Koch (boat) - Koch (boat) Koch' (pl. kochi) , a special type of small two-mast wooden sailing ships designed and used in Russia for Polar voyages in ice conditions of the Arctic seas. Because of its additional skin-planking (called kotsa) and Arctic design of the body and the rudder, it could sail without being damaged in the waters full of blocks of ice and ice-floes. Koch was the unique ship of this class and it remained as such for several centuries. This type of ships was in wide use during the heydays of Russian Polar navigation in 15th and 16th centuries. There is documental proof that in those days the private Russian civil fleet in the Arctic seas numbered up to 7,400 small ships in a single year. In.
Koch - Koch Koch can refer to the following: Edward I. Koch - former Mayor of New York City Karl Koch - German film director and writer Karl Koch, a German hacker from the 1980s - see hagbard Walter Karl Koch - a German surgeon Karl Otto Koch - the first commandant of Buchenwald Ilse Koch - wife of Karl, "The Bitch of Buchenwald" Koch - A type of artic boat.
Unterseeboot 19 - brief command, Weisbach carried out an unusual mission: he delivered the revolutionary Roger Casement and two other agents to Ballyheige Bay in Ireland in hopes that they would foment an uprising that would distract the United Kingdom from World War I. Weisbach was relieved on August 11, 1916, by Johannes Spieß, who was relieved in turn on June 1, 1917, by Heinrich Koch. Koch turned the boat over on October 25, 1917, to Hans Albrecht Liebeskind, who commanded for less than a month before being relieved on November 17, 1917, by Johannes Spieß again. On June 1, 1918, Hans Albrecht Liebeskind took over again and commanded U-19 until the end of the war. U-19 conducted 12 patrols, sinking 46 ships totalling 64,816 tons, including Santa Maria (5,383 tons) off Lough Swilly.
America's Cup - the winner of a match of up to nine races between two yachts from different countries, one representing the yacht club which holds the Cup and the other boat fielded by a club challenging for the trophy. The race originated on August 22, 1851 when the 30.86m schooner-yacht America (owned by a syndicate representing the New York Yacht Club raced 15 yachts representing the Royal Yacht Squadron around the Isle of Wight. America won by 20 minutes. Stung by this blow to contemporary perception of invincible British sea power, a succession of British syndicates attempted to win back the cup. The New York Yacht Club remained unbeaten for 25 challenges over 132 years, the longest winning streak in the history of sport. The matches were held in the vicinity of New.
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List of people associated with World War II - (1895-1972), banker and Nazi sympathizer Wilhelm Canaris, (1887-1945), chief of Abwehr Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg conducted experiments on Jewish women at Auschwitz extermination camp John Demjanuk, notorious guard at the German extermination camps Rudolf Diels, (1900-1957), first head of the Gestapo Sepp Dietrich, SS general Karl Dönitz, (1891-1980), Admiral, masterminded U-Boat warfare Adolf Eichmann, (1906-1962), top level bureaucrat Theodor Eicke, (1892-1943), a Commandant of the Dachau death camp and head of the SS Death's-Head Units Nikolaus Falkenhorst, colonel general and commander of German troops in Norway Eugen Fischer, (1874-1967), Professor of Anthropology who promoted racial purity Hans Frank, (1900-1946), (1900-1945), lawyer for Adolf Hitler Walter Frank, (1905-1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer, he was president of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany Kurt Franz, (1917-1998), Deputy Commandant.
Kocha - (also pomor), traditional Russian sewn boat used on the Arctic Ocean and Siberian rivers. Koches had up to 100 tons displacement and could hold up to two dozen people, food, and other necessities. In the 16th and 17th centuries koches were plying on important trade route along northern cost of Siberia..
Karl Koch (director) - Karl Koch (director) Karl Koch was a German film director and writer, assistant to Luchino Visconti. Filmography: La Marseillaise (1938) La Règle du jeu (1939) La Tosca (1941) Signora dell'ovest (1942) aka Girl of the Golden West Night of the Silvery Moon (1954).
Koch curve - Koch curve The Koch curve is a mathematical curve, and one of the earliest fractal curves to have been described. It appeared in a 1906 paper entitled "Une méthode géométrique élémentaire pour l'étude de certaines questions de la théorie des courbes plane" by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch [1]. The better known Koch snowflake (or Koch star) is the same as the curve, except it starts with an equilateral triangle (instead of a line segment). Eric Haines has developed the sphereflake fractal, a three-dimensional version of the snowflake. One can imagine that it was created by starting with a line segment, then recursively altering each line segment as follows: divide the line segment into three segments of equal length. draw an equilateral triangle that has.
Koch's postulates - Koch's postulates Koch's postulates are four criteria that Robert Koch published in 1884, which he said must be fulfilled in order to establish a causal relationship between a parasite and a disease. He applied these to establish the etiology of tuberculosis, but they have been generalized to other diseases. The organism must be found in all animals suffering from the disease, but not in healthy animals. The organism must be isolated from a diseased animal and grown in pure culture. The cultured organism should cause disease when introduced into a healthy animal. The organism must be reisolated from the experimentally infected animal..
Koch Industries - Koch Industries Koch Industries, based in Wichita, Kansas, has an annual turnover of ~$3535,000,000,000 (2002). The corporation was formed in 1946 by Fred Koch and is involved with a number of products, such as: asphalt, fertilizers, fibers, minerals, natural gas, petroleum, plastics, ranching, and securities. Koch Industries is now under the joint administration of Charles and David H. Koch. The Koch brothers also operate the Koch Family Foundations, a major source of funding for conservative political causes the United States, including think tanks such as Citizens for a Sound Economy and the libertarian Cato Institute. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Criticism 2 References 3 External Link Criticism In 1989, the US Senate Committee on Investigations stated, "Koch Oil, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, is the most.
Koch's giant day gecko - Koch's giant day gecko Koch's giant day gecko Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Sub-order: Sauria Family: Gekkonidae Subfamily: Gekkoninae Genus: Phelsuma Species: madagascariensis Binomial name Phelsuma madagascariensis Trinomial name Phelsuma madagascariensis kochi Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Scientific name: 2 Common name: 3 General introduction: 4 Description: 5 Distribution: 6 Habitat: 7 Diet: 8 Behaviour: 9 Reproduction: 10 Care and maintenance in captivity: 11 References: Scientific name: Phelsuma madagascariensis kochi MERTENS 1954 Common name: Koch's giant day gecko General introduction: This diurnal gecko lives in northwest and western Madagascar. It typically inhabits trees. The Koch's giant day gecko feeds on insects and nectar. Description: This lizard belongs to the largest living day geckos. It can reach a total length of about.
Koch Family Foundations - Koch Family Foundations The Koch Family Foundations[1] consist of the David H. Koch Foundation, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation. Funding for the foundations comes from the conglomerate Koch Industries, the "nation's largest privately held energy company, with annual revenues of more than $25 billion. ... Koch Industries is now the second largest family-owned business in the U.S., with annual sales of over $20 billion." "The company is owned by two of the richest men in America," David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch (described as 'reclusive billionaires'), who have a combined personal fortune estimated at more than $3 billion and who have emerged as major Republican contributors in recent years. ... Both David and Charles Koch are ranked.
Jet sprint boat racing - Jet sprint boat racing Jet Sprint Boat racing is a form of racing sport where trailerable speed boats, powered by water jet propulsion rather than by conventional propellers, race around shallow, artificial watercourses characterised by many tight turns. The racing format is usually a sequence of time trials. While the Jetboat was invented in New Zealand, this form of boat racing is becoming more popular in Australasia, and attracts large crowds to events. see also sport, Offshore Powerboat racing.
Jetboat - Jetboat A jetboat is a boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft. Unlike a powerboat or motorboat that uses a propeller in the water behind the boat, a jetboat draws the water from under the boat into an impeller pump, known as a jet unit, inside the boat then expels it through a nozzle at the stern. Steering is accomplished by small vanes that direct the water jet in the direction the boat needs to go. Because of this the jetboat is highly maneuverable and can often be reversed and brought to a stop within its own length from full speed in a maneuver known as a jetboat turn. By analogy to aircraft, a conventional screw propellor accelerates a large volume.
Ilse Koch - Ilse Koch Ilse Koch née Kohler (1906-1969) was the wife of Karl Koch, the commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald. She is infamous for creating lampshades and other articles from the skin of murdered Jews with distinctive tattoos. She was better known as The Bitch Of Buchenwald for her sadistic cruelty toward prisoners. She was sentenced to a life term in 1947 but released after only 4 years. She was re-arrested in 1949 for killing German nationals and committed suicide in prison..
Heckler und Koch - Heckler und Koch Heckler und Koch GmbH (H&K) is a German weapons manufacturing company famous for various series of small firearms, notably the MP5 submachine gun and the G3 assault rifle. It has recently been contracted by the US Military to produce the Objective Individual Combat Weapon, a planned replacement for the M-16/M203 grenade launcher combination which will fire both 5.56mm and 20mm cannon ammunition. H&K was founded by Edmund Heckler and Theodor Koch in 1949, and the company was registered in 1950. In the beginning, the company produced sewing machines and other fine mechanics, but this was changed in 1956 when the company constructed a rifle for the German Bundeswehr. In 1991, H&K was bought by British Aerospace (now BAE SYSTEMS). The company is located in.
Heckler und Koch MP5 - Heckler und Koch MP5 The Heckler und Koch MP5 is a submachine gun. More specifically it is a black, lightweight, air-cooled, magazine-fed, select-fire weapon. Like most H&K weapons the trigger assembly is completely replaceable, and include fully automatic, 4, 3, and 2-round burst, single shot, and safe positions in various combinations. The weapon operates on delayed blowback, using the patented H&K roller-locked bolt system. The weapon was long chambered for a 9x19mm round of pistol calibre. In the late 1990s .40 S&W and Bren 10mm versions were introduced, but soon phased out in favor of the new UMP submachine gun. It was designed for reliability, ease of handling, and simple maintenance. Variants The original MP5 was available in fixed or folding butt forms. Some variants did not.
Helge von Koch - Helge von Koch Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (January 25, 1870 - March 11, 1924) was a Swedish mathematician, who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch curve, which was one of the earliest fractal curves to have been described. He was born into a family of Swedish nobility. His grandfather, Nils Samuel von Koch (1801-1881), was the Attorney-General ("Justitiekansler") of Sweden. His father, Richert Vogt von Koch (1838-1913) was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Horse Guards of Sweden. von Koch wrote several papers on number theory. One of his results was a 1901 theorem proving that the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to a strengthened form of the prime number theorem. He described the Koch curve in a 1906 paper entitled "Une méthode géométrique.
Heckler und Koch MP7 - Heckler und Koch MP7 The Heckler und Koch MP7 is a submachine gun, classed as a personal defence weapon (PDW). It went into production in 2001. Like the conceptually similar FN P90, it is very compact (340 mm) and light (1.3 kg unloaded), using mainly polymers in the construction. The weapon allows for a conventional 20 or 40 round box magazine fitting within the pistol grip and has a ambidextrous fire-select lever and rear cocking grip. It has an extendable stock and a folding front grip. It can be fired either one- or two-handed. It fires at a maximum rate of 950 rpm using a open bolt gas system, similar to the company's G36. The ammunition is specific to the gun and designed for good penetration and.
