Nations that Afghanistan's ruling Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan had raised border tensions by deploying soldiers seizing a kiosk on August 27. August 29, 2001 The captain of the MS Tampa, carrying 438 asylum seekers (420 from Afghanistan), declared a state of emergency and proceeded to enter Australian territorial waters, despite Australian government orders not to. The Australian government responded by dispatching Australian troops to board the ship and prevent it from approaching any further to Christmas Island. The MS Tampa captain was instructed to move the ship back into international waters. He refused. The Norwegian government warned the Australian government not to seek to force the ship to return to international waters against the captain's will. The.
Automatic teller machine - teller machine Automatic Teller Machine Kiosk An automatic teller machine (ATM) is a machine permitting a bank's customers to make cash withdrawals and check their account balances at any time and without the need for a human teller. Many ATMs also allow people to deposit cash or cheques, transfer money between their bank accounts or even buy postage stamps. ATMs are known by a wide variety of names, some of which being more common in certain countries than others. Some examples are: Automated Teller Machine Automated Banking Machine ATM Machine [sic] Hole-in-the-wall Cash Dispenser Cash Machine Robotic Teller Cashpoint (in England particularly) Bancomat or Bankomat (particularly in continental Europe) Bank machine (in Canada) MAC machine, or MAC, (for Money Access Center) (particularly on the East coast in the United States, esp..
Beaches of Hong Kong - and no. 309 from Central can reach the place; but bus no. 309 is only available on Sunday. However, there are quite lot car parks near the beach; so it is still convenient for people to travel to it by private cars. Due to the isolated situation of Shek O, the environment near the Shek O Beach remains rustic. This becomes the attractive point of Shek O. 23. Turtle Cove Beach ( 龜 背 灣 泳 灘 ) - Hong Kong Island The beach situated at east of Stanley and west of Tai Tam Reservoir is Turtle Cove Beach which is a Grade 1 beach. Being less than 70 meters long, it can easily be considered as a baby beach. Because there are no signposts, people do not know that you.
Bus rapid transit - or near-exclusive use of buses. Bus streets and busways: A bus street or transit mall can be created in an urban center by dedicating all lanes of a city street to the exclusive use of buses. Bus signal preference and preemption: Preferential treatment of buses at intersections can involve the extension of green time or actuation of the green light at signalized intersections upon detection of an approaching bus. Intersection priority can be particularly helpful when implemented in conjunction with bus lanes or streets, because general-purpose traffic does not intervene between buses and traffic signals. Traffic management improvements: Low-cost infrastructure elements that can increase the speed and reliability of bus service include bus turnouts, bus boarding islands, and curb realignments. Faster boarding: Conventional on board collection of fares slows the boarding.
Summerland disaster - offered a dance area, five floors of holiday games, restaurants and a public bar. It was a 1970s concrete design but the street frontage and part of the roof were clad in a translucent acrylic sheeting. The fire started around 19h30 in a small kiosk adjacent to the centre's mini-golf course. Eventually the burning kiosk slumped against the exterior of the building. The acrylic sheeting proved highly inflammable and the fire spread quickly across the sheeting on the walls and roof. The acrylic melted, which allowed more oxygen to enter and dropped burning material, both starting other fires and injuring those trying to escape. The interior sound-proofing material was also particularly inflammable and the buidling's design included many unblocked internal spaces that acted as chimneys. Despite being aware of the blaze,.
Red telephone box - Gilbert Scott The red telephone box, a public telephone kiosk designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, was a once familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom. It has all but disappeared in recent years, replaced by a number of different designs. The few kiosks that remain have not been replaced because they are regarded as being of special architectural and historical interest. The first standard public telephone kiosk introduced by the United Kingdom Post Office was produced by Somerville & Company in 1920 and was designated K1 (Kiosk no. 1). This design was not of the same family as the familiar red telephone boxes. The red telephone box was the result of a competition in 1924 to design a new grander kiosk. The competition attracted designs from a number of.
Parlour - this article up to date. Parlour - (from the Fr. parler, "to speak") denotes an "audience chamber," but that is not the import of the Hebrew word so rendered. It corresponds to what the Turks call a kiosk, as in Judg. 3:20 (the "summer parlour"), or as in the margin of the Revised Version ("the upper chamber of cooling"), a small room built on the roof of the house, with open windows to catch the breeze, and having a door communicating with the outside by which persons seeking an audience may be admitted. While Eglon was resting in such a parlour, Ehud, under pretence of having a message from God to him, was admitted into his presence, and murderously plunged his dagger into his body (21, 22). The "inner parlours" in.
Zoo - by having a darkened viewing window at the back of a shelter where the animals go to escape mid-day heat. Many zoos now have special buildings for nocturnal animals, with dim red lighting during the day, so the animals will be active when visitors are there, and bright lights at night to ensure that they sleep. A petting zoo features a combination of domestic animals and some wild species that are docile enough to touch and feed. Petting zoos are extremely popular with small children. In order to ensure the animals' health, the food is supplied by the zoo, either from vending machines or a kiosk nearby. In addition to independent petting zoos, also called children's farms, many general zoos contain one. Sometimes monkeys are not separated from the public, e.g..
Murmur (album) - were made for the glory days of College radio and to be enjoyed by the intellectual coffee-house crowd. The atmospheric and stylistic success of Murmur owes much to the mix, with prominent bass and vocals diminished into the mix, similar to that favored by post-punk band The Psychedelic Furs on their first two recordings. The album was produced and engineered by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, recorded in Charlotte, North Carolina, and released on indie IRS Records. The cover art features sepia-toned photos of a tressel and weedy vines growing covering the ground and nearby trees. The song titles are written over the brown tones in blue, rendering them almost unreadable, particularly with Moral Kiosk cutting vertically through the titles. The arwork is truly evocative of the sound of the band,.
London Zoo - Clock Tower (1828, originally built to house llamas) and the Giraffe House (1836-1837) by Decimus Burton (both Grade II listed buildings) the Mappin Terraces (1913-1914) by Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell and John James Joass (listed Grade II) the Penguin Pool (1934), Round House (built 1932-1933 to house the zoo's gorillas) and North Gate Kiosk (1936) - all by Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton firm, with inputs on the Penguin Pool from leading structural engineer Ove Arup (the first two structures are now listed Grade I, kiosk Grade II) the Snowdon aviary (1962-1964) by Lord Snowdon, Cedric Price and Frank Newby the Elephant and Rhino House (1962-1965) designed by Sir Hugh Casson and Neville Conder Filming at London Zoo Many films and television programmes have been filmed at London Zoo, the most famous being.
Varda, Greece - location is in front of an abandoned pasture on the valley south of Várda, on the north is a ravine, and pastures, and to the south, is the forest, creek, and bushes, along with buildings from Várda further west. GR-9 ot the east, and the Old road, and a pasture-land to the landfill's west. There are now two, some prefer three active railroad crossings in the municipality, the remainder are not electrically operated. Tens of greenhouses are scattered mainly above sea level. They are founded mainly east of GR-9, or E55. It was built in the 1980s. There are one humongous greenhouse off the BP gas bar. width is almost 150 m and the length is exactly 700 to 800 m. There are other greenhouses scattered in Psari, east of Manoláda,.
