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unusual facts about float


Float-zone silicon

The process was developed at Bell Labs by Henry Theuerer in 1955 as a modification of a method developed by William Gardner Pfann for germanium.


1980–85 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons

Southern Hemisphere Cyclone Seasons

Antoinette K-Doe

Only days earlier, she rode in a float with the famous Ernie K-Doe mannequin in the Krewe of Muses parade.

Bodhi Linux

The hard float application binary interface of the ARM11, a 32-bit RISC microprocessor ARM architecture with ARMv6 architectural additions, provides enormous performance gains for many use cases.

Bristol Fourth of July Parade

Staffing the float was Helen Glover, a radio personality from Providence, RI–based WHJJ 920 AM.

Carley float

The float is now displayed at the HMAS Sydney exhibit of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.

Chakradharpur

This institution is a constituent unit of Kolhan University and offers a variety of courses including Vocational Courses.

Chat Moss

Chat Moss threatened the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, until George Stephenson succeeded in constructing a railway line through it in 1829; his solution was to "float" the line on a bed of bound heather and branches topped with tar and covered with rubble stone.

Chicago Pride Parade

The 2010 parade featured an appearance from the Chicago Blackhawks' Brent Sopel and The Stanley Cup as part of the Chicago Gay Hockey Association's float.

Children's Museum of Winston-Salem

Build It An exhibit which features foam Lincoln Logs, Magnetic tiles, Lego, and a build your own parachuter, which involves making a parachuter (by attaching a parachute to a wooden man) and using a pulley to pull it up and when it reaches the top it will fall off and float down.

Disney's Once Upon a Dream Parade

In Mid-June 2010, Maleficent suddenly fell from the float and landed on her neck, due to her harness and seat structure snapping in half.

Einhausen

The float built in 2007 on the theme “North Korea” was featured in the November edition of the Carnival magazine Tusch!!! (a national trade magazine published around Carnival) as Germany’s best political float of 2007.

Feather Float

Feather Float is the second album the Japanese band OOIOO, a side-project of Boredoms member Yoshimi P-We.

Flights of Fantasy Parade

Jumpin' Jungle Jam: Characters such as Baloo and King Louie from The Jungle Book, Rafiki and Timon from The Lion King, and Tantor from Tarzan feature on this float, styled to look like the jungle.

Float Woods

Joseph 'Float' Woods (born about 1872 in Barbados, death details unknown) was a coloured West Indian cricketer best known as a member of the 1900 West Indian tourists to England.

Fourcault process

In terms of economics and product quality the Fourcault process has been supplanted in many countries by the Pilkington developed "Float" process.

Glass production

The float glass process is also known as the Pilkington process, named after the British glass manufacturer Pilkington, who pioneered the technique (invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington) in the 1950s.

Green Grotto Caves

It is most memorable for being the location where Bond (played for the first time by Roger Moore) kills Kananga (played by Yaphet Kotto) by forcing him to swallow a bullet of compressed air, causing him to float up to the ceiling like a balloon and explode.

Heart Berkshire

The original parent company, Radio Kennet had won the licence to broadcast as far back as 1974, but plans for the station to float on the London Stock Exchange as soon as it commenced broadcasting failed as it didn't raise enough cash.

Horsley Woodhouse

The prize was split in 2011 between the Stainsby Avenue residents' Circus float, and the Pre-School's Royal Wedding float.

ITV Westcountry

During the summer of 1996, Westcountry prepared to float the company on the stock market, which resulted in HTV, United News & Media, Carlton Communications and Canwest bidding to buyout Westcountry.

Japanese battleship Kongō

In April 1938, two float planes from the Kongō bombed the Chinese town of Foochow during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Kalamazoo Public Library

In 1958, construction began on a new building inspired by Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, a two-story, 1930s-era building near Paris, whose second level seems to float on columns surrounding a recessed ground floor.

La Mariée

Finally, according to producer Duncan Kenworthy, "...we had to agree to destroy it. They were concerned that if our fake was too good, it might float around the market and create problems."

Lambayeque Region

Legend tells that in ancient times, a great float of balsa rafts arrived at the beaches of the existing San José cove.

LGBT culture in Liverpool

Homotopia also represents the gay community with its own float in Liverpool's annual Lord Mayor's Parade, along with other communities in the city.

Lighthouse Pub

But the Complex is also unique as it servers as a transportation hub via its marina to the Sechelt Inlet and its float plane base with regular scheduled flights to Vancouver, Richmond, Nanaimo.

Merrimack, New Hampshire

As a large, suburban community located directly between the state's two largest cities, Manchester and Nashua, Merrimack plays a disproportionate role to its size every four years in the New Hampshire primary; in almost every Fourth of July preceding a presidential election, every presidential candidate will march or have a float in the town's Fourth of July parade.

Mungo Thomson

In 2012 Thompson created a helium-filled copy of a sculpture by Michael Heizer, for an official Fourth of July float for the Aspen Art Museum.

Nahan

Nahan celebrates Bawan Dwadshi towards the end of the monsoon, when fifty-two cult images of local gods are carried in procession to Jagannath temple, where they are floated ceremoniously in a pool and are restored at midnight to their niches.

PFD Otter

PFD Otter is a spokesman and advocate for water safety, who spearheads the "Kids Don't Float" program created in Homer, Alaska.

Plastic bag

Because they float, and resemble a jellyfish, plastic bags pose significant dangers to marine mammals, such as Leatherback sea turtles, when they enter their digestive tract.

Relaxation technique

A technique growing in popularity is flotation therapy, which is the use of a float tank in which a solution of Epsom salt is kept at skin temperature to provide effortless floating.

Robert Gerard

Requiring funds to "repay debt, build new businesses and let the Clipsal brand grow globally", in 2004 the Gerard family "opted to sell its stake to the French company Schneider Electric, as a sharemarket float did not look an attractive option".

Sabellastarte spectabilis

Cilia on the tentacles cause currents in the water and organic particles are caught as they float past.

Sadler 29

If the boat should become full of water she should still float according to the famous Archimedes principle.

Sechelt/Porpoise Bay Water Aerodrome

The Lighthouse Pub Complex also allows private owners of float planes to land their float planes for a small fee.

Share A Dream Come True Parade

Other villains surrounding the float include Jafar from Aladdin, Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians and Ursula from The Little Mermaid.

This float features Mickey Mouse inside a snow globe, with 11 sculpted figures of Mickey from films throughout the years including Steamboat Willie, Brave Little Tailor, Plane Crazy, Mickey and the Beanstalk, Mickey's Christmas Carol and Sorcerer Mickey from Fantasia.

Single-precision floating-point format

However, float in Python, Ruby, PHP, and OCaml and single in versions of Octave prior to 3.2 refer to double-precision numbers.

SpaceShipOne flight 15P

Pilot Mike Melvill opened a bag of M&M's and watched them float around the capsule in free-fall.

SS Catala

Following her grounding, efforts to re-float Catala failed, and the wreck was left to decay at the beach on Damon Point, Washington.

Stanley Portal Hyatt

He and his brother Malcolm worked on that together, and they had a company promoter ready to float it when it was ready.

Surface tension

Surface tension is exposed, for example, any time an object or insect (e.g. water striders) that is denser than water is able to float or run along the water surface.

Surgeon Simulator 2013

Multiple extra modes are available after completion of the early operations, such as performing an operation while inside an ambulance where surgical instruments bounce around at random, and operating in space where the zero-g environment causes all the instruments to free-float.

Sverdrup Gold Medal Award

2008 Dean Roemmich For major contributions to the measurement and understanding of the ocean’s role in climate, and for leading the development and implementation of the Argo profiling float array.

Vietnam Securities Indexes

Vietnam Securities Indexes (formerly CBV Index), Vietnam's first free float market capitalization weighted indexes, are Vietnam's first equity indexes that compose all stocks listed on the two exchanges in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.


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