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2 unusual facts about ''Gnat''


Gnat

Some South American Pleurothallid orchids are pollinated by tiny gnats and have correspondingly small flowers.

HMS Gnat

The first Gnat was a Cheerful class gunboat built at Laird's shipyard and launched on 10 May 1856.


Adagide

AdaGIDE, an integrated development environment (IDE) designed for use with GNAT Ada

Folland Midge

The Midge and Gnat were the creation of W.E.W. "Teddy" Petter, a British aircraft designer who had gained wide recognition for his design of the English Electric Canberra bomber and Lightning supersonic interceptor.

General Atomics GNAT

Even though the name "GNAT" can be thought of as a contraction of GeNeral ATomics, the original name of the developing company before its acquisition by General Atomics was Leading Systems Incorporated (LSI).

The General Atomics GNAT is a reconnaissance UAV developed in the United States in the late 1980s and manufactured by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI).

H. nobilis

Hippelates nobilis, Loew, 1863, an eye gnat species in the genus Hippelates

Hair's breadth

In Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon invoked "a gnat's ass or red cunt hair" as images of very small units.

HMS Gnat

The third Gnat was a small coastal destroyer launched by Thornycroft at Chiswick on 1 December 1906 and sold for scrapping on 9 May 1921.

IS-B Komar

During the 1930s Antoni Kocjan designed and built the Kocjan Komar (gnat) series of gliders, with 67 built in Poland and licenced production in several countries, before the start of World War II.

Mücke

Despite what may seem obvious – Mücke is German for "gnat" – the community's name is of Celtic origin.

Newnes glow worm tunnel

The Newnes glow worm tunnel is a disused railway tunnel in the Wolgan Valley, New South Wales, Australia, that is famous for its resident glow worms, the bioluminescent larvae of Arachnocampa richardsae, a type of fungus gnat.

The Outward Urge

They all "hear the thin gnat-voices cry, star to faint star across the sky", a quote from The Jolly Company by Rupert Brooke.

Turkish–Armenian War

The succeeding Treaty of Kars, signed by the representatives of Azerbaijan SSR, Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR, and the GNAT, ceded Adjara to Soviet Georgia in exchange for the Kars territory (today the Turkish provinces of Kars, Iğdır, and Ardahan).


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