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39 unusual facts about Open


Bergisuchus

Bergisuchus is known from a holotype rostrum from the Messel Pit, first described in 1966, and a mandible from an open-pit coal mine near Halle in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Cadia-Ridgeway Mine

Cadia Mine is a series of large underground and open-cut gold and copper mines located in the Cadia Valley, about 20 kilometres south of the regional city of Orange, New South Wales, Australia.

Garswood

Extensive opencast mining has taken place in more recent times and still continues in the area.

Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company

Granby operated the Phoenix Mine, which comprised both an underground mine and open pit mine.

Ibrahim Al-Buleihi

From his studies he has concluded that Western Civilization has several deep cultural principles that make it more dynamic, more open-minded and therefore able to develop faster, through empowering individuality and independent thinking.

Linear Tape-Open

Compliance-Verified licensed manufacturers of LTO technology media are EMTEC, Imation, Fujifilm, Maxell, TDK and Sony.

Current Compliance-Verified licensed manufacturers of LTO technology mechanisms are IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Quantum, and Tandberg Storage.

Mitcham Primary School

The new building in 1981 to house the Junior Primary School and some Primary classes was quite different, built to allow Open Space Learning.

Open Water

Open-water diving, a place without boundaries where you can dive (sea or lake)

Open-air preaching

Biblical examples include that of the prophet Jonah, who reluctantly obeys the command of God to go to the city of Nineveh and preach "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!".

Open-book contract

Open-book contracts in third-party logistics services were popularised by John Anthony Harvey CBE, head of Tibbett & Britten Group plc, between 1984 and 2004.

Open-ended

Open-end fund, collective investment which can issue and redeem shares at any time

Open-face Chinese poker

The game has been popular among poker players such as Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Barry Greenstein, Shaun Deeb, and others.

Open-field

Open field system, a system of agriculture prevalent throughout Europe from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century

Open-handed drumming

Steve Smith and Deen Castronovo have used the open hand technique for the Journey song "Don't Stop Believin'".

Open-source bounty

While the bounty produced little results it inspired many bounty systems in the Amiga community including Timberwolf, Power2people, AROS Bounties, Amigabounty.net and many more.

Open-source brand

Examples include open source software projects such as the GNU project, the Apache Software Foundation, and Linux (protected via the Linux Mark Institute).

Open-source car

ANDRE cars, Inverter - an open source race car designed by Andre Brown (a former student of open source pioneer & RepRap founder Adrian Bowyer) in partnership with Reynard: design released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license

Open-source curriculum

All 10,500 pages of content, and 4,240 file uploads are Creative Commons licensed, and the system is used daily by the Bering Strait School District, an Alaska school district.

Open-source governance

One high scorer, Andrew Younger, had not been involved with the project originally but was elected and appeared on TV with project leader Martin Willison.

Open-source license

Jacobsen v. Katzer—CAFC 1001–2008 ruling states that legal copyrights can have $0 value – supports all licenses (commercial and open-source).

Open-source movement

In the court case "Jacobsen v. Katzer", the plaintiff sued the defendant for failing to put the required attribution notices in his modified version of the software, thereby violating license.

Open-source religion

Later that year, other implementations began to employ the collaborative strengths provided by Web 2.0 and in particular wiki online collaboration platforms.

Open-source robotics

Despite this however, some DIY builders are already looking to helpful activities that can be performed today as vacuum cleaning, floor washing and automated mowing.

Open-source software security

The Poisson process can be used to measure the rates at which different people find security flaws between open and closed source software.

Open-source Unicode typefaces

GNU Unifont is a bitmap-based font created by Roman Czyborra that is present in most free operating systems and windowing systems such as Linux, XFree86 or the X.Org Server.

Open-source unionism

Open-source unionism is a term coined by academics Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers to explain a possible new model for organizing workers that depended on the labor movement"taking its own historical lessons with diversified membership seriously and relying more heavily on the Internet in membership communication and servicing."

Freelancers Union - A non-profit organization in the United States that represents the needs and concerns of the independent workforce through advocacy, information, and service.

Open-source video game

The game was also one of the first free titles to feature controversial subject matter such as graphic violence and drug use.

Open-space Learning or OSL

In terms of the suggestion that it promotes a style of teaching and learning that seeks to undermine a Cartesian separation of mind and body, its greatest debt is to work in Neuroscience by academics such as Andy Clark, and to phenomenology of the kind developed by Husserl.

OSL employs methods such as ‘enactive’ learning, ‘kinaesthetic’ learning and the various styles of teaching developed by practitioners such as Augusto Boal and Paulo Freire.

Open-Xchange

Development of Open-Xchange Server is mainly sponsored by Open-Xchange, Inc. in Olpe, Nürnberg, and New York together with implementation partners and the Open Source community around Open-Xchange Server.

In 2006, Open-Xchange receives Product Excellence Award from LinuxWorld.

Open....

British Interactive Broadcasting was in turn owned by a consortium consisting of companies involving British Telecom, Matsushita and BSkyB.

Open/closed principle

In 2001 Craig Larman related the open/closed principle to the pattern by Alistair Cockburn called Protected Variations, and to the David Parnas discussion of information hiding.

RISC iX

Later versions upgraded the X11 server to release 4, and was certified to conform to the X/Open Portability Guide 3 Base profile.

SINIX

Following X/Open's acceptance that its requirements for the use of the UNIX trademark were met, version 5.44 and subsequent releases were published as Reliant UNIX by Fujitsu Siemens Computers.

Wyrley and Essington Canal

Most of the route north of the A5 has since been destroyed, some of it as a result of opencast mining.

Zachary Barth

Infiniminer is an open source multi-player block-based sandbox building and digging game, in which the player is a miner searching for minerals by carving tunnels through procedurally generated maps and building structures.


2002 Generali Open

The 2002 Generali Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Tennis Stadium Kitzbühel in Kitzbühel in Austria and was part of the International Series Gold of the 2002 ATP Tour.

Albany Senior High School, Auckland

It was the first new state secondary school to open in the area since Long Bay College in 1975.

Architecture of Aberdeen

Constructed in 1892, to a design by open competition winner Alexander Brown, the Central Library, which was opened by its benefactor Andrew Carnegie, stands at the west end of the terrace.

Back to School Mr. Bean

During his time at the open day he confuses a band of Army Cadets by coughing and causing them to respond by standing in unusual ceremonial stances, gets in other people's way, messes up a stamp album, distracts and frightens a calligrapher, and gets paper stuck to his body after using a Van de Graaff generator.

Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Qualification

During the 2012/13 or 2013/14 Biathlon World Cup season the athlete must have two results at IBU Cup, Open European Championships, World Championships or World Cup in the Sprint or Individual that at a maximum is 20% behind the average time of the top three athletes.

Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 500 metres

The men's C-2 500 metres event was an open-style, pairs canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics program.

Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 500 metres

The men's C-2 500 metres event was an open-style, pairs canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics program.

Cassie Jackman

She lost the 1996 World Open final to Sarah Fitz-Gerald 9–4, 9–2, 4–9, 9–6 who would go on to win another four World Opens.

Chyetverikov SPL

After successful trials by the Royal Navy, with submarine borne aircraft, using the Parnall Peto and the M-class submarines, the V-MF (Voenno-morskoj flot - Naval Fleet") wanted to deploy aircraft from cruiser submarines for open sea reconnaissance.

Colin J. Bushnell

With Philip Kutzko, The admissible dual of GL(N) via compact open subgroups, Annals of Math.

Damon and Debbie

The couple visit Morecambe, with Goth Papadum-packer Jenny (Michelle Holmes), who Debbie had met at the open day, and her husband, computer programmer Kirk (Ian Ormsby-Knox).

Earl Okin

During the 1970s, Okin started to perform as support act in large venues, beginning with folk acts such as Ralph McTell and Fairport Convention, he progressed to open for such varied performers as Jean-Luc Ponty and Van Morrison.

Edward and Henry Schnell

While travelling in an open coach through Edō in September 1867 the brothers were attacked by anti-foreign samurai from Numata, who, by drawing his sword, in a private vendetta was trying to enforce the Sonnō jōi policy.

Franz Pfanner

The difficulties seemed insuperable, but in 1869 he was able to open the monastery of Mariastern in Bosnia, near Banja Luka, which was raised to the status of an abbey in 1879.

Gary Cammack

2012 When incumbent Republican Representative Thomas Brunner was term limited and left the Legislature and left a District 29 seat open, Cammack ran in the three-way June 5, 2012 Republican Primary and placed first with 1,450 votes (43.8%); Cammack and incumbent Republican Representative Dean Wink were unopposed for the November 6, 2012 General election, where Cammack took the first seat with 5,991 votes (55.40%) and Representative Wink took the second seat.

Grace Darmond

Her last most notable film was Wide Open (1927), starring Lionel Belmore and Dick Grace.

Human trafficking in Bolivia

The government continued to operate four specialized anti-trafficking police units in La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba, and made preparations to open an additional six units along the frontiers with Brazil, Argentina, and Peru in 2010 with the support of a foreign government.

IADB

Integrated Archaeological Database, an open source web based application for archaeological excavation projects

Jawalakhel

Jawalakhel is famous for the annual chariot festival of Rato Machhendranath which ends with the Bhoto Jatra ceremony that takes place on the large open ground at the town center.

Job evaluation

ICICI, Procter & Gamble, Infosys, Bharat Petroleum, Asian Paints, HLL and Hughes Software have certain things in common: greater opportunities to grow vertically, open communication, flexible working hours, excellent reward schemes, employee-oriented work environment, sharing with and learning from others etc.

Julia Boserup

In 2011, she competed as a qualifier in the U.S. Open, losing in the first qualifying round to Bulgaria's Elitsa Kostova, 6-3, 6-4.

Khazar University Library Information Center

It maintains three branches open to the public: The main library on the Nefchilar Campus; the MBA branch on the downtown Baku campus; and the Alatava campus library (at the Dunya School, a K-12 IB World School which is affiliated with the university).

La Salle Coliseum

The coliseum also hosted two major karatedo championships, the 1996 Philippine Karatedo Federation National Championship headed by Pocholo Veguillas and Cristina Ramos-Jalasco, former Philippine Olympic Committee chairman and daughter of former president Fidel Ramos and the 2007 20th PKF National Open.

Larisa Bogoraz

Not long before her death, she issued an open letter condemning both the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the 2003 Iraq War.

Lee Mack

Mack went on to have various other jobs, and did his first open mike slot in 1994, while studying at Brunel University from which he graduated with a degree in film and television.

Lintzford

Situated on the River Derwent in the countryside near the town of Consett, Lintzford is renowned for its beauty, derived from nearby streams, forests and open fields, and the typical English cottage houses that surround it.

Liskeard and Looe Railway

The line remains open for passenger traffic, which is (2013) operated by First Great Western under the brand name "The Looe Valley Line".

Loni Hancock

Serving as mayor for two terms, she balanced seven straight city budgets, forged a historic agreement between the city and the University of California, began the revitalization of downtown Berkeley, led efforts to secure additional open space and launched a Bio-Tech Academy at Berkeley High School (in partnership with Bayer).

Mahatma Gandhi Road metro station

BMRCL plans to open an exhibition centre exhibiting unique paintings and messages of Mahatma Gandhi.

Miami Mile Handicap

Open to horses age three and older, it is contested on turf over a distance of 1 mile (8 furlongs).

Micheline Montreuil

Jack Layton, leader of the party, commented favourably on her candidacy, saying that he was pleased with her candidacy and that having candidates who could raise questions of equality showed that the NDP was quite open and that Quebecers were progressive enough to accept differences.

Mihr-Mihroe

He relieved the siege of Petra and reinforced its garrison, but lacking supplies for his army, he was forced to withdraw to Dvin in Persian Armenia, leaving behind some 3,000 men garrisoning Petra and further 5,000 under Phabrizus to keep the supply route open.

Mission of Full Gospel – Christian Open Door

The Mission of Full Gospel – Christian Open Door COD (Mission du Plein Évangile - Porte Ouverte Chrétienne POC) is a French Evangelical church whose main place of worship is located in Mulhouse.

Mrs. Chippy

The painting Mrs Chippy, by Wolf Howard, shows the cat "about to be shot", while in the background the crew launch a small open boat on a rescue mission and Endurance is stuck in the ice.

Murrayville, Victoria

The area of the locality contains a number of smaller areas namely Duddo which had a post office open from 1913 until 1918, Duddo Wells with a post office from 1914 until 1950, Danyo with a post office from 1912 (when the railway arrived) until 1975, and Goongee.

Nice Work

Morris Zapp makes a cameo appearance in the last part of Nice Work, to add a plot twist where he tries to arrange for Robyn to have a job interview at his American university, Euphoric State (a fictionalized UC Berkeley), in order to stop his ex-wife from being a candidate for an open faculty position.

OpenAM

OpenAM has the flexibility to chain methods together along with Adaptive Risk scoring, or to create custom authentication modules based on the JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization Service) open standard.

Pedvale Open Air Museum

The Pedvale Open Air Art Museum is a State Historical Monument near Sabile, Talsi Municipality, Latvia.

Peterborough Canoe Company

Examples of the Peterborough Canoe Company's products, as well as many other types of canoes, can be found at the Canadian Canoe Museum, located in Peterborough, and there is an example of the open style canoe in the collection of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.

Port Glasgow

Port Glasgow expanded up the steep hills inland to open fields where areas such as Park Farm, Boglestone and Devol were founded.

Robert Michael Dow Jr.

On December 2, 2010, Judge Dow ruled against five states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), stating that five Chicago-area shipping locks will stay open despite the risk that Lake Michigan Asian carp pose to the multi-billion dollar fishing industry, saying not enough evidence was presented that indicated the danger was truly imminent.

Rolvenden

The mill, which is privately owned and does not open to the public, stands on a little hill and was featured in the Tommy Steele film "Half a Sixpence".

Steve London

In one Untouchables episode, he was described by series narrator Walter Winchell as "Agent Jack Rossman-- former telephone company lineman, wiretap expert, and a locksmith so talented that "Rossman could open everything but the Pearly Gates.

Steve Rexe

In an interview with an Ottawa Sun reporter in April 2008, Rexe stated that he considered it an honour to have been the first ever pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins and would have been delighted if the Pens would have invited him to Pittsburgh to drop the first puck when they open their new arena.

Stikky

During Stikky's active years it was common for them, Crimpshrine, Isocracy, Operation Ivy, Corrupted Morals, Sweet Baby Jesus, or The Lookouts to open a bill for a touring punk band almost every weekend at 924 Gilman Street.

Still Open All Hours

Still Open All Hours is a British sitcom sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series, including David Jason and Lynda Baron.

Tony George

George made a bid for certain assets of the company, while a trio of CART owners (Gerald Forsythe, Paul Gentilozzi, and Kevin Kalkhoven), along with Dan Pettit, also made a bid, calling their group the Open Wheel Racing Series (OWRS).

Vicki Barnett

In 2008, she announced her intention to run for the 37th State House seat, which was left open by the retirement of longtime Democratic legislator Aldo Vagnozzi, who could not run for re-election due to term limits.

Yinka Dene Alliance

On February 6, 2012, the Yinka Dene Alliance released an open letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao.