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unusual facts about ''tags''


Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator

The MMRTG design incorporates PbTe/TAGS thermoelectric couples (from Teledyne Energy Systems).


Acoustic tag

Acoustic telemetry for fisheries research employs acoustic tags where are small sound-emitting devices allowing the detection and/or remote tracking of fish in three dimensions.

Airshift Media Ltd

Airshift Gateway is a modular service platform that allows broadcasters to set up value-adding services such as now playing information on website, HD Radio tags, RDS, DAB or DVB services.

Avian ecology field methods

Birds may also be marked with a locally unique combination of colored plastic leg bands, leg flags, patagial tags, or dyes which allow the bird to be recognized in the field without requiring recapture.

Beagle Boys

In fact, no digits other than one, six, or seven appeared on their prison ID tags.

BEdita

All this content is managed in multiple languages, geo-localized and organized through different strategies: hierarchic tree, custom categories and tags.

Columbian white-tailed deer

However, tags were made available in 2005 and there is the opportunity to hunt them at the Umpqua River.

Darlington Provincial Park

It tags Monarch butterflies at its annual migration festival, the Monarchs and Raptors Weekend, held in early September.

Doris Payne

On Friday, January 22, 2010, Payne was arrested in Costa Mesa, California for removing the tags from a $1,300 Burberry trench coat from a Saks Fifth Avenue store and subsequently leaving the store with the coat.

Ear tag

Livestock ear tags were developed in 1799 under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, for identification of Merino sheep in the flock established for King George III.

Exchangeable image file format

The Exif specification describes the RIFF file format used for WAV audio files, and defines a number of tags for storing meta information such as artist, copyright, creation date, and more in these files.

Forward compatibility

HTML is designed to ignore all unknown tags, which makes most new features degrade gracefully in older browsers.

Georgia State Route 400

The same technology is also used by SunPass in Florida, TxTag in Texas, and PikePass in Oklahoma; however, none of these has an agreement to accept the tags of the others.

Geotagging

Identifying geotagged information resources on sites like Flickr and del.icio.us is done by searching for the 'geotagged' tag, since the tags beginning 'geo:lat=' and 'geo:lon=' are necessarily very variable.

ISO/IEC 18000-3

To ensure that tags replying on different channels are simultaneously received tag replies are band limited to reduce data and subcarrier harmonic levels.

Jspx-bay

JSF provides similar functionality, but requires that developers learn an entire new set of tags.

KATSU

In 2013 12 Oz prophet reported that KATSU was constructing his tags in the online multiplayer game Minecraft.

Life Serial

Buffy later meets up with Tara for Art History, but before class begins Warren tags her with a tiny device that causes time to fast-forward.

Lobster fishing

Commercial fishing regulators in the United States, such as the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the National Marine Fisheries Service, enforce restrictions through the use of lobster fishing licenses and lobster pot tags that correspond to the fisher's permit number.

Mile high club

Actors John Barrowman and Colton Haynes took selfies of themselves whilst aboard a plane, posting them on photo posting site, instagram, which led fans to come to the conclusion of the 'Mile High Club,' which has become a popular tag throughout the John Barrowman and Colton Haynes tags on social networking site, Tumblr.

Pagination

This usually involves a markup language (such as XML, HTML, or SGML) that tags the content semantically and machine-readably, which allows downstream technologies (such as XSLT, XSL, or CSS) to output them into whatever presentation is desired.

Pulse-position modulation

Pulse position modulation is also used for communication to the ISO/IEC 15693 contactless smart card as well as the HF implementation of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Class 1 protocol for RFID tags.

QuickDraw GX

Each tag had an OSType type code, but there could be multiple tags of the same type attached to the same object.

Rabid Neurosis

After their group was mentioned in an MTV News article about the early leak of the Eminem album Encore, RNS stopped including their initials in filenames and ID3 tags.

Raheem DeVaughn

DeVaughn took a job at Tower Records, where while putting price tags on CDs, he began working the D.C. music circuit—performing with various groups, the most prominent of which being Urbanave31, and at venues such as the State of the Union and Bar Nun on U Street NW, all while having CDs of his songs ready at hand.

Reboundtag

ReboundTAG is known to have worked with IATA, Alien Technology and Sick AG in developing the microchip luggage tags and now supplies them globally.

Slashdot

Some articles are tagged with longer tags, such as whatcouldpossiblygowrong (expressing the perception of catastrophic risk), suddenoutbreakofcommonsense (used when the community feels that the subject has finally figured out something obvious), correlationnotcausation (used when scientific articles lack direct evidence; see correlation does not imply causation), or getyourasstomars (commonly seen in articles about Mars or space exploration).

Speedpass

As of 2004, more than seven million people possess Speedpass tags, which can be used at approximately 10,000 Exxon, Mobil and Esso gas stations worldwide.

Tata Research Development and Design Centre

TCS Innovation Lab, Peterborough, England: New-wave communications for the enterprises, utility computing and RFID (chips, tags, labels, readers and middleware).

TecTile

Although NFC Tags can be used with many smartphones, TecTiles gained much prominence in late 2012 with the launch of the Galaxy SIII.

Treasury tag

Winston Churchill used treasury tags to hold the notes for his speeches together.


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