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unusual facts about Cone



Banksia archaeocarpa

A fossil banksia cone comparable to B. archaeocarpa, named Banksia longicarpa has also been described from Miocene age specimens collected near Marree in northern South Australia, also well outside the current distribution of Banksia.

Brăduț

Also of volcanic origin, the Likaskő is a cone-shaped formation with a hole in the middle, which resembles some of the geysers in Yellowstone National Park - except it is empty inside.

C. africanus

Conus africanus, the African cone, a predatory sea snail species

Cone of power

The term refers to the idea that the raised energy forms a cone with the circle forming its base.

Cone sisters

Claribel Cone, A Remarkable Woman, April 8, 1911, The Baltimore Evening Sun, interview available on microfilm at the library at Morgan State University, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and University of Maryland, College Park.

Conical function

The functions P^\mu {-(1/2)+i\lambda}(x) were introduced by Gustav Ferdinand Mehler, in 1868, when expanding in series the distance of a point on the axis of a cone to a point located on the surface of the cone.

Critical Art Ensemble

This participatory performance was titled Cult of the New Eve (or CoNE when abbreviated) and included a "communion" using a random library of the entire genome of the first female donor to the Human Genome Project taken from a blood sample.

Cylindrus

Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833, is homonymous with the cone snail genus Cylindrus Batsch, 1789, an alternate representation of Conus Linnaeus, 1758.

DFA Compilation, Vol. 1

The only two tracks contributed here that were not produced by The DFA are "Endless Happiness" and "Cone Toaster", both by Black Dice.

Diamond Head

Diamond Head, Hawaii, a volcanic cone on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu known to Hawaiians as Leahi

Discs of Tron

While the first Tron arcade game had several mini-games (Gridbugs, Light Cycles, entering the MCP cone and Digital tanks), Discs of Tron is inspired by the Jai alai sequence in the original 1982 film in which Kevin Flynn is forced to play against Crom, leading to Crom being "derezzed" by Sark.

Elizabethan collar

The Elizabethan collar plays a role in the Pixar film Up, where it is used as a public humiliation device for a dog and is called the "Cone of Shame".

Etta Baker

Etta Baker was first recorded in the summer of 1956 when she and her father happened across folk singer Paul Clayton while visiting Cone Mansion in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, near their home in Morganton, NC.

Explorer 2

Following the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) was directed to proceed with the launching of a satellite using the Juno-I four-stage variant of the three-stage Jupiter-C, which had already been flight-tested in nose-cone re-entry tests for the Jupiter IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missile).

Gasometer Oberhausen

An installation by Paul Schütze included a 50m high cone of water in an artificial lake, and video projections.

Geothermal areas of Yellowstone

Walter Trumbull of the 1870 Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition described a unique event while a man was fishing adjacent to the cone: "...in swinging a trout ashore, it accidentally got off the hook and fell into the spring. For a moment it darted about with wonderful rapidity, as if seeking an outlet. Then it came to the top, dead, and literally boiled."

Greensboro Grasshoppers

The Greensboro clubs initially played their home games at Cone Athletic Park, better known as simply Cone Park, a small facility on the grounds of the Cone Mills textile plant.

Hydraulic machinery

Flare fittings, are metal to metal compression seals deformed with a cone nut and pressed into a flare mating.

Jack Parow

It was released on a USB flash drive in the shape of an ice-cream-cone and featured 10 songs and 6 full-length music videos.

John Cone

Cone has said he is most proud of his performance in the boxing match between Matt Hardy and Evander Holyfield, which took place in August 2007 in front of a sold out crowd at Madison Square Garden on Saturday Night's Main Event.

Jon Cone

In 2006, Cone introduced a new concept in ink formulation by developing an ink set for Epson printers that was "color-managed" during formulation by matching the color gamut produced by the OEM's printer driver, rather than attempting to imitate single ink positions that would later be controlled by ICC profiles.

The first show was devoted to Poem Prints by painter Norman Bluhm and poet John Yau, a series of eight large-scale prints drawn from life with a nude-model at the Cone Editions print studio.

Larix decidua

European Larch needles are the only known food for caterpillars of the case-bearer moth Coleophora sibiricella; its cone scales are used as food by the caterpillars of the tortrix moth Cydia illutana.

Mac Cone

Mac Cone is the only rider to have ridden as a member of both the Canadian Equestrian Team and the United States Equestrian Team.

Macrofossil

Plant macrofossils include leaf, needle, cone, and stem debris; and can be used to identify types of plants formerly growing in the area.

Mals Heath

Similar events probably created large fans nearby at St. Valentin, and in the main Vinschgau, notably at Allitz-Laas (Gadriamure) where the lost mountain and vast debris cone are even larger.

MG 81 machine gun

Some of the more known applications, are a pair of MG 81Z's installed in the hollow tail cone of the Dornier Do 217.

Midwest Buddhist Temple Ginza Holiday Festival

Several other exhibits and booths feature other Japanese items, such as Japanese dry goods and snacks, kimonos, jewelry, anime, origami folding, and an abundance of traditional Japanese cuisine, including their famous grilled Chicken Teriyaki dinner, Udon (Japanese cold noodles), sushi, Edamame, and kintoki (Japanese snow cone topped with sweet azuki beans).

Monochromacy

Therefore, monochromacy is caused by either a defect or the complete absence of the retinal cones.

Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp.

Her opinion also admitted that Cone partially overruled the earlier Thermtron Products, Inc. v. Hermansdorfer.

Mount Edgecumbe

Putauaki or Mount Edgecumbe, a volcanic cone in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand

Mount Hobson

Mount Hobson, Auckland, a volcanic cone in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand

Mount Pluto

Mount Pluto, Australia, a volcanic cone associated with Mount Hutton and Mount Playfair, in Northern Territory

Mount Smart Stadium

Built within the quarried remnants of the Mount Smart volcanic cone, it is located 10 kilometres south of the city centre, in the suburb of Penrose.

Nataliconus

These cone snails have been shown to have a preference in prey, and choose to eat mollusks in the family Ranellidae.

Neurotrophic electrode

The glass cone is only 1–2 mm long, and is filled with trophic factors in order to encourage axons and dendrites to grow through its tip and hollow body.

North Head

North Head, New Zealand is a volcanic cone headland in North Shore City, New Zealand, at the east end of the Waitemata Harbour.

Photosensitive ganglion cell

In 1991 Russell G. Foster and colleagues, including Ignacio Provencio, discovered a non-rod, non-cone photoreceptor in the eyes of mice.

Pneumocephalus

The name is derived from the resemblance of the brain to Mount Fuji in Japan, a volcano known for its symmetrical cone.

Roseberry Topping

Its summit has a distinctive half-cone shape with a jagged cliff, which has led to many comparisons with the much higher Matterhorn in Switzerland.

Scott Gummer

But after 18 months spent toiling in the traffic department at the Foote Cone & Belding ad agency, Gummer switched to magazine editorial, starting out as a fact-checker at GQ and later moving to LIFE, where he would write and produce photo essays with photographers including Harry Benson, Galen Rowell, Robb Kendrick, Bob Sacha, Theo Westenberger, Co Rentmeester, Taro Yamasaki, and others.

Seamless3d

In 2006 a set of specialised nodes for creating simple shapes such as: Sphere, Cylinder, Cone, Torus, Box and Bézier Lathe were added to make Seamless3d easier for the novice to quickly make simple models.

Skirt and dress

Skirt, a tube- or cone-shaped garment which hangs from the waist

Spencer Houghton Cone

During the War of 1812, he was at the Battle of Bladensburg with Norvell and the account of this experience has been chronicled in "Some Account of the Life of Spencer Houghton Cone, A Baptist Preacher in America," published in New York in 1856.

Veste Heldburg

It rises on a former volcanic region to Heldburger Gangschar counted, 405 m high volcanic cone 113 m above the town Heldburg in the Heldburger Land, the southern tip of the district Hildburghausen in Thuringia.

Xactika

The card deck consists of cards with face values ranging from 4 to 12, each with different combinations of four different suits -- balls, cubes, cones and stars.

Zilpha

Mitromorpha zilpha, species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the superfamily Conoidea, the cone snails and their allies


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