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4 unusual facts about Common


Common mode

Common-mode interference, interference that appears on both signal leads, or coherent interference that affects two or more elements of a network

Common-mode rejection ratio, the ratio of rejection of common mode signals to differential signals

Common-mode signal, a component of an analog signal with the same sign on two signal leads

Common-law marriage in the United States

The following states never permitted common-law marriages: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.


A. flava

Aesculus flava, the yellow buckeye, common buckeye or sweet buckeye, a tree species native to the Ohio Valley and Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States

Achalasia

However, a small proportion occurs secondary to other conditions, such as esophageal cancer or Chagas disease (an infectious disease common in South America).

Acoustical measurements and instrumentation

Dynamic range is a common way to compare performance from one instrument to another.

Antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity

The most common Fc receptor on the surface of an NK cell is called CD16 or FcγRIII.

Bidens mottle virus

This virus was originally isolated from a mottled plant of the common weed Bidens pilosa (Fig. 1) collected in Gainesville (FL) – hence the name Bidens mottle virus.

Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site

Union dead from the battle were buried in common graves on the battlefield, but were later reinterred in the Memphis National Cemetery at Memphis, Tennessee.

Brittonic

Brittonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from Common Brittonic

CEES

Common European Economic Space or Common Economic Space (CES), one of four projected spheres of cooperation between the European Union and Russia

Clan name

Roman clan name, a common element of Latin names, usually the second name following the praenomen and before the cognomen

Common bream

The common bream's home range is Europe north of the Alps and Pyrenees, as well as the Balkans.

Congenital myasthenic syndrome

Another common underlying mechanism of CMS is the mutation of the rapsyn protein, coded by the RAPSN gene.

Covenant theology

Meredith G. Kline did pioneering work in the field of Biblical studies, in the 1960s and 1970s, building on prior work by George E. Mendenhall, by identifying the form of the covenant with the common SuzerainVassal treaties of the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium BC.

Dawson Massacre

These remains and the remains of the men killed in the failed Mier Expedition were reinterred in a common tomb in a cement vault on a bluff one mile south of La Grange.

E. palustris

Eleocharis palustris, the common spike-rush, creeping spike-rush or marsh spike-rush, a plant species growing in wetlands throughout the Boreal Kingdom

Festa do Peão de Boiadeiro

They are very common and popular in Brazil, highlighting the festivals held in the following locations: Barretos, Andrelândia, Uberaba, Goiânia, Redenção, Araçatuba and Marabá.

French Impressionist Cinema

1 Others, namely Richard Abel, criticize these attempts and group the films and filmmakers more loosely, based on a common goal of “exploration of the process of representation and signification in narrative film discourse.” 2 Still others such as Dudley Andrew would struggle with awarding any credibility at all as “movement.” 3

Gaspé, Quebec

In 1600, Englishman Richard Hakluyt used the name Gaspay in his translation of Cosmosgraphie by Jean Alfonse, which became the common spelling in the early 17th century.

Ghost Box Music

Releases on the label (currently encompassing The Focus Group, Eric Zann, Belbury Poly, Roj, Pye Corner Audio and The Advisory Circle, and a rerelease of a Mount Vernon Arts Lab album) tend to share a common design aesthetic - all record covers so far have been by Julian House, with an acknowledged debt to the iconic design of sixties Penguin Books paperbacks.

Grantville Gazette II

The Grantville Gazettes — This article covers various common matters on the sub-series in depth, in particular the Phase II experiments with an eMagazine and Phase III (ongoing) maturation of the milieu using collaborative fiction.

Graphical user interface

The menus were accessed by different keys (control in WordStar, Alt or F10 in Microsoft programs, "/" in Lotus 1-2-3, F9 in Norton Commander to name a few common ones).

Great Gull Island

The dominant faunal feature of the island - during the summer months at least - is the active Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) colony spread across the flatter areas of the island that are not taken over by bittersweet (Celastrus) or common reed (Phragmites australis).

Hans Island

This was never signed; however, Canadian John Munro, at that time Minister for Northern Affairs and Development, and Danish Tom Høyem, at that time Minister for Greenland, agreed, in common interest, to avoid acts that might prejudice future negotiations.

Helleborus niger

Although the flowers resemble wild roses (and despite its common name), Christmas rose does not belong to the rose family (Rosaceae).

Isaac E. Holmes

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Holmes attended the common schools, received private tuition, and graduated from Yale College in 1815.

James Celebrezze

James Patrick Celebrezze (born February 7, 1938) is an American politician and jurist of the Ohio Democratic party, who served as a judge of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, common pleas court (domestic relations division).

José Sarney

Sarney and the president of Argentina Raúl Alfonsín started the process of the creation of a common market between the two nations in 1985.

Kakegawa, Shizuoka

However, Kakegawa has a noticeable Nikkei (particularly, South American) population and it is more common to find signs written in Portuguese than in English.

Lang Lang

Cananga odorata, a tree valued for its perfume whose common names include Ylang-ylang and ilang-ilang

Lophocorona astiptica

It was described by Common in 1973, and is endemic to Western Australia.

Margaret Kirkby

The register of John Thoresby, Archbishop of York, confirming the enclosure suggests to Hughes that "in common with the epistles of Rolle, Margaret desired an eremitic life in order that she might fashion herself as a servant of God more freely and more quietly with pious prayers and vigils. Such language indicates how she and Rolle were pioneering a change in the conception of the eremitic vocation".

Megasthenes' Herakles

As was common in the ancient period, the Greeks sometimes described foreign gods in terms of their own divinities, and there is a little doubt that the Sourasenoi refers to the Shurasenas, a branch of the Yadu dynasty to which Krishna belonged; Herakles to Krishna, or Hari-Krishna: Mehtora to Mathura, where Krishna was born; Kleisobora to Krishnapura, meaning "the city of Krishna"; and the Jobares to the Yamuna, the famous river in the Krishna story.

Monardella australis

Monardella australis is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name southern monardella.

Neodiapsida

In phylogenetic systematics they are variously defined as the common ancestor and all its descendants of Younginiforms and "crown diapsids" (the common ancestor of lizards, crocodilians and birds, and all their descendants) Callaway 1997, or all diapsids that are more closely related to Sauria than to Araeoscelidia (Laurin and Gauthier 2000).

Pais

Ampelographers believe that along with the Criolla Grande grape of Argentina and Mission grape of California, that the Pais grape is descended by the Spanish "common black grape" brought to Mexico in 1520 by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.

Parallel rulers

The parallel ruler was invented in about 1584 by Fabrizio Mordente, but it was not in common use until the 18th century.

Pes-caprae

Ipomoea pes-caprae, the beach morning glory or goat's foot, a common tropical creeping vine species that grows on the upper parts of beaches

Pilar, Goa

The headquarter of the Missionary Society of St. Francis Xavier is located at Pilar, hence the common name of Pilar Society given to the missionaries of Saint Francis Xavier.

Platooning quarterbacks

One common reason teams platoon quarterbacks is because one player is a good passer and the other a good runner (see for example Stanley Jackson and Joe Germaine of the 1997 Ohio State Buckeyes).

Rob Pottorf

While most of his time was spent scoring animated series such as “Hermie a Common Caterpillar” with Tim Conway and Don Knotts and “On the Farm” with Vince Gill, Amy Grant and Randy Travis to name a few, more film opportunities started to appear.

Senoueix Bridge

Common plants: heather belonging to the family of Ericaceae.

Sex in the American Civil War

Popular legend has it that they were so common around the Army of the Potomac when Union general Joseph Hooker was in command that the term "hooker" was coined to describe them; however, the term had been in use since 1845.

Sitotroga cerealella

Its common name refers to Angoumois, the pre-revolutionary province of France from which it was first scientifically described by G.-A. Olivier in 1789.

Slip End

The name of Slip End possibly has a connection with the brickworks, Slip is an old English word for clay and End is quite common in Bedfordshire and not unknown in other counties.

Stikky

During Stikky's active years it was common for them, Crimpshrine, Isocracy, Operation Ivy, Corrupted Morals, Sweet Baby Jesus, or The Lookouts to open a bill for a touring punk band almost every weekend at 924 Gilman Street.

The Five O'Clock Girl

In 1928, Marion Davies and Joel McCrea starred in a screen adaptation directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but it never was released, possibly because William Randolph Hearst objected to his mistress Davies portraying a common shopgirl in her first sound film.

The Jennifer Morgue

Where 2004's The Atrocity Archives is written in the idiom of Len Deighton, The Jennifer Morgue is a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and refers to the real-life Project Azorian (incorrectly named by the press as Project Jennifer); Stross also uses footnotes and narrative causality, two literary devices common in the novels of Terry Pratchett.

Udappu

The 18-day period is spent in prayer and fasting, with a priest reciting the Mahabharata epic to remind everyone of the story of Draupadi, the five Pandava brothers' common wife, whose chaste and virtuous ways enabled her to recover the kingdom they been deprived of by King Duryodhana.

Willow Warbler

The Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia, from Ireland east to the Anadyr River basin in eastern Siberia.

Władysław Orkan

He is known as one of the greatest Polish writers from Podhale region and Górale folk; most famous of his works portray the common people from that region.

Xubuntu

Xfce originally was an abbreviation for XForms Common Environment; ubuntu has a meaning of approximately "humanity towards others" in various Bantu languages.


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