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unusual facts about Dip



2011 Wisconsin Act 10

State Representative Stephen Nass (R-Whitewater), Chairman of the Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee, expressed outrage at the report that the Vice Chancellor is being allowed to "double dip" by retiring and then being re-hired for his position.

Amiga 3000

"Fast RAM" can be increased by fitting DIP (up to 4 MB) or ZIP DRAM chips (up to 16 MB) available in two varieties, Page Mode or Static Column.

Benny the Dip

Benny the Dip was widely, but incorrectly reported to be named after a Damon Runyon character.

Bishop of Sherborne

The current Bishop of Sherborne is the Right Reverend Dr Graham Kings, PhD, MA(Oxon), DipTh, who was consecrated in a special service at Westminster Abbey on 24 June 2009 by the Most Reverend Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Boxing Day Dip

The Boxing Day Dip is a charity event where people in fancy dress swim in the sea on Boxing Day.

A swim or dip in the sea over the festive period (be it Christmas, Boxing Day, or New Year) is a traditional event for many lifeguard clubs across the UK.

Columbus, Montana

The original name was Sheep Dip, then changed to Stillwater, but because of a Stillwater, Minnesota on the Northern Pacific RR, the mail presented a problem.

Curley Weaver

His mother, Savannah "Dip" Shepard Weaver, was a well-respected pianist and guitarist, who taught Curley together with her friend's sons, "Barbecue Bob" Hicks and Charlie Hicks.

Daniel Amalm

In 1996, Amalm left Home and Away and recorded a single, 'Classical Gas', which was a top 30 hit on the ARIA Charts and No.5 on the Dance Charts; followed by 'Honey Dip Girl', which was voted No. 1 on Network Ten's Video Hits for 5 consecutive weeks.

Debtor-in-possession financing

Debtor-in-possession financing or DIP financing is a special form of financing provided for companies in financial distress or under Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.

Diiminopyridine

Mössbauer spectroscopy indicates, however, that this complex is better described as a ferrous derivative of DIP2-.

Dip Chand

Chand was closely allied with Shah Jahan who made Dip Chand the suzerein of 22 states in his region.

Dip Chand was Raja of Kahlur from 1653 until his death in 1665, caused by poisoning by agents of the Raja of Kangra.

Dip circle

Georg Hartmann first discovered dip angle in 1544, when he noticed the needle on a compass dipped towards the north hemisphere.

Flashrom

Flashrom is a universal flash programming utility used to detect, read, verify, erase, or write BIOS chips in DIP, PLCC, SOIC, TSOP, or BGA packages.

Haijiu-class submarine chaser

Original SJD-3 sonar on earlier Type 037 class submarine chaser is replaced by a 13 kHz (2 frequency ranges) French Thomson Sintra SS-12/DIP 12 hull mounted (HM)/variable depth sonar (VDS).

Jason Plumb

Plumb was not on the subsequent "Ships and Dip V", but performed on "Ship and Dip 4" which sailed on the Norwegian Dawn from February 6-February 11, 2011.

Jayanath Colombage

Jayanath Colombage RSP, VSV, USP, rcds, psc, MSc (DS), MA (IS), Dip in IR, Dip in CR, AFNI (Lond) was a student of St. Sylvester’s College, Kandy, and became the first old Sylvestrian to be elevated to the position of a Service Commander in the military history of Sri Lanka.

Kevin Humphries

He obtained a Graduate Diploma of Religious Studies (Grad Dip RE) through the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane.

Kieron Purtill

He also did a PG Dip in Elite Coaching Practice at the University of Central Lancashire.

Korg Poly-61

NEC D8049C - 8 bits, 11 MHz (max.), 40 pins (DIP), Supply Voltage = 5V

Law Development Centre

The LDC is the only institution in the whole of Uganda, that offers the bar course leading to the award of the postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (Dip.Leg.Pract).

Lernaea

Potassium permanganate is usually considered the best treatment and can be used either as a tank treatment or a "dip".

LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire

After a connection north of Le Mans, the LGV will dip towards the southwest with a connection to the regular Le Mans-Angers line near Sablé-sur-Sarthe.

Madan Mohan Malaviya

All those who participated in this event took a dip in the Godavari River and chanted Hindu mantras.

Nam-Trung Nguyen

Nam-Trung received his Dip-Ing, Dr Ing and Dr Ing Habil degrees from Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, in 1993, 1997 and 2004, respectively.

New York State Route 55A

After a dip to the southeast, NY 55A crosses the county line out of Sullivan County and into Ulster County.

Old Golimar

football is so popular that crime levels dip significantly during the FIFA World Cup season.

Parched grain

"Now Boaz said to her at mealtime, 'Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.'" So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed parched grain to her; and she ate and was satisfied, and kept some back.

Ray Lankford

Once again he saw his playing time dip late in the season after the Cardinals acquired Larry Walker from the Colorado Rockies in late August.

Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon

Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon (also known by the shorter title of Sir Nobonk and the... Dragon) is a 1982 comedy novel written by Spike Milligan, and the fourth picture book by Milligan after The Bald Twit Lion, Badjelly the Witch and Dip the Puppy.

Stroudwater Navigation

There was a dip in the carriage of merchandise in 1810, when the Kennet and Avon Canal opened and provided a more convenient route from Bristol to London, but it picked up again after 1819, when the North Wilts Canal opened, providing a link from Latton to Abingdon via Swindon and the Wilts and Berks Canal, which was easier than using the Thames.

The Vanity Project

The band performed with Page on each of the Ladies' subsequent cruises: in January 2008, two shows in the Carnival Victory's Adriatic Lounge on Ships and Dip III (with Craig Northey (guitar, vocals) and Murray Atkinson (guitar, vocals, keyboards) from the New Odds in place of Fogul); and in January 2009, one show on Ships and Dip V in the Spinnaker Lounge on the Norwegian Jewel (with Doug Elliot (bass), also of the Odds, in place of Chandler Coyle).

Ubinas

Ubinas is located 230 km east of the Peru-Chile trench and about 150 km above the Benioff-Wadati plane, where the Nazca plate is subducting at a dip ranging from 20 – 30˚ as characteristic of the CVZ.

UNC tuition increase

They believe that the university should dip into its $2.2 billion endowment before forcing students to make up for state budget cuts.

Victor Mishalow

Mishalow graduated from the Sydney University B.A. (1984) with a double major in Musicology and Ethno-musicology, continuing post-graduate studies at the Sydney College of Advanced Education Dip.

Vithoba Temple, Pandharpur

A dip in the holy river Chandrabhaga on whose banks Pandharpur resides, is believed to have power to wash all sins.


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