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4 unusual facts about Rad


Ali Shakouri-Rad

Shakouri-Rad was a Majlis representative from 2000 to 2004, but was forbidden by the Guardian Council to run again in the Iranian Majlis election of 2004.

DataSnap

DataSnap (Previously known as MIDAS) is a DCOM-based software technology that enables RAD creation of multi-tier database applications.

Islamic Iran Participation Front

In 2004, Mohammad Reza Khatami, along with other prominent members such as Elaheh Koulaei, Mohsen Mirdamadi, and Ali Shakouri-Rad were barred from standing in the parliament elections by the Council of Guardians.

Nathan Spencer

Nathan "Rad" Spencer, the main protagonist of the Bionic Commando series


Bidsar

Among the Jats, Garhwal, Khichar, Punia, Rad, Dotasara, Sunda, Asiagh, Kasania, Sewda are all subcastes.

Borislav Stevanović

Born in Titova Mitrovica, Stevanović played club football in Yugoslavia, Spain and Romania for Radnički Niš, Mérida, Rad, Zemun, Universitatea Craiova and BASK.

Bratislava I

The boundary then continues around the northern edge of the Bratislava hlavná stanica and at the crossing of Jaskov Rad Street and Pod Strážami Street it turns to the southeast.

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins

Some of the songs on the second disc ("Flux = Rad," "Kennel District", "Grounded" and "Pueblo") are early forms of songs on 1995's Wowee Zowee.

Doreen Bird

She was a fellow, examiner, lecturer, committee and council member of the ISTD, life member of the RAD, and Honorary MA.

Downtown Owl

In October 2012, Gettin' Rad Productions, the production company owned by Adam Scott and his wife, Naomi Scott, optioned the movie rights to Downtown Owl.

Flour beetle

An experiment carried out by MythBusters revealed they are able to survive 1000 gray (100,000 rad), 100 times the immediate lethal dose of radiation for humans, in 10% of the cases.

Fresno Grizzlies

The team hosted such promotions as K-Fed Night and Second Chance Night in 2006; The Price Is Right Night in 2007; and Totally Rad 80s Night featuring The Karate Kid star Billy Zabka in May 2008.

Grapes of Rad

The Grapes of Rad podcast, originally the Ben Parsons Podcast, began in 2008 and featured Ben talking to himself while recording his thoughts in Studio A. This did not meet the required criteria for a "successful podcast" because only his wife and daughters listened to it.

Graphical user interface builder

Ebase Xi RAD platform for web application, workflow and integration.

John W. Marchetti

For this effort, Marchetti, at Avco RAD, developed a 30-MHz pulsed radar that was set up at San Salvador Island to observe the ionized trail from a NASA Mercury capsule.

Jspx-bay

jspx-bay, commonly referred to as jspx, is a free open source pure Java web RAD framework.

Konstantin Hierl

In 1936 the model village of Hierlshagen (present-day Ostaszów in Poland) built by the RAD was named after him.

Mad Rad

Mad Rad is a Seattle-based hip hop/electronic music group that consists of five members; three vocalists, a DJ, and a drummer.

Nic Rad

Rad worked on commercial projects for various clients including VH1, MTV2, Mike Ruiz, Nicole Atkins and the Sea, and Wolfmother.

Nikola Bošković

Nikola came to Dubrovnik as a boy and his parents sent him to become a trader's apprentice for a wealthy trader called Rad Gleđević, who then dispatched him to Novi Pazar in the Ottoman Empire (today Sandžak, Serbia) to learn from the local traders.

Paper Rad

Paper Rad exhibited works at several major galleries including PaceWildenstein, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Deitch Projects.

Petar Raković

He has previously played for FK Obilić and KFK Radnički Kragujevac in Serbia and St. John's University and Stony Brook University (US College soccer) in the USA, as well as for the FK Rad.

Phase-change memory

PRAM memory devices have been introduced by BAE Systems, referred to as C-RAM, claiming excellent radiation tolerance (rad-hard) and latchup immunity.

Polyhistidine-tag

Various purification kits for histidine-tagged proteins are available from Qiagen, Sigma, Thermo Scientific, GE Healthcare, Macherey-Nagel, Clontech, Bio-Rad, and others.

Rad Racer

Electropop group Work Drugs released a song called "Rad Racer" in 2011 and the official video for the song contains footage from Rad Racer II.

Radappertization

Radappertization is derived from the combination of radiation and Appert, the name of the French scientist and engineer who invented sterilized food for the troops of Napoleon.

Radnevo Peak

Radnevo Peak (Vrah Radnevo \'vr&h 'rad-ne-vo\) is a peak of elevation 481 m forming the southwest extremity of Vidin Heights on Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

Simrad Yachting

The brand was established in 1947 by Willy Christian Simonsen, who set up his own wireless company called Simonsen Radio.

Teenage Superstar

The song has been covered by Japanese singer Nami Tamaki ("High School Queen"), Mexican singer Belinda ("Boba Niña Nice"), Portuguese group D'ZRT ("Para mim tanto me faz"), Spanish group Efecto Mariposa ("Que más da"), Polish Czech singer Ewa Farna ("Měls mě vůbec rád" and "Razem sam na sam") and Korean singer MI:NE Cho Min Hye ("Teenage Superstar").

The Totally Rad Show

Debuted on March 27, 2007, The Totally Rad Show was hosted by Alex Albrecht, Jeff Cannata, and Dan Trachtenberg.

Timeboxing

According to Steve McConnell, timeboxing is a "Best Practice" for RAD and a typical timebox length should be 60–120 days.

Waveguide filter

A good deal of this was at the MIT Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab), but other laboratories in the US and the UK were also involved such as the Telecommunications Research Establishment in the UK.


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