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unusual facts about Angle, Pembrokeshire



2013 Swansea measles epidemic

There were a total of 1,219 measles notifications (suspected cases) in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys, with 1,455 measles notifications for the whole of Wales, 664 of which were in Swansea alone.

Abbas Jadidi

Jadidi was once mentioned in a promo by Kurt Angle during his rivalry with Samoa Joe.

Angel Mountain Saga

The Angel Mountain Saga of eight novels was written by Pembrokeshire author Brian John, and was first published at the rate of one volume per year in 2001-2005, with later volumes in 2007, 2009 and 2012.

Angle Inlet, Minnesota

Angle Inlet is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Angle Township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States.

Behind the Candelabra

Director Steven Soderbergh first spoke with Michael Douglas about the idea of doing a Liberace film during the production of Traffic (2000), but had trouble figuring out an angle for it that would differentiate it from a traditional biopic.

Carboniferous Limestone

Within Pembrokeshire the Carboniferous Limestone forms the spectacular coastal cliffs at St Govan’s Head along from which are features such as Huntsman’s Leap and the Green Bridge of Wales, a natural arch.

Colonial Town Plans of Perth

The plan was a semi-regular grid pattern bounded by Mount Eliza to the west, wetlands to the north, and tilted on an angle so that the principle streets ran parallel to the river, which formed the boundary to the south and the east.

Costovertebral

Costovertebral angle, the acute angle formed on either side of the human back between the twelfth rib and the vertebral column

Crossplane

The 2009 Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycle uses the crossplane crankshaft and, in the absence of the 90° bank angle of the V8, must use a separate balance shaft geared off the crankshaft to eliminate the inherent rocking vibration (primary rocking couples) found in this type of crank.

Degree Confluence Project

The Degree Confluence Project is a World Wide Web-based all-volunteer project which aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online.

Diabatic

Such a system is defined as Abelian and the ADT matrix is expressed in terms of an angle, \gamma (see Comment below), known also as the ADT angle.

Dip circle

Georg Hartmann first discovered dip angle in 1544, when he noticed the needle on a compass dipped towards the north hemisphere.

Elizabeth Cohen

She focuses on health-related issues and has reported from a medical angle on major news stories like the Gulf oil spill, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina.

Fifteen Guinea Special

The only one not preserved LMS Black 5 no 44781 was used for filming of the film The Virgin Soldiers at Bartlow in Essex, for which it was derailed and hung at an angle for visual effect.

Graphium tamerlana

The black band at the apex of the cell of the forewing reaches only to the median vein, not extending beyond it to the hind angle, being exactly as in Graphium alebion but in contradistinction to this insect the orange anal spot on the hindwing of is reduced to two small obscure dots.

Gun laying

The first recorded device to measure an elevation angle was Niccolò Tartaglia's invention of a gunners' quadrant circa 1545.

Head-mounted display

This is the distance at which, given the average human eye rangefinder "baseline" (distance between the eyes or Inter-Pupillary Distance (IPD)) of between 2.5 and 3 inches (6 and 8 cm), the angle of an object at that distance becomes essentially the same from each eye.

How to Dress Well

His debut album, Love Remains, was released in 2010 on Lefse in the United States and Tri Angle in Europe and Asia.

Incidents at European amusement parks

The Daily Mail reported that riders of Rameses Revenge were left stranded at a 40° angle, and that some riders of Safari Skyway trains near the zoo were lowered using ladders and a cherry picker.

Insolation

Trigonometry tells us that the sine of a 30° angle is 1/2, whereas the sine of a 90° angle is 1.

Kerry Beaumont

Beaumont was previously director of music (1994-2002) at Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire, England and (1990-1994) at St David's Cathedral in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

King Kong Bundy

After joining The Heenan Family, Bundy feuded extensively with André the Giant, a feud which started during an angle where Bundy interfered in one of André's matches and delivered several splashes, giving the Giant a kayfabe broken sternum.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Mark Wahl of Critical Angle Inc., Tim Howes, and Steve Kille started work in 1996 on a new version of LDAP, LDAPv3, under the aegis of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Macrognathia

Ramus of mandible forms a less steep angle with body of mandible

Matchless Silver Arrow

The narrow angle of the V allowed the use of a one piece head, a practice utilised by Lancia in its early V4 automobile engines.The rear suspension was a cantilever design using two springs and friction dampers beneath the saddle, very similar to the 1928 Vincent HRD design.

Montagu House, Portman Square

Occupying a site at the northwest corner of the square, in the angle between Gloucester Place and Upper Berkeley Street, it was built for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, a wealthy widow and patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassicist architect James Stuart.

NES Play Action Football

The game used an isometric view, presenting the game at an angle to make it appear 3-D, and the game allowed a very large number of moving objects (all the players) to be on screen at the same time.

North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway

The whole undertaking was closed on 31 December 1882 and the name changed to the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway in 1884, but it was not re-opened until 11 April 1895 after reconditioning and the addition of an extension from Rosebush to Letterston.

Northwest Angle

To reach the Angle by land, travelers take Minnesota State Highway 313 Northbound (Warroad, Minnesota to Sprague, Manitoba) across the border into Manitoba, Canada, connecting to Provincial Road 12 in Manitoba at the border, then to Provincial Road 308 Manitoba, to Provincial Road 525, then finally crossing back into the United States in the Northwest Angle south of rural Angle Inlet, Minnesota (Angle Inlet Township).

Pawn Hearts

A live, in-studio version of "Squid/Octopus" was added to the H to He, Who Am the Only One reissue, while the Pawn Hearts reissue contains three of the band members' personal projects, "Angle of Incidents", "Ponker's Theme", and "Diminutions", credited to Evans, Jackson, and Banton, respectively.

Pembrokeshire Record Office

Besides keeping local authority and quarter sessions records, together with many Pembrokeshire parish registers, other significant holdings include family and estate papers relating to John Mirehouse of Angle, Carew of Carew Court and Lort-Phillips of Lawrenny.

RAF Fairwood Common

On 23 January 1942, No. 615 Squadron (County of Surrey Squadron) Auxiliary Air Force, arrived from Angle aerodrome, equipped with Hawker Hurricane fighters, operating there until 17 March when the squadron moved by train to Liverpool Docks, boarding the Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.

RML 9 inch 12 ton gun

In the late 1880s and early 1890s a small number of guns were adapted as high-angle coast defence guns around Britain : known battery locations were Tregantle Down Battery at Plymouth, Verne High Angle Battery at Portland and Steynewood Battery at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.

Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM lens

It has a bulb-like aspherical lens, similar to notable wide-angle and fisheye lenses such as the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED, Nikon AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED, or Tokina AT-X 107 DX AF 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 fisheye lens.

Stepney family

He was educated at Oxford and Lincoln's Inn, later becoming a JP, sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1614, and mayor of Haverfordwest in 1620.

Stikine Plateau

the Taku Plateau lies to the west of the Nahlin and Kawdy Plateaus and is located roughly in the angle of the Nakina and Inklin Rivers, though including areas on the far side of the lower sections of both rivers.

Subhelic arc

The ray leave the crystal in the exact opposite angle, resulting in a net deviation angle of 120°, the angle for the formation of 120° parhelia.

Sunbaker

Sunbaker is a 1937 black-and-white photograph by Australian modernist photographer Max Dupain, depicting the head and shoulders of a man lying on a beach, taken from a low angle.

The Physics of Superheroes

Instead, he focuses on examples of comic book scenes that can be used to understand the diverse laws of physics from an unusual angle, such as Gwen Stacy's death and Ant-Man's ability to punch his way out of a paper bag.

Thomas Cathern

Thomas Cathern, Gadarn or Gatharne (by 1519-65 or later), of Prendergast, Pembrokeshire, was a Welsh politician.

Thomas Topham

Dr. John Theophilus Desaguliers records, among other feats of Topham's witnessed by him, the bending of a large iron poker nearly to a right angle by striking it upon his bare left arm.

Trewent Point

Stackpole Quay - Trewent Point is a cliff on the Castlemartin Peninsula of South Pembrokeshire South Wales and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or SSSI).

Tŷ Canol Wood

Tŷ Canol Woods are an ancient woodland in the Tŷ Canol National Nature Reserve which lies south of the village of Felindre Farchog, Pembrokeshire, Wales, between the Preseli Mountains and the north Pembrokeshire coast.

Viliam Schrojf

With his country leading 1-0, he expected a cross from Amarildo and left the goal, allowing the Brazilian to score from an acute angle.

Weapons system trainer

Because of the compromises necessary with a large angle visual system, older WSTs tended not to have a motion platform.

Welwyn

In Graham Robb's book "The Ancient Paths" there is a suggestion that Welwyn lay on a late-Celtic highway running in the direction of the summer solstice angle straight from Bury St Edmunds to Salisbury via the Catuvellauni headquarters outside modern-day St Albans.

Wild River State Park

The 1883 jam, at Angle Rock in what is now Interstate Park, was the world's biggest log jam and took 57 days to break, during which the sawmill in Marine on St. Croix went out of business.

YBG

Ysgol Bro Gwaun, a secondary school in the town of Fishguard in north Pembrokeshire

Zeiss Biogon

The first Biogon (2.8 / 3.5 cm, unbalanced) was created in 1935 by Ludwig Bertele, then referenced by designer Zeiss Ikon Dresden, the Contax created as a modification of the then Sonnar. It was developed by Carl Zeiss in approximately 1949 and manufactured in Jena, then a redesign in Oberkochen. In 1951 a new Biogon with a 90 ° angle (Super Wide Angle) was also designed by Ludwig Bertele for Carl Zeiss, which opened the way to extreme wide angle lenses.


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