The Romans introduced a number of species to Britain, including possibly the now rare Roman nettle ( Urtica pilulifera ), said to have been used by soldiers to warm their arms and legs, and the edible snail Helix pomatia.

Helix pomatia, a species of land snail.

In certain species, such as Helix pomatia, this barrier is reinforced with calcium carbonate, and thus it superficially resembles an operculum, except that it has a tiny hole to allow some oxygen exchange.

The upper pair of tentacle s on the head of Helix pomatia have eye spots, but the main sensory organs of the snail are sensory receptors for olfaction, situated in the epithelium of the tentacles.

The best-known species include Helix aspersa, the common, or brown garden snail, and Helix pomatia, the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, or edible snail.

* Helix pomatia Linnaeus, 1758-Burgundy Snail, Roman Snail, Edible Snail

It was only in the early 1900s that the genus was split up into many separate genera, leaving only some 30 species closely related to its type species Helix pomatia in the genus Helix.

Burgundy Snail ( Helix pomatia )

In France, the species Helix pomatia is most often eaten.

Examples of Pulmonata: Achatina fulica top right, Bielzia coerulans top left, Praticolella berlandieriana center right, Megalobulimus oblongus in the center, Euglandina rosea center left, Helix pomatia bottom right & Ashmunella levettei bottom left

Alien influences have also, for example, trapped the Doctor's TARDIS and drained its power in " The Web Planet " ( 1965 ) and " Death to the Daleks " ( 1974 ), while its course has been diverted by " The Keeper of Traken " ( 1981 ), the " Mandragora Helix " ( 1976 ) and by the Daleks ' " time corridor " in " Resurrection of the Daleks " ( 1984 ).

Based on its success, Raven Software and Activision later published Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix in 2002, based on the Quake III: Team Arena engine.

The CDP gets its name from the neighborhood of Casa de Oro, which straddles the line between Spring Valley and unincorporated El Cajon, and Mount Helix, a prominent hill in La Mesa.

After studying the captured ship and its controls, Archer and Tucker pilot it to the Helix.

From 1995 to 1997, he was half of a partnership known as Malicious Press ( with screenwriter Terry Rossio ), which published Deathrealm magazine, edited by Stephen Mark Rainey and he was the managing editor of the webzine Helix SF for its entire run of ten quarterly issues.

Higher powered Helix TWTs usually contain beryllium oxide ceramic as both a helix support rod and in some cases, as an electron collector for the TWT because of its special electrical, mechanical, and thermal properties.

Helix uses a graphical " programming language " to add logic to its applications, allowing non-programmers to construct sophisticated applications.

It was purchased in 2004 by two of the people who were running its day-to-day operations, Gil Numeroff and Matt Strange, with financial backing from a unnamed businessman and long-time Helix user, forming a new company: QSA ToolWorks.

Although quite adept at handling small to mid-size databases, a common problem for Helix is that for much of its lifetime, it has run only in the co-operative multitasking environment of the Classic Mac OS, making it rather unstable for large databases.

QSA released an OS X version of its Helix Server in December 2005 and is rolling out the rest of its product line in OS X versions in 2006 and 2007.

All languages face this problem, but Helix once again softens the difficulty in tracking down the problems due to its object-based and graphical nature.

Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the developers Double Helix Games had planned to include the line " Porkchop Sandwiches " from one of Fensler's film as an exclamation, and had every voice actor record that line for its use.

A 1980 Norton Critical Edition of The Double Helix edited by Gunther Stent, analyzed the events surrounding its initial publication.

In 1998, the Modern Library placed The Double Helix at number 7 on its list of the 20th century's best works of non-fiction ..

When Helix Code changed its name to Ximian, the name of the project was also changed to Ximian Setup Tools.

Apart from this, each department conducts its own festivals, some of them being Helix ( Department of Biotechnology ), Iota ( Department of Computer Science ), Infinity ( Department of Information Science and Engineering ), Impulse ( Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering ), Vortex ( Department of Mechanical Engineering ), Vantage ( Department of Instrumentation Technology ), Exceptions ( Department of Master of Computer Applications ) and Connect ( Department of Telecommunication Engineering ).

* DC: She has worked on several limited series for DC Comics under its main imprint and their Vertigo Comics and Helix imprints.

Based on its success, initially released for Windows, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix was later ported to the Xbox.

In the temple, the Helix manifests itself as a pillar of red light and tells the purple-robed figure that he alone will be given undreamed-of powers to carry out its will on Earth and become the planet's supreme ruler.

The similarity in names was no coincidence — the Mandragora Helix had contacted Stranks and used him to produce Mandrake, which sapped the will of its users, making them susceptible to the Helix's influence.

The aperture is descending or deflected, when it does not follow the spiral of the shell, but turns downwards ( such as in Helix ).

Helix Bridge at Paddington Basin, London is a more unusual example of the type, consisting of a glass shell supported in a helical steel frame, which rotates as it retracts.

* Helix ( 1996 – 1998 ; merged with Vertigo )

In 1999, de Icaza, along with Nat Friedman, co-founded Helix Code, a GNOME-oriented free software company that employed a large number of other GNOME hackers.

In 2001, Helix Code, later renamed Ximian, announced the Mono Project, to be led by de Icaza, with the goal to implement Microsoft's new. NET development platform on Linux and Unix-like platforms.

Ślimak Getyński ( Goettingen Helix, German: Goettingen Schnecke ) is one of the lanes connecting Piłsudski Bridge / John Paul II Avenue with Philadelphia Boulevard at their downtown interchange.

According to https :// helixcommunity. org, 350 million mobile phones with the Helix client have been shipped since 2004.

There is also an add-on package for Helix DNA Producer SDK with AAC or aacPlus encoding support.

Lincoln Tunnel Helix and toll plaza circa 1955, with the south tube under constructionWith the creation of the Interstate Highway System in 1956, the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel was planned to become an Interstate highway along with present-day Route 3, which itself was not included in the Interstate Highway System because New Jersey thought it would be too expensive to bring it up to Interstate Highway standards.

* The PlayStation title Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix deals heavily with the myths of the emperor's tomb, and The Eight Immortals.

It also currently offers the Helix and Inno, which are self-contained and can play both live XM and recorded content with no external antennas.

This service is being integrated with XM Online and the new MP3 capable XM receivers, such as the Pioneer Inno or the Samsung Helix.

The Helix Nebula is thought to be shaped like a prolate spheroid with strong density concentrations toward the filled disk along the equatorial plane, whose major axis is inclined about 21 ° to 37 ° from our vantage point.

For example, " Blood of Sanguinius " is administered to the Blood Angels only ; and the Space Wolves are the only Space Marines with Canis Helix implants.

* Robert Olby ; " The Path to The Double Helix: Discovery of DNA "; first published in October 1974 by MacMillan, with foreword by Francis Crick ; ISBN 0-486-68117-3 ; the definitive DNA textbook, revised in 1994, with a 9 page postscript.

It later merged with The Collective, Inc. to form Double Helix Games in October 2007.

Given that the program was really a completely new Mac-only system, it had to compete with other Mac-only database systems like 4th Dimension, Helix and FileMaker.

Before the introduction of Harmony this was not possible, because the RealPlayer Music Store uses a different DRM scheme, called Helix DRM, that was incompatible with that used by Apple.

Soon to be a feature of the town is the Falkirk Helix, a new recreational area with walk and cycle paths with the main attraction being a new boat lift and extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal.

At the beginning in the mid-1700s the generic name Helix had been used for almost all terrestrial gastropods, later this was restricted to species with helicoid habitus, including zonitids and other groups.

It was assumed that users would add a second floppy for any sort of real-world use, with the OS and Helix on one floppy, and data on another.