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  Armada for Dreamcast Review - Dreamcast Armada Review
Armada is a mission-based space opera with many similarities to the PC and 16-bit classics Star Flight and Star Control.
Armada, as it was originally developed for online play, is the antithesis of the "on rails" concept, constantly generating new ships to rescue, allies, and other mini-events to enhance your bottom line.
When playing Armada you can't help but think how cool it would be if it were playable online, but at the same time, you can't help but be impressed that the game is this good without requiring a phone line.
www.gamespot.com /dreamcast/action/armada/review.html   (1029 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Spanish Armada
The fighting ships of the Armada were now arranged in a crescent, the transports keeping between the horns, and in this formation, they slowly advanced up the channel, the English cannonading the rearmost, and causing the loss of three of the chief vessels.
Slave labor, with its attendant corruptions, in the colonies, want of organization, and free government at home, joined with grasping at power abroad--these, and not any single defeat, however great, were the causes of the decline of the great world-power of the sixteenth century.
Among the many side-issues which meet the student of the history of the Armada, that of the cooperation or favor of the Pope, and of the Catholic party among the English, is naturally important for Catholics.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01727c.htm   (2612 words)

  
 Spanish Armada - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Armada, Spanish, 1588, fleet launched by Philip II of Spain for the invasion of England, to overthrow the Protestant Elizabeth I and establish Philip on the English throne; also called the Invincible Armada.
Preparations, under the command of the marqués de Santa Cruz, began in 1586 but were seriously delayed by a surprise attack on Cádiz by Sir Francis Drake in 1587.
Unable to re-form, the Armada was severely battered, but a sudden change in the wind enabled most of the ships to escape northward.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-armada-s1.html   (589 words)

  
 Armada
The Armada framework for parallel I/O provides a solution for data-intensive applications in which the application programmer and data-set provider deploy a network of application-specific and data-set-specific functionality across the grid.
Armada appends the two portions to form a single graph, restructures the resulting graph to distribute computation and data flow, and assigns modules to grid processors so that data-reducing modules execute near the data source and data-increasing modules execute near the data destination.
Figure 1: A typical Armada graph consists of a portion from the data provider that describes the layout of the data and a portion from the application that describes required preprocessing.
www.cs.dartmouth.edu /~dfk/armada   (792 words)

  
 Armada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Spanish Armada, an attempted invasion of England by Spain in 1588.
English Armada, the unsuccessful English response in 1589 to the Spanish Armada.
Armada (band), a London-based rock/jazz group formed in the mid-1970s by former members of The Open Mind.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armada   (230 words)

  
 Category:Armada II - Star Trek Games - Star Trek Gaming Universe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
At the heart of Star Trek Armada II are the most exciting elements from the Star Trek episodes and movies: leading fleets of starships into combat, exploring new planetary systems throughout the Alpha and Delta Quadrants, and carefully treading the delicate balance between peace and war among six different races.
Star Trek Armada II takes the concept to it's logical conclusion by allowing the player to also experience the game in a full 3D mode, so the battles and elements of space conquest and exploration take on the vividness of the best of Star Trek.
A powerful armada must have the infrastructure to support it, so the player is given the resources and knowledge to make full use of this rich new universe.
www.strategyplanet.com /starmada   (1273 words)

  
 GameOver - Star Trek: Armada (c) Activision
Star Trek Armada brings the Star Trek license to the RTS genre in a more traditional style, unlike Star Trek: Fleet Commander, which was more of a tactical RTS.
Armada shipped out the door with the developers acknowledging that it was problematic with different video cards.
Armada is still under heavy crunching by the team at Activision, so I'm sure we'll see patches that help cut down on latency and stabilize the gameplay.
www.game-over.net /review/march2000/armada   (1209 words)

  
 IBM plans top-end 'Armada' Unix server | CNET News.com
Armada, the successor to the 32-processor p690 "Regatta" system that IBM introduced more than a year ago, is a Unix server that will come closest so far to matching the capabilities of the company's vaunted mainframe systems.
Armada itself is expected in the first half of 2004.
Simultaneous multithreading is related to Intel's hyper-threading, but while Intel says current hyper-threading gives a chip a modest boost of 20 percent or so, IBM expects simultaneous multithreading will let a single chip do the work of two processors running full-bore.
news.com.com /2100-1001-983868.html   (904 words)

  
 Defeat of the Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada was a fleet assembled and dispatched by King Phillip II of Spain in attempt to invade England in 1588.
Queen Elizabeth I of England held the defeat of the armada as one of her greatest achievements, assisting the decline of the Spanish Empire.
In the ensuing battle of Gravelines, on August 8, the Spanish were defeated by England and the armada sailed home with remaining ships that were heavily damaged to Spain; 67 of the original 130 ships reached Spain, most in poor condition.
library.thinkquest.org /20176/armada.htm   (416 words)

  
 Spanish Armada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Armada followed the coast as far as Plymouth, where the 55 ships of the English fleet had set sail on the night of the 19th.
Indeed, the 1597 armada was in sight of the English coast and was unopposed.
Fifty years after the Armada expedition, the Dutch, who had been steadily increasing their naval power, broke the back of Spanish dominance at sea (Battle of the Downs), and it was only during the Napoleonic Wars that the British navy finally established its overwhelming mastery, at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_Armada   (3009 words)

  
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To pious Catholics everywhere--and few were as pious as King Philip himself--Mary became a Catholic martyr, and the invasion of England was seen as a way to avenge her death as well as to return England to the Roman church.
The Armada was to transport the army across the Channel to England, and then back them up as they secured their position for a march on London.
Parma's army would not be able to come out into the Channel to rendezvous with the Armada, and the Armada could not get close enough to escort the army through the blockade of English and Dutch warships.
www.salvoblue.homestead.com /armada.html   (1885 words)

  
 NissanNews
Nissan’s Armada SUV continues in 2005 to be a full-size SUV for full-size lives.
Featuring a powerful 5.6-liter V8 engine, three-row, eight-passenger seating and up to 9,100-pound towing capacity, the Armada is primed for adventures of all sizes.
The combination of a long wheelbase and manageable overall length gives the Armada enhanced stability and handling, and a longer interior with plenty of cargo room - yet short front and rear overhangs for good maneuverability.
www.nissannews.com /nissan/2005vehicles/armada/index.shtml   (102 words)

  
 ARMADA - The Association of Rocky Mountain Area Diplomacy Adversaries
The ARMADA is led by a team of three elected officers.
The ARMADA organizes itself into local chapters called "fleets." Look up the fleet in your area and get in touch with its "Admiral" to participate in occasional and not-so-occasional stabfests.
The ARMADA likes to keep its members as informed as possible about the state of the game and the hobby.
www.diplom.org /armada   (446 words)

  
 TFormers.com - The Transformers source for Glaxy Force, Energon, Superlink, Robots in Disguise, Beast Wars, Unverse, ...
Rhino can't seem to make up their minds about when The Armada Season 1 Part 2 DVD release date will be.
The Armada Season 1 Part 2 DVD is still coming out but the release date has been moved to October 3, 2006.
The charcater isn't in Armada, but the Beast Wars Transmetal Cheetor mold is (sans-vacmetal) in a new dark neon purple color theme.
tformers.com /armada.php   (1626 words)

  
 Armada, Michigan 48005 - InfoMI.com
Armada, (ar-MAY-dah), is located in northern Macomb County in Armada Township, at the junction of North and Armada Center Roads.
Armada is particularly known regionally and state-wide for celebrating the Armada Fair, always one week before the Michigan State Fair, usually falling on the third weekend in August.
It was accidentally named "Armada" in 1867, when in a drawn-out meeting to officially organize the town, Hosea Northrup, one of the town elders, abruptly got up and said: "It will be Armada," and everyone went along with it because they wanted the meeting to adjourn.
www.infomi.com /city/armada   (222 words)

  
 purevolume™ | ARMADA (WI)
The members of Armada have all grown up with music in their lives ~ whether it be that one of their parents was an opera singer, in a marching band, or just a music enthusiast there has been music around these three guys for as long as they can remember.
Originally a four piece rock band, Armada has evolved into a rockin power trio with songs ranging from punk rock to acoustic melodies and then back again to alternative rock.
Mitch Washebek, the drummer for Armada, is highly skilled, having studied percussion for seven years and drumset, specifically, for about two years.
www.purevolume.com /armadawi   (420 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Bonnie Raitt Luck of the Draw (Audiocassette): Computer & Video Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Armada takes the addictive formula of breakneck shooting action and melds it ingeniously with role-playing game (RPG) elements such as involved character interaction and a growth system based on experience points.
Part Diablo, part Gauntlet, and part Starcraft, Metro3D's Armada is a space-faring action-RPG that pits the six races of Homo Sapiens eleven millennia in the future against a mysterious biomechanical threat known as the Armada The game's universe is near infinite in size, and its genres are wide in scope.
Armada, if a bit of a let down, was and is a good idea in concept, if falls a bit short in execution.
www.amazon.com /Bonnie-Raitt-Luck-Draw-Audiocassette/dp/B00000K119   (2766 words)

  
 Armada - IcehouseOrg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In Armada, a fleet of fast, maneuverable ships does battle with a fleet of slow, powerful ships.
Armada is a turn-based, two-player, single-stash, board-less, pure-strategy game using Icehouse Pieces.
If desired, Armada could be played as a capture the flag(ship) or as a breakthrough style competition as well.
icehousegames.org /wiki/?title=Armada   (1383 words)

  
 ARMADA LTD - Security Consulting
The founding partners and senior leadership come from various backgrounds that include the US military, state government, public safety, emergency management, federal law enforcement, homeland security, and Fortune 50 corporate security.
With over 300 years of leadership experience, ARMADA is a world-class, comprehensive risk mitigation and security solutions provider.
ARMADA is pleased to announce that ANNE M. PETIT has joined the firm as
www.armadausa.com   (84 words)

  
 BBC - History - The Spanish Armada
The threat of invasion by Spain loomed large for much of Elizabeth I's reign, culminating in the launch of the Armada in 1588.
The failure of this attack enhanced the queen's popularity with her people, but did great damage to the standing of Philip II.
Philip II was born six years before Elizabeth I in 1527 and died five years before her in 1598.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/british/tudors/adams_armada_01.shtml   (451 words)

  
 Armada - technical authors and writers of user guides, online help, technical documentation for software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Armada provides technical authoring and technical writing services.
Established 15 years ago, our in-house team of technical authors and technical writers has a proven track record of producing high quality user documentation.
Armada places technical authors and technical writers in permanent and contract positions.
www.armadaonline.co.uk   (177 words)

  
 Font Bureau Fonts | Armada Styles
An experiment in algorithmic design, Armada follows the verticals and flat arches so oen to be found in the architectural geometry of cast iron and brickwork in nineteenth- century American cityscapes.
All of the weights and widths of Armada were drawn by Frere-Jones, offering a full display series of remarkable richness, all variations in a truly architectural theme & discipline; FB 1994
Among other uses, Armada is recommended for Magazine use.
www.fontbureau.com /fonts/Armada/styles   (80 words)

  
 Armada
It is a swarm of all the enemies The Armada allows the enemies to be stored in a matrix type setup where you can acces the rows by the indeces into the main ArrayList of armada.
It has functions to allow the addition of rows, the removal of an enemy in it and insertion of enemied to be staggered.
The constructor for Armada takes advantage of the default constructor and it initializes all of its data.
www.duke.edu /~jbs3/cps108/ooga/oogadocs/actor/Armada.html   (497 words)

  
 Nissan-Me   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
For too many years you've had to make a choice between performance and versatility.
As the first full- size SUV from Nissan, ARMADA has three rows of seats to accommodate up to eight people.
ARMADA offers everything you need to handle whatever weekday problems you encounter, and whatever weekend fun you can think of.
www.nissan-me.com /armada/index.htm   (70 words)

  
 Armada_Resourcehome.page
I am now happy to have opened the Armada 2 maps section, at the momment they are all on one page but when I receive more I will split them up, If you have any maps please send them in by
Concerning the release date of Armada 2 in the UK, I've heard that some people who ordered from gameplay.com and indead a friend of mine have received their copy of Armada 2 today, hopefully other suppliers won't be far behind with the offical release date set as tomorrow.
If you have any Armada 2 maps please send them in using the map submission page, I have collected quite a few now and will be adding them shortly.
www.geocities.com /armada2uk/Armada_Resourcehome.html   (368 words)

  
 Armada
Armada Boat Cover - 17 CC ('94 - '95) - Custom Cover
Armada Boat Cover - 18 FD ('91) - Custom Cover
Armada Boat Cover - 17 FS ('91) - Custom Cover
www.go2marine.com /category.do?no=14827   (303 words)

  
 The Armada Fair
The Armada Agricultural Society Annual Board Meeting will be held on Monday, December 4, 2006 at 7:00 PM.
The meeting will be held at the Creek Side K of C Hall located at 72025 North Avenue, in Armada.
To the many of you who share your ideas, thoughts and concerns on how we can improve, lets continue to keep the lines of communication open, it is the key to the continuing success of the Armada Fair.
www.armadafair.org   (265 words)

  
 Armada 2 Files - The Ultimate Star Trek: Armada Series Download resource!
12-29 '06 13:17 - Conversion's from Armada 2 to Legacy...i...
Use of Armada 2 Files materials is subject to certain Terms and Conditions.
Star Trek and related marks are trademarks of Paramount Pictures.
armada2.filefront.com   (458 words)

  
 Armada Group - shipping and seatransport - Frontpage
New part-time port captain in Armada (Greece) Co., Ltd.
New part-time portcaptain in Armada (Greece) Co., Ltd.
New Employee in Armada Shipping SA New Employee in Armada Group
www.armadagroup.com   (77 words)

  
 IGN Boards - Armada 2???   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Armada 2 was going to come out, they had everything done but the online parts i think.
But anyways metro3d bit the big one and went down in a ball of bankrupted fire so unless the sell the game rights to someone the game will probally never see the light of day.
I had been looking at my Dreamcast, at the games, and one of the most fun was Armada.
boards.ign.com /armada/b5425/76784037/p1   (626 words)

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