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unusual facts about Cycles



Abhisamayalankara

Tibetan tradition accepts the common Mahayana view that Sakyamuni Buddha (the historical Buddha) taught various kinds of teachings that do not seem to agree—hence the various discrepancies between nikaya Buddhism and the Mahayana scriptures—and following the Sandhinirmocana Sutra, hold that the Buddha taught three grand cycles called "Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma."

ANC-Halfords Cycling Team

The team turned up in Berlin and were promised the best equipment such as specialist time-trial cycles.

Annales laureshamenses

The manuscript also contains a calendar from 777 to 835 (folios 5r–7r) for the dating of Easter, using the unusual 19-year cycles of Theophilus of Alexandria.

Annual cycle

For example, Christianity has two annual cycles, the temporal cycle that tracks the events in the life of Christ, and the sanctoral cycle which tracks the various saint's days.

Anthony Leeds

Field work in Bahia, Brazil, led to his dissertation “Economic Cycles in Brazil: The Persistence of a Total-Culture Pattern: Cacao and Other Cases”.

Anthropometric history

Anthropometric history is a term coined in 1989 by John Komlos to refer to the study of the history of human height, focusing on explaining secular trends, cycles of various lengths and cross sectional patterns by changes in the socio-economic and epidemiological environment.

Atmospheric thermodynamics

In the early 19th century thermodynamicists such as Sadi Carnot, Rudolf Clausius, and Émile Clapeyron developed mathematical models on the dynamics of bodies fluids and vapors related to the combustion and pressure cycles of atmospheric steam engines; one example is the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.

Beauty and the Beasts

The episode clearly reflects Battered person syndrome, through cycles of violence, apologies, forgiveness, and repeated spirals of the behavior, leading to greater and greater physical harm.

Brigitta Westphal

Robert Musil's novel "The Man Without Qualities" became a key source of inspiration for the painter, out of which two cycles with 14 oil pictures each developed.

Clock rate

The first commercial PC, the Altair 8800 (by MITS), used an Intel 8080 CPU with a clock rate of 2 MHz (2 million cycles/second).

Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area

Subsequently, with assistance from BC Hydro and Ducks Unlimited, a system of dykes and other control structures were built to manage water levels in Duck Lake, and hence the wetlands, reducing the impact of yearly drought and flood cycles.

Crown of sonnets

Jaroslav Seifert wrote his sentimental Věnec sonetů (A Wreath of Sonnets) in this form about Prague, with an authorized translation by Jan Křesadlo, who also composed his own emigre riposte in the same format, as well as writing several other sonnet cycles.

Cycles of the Kings

The Cycles of the Kings, also known as the Kings' Cycles or the Historical Cycle are a body of Old and Middle Irish literature.

Cyclical industrial dynamics

The research by John Sterman finds that the so-called commodity cycles arise in many commodity markets.

Edward R. Dewey

Dewey first became interested in cycles while Chief Economic Analyst of the Department of Commerce in 1930 or 1931 because President Hoover wanted to know the cause of the Great Depression.

Ext2

ext2 is still the filesystem of choice for flash-based storage media (such as SD cards, and USB flash drives), since its lack of a journal increases performance and minimizes the number of writes, and flash devices have a limited number of write cycles.

Fat City Cycles

Fat City Cycles closed its doors in Somerville in October 1994, when it was sold to a holding company which had acquired another bike company (Serotta) in South Glens Falls, New York.

Finchley Children's Music Group

In 2008/2009 FCMG celebrated its 50th Anniversary and this celebration was marked by further commissions: Two song cycles for children’s choir from composers John Pickard (Songs of Rain and Sea with text by Sigrún Davídsdóttir) and James Weeks (Hototogisu, a setting of 17 Haiku written by the great Japanese post Basho).

Georg Meier

At a race at Schleiz in 1937, Georg Meier was given the opportunity to try out one of the new supercharged BMW motor-cycles during practice.

George A. Drew

Drew's government insisted on spending $400 million in a ten-year program to convert Ontario's electricity system from 25-cycles (Hertz) to 60-cycles, standardizing it with the rest of North America.

Greyhawk Calendar

The months and festivals are based on the cycles of Oerth's moons, Luna and Celene.

Heinz Gappmayr

mit Siegfried S. Schmidt, Franzobel: Josef Linschinger. Zyklen / Cycles. Kunstuniversität Linz, Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2003, ISBN 3-85415-247-7.

Johann Gottfried Donati

Partial cantata cycles for 1737, 1742, and 1745 - mainly lost in the Greiz town fire in 1802, but a few copies survive in Mügeln and Bösenrode parish churches.

John Hartman

Divided Highway (2003) (consisting of tunes from Cycles and Brotherhood)

Karin Lochte

Earlier in her career, Lochte was a professor of Biological Oceanography at the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel where she led a research unit that focused on chemical cycles in the sea.

Machine Gun Corps

As well as motor cycles, other vehicles used included Rolls-Royce and Ford Model T cars.

Murugappa Group

Market leaders in several segments including Abrasives, Auto Components, Cycles, Sugar, Farm Inputs, Fertilizers, Plantations, Bioproducts and Nutraceuticals, the Group has forged strong alliances with leading international companies like Groupe chimique tunisien, Foskor, Cargill, Mitsui Sumitomo, Morgan Crucible and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM).

Oldřich Kulhánek

He graduated in 1964, with the cycles of illustrations to the poetry of Vladimír Holan (Sen, (in English: Dream)) and Christian Morgenstern (The Gallows Songs).

Oscillating gene

Clock- Clock, also known as Circadian Locomotor Output Cycles Kaput, is a transcription factor in the circadian pacemaker of mammals.

Osiris

Through the hope of new life after death, Osiris began to be associated with the cycles observed in nature, in particular vegetation and the annual flooding of the Nile, through his links with Orion and Sirius at the start of the new year.

Pietro Cavallini

His first notable work were the fresco cycles for the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura, with stories from the New and Old Testament (1277–1285).

Presentation of Mary

The Presentation was one of the usual scenes in larger cycles of the Life of the Virgin, although it was not usually one of the scenes shown in a Book of Hours.

Property cycle

The first recorded pioneer of studying property cycles was Homer Hoyt (1895–1984) in 100 Years of Real Estate Values in Chicago (1933, reissued by Beard Books, 2000, ISBN 1-58798-016-9).

Radar Rat Race

The gameplay is accompanied by a frenetic, rhythmically altered version of a phrase from Three Blind Mice, which cycles endlessly.

Relay league

Messages were relayed station to station typically covering four or more re-transmission cycles to cover the continental United States, in an organized system of amateur radio networks.

Ricardo plc

An engine capable of switching between two-stroke and four-stroke cycles is the result of a collaboration between Ricardo, Denso, Jaguar Land-Rover and the Centre for Automotive Engineering at the University of Brighton.

Richard Link

He's also written song cycles and art songs, mostly for one or two voices and piano, and has set three of Vikram Seth's poems to music.

Robert Beadell

He also wrote two symphonies, five film scores, song cycles, piano pieces, chamber music, and five stage works: an operetta, The Kingdom of Caraway (1957), a musical, Out to the Wind (1979, based on Willa Cather's short story "Eric Hermannson's Soul"), and three operas, The Sweetwater Affair (1960, produced 1961), The Number of Fools (1965–66, rev. 1976), and Napoleon (1972, produced 1973) (Smith 2006, 12).

Suprachiasmatic nucleus

CLOCK (circadian locomotor output cycles kaput) was first cloned in mouse and BMAL1 (brain and muscle aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator (ARNT)-like 1) is the primary homolog of Drosophila CYC.

Tbeli Abuserisdze

A son of Ivane Abuserisdze, eristavt-eristavi ("archduke") of Khikhata (Upper Adjara, southwestern Georgia), he is principally known for his original treatise, The Complete Timekeeper, which contains information related to calendars, descriptions of different systems for maintaining chronology, dates of ecclesiastic holidays, tables of moonrise and moonset, information on special cycles, etc.

Technological transitions

At the time of publication, Kondratiev had considered that two cycles had occurred in the nineteenth century and third was beginning at the turn of the twentieth.

Thorn Cycles

They have recently become well known for their Raven series of cycles equipped with Rohloff hub gears.

Top Model po-russki

Top Model po-russki (rus. Топ-модель по-русски — Russia's Next Top Model) is a Russian reality documentary, and the second Russian adaptation of Tyra Banks', America's Next Top Model after You are a Supermodel which aired from 2004 to 2007, and had four cycles.

Václav Čtvrtek

In collaboration with illustrator Radek Pilař and voice actors Karel Höger, Vlastimil Brodský, Jiřina Bohdalová and Jiří Hrzán he created some of the most popular cycles of the television programme Večerníček.

Vladimir Dashkevich

His long time collaboration with famous singer Elena Kamburova has resulted in a number of vocal cycles based on the lyrics by the Russian Silver Age poets, including Requiem of Anna Akhmatova.

Women's World Chess Championship 1986

In a change from the knock-out system used in the last five championship cycles, the Candidates Tournament in this cycle was contested as a double round-robin tournament in Malmö in February 1986.

Zoran G. Jančić

He was the first among his peers to perform complete cycles of works by Frédéric Chopin (4 Ballades, 24 Etudes op. 10 and op. 25, the Waltzes, 21 Nocturnes, 4 Rondos) and Isaac Albéniz's (Suite española).


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