These ships, delivered to MSC in the mid-1980s, built at Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania and converted at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego.

* Builder: Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, PA ; General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, MA

Sun Shipbuilding converted part of the shipyard to a smaller shipping concern and sold its interest, then sold off portions of the rest to new users, such as the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution Chester.

During World War I, he directed the steel supply for the War Industries Board, organizing the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Chester with William Sproul, Samuel Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, T. Coleman du Pont, and Edward V. Babcock of Pittsburgh.

In 1957, the US military issued a contract to the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Chester, Pennsylvania, for the construction of a new type of motorized vehicle carrier.

The ship was built as the Type T2 tanker SS Paoli at Sun Shipbuilding in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1944.

The ship was originally named the SS Musgrove Mills and was built in May 1944 by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.

* Black Sun Empire, a Dutch drum & bass band

* Sun, Ron & L. Bookman, ( eds.

Popular commercially published campaign settings for Dungeons & Dragons include Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Mystara, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Planescape, Birthright, and Eberron.

* Connolly, Cynthia ; Clague, Leslie & Cheslow, Sharon ( 1988 ), Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes From the DC Punk Underground 1979-85, Washington, DC: Sun Dog Propaganda, ISBN 978-0-9620944-0-8.

In real-time strategy ( RTS ) game Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, a number of the vehicles of the Empire of the Rising Sun are referred to as mecha, since they are capable of transforming from ground or sea units to aerial fighters, granting them additional flexibility in battle but making them closer to robots then to true mecha.

Command & Conquer 2 Tiberian Sun features more conventional / realistic mecha including the bipedal Wolverine, Titan and the 4-legged Mammoth Mk2.

The Philadelphia Eagles Helmet Cart sat at Joseph A. Scirrotto Jr .' s ( Designer of the 74 Helmet ) " Joe's Gulf Gas Station " at Rising Sun Ave & Van Kirk St. 1974 off season year to raise money for " The Eagles Fly for Leukemia ", where every weekend Eagles NFL Team Members joined to help raise awareness and funds.

Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.

* The 2005 Corrupt Souls & Hyx's Drum n Bass Track “ 1138 ”, found on the Black Sun Empire double album Cruel & Unusual, uses several samples from THX 1138, including “ What's Wrong ?”.

Up to version 3. 7 of vi, created in October, 1981, UC Berkeley was the development home for vi, but with Bill Joy's departure in early 1982, to join Sun Microsystems, and AT & T's UNIX System V ( January, 1983 ) adopting vi, changes to the vi codebase happened more slowly and in a more dispersed and mutually incompatible ways.

Because of this and EA's newly imposed demands, games being developed by Westwood Studios at the time were rushed and left unfinished upon their release, namely Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun.

* Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun ( 1992 )

Dubbed OSF / 1, the aim was to compete with System V Release 4 from AT & T and Sun Microsystems, and it has been argued that a primary goal was for the operating system to be free of AT & T intellectual property.

Other Mystara video games are: Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun ( Sega Genesis, 1992 ), Fantasy Empires ( PC, 1993 ), and Order of the Griffon ( TurboGrafx 16, 1992 ).

Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10am – 4pm ; Sat & Sun: 12 noon – 4pm.

For Newton, " the common centre of gravity of the Earth, the Sun and all the Planets is to be esteem'd the Centre of the World " ( Proposition 12, corollary ), and that this centre " either is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line " ( Proposition 11 & preceding Hypothesis ).

NFS and ONC figured prominently in the network-computing war between Sun Microsystems and Apollo Computer, and later the UNIX wars ( ca 1987-1996 ) between AT & T and Sun on one side, and Digital Equipment, HP, and IBM on the other.

Later, Sun and AT & T announced that the two firms would jointly develop AT & T's next version of UNIX: System V Release 4.

This caused many of AT & T's other licensees of UNIX System V to become concerned that this would put Sun in an advantaged position, and it ultimately led to Digital Equipment, HP, IBM, and others forming the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) in 1988.

* Hawkins, Jacqueta Man and the Sun Gaithersburg, MD, USA: 1962 SolPub Co.

The design has been attributed to both Tu Shou ' e ( 屠守锷 ) and Sun Jiadong ( 孙家栋 ), and the missile as produced at Factory 211 ( Capital Astronautics Co., 首都航天机械公司, also known as Capital Machine Shop, 首都机械厂 ).

The paper remained family-owned until 1986, when Knight Ridder purchased The State-Record Co. and six subsidiaries ( including the Sun Herald and The Sun News ) for $ 311 million.

Bulova Watch Co., Sun Oil Co., Lever Bros. Co. and Procter & Gamble sign on as sponsors of the first commercial telecasts from WNBT in New York.

Sunoco Inc. () is an American petroleum and petrochemical manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, formerly known as Sun Company Inc. ( 1886 – 1920 and 1976 – 1998 ) and Sun Oil Co. ( 1920 – 1976 ).

* Burford v. Sun Oil Co.

: When IBM bought Sequent, ... it lacked the size and resources to compete with Sun and Hewlett-Packard Co. in the Unix server market ....

The premier served on the boards of a number of major companies, including: Barclays Bank ( Canada ) Ltd., Caisse d ' économie, Molson Bank, Canadian Investments Funds, Bank of Montreal, Royal Trust Company, Sun Life Assurance, Metropolitan Life Assurance Co., Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co., Pioneer Insurance Co., Globe Indemnity Co. and the Manitoba Liverpool Insurance Co ..

It is jointly developed by five local developers including Hang Lung Development Co. Ltd., Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd., New World Development Co. Ltd., Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd., Swire Properties and with the MTR Corporation.

On Monday, November 14, 2011, Cincinnati country radio station B-105 ( WUBE ) hosts Chris Carr & Co. announced that Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw will be hosting their " Brothers of the Sun " summer 2012 tour at Paul Brown Stadium on Sunday, July 1, 2012.

A later ancestor TB MacAulay founded the Sun Life of Canada Insurance Co.

* Country of the Sun ( Southern California, an Informal Guide ), Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1 / 1957

An astronomical unit ( abbreviated as AU, au, a. u., or ua ) is a unit of length equal to exactly or approximately the mean Earth – Sun distance.

In the private sector he has worked for Mitre Corp., GE, Ford, General Motors ; during the late 1970s Singer consulted with Exxon, Shell, Unocal Sun Oil, and ARCO on oil pricing ; and Lockheed Martin, Martin – Marietta, McDonnell-Douglas, ANSER, and IBM on space research.

* Chryssides, George D., The Advent of Sun Myung Moon: The Origins, Beliefs and Practices of the Unification Church ( 1991 ) London, Macmillan Professional and Academic Ltd.

Many credit Gretzky's arrival with putting non-traditional U. S. hockey markets on " the NHL map "; not only did California receive two more NHL franchises ( the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and San Jose Sharks ) during Gretzky's tenure in L. A., but his popularity in Southern California proved to be an impetus in the league establishing teams in other parts of the U. S. Sun Belt.

* August 25 – In the U. S., the New York Sun prints the first of six installments of the Great Moon Hoax.

Both these forces are weak when compared with the forces we are able to experience directly, but the electromagnetic force in this example is some thirty nine orders of magnitude ( i. e., 10 < sup > 39 </ sup >) greater than the force of gravity — roughly the same ratio as the mass of the Sun compared to a microgram mass.

If one could see a satellite in geostationary orbit, it would appear to hover at the same point in the sky, i. e., not exhibit diurnal motion, while the Sun, Moon, and stars would traverse the heavens behind it.

Blunden's public honours included the C. B. E., 1951 ; the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1956 ; The Royal Society of Literature's Benson Medal ; the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class ( Japan ), 1963 ; and Honorary Membership of the Japan Academy.

It means literally " Sun eve ", i. e., " The day before Sunday ".

Zach published Tables of the Sun ( Gotha, 1792 ; new and improved edition, ibid., 1804 ), and numerous papers on geographical subjects, particularly on the geographical positions of many towns and places, which he determined on his travels with a sextant.

* Devi, Savitri, Tripod. com A Son of God ( Philosophical Publishing House, 1946 ); subsequent editions published as Son of the Sun: The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt ( Supreme Grand Lodge of A. M. O. R. C., 1956 ); part III of The Lightning and the Sun is focused on Akhnaten.

The original Sun Records logo was designed by John Gale Parker, Jr., a resident of Memphis and high school classmate of Phillips.

* Carlowicz, M. J., and R. E. Lopez, 2002, Storms from the Sun, Joseph Henry Press, Washington DC, ISBN 0-309-07642-0.

* Sun Yat-sen, translated by Pasquale d ' Elia. The Triple Demism of Sun Yat-Sen. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1974.

Some Greek astronomers ( e. g., Aristarchus of Samos ) speculated that the planets ( Earth included ) orbited the Sun, but the optics ( and the specific mathematics – Newton's Law of Gravitation for example ) necessary to provide data that would convincingly support the heliocentric model did not exist in Ptolemy's time and would not come around for over fifteen hundred years after his death.

* The synodic period is the temporal interval that it takes for an object to reappear at the same point in relation to two or more other objects, e. g., when the Moon relative to the Sun as observed from Earth returns to the same illumination phase.

* Carlowicz, M., and R. Lopez, Storms from the Sun, Joseph Henry Press, 2002, www. stormsfromthesun. net

Midnight Oil ’ s albums which peaked in the Australian Top Ten were 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Red Sails in the Sunset, Species Deceases, Diesel and Dust, Blue Sky Mining, Scream in Blue ( Live ), Earth and Sun and Moon, Breathe, 20, 000 Watt R. S. L., Redneck Wonderland, The Real Thing, Capricornia and Flat Chat.

* Chandrasekeran S., Gu M., Sun X., Xia J., Zhu J.