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# Green-tinted Sixties Mind

Blue-green

Apple christened the color of the exterior of its original iMac G3 personal computer "Bondi blue" when it was introduced in 1998.

Brafield-on-the-Green

The team known as the Flying Foxes took part in the Southern Area League in 1954.

Bristol Belle

Wing Commander Gerry Turnbull from RAF Weston-on-the-Green, an experienced gas-balloon pilot, was to teach the team how to fly.

Charles Fiddian-Green

He was bowled for 23 by Thomas Raikes by a ball which was said to have pitched so wide as to be almost off the mown area of the pitch.

Child murder

In 1992, after the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis as he left the Cabrini–Green public housing project for school, the Chicago Tribune put every child murder on the front page (generally no murders were front page news).

Christopher Warren-Green

In May 2009, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra named Warren-Green its 11th music director, effective with the 2010-2011 season.

In July 2007, he conducted the première of Nigel Hess'’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, commissioned by HRH The Prince of Wales in memory of his grandmother, with soloist Lang Lang.

Dedekind domain

Later, C.R. Leedham-Green showed that such an R may constructed as the integral closure of a PID in a quadratic field extension (Leedham-Green 1972).

Deep green

Deep Green, decision-making support system for United States Army commanders

Edifício São Vito

Cabrini–Green, a similarly problematic housing project in Chicago, United States.

Five Easy Pieces

Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) works in a California oil field (shot in and around the city of Taft in the San Joaquin Valley) with his friend Elton (Billy "Green" Bush), who has a wife and baby son.

Gocompare.com

On 1 January 2014 a new advert was launched featuring Gio driving a tour bus that says Go Compare Tours on it, whilst the passengers are seen talking to each other about insurance whilst going to a place called "LlandofsavingmoneyandgettingtherightdealgogoGoCompare" (a parody of llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch) as Tom Jones's version of "Green, Green Grass of Home" is played on the bus's radio.

Green-and-gold Tanager

The contiguous range has three extensions; a southerly extension from southern Peru into central Bolivia; it is about 2000 km long and 400 km wide, and in Bolivia covers the upper reaches of tributary rivers to the northeast flowing Madeira River.

The third easterly extension goes in the central Basin and ends at only the middle reaches of the northerly flowing Tapajós River, a stretch of 800 km of the 3000 km long river.

Green-and-rufous Kingfisher

The Green-and-rufous Kingfisher resembles the American Pygmy Kingfisher, which shares its range, but it is much larger than its relative, and four times as heavy.

Green-backed Sparrow

Arremonops chloronotus twomeyi can be found in the Olancho and Yoro departments of north-central Honduras.

Green-bellied Hummingbird

The western taxa of the Andean slopes and the eastern taxa of the Tepui region are sometimes considered separate species, with the former retaining the scientific and common name, while the latter is named the Copper-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia cupreicauda, with races duidae and laireti), also sometimes placed in the genus Saucerottia.

Green-breasted Mango

Favorite nectar sources include the flowers of large trees such as Inga, Erythrina, and Ceiba or kapok.

At a Green-breasted Mango nest on San Andrés Island (Caribbean), it was noted that the tree was beset with Pseudomyrmex stinging ants.

Disjunct populations occur along the northern coast of South America from extreme northeastern Colombia through northernmost Venezuela, in the upper Cauca River Valley of southwestern Colombia, and on the coastal slope of southwestern Ecuador and extreme northwestern Peru.

Green-crowned Brilliant

This hummingbird feeds at the large inflorescences of Marcgravia vines, which the male will sometimes defend.

Green-crowned Woodnymph

It is found in humid forest and tall second growth from eastern Panama, south through western Colombia (incl. Cauca Valley) and Ecuador, to far north-western Peru.

The AOU considers the Green-crowned Woodnymph to be a subspecies of the Crowned Woodnymph, while other taxonomists split the species into two or more groups.

Green-Eyed Lady

It remains the band's most popular song, according to the Last.fm rankings.

Green-faced Parrotfinch

This species is currently been conserved in two protected areas, the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park and Bataan Natural Park/ Subic Bay.

Green-Fascism

Political Islam is referred to as "green-fascism" and conceived of as a form of fascism mainly because of the consolidation of the Ottoman Monarch's ideological hegemony after the adoption of the Caliphate by Ottoman Emperor Yavuz Sultan Selim in 1517 ACE.

Green-light

In the novel The Great Gatsby, a green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock in the old money East Egg is barely visible across the lake from Jay Gatsby's mansion in nouveau riche West Egg.

Green-Rainbow Party

In 2002, the party was renamed when it merged with the Rainbow Coalition Party, which was founded by former State Representative Mel King.

Green-throated Mango

In Brazil, the bird is only found on the narrow Atlantic coastal strip north and south of the Amazon River outlet, and a strip along the river proper, about 1500 km upstream.

Green-Tinted Sixties Mind

Written by guitarist virtuoso Paul Gilbert, the lyrics concern an old-fashioned girl, living as if she were in the sixties.

Green-water navy

In addition to these Landing Ships new surface combatants are being built under the KDX (Korean Destroyer eXperimental) program.

Green-winged Teal

mtDNA data-wise, this species is more closely related to the Speckled Teal than to the Common Teal.

Green's End

Around 1650 the state fruit, the Rhode Island Greening was developed in Green's End by Mr. Green, a local tavern owner who operated Green's Inn.

Green's function for the three-variable Laplace equation

and the point source is given by \delta(\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{x'}), the Dirac delta function.

Using one of the Whipple formulae for toroidal harmonics we can obtain an alternative form of the Green's function

Green's matrix

In mathematics, and in particular ordinary differential equations, a Green's matrix helps to determine a particular solution to a first-order inhomogeneous linear system of ODEs.

Green’s Balloon at Newcastle

At the time there were a family of Balloonists from London, Charles Green, who flew from London to Weilburg, Duchy of Nassau (Germany) in 1836 and by the time he retired in 1852, he had flown in a balloon more than 500 times.

The flight took off from the Corporation Depot at Manors, Newcastle, lasted approx.

On 12 September, Green and Callendar again ascended, this time from the yard of the gas company in Manors, Newcastle.

Greg Hollimon

Hollimon grew up in the Chicago housing projects of Cabrini–Green, growing up alongside Ozone from Breakin'.

Hinton-on-the-Green

The River Isbourne valley divides Hinton into the "East Village", near to the church, and the "West Village".

Kambui Hills Forest Reserve

Over 200 separate species of birds have been recorded in the reserve including vulnerable species the White-necked Picathartes and Green-tailed Bristlebill and near threatened species the Yellow-casqued Hornbill, Rufous-winged Illadopsis, Copper-tailed Glossy-starling.

Laurel Grove Cemetery

With lush plantings and beautifully carved stones, both sections of Laurel Grove Cemetery resemble more famous Victorian-era graveyards such as Green-Wood in New York City and Père Lachaise in Paris.

Marcgravia grandifolia

The Green-crowned Brilliant hummingbird feeds at the large inflorescences of the Marcgravia grandifolia vine.

Meldrim

Green-Meldrim House, historical building located in Savannah, Georgia

Polar coordinate system

A mechanical device that computes area integrals is the planimeter, which measures the area of plane figures by tracing them out: this replicates integration in polar coordinates by adding a joint so that the 2-element linkage effects Green's theorem, converting the quadratic polar integral to a linear integral.

Shady, Oregon

Like nearby Green, Shady was a station on the Siskiyou Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Sonequa Martin-Green

She was most recently cast in a recurring role in The Walking Dead as Sasha, the sister of Tyreese (Chad Coleman).

Take It on the Run

Chicago radio personality Steve Dahl recorded a parody version called "Better Get a Gun", which made light of then Chicago mayor Jane Byrne moving into the Cabrini–Green public housing development.

Teeing ground

Green tee markers often have shorter yardage even than the red tee markers, and usually indicate where juniors and beginners hit from.

The Bag or the Bat

The series was greenlit in August 2011, with a pilot episode being ordered by Showtime.

Weston-on-the-Green

The architect R. Phené Spiers restored the building in the 1870s, repairing the tower and adding the south porch and new seating.

Yellow-lored Bristlebill

It was formerly lumped with the Green-tailed Bristlebill (Bleda eximius) but is now often considered to be a separate species.


Adolph Schuman

A liberal Democrat, Schuman frequently held campaign fund-raising dinners and parties at his Nob Hill home, and was one of the four wealthy San Francisco Jewish political contributors - the others were Cyril Magnin, Benjamin Swig and Walter Shorenstein - who formed what local Democratic politicians appreciatively called "The Green Machine" of the 1960s.

Aldyr Garcia Schlee

He is most famous for creating the Brazilian national football team's kit of a yellow shirt with a green trim, blue shorts with a white trim.

Anne E. DeChant

Examples include Girls and Airplanes (gender equality), Green Hand (supporting troops post-war), Swastika (Holocaust denial), 25 (imbalance in economic status), and Second Class Citizen (prejudice and intolerance toward the gay community).

Carlton Ware

Leslie Green, who had previously worked as a chauffeur for the family, was convicted of the murder and hanged at Winson Green Prison on 23 December 1952 by Albert Pierrepoint.

Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Providence

The main altar is built of Verde Issoire, a green marble quarried in the French Alps.

Chris Lea

He was the director of facilities at Hart House at the University of Toronto, where as part of a team he won a Green Innovation Award in 2010, for a project to utilise electrical power generated from exercise bikes.

Croxley

Croxley Rail Link, a proposed rail re-rout of the London Underground at Croxley Green

David Prychitko

Additionally, he held the Cecil and Ida Green Chair in Economics at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas (2003–2004).

Douglas B. Green

Green provides commentary with fellow Rider in the Sky Fred LaBour (stand-up bassist stage-named Too Slim) in the role of Ranger Doug's sidekick, the crusty old trail cook called Sidemeat.

Duleek

The village’s four crosses and the lime tree on the village green are reminders of Duleek’s links to the struggle between William and James and to wider European unrest at the time of Louis XIV of France.

Entomoplasma

Entomoplasma freundtii can be isolated from the green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris, Coleoptera: Cicindelidae).

European Seal of e-Excellence

As such, it was an answer to the so-called "European paradox", a term coined in a European Commission Green Paper in 1995 and referring to the often encountered inability of Europe to bring (excellent) research and scientific results to the markets.

Franz Fuchs

Other mailbombs which were discovered and neutralized were targeted at Helmut Schüller (humanitarian organisation Caritas), the Green politicians Madeleine Petrovic and Terezija Stoisits, Wolfgang Gombocz and Minister Johanna Dohnal.

Gleanntáin Ghlas' Ghaoth Dobhair

On their 1976 debut studio album Scottish Folk, the Scottish traditional music group Battlefield Band recorded a song about Irish immigration entitled "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" that shares a melody with this song.

Glenwood Park

The neighborhood is an example of New Urbanism, promoting a sense of community with walkable streets and closely spaced residential units that are mixed in with office, retail, and green space.

Green Fire

The author of the novel Green Fire, on which the film was based, was Major Peter William Rainier 1890-1946, a South African whose great-great-grand-uncle was the person that Mount Rainier, Washington was named after (by the explorer George Vancouver).

Green Head, Western Australia

Green Head has numerous vantage points for beach fishing, where catches include whiting, herring, tailor, skippy, and cobbler.

Green Mill Cocktail Lounge

Over the years, the Green Mill has appeared in many films, such as Thief (1981), Next of Kin (1989), V. I. Warshawski (1991), Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Folks! (1992), Soul Food (1997) and High Fidelity (2000).

Green World Ecological Farm

:Home to over one hundred species of birds, including: Macaw, Bird of Paradise, Great Curassow, Blue-crowned Pigeon, Green Touraco, Channel-Billed Toucan, Toco Toucan, Golden Pheasant, Vulturine Guineafowl, Wood Duck, Emerald Dove, Violet Turaco, Asian Fairy Bluebird, Red-and-yellow Barbet, Taiwan Sibia, Finch-billed Bulbul and Eclectus Parrot.

Hanns Martin Schleyer

After Schleyer's kidnappers received the news of the death of their imprisoned comrades, Schleyer was taken from Brussels on October 18, 1977, and shot dead en route to Mulhouse, France, where his body was left in the trunk of a green Audi 100 on the rue Charles Péguy.

Henry Dickinson Green

Green was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel Ermentrout.

Jack Tramiel

As prices dropped and the market matured, the monochrome (green text on black screen) PET was at a disadvantage in the market when compared to machines like the Apple II and Atari 800, which offered color graphics and could be hooked to a television as an inexpensive display.

Java Green

Java Green is operational at different locations including educational institutions like DA-IICT,SRM University and IIM Bangalore, hospitals like KDA Hospital, Mumbai and Fortis, corporate offices like DAKC, Mumbai and IBM, Reliance Web worlds and Spencer's retail.

Jean Dessès

Similarly, Jennifer Lopez wore a vintage moss green Desses gown, made with 50 yards of chiffon, to the 2006 Academy Awards.

Jon Knox

He was concurrently the drummer of the band Adam Again which disbanded after lead singer Gene Eugene died in his sleep at his recording studio, the "fabulous" Green Room on March 20, 2000.

KXXT

In January 2011, after the attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords (see 2011 Tucson shooting ), KXXT National Talk Show Host Steve Sanchez of The Steve Sanchez Show offered 30 minutes of airtime to Westboro Baptist Church in exchange for the Church agreeing not to protest at the funeral of 9 year old Christina Green who was killed during the assassination attempt.

Murder of Larry King

The bullying continued when King transferred to E.O. Green Junior High School in the seventh grade, and intensified when he began attending school wearing women's accessories and clothing, high heels and makeup in January 2008.

Neil Rutherford

Also killed by gunshot wounds were the hotel owner, Linda Simcox (52); ex merchant seaman Johnny Gore Green (55), an antique dealer from Bay City, Texas; Simcox's daughter, Lorna (24); and her husband, Alastair McIntyre (55).

Nova Kakhovka

Park of Stepan Faldzinsky, the Park Architecture Monument, is named after the native Polish of Podolie, the agrarian Stepan Faldzinsky who created the green oasis at the Oleshky Sands.

Opinion polling in the Brazilian presidential election, 2010

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Pangyo Techno Valley

SKC insists on 'green chemicals' and 'life sciences' for the health of humanity.

Parks and open spaces in London

Some cemeteries provide extensive green land within the city — notably Highgate Cemetery, burial place of Karl Marx and Michael Faraday amongst others.

Ponyta and Rapidash

Ponyta and Rapidash were two of several different designs conceived by Game Freak's character development team and finalized by Ken Sugimori for the first generation of Pocket Monsters games Red and Green, which were localized outside of Japan as Pokémon Red and Blue.

Question P

The effort to gather signatures to put Question P on the ballot, in the first place, was spearheaded by a grassroots political action coalition that included Community and Labor United for Baltimore (CLUB), the Baltimore Green Party, the Baltimore office of ACORN and state delegates Curt Anderson and Jill P. Carter.

Red green

Red-green alliance, an alliance of "red" social democratic or democratic socialist parties with "green" environmentalist parties

Russell Street, Melbourne

Russell Street is lined with established, green leafy trees and is the address of many restaurants, cafes, bars, shops, offices, 5-star Grand Hyatt Melbourne Hotel and luxury French label Chanel who have a flagship store on the corner of Russell Street and Flinders Lane.

Santa Claus Is Back in Town

Jonny Lang, the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Billy Idol, Joe Bonamassa, the Jordanaires, Canned Heat, James Durbin, .38 Special, Orion, Australian Crawl, My Morning Jacket, The Creepshow, The Boppers, David Gogo, Trisha Yearwood, Brian Hyland, Raul Malo, Straight No Chaser, Frantic Flintstones, Rick Saucedo, 45 R.P.M., Tom Green, and Wynonna Judd have also recorded the song.

Sixes and sevens

Sixes & Sevens, Adam Green's fifth solo record, released on March 7, 2008

Songs to Remember

References to famous philosophers, another of Green's favourite subjects, recur throughout the album, most obviously on the track "Jacques Derrida", named after the Deconstructionist philosopher who Green eventually met in 1988.

Speaker of the Saeima

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Syracuse Law Review

The symposium book will feature articles written by James Sample; James Bopp and Anita Woudenberg; Andrew Frey and Jeffrey Berger; Roy Schotland; Ronald D. Rotunda; Steven Lubet; Bruce Green; and Elizabeth Wydra.

Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival

Past winners included Gary Walkow (Notes from Underground), Constance Marks (Green Chimneys), Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals), David Riker (La Ciudad), Daniel Yoon (Post Concussion), and a lifetime achievement award for Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

The Green Promise

The Green Promise is referred to in the mini-series biopic, The Mystery of Natalie Wood(2003).

The New Lawn

In August 2012, a Manchester United XI played a pre-season friendly at the ground in aid of the Sustainability in Sport foundation which was created by Forest Green chairman Dale Vince and Gary Neville.

Tigilau Ness

In 2008, Ness featured with his son Che Fu in the documentary Children of the Revolution about the children of political activists in New Zealand which also included Māori activist Tame Iti, Māori Party Member of Parliament Hone Harawira, Green Party Member of Parliament Sue Bradford and anti-apartheid leader John Minto.

Tim Hendryx

Timothy Green Hendryx (January 31, 1891 – August 14, 1957) was a utility outfielder in Major League Baseball who played with four different teams between the 1911 and 1921 seasons.

UltraMantis Black

As UltraMantis, his original red and green attire was based on the main protagonist from the Kamen Rider series, while his ring name was derived from another Japanese television program, Ultraman.

W. C. E. Thomas

He was an agent of the American Express office from the establishment of the Green Bay branch in 1857 until 1871.

Wandsworth

A green plaque to commemorate aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe was unveiled by Wandsworth Council and members of the Verdon-Roe family beside the A3 close to Wandsworth Fire Station on the site of Roe's first workshop in the stables of his brother's house at 47, West Hill.

William Duell

Duell graduated from the Green Mountain Junior College (now Green Mountain College) (Vermont), Illinois Wesleyan University, and Yale University.