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3 unusual facts about spice


Bruce R. Davis

In 1988, he developed SUGAR—a circuit analysis simulation tool named in allusion to University of California Berkeley's software called SPICE.

Donald Pederson

Donald O. Pederson (September 30, 1925 – December 25, 2004) was an American professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the designers of SPICE, the canonical integrated circuit simulator.

Hermann Gummel

Among the most important of his contributions are the Gummel–Poon model which made accurate simulation of bipolar transisors possible and which was central to the development of the SPICE program; Gummel's method, used to solve the equations for the detailed behavior of individual bipolar transistors,; and the Gummel plot, used to characterize bipolar transistors.


Abe Anellis

Anellis attended Crane Technical College in Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning his tuition and living expenses working in a spice factory and as an usher at the Chicago Civic Opera.

Armpit fetishism

The French novelist Huysmans wrote an essay 'Le Gousset' on the various smells of what he called the "spice-boxes" that were women's armpits.

B. nigra

Brassica nigra, the black mustard, an annual weedy plant cultivated for its seeds, which are commonly used as a spice

Bishop's weed

Trachyspermum ammi, seed of which is used as a spice (often called Ajwain) in parts of Asia and Africa

Bolwarra

Eupomatia laurina, a shrub originating from Australia and New Guinea, providing an Australian spice.

Brassica nigra

In Ethiopia, where it is cultivated as a vegetable in Gondar, Harar and Shewa, the shoots and leaves are consumed cooked and the seeds used as a spice.

Criminal Activity

One song, "Boss Up", was previously released on the Spice 1 compilation, The Playa Rich Project.

Electrical network

More complex circuits can be analyzed numerically with software such as SPICE or GNUCAP, or symbolically using software such as SapWin.

FAS Premier League

In 1994, in a bid to add some spice to the Premier League and generate increased fan interest, two teams from Australia were invited to participate – the Perth Kangaroos and the Darwin Cubs.

Gato Eveready

Later on his ring name was changed to "Jimmy Boy" and he was teamed up with Billy and Vangelis to form a Boy band inspired group called Los Spice Boys.

Giannetto De Rossi

De Rossi was next called by Dino De Laurentiis to work with Carlo Rambaldi to create the on-set practical effects for two films in Mexico including the sci fi blockbuster Dune, for which he worked wonders, creating the fetus-shaped Spice Guild Navigator seen floating in a tank.

Gordon Spice

Gordon Spice(born 18 April 1940), is an ex British racing driver who competed in both sports cars and Touring Car racing in the 1960s and 1970s before starting Spice Engineering with fellow racing driver Ray Bellm in the 1980s.

International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East

In an interview published in 2009, physicist Herman Winick noted the name SESAME was coined to refer to door opener, the spice, and the children's television show, and the meaning Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East formulated to match the acronym.

Koprivnica-Križevci County

Koprivnica developed significantly in the 20th century with the advent of the Podravka food industry, and is known worldwide for its Vegeta spice.

Korean Chinese cuisine

--What exact kind of noodles are these?--> shredded five-spice marinated beef or pork (五香醬肉), cucumber, crab stick, jellyfish, and a fried egg in a cold chicken broth seasoned with soy sauce and various spices.

Lando Calrissian

When Kessel is abandoned following Admiral Daala's attack on the planet in Darksaber, Calrissian takes over the planet, converts its prison into a mining complex, and mines spice from the planet for a number of years.

Martin Creek

Schilling Lake is named for August Schilling, the “King of Spice”, who founded A. Schilling & Company in San Francisco in 1881.

Michelle Stephenson

In 2007, after The Spice Girls reformed, the documentary of Spice Girls return Victoria Beckham stated that Stephenson never fitted into the group.

Nury Vittachi

Vittachi started his journalism career on Morning Telegraph in Sheffield in the north of England before moving to London's Fleet Street, then to Hong Kong, where he wrote the gossip columns "Lai See" (see red envelope) and "Spice Trader" for the South China Morning Post until 1997.

Pachamanca

Pachamanca is a traditional Peruvian dish based on the baking, with the aid of hot stones (the earthen oven is known as a huatia), of lamb, mutton, pork, chicken or guinea pig, marinated in spices.

Paul Colton

He is now perhaps best known for being the priest who officiated at the wedding of footballer David Beckham and Spice girl Victoria Adams on July 4, 1999 at the medieval Luttrellstown Castle on the outskirts of Dublin.

Peermade

At a recent show spice growers from Peermade displayed samples of organically grown spices like cardamom, black pepper, white pepper, nutmeg, mace, cloves, turmeric, ginger, vanilla beans, vanilla powder and herbs like oregano, sage, thyme and rosemary.

Piper guineense

Though known in Europe during the Middle Ages (it was a common spice in Rouen and Dieppe in 14th Century France), these days, its use is marginalized to West and Central Africa.

PSpice

PSpice was the first version of UC Berkeley SPICE available on a PC, having been released in January 1984 to run on the original IBM PC.

Rosa 'Spice Twice'

Rosa 'Spice Twice' is an orange Hybrid tea rose.

Scott Firth

Firth has previously played with The Spice Girls on their Return of the Spice Girls Tour, as well as Melanie C, Joan Armatrading, Morcheeba, Steve Winwood, John Martyn, Little Axe, Ruby, Toni Braxton, Elvis Costello, Mari Wilson, Julia Fordham and Sarah Jane Morris

Seasoned salt

Chip spice is also another variation, which originated in Kingston upon Hull and mainly contains salt and spices (such as paprika) but also contains tomato powder.

Spice and the Devil's Cave

The setting is Lisbon, Portugal in the late 1490s, as Vasco de Gama, Bartholomew Diaz, and Ferdinand Magellan discuss their plans to find the elusive sea route around the Cape of Good Hope, which would enable Portugal to access the spice-rich countries of the Far East.

Spice Engineering

Spice Engineering was a British racing team founded by driver Gordon Spice with his brother Derek Spice in the early 1980s, later becoming a successful sports car constructor in 1986.

Spice Global

In 2009, a bid between Virgin Mobile and Spice Global was held for the 3G contract of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited.

Spice Islands

Grenada, also known as the Island of Spice or the Spice Isle

Stefani Hid

After the publication of her first novel, she has been written some short stories which has been published in newspapers, magazines and journals: Jurnal Prosa, Koran Tempo, Suara Merdeka, Media Indonesia, Spice! and Matra.

Steven Anthony Lawrence

His most recent television appearances were in 2011 as a pink elf in the T-Mobile holiday commercial and in 2012 in a dog costume for an Old Spice commercial.

Sultanate of Tidore

Sultanate of Tidore (Indonesian: Kesultanan Tidore, sometimes Kerajaan Tidore) was a sultanate in Southeast Asia, centered on the Spice Islands of Tidore, a rival of Sultanate of Ternate for control of the spice trade.

The Island Princess

Several small independent states in the region, notably the islands of Tidore and Ternate, controlled much of the spice production of the region, and constituted a tempting target of European greed and ambition.

During the 16th century, the first Europeans in East Asia — the Spanish, from their colony of the Philippines, and the Portuguese, operating out of their base in Malacca (conquered in 1511) — sought trading rights and influence in the Spice Islands, the modern Moluccas or Maluku Islands.

The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

The original ad, entitled "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" was directed by Tom Kuntz, and features Mustafa reciting a monologue about how "anything is possible" if a man uses Old Spice.

The Spice-Box of Earth

Following The Spice-Box of Earth, Cohen retreated for several years to the treeless Argolic island of Hydra in Greece, where he began work on the more angular, abrasive poems collected in Flowers for Hitler in 1964.

Tom Baruch

While at CMEA, Tom led investments including major IPO's and significant liquidity events for Aclara Biosciences, which merged with Monogram Biosciences (MRGM); Netro (NTRO); Entropic Communications, Inc. (ENTR); Flextronics (FLEX); Symyx Technologies (SMMX); Silicon Spice, acquired by Broadcom (BRCM); Codexis, Inc (CDXS), and Intermolecular (IMI).

Tom McCleister

In 2004 he portrayed a lawyer in Clint Eastwood's Academy Award winning drama Million Dollar Baby, in which fellow Star Trek performers Lucia Rijker, Benito Martinez, Jamison Yang, Miguel Perez, Marco Rodriguez, Spice Williams-Crosby, Jude Ciccolella, Rosine "Ace" Hatem, Bridgett Riley, and Boni Yanagisawa also appeared.

Za'atar

According to Ignace J. Gelb, an Akkadian language word that can be read sarsar may refer to a spice plant.

Written history lacks an early definitive reference to za'atar as a spice mixture, though unidentified terms in the Yale Babylonian Collection may be references to spice blends.


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