Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Wiktionary Minutiae IPAc en icon m n ju . i singular minutia IPAc en m n ju . both also pronounced IPAc en m n ju are, in everyday English, minor or incidental details. In biometrics and forensic science , minutiae are major features of a fingerprint , using which comparisons of one print with another can be made. Minutiae include Ridge ending the abrupt end of a ridge Ridge bifurcation a single ridge that divides into two ridges Short ridge , or independent ridge a ridge that commences, travels a short distance and then ends Island a single small ridge inside a short ridge or ridge ending that is not connected to all other ridges Ridge enclosure a single ridge that bifurcates and reunites shortly afterward to continue as a single ridge Spur a bifurcation with a short ridge branching off a longer ridge Crossover or bridge a short ridge that runs between two parallel ridges Delta a Y shaped ridge meeting Core a U turn in the ridge pattern See also De minimis Category Biometrics Forensics stub ... more details
Orphan date November 2006 Terence O Gorman 1919 to 2003 was a poet from County Cavan , Republic of Ireland . His work was heavily influenced by William Butler Yeats W. B. Yeats and displays an appreciation of the natural beauty of Counties Monaghan and Cavan and of the minutiae of family life. He was born on a small farm at Drumnaveigh near Ballyjamesduff in east Cavan. External links http www.magnut.co.uk poems.html selected poems Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ogorman, Terence ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1919 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 2003 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ogorman, Terence Category 1919 births Category 2003 deaths Category Irish poets poetry stub ... more details
Image Why a Duck.jpg right thumb 250px Chico Marx Chico and Groucho Marx during the classic Why a Duck? scene from The Cocoanuts . Why a Duck? is a sketch comedy comedy routine featured in the Marx Brothers movie The Cocoanuts . In a scene in which Groucho and Chico are discussing a map, Groucho mentions the presence of a viaduct between the mainland and a peninsula. Chico, who is playing the role of an immigrant with poor English skills, replies Why a duck? This leads into a long schtick positing the existence of Why a chickens?, Why a horses?, and so forth. Why a Duck? is a touchtone metaphor touchstone scene for Marx Brothers fans, ref Anobile, Richard. Why a Duck? Avon Books, 1980. ISBN 0380004526 ref as evidenced by a book of the same name featuring a foreword by Groucho which focuses on the minutiae of the Marx Brothers routines. References references comedy stub 1920s comedy film stub Category Comedy sketches Category Marx Brothers film series Category Quotations from film and television ... more details
Perry Keyes born 1966 is an Australian singer songwriter He is based in Sydney , Australia . Former singer songwriter with Sydney band the Stolen Holdens. Keyes output is best described as rock but is close to a folk rock style in that the lyrics detail the minutiae of life, love and often the seamier side of existence in and around the working class Sydney suburbs of Redfern and Waterloo . His debut double album Meter was released in 2005. His 2007 album The Last Ghost Train Home was named 2007 Radio National album of the year is a finalist nominated for the 2007 Australian Music Prize . External links http www.perrykeyes.com Official Site http www.myspace.com perrykeyes My Space site Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Keyes, Perry ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1966 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Keyes, Perry Category 1966 births Category Living people Category Australian male singers Category Australian rock singers Category Australian singer songwriters Category People from Sydney ... more details
See also naive set theory for the mathematical topic. Naive Set Theory is a mathematics textbook by Paul Halmos originally published in 1960. This book is an undergraduate introduction to not very naive set theory . It is still considered by many to be the best introduction to set theory for beginners. While the title states that it is naive, which is usually taken to mean without axiom s, the book does introduce all the axioms of Zermelo Fraenkel set theory and gives correct and rigorous definitions for basic objects. Where it differs from a true axiomatic set theory book is its character there are no long winded discussions of axiomatic minutiae, and there is next to nothing about advanced topics like large cardinal s. Instead, it tries to be intelligible to someone who has never thought about set theory before. See also List of publications in mathematics References Paul Halmos, Naive set theory . Princeton, NJ D. Van Nostrand Company, 1960. Reprinted by Springer Verlag, New York, 1974. ISBN 0 387 90092 6 Springer Verlag edition . Category 1960 books Category Mathematics books Category Systems of set theory ... more details
unreferenced date April 2011 On The Train is a poem by Gillian Clarke . Its chief subject matter is the Paddington rail crash and its aftermath. The poem imagines commuters on the train heading towards the bone ship and refers to the anxiety of passengers and loved ones alike in the days following the disaster. Clarke uses the technology of 1999 to ground her poem in reality the mobile phones of the victims lie in the wreckage of the train while their friends and family frantically try to ring them. She quotes the phrase The Vodafone you are calling May have been switched off. Please call later. This everyday phrase takes on a new, more sinister meaning in context. Clarke concludes the poem by taking a lenient view, post Paddington, of train passengers who make mobile phone calls they no longer seem irritating, merely essential for reassuring people that they are still alive. This poem was written soon after the mobile phone boom of the late 1990s and as such is one of the first comments on the phenomenon. Two years later, mobile phones would again be closely linked with tragedy on 11 September 2001 . The poem has been included in the AQA Anthology for study at GCSE alongside several other of Gillian Clarke s poems. It is one of a number of Clarke poems including A Difficult Birth and The Field Mouse which comment on contemporary events alongside the minutiae of Clarke s own life. External links http www.universalteacher.org.uk anthology gillianclarke.htm onthetrain Notes on the poem from universalteacher.org.uk AQA Anthology Category Poems ... more details
refimprove date February 2011 Inside baseball describes details or minutiae of a Subject grammar subject so detailed or requiring such a specific knowledge about what is being discussed that they generally are not well known or appreciated by outsiders. ref cite web last Safire first William title On Language Inside Baseball url http www.nytimes.com 1988 06 19 magazine on language inside baseball.html?pagewanted all&src pm work New York Times Magazine publisher New York Times accessdate 28 February 2012 authorlink William Safire date June 19, 1988 ref The term is typically applied to discussions of science , technology , entertainment , politics , or related subjects of which the public has some general knowledge, but whose inner workings do not need to be known in order to understand the concept as a whole. For example, a Film criticism film critic may write a movie review using insider jargon , or information which regular movie goers would have little knowledge of or even interest in such as citing the Film director director s previous themes expressed in their movies in relation to the one being reviewed, because of the director s fascination with a particular school of filmmaking . Reflist Category English phrases language stub ... more details
BLP sources date May 2011 Howard E. McCurdy is professor of public affairs in the public administration and policy department at American University . McCurdy is considered an expert on space policy and NASA . In 1998, he was selected to be the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History , a one year fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum . ref cite web url http www1.spa.american.edu cvs Howard McCurdy 18.pdf title Howard E. McCurdy publisher American University work CV accessdate May 26, 2011 ref McCurdy received his bachelor s and master s degrees from the University of Washington and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Elizabeth Hand reviewed McCurdy s history of the U.S. space program In Space and the American Imagination , Howard McCurdy doesn t give us the right stuff but the real stuff, the minutiae of policy debate and political razzing that brought the space program into being and seems destined to bury it. It s a meandering, sometimes confusingly organized book, but an important one. McCurdy s prose style is understated and occasionally drab, but free of annoying postmodern tics . . . the book assembles a fascinating congeries of facts and fictions about trips to the moon, real or imagined. ref http www.sfsite.com fsf 1999 eh9901.htm Books , F&SF , January 1999 ref Publications McCurdy, Howard E. with David H. Rosenbloom , editors, Revisiting Waldo s Administrative State Constancy and Change in Public Administration , Georgetown University Press , 2006. McCurdy, Howard E., Faster, Better, Cheaper Low Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program , Johns Hopkins University Press , 2001. McCurdy, Howard E., Space and the American Imagination , Smithsonian Institution Press , 1998. References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME McCurdy, Howard E. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT McCurdy, Howard E. Category Cornell University alumni Category Living people p ... more details
distinguish The Revealers The Revealer is a daily online review of religion in the news . ref name NYT2005 cite news newspaper New York Times url http www.nytimes.com 2005 03 05 national 05religion.html author Cohen, Debra Nussbaum title Faithful Track Questions, Answers and Minutiae on Blogs date March 5, 2005 accessdate 2010 09 08 ref The website is published by the Center for Religion and Media at New York University with funding from the Center and the university s journalism department. ref name NYDN2005 cite news newspaper New York Daily News url http www.nydailynews.com archives news 2005 04 23 2005 04 23 web heaven for devout surfers.html title Web Heaven for Devout Surfers author Bell, Charles W. date April 23, 2005 accessdate 2010 09 08 ref ref name KR2007 cite news agency Knight Ridder author Dilanian, Ken date April 5, 2005 title Analysts say media could influence views on pope s legacy, selection url http www.mcclatchydc.com 2005 04 05 v print 11413 analysts say media could influence.html accessdate 2010 09 08 ref ref name LL2004 cite news newspaper The Ledger location Lakeland, FL title Views & Reviews Web Sites www.therevealer.org author The Dallas Morning News url http news.google.com newspapers?id xqUsAAAAIBAJ&sjid 0f0DAAAAIBAJ&pg 1786 2C1633051 date January 24, 2004 page D4 accessdate 2010 09 13 ref The Revealer was conceived by Jay Rosen . ref name TVW2006 cite journal journal TelevisionWeek author Kaufman, Debra date September 4, 2006 title Blogosphere Rich in Religion Views Writers Cover Varied Philosophical Ground url http goliath.ecnext.com coms2 gi 0199 5796596 Blogosphere Rich in Religion Views.html accessdate 2010 09 08 ref ref name about cite web url http therevealer.org about title About publisher The Revealer accessdate 2010 09 08 ref Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce then created the site. ref name about Ann Neumann is the current editor. ref name about References reflist External links official http www.therevealer.org DEFAULTSORT Reveale ... more details
Famous First Facts is a book listing First Happenings, Discoveries and Inventions in the United States . The current version of the book the sixth edition ISBN 0 8242 1065 4 , published in December 2006 includes more than 7,500 entries on 1,300 pages, organized by five different indexes. ref http www.hwwilson.com print fam1st 6th.cfm Famous First Facts, 6th Edition , H. W. Wilson Company . Accessed June 26, 2008. ref The book was originally published by H. W. Wilson Company in 1933, weighing in at 757 pages and selling for 3.50. ref http select.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res F20E1EFB3E5C16738DDDAD0994DD405B838FF1D3 FAMOUS FIRST FACTS. A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries and Inventions in the United States. By Joseph Nathan Kane. Illustrated. 757 pp. New York The H.W. Wilson Company. 3.50. , The New York Times , May 14, 1933. Accessed June 26, 2008. ref The book was created by Joseph Nathan Kane , a freelance journalist who had assembled 3,000 firsts into a text that had been rejected by 11 other publishers before it was accepted by its current publisher. The book became a library reference standard. ref Severo, Richard. http query.nytimes.com gst fullpage.html?res 9D0CEFDB1E39F934A1575AC0A9649C8B63&scp 1&sq 22joseph 20nathan 20kane 22&st cse Joseph Nathan Kane Dies Master of Minutiae Was 103 , The New York Times , September 27, 2002. Accessed June 26, 2008. ref The first edition led to a 1938 39 radio show hosted by Kane on the Mutual Broadcasting System . ref http www.hwwilson.com print JNkane profile.htm Joseph Nathan Kane , Current Biography . Accessed June 26, 2008. ref The second edition of the book was published in 1950, the third in 1964, the fourth in 1981 and the fifth in 1997. ref name Preface Anzovin, Steven., Famous First Facts , H. W. Wilson Company, 2006. p. vii. ref See also Notable Last Facts References Reflist External links http www.hwwilson.com print factseries.htm Famous First Facts Series , H. W. Wilson Company Category Reference works ... more details
Muvizu is software, free for non commercial use, that enables users to make 3D computer graphics 3D animations without the need for expensive equipment or specialist training. Users may collaborate via the Muvizu website on their productions. The Muvizu 3D application is written by Digimania, formerly part of DA Group, the company that developed Ananova . The software is still in the beta stage of development. ref cite web url http www.theregister.co.uk 2009 11 17 muvizu title Making Muvizu DIY animation is here author Andrew Orlowski publisher The Register date 17 November, 2009 accessdate 17 November, 2009 ref Digimania has licensed Unreal Engine 3 from Epic Games for use with Muvizu. ref cite web url http www.gamershell.com news 86120.html title DA Group Licenses Unreal Engine 3 date 26 October, 2009 accessdate 17 November, 2009 ref Muvizu 3D is noted for its extremely quick production cycle. A high quality animation set complete with complex character animation characters will lip synch to dialogue tracks may be created and uploaded to YouTube via the application or the Muvizu website in an hour or two simpler productions may have a turnaround time of 20 minutes. The program works by providing the user with a huge range of ways to edit and animate a growing library of characters, objects and elements. You do not create these yourself although as of the 0.12b release of August 31, 2010, you may import static meshes into the application but neither do you need to worry about the usual things associated with 3D animation such as modelling, meshes, rendering or raytracing. This allows users to concentrate on storytelling and direction, not on technical minutiae the Muvizu mantra is Direct, don t animate . Muvizu 3D makes no attempt to work with realistic looking characters or objects. The style is based on cartoons. There is also the facility to import certain types of object from other programs and as Muvizu evolves, this option will be expanded. Muvizu 3D is a lar ... more details
infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Bob Dylan Encyclopedia title orig translator image image caption author Michael Gray author Michael Gray cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre Non fiction , Criticism publisher Continuum Books release date 2006 media type Print Hardcover Hardback pages 736 pp isbn ISBN 0 8264 6933 7 preceded by followed by The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia is a compendium of articles written by Michael Gray author Michael Gray covering the life and work of Bob Dylan . It includes reviews of varying length for each album and numerous songs in Dylan s musical output, but is not just a work of music criticism. The topics for individual articles encompass Dylan s musical forebears, literary influences, personal acquaintances, key career events, musical associates, cultural context, forays into film and writing, and minutiae of all sorts. Gray s opinions characterize the content found in the Encyclopedia . Gray connects Dylan to the tradition of country blues , and there are many articles relating to blues music and blues musicians, especially those from the 1920s and 1930s . Gray summarises the life and work of key early rock and roll performers from the 1950s , as well as entries on influential artists from the fields of country music and the American folk music revival folk music revival . There are also articles on historical figures, ranging from Robert Browning to Marshall McLuhan . First editions of the Encyclopedia included a DVD duplicating its content, making it readable on the home computer . music publication stub Bob Dylan DEFAULTSORT Bob Dylan Encyclopedia Category Bob Dylan Category Books about rock music ... more details
Charles Lysaght is an Irish people Irish lawyer, author and journalist. He is the foremost writer of obituary obituaries in Ireland. Legal career Lysaght was educated in Dublin at Gonzaga College, at University College Dublin, and at Cambridge University . He qualified as a barrister at the King s Inns , Dublin , and then at Lincoln s Inn in London . He was one of the duo that won the first Irish Times Debate in 1960 ref http www.ucclawsociety.com archives index.php?title Irish Times Debating Competition ref and was elected auditor of the King s Inns Debating Society in 1961. He worked for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Ireland Department of Foreign Affairs as a specialist in European Union law . He is President of the Cambridge University Ireland Society. ref http www.alumni.ox.ac.uk alumni networks regional networks around the branches ireland and the.html ref Bibliography Administration of Justice in Ireland 1975 by VTH Delany edited by Charles Lysaght Brendan Bracken Allen Lane, London 1979 ISBN 0 7139 0969 2 ref http www.highbeam.com doc 1G1 82803457.html ref Edward MacLysaght , 1887 1986 A memoir 1988 Vanishing Kingdoms Chiefs of the Name Irish Chiefs and Their Families, AD 900 2004 2004 joint author The Times Great Irish Lives An Era in Obituaries Times Books 2008 09 , co authored with Garret FitzGerald . Lysaght also reviews books for the Sunday Independent ref http www.drb.ie more details 09 06 05 For Ireland and the Crown.aspx ref ref http www.independent.ie opinion letters neil blaney had a lot to offer 1955963.html ref and is an authority on the minutiae of recondite past laws and practices. ref http www.burkespeerage.com articles ireland page93.aspx ref See also Irish Times Debate Notes reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Lysaght, Charles ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Lysaght, Charles Category Irish scholars and academics Category Irish ... more details
Wikify date January 2011 Ralph Bradley 1717 1788 , was a conveyancing barrister. Bradley was a contemporary of James Booth, who has been called the patriarch of modern conveyancing. Bradley was called to the bar by the society, of Gray s Inn, and practised at Stockton on Tees with great success for upwards of half a century, he is said to have managed the concerns of almost the whole county of Durham, and, though a provincial counsel, his opinions were everywhere received with the greatest respect. His drafts, like Booth s, were prolix to excess, but some of them were, to a very recent period, in use as precedents in the northern counties. He published London, 1779 An Enquiry into the Nature of Property and Estates as defined by English Law, in which are considered the opinions of Mr. Justice Blackstone and Lord Coke concerning Real Property. There was also published in 1804 in London Practical Points, or Maxims in Conveyancing, drawn from the daily experience of a late eminent conveyancer Bradley , with critical observations on the various parts of a Deed by J. Ritson. This was a collection of Bradley s notes on points of practice, and the technical minutiae of conveyancing as they were suggested in the course of his professional life. Ritson was a contemporary and fellow townsman of Bradley. The latter by his will left a considerable sum 40,000l. on trust for the purchase of books calculated to promote the interests of religion and virtue in Great Britain and the happiness of mankind. Lord Thurlow, by a decree in chancery, set aside the charitable disposition of Bradley in favour of his next of kin. Bradley died at Stockton on Tees on 28 December 1788, and was buried in the parish church of Greatham, where a mural monument was erected to his memory on the north side of the chancel. References reflist Cite DNB wstitle Bradley, Ralph Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Bradley, Ralph ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1717 PLACE OF BIR ... more details
A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with Formalism philosophy formalism and precision, or who makes a show of his or her learning. Etymology The English language word pedant comes from the French language French p dant used in 1566 in Darme & Hatzfeldster s Dictionnaire g n ral de la langue fran aise or its older mid 15th Century Italian language Italian source pedante , teacher, schoolmaster . Compare the Spanish pedante. The origin of the Italian pedante is uncertain, but multiple dictionaries suggest that it was contracted from the mediaeval Latin p dagogans, present participle of p dagogare , to act as pedagogue, to teach Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange Du Cange . ref http www.bartleby.com 61 The American Heritage Dictionary ref The Latin word is derived from Greek lang grc , paidag g s , lang grc child lang grc to lead , which originally referred to a slave who escorted children to and from school but later meant a source of instruction or guidance . ref cite book title pedant, n. and adj. work The Oxford English Dictionary edition Draft publisher Oxford University Press date Sept. 2008 url http dictionary.oed.com cgi entry 50173785 ref ref OEtymD pedant ref Connotation The term in English is typically used with a negative connotation , indicating someone overly concerned with wikt minutiae minutiae and whose tone is perceived as wikt condescension condescending . ref name Dic http dictionary.reference.com browse pedantic pedantic definition Dictionary.com Accessed on 2008 12 29 ref When it was first used by Shakespeare in Love s Labour s Lost 1598 , it simply meant teacher . Shortly afterwards it began to be used negatively. Thomas Nashe wrote in Have with You to Saffron Walden Have with you to Saffron walden 1596 , page 43 O, tis a precious apothegmaticall terse Pedant, who will finde matter inough to dilate a whole daye of the first inuention invention of Fy, fa, fum . Medical conditions Obsessive compulsive personality ... more details
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pp semi blp small yes Infobox person image imagesize 160px caption birthname Ben Oxenbould birth date birth date and age df yes 1969 03 02 birth place Adelaide , South Australia, Australia othername occupation Actor yearsactive 1980 present website baftaawards Ben Oxenbould born 2 March 1969 is an Australian actor and comedian, best known for his work in the Australian film and television industry. In 1980, Oxenbould was cast as Hubert Fatty Finn in the film Fatty Finn film Fatty Finn . ref name abc http blogs.abc.net.au articulate movie minutiae page 11 Movie Minutiae Fatty Finn , Articulate Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1 June 2007. ref He then appeared in several films and television programs, including Home and Away , G. P. and Echo Point . ref name Laughing matters cite news title Laughing matters last Devlyn first Darren date 19 February 2003 work Herald Sun accessdate 25 March 2010 ref Oxenbould was cast as the character Ben in the sitcom, Hey Dad.. , appearing on the show between 1991 and 1994. ref name eye cite news title The eye Program to send up shows and stars last Edmonds first Mike coauthors Luke Dennehy date 6 February 2003 work Herald Sun accessdate 25 March 2010 ref In 2000 Oxenbould helped set up the http bbasmemorial.wordpress.com ahome BBAS Memorial School , a school in Bardia , Nepal, a remote Nepalese mountain village. In 2005, he organised a fundraiser for the school, which was supported by Australian entertainers, including singers Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers and comedian Akmal Saleh and artwork by the school s students was auctioned. ref name metro cite news title Metro First Works last Gibson first Jano date 9 December 2005 work The Sydney Morning Herald accessdate 25 March 2010 ref From 2003 to 2005 Oxenbould featured as one of the ensemble cast of the sketch comedy series Comedy Inc. , in which he was noted for several characters, including his parody of cricket er Shane Warne . ref name pen cite news title TV Guide Pen and Inc jo ... more details
. Jesus portrays the Pharisees as impatient with outward, ritual observance of minutiae which them ... of the most important parts of the law justice, mercy, faithfulness to God. They obeyed the minutiae ... more details
infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Man Who Sold the Moon title orig translator image Image The Man Who Sold the Moon Shasta Ed.jpg 200px image caption First Edition cover author Robert A. Heinlein illustrator cover artist Hubert Rogers country United States language English language English series genre Science fiction publisher Shasta Publishers release date 1950 media type Print Hardcover Hardback pages 299 pp isbn NA oclc 1933095 preceded by followed by The Man Who Sold the Moon is the title of a 1950 collection of science fiction short story short stories by Robert A. Heinlein . The stories, part of Heinlein s Future History series, appear in the first edition as follows Introduction by John W. Campbell, Jr. Foreword by Robert A. Heinlein Let There Be Light short story Let There Be Light 1940 originally published in Super Science Stories The Roads Must Roll 1940 originally published in Astounding Science Fiction The Man Who Sold the Moon 1950 first appearance is in this collection Requiem short story Requiem 1940 originally published in Astounding Science Fiction Life Line 1939 originally published in Astounding Science Fiction Blowups Happen 1940 originally published in Astounding Science Fiction Early paperback printings omitted Life Line and Blowups Happen , as well as Campbell s introduction. Reception Anthony Boucher Boucher and J. Francis McComas McComas praised the 1950 edition as Heinlein at his superlative best. ref Recommended Reading, F&SF , February 1951, p.59 ref . In his Books column for F&SF , Damon Knight selected The Man Who Sold the Moon as one of the 10 best sf books of the 1950 s. ref Books , F&SF , April 1960, p.99 ref P. Schuyler Miller said that Heinlein is a master of concealed technology. . . . no other writer has worked out the scientific minutiae of his settings so fully or so unobtrusively, praising as well Heinlein s skill at crafting the human engineering details of each situation. ... more details
Use dmy dates date March 2012 Use British English date March 2012 Charles William King 5 September 1818 25 March 1888 , was a United Kingdom British Victorian era Victorian writer and collector of Gemstone gems . Early life King was born at Newport , Monmouthshire historic Monmouthshire , and entered Trinity College, Cambridge , in 1836. ref Venn id KN835CW name King, Charles William ref He graduated in 1840, and obtained a fellowship in 1842. He was a senior fellow at the time of his death in London . Gem Expert He spent much time in Italy , where he laid the foundation of his collection of engraved gem s and gemstones , which, having been increased by subsequent purchases in London , was sold by him in consequence of his failing eyesight, and was presented in 1881 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York . He was recognized universally as one of the greatest authorities in this department of art. His chief works on the subject are Antique Gems, their Origin, Uses and Value 1860 , a complete and exhaustive treatise The Natural History of Precious Stones and Gems and of the Precious Metals 1865 Early Christian Numismatics 1873 The Handbook of Engraved Gems 2nd ed., 1885 The Gnostics and their Remains 2nd ed. by J Jacobs, 1887, which led to an animated correspondence in the Athenaeum . Classicist King took holy orders, but never held any cure. He was thoroughly familiar with the works of Ancient Greek Greek and Latin authors, especially those of Pausanias geographer Pausanias and Pliny the Elder , which bore upon the subject in which he was most interested but he had little taste for the minutiae of verbal criticism. In 1869, he brought out an edition of Horace , illustrated from antique gems. He also translated Plutarch s Moralia 1882 and the theosophical works of the Julian the Apostate Emperor Julian 1888 , for Bohn s Classical Library. References references Cite EB1911 King, Charles William External links http www.sacred texts.com gno gar The Gnostics and the ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 A Fistful of TOWs FFT is a miniatures Wargaming wargame covering the modern period , usually defined as the period from the end of World War II to the present. Version 2 FFT2 covers battles from 1946 through 2010. A Fistful of TOWs 3 FFT3 was published in both paper and e book format on March 5th 2011. It covers combined arms combat from 1915 to 2010. gallery Image FFT3Coverv01.jpg Proposed Cover for A Fistful of TOWS 3 gallery Design theory Ty Beard designed FFT after becoming frustrated with existing modern wargames like Combined Arms by Game Designers Workshop GDW . He felt that most were too slow and tended to focus on minutiae rather than on the important concepts. The particular event that caused him to take the plunge was an 8 hour game of Combined Arms that only resolved 4 turns and ended in a draw when the players all had to go home. In Ty s game design paradigm, there is a finite amount of detail that can be crammed into a game before it becomes unplayable. This means that game designers must ration the amount of detail and abstract anything that isn t critical to the game. In the case of FFT, this meant for instance that the vehicle combat system is fairly detailed, while the rules for counterbattery fire are pretty abstract. In addition, he believed that speed of play was critical in any simulation of modern warfare. So he ruthlessly streamlined every FFT subsystem to speed play. As a result, turns typically take only 10 minutes or so. A 2 player battle between a US battalion task force and a Soviet regiment usually takes 1 3 hours. And since Ty designed FFT to easily accommodate multiple players on a side, it usually takes the same amount of time to fight much larger battles. Hundreds of players have provided priceless feedback but three other major contributors are recognized Dave Burnett, Paul Minson, and Bob Mackenzie. Future The game has proven very popular with players who share Ty s design biases, particularly those who w ... more details
Ingram Bywater 27 June 1840 18 December 1914 ref http www.nature.com nature journal v94 n2356 abs 094455a0.html Obituary in Nature , Dec. 24th, 1914 . ref was an England English classical scholar . File Ingram Bywater.jpg thumb Ingram Bywater. He was born in Islington, London and first educated first at University College School and King s College School , then at Queen s College, Oxford . He obtained a first class in Moderations 1860 and in the final classical schools 1862 , and became fellow of Exeter College, Oxford 1863 , reader in Greek 1883 , Regius Professor of Greek Oxford Regius Professor of Greek 1893&ndash 1908 , and Christ Church, Oxford Governing body Student of Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church . He received honorary degrees from various universities, and was elected corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . He is chiefly known for his editions of Greek philosophical works Heraclitus Heracliti Ephesii Reliquiae 1877 Priscian of Lydia Prisciani Lydi quae extant edited for the Berlin Academy in the Supplementum Aristotelicum , 1886 Aristotle , Nicomachean Ethics Ethica Nicomachea 1890 , Poetics Aristotle De Arte Poetica 1898 Contributions to the Textual Criticism of the Nicomachean Ethics 1892 . Bywater was associated with the Oxford Aristotelian Society from its inception in the early 1880s and remained its principal guiding force until his retirement in 1908. Here he would discuss with scholars such as J.A. Smith , Harold Joachim , and W.D. later Sir David Ross the minutiae of Aristotelian philology, textual criticism, and translation. The Society s discussions led to the full translation of Aristotle s works, first under the joint editorship of J.A. Smith and W.D. Ross and later under Ross as sole editor, between 1912 and 1954. References 1911 reflist External links Wikisource1911Enc Bywater, Ingram gutenberg author id Ingram Bywater name Ingram Bywater Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Bywater, Ingram ALTERNATIVE ... more details
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