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Произведения автора582007
Elena Mukhina
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elena Vyacheslavovna Mukhina (Russian: Елена Вячеславовна Мухина; first name sometimes rendered "Yelena"; last name sometimes rendered "Muchina") (June 1, 1960 – December 22, 2006), born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, was a former Soviet gymnast who won the All-Around title at the 1978 World Championships at Strasbourg, France. Her career was on the rise and she was widely touted as the next great gymnastics star until a 1979 broken leg left her out of several competitions, and the recovery from that injury combined with pressure to master a dangerous and difficult tumbling move caused her to break her neck just two weeks before the opening of the 1980 Summer Olympics,...
Scalability
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In electronics (including hardware, communication and software) scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process, to handle growing amount of work in a graceful manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth. For example, it can refer to the capability of a system to increase total throughput under an increased load when resources (typically hardware) are added. An analogous meaning is implied when the word is used in a commercial context, where scalability of a company implies that the underlying business model offers the potential for economic growth within the company.
Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe is a twin-engine heavy-lift helicopter designed by Sikorsky Aircraft for the United States Army. It is named after Tarhe (whose nickname was "The Crane"), an eighteenth-century chief of the Wyandot Native American tribe. The civil version is the S-64 Skycrane.
Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone is a twin-engine, multi-role shipboard helicopter manufactured by the Sikorsky Aircraft for the Canadian Forces. A military variant of the Sikorsky S-92, the CH-148 is designed for shipboard operations and is intended to replace the venerable CH-124 Sea King, which has been in operation since the early 1960s. The helicopter will be operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force for the Royal Canadian Navy, and will conduct anti-submarine warfare (ASW), surveillance, and search and rescue (SAR) missions from Canadian warships. It will also provide tactical transport for national and international security efforts. The process to acquire a replacement for the Sea King...
Robert Fountain
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Fountain is a British calculating prodigy. He won the inaugural MSO Mental Calculation World Championship in 1998 and the inaugural Mental Calculation World Cup in 2004. In 1999 he became the first Grandmaster of Mental Calculation.
YugoRosGaz
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! YugoRosGaz a.d. is a Gazprom subsidiary in Serbia. Yugorosgaz is owned by Gazprom (50%), Srbijagas (25%), and Central ME Energy Gas AG (25%), a member of the Centrex Group. Srbijagas has an option to purchase up to 49% of the company.
Robert Fourer
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Fourer (born September 2, 1950) is a prominent scientist working in the area of operational research and management science. He is currently a professor at Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department of Northwestern University. Robert Fourer is recognized as being the designer of the popular modeling language for mathematical programming called AMPL. Together with David M. Gay and Brian Kernighan he was awarded 1993 ORSA/CSTS Prize by the Computer Science Technical Section of the Operations Research Society of America, for writings on the design of mathematical programming systems and the AMPL modeling language.
Scala
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scala may refer to:
Kristie Phillips
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kristie Phillips-Bannister (born on March 23, 1972), formerly known as Kristie Phillips, is a retired American elite gymnast. The 1987 senior U.S. National Champion and one of the American team`s strongest and most visible competitors in the mid-1980s, Phillips was considered to be one of the front-runners for the 1988 U.S. Olympic team. By the Olympic Trials in 1988, however, she had endured several coaching changes and a growth spurt, and was only named second alternate to the team. She went on to participate in competitive cheerleading in college and has since enjoyed successful careers as an actress, stunt woman, coach and gymnastics club owner.
Wonalancet River
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wonalancet River is a 7.6-mile long (12.3 km)river located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the southern Swift River, part of the Bearcamp River / Ossipee Lake / Saco River watershed leading to the Atlantic Ocean.
Paphies
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paphies is a genus of large, edible, saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mesodesmatidae. This genus is endemic to New Zealand. The species within this genus include the pipi, tuatua and toheroa.
Nadia Moidu
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zareena (also known by her screen name, Nadhiya or Nadia Moidu) is a Malayalam and Tamil film actress who made her debut in a Malayalam movie named Nokketha Doorathu Kannum Nattu, alongside Mohanlal and Padmini. This movie was re-made in Tamil as Poove Poochudava during the 1980s with Padmini and marked her debut in Tamil. She currently acts in leading character roles. She has acted alongside most of the leading artists in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries.
Sikorsky X2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sikorsky X2 is an experimental compound helicopter with coaxial rotors developed by the American aircraft manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft. It is considered to be the fastest helicopter ever produced.
Sikorsky S-434
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sikorsky S-434 is a light turbine-powered helicopter. The S-434 is an improved development of the Schweizer S-333.
USS Tennessee (BB-43)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Tennessee (BB-43), the lead ship of her class of battleship, was the third ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 16th US state. During World War II in the Pacific Theater, she was damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 but was repaired and modernized. She participated in shore bombardments at the Aleutian Islands, Tarawa, the Philippine Islands, Okinawa and several other amphibious landings later in the war, and participated in the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamashiro in the Battle of Surigao Strait. After the war, she was placed on reserve in the "mothball fleet" for several years, before being scrapped in 1959.
Yugo, Baltistan
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yugo is a small village with a population of about 6,000 people in Ghanche district of Baltistan, an autonomous region that is considered part of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region. The village is located 75 km from Baltistan`s capital Skardu on a tarmac highway heading towards Khaplu after passing Ghawari and Kunes. Yugo is situated adjacent to the geographically important village of Kharfak which boasts of a high-altitude mountain lake, Lake Kharfak. Khaplu which is Ghanche district`s administrative capital lies a further 25 km away from Yugo.
Okon Uya
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Professor Okon Edet Uya was briefly chairman of the National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (NECON), appointed by President Ibrahim Babangida after the presidential elections of 12 June 1993 had been annulled and his predecessor Humphrey Nwosu dismissed.
Yugo Amaryl
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yugo Amaryl is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov`s Foundation series. Amaryl, along with Hari Seldon, worked on psychohistory until his death at age 52.
Nadhem Abdullah
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nadhem Abdullah was an Iraqi man who was allegedly murdered by soldiers from the United Kingdom Parachute Regiment during the Occupation of Iraq in May 2003.
Papez circuit
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Described by James Papez in 1937, the Papez circuit of the brain is one of the major pathways of the limbic system and is chiefly involved in the cortical control of emotion. The Papez circuit plays a role in storing memory. Papez discovered the circuit after injecting rabies virus into a cat`s hippocampus and monitoring its progression through the brain. The initial pathway was described as follows:
Won`t Get Fooled Again (EP)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Won`t Get Fooled Again is an extended play of songs by The Who released in 1988 by Polydor Records. This EP was only released in the United Kingdom.
USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628), a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Tecumseh (c.1768–1813), the leader of the Shawnee people.
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