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 Highland (council area) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Highland area covers most of the mainland and inner-Hebridean parts of the traditional counties of Inverness-shire, Ross-shire, and Cromartyshire, all of Sutherland, Nairnshire and Caithness, and the far north-west of Argyll.
In the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom the Highland area is represented by Members of Parliament (MPs) elected from three constituencies: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey; and Ross, Skye and Lochaber.
For elections to the Scottish Parliament the Highland area is within the Highlands and Islands electoral area, which elects eight first past the post constituency Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) and seven additional member MSPs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highland   (681 words)

  
 Atlanta, Georgia
The metro area has one of America's longest average daily commutes, and is one of the most car-dependent cities on the planet due both to suburban sprawl and underfunded mass transit systems.
Institutions in the surrounding metro area include Agnes Scott College (Decatur), DeVry University (Decatur), Clayton State University (Morrow), Kennesaw State University (Kennesaw), Georgia Perimeter College, Gwinnett University Center (soon to be known as Georgia Gwinnett College, in Lawrenceville), The University of West Georgia (Carrollton), and Southern Polytechnic State University (Marietta).
The Atlanta metro area is served by a wide variety of local television stations, and is the ninth largest designated market area (DMA) in the U.S. with 2,059,450 homes (1.88% of the total U.S.).
www.tocatch.info /en/Atlanta_(GA).htm   (6600 words)

  
 Triangle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The area S of a triangle is S = ½bh, where b is the length of any side of the triangle (the base) and h (the altitude) is the perpendicular distance between the base and the vertex not on the base.
A median of a triangle is a straight line through a vertex and the midpoint of the opposite side, and divides the triangle into two equal areas.
Because the area of the rectangle is bh, the area of the given triangle must be ½bh.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Triangle   (6600 words)

  
 Triangle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The area S of a triangle is S = ½bh, where b is the length of any side of the triangle (the base) and h (the altitude) is the perpendicular distance between the base and the vertex not on the base.
A median of a triangle is a straight line through a vertex and the midpoint of the opposite side, and divides the triangle into two equal areas.
Calculating the area of a triangle is an elementary problem encountered often in many different situations.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Equilateral_triangle   (6600 words)

  
 Soho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soho is such a varied and cosmopolitan area that in much of it the sex industry is not at all evident; the idea that it is wholly a red light district is now very out of date.
Soho is near the heart of London's theatre area, and is a centre of the independent film and video industry as well as the television and film post-production industry.
The area to the west is known as Mayfair.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soho   (1338 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Toulouse
Fueled by booming aerospace and high-tech industries, population growth of 1.5% a year in the metropolitan area in the 1990s (compared with a sluggish 0.37% for metropolitan France), and a record 2.2% yearly growth in the 2000s (0.58% for metropolitan France), means Toulouse metropolitan area hit the 1,000,000 inhabitants mark in 2002 or 2003.
In 1999 Toulouse was the fifth largest metropolitan area in France, after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Lille.
Boasting the highest population growth of any French metropolitan area larger than 500,000 inhabitants, Toulouse is well on its way to overtake Lille as the fourth largest metropolitan area of France.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Toulouse   (5790 words)

  
 The Ultimate London - American History Information Guide and Reference
There are other definitions for special purposes, such as the area within the London postal district; the area within the telephone area code 020 (previously 0207 and 01); the area accessible by public transport using a Transport for London Travelcard; the area delimited by the M25 orbital motorway; and the London commuter belt.
One such definition describes the London metropolitan area (6,267 square miles, 16,043 km²) with a population of 13,945,000 — larger than the combined populations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The coordinates of the centre of London (traditionally considered to be Charing Cross, near Trafalgar Square) are approximately.
www.historymania.com /american_history/London   (5790 words)

  
 Talk:Wellington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wellington applies to the major city, but the also applies to the region (provincial administration level) that encompass the greater urban area known by the same name.
Since Wellington City, New Zealand is rather obscure and using Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand seems totally redundant, very obscure and both are still ambiguous, I have left Wellington, New Zealand for the city unchanged and added Wellington (region), New Zealand for the greater urban area, with cross linking on both pages.
For Wellington I used the area units of Thorndon-Tinakori Rd, Lambton and Willis St-Cambridge Tce.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Wellington   (1719 words)

  
 Miami, Florida
Today, a combined 2.2 million inhabitants living in the City and the surrounding urbanized area, in addition to the 1.6 million of neighboring Broward County and 1.1 million of Palm Beach County form the South Florida metropolitan area, the largest urbanized area in the state.
The major impacting force on the weather of the Miami area is the Gulf Stream, a warm flow just off the Atlantic coast of southeast Florida which moderates the climate year round.
Furthermore, Tri-Rail, a commuter rail system, connects the major cities and airports of the South Florida metropolitan area.
creekin.net /c7489-n213-miami-florida.html   (2770 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for the bermuda triangle
the Devil's Triangle is a triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.
Bermuda Triangle Fact Sheet Prepared By The US Coast Guard Headquarters And The Naval Historical Center The Board Of Geographic Names Does Not Recognize the Bermuda Triangle As An Official Name And Does Not Maintain An Official File On The Area....
The Ermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle Is A Triangular Area Of Ocean Off The Coast Of Florida With A Reputation For Boats And Planes Disappearing Without A Trace....
www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/2338.html   (2770 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: South Kensington
South Kensington is an area in West London- it straddles the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster.
Kensington is an area to the west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
The smaller centre around Gloucester Road station can also be considered part of South Kensington, as well as the institution area around Exhibition Road, which includes such famous names as the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Imperial College, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Royal College of Music.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/South-Kensington   (2770 words)

  
 South Kensington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Kensington is an area in West London which straddles the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster.
It is hard to define boundaries for South Kensington, but when people talk about it, they are generally talking about the commercial area around the tube station.
The area was largely undeveloped until the mid-19th century, being an agricultural area supplying London with fruit and vegetables.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Kensington   (2770 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Los Angeles (disambiguation)
Categories: Disambiguation The city of Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII (the Biobío region), in the center-south of Chile.
Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties in Southern California The Greater Los Angeles Area is the suburban area around the city of Los Angeles, California.
For residents of Southern California, the Inland Empire is a popular informal name for a region located at the eastern end of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Los-Angeles-(disambiguation)   (1104 words)

  
 london - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Other definitions are commonly applied: the area within the London postal district; the area within the area code 020; the area attainable by public transport using using a Transport for London Travelcard; the area delimited by the M25 orbital motorway; the London commuter belt.
It includes areas such as Whitechapel, Mile End, Bethnal Green, Hackney, Bow, Poplar, the Isle of Dogs, Canning Town, West Ham, Plaistow and Barking.
Attempts to control this growth have been made in recent decades, for example through the creation of the Green Belt.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/London   (5683 words)

  
 Top 20 Miami.com - Your Top20Guide to Miami, FL.
It is also the largest city in the South Florida metropolitan area, which is comprised of Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach County making up the largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern United States.
The area was a concentration of water because the Miami River is essentially a funnel for water from the Everglades to the Atlantic Ocean.
Although Ponce de Leon attempted to settle the area in the early 1500s, his men could not defend the territory against the natives, so they kept to the more sparsely populated north.
www.top20miami.com   (4384 words)

  
 Heston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heston is a place in the London Borough of Hounslow, best-known as the location of the Heston service area on the M4 motorway and for air cargo handling facilities.
The area that was Heston Aerodrome is now a residential area in which the road names honour pilots and aircraft of the past such as; Wright Road (Wright Bros), Bleriot Road (Louis Bleriot), Cobham Road(Sir Alan Cobham) and Brabazon Road (Bristol Brabazon).
A large area of heston was once a World War 2 airfield known as the Heston Aerodrome.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heston   (4384 words)

  
 Angus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Angus (Aonghas in Gaelic) is one of the traditional counties and also one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland and a Lieutenancy area.
A similar area to the county is covered by the Angus Westminster constituency and Angus Holyrood constituency.
This is the area of the five Angus Glens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angus   (4384 words)

  
 Archimedes - the free encyclopedia
He proved that the area and volume of the sphere are in the same ratio to the area and volume of a circumscribed straight cylinder, a result he was so proud of that he made it his epitaph.
In this scroll Archimedes obtains the result he was most proud of: that the area and volume of a sphere are in the samerelationship to the area and volume of the circumscribed straight cylinder.
Apart from general physics he was an astronomer, and Cicero writes that in the year 212 BC when Syracuse,Italy was raided by Roman troops, the Roman consul Marcellus brought adevice which mapped the sky on a sphere and another device that predicted the motions of the sun and the moon and the planets(i.e.
www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /?t=Archimedes   (1539 words)

  
 Po River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Near the end of its course, it creates a wide delta (with hundreds of small channels and five main ones called Po di Maestra, Po della Pila, Po delle Tolle, Po di Gnocca and Po di Goro), at the southern part of which is Comacchio, an area famous for eels.
The vast valley around the Po is called Pianura Padana and is so efficiently connected by the river that the whole valley became the main industrial area of the country.
In Milan it enters the town as a net of channels called navigli, creating a very characteristic area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Po_River   (1539 words)

  
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
Philadelphia (sometimes referred to as "Philly" or "the City of Brotherly Love") is the fifth most populous city in the United States and the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, both in area and population.
Philadelphia is also one of the largest college/university towns in the United States with over 120,000 students studying within the city limits alone and nearly 300,000 total college and university students in the metropolitan area.
The Philadelphia metropolitan area is the fourth largest in the United States by the current official definition, with some 6.2 million people, though some other definitions place it sixth behind the Bay Area and Washington-Baltimore.
popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania   (5024 words)

  
 South Beach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This area was the first section of Miami Beach to be developed starting in the 1910s, thanks to development efforts of Carl G. Fisher, the Lummus Brothers, John Collins, and others.
The Lummus brothers sold their oceanfront property to the city from 6th Street to 14th, which was then and is now the area known as Lummus Park.
In the late 1980s, a renaissance began in South Beach with an influx of the fashion industry moving into the area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Beach   (1948 words)

  
 Second Description of English-Chinese Text Retrieval Interface
Translation disambiguation area is split into two parts: the "Terms with multiple translations" and "Terms that have no translation." We believe that informing searchers of translation-missing query terms is very important.
In addition, both subjects thought that instead of checkboxes, one text area should be used to display multiple terms for disambiguation (together with their translations) and another for the summary of retrieved documents.
However, the search button should be put on the same level as the query input area.
www.glue.umd.edu /~katyn/708l/project/Description2.htm   (1948 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ozark
These flanking reefs were points of concentration for later ore bearing fluids which formed the rich lead-zinc ores that have been mined in the area.
A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, an area set...
In geology and earth science, a plateau is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat open country if the uplift was recent in geologic history.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ozark   (1948 words)

  
 Washington, D.C. - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The metro area is well served by several local broadcast television stations, and is the eighth largest designated market area in the U.S., with 2,252,550 homes (2.04% of the U.S. population).
Washington Metro area is home to several professional sports teams: the MLS D.C. United, the NHL Washington Capitals, the NBA Washington Wizards, the WNBA Washington Mystics, the MLB Washington Nationals, and the NFL Washington Redskins (now based at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland).
A significant portion of the metro area's population has some sort of connection to the federal government.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Washington_DC   (6508 words)

  
 Alternate uses see rn disambiguation rn disambiguation rn...
While working at Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine, Stan O. Barber Stan O. Barber developed "remote rn" ("rrn"), a set of patch patches to "rn" which allowed it to communicate with an NNTP server over a local-area (or even wide-area) network.
When local-area network local-area networks became widespread, it was natural that administrators and users would desire remote access to the news spool, and NNTP NNTP, the Network News Transfer Protocol, was developed to serve that need.
:"Alternate uses, see rn (disambiguation) rn (disambiguation)" "rn" (short for "Read News") is a program for reading Usenet Usenet news written by Larry Wall Larry Wall.
www.biodatabase.de /Rn   (813 words)

  
 Articles - London
There are other definitions of "London" for special purposes, such as the London postal district; the area covered by the telephone area code 020; the area accessible by public transport using a Transport for London Travelcard; the area delimited by the M25 orbital motorway; the Metropolitan Police district; and the London commuter belt.
For other places with the same name, see London (disambiguation).
The coordinates of the centre of London (traditionally considered to be Charing Cross, near the junction of Trafalgar Square, the Strand, Whitehall and the Mall) are approximately 51°30′ N 0°8′ W. The Romans marked the centre of Londinium with the London Stone in the City.
www.wathcesa.com /articles/London   (6458 words)

  
 Pikmin - Art History Online Reference and Guide
This third region of the game is so named because when Olimar flies over the area for the first time, he remarks that this open spot in the very center of the dense forest resembles a navel.
The Forest of Hope is the second navigable area in the game, and is much larger than the Impact Site.
There are ten pieces of the ship to found here, more than any other area in the game.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Pikmin   (812 words)

  
 National Forest, England
The National Forest, which covers an area of 200 square miles (520 km²) of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire, is described as "a forest in the making".
In addition to Conkers, a number of tourist attractions reside within the National Forest area including the medieval castle at Ashby de la Zouch, Swadlincote Ski Centre, the stately home of Calke Abbey, and 19th century blast furnace, Moira Furnace.
As well as Ashby de la Zouch, the towns of Burton upon Trent, Swadlincote and Coalville are also located within the forest area.
www.kiwipedia.com /en/national-forest--england.html   (271 words)

  
 CS5604, Unit KB
In the AI field, one key area is natural language processing (NLP) and the related area of computational linguistics.
The area of Knowledge-Based Information (KBIR) is an active one, with IR researchers trying to apply various AI schemes to improve IR systems, and with AI researchers trying to extend their systems and apply their methods in the domain of IR.
Another model of information retrieval is that it involves knowledge-based operations, and should be viewed as a problem in the area of artificial intelligence (AI).
ei.cs.vt.edu /~cs5604/f96/U-KB/U-KB.html   (271 words)

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