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2 unusual facts about MSS


Colvocoresses Reef

This sounding was one of only a few that were ever incorporated into US nautical charts, having been derived not from sonar or lead line data, but from radiometric data from the Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) imagery.

Mectron

MSS-1.2AC: Anti-Tank Missile with laser guidance and medium-range (3 km).


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Aces Go Places 5: The Terracotta Hit

When a muscular MSS operative named the Chinese Rambo separately visits Baldy and King Kong (with indirect approval from the Hong Kong Police Force command, who have long since disowned them), both men decide to find those who framed them and clear their names.

Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband

In 2007 end-to-end AMR-WB TrFO capable 3G & VoIP product line was commercially released by NSN (M13.6 MSS, U3C MGW).

Charles Lethbridge Kingsford

; he wrote the histories of the Royal Warwickshire and the Middlesex Regiments; and he edited the first volume on the manuscripts of Lord De L'isle and Dudley in the publications of the Historical MSS.

China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations

Located in Beijing, the Institute is affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), and overseen by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Dicuil

The manuscript was known to Marcus Welser, Isaac Vossius, Claudius Salmasius, Jean Hardouin, and Johann Daniel Schöpflin; it was first printed with the title: "Dicuili Liber de mensura orbis terrae ex duobus codd. mss. bibliothecae imperialis nunc primum in lucem editus a Car. Athan. Walckenaer" (Paris, 1807).

Matthew 16:2b–3

-- not sure -->, Origen.

Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China

He served as Minister of State Security from 1985 until March 1998, when the MSS underwent an overhaul and Xu Yongyue was appointed the new head of the organization.

Moses ibn Tibbon

Commentary on the weights and measures of the Bible and the Talmud (Vatican MSS., No. 298, 4; see Assemani, "Catal." p. 283; Steinschneider, "Joseph ibn Aḳnin", in Ersch and Gruber, "Encyc." section ii., part 31, p. 50; "Ginze Nistarot", iii. 185 et seq.).

Shem Tov ben Abraham ibn Gaon

De Rossi (Parma MS. No. 68, 8) declares the author's name to be doubtful, since the manuscript is anonymous; but Assemani (Catalogue of Hebrew MSS. in the Vatican Library, No. 235) concludes that its author was Shem-Ṭob of Soria.

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet

Dutch 17th-century masters were his particular passion but by 1804 he had ‘done with all except the very superior’; now only works by Rembrandt, Rubens, or Van Dyck ‘tempt me’ but ‘the first must not be too dark, nor the second indecent’ (Barings archives, Northbrook MSS, A4.3).

Tetragrammaton in the New Testament

Along with Howard, David Trobisch and Rolf Furuli both have written on the how the Tetragrammaton may have been removed from the Greek MSS.


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