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Foster's reactance theorem

Cauer in Germany grasped the importance of Foster's work and used it as the foundation of network synthesis.


Ackley School District v. Hall

The Independent School District of Ackley, Hardin County, Iowa, promises to pay to Foster Brothers, or order at the Hardin County Bank at Eldora, Iowa, on the first day of May, 1872, five hundred dollars for value received, with interest at the rate of ten percent per annum, said interest payable semiannually, on the first day of May and November in each year thereafter at the Hardin County Bank at Eldora, on the presentation and surrender of the interest coupons hereto attached

ACTRA Foster Hewitt Award

First presented in 1972, ACTRA discontinued the Foster Hewitt Award along with other individual awards program in 1986 when the awards were discontinued when Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television took over presenting the awards.

Angel Mendez

When Mendez' mother became ill and the family's economic situation worsened, his father could not raise him and his siblings, therefore 2 were sent to foster homes and 6 were placed in the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin, an orphanage on Mount Loretto, Staten Island.

Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute

Founded in 2001, the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute's (AGIRI) mission is to "foster the creation of powerful and ethically positive" Artificial General Intelligence.

Asturian people

Apple groves foster the production of the traditional alcoholic drink, a natural cider (sidra).

Australia's First Families of Wine

Some industry commentators lay the blame for this negative opinion on the giant, publicly listed multinational corporations, such as Constellation Wines and Foster's, which have dominated the industry for years and concentrated on the cheap commodity end of the market rather than building the reputation of Australia's finer, regionally distinctive wines.

Bandung High Tech Valley

Bandung High Tech Valley (BHTV) is an initiative to foster technology-based business and industries in Bandung region.

Bowman Foster Ashe

The University of Miami's administration building, the Bowman Foster Ashe Administration Building, and Bowman Foster Ashe Elementary School (located in West Kendall, Florida) are both named in his honor.

Bridgeport Bluefish

The original founders of the Bluefish were Mickey Herbert, Jack McGregor, Mary-Jane Foster, and the Bridgeport Waterfront Investors.

Buffalo, Victoria

The town was originally settled as a part of the rail-line link between Foster and Leongatha during the late 1800s.

Cash Harmon Television

Cash Harmon Television used a regular team of writers on its projects including David Sale, Johnny Whyte and Lynn Foster.

Claire Roche

Roche has performed as an opening artist for The Chieftains and The Fureys and has performed at venues including The Florida Folk Festival in White Springs, Florida, and at Stephen Foster Memorial Park, on the banks of the Suwannee River in the Southern United States and at Old Government House, Parramatta in Australia.

Constance Adams

Partnered with Synthesis International, URS and Foster+Partners, Adams worked on the design of the world's first commercial spaceport terminal, the Spaceport America Terminal Facility, for the New Mexico Spaceport Authority and tenant Virgin Galactic.

Constance Dowling

In 1955, Dowling married film producer Ivan Tors, with whom she had three sons: Steven, David, and Peter Tors, as well as a foster child, Alfred Ndwego of Kenya.

Eugene J. Martin

As a child, Eugene ran away on several occasions, was placed in reform school at six years of age, and eventually spent the remainder of his childhood on a farm in Clarksburg, Maryland where his foster parents were Franie and Madessa Snowdon.

EV3

Dawn Robinson's lead vocals still appear on all of the Thomas McElroy & Denzil Foster produced songs, with the only exceptions being Eyes of a Child (her background Vocals still remain) & Does Anybody Hear Me on which none of her vocals appear.

Everything I Long For

The song "Assignment in Space with Rip Foster" is an alternative title to the children's novel Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet by Harold L. Goodwin.

Ferrari 166 S

The song, "Red Barchetta", a futuristic story of man against an oppressive society, was inspired by Richard S Foster's "A Nice Morning Drive", a short story published in November, 1973 issue of the magazine Road and Track.

Foster, Rhode Island

Jerimoth Hill, the highest point of elevation in Rhode Island, is located in Foster.

Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds

He had done nothing to foster good relations with the newly independent United States of America: both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson complained of his obstructive attitude and " aversion to having anything to do with us ".

George Burman Foster

A friendship with Clarence Darrow shows that despite Foster's progressive views he still valued and respected the views of a traditional Christian community.

Hakhel

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, urged Jews everywhere to conduct large and small Hakhel gatherings in synagogues and private homes to foster greater unity and increase Torah learning, mitzvah observance, and the giving of charity.

Harold Goodwin

Harold L. Goodwin (1914–1990), American author of popular science, adventure and science fiction books mostly for young people (Rip Foster series, under pen name Blake Savage, and Rick Brant series, between 1947 and 1968, as John Blaine)

Havelock-Allan baronets

Havelock-Allan has been married twice, firstly to Lucy Clare née Mitchell-Innes in 1976 (divorced 1984) and currently lives with his second wife, Alison née Foster (married 1986) in Elephant and Castle, London.

Holiday Inn Records

It was initially intended as a creative outlet for Foster and Kemmons Wilson, as an independent business venture.

Human trafficking in Gabon

In direct support of victim protection measures, the government spent approximately $270,000 to support three centers offering foster care to child victims of trafficking in Libreville and Port-Gentil.

Ingegerd Knudsdatter

At the deposition and murder of her father in 1086, her mother left Denmark and returned to Flanders with her son Charles, while Ingegerd and her sister Cæcilia Knudsdatter followed their paternal uncle Eric I of Denmark and Boedil Thurgotsdatter, who became their foster parents, to Sweden.

John Caswell

He was acquainted with the Scottish mathematician Robert Simson and provided a supporting testimonial when Simson was under consideration for appointment as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow.

John S. Foster, Jr.

In 1952, Foster was recruited to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory by founder Edward Teller, and became a division leader in experimental physics.

Linae Foster

Linae Foster was the D&D Licensing Manager at Wizards of the Coast, and part of the production staff for the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons.

Mac Foster

After a military discharge, Foster turned pro, becoming the third Fresno boxer of note (Young Corbett III was a world welterweight champion and Wayne Thornton rose through the rankings to become a number one heavyweight contender in 1970.

Mark Foster

MRK1 (Mark Foster), dubstep artist, formerly Mark One or Markone

Martha M. Foster

Foster's continuing relationship with Chinese documentary television professionals began in 1997, when professor Ren Yuan of the Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now the Communication University of China) brought Chinese documentaries to show at the Windy City International Documentary Festival in Chicago, which Foster founded and directed.

Marty Foster

Foster was the home plate umpire for 300th career win of Tom Glavine, on August 5, 2007 at Wrigley Field.

Medicare Part D

Medicare boss Thomas Scully, who threatened to fire Medicare Chief Actuary Richard Foster if he reported how much the bill would actually cost, was negotiating for a new job as a pharmaceutical lobbyist as the bill was working through Congress.

Murphy J. Foster

Foster appointed another Tensas Parish legislator, Thomas M. Wade of Newellton to the state board of education; Wade was later the long-term Tensas Parish school superintendent.

Old Folks at Home

The first suggestion was "Yazoo" (in Mississippi), which despite fitting the melody perfectly, Foster rejected.

Purana Qila

Several other monument also lie around the complex, like Kairul Manzil, mosque built by Maham Anga, Akbar's foster-mother, and which was later used as a madarsa.

Qutubuddin Koka

Qutub uddin Khan Koka's mother, the daughter of Sheikh Salim Chishti, was the foster mother of Emperor Jahangir.

Ramon Foster

Foster started for all four year both on offense and defense at Ripley High School in Ripley, Tennessee and also handled some place-kicking and kickoff duties.

Richard Foster

Kendell Foster Crossen (1910–1981), American writer who used the pen-name Richard Foster

Royal Navy Recognised Sea Scouts

There are 101 Sea Scout Groups in the United Kingdom and one group in Gibraltar who are affiliated to the Royal Navy in order to foster a close relationship between the Royal Navy and young people in the Scout Association by making naval facilities and equipment accessible.

Samuel Foster

In 1646 John Wallis received from Foster a theorem on spherical triangles which he afterwards published in his Mechanica.

Sarah Elizabeth Foster

Creative Commons allows people to remix Foster's songs and sync them to YouTube videos without asking permission.

She's Got the Look

Sean Patterson has helped launch and foster the careers of stars like Fergie, Mark Vanderloo and Gabriel Aubry.

Siege of Suffolk

Maj. Gen. George Pickett's Confederate division probed Foster's and Dodge's fronts driving in the Union picket lines.

Thomas Charles Lethbridge

In 2003, a group of admirers of his work calling themselves "The Sons of T.C. Lethbridge" (Doggen Foster, Kevlar Bales and Welbourn Tekh), with the aid of Julian Cope and Colin Wilson, released A Giant: The Definitive T.C. Lethbridge, a set containing a booklet and two CDs containing music accompanying discussions of Lethbridge's work.

Thoor Ballylee

A native of Carron, County Clare, Hanley founded the society in 1961 to foster interest in the literary history of the district, especially that of Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and W.B. Yeats.

Transformers: The Veiled Threat

Alan Dean Foster, author of another Transformers novel and the novelizations of both movies, is the author of this novel also.

Yip Foster

Foster, a graduate of Malvern Collegiate Institute (he played on the football team and later on the Malvern Grads junior team under coach Ted Reeve) also played football for the Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers of the Ontario Rugby Football Union from 1924 to 1930, winning two Grey Cups.


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