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unusual facts about The Spectrum



1974–75 Buffalo Sabres season

The Flyers came into the series with their own good luck pre- game singer in the form of Kate Smith who sang "God Bless America" before home games at The Spectrum.


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246 Asporina

The spectrum of 246 Asporina reveals the strong presence of the mineral Olivine, a relatively rarity in the asteroid belt.

5G

Cognitive radio technology, also known as smart-radio: allowing different radio technologies to share the same spectrum efficiently by adaptively finding unused spectrum and adapting the transmission scheme to the requirements of the technologies currently sharing the spectrum.

Adaptive equipment

Bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and feeding are self-care activities that are including in the spectrum of activities of daily living (ADLs).

British telephone sockets

The Sinclair QL and 128k ZX Spectrum home computers used type 630W connectors for their serial ports (on the Spectrum 128 and +2, MIDI signals could also be sent from the port).

Captain Scarlet vs the Mysterons

A later assault on Cloudbase results in the total destruction of the Spectrum headquarters, but the Mysterons use their extraordinary abilities to rewind time, leaving the base intact ("Attack on Cloudbase").

Collisional excitation

For this reason, when CELs were first observed by William Huggins in the spectrum of the Cat's Eye Nebula, he did not know what they were, and attributed them to a hypothetical new element called Nebulium.

Criticism of Conservative Judaism

Across the spectrum of Orthodoxy, myriads of people meticulously keep Shabbat (the Sabbath), Kashrut (the Dietary Laws), Taharat ha-mishapahah (the Laws of Family Purity) and pray three times a day.

Dave Poulin

During Game 6 of the Wales Conference Finals at the Spectrum, Poulin scored a memorable two-man disadvantage short-handed goal which helped close out the Quebec Nordiques.

Effective temperature

A star near the middle of the spectrum, such as the modest Sun or the giant Capella radiates more heat per unit of surface area than the feeble red dwarf stars or the bloated supergiants, but much less than such a white or blue star as Vega or Rigel.

Femtolab

It specifically uses Quantum cascade laser to transmit data using the mid-infrared part of the spectrum, which propagates much more favorably under bad weather conditions like fog.

Ferdinand Brickwedde

Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde (1903-1989), a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology), in 1931 produced the first sample of hydrogen in which the spectrum of its heavy isotope, deuterium, could be observed.

Flip-screen

These limitations were not exclusive to the Spectrum; many early MSX, NEC PC-8801 and PC VGA games also used the flip-screen technique.

The flip-screen technique was particularly common in PC games originally made for the ZX Spectrum, such as Atic Atac, Jet Set Willy, and Starquake, due in part to the Spectrum's display limitations which meant that full colour scrolling was difficult to implement convincingly - Light Force being a notable exception.

Hazelwood East High School

The landmark Supreme Court case Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier originated at Hazelwood East in 1988 and involved journalism students who were members of The Spectrum staff.

Knight Tyme

The in-game music was written by David Whittaker on the C64 version and Rob Hubbard on the Spectrum and Amstrad versions.

Laplace transform

The wide and general applicability of the Laplace transform and its inverse is illustrated by an application in astronomy which provides some information on the spatial distribution of matter of an astronomical source of radiofrequency thermal radiation too distant to resolve as more than a point, given its flux density spectrum, rather than relating the time domain with the spectrum (frequency domain).

Light scattering

Periodicity or structural repetition in the scattering medium will cause interference in the spectrum of scattered light.

Maarten Schmidt

While its star-like appearance suggested it was relatively nearby, the spectrum of 3C 273 proved to have what was at the time a high redshift of 0.158, showing that it lay far beyond the Milky Way, and thus possessed an extraordinarily high luminosity.

Middle German Chemical Triangle

At the end of the 1950s the advertising slogan "Plastic and rubber from Schkopau" (Plaste und Elaste aus Schkopau) was introduced, in order to promote the spectrum of products of the Buna Chemical Works.

Migration Period

Peter Heather suggests that constructionism and modernism represent two extremes of the spectrum of possibilities.

Miles Gordon Technology

It was founded in June 1986 in Cambridge, England by Alan Miles and Bruce Gordon, former employees of Sinclair Research, after Sinclair sold the rights for the Spectrum to Amstrad.

Otokonoko

It is part of the spectrum of shōnen entertainment (targeted at young boys) and seinen entertainment (targeted at young men), and often contains erotic or romantic elements.

Pierre Janssen

While observing the solar eclipse of August 18, 1868, at Guntur, in Madras State now Andhra Pradesh, British India, he noticed bright lines in the spectrum of the chromosphere, showing that the chromosphere is gaseous.

Rainer Weiss

He made pioneering measurements of the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and then was co-founder and an intellectual leader of the NASA COBE (microwave background) satellite.

Richard Altwasser

Altwasser left Sinclair at the beginning of May 1982 to establish his own company, along with Steve Vickers, author of the Spectrum's ROM firmware and manual.

Rick St. Croix

St. Croix made his NHL debut for the Flyers during the 1977-78 season on February 16, 1978 at the Spectrum against the Minnesota North Stars.

Shiflett Brothers

They won the Spectrum Silver Dimensional Award for their work on the "Draco" from Dragonheart porcelain statue from Moore Creations.

Social media and television

On the other end of the spectrum, ratings hits such as CBSNCIS: Los Angeles, and reality shows such as Fox’s American Idol and ABC’s Dancing with the Stars have fairly low online viewership while delivering large numbers during original broadcasts.

Spectrum Task Force

In June 2002, the FCC Chairman established the Spectrum Policy Task Force to assist the FCC in evaluating changes in the spectrum, reevaluating the command-and-control approach, and helping to migrate it to a more consumer-oriented model.

The Spectrum Policy Task Force will also recommend approaches to the FCC that allow licensed and unlicensed users flexibility of the spectrum and ensure that they comply with the technical rules regarding the use of different technical devices, power limits, interference rules, etc.

The Spectrum Policy Task Force was established in June 2002 to assist the Federal Communications Commission in identifying and evaluating changes in spectrum policy that will increase the public benefits derived from the use of the radio spectrum.

T-Mobile UK

On 1 March 2010 the European Commission approved the merger, on the condition that the combined company sell 25% of the spectrum it owns on the 1800 MHz radio band and amend a network sharing agreement with smaller rival 3.

The Wire Report

The news service covers industry events but is known for focusing on regulatory developments at the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, the Copyright Board of Canada, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, the spectrum management branch at Industry Canada, the Department of Canadian Heritage and the House of Commons and Senate.

United States Army Financial Management School

The United States Army Financial Management School is located in Fort Jackson, SC, and has the mission of providing the United States Army with agile military and civilian leaders trained in financial management, and develop complementary concepts, doctrine, organization,across the spectrum of Financial Management in support of America's Armed Forces in war and peace.

V-commerce

Retailers such as American Apparel are attempting to gain value from both ends of the spectrum by mixing and matching virtual and real-world sales.