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1200s

Technics SL-1200, a common turntable for DJing in dance and hip hop music


1993 Kagoshima Heavy Rain

In the Ryugamizu area, where mountains were close to the sea, and highways and railroads are situated, 22 debris flows occurred and 2500 people were trapped in 1200 cars, as well as buses and trains, until they were saved by fishing boats and ferrys which carried them to Kagoshima city through Kagoshima Bay.

Acaena juvenca

Acaena juvenca is a species of perennial plant found in scrubland and forest margins up to an altitude of 1200 m on the eastern side of both North and South Islands, New Zealand.

Anacostia Park

It is one of Washington, D.C.'s largest and most important recreation areas, with over 1200 acres (4.9 km2) at multiple sites.

Andrieu Contredit d'Arras

Andrieu Contredit d'Arras (c.1200–1248) was a trouvère from Arras and active in the Puy d'Arras.

Anogeio

Anogeio village (population 118, elevation 1200 m) is located on the western slopes of Xerovouni, in the Pindus mountains of Epirus.

Azoria

Two aims of recent excavations at Azoria have been to understand the early history of the site and to explore stratigraphically the changes in the form of the settlement in the transition from the Early Iron Age (or Greek Dark Age) (Late Minoan IIIC-Late Geometric; c. 1200-700 BC) and Orientalizing (c. 700-600 BC) to Archaic periods (c. 600-500 BC).

Baron Waleran

The name of the barony, with its spelling being a variant of the family name, appears to have been chosen to suggest a possible ancestry from Waleran the Huntsman, feudal baron of West Dean, Wiltshire, at the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, which was held by the Waleran family until the death of Walter Walerand in 1200/1 leaving three daughters his co-heiresses.

Bayer process

A few years earlier, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville in France developed a method for making alumina by heating bauxite in sodium carbonate, Na2CO3, at 1200°C, leaching the sodium aluminate formed with water, then precipitating aluminium hydroxide by carbon dioxide, CO2, which was then filtered and dried.

Canadian Pacific Railway No. 1246

Canadian Pacific Railway No. 1246 was one of three 1200-series Canadian Pacific Railway locomotives in the Steamtown, USA collection.

Carucage

Carucage was levied just six times: by Richard in 1194 and 1198; John, his brother and successor, in 1200; and John's son, Henry III, in 1217, 1220, and 1224, after which it was replaced by taxes on income and personal property.

Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee

The translation was first privately printed on behalf of Van Gulik by the Toppan Printing Company of Tokyo, in a limited run of 1200 numbered signed copies.

Crouch Cars

The cars were still expensive, and so in 1923 the Economic 10/4 10 hp model was announced at £250, using a four-cylinder Dorman side-valve engine of 1200 cc.

Daju languages

In his judgement, the Eastern Daju languages separated from the others perhaps as much as 2000 years ago, while the Western Daju languages were spread more recently, perhaps by the Daju state which dominated Darfur from about 1200 AD until scattered after the death of Kasi Furogé, the Daju king, and replaced by the Tunjur.

Deir Alla

The final sanctuary was obliterated in a fierce fire; the blackened remains of an Egyptian jar bearing the cartouche of Queen Twosret gives a terminus post quem of ca 1200 BCE, a date consonant with other twelfth-century urban destruction in the Ancient Near East.

Die Nibelungen

The screenplays for both films were co-written by Lang's then-wife Thea von Harbou, based upon the epic poem Nibelungenlied written around 1200 AD.

Enguerrand de Marigny

He was born at Lyons-la-Forêt in Normandy, of an old Norman family of the smaller baronage called Le Portier, which took the name of Marigny about 1200.

Ephraim of Bonn

Ephraim of Bonn (1132–1200) was a Jewish writer who documented the massacre of the Jews in the city of York in 1190.

Epic LT Dynasty

The engine is a Pratt & Whitney PT6-67A turboprop flat rated to 1200 hp.

Francis Grasso

Early on, Grasso used Thorens turntables although they were a far cry from the Technics turntables most DJs use in clubs today.

Geoffrey of Vinsauf

Geoffrey of Vinsauf (fl. 1200) is a representative of the early medieval grammarian movement, termed preceptive grammar by James J. Murphy for its interest in teaching ars poetria (1971, vii ff.).

Gislebert of Mons

After 1200 Gislebert wrote the Chronicon Hanoniense, a history of Hainaut and the neighboring lands from about 1050 to 1195, which is specially valuable for the latter part of the twelfth century.

Guangzong

Emperor Guangzong of Song (1147 – 1200), Chinese emperor of the Song Dynasty

Jehan de Nuevile

Jehan de Nuevile (c.1200–c.1250) was the second son of the Eustache de Nuevile, a minor nobleman with land in Neuville-Vitasse, near Arras.

Jonathan M. Hall

He is the author of many books, including Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity, Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture, and A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE, and of various articles and reviews on Archaic and Classical Greece.

Main Turkmen Canal

The length of the canal was to be more than 1200 kilometers, beginning from Takhiatash, a town/city in Uzbekistan, then extended 10 km from the town of Nukus to Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Coast of Turkmenistan.

Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club

The Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club was established in Melbourne over 45 years ago and is located at 1200 Ferntree Gully Rd Scoresby, Victoria, Australia.

Meteorological history of Typhoon Haiyan

At 1200 UTC, the storm makes its last Philippine landfall at Busuanga, Palawan as a category 3 storm.

New Zealand DB class locomotive

DBRs 1199 and 1200 were the initial pair, becoming known as the "Bobsy Twins" (sp), likely a reference to the Bobbsey Twins due mainly to their consecutive numbers (a rarity under the TMS numbering system).

Peter Throckmorton

The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck (circa 1200 BC) was discovered by Throckmorton in 1959 using information provided him by Kemal Aras, a sponge diver from Bodrum, Turkey who had first seen parts of the vessel's cargo of bronze ingots in 1954, but who had failed to recognize that it was actually a bronze age shipwreck and thus its archaeological importance.

Rhododendron hunnewellianum

Rhododendron hunnewellianum (岷江杜鹃), named in honor of H. H. Hunnewell and Walter Hunnewell, is a rhododendron species native to southern Gansu and central and northern Sichuan in China, where it grows at altitudes of 1200–2400 meters.

Rhodt unter Rietburg

The village has been making wine for over 1200 years, and is one of the centers for Moselle wine as a home of Rietburg wine co-operative.

Ricau de Tarascon

Ricau de Tarascon (also spelled Ricautz or Ricavi) was a Provençal knight and troubadour from Tarascon, active between 1200 and 1240.

Roundwood Park School

Opened in 1956, it currently has around 1200 pupils, most of whom live in the local area and surrounding villages (e.g. Markyate, Southdown, Whitwell, Kimpton, Flamstead, Redbourn, Breachwood Green and Wheathampstead.) The school has specialities in mathematics, computing and languages, and is a designated RM Pioneer School.

Rusper Priory

William de Braose was the patron when the foundation was confirmed c.1200 by Seffrid II, Bishop of Chichester.

Sat.1

The first broadcast could only be seen by roughly 1200 households who owned cable access in the city of Ludwigshafen.

Sierra Ancha

The classic Sonoran Desert floristic community of saguaro, palo verde, and creosote bush can be found in the southern foothills above Roosevelt Lake (650–1000 m / 2133–3281 ft), while in the range's middle elevations (1200–1800 m / 3937–5906 ft) oak scrub and juniper predominate.

Strata Marcella

It was monks from Strata Marcella who went to the Vale of Llangollen in 1200 to found the Abbey of Valle Crucis.

Swords Castle

Swords Castle was built as the manorial residence of the first Anglo-Norman Archbishop of Dublin, John Comyn, around 1200 or a little later in Swords, just north of Dublin.

Thomas Venner

On the Wednesday they attacked again at Wood Street and Threadneedle Street forcing the King's Life Guard of Foot (a force of 1200 men commanded by John Russell) to retreat.

Timeline of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season

AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Nine forms 200 mi (320 km) southeast of Praia, Cape Verde.

EDT (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Twelve forms 100 mi (160 km) east of Bluefields, Nicaragua.

Timeline of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season

1200 UTC (7:00 a.m. CDT) – Tropical Depression Two develops from an area of low pressure roughly 25 mi (40 km) north-northwest of La Ceiba, Honduras.

Toulouse 1 University Capitole

Toulouse 1 University Capitole was the second university created in France in 1229 after the Sorbonne was founded (around the year 1200).

Vedas

He gives 150 BCE (Patañjali) as a terminus ante quem for all Vedic Sanskrit literature, and 1200 BCE (the early Iron Age) as terminus post quem for the Atharvaveda.

Wamsutter, Wyoming

BP has an office in Wamsutter, and the small town's population reportedly has increased to over 1200 over the past several years.

Wandong railway station

Wandong station was damaged in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires with two bridges, 1200 railway sleepers and part of platform requiring repairs.

WVII-TV

The station signed on October 15, 1965 as WEMT under the ownership of Downeast Television, an ownership group that included Melvin Stone, owner of WGUY (1250 AM, later WNSW on 1200 AM; now defunct) and Rumford's WRUM, and Herbert Hoffman, owner of WBOS-AM-FM in Boston.


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