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Wu Yee-sun

Many of these he donated to public institutions in Europe and North America, including the Seventh University of Paris (France, five trees in c.1982), Montreal Botanical Garden (Canada, thirty trees in 1985, over twenty more in 1987), and the Sun Yat Sen Park in Vancouver (Canada).


2011 Sun Belt Conference football season

The 2011 Sun Belt Conference football season is a college football season for the Sun Belt Conference.

Aashaadha

In solar religious calendars, Āsāṛh begins with the Sun's entry into Cancer.

Akilam two

Ravana ordered the Sun and Moon to bow their heads when they approach his nation or

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 2006

Freshford qualified for the final when sun blinded the Cashel goalkeeper, Jovita Delaney, enabling Imelda Kennedy’s speculative shot to drop under the bar for the only goal of the semi-final.

Anjana Ahuja

Ahuja, who was educated at a comprehensive school in Essex, read physics at Imperial College London, followed by a postgraduate course in space physics during which she worked on data about the Sun's magnetic field from the Ulysses probe.

Arecibo message

The solar system, showing the Sun and the planets in the order of their position from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

Aristaeus

He found the islanders suffering from sickness under the stifling and baneful effects of the Dog-Star Sirius at its first appearance before the sun's rising, in early July.

Arizona Summer League

All teams are based in the Yuma, Arizona, area playing all games at Desert Sun Stadium (home of the Scorpions) and utilizing the Ray Kroc Complex which used to house the San Diego Padres and Yakult Swallows spring training operations.

Automatic identification and data capture

The global association Auto-ID Center was founded in 1999 and is made up of 100 of the largest companies in the world such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, UPS, companies working in the sector of technology such as SAP, Aliens, Sun as well as five academic research centers.

Ballou High School

Kevin Richardson (1982), Journalist and videographer for The Baltimore Sun newspaper and website.

Bruce Tognazzini

While working at Sun, in 1992 and 1993, he produced the Starfire video prototype, in order to give an idea of a usability centered vision of the Office of the future.

C-Cube

key people = Edmund Sun, co-founder
Alex Balkanski, co-founder
Bill O'Meara, CEO
Don Valentine

Choshi Electric Railway 1000 series

DeHa 1002 was repainted into a new orange and blue livery in 2007 designed by Tetsuko no Tabi writer Naoe Kikuchi, intended to evoke an image of the sun rising across the sea.

Compositing window manager

A few years into its development, it was discontinued by Sun, whose primary business was selling enterprise mainframes.

Flag of Uzbekistan

The 12 stars depicted on the state flag of the Republic of Uzbekistan are also directly connected with Uzbek historical traditions, with the ancient calendar-cycle of the sun.

Fruit in Iran

Since 1963 Iran is one of the major leading producer and exporters of dried fruit such as all kinds of pistachios, Sultana raisins, golden raisins, sun-dried raisins, Malayer raisins, Kashmar raisins, all kinds of Iranian dates and with its modern facilities is ready to provide its customers with all these products.

Gerald Hawkins

He fed the positions of standing stones and other features at Stonehenge into an early IBM 7090 computer and used the mainframe to model sun and moon movements.

Greenplum

Greenplum Database was supported for production use on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2 (64-bit), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (64-bit), CentOS Linux 5.x (64-bit) and Sun Solaris 10U5+ (64-bit).

Harry Crosby

Wolff, Geoffrey: Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby (Random House, 1976) ISBN 0-394-47450-3; (repr. New York Review of Books, 2003) ISBN 1-59017-066-0

History of sundials

The Romans adopted the Greek sundials, and the first record of a sun-dial in Rome is 293 BC according to Pliny.

Isopogon prostratus

It usually is found as a heath plant, or in dry open Eucalyptus woodland, and often is exposed to wind, frost, snow, sun and rain.

Jos mä oisin sun mies

"Jos mä oisin sun mies" is a song by a Finnish pop singer Jontte Valosaari.

Kiwi Travel International Airlines

Both Kiwi and Freedom operated with ad hoc liveries based on those of their lessors; Kiwi used a stylised Kiwi bird, while Freedom Air used a stylised sun.

La Plata Astronomical Observatory

A year earlier, the Paris Observatory had sent astronomical instruments to the city of Bragado, Buenos Aires, to observe a transit of Venus in front of the Sun, for which the location was particularly suitable, and which raised considerable interest in scientific circles.

Locnville

The single "Sun in My Pocket" is also featured in EA Sports FIFA 11.

Matthew Porter

Educated at Wanstead High School, he studied Politics and Modern Languages at the University of East Anglia and became a regular reporter and commentator on Capital Gold Sport and BBC London radio as well as working on a freelance basis for numerous national newspapers, including The Sun, Daily Telegraph and News Of The World.

Modesto Seara Vázquez

- In El Sol de Mexico in the 1970s, he wrote the Sunday supplement "The World from the Sun", worked on the editorial page

Oenopides

However, when it saw how Thyestes, a mythological figure, was served his own son for dinner by his brother Atreus, the sun was so horrified that it left its course and moved to the zodiac instead.

Order of the Lion and the Sun

On 6 September 1900, the mayor of Mariánské Lázně, Dr. Nadler, was decorated with the Commander Cross of the Lion and the Order of the Sun by the Shah during an official visit.

Orthographic projection

In about 14 BC, Roman engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio used the projection to construct sundials and to compute sun positions.

Packard Stadium

Bobby Winkles Field sits in Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark, in honor of William Guthrie Packard and the Sun Devils' Hall of Fame coaches Jim Brock and Bobby Winkles.

Philolaus

By nature the middle is first, and around it dance ten divine bodies - the sky, the planets, then the sun, next the moon, next the earth, next the counterearth, and after all of them the fire of the hearth which holds position at the centre.

Season

For example, at the military and weather station Alert located at 82°30′05″N and 62°20′20″W, on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, Canada (about 450 nautical miles or 830 km from the North Pole), the sun begins to peek above the horizon for minutes per day at the end of February and each day it climbs higher and stays up longer; by 21 March, the sun is up for over 12 hours.

Sun Carriage

Relocating to Camden and joined by fellow Plymouth exile Chris Leech on second guitar they recorded the "Sun Carriage/Determined" (written by Ron Price) demo 7" (very rare, only about ten were pressed) for the fledgling Head Records run by Jeff Barrett (later the founder of Heavenly).

Sun Electric

Sun Electric have worked with graphic artist and videographer Nick Philip; "Meccano", created for MTV's Amp, was the first video played on that show.

Sun Java System Portal Server

At JavaOne 2008, Sun and Liferay announced a strategic partnership that combines efforts and technologies from both company's communities to enhance and maintain web aggregation and presentation technologies that are utilized in existing and future products.

Sun Valley Charter High School

Sun Valley Charter High School was a small charter high school in Ramona, California, chartered by the Ramona Unified School District.

Sun Valley Serenade

Sun Valley Serenade is the first of the only two movies featuring The Glenn Miller Orchestra (the other is 1942's Orchestra Wives).

Sun Yee On

Tai Hau, leader of another Sun Yee On faction in active in Tuen Mun tried to encroach upon Lee's West Kowloon and Tsim Sha Tsui operations.

Sunye

Sun was one of the longest serving trainees at JYP Entertainment, along with Jo Kwon of 2AM and Min of miss A.

Svaðilfari

In chapter 42 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells a story set "right at the beginning of the gods' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall" about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.

Synemon theresa

The Cryptic Sun Moth (Synemon theresa) is a moth in the Castniidae family.

Talagunda pillar inscription

Raghu’s brother was Kākusthavarman (c. 435-55) who "was like the sun and by means of rays (daughters) caused the lotuses of Gupta and other royal families to bloom in friendless, eagerness and love."

Telluric current

In William Hope Hodgson's novel The Night Land, the "Earth-Current", a powerful telluric current, is the source of power for the Last Redoubt, the arcology home of man after the Sun has died.

The Ancient Art of War

The player can also select from among several Artificial Intelligence opponents represented by various historical figures such as Geronimo and Sun Tzu himself.

The Firebird Band

Erik Bocek - (of Joan of Arc, Ghosts and Vodka) bass on tracks 2, 8-11 on The Setting Sun and Its Satellites.

Troy Trojans

In 2006, Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year Bobby Pierce led the Trojans to a regular season conference title, conference tournament title, and an NCAA Regional appearance with an overall record of 47–16.

Uglydolls

Uglydoll is a brand based upon a line of plush toys which began as a long distance letter between the creators David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim.

Van Allen Probes

The Van Allen radiation belts swell and shrink over time as part of a much larger space weather system driven by energy and material that erupt off the Sun's surface and fill the entire Solar System.

Winnipeg Sun

Some of the initial comics published in the Sun were Ziggy, Frank and Ernest, Dallas, Ben Swift, John Darling, Graves, Inc., Barbara Cartland's Romances, Heathcliff, The Neighborhood, and Winthrop.


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