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unusual facts about Tangent



16th and Mission Thursday Night

The 16th & Mission Review is a quarterly literary anthology published by Seven7h Tangent Press which has featured poems and short stories by such notable and award-winning writers as Neeli Cherkovski, Ruth Weiss, and Sharon Doubiago.

Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad

It featured an innovative and durable roadbed through a portion of the Great Dismal Swamp and an arrow-straight 52-mile tangent between Suffolk and Petersburg.

Blu Mar Ten

During 2005 and 2006, Blu Mar Ten returned to producing drum and bass with a number of releases on labels including Hospital Records, Nookie's Phuzion Records, Friction's Shogun Audio, Basement Recordings, John B's Tangent Recordings, Renegade Hardware, Subject 13's Vibez Recordings and Doc Scott's 31 Records.

Branched manifold

Extrinsically, branched n-manifolds are n-dimensional complexes embedded into some Euclidean space such that each point has a well-defined n-dimensional tangent space.

Curvature of Riemannian manifolds

The curvature of n-dimensional Riemannian manifold is given by an antisymmetric n×n matrix \Omega^{} {}=\Omega^i {\ j} of 2-forms (or equivalently a 2-form with values in so(n), the Lie algebra of the orthogonal group O(n), which is the structure group of the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold).

Daniel Rudge

After Rudge's death, his company was merged with The Tangent & Coventry Tricycle Company to form D. Rudge & Co. which in 1894 became Rudge Whitworth Cycles.

Frankfurt Airport loop

A regional rail project called Regionaltangente West (regional tangent west) is being developed which would connect Neu-Isenburg with Bad Homburg and the NordWestZentrum shopping centre through the western fringes of Frankfurt.

Leonty Magnitsky

In 1703, Magnitsky also produced a Russian edition of Adriaan Vlacq's log tables called Таблицы логарифмов и синусов, тангенсов и секансов (Tables of Logarithms, Sines, Tangents, and Secants).

Lower tangent arc

A lower tangent arc is a rarely observable halo, an optical phenomenon appearing under and tangent to a 22° halo centred around the sun.

Luke Sullivan

Sullivan's practice is considered to be representative of Eclecticism, a European tangent of Postmodernism that emphasizes the artist's obligation to explore diverse subject matter, mediums and referencing.

Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad

He is also responsible for engineering and building the famous 52 mile-long tangent track between Suffolk and Petersburg which is also part of a major artery of modern Norfolk Southern rail traffic.

Patagonian toothfish

Because of previous poaching, the French Navy and Australian Customs vessels still work in tangent, patrolling both French and Australian EEZs, having made numerous arrests and seizures in the late 1990s to early 2000s.

Spontaneous Music Ensemble

The Source - From and Towards (1971, Tangent Records) (recorded 18 November, 1970; featuring Trevor Watts, Ray Warleigh, Brian Smith, Ken (sic) Wheeler, Bob Norden, Chris Pyne, Mike Pyne, Ron Matthewson, Marcio Mattos, John Stevens)

Tangent piano

In 2006 a tangent piano was discovered in the estate of Johann Esaias von Seidel in Sulzbach-Rosenberg in its original state.

Tom Lenk

Tom Lenk was a member of Tangent, an improv group, with slam poet Steve Connell.


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