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6 unusual facts about Angles


Angles, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

There were 10 fires both in 1315 and in 1471 and a population of 312 in 1765 (Édouard Baratier, Georges Duby & Ernest Hildesheimer).

It is difficult to know the name of the Gallic people who inhabited the valley nor who were the Civitas on whom the Angles valley depended in the High Empire: Eturamina (Thorame), Civitas Saliniensum (Castellane), or Sanitensium (Senez).

Athelstaneford

On the eve of a battle between an army of the Picts and invading Angles from Northumbria in 832AD, Saint Andrew, who was crucified on a diagonal cross, came to the Pictish King Óengus II in a vision promising victory.

Guichard d'Angle

He was born in a noble family from Angles-sur-l'Anglin in North-Eastern Poitou, sometime between 1305 and 1315.

History of Kirkcaldy

One of the earliest historical events in the vicinity of the town was the Battle of Raith in 596 AD, where the Angles fought an alliance of Scots, Picts and Britons led by King Áedán mac Gabráin of Dál Riata.

Of Angels and Angles

Its title is likely an allusion to the phrase Non Angli, sed Angeli. ("Not Angles, but Angels.") In legend, this was a Latin pun allegedly said by Pope Gregory I after a response to his query regarding the identity of a group of fair-haired Anglian children whom he had observed in the marketplace.


Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics

As the grazing angle is a function inversely proportional to photon energy, the higher-energy X-rays require smaller (less than 2 degrees) grazing angles to be focused.

Citadel of Saigon

It was of substantial elevation, with three sides bordered by natural waterways at right angles: the Saigon River, Arroyo Chinois and the Arroyo de l'Avalanche.

Craig Leathers

Changes in production included tinkering of camera angles, such as the removal of the Steadicam from the entranceway to be replaced by a standard hand held camera zoomed in from ringside.

Dilated Peoples

Its members, DJ Babu from the DJ crew Beat Junkies; Evidence; and Rakaa joined together in 1992 and released "Third Degree" (1997) and "Work the Angles" (1998) on ABB Records, developing a solid fan base in the underground hip hop community.

Duma Optronics

Secondly, the use of Knife Edge type analyzers, a unique state-of-the-art technology (patented), enabling a knife edge profiling the beam at various intersection angles, followed by a Tomographic reconstruction algorithm, generating the spatial intensity distribution map at the intersection plane.

Estonian Record Productions

The annual Glasperlenspiel Festival is inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel, and its intention is to look upon and present music from unusual angles, occasionally tied to a literary, religious, philosophical, esthetical or some other new angle.

Flat manifold

Intuitively, a flat manifold is one that "locally looks like" Euclidean space in terms of distances and angles, e.g. the interior angles of a triangle add up to 180°.

Foundations of mathematics

Later in the 19th century, the German mathematician Bernhard Riemann developed Elliptic geometry, another non-Euclidean geometry where no parallel can be found and the sum of angles in a triangle is more than 180°.

Frenchmans Cap

The origin of the name is a mystery but is attributed to its appearance from some angles as looking like a Frenchman's cap, notably the Liberty cap worn during the French Revolution (1789–1799).

Gang Green

It was also covered by The Meatmen on their album Pope on a Rope, and also by No Fun at All on their releases No Straight Angles (US edition), EP's Going Steady, and Master Celebrations.

Gangster Tripping

The video shows certain similarities to the ending of Antonioni's Zabriskie Point where several pieces of furniture are blown up similarly in slow motion and from different angles.

George Woodbridge

When Bhob Stewart edited the Mad Style Guide in 1994, he gave Woodbridge the assignment of drawing the Mad Zeppelin from three different angles as a detailed guide for any company that might one day market a miniature model of the airship.

Greg Headley

Gregory D. Headley (born in Dallas, Texas) is an experimental composer and performer, as well as owner of 28 Angles, an independent record label.

GvpA

Both the conical end caps and central cylinder are made up of 4-5 nm wide ribs that run at right angles to the long axis of the structure.

Helferskirchen

The community’s arms take the shape of a late Gothic rounded shield with a horizontal upper edge and sides meeting it at right angles.

Horten Ho 229

After an expenditure of about US$250,000 and 2,500 man-hours, Northrop's Ho 229 reproduction was tested at the company's classified radar cross-section (RCS) test range at Tejon, California, where it was placed on a 15-meter (50 ft) articulating pole and exposed to electromagnetic energy sources from various angles, using the same three frequencies in the 20–50 MHz range used by the Chain Home

Idris Khan

Khan's visual layering also occurs in his videos, such as Last Three Piano Sonatas…after Franz Schubert, a three-channel video installation wherein he uses multiple camera angles to capture numerous performances of Schubert's last sonatas, composed on his deathbed.

JBL Paragon

Ranger's 9-foot prototype of the product, with plenty of right angles and shiny black Micarta skin, was bulky, imposing, and visually unattractive.

Joanna Dunham

Director George Stevens tried to keep her in the production with the use of flattering camera angles and draped costumes.

John Torres

In 2005 the song “Yes Be Yes” (written by Torres, Tim Kobza, and Stephanie Carlisi) was featured in Scott Edmund Lane’s film “Angels With Angles” starring Rodney Dangerfield and Frank Gorshin.

Josh Elliott

Elliott received a local Emmy Award in New York City in 2005 for writing and contributing to Angles on MSG Network and served as one of the co-hosts for Super Bowl XL for Westwood One Sports.

Lambert projection

Lambert conformal conic projection (preserves angles, commonly used in aviation navigation maps)

Last Nite

The Strokes later reference the instance where Julian Casablancas throws the microphone stand in a later music video, "Under Cover of Darkness" from their 2011 album Angles.

Longeville-sur-Mer

A celebrated surf spot, named Bud Bud, is found at Les Conches, whilst the road leading from the beach to the nearby town of Angles passes through a marsh, from which one may observe wild birds, including storks.

Meg Gardiner

"CSI is great, but I wanted to go beyond it. In the real world, crime lab technology is not an infallible truth-o-meter. Physical evidence is not in fact bulletproof. Real life is murkier—and more fascinating. That's what Jo explores. She goes beyond DNA sequencing and gas chromatography to uncover why a victim has died. And she can come at cases from fresh, atypical angles."

Middle Angles

He appointed one of the missionary priests, the Irish Diuma, bishop of the Middle Angles and the Mercians.

Of Angels and Angles

Alternatively, it could be a reference to Saul Alinsky, author of "Rules for Radicals" which contains the line "....is a world not of angels, but of angles where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles"

Order of Nine Angles

The Satanic 'Order of Nine Angles' are the leading protagonists in the 'Jack Nightingale' series of novels by Stephen Leather, published by Hodder & Stoughton.

Pectoralis major muscle

A variety of resistance exercises can be used to train the pectoralis major, including bench pressing (using dumbbells, barbells or machines at various angles such as decline, incline and flat where the hips are above, below and level with the head respectively), push ups, flyes (using dumbbells or machines at either flat or inclined angles), cable crossovers or dips.

Phi Sigma Tau

The emblem of Phi Sigma Tau is in the shape of a pentagon; each of the five angles contains a symbol that represents one of the five streams of world thought: Chinese, Indian, Islamic, Hebrew, and Greek.

Precession

If the rotating body is symmetrical and its motion unconstrained, and, if the torque on the spin axis is at right angles to that axis, the axis of precession will be perpendicular to both the spin axis and torque axis.

Proa

The sloop rig only begins to show an advantage with small angles of attack, such as encountered when close-hauled.

Robert Hupka

Hupka was also the author of Michelangelo: Pieta, a collection of a hundred photographs, from various angles and with different lighting, of Michelangelo's Pieta, taken in 1964 when this sculpture was exhibited at the New York World's Fair.

Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB

The Toolbox provides functions for manipulating and converting between datatypes such as: vectors;homogeneous transformations; roll-pitch-yaw and Euler angles and unit-quaternions which are necessary to represent 3-dimensional position and orientation.

Rolex GMT Master II

In addition as Inertial Navigation and Global Positioning System technologies did not yet exist, and aircraft were out of range of normal radio navigation beacons during transoceanic flights, an accurate GMT time source was essential for use with specialist sextants for astronavigation (obtaining geographical position by relative angles of the horizon, the sun and other stars).

St Peter's Church, Cambridge

It has a 13th-century south doorway, and a 12th-century font, decorated with mermen at the angles.

Thales

In addition Eudemus attributed to him the discovery that a circle is bisected by its diameter, that the base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal and that vertical angles are equal.

Third person

Third-person shooter, a genre of 3D video games in which the onscreen character is seen at a distance from one or more possible angles

Walton, Suffolk

Walton Castle is one of the two principal sites (the other is Dunwich) claimed in the Middle Ages for the location of Dommoc, the original bishop's seat of St Felix (Felix of Burgundy), first bishop of the East Angles, who arrived c630 AD in the reign of King Sigeberht of East Anglia.

Washington Old Hall

Although he used the Norman French spelling (based on a Middle English rendition of the original), the estate is of Anglo-Saxon (specifically Anglic) origin, originally being "Hwæssaingatūn", meaning "estates of the descendents of Hwæssa" (Hwæssa being rendered Wassa in Modern English).

Wide-angle X-ray scattering

This technique specifically refers to the analysis of Bragg peaks scattered to wide angles, which (by Bragg's law) implies that they are caused by sub-nanometer-sized structures.

Willoughby's Magic Hat

The film is notable for its use of stylistic design and unusual camera angles, the influence of Screen Gem employees who had defected from Walt Disney Productions following the 1941 Disney animator's strike.


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