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Group captain is a senior commissioned rank which originated in and continues to be used by the British Royal Air Force. It has a NATO ranking code of OF-5, and is equivalent to a captain in the Royal Navy or a colonel in the British Army or the Royal Marines. The name of the rank is the complete phrase, and is never shortened to “captain”.
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The Mora tree of the tropical Americas is a hardwood that produces both timber and food. The fruit of the tree resembles mulberry and can be cooked and eaten, and the wood, called nato, is highly prized for guitar body and neck construction.
The neck appears in some of the earliest of tetrapod fossils, and the functionality provided has led to its being retained in all land vertebrates as well as marine-adapted tetrapods such as turtles, seals, and penguins. Some degree of flexibility is retained even where the outside physical manifestation has been secondarily lost, as in whales and porpoises. A morphologically functioning neck also appears among insects. Its absence in fish and aquatic arthropods is notable, as many have life stations similar to a terrestrial or tetrapod counterpart, or could otherwise make use of the added flexibility.
The most recent film that is missing from the British Film Institute’s library, and believed lost, is the 1971 picture “Nobody Ordered Love”. Following poor promotion and a critical panning, director Robert Hartford-Davis reportedly took back all prints and ordered them to be destroyed after his death, which occurred six years later.
A long, slender neck is considered a mark of beauty in a number of cultures. In the 18th century Scottish song, a lover praises the beautiful “Annie Laurie”: “her neck is like the swan”. The women of the Kayan people of Burma elongate their necks by wearing heavy metal coils that push down their clavicles and compress their rib cages.
A documentary film, “Silent Hopes”, about a group of Kayan who were placed in a village accessible to tourists who wanted to see the “Long Neck” people is available on Vimeo.
The Long Necks are one of the species of dinosaurs in the Land Before Time series of movies and videos.
Birds are now recognized as being the sole surviving lineage of theropod dinosaurs. In traditional taxonomy, birds were considered a separate class that had evolved from dinosaurs, a distinct superorder. However, a majority of contemporary paleontologists concerned with dinosaurs reject the traditional style of classification in favor of phylogenetic taxonomy; this approach requires that, for a group to be natural, all descendants of members of the group must be included in the group as well. Birds are thus considered to be dinosaurs and dinosaurs are, therefore, not extinct. Birds are classified as belonging to the subgroup Maniraptora, which are coelurosaurs, which are theropods, which are saurischians, which are dinosaurs.
Theropods are a group of saurischian dinosaurs. Saurischia and Ornithischia are the two basic divisions of dinosaurs, based on their hip structures - ischion means hip joint, and sauros means lizard and ornitheos means of a bird. Birds are members of the saurischian, or “lizard-hipped”, dinosaurs. All carnivorous dinosaurs, which are certain types of theropods, are saurischians, as are all birds. All saurischians except the birds became extinct in the course of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
The loon is a bird which can fly, but cannot walk. To move about on land (which it does as little as possible), it lies on its belly and pushes itself along with its feet.
The common loon is one of the worst offenders in misplaced audio tracks in movies. Every picture that takes place in a southern swamp has the sound effect of a looon calling. But loons do not occur in the southern US except during migration, when they are silent. Blame the Foley editor, who creates the background in the sound track for movies. Besides the common loon of the north weoods, there are four other species of loons that occur as migrants on the west coast of North America.
When Canada got rid of the one dollar note and went to a dollar coin, the plan was to use the same image for the reverse as had long been used on the silver dollar: a canoe scene from the fur trade days.
However, when the master dies for the new coin were sent from Ottawa to the mint in Winnipeg, they were lost in transit and have never been recovered.
Worried that someone had obtained the dies to counterfeit the dollar coin, the Mint brought in a new design, with the loon on the reverse.
And so the loonie was born.
On May 12, 1885, in the Battle of Batoche, the Provisional Government of Saskatchewan was defeated, leading to the end of the North-West Rebellion. Cree fighters allied with the insurrectionist Métis held out the longest, being led by Big Bear. They fought off Canadian troops pursuing them in the Battle of Frenchman’s Butte and Battle of Loon Lake. Then, gradually dwindling in number, they stayed on the move until Big Bear turned himself in to Mounties at Fort Carlton in early July.
Several bright galaxies are found in the Ursa Major (Great Bear) constellation. Among these is I Zwicky 18, a young dwarf galaxy at a distance of 45 million light-years. The youngest-known galaxy in the visible universe, I Zwicky 18 is about 4 million years old, about one-thousandth the age of the Solar System. It is filled with star forming regions which are creating many hot, young, blue stars at a very high rate.
On March 5, 1616, the Roman Catholic Church banned Nicolaus Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, which outlined his theory of a heliocentric Solar System.
Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, was Catholic and the first book ever printed was the Catholic Bible.
Gutenberg! The Musical! is a musical written by Scott Brown and Anthony King. Brown and King developed the show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. In the play-within-a-play, Johann Gutenberg is a wine presser in the medieval German town of Schlimer, a happy and cheery place except for the fact that the town is horribly dirty and depressing and no one except Gutenberg can read. Intent on saving the townspeople from their own ignorance, Gutenberg turns his wine press into a printing press (he accomplishes this in one night). His beautiful (but dim) assistant Helvetica is in love with him, but Gutenberg is unaware of her feelings. Meanwhile, the show’s villain, Monk, an evil monk who worships Satan, attempts to keep ignorance alive so he can control the townspeople through inaccurate readings of the bible and seeks to destroy the printing press. The inept show-within-a-show parodies various musical theater conventions, such as the cheery opening number, a high-octane rock song for the act one finale, kicklines, emotional ballads and an irrelevant “charm song” about biscuits sung by two supporting characters.
Like many neo-grotesque designs, Helvetica has narrow apertures, which limit its legibility onscreen and at small print sizes. It also has no visible difference between upper-case ‘i’ and lower-case ‘L’, although the number 1 is quite identifiable with its flag at top left. Its tight, display-oriented spacing may also pose problems for legibility. In situations where this matters, other designs intended for legibility at small sizes above all, such as Verdana, Meta or Trebuchet or a monospace font such as Courier, which makes all letters quite wide, may be more appropriate.
Grotesque comes from Italian for “from a cave”. Think grotto.
Fact check: The Bible was not Gutenberg’s first work. Preparation of the Bible probably began soon after 1450, and the first finished copies were available in 1454 or 1455. It is not known exactly how long the Bible took to print. The first precisely datable printing is the Gutenberg’s 31-line Indulgence which is known to already exist on 22 October 1454. – fro,m Wiki
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Grotesque comes from Italian for “from a cave”. Think grotto.