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6 unusual facts about angle


Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

This means that information can be gained on both the energy and momentum of an electron, resulting in detailed information on band dispersion and Fermi surface.

Grand Pilier d'Angle

The first ascent from the valley was by James Eccles with guides Michel Payot and Alphonse Payot on 30 July 1877 during an ascent of the Peuterey ridge, although the summit had been visited on 20 August 1822 by F. Clissold with guides J. M. Couttet, M. Bossonney, D. Couttet, P. Favret and J. B. Simond on the descent from their first ascent of Mont Blanc de Courmayeur.

Guichard d'Angle

However, Guichard was charged with transferring the fortress of La Rochelle to the English under the terms of the treaty.

He was born in a noble family from Angles-sur-l'Anglin in North-Eastern Poitou, sometime between 1305 and 1315.

He participated in the preliminary discussions of the Anglo-French truce at Longjumeau but didn't sign the actual Treaty of Brétigny.

On 22 June 1372 he was captured on the way back to the continent in the Battle of La Rochelle together with Hastings.


Abbas Jadidi

Jadidi was once mentioned in a promo by Kurt Angle during his rivalry with Samoa Joe.

Angle Inlet, Minnesota

Angle Inlet is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Angle Township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States.

Behind the Candelabra

Director Steven Soderbergh first spoke with Michael Douglas about the idea of doing a Liberace film during the production of Traffic (2000), but had trouble figuring out an angle for it that would differentiate it from a traditional biopic.

Château de Petit-Bourg

One particularly noticed the cabinet in gallery of the appartement du roi (angle du pavillon du midi, à l'étage) and the grand salon, decorated by Louis-Claude Vassé with royal portraits and ducal emblems.

Colonial Town Plans of Perth

The plan was a semi-regular grid pattern bounded by Mount Eliza to the west, wetlands to the north, and tilted on an angle so that the principle streets ran parallel to the river, which formed the boundary to the south and the east.

Costovertebral

Costovertebral angle, the acute angle formed on either side of the human back between the twelfth rib and the vertebral column

Crossplane

The 2009 Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycle uses the crossplane crankshaft and, in the absence of the 90° bank angle of the V8, must use a separate balance shaft geared off the crankshaft to eliminate the inherent rocking vibration (primary rocking couples) found in this type of crank.

Degree Confluence Project

The Degree Confluence Project is a World Wide Web-based all-volunteer project which aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online.

Diabatic

Such a system is defined as Abelian and the ADT matrix is expressed in terms of an angle, \gamma (see Comment below), known also as the ADT angle.

Dip circle

Georg Hartmann first discovered dip angle in 1544, when he noticed the needle on a compass dipped towards the north hemisphere.

Elizabeth Cohen

She focuses on health-related issues and has reported from a medical angle on major news stories like the Gulf oil spill, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina.

Fifteen Guinea Special

The only one not preserved LMS Black 5 no 44781 was used for filming of the film The Virgin Soldiers at Bartlow in Essex, for which it was derailed and hung at an angle for visual effect.

Graphium tamerlana

The black band at the apex of the cell of the forewing reaches only to the median vein, not extending beyond it to the hind angle, being exactly as in Graphium alebion but in contradistinction to this insect the orange anal spot on the hindwing of is reduced to two small obscure dots.

Gun laying

The first recorded device to measure an elevation angle was Niccolò Tartaglia's invention of a gunners' quadrant circa 1545.

Head-mounted display

This is the distance at which, given the average human eye rangefinder "baseline" (distance between the eyes or Inter-Pupillary Distance (IPD)) of between 2.5 and 3 inches (6 and 8 cm), the angle of an object at that distance becomes essentially the same from each eye.

How to Dress Well

His debut album, Love Remains, was released in 2010 on Lefse in the United States and Tri Angle in Europe and Asia.

Incidents at European amusement parks

The Daily Mail reported that riders of Rameses Revenge were left stranded at a 40° angle, and that some riders of Safari Skyway trains near the zoo were lowered using ladders and a cherry picker.

Insolation

Trigonometry tells us that the sine of a 30° angle is 1/2, whereas the sine of a 90° angle is 1.

Inverugie Castle

Charles McKean described the castle as "a splendid double-courtyard Renaissance chateau" and also said "It consisted of a four-storey block with circular angle towers and a stair turret".

King Kong Bundy

After joining The Heenan Family, Bundy feuded extensively with André the Giant, a feud which started during an angle where Bundy interfered in one of André's matches and delivered several splashes, giving the Giant a kayfabe broken sternum.

La Cité collégiale

The first was the letter "C" formed with 18 angle brackets, each representing a smaller C. The text "La Cité collégiale" was written underneath it, using the Century Gothic typeface.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Mark Wahl of Critical Angle Inc., Tim Howes, and Steve Kille started work in 1996 on a new version of LDAP, LDAPv3, under the aegis of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Macrognathia

Ramus of mandible forms a less steep angle with body of mandible

Matchless Silver Arrow

The narrow angle of the V allowed the use of a one piece head, a practice utilised by Lancia in its early V4 automobile engines.The rear suspension was a cantilever design using two springs and friction dampers beneath the saddle, very similar to the 1928 Vincent HRD design.

Montagu House, Portman Square

Occupying a site at the northwest corner of the square, in the angle between Gloucester Place and Upper Berkeley Street, it was built for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, a wealthy widow and patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassicist architect James Stuart.

NES Play Action Football

The game used an isometric view, presenting the game at an angle to make it appear 3-D, and the game allowed a very large number of moving objects (all the players) to be on screen at the same time.

Nevada's 2nd congressional district election, 2006

After the primary, Angle refused to concede, complaining of voting irregularities that disenfranchised many voters in her popular home base of Washoe County, which includes Reno and is by far the district’s most populous and vote-rich jurisdiction.

Northwest Angle

To reach the Angle by land, travelers take Minnesota State Highway 313 Northbound (Warroad, Minnesota to Sprague, Manitoba) across the border into Manitoba, Canada, connecting to Provincial Road 12 in Manitoba at the border, then to Provincial Road 308 Manitoba, to Provincial Road 525, then finally crossing back into the United States in the Northwest Angle south of rural Angle Inlet, Minnesota (Angle Inlet Township).

The Danny Orlis series of books, a Christian fiction series for youth, were largely set in the Northwest Angle.

Patashnik

In 1995, Levi Strauss & Co. was searching for a new angle to add to their television advertisement campaign (which up to that point had never featured electronic music), and they decided to use the uptempo track "Novelty Waves" from Patashnik.

Pawn Hearts

A live, in-studio version of "Squid/Octopus" was added to the H to He, Who Am the Only One reissue, while the Pawn Hearts reissue contains three of the band members' personal projects, "Angle of Incidents", "Ponker's Theme", and "Diminutions", credited to Evans, Jackson, and Banton, respectively.

Pembrokeshire Record Office

Besides keeping local authority and quarter sessions records, together with many Pembrokeshire parish registers, other significant holdings include family and estate papers relating to John Mirehouse of Angle, Carew of Carew Court and Lort-Phillips of Lawrenny.

RAF Fairwood Common

On 23 January 1942, No. 615 Squadron (County of Surrey Squadron) Auxiliary Air Force, arrived from Angle aerodrome, equipped with Hawker Hurricane fighters, operating there until 17 March when the squadron moved by train to Liverpool Docks, boarding the Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.

RML 9 inch 12 ton gun

In the late 1880s and early 1890s a small number of guns were adapted as high-angle coast defence guns around Britain : known battery locations were Tregantle Down Battery at Plymouth, Verne High Angle Battery at Portland and Steynewood Battery at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.

Sigma 10–20mm f/4–5.6 EX DC HSM lens

The Sigma 10-20mm lens is an enthusiast-level, ultra wide-angle rectilinear zoom lens made by Sigma Corporation specifically for use with small format digital SLRs.

Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM lens

It has a bulb-like aspherical lens, similar to notable wide-angle and fisheye lenses such as the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED, Nikon AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED, or Tokina AT-X 107 DX AF 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 fisheye lens.

Sosrobahu

The technique was designed by Tjokorda Raka Sukawati and involves the construction of the horizontal supports for the highway beside the existing road, which is then lifted and turned 90 degrees angle before being placed on the top of the vertical supports to form the flyover pylons.

Stikine Plateau

the Taku Plateau lies to the west of the Nahlin and Kawdy Plateaus and is located roughly in the angle of the Nakina and Inklin Rivers, though including areas on the far side of the lower sections of both rivers.

Subhelic arc

The ray leave the crystal in the exact opposite angle, resulting in a net deviation angle of 120°, the angle for the formation of 120° parhelia.

Sunbaker

Sunbaker is a 1937 black-and-white photograph by Australian modernist photographer Max Dupain, depicting the head and shoulders of a man lying on a beach, taken from a low angle.

The Physics of Superheroes

Instead, he focuses on examples of comic book scenes that can be used to understand the diverse laws of physics from an unusual angle, such as Gwen Stacy's death and Ant-Man's ability to punch his way out of a paper bag.

Thomas Topham

Dr. John Theophilus Desaguliers records, among other feats of Topham's witnessed by him, the bending of a large iron poker nearly to a right angle by striking it upon his bare left arm.

Viliam Schrojf

With his country leading 1-0, he expected a cross from Amarildo and left the goal, allowing the Brazilian to score from an acute angle.

Weapons system trainer

Because of the compromises necessary with a large angle visual system, older WSTs tended not to have a motion platform.

Welwyn

In Graham Robb's book "The Ancient Paths" there is a suggestion that Welwyn lay on a late-Celtic highway running in the direction of the summer solstice angle straight from Bury St Edmunds to Salisbury via the Catuvellauni headquarters outside modern-day St Albans.

Wild River State Park

The 1883 jam, at Angle Rock in what is now Interstate Park, was the world's biggest log jam and took 57 days to break, during which the sawmill in Marine on St. Croix went out of business.

Zeiss Biogon

The first Biogon (2.8 / 3.5 cm, unbalanced) was created in 1935 by Ludwig Bertele, then referenced by designer Zeiss Ikon Dresden, the Contax created as a modification of the then Sonnar. It was developed by Carl Zeiss in approximately 1949 and manufactured in Jena, then a redesign in Oberkochen. In 1951 a new Biogon with a 90 ° angle (Super Wide Angle) was also designed by Ludwig Bertele for Carl Zeiss, which opened the way to extreme wide angle lenses.

Zoetrope

In order to test the initial concept of the film, Zwart invited Academy-Award winning Ex-Pixar Animation Studios Scientist David DiFrancesco, to apply his science and math skills to determine the positioning, optimal speeds, shutter angle and camera specifications.


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