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Probert Encyclopaedia: Gazetteer (Bir) Birch Heath is a village in Cheshire, England. Birch Vale is a village in Derbyshire, England. Birch Hill is a village in Cheshire, England. www.probertencyclopaedia.com /G331.HTM

Oliver Close - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oliver Close is a Community-based Housing Association housing estate of the Leyton ward, East London. The second stage, at Oliver Close and Auckland Road, was approved in 1967 and consisted of two 22-storey towers (containing 200 flats) called Terence Messenger and Stanley Horstead Towers This concluded the estate with five 22-storey towers and 500 flats. Oliver Close then underwent regeneration between 1996 to 2002 under HAT and then later Community-based Housing Association. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Close   (166 words)

Close encounter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A close encounter of the first kind is a sighting of an unidentified flying object or objects. A close encounter of the fourth kind is abduction by an extraterrestrial intelligence. A close encounter of the second kind is an observation of physical evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Close_encounter   (456 words)

Brian Close - Wikiquote Brian Close was fielding close to the wicket at short leg when the batsman produced a full-blooded pull shot and the ball hit the fielder hard on the side of his face, flew straight up in the air and the batsman was caught at slip. Brian Close is a former English cricketer and cricket captain. Brian Close's reported advice to his team as Gary Sobers came in to bat was "Right lads, this guy's a left hander". en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Brian_Close   (166 words)

Glenn Close - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Close is remembered for her chilling roles as the scheming aristocrat Madame de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons and as the psychotic book editor Alex in Fatal Attraction. Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. Glenn Close in a screenshot from the film Air Force One. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glenn_Close   (557 words)

Brian Close - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Close was also noted for standing up to intimidatory bowling when he was batting and letting the ball hit his unprotected torso. Close was the youngest on the tour, and had little in common with the rest of the party; by the end he was not even on talking terms with most of them. Close was born into a working-class family in Town Street, Rawdon, Yorkshire on 24 February 1931 to Harry, a weaver, and Esther (née Barratt), the second eldest of five boys and a girl. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brian_Close   (5083 words)

Close reading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Close reading is sometimes called explication de texte, which is the name for the similar tradition of textual interpretation in French literary study. Such a reading places great emphasis on the particular over the general, paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read. A truly attentive close reading of a two-hundred-word poem might be thousands of words long without exhausting the possibilities for observation and insight. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Close_reading   (5083 words)

Election - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia When elections are called, politicians and their supporters attempt to influence policy by competing directly for the votes of constituents in what are called campaigns. An example of this kind of structural bias was the 2004 re-election of Russian president Vladimir Putin, in which the state controlled media consistently supported his election run, consistently condemned his opponents, provided virtually unlimited free advertising to Putin's campaign, and barred attempts by his opponents to run campaign advertisements. In order for democratic elections to be fair and competitive, opposition parties and candidates must enjoy the rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and movement as necessary to voice their criticisms of the government openly and to bring alternative policies and candidates to the voters. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections   (2689 words)

Encyclopedia: Close combat Close Combat III: The Russian Front - Depicting the whole German campaign against the Soviet Union, you command either German or Soviet troops on the plains and in the cities. Close Combat is the name of a series of tactical RTS computer games by Atomic Games, as well as a first-person shooter by Destineer Games. Close Combat: First to Fight is a team-based 3D shooter in the vein of the Rainbow Six series of games. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Close-combat   (1645 words)

Chuck Close - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chuck Close (born July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington) is an American photorealistic painter. In 1988, Close had a spinal artery collapse, on the day he was to give a speech at an art awards ceremony. Close's work was first exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art in early 1973. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chuck_Close   (485 words)

Cardinal vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For instance, the vowel of the English word "feet" can be described with reference to cardinal vowel 1, [i], which is the cardinal vowel closest to it. Vowel sound produced when the tongue is in an extreme position, either front or back, high or low. These eight vowels are known as the eight 'primary cardinal vowels', and vowels like these are common in the world's languages. www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cardinal_vowel   (410 words)

UNIL / Linguistique - phonetic On the other hand, the a vowel could not be much more close than the “standard” close vowels (first degree of aperture) and still be vocalic, rather than some kind of spirant or fricative consonant, depending on the degree of muscular tension. This sound is produced by articulating a very close unrounded front “vowel” (a close [i]), but without vibration of the vocal cords. This sound is produced by articulating a very close rounded front "vowel" (a close [y]), but the articulation is extremely brief. www2.unil.ch /ling/english/phonetique/api45-eng.html   (248 words)

Close vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Close vowels are often referred to as high vowels, as in the Americanist phonetic tradition, because the tongue is positioned high in the mouth during the articulation of a close vowel. The defining characteristic of a close vowel is that the tongue is positioned as close as possible to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. A close vowel is a type of vowel sound used in many spoken languages. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Close_vowel   (193 words)

Chuck Close - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Close's work was first exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art in early 1973. In 1988, Close had a spinal artery collapse, on the day he was to give a speech at an art awards ceremony. Close continued to paint with a brush held between his teeth, creating mini-portraits in grid squares created by an assistant. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chuck_Close   (493 words)

Close Harmony Close Harmony was purchased from the estate of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and had previously been kept at the Royal Studs. Close Harmony is now in foal to Erhaab, who was a Derby winner in 1994. Close Harmony is 11 years old and is the progeny of Highland Lyric and Bustino. www.fryerning.com /html/close_harmony.html   (493 words)

Eric Close - An Unofficial Web Site Eric Close was on the ACM Awards last night on CBS. Welcome to my new and improved Eric Close site. A particularly outstanding job by Eric Close in this episode and a tip of the hat to Marianne Jean-Baptiste as well. www.barrettcorner.com /close   (493 words)

Eric Close TAKEN DVD Eric Close, however, has been turning heads since he debuted as Sawyer Walker on the daytime drama Santa Barbara in 1992. Eric Close has starred in such series as McKenna, The Magnificent Seven, Sisters and Dark Skies and such TV movies as Without Consent,The Stranger Beside Me and Follow The Stars Home. Eric Close's performance as Michael Wiseman in the CBS series Now and Again earned him the nod as one of People magazine's Breakout Stars of 2000. www.scifi.com /taken/dvd/eric-close.html   (493 words)

Close combat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Also known as hand to hand combat, it is most ancient form of fighting known to man. A majority of cultures have their own particular histories related to close combat, and their own methods of practice. Close Combat is also the name of a series of 5 computer games by Atomic Games. Close Combat 4: Battle of the Bulge, which follows the German Ardennes offensive of Dec. 1944 en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Close_combat   (166 words)

Brian Cocivera - The Rock Drummer Brian played that drumset everyday for the next couple of years, and was playing the drums for the school choruses, and show choirs. Brian took lessons with Dave for a couple of years, and was able to adapt his playing in to a wide variety of musical settings. Brian's grandmother, Cecelia Hood, was his biggest fan, as she would attend every "concert" in the Cocivera living room. www.chopshopdrums.com /briancocivera/bio.php   (637 words)

Close Front Unrounded Vowel Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography Its vowel height is close, which means the tongue is positioned as close as possible to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are spread. www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Close_front_unrounded_vowel   (374 words)

sidc Closed phase The portion of the cycle of vibration of the vocal folds when the folds are in contact. Closing diphthong A diphthong where the final target quality is closer than the quality at the start of the glide. Closing phase The portion of the cycle of vocal fold vibration during which vocal fold contact is increasing. www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/johnm/sid/sidc.htm   (2471 words)

> Vowel abcworld.net In tonal languages, in most cases the tone of a syllable is carried by the vowel, meaning that the relative pitch or the pitch contour that marks the tone is superimposed on the vowel. Vowels are especially important to the structures of words in languages that have very few consonants (like Polynesian languages such as Maori and Hawaiian), and in languages whose inventory of vowels is larger than its inventory of consonants (like Sedang, a relative of Vietnamese, which contrasts 55 different vowel qualities). Furthermore, in English some vowel sounds are represented by combinations of vowel letters, such as the ea in beat or by a vowel letter and an approximant letter, as the ow in how, or the er in her. www.abcworld.net /Vowel.html   (3170 words)

Close-up - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Close-ups are often used as cutaways from a more distant shot to show detail, such as characters' emotions, or some intricate activity by their hands. Television shows that do not use close-ups are often described as creating an immediate feeling of emotional distance from the characters. Close cuts to characters' faces are used far more often in television than in movies; they are especially common in soap operas. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Close-up   (303 words)

What is Close reading? Close reading means not only reading and understanding the meanings of the individual printed words; it also involves making yourself sensitive to all the nuances and connotations of language as it is used by skilled writers. Close reading can be seen as four separate levels of attention which we can bring to the text. This is an abrupt and astonishingly short 'sentence' with which to start a six hundred page novel. www.mantex.co.uk /samples/closeread.htm   (303 words)

Kepler conjecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In fact, there are irregular arrangements that are denser than the cubic close packing arrangement over a small enough volume, but any attempt to extend these arrangements to fill a larger volume always reduces their density. It says that no arrangement of equal spheres filling space has a greater average density than that of the cubic close packing (face centred cubic) and hexagonal close packing arrangements. So the Kepler conjecture is now very close to becoming a theorem. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kepler_conjecture   (1258 words)

Close to Home - HomeFinder: Cincinnati.Com NORTH BEND - It is a place rich in history, sparse in population and thinner still in commerce, a village that relishes its bucolic existence and now, with a modicum of apprehension, faces a future rosy with promise. North Bend never became anything other than a tiny village, a peaceful place, inert, unchanging, just a few square miles - population about 550 - and that is what endures as one of its charms, say those who live here. North Bend voters overwhelmingly rejected a levy to operate the police department - just eight of 169 voters were in favor of it - and defeated an operating levy homefinder.cincinnati.com /closetohome/cth_northbend_100796.html   (1258 words)

Points of sail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is any upwind angle between Close Hauled and a Beam Reach. The boat is pointed too close to the wind for the sails to generate any power (unless they are 'backed', see above). This point of sail lets the boat travel diagonally upwind. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Points_of_sail   (1258 words)

Home Close Harmony updates the memorable age of Swing, pulsing smoothly with mellow jazz styling and soft-rock ballads. Close Harmony - a nine piece jazz and swing band features your favorite "big band" sounds. Close Harmony plays music ideal for listening or dancing, for private parties or concerts in the park. www.closeharmony.net   (1258 words)

Business Day Harmony shareholders vote on the Gold Fields bid on Friday, November 12, while Harmony's early settlement offer for 34.9% of Gold Fields closes on November 26, 2004. Harmony's subsequent offer for the whole of Gold Fields closes on February 4, 2005. Harmony Chief Executive Bernard Swanepoel in a presentation on Harmony's bid for Gold Fields, also aimed at refuting Gold Fields' claims, said that Harmony would be able to achieve total projected savings of 1.035 billion rand or 15.38% of Gold Fields' total costs of 6.729 billion rand. www.bday.co.za /bday/content/direct/1,3523,1746984-6078-0,00.html   (1258 words)

AskMen.com - Glenn Close pictures Close's onscreen sex appeal is frequently demonstrated in roles that have her portraying tough, independent, no-nonsense females who are often in positions of authority, like the vice-president in Air Force One or the unscrupulous sensual opportunist in Dangerous Liaisons. Star of stage, screen and television, critically acclaimed award-winning actress Glenn Close is regarded as one of the finest thespians of her generation. AskMen.com feature on Glenn Close that includes pics, pictures, biography, video, related news, vital stats, commentary, and cool facts. www.askmen.com /women/actress_250/288b_glenn_close.html   (1106 words)

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