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20 unusual facts about Polaris


305th Air Mobility Wing

McNamara further proposed that a SAC variant of the new F-111, to be designated FB-111A, along with improvements in the Air Force Minuteman and Navy Polaris missile systems and modernization of the subsonic Boeing B-52, would enhance strategic deterrence and make the B-58 superfluous to the needs of the USAF.

Ashok Jhunjhunwala

He is also a board member of several Telecom and IT companies in India, including Polaris, Sasken, Tejas Networks and HTL, NRDC, and IDRBT.

ATS-6

This highly advanced (for the time) pointing subsystem used earth and sun sensors, a star tracker pointed to the pole star, Polaris, and three inertial sensors.

Circle of latitude

Parallels make convenient borders in the northern hemisphere because astronomic latitude can be roughly measured (to within a few tens of meters) by sighting the North Star.

Colle+McVoy

Clients included Electric Machinery Manufacturing, Hilex, Old Dutch, McGarvey Coffee Co., Alumacraft, TCF, Polaris and others.

Cynosura

Cynosura is also another name for the constellation Ursa Minor or its brightest star, Polaris.

Flag of Alaska

The North Star is for the future state of Alaska, the most northerly in the union.

As depicted on the flag, its stars can be used as a guide by the novice to locate Polaris and determine true north, which varies considerably from a magnetic north.

Fly Me to Polaris

But by that time, there are only few minutes left until the meteor showers, flying him back to Polaris.

Gamma Theta Upsilon

Above the waves significant of the oceans is placed a white star, symbolic of Polaris, the great guide to man as he pushed out from Europe over the uncharted vastness of the ocean.

Hawkwoman

Her body was sent on a trajectory into Thanagar's sun, Polaris, the heroes' resting place in Thanagarian tradition.

Lee R. Scherer

He was special assistant to the assistant secretary of the Navy for research and development from 1956 through 1959, the period when Vanguard, Polaris, and ballistic missile nuclear submarines were developed.

Madame Sin

Intent on achieving world domination, she kidnaps ex-CIA agent Anthony Lawrence and forces him to help her hijack a secret nuclear weapon, the Polaris submarine.

Magnetic declination

In the northern hemisphere, if you can see Polaris (the North Star) the declination can be determined as the difference between the magnetic bearing and a visual bearing on the polestar.

Mid America Off Road Association

:There is a movement in MAORA to start a class of race vehicles designed around popular Side by Side (UTV) vehicles, such as those offered by Yamaha, Polaris, Arctic Cat, and Kawasaki.

Northern Administrative Okrug

The silver eight-pointed star represents Polaris and points to the northern location of the okrug in the city of Moscow.

Peg Perego

These toys have become more advanced, and the company now sells battery-powered John Deere, Polaris, Cub Cadet, Ducati, and Vespa ride-on toys for children.

Salt Lake Temple

On the west side of the temple the Big Dipper appears, which represents how the constellation was used to help travelers find the North Star and help them on their way, in the same way the temple is viewed as a symbol to help people find their way back to Heaven.

Spherical astronomy

Polaris lies close to due north to an observer in the northern hemisphere.

Tera Melos

In the meantime they ended up releasing an EP of covers, featuring songs by The Beach Boys and Polaris, entitled Idioms, Vol.


Adrenalin eSystems

Polaris Financial Technology Limited (formerly Polaris Software Lab Limited) is the parent company.

American Gods

In Slavic lore, they are servants of Dažbog who guard and watch over the doomsday hound, Simargl, who is chained to the star Polaris in the constellation Ursa Minor, the "little bear".

Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield

Following the Cuban missile crisis, he was one of the MPs who signed a letter calling on U.S. President John F. Kennedy to withdraw Polaris and Thor missiles from the UK as a gesture in response to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev withdrawing Soviet missiles from Cuba.

Chevaline Re-entry Body

Chevaline was devised as an answer to the improved Soviet defences around Moscow, the system being intended to increase the probability of at least one warhead penetrating the city's Anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defences, something which the Royal Navy's earlier Polaris RVs were thought to be unlikely to do.

DJ Kura

Thomas Gold picked Kura's hits "Polaris", "Love Will Find You", a remix of "Nightrain" for his radioshow.

Fixx

When Shard, a former X.U.E. member who had been transported to the main Marvel Universe by her brother Bishop in holographic form, became anchored in Polaris' body following Sabretooth's escape from US government custody, this allowed her teammates to follow her.

Hamza Dirani

Dirani began racing in 1997 with the Polaris ATV (All-terrain vehicle) race, in which he won the 1st place.

HMS Ranger

A fictitious Polaris Resolution class submarine captured in the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" was also named HMS Ranger.

Industrial digital printer

--please correct me if I'm mistaken--> Piezo appears to focus more on the higher resolution side of the industry whereas Seiko and Spectra-Polaris tend more towards the robust, high production capabilities required in a manufacturing environment.

Jonathan Schaeffer

In July 2007, Schaeffer announced a competition between the group's newest program, Polaris, and two human professionals, Phil Laak and Ali Eslami.

Moskva-class helicopter carrier

The aim of the ships was to counter NATO Polaris submarines and act as a flagship for anti-submarine warfare.

Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

Its head office was at Polaris House in Swindon, Wiltshire, but it also operated three scientific sites: the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) in Edinburgh, the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) in La Palma and the Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC) in Hawaii.

Polaris Partners

Polaris Venture Partners was founded in 1995/1996 by Jon Flint, Terry McGuire, Steve Arnold, who were partners of Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. (BEDCO).

Polaris Project

The Polaris Project was founded in 2002, by Derek Ellerman and Katherine Chon, who were seniors at Brown University, when they were inspired to create a nonprofit organization that focuses on ending human trafficking and modern-day slavery.

Polaris Reef

Polaris Reef is a reef, or shallows, in Frobisher Bay, near Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada.

Polaris Sales Agreement

The agreement formally arranged for the Polaris missile system to be provided to the UK to maintain its independent nuclear deterrent.

Polymer Solution Casting

The history of these technologies dates back to many highly regarded names in the medical industry including Medtronic, BioMedicus, Bard, Terumo, Research Medical Inc., Shiley, Polaris Plastics, and Caplugs.

Prince Nicholas

Furthermore, fans get to hear "Good Night Darling", penned by Nicholas himself, and the bonus track, "Tears of Polaris", which also happens to be the theme song of the drama Smiling Pasta which Nicholas stars in.

Red Bull New Year No Limits

The 2010 New Year No Limits was planned to move to San Diego, California, where Levi LaVallee, a seven-time Winter X Games medalist and champion snocross racer, was to attempt to jump his Polaris snowmobile longer than ever before and eclipse the current record of 301 feet.

Resolution-class submarine

In the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, the fictional Polaris submarine HMS Ranger is hijacked by the film's main villain.

Sno-Jet

Fillion and Roy re-evaluated their decision to build boats, instead choosing to create a company to manufacture snowmobiles, which were only starting to gain popularity as a form of transportation through the initial efforts of companies like Bombardier, Polaris and Arctic Cat.

Song Kwang-sik

In 2001, Kwang-sik provided music for several studio albums including Surprise by S.E.S, Polaris by Kangta, Dana: First Album by Dana, and Alone by Moon Hee-joon.

Thorpe St Andrew School

There are three houses on each site, which are all named after constellations: Altair, Mira and Cygnus on North Site; and Vega, Polaris and Sirius on South Site.

UK Polaris programme

"Polaris" itself was an operational system of four Resolution-class submarines, each armed with 16 UGM-27 Polaris A-3 ballistic missiles, with each missile able to deliver three ET.317 thermonuclear warheads around a single target.