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6 unusual facts about POTS


Citizens Telecommunications Company of Nebraska

Citizens Telecommunications Company of Nebraska provides local telephone service in Nebraska and some rural communities in northern Kansas.

Danish telephone plug

The Danish telephone plug is the special flat round telephone plug used in Denmark for POTS (analog) telephone lines and some "raw copper" (for ADSL etc.) telephone lines.

Reynwood Communications

Indeed, with these issues now resolved, good network design using Overlay networks and Mesh networking can ultimately deliver a more resilient solution than that previously available using traditional POTS technology.

Telecommunications in Sweden

In the case of the POTS, Telia in 2000 still held monopoly in the fixed-line access market.

Telecomunicações de Moçambique

ADSL speeds range from 128 kbit/s to 4 Mbit/s with various data caps available as an add-on to a POTS voice service.

TDM provides pre-paid and post-paid telephony services using POTS as well as CDMA and provide ISDN lines for businesses.


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Al Qöyawayma

In 2002, astronaut John Herrington, a member of the Chickasaw tribe, took one of Qöyawayma's ceramic pots into orbit aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-113, which docked with the International Space Station.

Allied Telesis

Their POTS-to-10G iMAP (integrated Multiservice Access Platform) and iMG (intelligent Multiservice Gateways), in conjunction with advanced switching, secure VPN routing solutions, enable public and private network operators and service providers of all sizes to deploy scalable, carrier-grade networks for the cost-effective delivery of packet-based voice, video and data services.

Antiquities Law of the State of Israel of 1978

A listing that says that a dealer owns a pot dated to the Bronze Age doesn’t mean very much, since many pots of that era will be in their shop.

Antyesti

In Mumbai, for Marathi people generally, the dead body is wrapped in a shroud and placed on a structure made of bamboo sticks and grass carpet, an earth pot (matka) is tied with sutli and rice is cooked in small earth pots and it is placed in a big pot where aggarbattis are burning.

Balanga Museum

The central building of the museum has items related to Ngaju ceremonies, and the museum has an array of musical instruments, facemasks, swords, porcelain pots and other ceramics.

Botingoo

In addition to agriculture, most of the population is also concerned with the making of Fire Pots (Kanger) which accounts for more than half of the income of the village.

Chris Santos

At age 13, Santos's first job in the kitchen was washing pots at a small local restaurant in his hometown of Bristol, Rhode Island.

Christopher Dresser

Between 1879 and 1882, as Art Superintendent at the Linthorpe Art Pottery in Linthorpe in Middlesbrough he designed over 1,000 pots.

Cidco MailStation

The MailStation was designed to send and receive e-mails via a standard POTS telephone line.

Flowerpot

Also Orchids, African violets and Pelargonium geraniums were shipped in pots from other parts of the world, including Africa, to North America and Europe.

Frida Kahlo Museum

The two rooms are filled with large earthenware pots, plates, utensils, glassware and more which came from Metepec, Oaxaca, Tlaquepaque and Guanajuato, all known for their handcrafted items.

Griddle

Casual impact from metal spatulas or pots and pans tend to deform the substrate, causing the chrome VI to crack and spall - T-1 steel has three times the yield strength of A36 steel, offering effective proof against this effect.

Indo-Jamaican

The labourers were given one suit of clothing, agricultural tools and cooking pots on their arrival, divided into groups of 20 or 40 and sent, first by mule cart and in later years on overcrowded freight trains to the plantations in Portland, St. Thomas, St. Mary, Clarendon and Westmoreland.

Japanese pottery and porcelain

In the United States, a notable example of the use of tenmoku glazes may be found in the innovative crystalline pots thrown by Japanese-born artist Hideaki Miyamura.

Jeff Shulman

He finished 7th in the 2000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit Texas hold'em main event, winning $146,700 after losing two big pots to eventual winner Chris Ferguson.

John Davis Paris

Kaona had his followers chant Psalm 150 for seven days while beating drums made from sugar kegs and tin pots.

Kansas, Oklahoma

Legend has it that a man of small stature who came to nearby Siloam Springs, Arkansas, by train from Kansas City, Kansas, rented a hack and stocked it with light household goods, pots and pans, bolts of cloth, sewing machine parts and needles, etc.

Kastros

Further finds include stone-vessels (shallow bowls and pots) and flint tools made from local flint from the Pentadaktylos mountains.

Katy Hill

Her assignments included living in Mongolia with a family for a week, training with the England football squad for a World Cup special, joining the Cirque du Soleil and, of course, making things from yoghurt pots and sticky-backed plastic.

Landel MailBug

It connects to a standard POTS telephone line and checks for new incoming mail or delivers outgoing mail by periodically calling into Landel's proprietary service.

Lemington Glass Works

It was also situated beside the River Tyne (prior to its rerouting in 1876) which made it easy to bring sand, alkali, and suitable clay for the melting pots to the works.

Madelon Szekely-Lulofs

De andere wereld ('The Other World') is a 1934 novel about a poor downtrodden boy from Amsterdam, Pieter Pots, who gets a job on a rubber plantation in Deli, Sumatra and the world he is going to live in as a colonial white skinned person compared to the very poor life he has led in Amsterdam.

Potassium hydrogenoxalate

During season one, episode one, of the television series Downton Abbey, the cook, Mrs. Patmore, has a pot of "salt of sorrel" on the kitchen preparation table that one of the servants uses to clean the brass and copper pots.

Puffed rice cakes

Traditionally, Wor Bar (Guoba in Mandarin, translates to "pot's burnt") refers to the slightly browned rice that is stuck to the bottom of clay pots, which, after caramelization, results in the rice being formed into a single piece and giving it a slightly burned flavor.

Rab Howell

Howell was born, and lived as a child, in a Romani caravan in Sheffield where his father was a horse dealer and sold pots and pans.

Sam McGredy

Similarly to the British rose hybridizer Henry Bennett, McGredy II grew his parent plants in pots in heated greenhouses to give a longer season for seed ripening.

St. Pantaleon-Weyer concentration camp

The dead bodies of the Sinti were – according to consistent testimonies of contemporary witnesses – for the time being deposited between shovels and pots in the gravedigger’s cell at the cemetery Haigermoos, and then buried during the night – without discernible gravesite.

Susana Rodríguez

She returned to the Kate Werble Gallery for the exhibition Pinch Pots and Pyramids (October–December 2009), with artists Liliane Lijn, Sam Moyer, Ryan Reggiani, Halsey Rodman and Molly Smith.

Syndrome of Fire

Syndrome of Fire is a Rock band from Pella, Iowa consisting of Cassie Goetzke on vocals, Sonny Cutler on keys, Ryan McMahan on guitar and vocals, and Johnny Pots on drums.

Taking the piss

Another theory is that, when tanners had huge pots outside where they worked, the public would be encouraged to urinate into these pots as tanners used the urine to help with tanning and then the saying of "taking the piss" came into use.

Trotline

Maryland blue crabs are harvested by waterman on small workboats using trotlines and crab pots.

Typology of Greek vase shapes

Much of our written information about Greek pots comes from such late writers as Athenaios and Pollux and other lexicographers who described vases unknown to them, and their accounts are often contradictory or confused.

Urban gardening

Container garden - Growing plants in pots or other containers, rather than in ground

Videotelephony

At the dawn of the technology, videotelephony also included image phones which would exchange still images between units every few seconds over conventional POTS-type telephone lines, essentially the same as slow scan TV systems.

W0KIE

Spring 2004
POTS line digital codec units are obtained, bringing a further improvement in fidelity and reliability over the aging and ailing frequency extender

Wowetta

They traded parrots, beads and earthen pots with the Arekuna who came from far off Roraima, receiving in exchange files, cutlasses and cloth.


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