The most commonly found implementation is a Risley prism pair.

In terms of the local area, it borders Culcheth to the east, Lowton ( which is in Greater Manchester ) to the north, Winwick to the west and Risley to the south.

* Wriothesley is a character in Hilary Mantel's series of novels on Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, nicknamed Call-Me Risley ( for the correct pronunciation of the family name ).

The area east of Birchwood is mainly birch forests and Risley Moss, part of the Mersey Forest.

Risley Moss is a site of special scientific interest.

The bulk of Birchwood is built on the site of the former ROF Risley Royal Ordnance Factory, with Birchwood Forest Park lying in the centre, in which the old bunkers from the factory form part of the landscape.

" The surface, at a distance, looks black and dirty, and will bear neither horse nor man ….. What nature meant by such a useless production ‘ tis hard to imagine, but the land is entirely to waste " are the words of Daniel Defoe as he rode through Risley in 1724.

It is a relatively large district with a shop, public house ( The Turf and Feather ), takeaway shop, primary school ( Locking Stumps Community Primary School ), and a modern church ( The Thomas Risley United Reformed Church ).

Risley Moss is an area of peat bog situated near Birchwood in Warrington, England.

Risley Moss is one of only two mosses in Cheshire where the water level has been deliberately raised in an attempt to encourage the regeneration of an active bog surface.

Risley Moss, together with Astley and Bedford Mosses and Holcroft Moss, is also a European Union designated Special Area of Conservation, known as Manchester Mosses.

The main feature of Risley Moss is the large peat bog flats, overlooked by two observation points: a large watchtower, ideal for bird watching, and a smaller lookout.

Sandiacre is neighboured by Long Eaton to the south and Risley to the west.

Couch juggling ( also called foot-juggling, antipodism or Risley ) is a stunt in which one lies on one's back, balancing an upended sofa on the soles of one's feet.

The series is directed by Mark Risley and Jim Schumann.

For example, like Risley, Atwood is the daughter of an entomologist.

A Risley is any circus acrobalance posture where the base is lying down on their back, supporting one or more flyers with their hands, feet and / or other parts of the body.

Risley is a small village and parish in Erewash in the English county of Derbyshire.

Risley is a long thin village with most properties lying on either side of the main road.

The village pub is the Risley Park formally the Blue Ball on Derby Road

Risley is a neighbourhood in the northeast corner of Warrington, Cheshire, England.

HMP Risley is located in the area.

A key figure behind the census was Herbert Hope Risley, best known for the now discounted attribution of all differences in caste to varying proportions of seven racial types.

Its first student, William Henry Miller, dropped out, but later designed many iconic buildings on campus including Risley Hall, Uris Library and its adjoining McGraw Tower, the presidential mansion ( today known as the A. D. White House ), and Boardman Hall, the original home of the Law School.

A silver vessel known as the Risley Park Lanx, 20 inches by 15, said to have belonged to a church in France in 405, was found near the Hall in 1729.

He faced prison for the first time at Risley, serving time on remand for criminal damage after he smashed some parked cars following an argument with his girlfriend's father ; following his trial he was fined and given probation.

in 1927, leaving behind a photographic study of the rural campus for the school's newspaper, including photographs of her famed dormitory Risley Hall.

To the north of the Royal Ordnance Factory ( ROF ), Risley, was the site chosen for the design offices and headquarters of the Department of ATomic ENergy ( DATEN ) after the Second World War.

Following on from the weapons program, the Risley offices were responsible for the building of the Magnox and AGR designs of reactor in the UK.

At the 2001 census ( the next one scheduled for 2011 ), there were 2790 residents living in 1191 properties ( statistic areas 005B and 004B-Gorse Covert, Risley South and Locking Stumps East ).

In November 1995, the Dodgers traded Cairo with Willis Otañez to the Seattle Mariners for Mike Blowers, who then traded Cairo with Bill Risley to the Toronto Blue Jays for Edwin Hurtado and Paul Menhart in December 1995.

In 1946, Hinton was appointed Deputy Controller of Production, Atomic Energy, and in 1954 when the Atomic Energy Authority was formed, he was appointed Member for Engineering and Production as Managing Director of ' Industrial Group Risley ' which comprised the Risley headquarters and laboratories at Culcheth, Capenhurst, Windscale, Springfields and Dounreay plus factories at Springfields, Capenhurst, Windscale, Calder, Dounreay and Chapelcross.

Korf grew up in Ithaca, NY, and attended Cornell University, where she lived in Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts.

The major components of the phoropter are the JCC ( Jackson Cross-Cylinder ) used for astigmatism correction, Risley prisms to measure phorias and vergences, and the (+), (−), and cylinder lenses.

Rick Omonte remains active member of the New Haven, Connecticut music scene and has played bass for bands such as The Risley Dales, Crooked Hook and The Mountain Movers.

According to Susan Bayly: Those like ( Sir William ) Hunter, as well as the key figures of H. H. Risley ( 1851 – 1911 ) and his protégé Edgar Thurston, who were disciples of the French race theorist Topinard and his European followers, subsumed discussions of caste into theories of biologically determined race essences, ... Their great rivals were the material or occupational theorists led by the ethnographer and folklorist William Crooke ( 1848 – 1923 ), author of one of the most widely read provincial Castes and Tribes surveys, and such other influential scholar-officials as Denzil Ibbetson and E. A. H. Blunt.

Seeing caste as a fundamental force in Indian life, Risley, especially, influenced official views as expressed in the Censuses of British India as well as the Imperial Gazetteer brought out by Hunter.

Father of the Pride employed a small group of seasoned directors which included Mark Risley, Bret Haaland, Steve Hickner, John Holmquist, John Wayne Stevenson, and Mark Baldo.

Between Tidewater and Alsea Bay, the river receives Mill Creek and Squaw Creek from the right, Canal Creek from the left, Risley Creek from the right, passes under Oregon Route 34, which then parallels the river on the south or left, and receives Arnold Creek from the left at about from the mouth.

In the ethnological map of India published in the 1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India and based on the 1901 Census supervised by Risley, the Kurmi of the United Provinces were classified as " Aryo-Dravidian ," whereas the Kurmi of the Central Provinces were counted among " Dravidians ".

In some cases, like Risley Moss, peat accumulation filled the depression, allowing colonisation by bog mosses such as the Sphagnum varieties, thus giving rise to the name " moss ".

The first episode, renamed Saturday Night Live ' 80 in the opening credits, aired November 15, 1980 and featured an all-new cast – Charles Rocket ( groomed to be the new break-out star ), Denny Dillon, Gilbert Gottfried, Gail Matthius, Joe Piscopo, and Ann Risley rounded out the new " Not Ready For Prime Time Players ".