Major General Thomas Hardwicke ’ s 1821 presentation of an article titled " Description of a new Genus of the Class Mammalia, from the Himalaya Chain of Hills Between Nepaul and the Snowy Mountains " at the Linnean Society in London is usually regarded as the moment the red panda became a bona fide species in Western science.

* Bown, H. G., O ' Brien, C. D., Sawchuck, W., and Storey J. R. " A General Description of Telidon: A Canadian Proposal for Videotex Systems ", CRC Technical Note No. 697-E, Department of Communications, December 1978

* A General Description of Nova Scotia-1823

* Chapter IV: Description of the General Qualities, Characteristics, Temperaments, Etc., of Women.

* TS 25. 201 Physical Layer – General Description – Describes basic differences between FDD and TDD.

* L298 ) Description of Greece: Volume V. Maps, Plans, Illustrations and General Index

* A General Description of the South Part of Ireland, or Observations during a Short Tour in Ireland ( 1766 )

* Crawfurd, George, p. 159, A General Description of the Shire of Renfrew ( 1818 ) Retrieved November 2010

* General History and Description of the County of Devon, 1850

* General material designation, a component of an International Standard Bibliographic Description used to describe the medium of the item

* First Part: General Description of the National Flag.

* The U. S. General Services Administration Description of UMRA

* Temple of Caesar ( General Description and Photo Gallery )

A General Description of China.

* John Francis Davis, The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and Its Inhabitants ( London: Charles Knight, 1836 ).

* The Stranger in Baltimore: A New Hand Book Containing a General Description of Baltimore City and its Notable Localities, With Other information Useful to Both Citizens and Strangers.

* Weishampel's Baltimore Guide: The Stranger in Baltimore: a New Hand Nook, Containing a General Description of Baltimore with Other Information ( 1888 )

The HP 2100 and Data General Nova had 2 and 4 accumulators.

As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.

When Data General introduced the Data General Nova, a company called Digidyne wanted to use its RDOS operating system on its own hardware clone.

Data General Nova 1200 front panel

The Data General Nova was a popular 16-bit minicomputer built by the American company Data General starting in 1969.

Data General Nova 3

It appears that Data General originally intended the Nova 3 to be the last of its line, planning to replace the Nova with the later Eclipse machines.

Data General also produced a series of single-chip implementations of the Nova processor as the microNOVA.

Data General followed up on the success of the original Nova with a series of faster designs.

As the product grew, Data General developed many languages for the Nova computers, running under a range of consistent operating systems.

pt: Data General Nova

Fortran 5 was a programming language marketed by Data General Corp in the late 1970s and early 1980s, for the Nova, Eclipse, and MV line of computers.

MUMPS was developed with the support of a government research grant, and so MUMPS was released to the public domain ( no longer a requirement for grants ), and was soon ported to a number of other systems including the popular DEC PDP-8, the Data General Nova and the DEC PDP-11 and the Artronix PC12 minicomputer.

It is reported that Edson de Castro, who had been a key member of the design team, left to form Data General when his design for a 16-bit successor to the PDP-8 was rejected in favour of the PDP-11 ; the " PDP-X " did not resemble the Data General Nova, although that is a common myth.

In the mid-1980s, The Victoria General Hospital, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, introduced paramedic triage in its Emergency Department.

For the task, Prime Minister Stephen Harper convened a special search group — the Governor General Consultation Committee — which consisted of Sheila-Marie Cook, secretary to the Governor General ( the chairperson ); Canadian Secretary to the Queen and Usher of the Black Rod Kevin MacLeod ; Christopher Manfredi, dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University ; Rainer Knopff, a political scientist at the University of Calgary ; Father Jacques Monet, of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies ; and Christopher McCreery, historian and private secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

For example, most Data General Nova, IBM 1130, and many Apple II computers had only 4 K words of RAM installed.

The Supreme Court of Canada developed the concept of public interest standing in three constitutional cases commonly called " the Standing trilogy ": Thorson v. Canada ( Attorney General ), Nova Scotia Board of Censors v. McNeil, and Minister of Justice v. Borowski.

Software on fanfold paper tape for the Data General Nova minicomputer.

The first production X-ray CT machine ( in fact called the " EMI-Scanner ") was limited to making tomographic sections of the brain, but acquired the image data in about 4 minutes ( scanning two adjacent slices ), and the computation time ( using a Data General Nova minicomputer ) was about 7 minutes per picture.

Category: General Service Areas in Nova Scotia

Several places are named for him: Amherstburg, Ontario ( location of General Amherst High School ), Amherst, Massachusetts ( location of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Amherst College ), Amherst, New Hampshire, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Amherst, New York, and Amherst County, Virginia.

Ministerial responsibility was granted by Governor General Lord Elgin in 1848, first to Nova Scotia and then to Canada.

The first Canadian flag was that then used as the Flag of the Governor General of Canada, a Royal Union Flag with a shield in the centre bearing the quartered arms of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick surrounded by a wreath of maple leaves.

This placement threatened the British fleet in Boston Harbor and forced General Howe to withdraw all his forces from the Boston garrison and sail for Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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* Nova Scotia-Registrar General Dvision of Vital Statistics ( Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations )

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Category: General Service Areas in Nova Scotia

Category: General Service Areas in Nova Scotia

In the same year, the Governor General also travelled to Nova Scotia to survey the damage caused by the Halifax Explosion on 6 December ; there he met with survivors and addressed the women of the Voluntary Aid Detachment.

Archibald was re-elected in 1855, and was appointed Solicitor General of Nova Scotia on August 14, 1856.

Appointed to the Nova Scotia legislative council as Solicitor General in 1864, he was a delegate to the London Conference on Canadian Confederation and as such is considered one of the Fathers of Confederation.

Category: General Service Areas in Nova Scotia

The name Amherst was established in 1853 by Adam Uline, after General Amherst of Revolutionary fame and the fact he was native of Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Category: General Service Areas in Nova Scotia

* General Service Area, a zoning term in Nova Scotia

Category: General Service Areas in Nova Scotia

Category: General Service Areas in Nova Scotia

British General William Howe, after evacuating Boston in March 1776, regrouped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and embarked in June on a campaign to gain control of New York City.

* 22nd General Assembly of Nova Scotia