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Ring-imaging Cherenkov detector

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer device AMS-02, recently mounted on the International Space Station uses a RICH detector in combination with other devices to analyze cosmic rays.


2NSB

The station began broadcasting in May 1983 from East Chatswood, transmitting to Sydney's North Shore - an area that covers the Willoughby, Lane Cove, North Sydney, Mosman and Ku-ring-gai Council areas.

Adam Firestorm

Trained for the ring primarily by WCCW (and later ECCW) wrestler/promoter "Gorgeous" Michelle Starr, he also trained for three months with former WWE Women's Champion Velvet McIntyre.

Ainur

AINUR (Atlas of Images of Nuclear Rings), catalogue of star-forming ring-shaped regions that circle certain galactic nuclei

Benson group increment theory

The same as ring system, corrections have been made to other situations such as Gauche alkane with a 0.8kcal/mol correction, cis alkene with a 1.0kcal/mol correction, respectively.

Betsy Ruth

On April 20, 2010, Duignan wrestled a tryout dark match for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Miss Betsy, during which she accidentally injured her opponent, Daffney.

Brean Down Fort

The site has also produced Roman gold and silver coins of the emperors Augustus, Nero, Drusus and Vespasian and a cornelian ring.

Bundesautobahn 100

It is connected with the Bundesautobahn 111 (A 111) at the Charlottenburg interchange, with the A 115 (the former AVUS) at the Funkturm junction, and finally reaches the A 113 at its southeastern terminus in Neukölln, all linking it with the outer Berliner Ring A 10.

Diamond Lil

Katie Glass, a little person professional wrestler who used the ring name Diamond Lil

Domotor-Kolompar criminal organization

The Domotor-Kolompar criminal organization (also called the Domotor family crime group) was a Canadian human trafficking ring that was dismantled in the biggest human trafficking case in Canadian history.

Doug Ring with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948

Along with Ron Hamence and Colin McCool, neither of whom played in a Test during the tour, Ring called himself "ground staff" because of the paucity of the trio's on-field duties in the major matches and they often sang ironic songs about their status.

Fairy godmother

In William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, the fairy Blackstick concludes that her gifts have not done her godchildren good; in particular, she has given two of her goddaughters the title ring and the title rose, which have the power to make whoever owns them beautiful, which have ruined the character of those goddaughters; with the next prince and princess, she gives them "a little misfortune", which proves the best gift, as their difficulties form their characters.

Fort Delimara

Fort Delimara was a one of a ring of forts and batteries that protected Marsaxlokk harbour, along with Fort Tas-Silg at the shoreward end of Delimara point, Fort St Lucian on Kbira point in the middle of Marsaxlokk bay, Fort Benghisa on Benghisa Point, and the Pinto and Ferreti batteries on the shores of Marsaxlokk Bay.

Gabriel Varga

He returned to the ring on January 8, 2011 at a Canada vs. China event in Jinan, China where he won by unanimous decision under sanshou rules.

Garden Ring

Although Boris Godunov, de facto regent of Russia, prevented Crimeans from taking the city north of Moskva River, he anticipated future raids and arranged construction of another defence ring.

Gato Eveready

Later on his ring name was changed to "Jimmy Boy" and he was teamed up with Billy and Vangelis to form a Boy band inspired group called Los Spice Boys.

German wine auctions

:* Thursday: Bernkasteler Ring in Mosel holds an auction, usually at Kloster Machern in Bernkastel-Wehlen.

Grenzlandring

The Grenzlandring (German for "border-region ring"), sometimes Grenzland-Ring written, is a former high-speed race track oval in the Lower Rhine area of Germany, around the town of Wegberg, located close to Mönchengladbach and the Dutch town of Roermond.

Henry Lundy

Lundy returned to the ring five weeks later, again on ESPN, with a unanimous decision win over Omri Lowther in Montreal, Quebec – a fight Lundy agreed to take on just three days’ notice.

Hensel's lemma

Masayoshi Nagata proved in the 1950s that for any commutative local ring A with maximal ideal m there always exists a smallest ring Ah containing A such that Ah is Henselian with respect to mAh.

Hikari Minami

Minami was trained by Gatokunyan wrestler Emi Sakura and made her professional wrestling debut at the age of eleven on February 12, 2006, working under the ring name Hikari and facing Sakura, Aika Ando, Hinata and Kinoko in a five-way match at an event in Itabashi, Tokyo.

Hilbert's theorem

Hilbert's basis theorem, in commutative algebra, stating every ideal in the ring of multivariate polynomials over a Noetherian ring is finitely generated

Jeff Rabhan

At Three Ring, he helped parlay Elliott Yamin's (American Idol) appearance into the highest chart debut by a new artist on an independent label in Soundscan history.

Jimmy Wang

James Yun (born 1981), wrestler who uses the ring name Jimmy Wang Yang

Johanna Peña Álvarez

Johanna would return to the ring on March 19, 2004, fighting to a 6-round draw with Delia Gonzalez.

Katie Uhlaender

In memory of her father, she wears around her neck his ring of the 1972 Cincinnati Reds season in which the Reds won the National League pennant.

Kristianopel

The Greek suffix '-opel' was given to give the town a cosmopolitan ring similar to Constantinople.

L. A. Ring

Ring drew on the Danish tradition of "almue" (folk) art, such as the work of J. th. Lundbye, but he also incorporated influences from more modernist painters such Paul Gauguin, Jean François Raffaëlli and Jean-François Millet.

Larry Merchant

When De la Hoya entered the ring to Mariachi music, Merchant stated that while he loved Mariachi music, he felt that it "stunk" in this particular situation.

Lester Reiff

Lord Durham also accused the brothers of involvement in a horse doping ring along with Enoch Wishard, William C. Whitney and other American gamblers.

Magic ring

The Ring of Solomon appears in John Bellairs' 1976 novel "The Letter, The Witch, and The Ring" (book 3 of the Lewis Barnavelt series).

William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel The Rose and the Ring features a ring that has the power to make whoever owns it beautiful; its passage from person to person in the novel is an important element of the story.

New Hazard

Takagi returned on May 6, teaming with Hulk to defeat the Tozawa-juku team of Akira Tozawa and Keni'chiro Arai; Onodera, using his former ring name Yamato, returned the following night, teaming with Hulk, Kong and Takagi to defeat Muscle Outlaw'z.

Northern Ontario Ring of Fire

Greg Rickford is the MP for the riding of Kenora, where the Ring of Fire is located, and the Minister of State for FedNor.

Old Jock

Jock's main rival in the show ring was a dog named Tartar, who was said to be more fond of ratting than his competitor.

Optical ring resonators

where \mathcal{F} is the finesse of the ring resonator, \nu {f} is the free spectral range, and \delta\nu is the full-width half-max of the transmission spectra.

Pancho Coimbre

That year Coimbre received a tribute in the Yankee Stadium, where hundreds of Puerto Ricans reunited and awarded him a scroll and a ring recognizing his performance.

Pechiney

Brandeis (Brokers) Ltd was a broker and ring dealing member on the London Metal Exchange that operated as a subsidiary of Pechiney from 1981 through 2000, when it was banned from trading by the FSA.

Physalin

Physalins are steroidal constituents of Physalis plants which possess an unusual 13,14-seco-16,24-cyclo-steroidal ring skeleton (where the bond that is normally present between the 13 and 14 positions in other steroids is broken while a new bond between positions 16 and 24 is formed; see figure below).

Plaza Zabala

The street surrounding the square is named as Ring Durango, in honor of the town Vizcaya of Durango, where Zabala was born.

Proper palmar digital arteries

The proper palmar digital arteries travel along the sides of the phalanges (along the contiguous sides of the index, middle, ring, and little fingers), each artery lying just below (dorsal to) its corresponding digital nerve.

Pumpkin Diamond

Halle Berry wore the ring to the 2002 Oscars where she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball.

Ray Steele

Peter Sauer (1900-1949), used the ring name while wrestling in America

Ring of Brodgar

The first formal survey of the Ring of Brodgar and surrounding antiquities was performed in 1849 by Royal Navy Captain F.W.L. Thomas of HM cutter Woodlark.

Ringtone

In old phones, this voltage was used to trigger a high-impedance electromagnet to ring a bell on the phone.

Rudolf Moralt

His records include a celebrated Ring Cycle, a notable Don Giovanni and a superbly played Salome which shows how exceptional his musicianship could be when he had adequate rehearsal time.

Steve Ihnat

At the age of thirty-seven, he suffered a heart attack while visiting the Cannes Film Festival in France, where he was promoting his "Do Not Throw Cushions in the Ring."

Tone Rodriguez

In addition to comics, Rodriguez has also contributed to television shows including Numb3rs, Dexter and E-Ring.

Wedding ring

Some cultures exchange additional rings: In some parts of India, Hindus may use a toe ring or bichiya which is worn instead of a ring on a finger; although this is only for women, and increasingly worn along with a finger ring.

West Paschim Vihar

In this area, the outer ring road is maintained by the MCD and has a flyover at Peera Garhi Chowk and an Underpass and roundabout at Bhera Enclave/Sunder Vihar Crossing.

Workshop for All Beings

since 1998 – taking part in protecting the Rospuda Valley and standing against building a ring road running through it


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