Alarums and Excursions ( A & E ) is an amateur press association started in June 1975 by Lee Gold ( at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of Dungeons & Dragons was taking up too much space in Apa-L, the APA of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society ).

Notable popular games particularly associated with the Electron include: Crystal Castles ( video game ) | Crystal Castles is an example of a popular arcade game officially ported to the Electron ( US Gold ).

Bowls is played at the Commonwealth Games ; the last being held in Delhi, India, where Natalie Melmore ( England ) and Robert Weale ( Wales ) won the singles Gold Medals.

Boudica's story is the subject of several novels, including books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Roxanne Gregory, Pauline Gedge, Manda Scott, Alan Gold, Diana L. Paxson, David Wishart, George Shipway, Simon Scarrow and J. F. Broxholme ( a pseudonym of Duncan Kyle ).

It is the second most prestigious chase in England, after the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

While presenting the Carnegie Institute's Gold Medal to Beaux in 1899, William Merritt Chase stated " Miss Beaux is not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.

Bondi and Thomas Gold used the Copernican principle to argue for the perfect cosmological principle which maintains that the universe is also homogeneous in time, and is the basis for the steady-state cosmology.

Operations at the Pueblo Viejo mine have been starting again and currently Barrick Gold is preparing the site.

* 1950 – Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.

Baresi is one of six players to have won all three types of World Cup Medals, having won Gold in 1982, Bronze in 1990, and Silver in 1994.

The other five players were from West Germany's squad of 1966 – 1974, and this record is closely followed by a select group of players who have won two of the awards ( either Gold and Silver or Gold and Bronze, or Silver and Bronze ).

David Gold has loaned this trophy to the National Football Museum which is housed in Preston North End's Deepdale Stadium and it is on permanent display to the public.

Gold () is a dense, soft, shiny, malleable and ductile metal.

Gold is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals, a property that has long been used to confirm the presence of gold in items, giving rise to the term the acid test.

" Gold " is cognate with similar words in many Germanic languages, deriving via Proto-Germanic * gulþ from Proto-Indo-European * ghel (" yellow / green ").

Gold is the most malleable and ductile of all metals ; a single gram can be beaten into a sheet of 1 square meter, or an ounce into 300 square feet.

Gold is a good conductor of heat and electricity and reflects infrared radiation strongly.

Gold has only one stable isotope, < sup > 197 </ sup > Au, which is also its only naturally occurring isotope.

Gold has been widely used throughout the world as a vehicle for monetary exchange, either by issuance and recognition of gold coins or other bare metal quantities, or through gold-convertible paper instruments by establishing gold standards in which the total value of issued money is represented in a store of gold reserves.

The Conference Center & Hotel is LEED-certified Gold by the U. S. Green Building Council, and is the only full-service, upscale hotel in Fairfax and near George Mason University.

Although famous throughout California for his association with the Gold Rush, Sutter died almost poor, having seen his business ventures fail while those of his elder son, John Augustus Sutter, Jr., were more successful.

Tourism remains fundamental to Gold Coast City ’ s economy, with almost 10 million visitors a year to the area.

* The hull of the whaling vessel Niantic, an artifact of the 1849 California Gold Rush, lay almost exactly beneath the Transamerica Pyramid, and the location is marked by a historical plaque outside the building ( California Historical Landmark # 88 ).

There is an old coaching Inn on the Epsom Road previously called the ' Sanford Arms ', which almost certainly derives from ' Sand Ford ', so this adds weight to the suggestion that ' Guildford ' is a corruption of ' Gold Ford ', referring to the very distinctive golden sand showing on the banks of the River Wey where it cuts through the sandy outcrop just south of the town.

Unlike that of much of Colorado, which was founded on the mining of gold and silver, the settlement of Larimer County was based almost entirely on agriculture, an industry that few thought possible in the region during the initial days of the Colorado Gold Rush.

These were almost entirely successful ; only an attempt to capture the Dutch castle at Elmina on the Africa's Gold Coast ( modern Ghana ) failed.

Collins tools were used almost exclusively for the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad and axes and picks made their way across the country to be used in the California Gold Rush.

Gold was located within pockets in the gravel, and because the miners could not predict where the pockets were, almost every gravel deposit in the Illinois Valley was mined.

Gold rushes were typically marked by a general buoyant feeling of a " free for all " in income mobility, in which any single individual might become abundantly wealthy almost instantly, as expressed in the California Dream.

Gold coins salvaged from shipwrecks retain almost all of their original appearance, but silver coins slowly corrode.

Velasquez has sold almost five million albums around the world, recorded three Platinum and three Gold albums, and recorded 16 singles that hit No. 1 plus six more that hit the top-10.

Louise Gold ( born 1956 ) is an English singer, actress and puppeteer whose career has spanned almost four decades.

From its first days, the labor force in the Canal Zone ( which was almost entirely publicly employed ) was divided into a Gold Roll, upon which an employee's name was enrolled, and a Silver Roll.

In November 1906, Chief Engineer John Stevens ordered that most blacks on the Gold Roll be placed on a silver roll instead ( a few remained in such roles as teachers and postmasters ); the following month the Canal Commission reported that the 3, 700 Gold Roll employees were " almost all white Americans " and the 13, 000 Silver Roll workers were " mostly aliens ".

According to Gold, the HeLa contamination problem almost led to a Cold War incident: The USSR and the USA had begun to cooperate in the war on cancer launched by President Richard Nixon only to find that the exchanged cells were contaminated by HeLa.

* Percy Lefroy Mapleton, who murdered Isaac Frederick Gold on a train between London and Brighton for his watch and some coins ; Mapleton was arrested almost immediately, but escaped before being arrested again, convicted, and hanged on 29 November 1881.

Larimer's plan to promote his new town worked almost immediately, and by the following spring the western Kansas Territory along the South Platte was swarming with miners digging in river bottoms in what became known as the Colorado Gold Rush.

Soviet Gold, the first autobiographical book written by Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov, is almost entirely a description of the author's life in Magadan and the Kolyma gold fields.

Each Metal Man also possessed abilities that reflected the traits of their namesake metal: Gold could stretch his form almost infinitely, Iron was super strong, Lead could block harmful radiation by morphing into thick shields, Mercury could melt and pass through small spaces before reforming and Platinum could stretch or flatten.

Larson almost had a hit with her remake of " I Only Want to Be With You " (# 53 ) perhaps the least effective track on All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go ; that album was produced by Andrew Gold.

On an earlier occasion, during his efforts to find an antidote to Formula Fourteen in Land of Black Gold, Calculus almost destroyed half of Marlinspike in an explosion.

Gold nanoparticles ( such as AuNPs ) have the benefit of being biocompatible and the flexibility to have multiple different molecules, and fundamental materials, attached to their shell ( almost anything that can normally be attached to gold can be attached to the gold nano-shell, which can be used in helping identifying and treating cancer ).

It sold poorly and took almost thirty years to be accredited with Gold Record status.