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unusual facts about Astra-Gnome


Astra-Gnome

The vehicle was featured on the September 3, 1956 cover of Newsweek magazine and exhibited at the 1956 New York International Auto Show.


14N

Gnome-Rhône 14N, a WWII French 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engine

Angelo Ravagli

In 1935, von Richthofen sent Ravagli to Vence, where Lawrence had spent the last weeks of his life in the Ad Astra Sanatorium, to have Lawrence's body exhumed and cremated and his ashes brought back to the ranch.

Ankur Group

The group is also working on providing Bangla support for some major XServer applications such as office suites, databases, development tools and desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE.

In January, 2003, Taneem Ahmed announced the GNOME Bangla Translation Project and began recruiting for the project.

Astra 1C

Astra 1C was the third communications satellite placed in orbit by SES, and was originally deployed at the Astra 19.2°E orbital position.

Astra 23.5°E

Astra 23.5°E is a group of Astra communications satellites co-located at the 23.5° east position in the Clarke Belt owned and operated by SES based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg.

Astra 2D

While active, most of Astra 2D's transponders were used to provide television channels available on the Sky Digital satellite service to both Ireland and the United Kingdom, as well as the non-subscription service, Freesat.

The BBC broadcast all of its domestic television channels (including BBC HD and the regional variations) from the Astra 2D satellite, except the BBC News Channel and BBC Parliament which broadcast from Astra 2A.

Astra 31.5°E

Astra 31.5°E is the name for the group of Astra communications satellites co-located at the 31.5° east position in the Clarke Belt owned and operated by SES based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg.

Astra 400

Astra pistols were supplied to Republican Spain and to the Basque government which controlled the plant until the Bombing of Guernica in April, 1937.

Astra C

On 22 March 1913, using at least one Astra CM Hydro-avion, French operator Compagnie Générale Transaérienne started the world's first scheduled passenger-carrying flights, operating from Cannes to Nice.

Astra Manufacturing Polytechnic

Astra Manufacturing Polytechnic is a technical institute in Jakarta, Indonesia and is known as Polman.

Breguet 470

It was re-engined with more powerful, 937 hp (699 kW) Gnome-Rhône 14N radials in 1937 before being entered into that year's IstresDamascus–Paris race, finishing fifth in a time of 21 hours 3 min, with de-militarised Savoia-Marchetti SM.79s bombers occupying the first three places and a de Havilland Comet racer finishing fourth.

Bristol Biplane Type 'T'

53 had a 70 hp Gnome engine and was flown by Gordon England, and was withdrawn with engine problems.

Duo LNB

In May 2010 the Astra 3B satellite was launched to the Astra 23.5° east position to release the Astra 1E and Astra 1G satellites previously in that position for use at other orbital positions.

Esomeprazole

At a conference of the American Medical Association, he said that Astra was using the new drug to overcharge consumers and insurance companies.

Gate of Dawn

It has also been known as the Medininkai Gate, as it led to the village Medininkai south of Vilnius as well as Aštra broma, which derivative for the Lithuanian language word aštra meaning sharp.

GGZ

GGZ Gaming Zone, a Free Software online gaming project which among others develops games for the KDE and GNOME desktops.

Glenbrook, New South Wales

Since 2005, the suburb has been the home of The Australian Gnome Convention organised by the local Rotary Club and held on Australia Day each year.

Gnome

This is evidenced by their allegiance to the Warlock Lord in The Sword of Shannara and to the Mord Wraiths in The Wishsong of Shannara.

Gnome King Kyrië

One day, Gnome King Kyrië was shot by a hunter in the heathlands of Riethoven.

Harold D. Kantner

Kantner built a Bleriot monoplane with a 50 horsepower Gnome engine in which he soloed on June 30, 1911 and was given Fédération Aéronautique Internationale certificate number 65 on October 14, 1911 in Mineola, New York.

Heward Grafftey

Due to his relatively short stature and impish looks, Grafftey earned the nickname of "The Gnome from Brome," during his twenty years in politics.

Holden Astra

The Pulsar for Australia was assembled in Clayton, Victoria; however, for the Astra the body panels were pressed at Holden's Elizabeth, South Australia facility.

Holden Special Vehicles

It shared the same 1.8L engine as the standard Astra, but was released with extractors, sports exhaust and an aerodynamic sports body kit (adopted from the Walkinshaw, which is why the SV1800 was nicknamed the Baby Walky) however, and only ~65 were made in both sedan and hatchback form.

Jules Védrines

He was apprenticed to the Gnome engine manufacturing company, after which he spent six months in England as Robert Loraine's mechanic in 1910, and then returned to France, where he gained his pilot's license (no. 312) on 7 December 1910 at the Blériot school at Pau.

Komputeko

Others who have availed themselves of Komputeko include Cindy McKee's KDE and Joomla translation teams, Esperanto Wikipedia founder Chuck Smith's Drupal translation and the former Amikumu projects, Tim Morley's OpenOffice.org translation team, Guillaume Savaton's GNOME translation team, the translation teams for Plone and Xfce, and Joop Kiefte's Ubuntu translation team.

La chanson de Fortunio

In 1979 the opera was revived in an English translation by Michael Geliot, by Welsh National Opera, who staged it at the Teatr y Werin in Aberystwyth, the Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest, the Teatr Gwynedd in Bangor, the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, the Astra Theatre in Llandudno, and the Playhouse Theatre in Cheltenham.

Le petit gnome

Le petit gnome was a German educational television series produced by SWR Fernsehen, teaching French as a foreign or second language to young German viewers aged 6 to 12 years.

Maria Reidelbach

Her 2006–07 project, Gnome on the Grange, combines a garden, botanical information, a ten-hole miniature golf and Gnome Chomsky, the world's tallest garden gnome (13 feet and six inches high), as acknowledged by Guinness World Records.

Matthew Mercer

Pryzm Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn - Zartu the Dark Unicorn, Elven King, Gnome Ruler

Neville Usborne

In October 1913 he was given command of H.M.A.3, an Astra-Torres airship, in which capacity he once had Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, as a passenger.

Nodoka

Nodoka, a theme for the GNOME desktop environment provided as part of the Fedora Linux distribution

NS-class blimp

Similar to the Coastal and C-Star classes, the "North Seas" employed a tri-lobe envelope based on the Astra-Torres design principles.

Open Source for America

It consists of various open source foundations, and companies, including GNOME, Mozilla, and Canonical.

Radio Cracker

In 1992, there was also a national sustaining service broadcast via a sub-carrier on an Astra satellite, thanks to a deal with BSkyB who also provided Teletext pages to allow the Harrow team to communicate with the rest of the network.

Real Digital

Real Digital is the brand name for a digital satellite television and radio service in the United Kingdom which was transmitted from SES S.A.'s Astra satellites located at 28.2° east (Astra 2A/2B/2D/1N) and Eutelsat's 28A satellite at 28.5°E.

Run command

In the GNOME interface, the Run command is used to run applications via terminal commands.

Savignia naniplopi

The specific name is a Latin rendering of "Plop the gnome", a reference to the Belgian children's TV character Kabouter Plop.

Scrooge McDuck and Money

Animation historian Jerry Beck suggests that this short film was likely attached and released theatrically with either The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin or The Gnome Mobile.

Television in Spain

Digital satellite services has existed since 1997 from Astra and Hispasat satellites.

TetraVex

TetraVex is also available as an open source game on the GNOME desktop as part of the GNOME Games collection under GNU GPL.

UberStudent

In a 2011 April Fools' Day satire, he announced an "UberStudent Dumbed Down Edition" featuring the GNOME 3 Shell.

Vauxhall Astra

General Motors' Saturn division in the US also offered the Astra as a captive import from late 2007 until Saturn was discontinued following GM's 2010 bankruptcy.

Vocal trance

Clubland TV, a British Free-to-air channel that broadcasts on Astra, plays vocal trance hits of the last decade.

Windows key

Desktop environments such as KDE and GNOME usually support the key, though it may be necessary to configure its functionality after installation.


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