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unusual facts about Structure, sequence and organization



Banneker Recreation Center

Banneker Recreation Center is an historic structure located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The building was built in 1934 and was named for Benjamin Banneker, a free African American who assisted in the survey of boundaries of the original District of Columba in 1791.

Beiyang Fleet

These cruisers were fast (25 knots) and heavily armed, but were not adopted by the Royal Navy because the Admiralty considered them to be "weak in structure".

Bernadette Roberts

The ego and self are both self-reflexive and dualistic modes of psychological functioning based on the subtle process of mental discriminating judgment, a process that is inherently built into the structure of the psyche.

Birmingham Metropolitan College

The buildings were mostly constructed in the 1950s as purpose-built structure although the college also obtained the Grade II* listed Moat House which was built in the 17th century by Sir William Wilson.

Blade server

The PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group PICMG developed a chassis/blade structure for the then emerging Peripheral Component Interconnect bus PCI which is called CompactPCI.

Brandt, Ohio

At one time the village had two grocery stores and an active fraternal presence with the International Order of Oddfellows being housed in a two-story frame structure.

Burnt Norton

Peter Ackroyd believes that it is impossible to paraphrase the content of the poem; the poem is too abstract to describe the events and the action that make up the poem's narrative structure.

Canadian Museum of Nature

The newly renovated museum re-opened again on 22 May 2010, and the lantern structure was christened the "Queens' Lantern" in honour of both Elizabeth II, who visited the building on her 2010 royal tour, and Queen Victoria.

Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant

(The Deepcore structure is visible in the pre-2007 Historical Imagery views on Google Earth.)

Comtrade

The IEEE Power Quality Subcommittee of the IEEE Power & Energy Society has also developed a file format called the Power Quality Data Interchange Format (PQDIF) that is similar to COMTRADE in structure but is used primarily to convey power quality data instead of transient disturbance data.

Constitutional Arch

the arch was the heir of the constitutional system of government led by the National Liberation Committee, maintaining the structure for a long time even after the ouster of the center-left government in 1947.

Corinthian bronze

The Beautiful Gate (or Nicanor Gate) of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, mentioned in the Book of Acts 3:2–10, was a large, 18 metre (60 feet) wide structure said to be either solid, or covered in plates of, Corinthian brass.

Courthouse Place

The structure housed the Cook County Criminal Courts for 35 years, and was the site of many legendary trials, including the Leopold and Loeb murder case and the Black Sox Scandal.

Cyclopropane

Cyclopropane was discovered in 1881 by August Freund, who also proposed the correct structure for the new substance in his first paper.

Design structure matrix

SonarQube the open source software quality platform has design structure matrix functionality included in it for analyzing your application.

FORM

First-order reliability method, a method to evaluate the reliability of a civil engineering structure

Greater London Council

The GLA has a very different structure to the GLC, consisting of a directly elected Mayor of London and a London Assembly.

Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch

In the later part of the same series of discussions (1837), and in his chief work (Die Sagenpoesie der Griechen, 1852), he investigated the structure of the Homeric poems, and their relation to the other epics of the Trojan cycle.

Homec, Rečica ob Savinji

In the early 20th century the original L-shaped building was converted into a rectangular structure with a steep roof.

HSC Condor 10

Condor's use of the Condor 10 on the St Malo-Channel Islands route and their aggressive marketing and fare structure for the service was one of the reasons for the decline of Emeraude Lines which eventually closed down.

Hypercomplex number

Karen Parshall (1985) "Wedderburn and the Structure of Algebras" Archive for History of Exact Sciences 32:223–349.

J. Bruce Hain House

The Classical Revival style structure was completed in 1913 for J. Bruce Hain on his working plantation.

Kansas City Shuffle

The tune structure is similar to the standard "Sister Kate".

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Her 2007 interpretation of the settlement of early Virginia, The Jamestown Project, argues that the activity of the Virginia Company and the establishment of Jamestown, Virginia must be viewed within the broader context of English expansionary efforts, and that the structure of a functional colony was evolved through trial and error.

Kirsty McCabe

McCabe studied Geophysics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a first class honours degree before going on to spend three months as an intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where she used satellite magnetic data to interpret the underlying crustal structure of parts of Australasia.

Law enforcement in Poland

In Poland, the national police service Policja is directly responsible to the central government, and whilst it operates with an organisational structure that allows voivodeship commands to exist, the regional authorities do not have any major say in law enforcement policy, and cannot affect the day-to-day operations of their local force.

Leonidas J. Guibas

The research contributions he is known for include finger trees, red-black trees, fractional cascading, the Guibas–Stolfi algorithm for Delaunay triangulation, an optimal data structure for point location, the quad-edge data structure for representing planar subdivisions, Metropolis light transport, and kinetic data structures for keeping track of objects in motion.

Michael Laub

The Austrian daily Der Standard lauded the resulting mash-up, stating the play’s "masterful blend of condensed fairytales, biographical notes, and exquisitely transfigured personae from Andersen’s universe is achieved through clarity of dramatic structure, the lightness of the 'show' form, the outstanding dancers and performers, and the subtle music of Larry Steinbachek".

Nakhi people

Among the Nakhi in Yongning County in Yunnan and the Yanyuan County in Sichuan, existing remnants of the Mosuo matriarchal family structure which were vigorously but unsuccessfully eradicated during the Communist era.

New Theatre Oxford

The New Theatre Oxford (known, for a period, as the Apollo Theatre Oxford or simply The Apollo from 1977–2003) is the main commercial theatre in Oxford, England and has a capacity of 1,800 people.

Nix v. Hedden

Botanically, a tomato is a fruit because it is a seed-bearing structure growing from the flowering part of a plant.

Norristown Transportation Center

It opened in 1989 to replace the older Norristown High Speed Line (Route 100) terminus one block away at Main and Swede Streets, and integrated the former Reading Company DeKalb Street Norristown railroad station (built 1933) into its structure.

Novella

Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), author of The Decameron (1353)—one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), aka Marguerite de Valois, et. alii., author of Heptaméron (1559)—seventy-two original French tales (modeled after the structure of The Decameron).

One SeaGate

The underground tunnels also connect the building to the Wyndham Hotel (formerly Hotel Sofitel) at Two SeaGate, Four SeaGate (the former home of Fox Toledo joined WTOL in 2012 and relocated to the WTOL studio), a parking structure across Summit Street, and Imagination Station.

Paul Douglas Tougaw

Recently, Dr. Tougaw has developed a Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) device having normal QCA cells laid out in a planar structure, having a set of input lines and a set of orthogonal output lines.

Relayer

The album, loosely based on Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, has the same structure as Close to the Edge released in 1972, with a long number on one side and two shorter songs on the other.

Resection

Segmental resection (or segmentectomy), the partial removal of an organ or other body structure

Shoreham Redoubt

Shoreham Redoubt (sometimes called Shoreham Fort) is a defensive structure at the entrance to Shoreham harbour, at the mouth of the River Adur in West Sussex, England.

Sprachbund

Shared syntactic features include classifiers, object–verb order and topic–comment structure, though in each case there are exceptions in branches of one or more families.

Tharangambadi

The rampart wall is a fairly large four sided structure, with bastions at each cardinal point.

The Frost-Giant's Daughter

While Robert E. Howard had already written many fantasy stories featuring northern Viking-like characters, the names and plot structure for "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" was derived in its entirety from Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology (1913).

They're Red Hot

Andrew Bird uses the structure of this song in one of his own, Cock O' the Walk, which appeared on the 1998 album Thrills, under the band name Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire.

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

The structure and style of the The Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" (first aired April 14, 1996), is inspired by this film.

Toshikazu Sunada

It is believed that the crystallographer who explicitly described the network structure of the K4 crystal for the first time is Fritz Laves(1932).

Tryptophan operon leader

The terminator structure is recognised as a termination signal for RNA polymerase and the operon is not transcribed.

Wolfert Acker

One person who bought his land was Washington Irving who took an existing structure and made it into his romantic Sunnyside out of it.

World Trade Center cross

The World Trade Center cross, also known as the Ground Zero cross, is a group of steel beams found amidst the debris of the World Trade Center following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which resembles the proportions of a Christian cross.

Xenon dioxide

Its structure and identity was confirmed by cooling it to −78 °C so that Raman spectroscopy could be performed before it decomposed.

Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station

In 1994, the Air Force Reserve became a separate Major Command (MAJCOM) in the Air Force organizational structure as Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC).

Yuri Rozhdestvensky

In the Western tradition, a similar approach was proposed by Leslie White, though White developed it in a different direction and did not propose a comprehensive structure of human culture encompassing physical, material and spiritual as equal components.


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