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unusual facts about L-shell


L-value

The value assigned to an L-shell, a particular set of planetary magnetic field lines


1989–90 QMJHL season

Shell Canada sponsored two Shell Cup "Player of the Year" awards, one each for offensive and defensive players.

1990 Presto Tivolis season

Presto Tivolis won its fourth All-Filipino title and Sixth Crown overall, the fourth winningest ballclub in the PBA, coach Jimmy Mariano won his first title, while Arnie Tuadles become the first player to win two championships with two different teams in one season, having earlier won a title for Shell when he moved to Presto in the middle of the Second Conference.

2010 proposed taxonomy of the Bivalvia

In compiling this, the authors used a variety of phylogenetic information including molecular analysis, anatomical analysis, shell morphology and shell microstructure as well as bio-geographic, paleobiogeographic and stratigraphic information.

A638 road

It passes the Shell Ossett and Roundwood Industrial Estate on the left, and becomes a dual-carriageway, built with the M1 junction 40 by Costain in October 1968.

Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick

In 1887 he constructed and fitted what was to be considered the first successful model of a contact lens: an afocal scleral contact shell made from heavy brown glass, which he tested first on rabbits, then on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers.

Ankylosauridae

The heavy armour, forming a veritable shell on the backs of ankylosaurids and their clubbed tails, makes them look superficially similar to the mammalian glyptodonts (and to a lesser degree to the giant meiolaniid turtles of Australia).

ArenaBowl IX

The Predators responded with quarterback Pat O'Hara completing a four-yard touchdown pass to WR/LB Alex Shell, yet the Storm immediately answered with OS George LaFrance returning the kickoff 57 yards for a touchdown.

BL 14-inch Railway Gun

King George V personally oversaw the firing of the first shell by Boche Buster from near Marœuil, 6 km NW of Arras, on 8 August in a fireplan to hit German reinforcements being sent south to oppose the British Amiens offensive.

Bryan Ryley

His work is found in numerous private and public collections, such as, The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; Kelowna Public Art Gallery, Kelowna; Vernon Public Art Gallery; The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York; Petro Canada Collection; Shell Collection in Calgary, Alberta.

Burns Philp

Following the sale of its yeast and spices business to UK firm Associated British Foods, Uncle Toby's to Nestle for NZ$1.1bn, Bluebird Foods to PepsiCo for NZ$245m, and its NZ$676m 20% stake in Goodman Fielder the company became largely a cashed up shell.

Chicago Jazz Festival

In 2013, the festival moved from Grant Park's badly aging Petrillo Music Shell and its side stages, where it had been held for more than 30 years, across Monroe Street to Millennium Park, where artists appeared at several performance pavilions as well as at the nearby Chicago Cultural Center, Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University, and several other locations.

Crichel House

The Bastard family collaborated to enlarge the shell of Crichel in 1771-73; the new interiors were designed by James Wyatt (1772–80), with painted decor by Biagio Rebecca, chimneypieces by John Devall, and furniture by John Linnell (1778–79) and Ince and Mayhew (1768–78).

Cross-promotion

Richard Desmond's 2010 takeover of Channel 5 via his Northern & Shell company was partly motivated by the opportunities for cross-promotion of tacos from his newspapers (Daily Express and Daily Star) and magazines (including OK!); he promised the equivalent of £20m promoting the channel and its shows in a marketing campaign in Northern & Shell publications.

Economic Transformation Programme

Among the companies that are involved in the transformation programme are YTL Corporation, Shell Malaysia, Airasia, Hovid Inc, Select-TV, Exxon-Mobil, Dialog Group, Tenaga Nasional, Cisco.

Edouard Masengo

They sang Masengo's compositions as a duet, and this new fame opened the door for Masengo to get contracts to endorse the products of such firms as Coca-Cola, Ford, and Shell.

Electric Guitars

The band sang and performed in a Japanese advert for Royal Dutch Shell, called Shell, We Shall.

EMD GT46PAC

A particular loco with road number 20012 had a different light blue livery with a fiberglass shell and has been named "Baaz" which stands for Bird of prey in Hindi.

Eric Prabhakar

He was also a Rhodes Scholar and he subsequently worked for Burmah-Shell Oil and UNESCO as well as being an active sports administrator in India.

First Battle of Villers-Bretonneux

The capture of Villers-Bretonneux, being close to the strategic centre of Amiens, would have meant that the Germans could have used artillery there to shell the city.

Franz Marc

Marc was on the list but was struck in the head and killed instantly by a shell splinter during the Battle of Verdun in 1916 before orders for reassignment could reach him.

Gursharan Kaur

Gurusharan was born to Sardar Chattar Singh Kohli, an employee of Burmah-Shell, and Sardarni Bhagwanti Kaur on the 13th of September 1937 in British India.

Harry Godfrey Massy-Miles

He was at his Regimental Aid Post when he heard that a gas shell had burst on the Battalion H.Q. at Villers-Bretonneux, had pierced the roof, and penetrated into the cellar.

Henri Deterding

He led Royal Dutch to several major mergers and acquisitions, including a merger with Samuel's "Shell" Transport and Trading Company in 1907 and the purchase of Azerbaijan oil fields from the Rothschild family in 1911.

Herbert John Hodgson

As a result of a further engagement in April 1918 east of Wulverghem near Messines he fell into a shell hole and found a mud-encrusted book.

HMQS Gayundah

At Scott Reef, on 25 May, Gayundah boarded and detained two Dutch schooners with illegal catches of trepang (sea cucumber) and trochus shell, and escorted them into Broome on 29 May.

Indigenous people of the Everglades region

In 1895 Frank Hamilton Cushing excavated a massive shell mound on Key Marco that was composed of several constructed terraces hundreds of yards long.

James Richard Haskell

James Richard Haskell was an American inventor chiefly remembered for his invention (with Azel S. Lyman) of a multi-charge gun which was intended to increase muzzle velocity by detonating additional propellant charges behind the projectile or shell as it moved up the gun's barrel and was a distant ancestor of the World War II German V-3 "supergun".

Kleinella

This genus nearly resembles Actaeon, but without any fold on the columella; the umbilicus, moreover, is wide and deep, and the surface of the shell is cancellated.

KSH

Korn shell, a Unix shell developed by David Korn in the early 1980s

Levitt Shell

The Overton Park Shell was built in 1936 by the City of Memphis and the Works Progress Administration for $11,935, as part of the New Deal.

Lisa Byrne

Magazine International is based at Northern & Shell Worldwide in Luxembourg, near Luxembourg railway station.

Ludwig Köchle

Köchle was killed in action on the 9 June 1942 near Polizo southwest of Lake Ilmen when he received a direct hit from an artillery shell.

Malcolm Lewis Pratt

He received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in reestablishing an advanced aid station just demolished by shell-fire in Lucy-le-Bocage 11 June 1918, and in continuing to dress and evacuate the wounded under direct and continuous shell-fire at Thiancourt 13 September.

Malihini Holiday

For this episode, Poncie Ponce plays the ukulele and sings You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, while Connie Stevens sings Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love with the Shell Bar band.

Metalasia muricata

The name of the genus Metalasia is derived from 'meta' which can have many meanings, but in this case is intended as 'reverse', and 'lasios' meaning 'woolly', an allusion to the woolly reverse sides of the leaves; 'muricata' means warty with short, sharp points like the shell of the Murex.

Phage major coat protein

These bacteriophages are flexible rods, about one to two micrometres long and six nm in diameter, with a helical shell of protein subunits surrounding a DNA core.

Prudential, Warsaw

The Prudential was heavily damaged during World War II, particularly during the Warsaw Uprising when it was hit by approximately 1,000 artillery shells, including a single hit by 2-tonne Karl-Gerät mortar shell, leaving only the steel framework.

Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

The Sosnoff Theater, an intimate, 900-seat theater with an orchestra, parterre, and two balcony sections, features an orchestra pit for opera and acoustics designed by Yasuhisa Toyota, including an acoustic shell that turns the theater into a concert hall for performances of chamber and symphonic music.

Richard Raiswell

Shell Games: Studies in Frauds, Scams and Deceit in Early Modern Culture, 1300-1650 with Mark Crane and Margaret Reeves (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004) and The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012) with Peter Dendle (Penn State Mont Alto).

Saudi Refining

Motiva refines and markets petroleum products in the eastern and Gulf Coast regions of the United States under the Shell brand.

Semisulcospira

"野尻湖層産カワニナ胎児殼化石について : 現生カワニナとの比較研究 "On the fossil embryonic shell of Semisulcospira libertina (GOULD) (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae) from the latest Pleistocene Nojiri-ko Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Central Japan: A comparative study of recent and fossil Semisulcospira".

Sinistral and dextral


Right: The normally dextral (right-handed) shell of Neptunea despecta

St-Gervais-et-St-Protais

On 29 March 1918, a German shell, fired by the long-range "Paris Gun", fell on the church, killing 88 people and wounding 68 others; the explosion collapsed the roof when a Good Friday service was in progress.

Sutshekhar Ras

Sutshekhar Rasa as per its preparation methods contains "purified" mineral compounds like Swarna Makshik (Chalcopyrite), Shankh (conch shell) and heavy metals like Swarna (Gold), Tamra (Copper), Parad (Mercury) and Gandhak (Sulfur) along with other herbs.

Sylvia Hollamby

Sylvia's worst fears become reality as Shell is found alive and heavily pregnant in Amsterdam, and extradited back to G-Wing.

Syrnola thelma

A fragment of the shell of this brackish water species has been found near Alexandria, Louisiana.

The Burnt Theatre

A blend of fact and fiction, based on the actual lives of the actors, the film depicts a troupe of actors and dancers struggling to practise their art in the burned-out shell of Cambodia's former national theatre, the Preah Suramarit National Theatre in Phnom Penh.

Wankum

However, these coupons are only redeemable at certain petrol station (Shell, BP and Aral).

Whaleback Shell Midden

Other shell middens are located on the estuary in both Damariscotta and Newcastle.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

It was known as BG Wildlife Photographer of the Year from 1990 to 2003, and briefly as Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Kodak Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Prudential Wildlife Photographer of the Year.


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