Other American-made variants include the mandolinetto or Howe-Orme guitar-shaped mandolin ( manufactured by the Elias Howe Company between 1897 and roughly 1920 ), which featured a cylindrical bulge along the top from fingerboard end to tailpiece ; the Army-Navy style with a flat back and top ; and the Vega mando-lute ( more commonly called a cylinder-back mandolin manufactured by the Vega Company between 1913 and roughly 1927 ), which had a similar longitudinal bulge but on the back rather than the front of the instrument.

Before Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino had considered making The Vega Brothers.

Photometric measurements of Vega during the 1930s appeared to show that the star had a low-magnitude variability on the order of ± 0. 03 magnitudes.

As Vega had long been used as a standard star for calibrating telescopes, the discovery that it is rapidly rotating may challenge some of the underlying assumptions that were based on it being spherically symmetric.

By 2005, the Spitzer Space Telescope had produced high resolution infrared images of the dust around Vega.

When he returned, the astrologer recognised it as the shuttle of the Weaving Girl ( Vega ), and, moreover, said that at the time Zhang received the shuttle, he had seen a wandering star interpose itself between the Weaving Girl and the cow herd.

Vega had improved John Machin's formula from 1706:

The Lockheed Vega factory was located next to Burbank's Union Airport which it had purchased in 1940.

The Japanese had refined rear-wheel-drive, water-cooled, front-engine small cars so that they sold well in the North American market, and Americans introduced their own similarly sized rear-wheel-drive Chevrolet Vega, Ford Pinto and AMC Gremlin in the 1970s.

That year, once more flying her faithful Vega which Earhart had tagged " old Bessie, the fire horse ," she soloed from Los Angeles to Mexico City on April 19.

Between 1930 – 1935, Earhart had set seven women's speed and distance aviation records in a variety of aircraft including the Kinner Airster, Lockheed Vega, and Pitcairn Autogiro.

While speaking in California in late 1934, Earhart had contacted Hollywood " stunt " pilot Paul Mantz in order to improve her flying focusing especially on long distance flying in her Vega and wanted to move closer to him.

As the railroads came through the county, however, they bypassed Tascosa ; several new towns and farms sprang up along the rail lines, and by 1915 Tascosa had a courthouse and almost no residents ; the county seat was moved to Vega, Texas that year.

Ordoñez apparently incorporated some of the information that had been collected earlier by Bishop Núñez de la Vega into a document called the Probanza de Votan.

He had a recurring role on the TV series Vega $, as Harlon Twoleaf and starred in the movies Fish Hawk, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Orca.

The marque Facel Vega was created in 1954 by Jean Daninos ( brother of the humorist Pierre Daninos, who wrote Les Carnets du Major Thompson ), although the Facel company had been established by the Bonzavia Company in 1939 as a subcontracting company for the aviations industry.

The French writer Albert Camus died in a Facel Vega FV3B driven by his publisher, Michel Gallimard At the time of his death, Camus had planned to travel by train, with his wife and children, but at the last minute accepted his publisher's proposal to travel with him.

Projected first year sales of the Cosworth Vega had been 5, 000.

Many new acts established during the period had a strong folk / acoustic influence, e. g. The Indigo Girls, R. E. M., Sinéad O ' Connor, Suzanne Vega, Lyle Lovett, Michael Penn, Enya, and Bruce Hornsby and the Range.

He was also the first to measure the parallax of Vega, although Friedrich Bessel had been the first to measure the parallax of a star ( 61 Cygni ).

The preface to the Cigarrales de Toledo states that Tirso de Molina had already written three hundred plays, and at this period of his career he was second only to his friend Lope de Vega in popularity.

Apparently, when political success came, he all but stopped his literary efforts — although he did have two volumes of his plays published ( in 1628 and 1634 ), perhaps because some of them had been pirated and previously published with false attributions to his theatrical rival Félix Lope de Vega.

His Altair form had the motif of a bull ( linking to Altair's occupation as a cowherd ), his Vega form uses a spool of thread for the visor ( linking to Vega's occupation as a weaver ).

Speaking from experience, as Oates has walked the streets of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, during visits multiple times, he had this to say: " I don't think you can appreciate how far he's come until you've been there ," Oates said.

Vega is mentioned in a Chinese legend about Zhang Qian, though some argue that the historical person is not the subject of the legend ; he just shared a name.

Vega (+ 38 ° 47 ') is technically circumpolar north of latitude + 51 ° 13 ' ( just south of London ); taking atmospheric refraction into account it will probably only be seen to set at sea level from Cornwall and the Scilly Isles.

The Vega was assigned to Chevrolet by corporate management, specifically by GM president Ed Cole, just weeks before DeLorean's 1969 arrival as Chevrolet division's general manager.

is the Vega of the vanilla call ; is sometimes called the " skew slope " or just " skew ".

The ballet-pantomime Chrizis was revised just after The Red Poppy, in the late 1920s, followed by the popular ballet Comedians after Lope de Vega ( 1931, later re-written and renamed The Daughter from Castile ).

In the hundreds of plays he wrote, with settings ranging from the Biblical times to legendary Spanish history to classical mythology to his own time, Lope de Vega frequently took a comical approach just as Cervantes did, taking a conventional moral play and dressing it up in good humor and cynicism.

The " hotmixes " were either just the extended versions available commercially on 12 " Singles, or mixes that were created by local club DJs, such as " Little " Louie Vega, especially for WQHT.

If one finds Vega, Eltanin is the red star just north-northwest of it.

It is a relatively close star at only 36. 7 light-years from Earth, and, together with Vega and Sirius, one of the most luminous stars in the Sun's neighborhood.

In 1972 the yacht Vega, a ketch owned by David McTaggart, was renamed Greenpeace III and sailed in an anti-nuclear protest into the exclusion zone at Moruroa to attempt to disrupt French nuclear testing.

The documentary received international recognition winning the main prize at the International Vega Awards for Excellence in Scientific Broadcasting.

According to Garcilasso de la Vega, who says that he saw La Peregrina at Seville in 1607, ( Garcilasso, " Historie des Incas, Rois du Perou ," Amsterdam, 1704, Vol.

In October 2010, he walked Alexa Vega down the aisle at her wedding to producer Sean Covel.

Vega is only about a tenth of the age of the Sun, but since it is 2. 1 times as massive its expected lifetime is also one tenth of that of the Sun ; both stars are at present approaching the midpoint of their life expectancies.

Irregularities in Vega's disk also suggest the presence of at least one planet, likely to be about the size of Jupiter, in orbit around Vega.

On July 17, 1850, Vega became the first star ( other than the Sun ) to be photographed, when it was imaged by William Bond and John Adams Whipple at the Harvard College Observatory, also with a daguerreotype.

To standardize the magnitude scale, astronomers chose Vega to represent magnitude zero at all wavelengths.

However, the flux density of Vega drops rapidly in the infrared, and is near 100 Jy at 5 micrometers.

The magnitude of Vega was measured again in 1981 at the David Dunlap Observatory and showed some slight variability.

With a declination of + 38. 78 °, Vega can only be viewed at latitudes north of 51 ° S. Therefore, it does not rise at all anywhere in Antarctica or in the southernmost part of South America, including Punta Arenas, Chile ( 53 ° S ).

Around July 1, Vega reaches midnight culmination when it crosses the meridian at that time.

This star lies at a vertex of a widely spaced asterism called the Summer Triangle, which consists of the zero-magnitude stars Vega in the constellation Lyra and Altair in Aquila, plus the first magnitude star Deneb in Cygnus.

This formation is the approximate shape of a right triangle, with Vega located at its right angle.

Vega can be identified easily because Altair and its two neighbouring stars form a line which points at Vega.

The visual spectrum of Vega is dominated by absorption lines of hydrogen ; specifically by the hydrogen Balmer series with the electron at the n = 2 principal quantum number.

Using spectropolarimetry, a magnetic field has been detected on the surface of Vega by a team of astronomers at the Observatoire du Pic du Midi.

Although Vega is at present only the fifth-brightest star in the sky, the star is slowly brightening as proper motion causes it to approach the Sun.

Subsequent measurements of Vega at 193 μm showed a lower than expected flux for the hypothesized particles, suggesting that they must instead be on the order of 100 μm or less.

Observations from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in 1997 revealed an " elongated bright central region " that peaked at 9 ″ ( 70 AU ) to the northeast of Vega.

For the Roman Empire, the start of autumn was based upon the hour at which Vega set below the horizon.