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unusual facts about Stokes' law


Sedimentation rate

By using the Stokes' law, we can estimate the sedimentation rate of the particle in Liquid.


Alec Smight

Son of the well-known television and film director Jack Smight, his editing work includes Chicago Hope, numerous television pilots, Northern Exposure, and L.A. Law.

Alfred Preisser

He is directing Jeff Cohen's new play The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller, based on the short story by Christopher Stokes, which has its world premiere in an Off Broadway production at the West End Theatre in New York this Fall.

Alverstoke

Several of Palmerston's Follies were sited within the parish, including Fort Gilkicker, a 19th-century coastal battery fort, which located at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, where it sits across a wide curved natural headland (promontory) taken up by Gosport & Stokes Bay Golf Club.

Anthony Stokes

In December 2012, Stokes was disciplined by Celtic after he had attended a benefit event for Alan Ryan, a deceased member of the Real Irish Republican Army.

Béla Károlyi

Some of his former athletes, including Kristie Phillips, Dominique Moceanu, and Erica Stokes, have stated publicly that Károlyi was verbally and psychologically abusive during workouts.

Boyd Gaines

Gaines has appeared in a number of films and television shows, including Fame, L.A. Law and Law & Order, but perhaps he is best known for playing a dental student and dentist Mark Royer, who married Valerie Bertinelli's Barbara Cooper on TV's One Day at a Time and as Coach Brackett from the 1982 movie Porky's.

Carey Eidel

Eidel has appeared in a number of television series, including Strong Medicine, Yes, Dear, Melrose Place, 7th Heaven, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Diagnosis: Murder, L.A. Law and Thirtysomething.

Castle Ashby

These include work by the architect E.F. Law of Northampton, whose work can also be seen nearby at Horton Church.

Cereopsis novaehollandiae grisea

The Cape Arid, Stokes, and Cape Le Grand National Parks are also occupied in summer months.

Cumberland School of Law's Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics

Speakers have included U.S. Congressman Artur Davis, atmospheric scientist John Christy, medical ethics expert Gregory Pence, Vermont Law School's environmental center director Michael Dworkin, John Nyman, Larry Palmer, and law professors, entrepreneurs and other experts.

Dave Wainwright

As a drummer he was initially taught by Carl Stokes of Cancer (band) and later by Mick Kirton (one time stand in drummer for Hawkwind circa 1988 and The Groundhogs 1984-1989 amongst other work); before going on to define his own style.

Dean Stokes

One of the most successful seasons in Port Vale's history was 1996–97, Stokes played eleven games, ten of which were in the league.

Divergence theorem

Two examples are Gauss' law (in electrostatics), which follows from the inverse-square Coulomb's law, and Gauss' law for gravity, which follows from the inverse-square Newton's law of universal gravitation.

Edward Stokes

Ed Stokes (Edward Kobie Stokes), American basketball player

Elephant Revival

In summer 2010 Elephant Revival was signed to Ruff Shod Records, an independent label started by Chad Stokes of State Radio and Dispatch.

Evander M. Law

There, and as a trustee of the Summerlin Institute from 1905 to 1912, and as a member of the Polk County Board of Education from 1912 until his death, he played a key role in the foundation of public education in Florida.

Fitzmaurice River

It was first charted in 1839 by European explorers aboard the HMS Beagle under the command of John Lort Stokes.

Hans Eworth

A well-known painting identified by George Vertue in 1727 as Lady Frances Brandon and her second husband Adrian Stokes has now been correctly identified as Mary Nevill or Neville, Baroness Dacre and her son Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre.

Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others

Concurrently, B.P.R.D. agent Pauline Raskin encounters the innocent Mrs. Stokes, who is watching a puppet theatre production of Shakespeare'sHamlet” on television.

Henry Folliott Scott-Stokes

Scott-Stokes contested Weston-super-Mare as a Liberal candidate in the 1934 by-election, and the 1935 general election.

Ideological restrictions on naturalization in U.S. law

"The constitutional fathers, fresh from a revolution, did not forge a political strait-jacket for the generations to come", wrote Justice Frank Murphy.

Instigate Debate

:Reading Panel: Jon McClure, Steve Lamacq (BBC6 presenter), Stephen Street (Blur / Smiths producer), Paul Stokes (News Editor NME) & Nadia Khomami (NME.com competition winner, Host: John O’Sullivan.

Ivo Babuška

The BB condition has guided mathematicians and engineers to develop state-of-the-art formulations for many technologically important problems like Darcy flow, Stokes flow, incompressible Navier-Stokes, nearly incompressible elasticity.

Jean Zimmerman

Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance is a dual biography of Edith Minturn Stokes and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, a nineteenth-century couple known for philanthropy, architecture and documenting New York City history.

Jeffrey D. Brown

His other directing credits are the television series The Wonder Years, L.A. Law, Hooperman, Freshman Dorm, Baby Boom and an episode of CBS Schoolbreak Special.

John B. Law

After coaching at Manhattan he became the football and baseball coach at Sing Sing prison from 1932-1935.

Lela Rochon

Lela Rochon (born Lela Rochon Staples; April 17, 1964) is an Haitian actress who is best known for her role as Robin Stokes in the movie Waiting to Exhale.

Metacafe

Metacafe has also teamed up with notable TV producers like Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law) with a series called Cafe Confidential, a 44 webisode series consisting of teens and twenty-somethings sharing semi-autobiographical stories.

Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown

Former high school wrestler Mike Stokes (Dean Geyer) is the new kid in college and deals with issues involving his father leaving his mother for a man.

Peter Stokes

Robert Rygge, the chancellor, opposed Stokes in the matter, and on 5 June, when Philip Repington preached at the Priory of St Frideswide, Stokes was prevented from publication by the implied threat of violence.

Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff

Guest musicians appearing on the album include Deni Bonet, Jocelyne Lanois, Bill Dillon, Luke Doucet, Manufacture and Camille Henderson; remixers include Anthony Valcic, Gary Stokes and Rabbit in the Moon.

Reuben D. Law

After teaching some high school, he became the first principal at the consolidated South Rich High School in Randolph, Utah.

Samuel Evans

Satyananda Stokes (1882–1946), Samuel Evans Stokes, apple grower and freedom fighter

Stan Stokes

Stokes's works hang in the Air Force art collection, the United States Air Force Academy, The Pentagon, the San Diego Air & Space Museum, the Palm Springs Air Museum, the National Museum of Naval Aviation, and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Steven Law

Steven J. Law, American attorney and Republican Party fundraiser

Stokes Bay

The Solent opposite Stokes Bay is often used by extremely large warships (e.g. US supercarriers) to anchor, as Portsmouth Harbour is not deep enough to berth them.

To the east of Stokes Bay is Fort Gilkicker, which was built in 1871 to guard the headland and the western approaches to Portsmouth Harbour and housed 22 gun emplacements.

Stokes mortar

The Stokes mortar was a British trench mortar invented by Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE that was issued to the British, Commonwealth and U.S. armies, as well as the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP), during the latter half of the First World War.

Temperance Hall, Tennessee

Although he grew up in Temperance Hall, Stokes would retire to nearby Alexandria.

The Daily Mash

Neil Rafferty (a former political correspondent for The Sunday Times) and Paul Stokes (former business editor of The Scotsman), created the website in 2007 and remain the lead writers.

The Tromaville Cafe

The show featured Lloyd Kaufman as himself, different actors portraying Toxie, Paul Krymse as Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D., Stephen Blackehart as Felix the French Trickster and scantily clad Tromettes(Debbie Rochon, Stephanie Stokes, Tiffany Shepis, etc.) playing waitress/action news reporters.

Tobin Stokes

Stokes has been composer in residence at the biannual International Choral Kathaumixw Festival in Powell River, British Columbia, B.C. since 1994, creating large oratorio works often with First Nations themes, stories, elders, dancers, and soloists, performed with massed choirs and orchestra.

Tom Towles

Towles' television credits include appearances in NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Dramatis Personae"), Star Trek Voyager, Seinfeld and Firefly.

Trenton Stokes

Trenton Stokes of Arkansas, in addition to Floyd Parker, was one of two men who appeared on several state ballots as the Populist Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1988.

Velocity Trap

The interception occurs, Stokes and Beth Sheffield (Alicia Coppola), the attractive female navigator are the only survivors of the ensuing gun play, they steal the money and buy the mining colony.

Wadjemup Lighthouse

In October 1840, Surveyor-General John Septimus Roe, together with Wickham and Stokes published Sailing Directions for the Navigation About Rottnest Island.

Wayne Duvall

Wayne Duvall (born May 29, 1958) is an American actor, known for playing Homer Stokes in O Brother Where Art Thou?, Coach Ferguson in Leatherheads and Ned Guston in Duplicity.

William Axton Stokes

Stokes later served as a major in the U.S. Infantry during the American Civil War, including a period in 1861 commanding at the 18th U.S. Infantry Headquarters, Camp Thomas, Franklin County, Ohio.

William D. Law

Law is an avid runner and has completed over two dozen marathons, including five Boston Marathons.


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