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8 unusual facts about APT


Almucs de Castelnau

Almodis was the second wife of Guiraut I de Simiane, who also ruled Apt and Gordes.

Ancient Diocese of Apt

The former French Catholic diocese of Apt, in southeast France, existed from the fourth century until the French Revolution.

Boumedienne Allam

After his young years at Apt (1994–1996) and Cavaillon (1996–1997), he become famous as a RC Toulon player (1997–2000), where he won the Cup of France Frantz Reichel, in 1998.

Chapel of Notre Dame des Anges

The site, between Apt and Sisteron on the Roman road Via Domitia, was once that of the Roman settlement of Alaunium, named after the local god Alaunius, which later became Aulun, and gave its name to the chapel that was built there, Sainte-Marie d'Aulun.

Great Plague of Marseille

During a two-year period, 50,000 of Marseille's total population of 90,000 died, and an additional 50,000 people succumbed as the plague spread north, eventually reaching Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Apt and Toulon.

Jacques Bernard d'Anselme

Jacques Bernard Modeste d'Anselme (22 July 1740, Apt - 17 September 1814, Paris) was a French general, notable as the first commander of the Army of the Var.

Mark Visser

Visser's past achievements include: 5th in the 2006/2007 APT tow-in tour event in Chile, 7th in the Nelscott Reef Big Wave Paddle In event USA, and runner up in the 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 Oakley ASL Big Wave Awards.

NC Graphics

NC Graphics focused on developing a surface modelling software product that used polynomial mathematics and was driven by human-readable input commands based on the APT language.


American Public Television

APT began in 1961 as the Eastern Educational Television Network (EEN); EEN was one of the first distributors of shows such as The French Chef (with Julia Child), Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and Washington Week in Review on a national basis.

APT has also distributed special pledge shows to public television, including programs such as Liza's at the Palace...!, Anne of Green Gables, Carreras Domingo Pavarotti, Celine Dion: A New Day, Mike Douglas – Moments & Memories, Broadway: The Golden Age and Tony Bennett Duets: The Making of an American Classic.

Americans for Peace and Tolerance

In October 2013, APT took out newspaper ads in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Newton TAB, Boston Metro, and Jewish Advocate alleging the presence of anti-Israeli materials being incorporated into the Newton Public Schools curriculum.

Apple Worm

Because the Apple Worm performs dynamic self-relocation within the one main memory of one computer, it does not constitute a computer virus, an apt if somewhat inaccurate description.

Australian Pacific Touring

APT, in conjunction with The Rotary Club of Atherton, Queensland, funded the building of a school in an impoverished area near Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Automated Patrol Telescope

The Automated Patrol Telescope (APT) is a wide-field CCD imaging telescope, which is operated by the University of New South Wales at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia.

Barry Switzer

Johnson had clashed with owner Jerry Jones (leading to his departure) and many felt that Switzer was more apt to go along with Jones' ideas.

Chhaya

According to Wendy Doniger, the substitution of the dark shadow was apt by Saranyu for the dark Surya.

Chronic fatigue syndrome treatment

Both CBT and GET passed common criteria for cost-effectiveness, and also had a higher probability of being the most cost-effective when compared to the APT and SMC groups.

EV8 The Mediterranean Route

In doing so, it will pass through the cities of Argelès-sur-Mer, Port Barcarès, Port Leucate, Narbonne, Béziers, Agde, Sète, La Grande-Motte, Cavaillon, Apt, Forcalquier, and Nice.

GEDA

Besides building the programs from source, binary executables for all programs in the gEDA Suite are available from popular package archives; the programs may be installed on many common Linux distributions using package management tools such as apt-get and yum.

General Santander National Police Academy

The General Santander Academy holds strategic alliances primarily with the United States agencies Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) due to the recent War on Drugs and the implementation of the Plan Colombia which has become part of the War on terror and because of its experience on these it has become as one of the most apt educational centers for law enforcement in Latin America.

GetDeb

Debian packages (in combination with APT) package software such that it can easily be installed in a user-friendly point-and-click manner on Debian (and subsequently, several other Linux distributions), removing hurdles for less-technical users.

Ko Tarutao

In 2002, Ko Tarutao was used as apt he filming location for Survivor: Thailand

Léon de Berluc-Pérussis

Léon de Berluc-Pérussis (Apt, Vaucluse, 14 June 1835 - Aix-en-Provence, 2 December 1902) was a French poet and historian in French and Provençal.

Mitoy Yonting

Pak! Pak! My Dr. Kwak! (OctoArts Films, M-Zet Films, APT Entertainment, and Star Cinema; 2011)

Mount Hart Station

The APT company Kimberley Wilderness Adventures was selected by the state government to operate the wilderness lodge in late 2011.

Muhammad Yaseen

Yaseen has represented the PTA at various international and national forums, including the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT), where he was named Vice Chairman of APT Study Group 2 (Networks).

New Scandinavian Cooking

New Scandinavian Cooking is a Scandinavian cooking show which, over the course of ten seasons, was hosted by Andreas Viestad, Tina Nordström and Claus Meyer, produced by the Norwegian production company Tellus Works in collaboration with American Public Television (APT).

Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines

Before dieselization the PRSL was more apt to lease its motive power from either of its parent railroads as it completely lacked any heavy passenger locomotives (like 4-6-2 Pacifics).

White Swan Hotel, Alnwick

The analogy was an apt one, as the room was decorated in the Louis XV style based on interiors at the Palace of Versailles.


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