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; and Near
Near the bottom of the picture, a squiggly line appears ; apparently, a stream | creek created by recent rain.
Many myths, particularly from the Near East, feature a god who dies and is resurrected ; this figure is sometimes called the " dying god ".
* 10 Metropolises, out of which 7 Metropolises are in Egypt, 1 Metropolis in the Near East and 2 Metropolises are in Europe ; served by 4 Metropolitan Archbishops and 4 Metropolitan Bishops, while 2 Metropolis remain vacant ; out of the 8 Hierarchs, 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in the Near East, 2 in Metropolitan Archbishops are in Egypt and 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in The United Kingdom, while all 4 Metropolitan Bishops are in Egypt.
Near La Libertad, however, the mass of the mountains push the lowlands out ; the slopes of adjacent volcanoes come down directly to the ocean.
The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.
Unlike other ancient Near Eastern gods, the Hebrew God is portrayed as unitary and solitary ; consequently, the Hebrew God's principal relationships are not with other gods, but with the world, and more specifically, with the people He created.
Jordan is situated geographically in Southwest Asia, south of Syria, west of Iraq northwest of Saudi Arabia and east of Israel and the West Bank ; politically, the area has also been referred to in the West as the Middle or Near East.
As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities ; Near Eastern Antiquities ; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities ; Islamic Art ; Sculpture ; Decorative Arts ; Paintings ; Prints and Drawings.
Near Port Stanley, there is an Indian village dating from the 16th century known as the Southwold Earthworks where as many as 800 Neutral Indians once lived ; the archaeological remains include double earth walls winding around the grass – covered perimeter.
* 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne ; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
Possibly smallpox brought to the Italian peninsula by soldiers returning from the Near East ; it killed a quarter of those infected, and up to five million in all.
* Near instant point-to-point teleportation is possible with transfer booths ( on Earth ) and stepping disks ( on the Puppeteer homeworld ); on Earth, people's sense of place and global position has been lost due to instantaneous travel ; cities and cultures have blended together.
Near contemporary illustration of the battle of Lincoln ( 1141 ) | battle of Lincoln ; Stephen ( fourth from the right ) is listening to Baldwin of Clare orating a battle speech ( left ).
; Europe and Near East
Riegl traced formalistic continuity and development in decorative plant forms from Ancient Egyptian art and other ancient Near Eastern civilizations through the classical world to the Islamic arabesque ; while the Kunstwollen has few followers today, his basic analysis of the development of forms has been confirmed and refined by the wider corpus of examples known today.
Proso millet appears to have reached Europe not long after its appearance in Georgia, first appearing in east and central Europe ; however, the grain needed a few thousand more years to cross into Italy, Greece, and Iran, and the earliest evidence for its cultivation in the Near East is a find in the ruins of Nimrud, Iraq dated to about 700 BC.

; and Infrared
Note: A paper written by Col. Andrew Milani ( Former commander of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ) and Dr. Stephen D. Biddle entitled " Pitfalls of Technology: A Case Study of the battle of Takur Ghar " noted that the Predator was on station 90 minutes after Roberts had fallen ; the images that were shot before the Predator had arrived were shot by GRIM-32's Infrared Cameras.
The scan platform comprises: the Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer ( IRIS ) ( largest camera at top right ); the Ultraviolet Spectrometer ( UVS ) just above the UVS ; the two Imaging Science Subsystem ( ISS ) vidicon cameras to the left of the UVS ; and the Photopolarimeter System ( PPS ) under the ISS.
This dependence on the polarizability differs from Infrared spectroscopy where the interaction between the molecule and light is determined by the dipole moment ; this contrasting feature allows to analyze transitions that might not be IR active via Raman spectroscopy, as exemplified by the rule of mutual exclusion in centrosymmetric molecules.
; Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph ( MOIRCS ): Wide-field camera and spectrograph with the ability to take spectra of multiple objects simultaneously, mounts on the Cassegrain focus.
; Infrared Camera and Spectrograph ( IRCS ): Used in conjunction with the new 188-element adaptive optics unit ( AO188 ), mounted at the infrared Nasmyth focus.
; Cooled Mid Infrared Camera and Spectrometer ( COMICS ): Mid-infrared camera and spectrometer with the ability to study cool interstellar dust, mounts on the Cassegrain focus.
; Fiber Multi Object Spectrograph ( FMOS ): Infrared spectrograph using movable fiber optics to take spectra of up to 400 objects simultaneously.
; High-Contrast Coronographic Imager for Adaptive Optics ( HiCIAO ): Infrared camera for hunting planets around other stars.
; NIRC-2: The second generation Near Infrared Camera works with the Keck Adaptive Optics system to produce the highest-resolution ground-based images and spectroscopy in the 1 – 5 micrometers ( µm ) range.
; NIRSPEC: The Near Infrared Spectrometer studies very high redshift radio galaxies, the motions and types of stars located near the Galactic Center, the nature of brown dwarfs, the nuclear regions of dusty starburst galaxies, active galactic nuclei, interstellar chemistry, stellar physics, and Solar System science.
; OSIRIS: The OH-Suppressing Infrared Imaging Spectrograph is a near-infrared spectrograph for use with the Keck II adaptive optics system.
* Communication Protocol ( s ): Serial Transfers: Kermit ( protocol ) or Xmodem ; Infrared Transfers: proprietary
; OMEGA: The Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer ( OMEGA ) was designed to map Mars surface compisition of igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, soils, frosts, and ices.
Unclassified payload included Air Force Program-675 ( AFP675 ); Infrared Background Signature Survey ( IBSS ) with Critical Ionization Velocity ( CIV ), Chemical Release Observation ( CRO ) and Shuttle Pallet Satellite-II ( SPAS-II ) experiments ; and Space Test Payload-1 ( STP-1 ).
The top of the phone is occupied by the earpiece, antenna, SDIO / MMC slot ; in front of the slot is the Infrared port with the power button which can be used to turn off the screen, or, if held down for a few seconds can turn off the radio functions.
* NICS (" Near Infrared Camera and Spectrometer "), camera and spectrograph for observations in the near-infrared ;
; HIFI ( Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared ): A heterodyne detector which is able to electronically separate radiation of different wavelengths, giving a spectral resolution as high as R = 10 < sup > 7 </ sup >.
Infrared has significant limitations ; one being that it is line of sight only ; there had to be a clear space between the IR port and the controller.
; Infrared Tracking Scope: KITT could monitor the position of specific vehicles in the area within 10 miles.
; Infrared Scanner: The Infrared Scanner was a device with which the Knight 4000 could scan on an Infrared level, which would identify laser scope rifles as well as hidden objects giving off heat.

; and Camera
'" Towards the end of the same essay, Vertov mentions an upcoming project which seems likely to be Man with the Movie Camera, calling it an " experimental film " made without a scenario ; just three paragraphs above, Vertov mentions a scene from " Kino Pravda " which should be quite familiar to viewers of Man with the Movie Camera: the peasant works, and so does the urban woman, and so too, the woman film editor selecting the negative ...."
Allen Funt, the creator and host of the American version of the television show Candid Camera, was a collector of Alma-Tadema paintings at a time when the artist's reputation in the 20th century was at its nadir ; in a relatively few years he bought 35 works, about 10 % of Alma-Tadema's output.
In addition, a survey of nearby stars by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera was completed in 1999, including a search for faint companions to Tau Ceti ; none were discovered to limits of the telescope's resolving power.
The concept of the speed camera can be dated back to at least 1905 ; Popular Mechanics reports on a patent for a " Time Recording Camera for Trapping Motorists " that enabled the operator to take time-stamped images of a vehicle moving across the start and endpoints of a measured section of road.
Camera magazines were changed off the stage so that there was no chance the snow could get into the film ; crewmembers found the snow in their socks for weeks afterwards.
Vincent Canby called the film " consistently imaginative " and a " spectacle is indeed spectacular and worth the admission price and patches of boredom "; he said the " major credit must go to Giuseppi Rotunno, the cameraman ; Dante Ferretti, the production designer ; Richard Conway, who did the special effects, and Peerless Camera Company Ltd., responsible for the optical effects.
; Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph ( FOCAS ): Visible-light camera and spectrograph with the ability to take spectra of up to 100 objects simultaneously, mounts on the Cassegrain focus.
; Subaru Prime Focus Camera ( Suprime-Cam ): 80-megapixel wide-field visible-light camera, mounts at the prime focus.
Mamiya 645 Super and its possible configurations1 – Camera body ; 2 – Lenses ; 3 – Focusing screens ; 4 – Power drive ; 5 – Wind-up crank ; 6 – Metered prism finder ; 7 – Prism finder ; 8 – Waist level finder ; 9 – 120 roll film holder loaded with a film X ; 10 – 120 roll film holder loaded with a film Y ; 11 – 220 roll film holder, 35 mm roll film holder, Polaroid land pack film holder, digital back ( only for more recent models ), etc.
Secondary payloads: IMAX Cargo Bay Camera ( ICBC ) to document operations outside crew cabin and hand-held IMAX camera for use inside crew cabin ; Ascent Particle Monitor ( APM ) to detect particulate matter in payload bay ; Protein Crystal Growth ( PCG ) to provide data on growing protein crystals in microgravity ; Radiation Monitoring Equipment III ( RME III ) to measure gamma ray levels in crew cabin ; Investigations into Polymer Membrane Processing ( IPMP ) to determine porosity control in microgravity environment ; Shuttle Student involvement program ( SSIP ) experiment to study effects of near-weightlessness on electrical arcs, and Air Force Maui Optical Site ( AMOS ) experiment.

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