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Kaze o Ukete

"Kaze o Ukete" served as theme song for the animation film Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Movie 2: Attack of the Mecha-Vulcan.


Alfred Homer

Homer's father, also called Alfred Homer, founded the Vulcan Brewery in Aston, Birmingham, in 1878.

Andrew Brookes

He is a former Royal Air Force pilot, and flew 3,500 hours on strategic reconnaissance Victors and Canberras, and also the Vulcan bomber.

Baining people

(As recently as 1994, the nearby town of Rabaul was almost completely destroyed by two volcanoes, Tavurvur and Vulcan)

Battle of Wadi Al-Batin

The Task Force consisted two M1A1 Abrams Tank Companies, two M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Companies, an M901 Anti Tank Company, Command and Control elements from the Headquarters of 2nd Brigade, elements of 1st ADA (Stinger and Vulcan Anti Aircraft Systems) and in a combat trains location, elements of the forward support battalion (C Co medical evac).

Bernard A. Monaghan

Under Monaghan's leadership, Vulcan Materials grew dramatically, eventually becoming a Forbes 500 company.

Black Vulcan

A 6" Black Vulcan action figure was released in Mattel's DC Universe Classics Wave 18, which was primarily dedicated to Super Friends characters.

In the first episode of the series Static Shock, one of the outfits Virgil considers as his superhero costume resembles Black Vulcan's but includes pants.

Chirped pulse amplification

Some examples of these lasers are the Vulcan Petawatt Upgrade at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's central laser facility, the Diocles Laser at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Gekko Petawatt laser at the Gekko XII facility in the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University, the OMEGA EP laser at the University of Rochester's Lab for Laser Energetics and the now dismantled petawatt line on the former Nova laser at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Cross-link

This process is often called sulfur curing, and the term vulcanization comes from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

DBase

He used this as the basis for a port to PTDOS on his kit-built IMSAI 8080 microcomputer, and called the resulting system Vulcan (after Mr. Spock on Star Trek).

Dirty Girls

While they are quick to point out that Faith had killed a volcanologist, not a Vulcan, they watch Faith exercise in the back yard with fascination over this other Slayer.

Edmond Modeste Lescarbault

Edmond Modeste Lescarbault (1814, Châteaudun - 1894), was a French doctor and an amateur astronomer, best remembered for his 1859 observation of the non-existent planet Vulcan.

Egyptus

This is significant since Ptah is a parallel for Noah in that, as the Blacksmith-God of Thebes (Hephaistos-Vulcan), he is the equivalent of the Phoenician Craftsman-God Khousor, which is Ugaritic Kṯr, Kothar, Kothar-wa-Khasis, "The-Very-Skillful-and-Intelligent-One," which is the same character as the Sumero-Akkadian Noahs: Utnapishtim (in the Gilgamesh Epic), Atra-Ḫasīs, and Ziusudra (Khousor = Ptah at Ugarit).

Fireworks nudibranch

This species has to date only been found off South Africa, near Vulcan Rock, south of Hout Bay, off Cape Town in at least 18m of water.

Foundling Mick

After barely surviving the fire at Ragged School which separated the friends, Grip settled as a fireman on a steam vessel Vulcan, making regular trips between Dublin and the United States.

Hawaii–Hilo Vulcans

Vulcan's Greek counterpart is Hephaestus, the God of Destructive Terrestrial Fire and Volcanic Fire.

Jolene Blalock

Jolene King Blalock (born March 5, 1975) is an American film and television actress and model, perhaps best known for playing the Vulcan T'Pol on the UPN science fiction series Star Trek: Enterprise.

Kepler-10b

On January 13, 2011, 3 days after the planet's discovery was announced, The Economist published an article suggesting “Vulcan” as an unofficial name for the planet, after both the hypothetical planet, and the Roman god of the same name.

Klingon Christmas Carol

The Vulcan Narrator is assisted by members of the Imperial Klingon Players, who proceed to act out the play.

Louis René Vialy

The first shows Diana surprising the sleeping shepherd Endymion; the second shows Clytie's metamorphoses into a sunflower; the third shows Vulcan and Venus in the Forges of Lemnos, with the Cyclopes forging Achilles' weapons; canvas of 20.

M61 Vulcan

Japan's Mitsubishi F-1 carried one internally mounted JM61A1 Vulcan with 750 rounds.

Natural language understanding

For example, Wayne Ratliff originally developed the Vulcan program with an English-like syntax to mimic the English speaking computer in Star Trek.

Operation Black Buck

The news of the bombing raid was reported on the BBC World Service before either the Vulcan or the last tanker arrived at Ascension.

Otobreda 127/64

The gun can fire all standard 5 inch ammunition including the new Vulcano long range guided ammunition.

Pheidole vulcan

Pheidole vulcan is known only from the slopes of the two volcanoes Mt. Karthala and La Grille, at elevations between 995 and 1125 m on Grande Comore and thus is possibly an endemic species of the island.

Project Vulcan

In addition to the data release, establishment of the Vulcan website and a press release, a video of various aspects of atmospheric transport was released on Purdue University’s YouTube website and portions of the Vulcan inventory are available on Google Earth.

RAF Bawtry

The famous bombing of the airfield at Port Stanley by Vulcan bombers from RAF Waddington during the Falklands War was co-ordinated from the operations room at Bawtry Hall.

Ralf Jones

In KOFXIII, his NEO MAX, Jet Vulcan resembles Monkey D. Luffy's Gear Second attack, Jet Gattling.

RayStorm

The player uses a vulcan-like laser weapon as their primary offense, and a missile weapon which can lock onto multiple targets and gain a combo multiplier, accumulating into a point total.

RCAF Station Vulcan

In 2009 new ownership began re-invigorating the airport and in 2011 was reopened as Vulcan/Kirkcaldy Aerodrome and is being operated by Wheatland Industries.

RioPort

RioPort's major investors included Oak Investment Partners, Viacom, Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventues, and consumer electronics company S3 Graphics.

Roland Falk

During the 1955 Farnborough Airshow he barrel-rolled a Vulcan at the top of the post-take-off climb, although safe it was a spectacular manoeuvre in an aircraft weighing 69 tons and with a 99-foot wingspan.

Saavik

In Pandora Principle, Saavik, unlike the other half-Vulcan, half-Romulan child survivors, refuses a DNA test that would identify her Vulcan relatives.

Sarek

The Genesis Device regenerates Spock's body and restores his life; Kirk and his crew manage to get Spock off the planet and return him to his home planet of Vulcan.

Son of Vulcan

As the Son of Vulcan, Johnny had several adventures where he battled both a jealous Mars and the Asian arch-criminal Dr. Kong (the so-called "meanest man alive" who resembled a cross between Fu Manchu and Dracula) but remained a little-known hero.

Split-fount Inking

It was used in the 1960s by poster artists such as underground comic artist Gilbert Shelton, who designed posters for a venue in Austin, Texas called The Vulcan Gas Company.

Starjammers

Marvel has announced that the Starjammers will play a large role in the upcoming sequel to Emperor Vulcan called X-Men: Kingbreaker.

The Centaur

George is both the Centaur Chiron and Prometheus (some readers might see George's son Peter as Prometheus), Mr. Hummel, the automobile mechanic, is Hephaestus (AKA Vulcan); and so forth.

The Enterprise Incident

At least three different explanations are given in Trek novels--The Price of the Phoenix, Rihannsu#1: My Enemy, My Ally and Vulcan's Heart--(in the early days of Trek writing, many novels tended to contradict each other, and so the commander has had many different names and fates).

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

However, the novel is not a continuation (e.g. What the Dead Men Say and the novel Ubik) or expansion (e.g. the novella and later novel Vulcan's Hammer) of an earlier and shorter work.

Truce term

Other gestures, reported in ones and twos, included miming an injection into the arm, licking the thumb, making a T-shape with the hands, three fingers held up and the "Vulcan" sign from Star Trek.

VADS

M163 VADS, the Vulcan Air Defense System (VADS), a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) used by the United States Army

Vulcan!

The plot of the book was developed from an undeveloped script outline that Sky had submitted for Star Trek: The Original Series that was positively received by Gene Roddenberry but went unused because of the cancellation of the series.

Writer Kathleen Sky submitted a script outline via her agent to Gene Roddenberry during the third season of Star Trek: The Original Series.

Vulcanite

It is named after the place where it was discovered in 1961, the Mammoth Good Hope Mine in Vulcan, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA.

Who Watches the Watchers

The Federation starship Enterprise, under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, arrives at the planet Mintaka III to resupply and repair a Federation outpost being used to monitor the Mintakan people, a proto-Vulcan race near a Bronze Age of cultural development.

XBase

While there was a non-commercial predecessor to the Ashton-Tate product (Vulcan written by Wayne Ratliff), most clones are based on Ashton-Tate's 1986 dBASE III+ release — scripts written in the dBASE III+ dialect are most likely to run on all the clones.


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