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unusual facts about C-squares


C-squares

C-squares spatial indexing, search, and/or mapping routines are currently incorporated into OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System; FishBase; AquaMaps; and a variety of web-accessible applications at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.


All-Star Squares

also Network Ten aired Celebrity Squares with John Bailey, followed by Joe Martin then Bob Moore for two seasons from 1967-1969, the show was revived twelve years later in 1981 with Jimmy Hannan as host.

Auseklis Limbazi Theatre

Theatre takes part in all the major events of Limbaži town and biannually holds the International Contemporary Drama Festival Spēlesprieks where churches, abandoned factories, cellars, town squares, castle ruins and other extraordinary locations are used as stages.

Bagel

the top eight leading brand names for the above were (by order of sales): Thomas', Sara Lee, (private label brands) Pepperidge Farm, Thomas Mini Squares, Lender's Bagels (Pinnacle Foods), Weight Watchers and The Alternative Bagel (Western Bagel).

Baillie–PSW primality test

# If n is a perfect square, then step 3 will never yield a D with (D/n) = −1; this is not a problem because perfect squares are easy to detect using Newton's method for square roots.

Blotting paper

Small squares of blotting paper attached to disposable plastic strips are impregnated with pH sensitive compounds usually extracted from lichens, especially Roccella tinctoria.

Cybernetic Serendipity

Other graphics showed a simulated Mondrian and the iconic decreasing squares spiral that appeared on the exhibition's poster and book.

Donald Swain Lewis

This was probably not an Ordnance Survey style grid based on a system of mile or kilometre squaring, but a system based on squares identified by letters and numbers.

Double-square painting

Ivon Hitchens worked primarily in double-squares at certain periods in his career.

Ferenc Deák

One of the central squares of Budapest, Deák Ferenc Square is today named after him, which is where three lines of the Budapest Metro come together.

Flying Windows

The only difference is that Starfield draws white squares while Flying Windows draws the Windows logo from the Wingdings font.

Georgian Dublin

Ultimately the northside was laid out centred on two major squares, Rutland Square (now called Parnell Square for Charles Stewart Parnell), at the top end of Sackville Street, and Mountjoy Square.

Grigoris Lambrakis

After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974, numerous places, including a football stadium in Kallithea and streets and squares throughout the country, have been named in honor of Grigoris Lambrakis.

Hanoch Levin

In these two works, Levin mocked Israeli military pathos (as in the parody "Victory Parade for the 11 Minutes War" of the victory speech by General Shmuel Gonen at the close of the Six-Day War), the impotence and complacency of Israel's politicians ("Peace Talks in the Middle East"), and presented a macabre treatment of bereavement ("Squares in the Cemetery").

House of Entença

Because of the historical significance of this bloodline, streets or squares named 'Entença' or 'Entenza' are common in towns and villages throughout Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands.

Ivan Ulz

Although he did not perform on the album, legendary blues guitarist Steve Mann co-wrote two of the tracks on Ice Cream Man: "Beginning to Find My Way" and "Circles Under Squares."

Kazeboon

Kazeboon screenings began on December 29, 2011, taking place in public squares in El Mansheya, Alexandria and the Cairo districts of Zamalek, Maadi, Nasr City and Giza.

Land Force Atlantic Area Training Centre Aldershot

Only a single building from the First World War was retained, while water and sewer systems were installed in the camp's headquarters area (which was named Aldershot for postal purposes), firing ranges and parade squares established and various support buildings and barracks.

Larry Cuba

Created in Chicago with Tom DeFanti's Graphic Symbiosis System GRASS, consists of sixteen "objects", each composed of 100 points of light, some of them geometric shapes like circles and squares, others more organic shapes resembling gushes of water.

Lee Wagstaff

Lee Wagstaff (born October 27, 1969, London) is an English artist who spent four and half years acquiring all-over tattoos with designs based on cross-cultural geometrical symbols (circles, squares, swastikas, stars, etc.) drawing on religious influences from his Roman Catholic upbringing and Indian family members.

Liljeholmen metro station

In the beginning of the 2000s (decade), the station was rebuilt to an under-ground-station, with a new 3rd platform for trains towards Fruängen/Norsborg, which is connected to a new under-ground-bus-terminal, and above the station, new squares and houses were built.

Livingston Island

Several squares and streets in Bulgarian towns and cities are named after Livingston Island, such as Livingston Island Square in Samuil and Kula, and Livingston Island Street in Gotse Delchev, Yambol, Petrich, Sofia, Lovech and Vidin.

Marconi Plaza, Philadelphia

An architectural design for a grand public square like the squares of center City Philadelphia (inspired by the Benjamin Franklin Parkway) was planned at the parkway's end point of Penrose Avenue, which was viewed by city planners to be the significant southern gateway to the City.

Monserrat, Buenos Aires

The area's two adjoining squares became the Plaza de Mayo in 1884, a milestone joined by the completion of the presidential executive building, the Casa Rosada.

Natasha Stefanenko

She has also hosted many programmes, including the 2001 edition of Festivalbar, which is an annual series of televised summer concerts performed by both Italian and international pop groups in town squares throughout Italy; and Italia's Next Top Model in 2009.

Nestor von Henko

On the occasion of the 165th anniversary of his birth and 100th anniversary of his death, 2004 was declared "year of Henko" in the Samara region , marked by an interregional scientific conference, edition of scientific material, establishment of memorial squares, excursions on "Henko forests".

Noise Fest

This included the music of John Rehnberger, Off Beach, Ut, Lee Ranaldo, Mofungo, Khmer Rouge, The Problem, Smoking Section, Sonic Youth, Jeff Lohn, Ima, Jules Baptiste Red Decade, EQ'D, Avant Squares, Don King, Primivites, Ad Hoc Rock, Y Pants, Barbotemagus (as it is spelled on the cover), Economical Animal, Chinese Puzzle, Glorious Strangers, Built On Guilt, Fakir, Lampshades.

Each night three to five acts performed, including Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Jeffrey Lohn, Built on Guilt, Rudolph Grey, the Avant Squares, Off Beach, Mofungo, Red Decade, NNB, Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day, Ad Hoc Rock, Smoking Section, Chinese Puzzle, Avoidance Behaviour, and Sonic Youth.

Oxyphenbutazone

The word oxyphenbutazone is part of the single play yielding the highest possible score under American tournament Scrabble rules, scoring 1,780 points across three triple-word-score squares, joining seven tiles to eight already-played tiles.

Partial least squares regression

Partial least squares was introduced by the Swedish statistician Herman Wold, who then developed it with his son, Svante Wold.

Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias

This square is considered one of the "main squares" of the island of Tenerife, together with the Plaza de España in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Plaza del Cristo de La Laguna in San Cristóbal de La Laguna.

Plaza San Martín

Plaza San Martín is a common name for squares in many towns and cities of Argentina and Perú.

Postage stamp gum

On Swiss stamps of the 1930s, Courvoisier used a gum-breaking machine that pressed a pattern of small squares into the gum, resulting in so-called grilled gum.

Prague 2

Important sights:Charles Square- the biggest square in Prague and also among the biggest squares in Europe - with the New City Hall / Gothic town hall, Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Botanical Gardens and several Charles University buildingsin Albertov, as well as the Baroque Villa America.

Pure Food Building

The building featured six open-air courts, with booths arranged in squares, built in Italianate architecture.

Regular Hadamard matrix

W. D. Wallis, Anne Penfold Street, and Jennifer Seberry Wallis, Combinatorics: Room Squares, Sum-Free Sets, Hadamard Matrices, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1972.

Robust regression

Although it is sometimes claimed that least squares (or classical statistical methods in general) are robust, they are only robust in the sense that the type I error rate does not increase under violations of the model.

Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica

There are 56 glass squares supplied by the Lorin firm of Chartres province in France.

Strimko

It is based on an idea of Latin squares described by the mathematician Leonhard Euler in the 18th century.

TetraVex

The tiles are also known as McMahon Squares, named for Percy McMahon who explored their possibilities in the 1920s.

Two Logan Square

The building's name is a nod to its neighborhood, Logan Square, so named for the nearby Logan Circle, one of William Penn's original five squares of Philadelphia.

Wee Warriors

Has 2½ D artwork by Morno and uses squares instead of hexes for movement.

West Twyford

Abbeyfields Close is one such residential development, built in 1984 as a series of garden squares, on land formerly owned by Guinness, although its name hints that it might have originally been agricultural land forming part of Twford Abbey estate.

Wilbur Wilde

He has made numerous other TV appearances throughout his career on shows including The Flying Doctors, MDA, The Paul Hogan Show, Blankety Blanks, Sale of the Century, Celebrity Squares, MTV, Getaway, Postcards, Spicks and Specks and The Russell Gilbert Show.


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