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  Operation Ivy
It inaugurated the thermonuclear age with the first "true" thermonuclear test (code name Mike), which was considerably more powerful than all the high explosives used in two World Wars put together.
Ivy also tested the highest yield pure fission weapon ever exploded.
The device detonated in the King ("k" for "kiloton") test was dropped by a B-36H bomber flying out of Kwajalein Island.
nuclearweaponarchive.org /Usa/Tests/Ivy.html   (1097 words)

  
  Ivy King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ivy King was the explosion of the largest pure fission nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States.
The bomb was tested during the Truman administration as part of Operation Ivy, the development of very powerful atomic weapons in response to the nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union.
The Ivy King bomb, designated as a Mk-18 bomb and named the "Super Oralloy Bomb", was a modified version of the Mk-6D bomb.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivy_King   (374 words)

  
 King Track & Field: Results 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
King edged into the lead with 50 to go but slowed two steps from the finish and a hard-charging effort by Kristina gave her the lean and victory.
King's introduction to the Ivy league could well have been "Well, how do you do!" A dominant performance by the girls and both JV teams over the Poly Bears showed that the new kids in the league were to be reckoned with.
King’s throwers made the biggest impact on the boy’s side as they won several medals and broke two school records, one in the shot put (Malcut, Malone and Munro-119 feet 10 inches) and one in the throwers relay (Malcut, Malone, Munro and Bowie-53.5 seconds).
eteamz.active.com /kingtrackandfield/news/index.cfm?cat=203712   (6596 words)

  
 Ivy King, 90, Roller Derby Queen - July 20, 2006 - The New York Sun
Ivy King, who died July 12 at 90, was a skater in the original Roller Derby, and the first person ever to be named its queen.
Beloved by her fans, she was known by the moniker "Poison Ivy" by those unfortunate enough to face her on the banked wooden tracks where her barnstorming Chicago Mohicans skated.
King's ferocious track persona was belied by her scrawny appearance, as well as the rather prim glasses she wore.
www.nysun.com /article/36411   (324 words)

  
 Chicagoan was world's first Roller Derby Queen Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles
King, who wore eyeglasses on the track, skated in a kinder, gentler era of the Roller Derby, and had retired before the more flamboyant hair-pulling and screaming style evolved in the 1940s.
Last November, King was back in the spotlight when she appeared at a Windy City Rollers league championship match in Chicago, where the "Ivy King Cup" was presented to the winner.
King also received a "Living Legend" award from the Hall of Fame that was presented to her on the 70th anniversary of the first Roller Derby race.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20060714/ai_n16544695   (722 words)

  
 Ringgold flattened by Gateway, 47-0 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
While Ivy and King certainly proved worthy of the pre-season hype, it was senior wide receiver Jai Wilson who put on the biggest show at Ringgold High School.
Ivy, who completed 5-of-8 for 145 yards and a touchdown, threw his last pass of the evening midway through the second quarter with 145 yards and one touchdown.
King's back-up, Justin Colbaugh, finished the scoring in the fourth quarter when he raced for a 45-yard touchdown.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_154917.html   (765 words)

  
 Gateway dethrones Woodland Hills - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
King delivered by rushing for 222 yards and three touchdowns to lead the No. 4 Gators to a 26-12 victory Friday night in a Class AAAA game before a standing room only crowd at East Allegheny's Churchman Stadium.
King broke the 38-yarder for a 14-0 lead with 3:17 left in the first half.
Ivy kept a drive alive by drawing the Wolverines offsides on fourth-and-3 at the 25, and King scored the 1-yarder for a 20-0 lead with 9.8 seconds remaining in the half.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/news/s_153733.html   (611 words)

  
 Beloit Daily News
Ivy, however, said the words were taken out of context.
King never meant to ignore color, but to be aware of it.
In Ivy's opinion, King would never have wanted America to be blind to the history of injustice African Americans have endured in this country.
www.beloitdailynews.com /articles/2006/01/16/news/news01.txt   (775 words)

  
 F. King Bug - Ivy Leaguers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ivy Leaguers was recorded in July of 1986, and was F.
Ivy Leaguers, like all previous F. King Bug albums, was written and recorded in a very short period of time.
From the frantic punk strains of Defrost, or the lounge lizard act of "Lenny Hoffman's" A Lei For You, to the disco turn on Color Me Excited it is clear that no musical genre is safe from their interpretation.
home.earthlink.net /~codepen/il.html   (225 words)

  
 Operation Ivy - Wikimedia Commons
en: Operation Ivy was a series of two nuclear tests done by the United States in 1952.
Ivy Mike was the first test of a thermonuclear weapon, detonated on October 31/November 1, 1952 by the United States.
Ivy King was a test of a very high yield pure-fission bomb, detonated on November 15, 1952, with a yield of 500 kilotons.
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Operation_Ivy   (111 words)

  
 KingBio.com - Relief from Poison Ivy/Oak and Other Irritants - Natural, Homeopathic Remedies for Allergies, Weight ...
The leaves of poison oak are more irregular than those of poison ivy, and both have clusters of small, yellowish or white berries that appear in summer and fall.
The oil (resin) that poison ivy and poison oak produce - a chemical in the sap - is called urushiol (pronounced oo-roo-shee-ohl).
In addition, Dr. King is the founder and director of King Bio; a registered homeopathic manufacturing company dedicated to empowering people to safely and naturally overcome the common problems plaguing our society.
www.kingbio.com /articles/articles-poisonivy.html   (701 words)

  
 Ivy League Sports
The Ivy League once again rang in with the highest APR scores in the nation, receiving an overall average of 993.8 -- with 20 broad-based sports having top scores.
Unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year Matt McMonagle highlighted a list of seven first-team All-Ivy picks from the top-ranked Big Red, while Dartmouth freshman Ari Sussman was named 2007 Rookie of the Year.
The All-Ivy teams for rowing were determined at Eastern Sprints over the weekend as the rowers in the first Ivy boat in the varsity eight races were named to the first team while the members of the second Ivy boat were named second team.
www.ivyleaguesports.com /news.asp   (1431 words)

  
 Washington Native Plant Society
As part of our educational outreach and to help prevent re-establishment of ivy in cleared areas, we are contacting local nurseries to encourage them to help prevent the spread of English ivy by refusing to sell it.
In King County ivy control methods are so far based on educational outreach.
King County has listed English ivy as a weed of concern, and has produced a brochure about the invasive potential of English ivy, which we strongly encourage you to read.
www.ivyout.org /IvyFreeForm.htm   (381 words)

  
 Newport Rhode Island Bed and Breakfast, The Ivy Lodge, RI
This spacious room is located on the third floor with a king size bed, raised fireplace, private bath (shower only) and the only room with a skylight above the fireplace.
The king size bed in this room can be split into two twin beds and the room is equipped with cable television.
Ivy Lodge ~ 12 Clay Street ~ Newport, RI 02840
www.ivylodge.com /trunk.asp   (92 words)

  
 Operation Ivy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operation Ivy was the eighth series of American nuclear tests, coming after Tumbler-Snapper and before Upshot-Knothole.
The purpose of the tests was to help upgrade the U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons, in response to the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
The second test, King, was a test of the largest nuclear weapon ever built at the time which utilized only nuclear fission as the source of its energy (it had none of its energy added from fusion or fusion boosting).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Ivy   (358 words)

  
 Football Travels to Brown Seeking Third Win | The Cornell Daily Sun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As King Henry IV said, “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” For the Brown football team, the Ivy League crown has proven too heavy to hold.
Brown (1-4, 0-2 Ivy) is mired in a four-game losing streak and will be looking for its first league victory in its Homecoming match-up against the Red (2-3, 0-2 Ivy).
With the Ivy king all but de-throned, Cornell’s quest for the crown continues tomorrow at Brown Stadium.
www.cornellsun.com /node/19071   (590 words)

  
 Roller Derby Diva: R.I.P. Ivy King, roller derby queen
Ivy King retired in the early 40s and was elected to the Roller Derby Hall
Ivy King was an amazing woman who had lived an extraordinary life.
Ivy King will be laid to rest in Chicago this Saturday, July 15.
frontier.cincinnati.com /blogs/pcult/2006/07/rip-ivy-king-roller-derby-queen.asp   (775 words)

  
 Nuclear Issues
November - Operation Ivy opens at Enewetak and includes the first test of a hydrogen device.
The information below from the Ivy Mike test of October 31, 1952, at Enewetak Atoll, is illustrative.
Ivy Mike was the world's first thermonuclear test.
www.rmiembassyus.org /Nuclear%20Issues.htm   (3290 words)

  
 Ivy Suite at Town Creek Bed and Breakfast Fredericksburg
This relaxing zen-like suite is 1890's is original construction down to the stained glass door, bead board walls, and pine plank floors.
Staying here will whisk you back to the early days of Frederickburg Texas when the Town Creek property was actually an in town farm house on the edge of city limits.
This suite may be combined with the Victorian Rose Suite to accommodate parties of 6 sharing a common parlor.
www.fredericksburg-fun.com /a_ivy_suite.htm   (107 words)

  
 NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
A girl strapped to a stretcher holds up a "rock on!" hand gesture as she is wheeled out of the stadium, while the sold-out crowd and her teammates cheer her on--and the bout has not even begun.
It's the big one, the final bout of the year for the Windy City Rollers, the battle at Cicero Stadium for the Ivy King Cup Championship.
The seats are packed; everyone from punk-rock boyfriends, Grandmas and Grandpas in red flannel shirts to the roller dames' children fill the stands.
www.newcitychicago.com /chicago/5920.html   (371 words)

  
 The Years of Atmospheric Testing: 1945-1963
The Ivy MIKE shot was the first U.S. thermonuclear test using the Teller-Ulam radiation-implosion principle.
It used liquid deuterium as the fusion fuel and yielded 10.7 megatons.
Ivy KING was an air-drop of the "Super-Oralloy" all-fission bomb, with a yield of 500 kilotons.
www.cddc.vt.edu /host/atomic/atmosphr   (705 words)

  
 Volume Visualization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
TASS (Terminal Area Simulation System) was written for NASA by Fred Proctor in 1987 to study mesoscale weather events like thunderstorms and microbursts, but it was also run on the Cray YMP at Los Alamos to study the atmospheric effects of nuclear blasts.
To validate it for this purpose, it was used to simulate actual tests, including the November 1952 Ivy King shot, a 500 kiloton airburst over Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific.
I was a freelance computer artist creating viewgraphs for a Defense Department contractor in 1990 when I first encountered the Ivy King simulation.
home.comcast.net /~erniew/renders/volume.html   (493 words)

  
 Poison Ivy Soap by Burt's Bees
My kids are very prone to getting poison ivy and cannot seem to resist playing in the fields and creek beds.
They get poison ivy several times a year.
Poison Ivy and Oak Relief by King Bio, 2 oz.
www.taoofherbs.com /products/2273/BurtsBees/PoisonIvySoap.htm   (222 words)

  
 Skin Rash Hall of Fame - 1/43   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He got this famous rash by digging a hole in the ground and scraping the earth up with his forearms - not realizing that the roots in the hole were poison ivy.
Which proves you can get the rash from the roots.
This photo has become the symbol for the folks at Ivy Block.
www.poison-ivy.org /rash/source/digger.htm   (54 words)

  
 Off the Shelf—“Dragon On a Pedestal”
The story opens with King Dor of Xanth, his wife Irene and daughter Ivy, along with a party of travelers, heading to Castle Zombie for a birthday party.
Additionally, the high ranking dignitaries of Xanth, the king and Zombie Master, are expecting a visit from Good Magician Humphrey so that a couple of new problems in the realm can be discussed.
While Ivy meets up with both the baby Gap Dragon, who becomes her friend Stanley Steamer, and Hugo, who becomes her Night in Shiny Armor, the children go walking about the landscape running into various dangers and surmounting them only by the fact that Ivy’s powers are to enhance things around her.
www.legendsmagazine.net /140/dragon.htm   (612 words)

  
 Herod-Jerusalem through Coins
Mattathias Antigonus, son of Aristobulus II and last Maccabean ruler, bribed the Parthians (Rome's foe) to invade Jerusalem with the objective of deposing his Uncle and current ruler John Hyrcanus II.
Herod (later "The Great"), Governor of Galilee under Hyrcanus, escaped and made way to Rome where he (Herod) was designated King of Judaea when he returned to capture Judaea from Antigonus under Roman authority.
Matthew 2.1, Then Herod (the Great), when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was in a furious rage, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under..
mysite.verizon.net /~vze3xycv/Jerusalem/confHerodMac.htm   (399 words)

  
 Holly
At every summer's end, the Holly King fought and won a battle with the Oak King for the rulership of the year, and reigned supreme over the dark season.
Holly was often paired with ivy, whose fl berries symbolized night and darkness.
Now Midsummer is past, and the Holly King has won its yearly battle with the Oak King, we welcome this tree with its white blossoms, that will before long turn into the familiar red berries that brighten the dark of our year.
www.druidry.org /obod/trees/holly.html   (1535 words)

  
 Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana - Where is Ivy Tech Located?
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana - Where is Ivy Tech Located?
Did you know that Ivy Tech Community College is the second largest college or university in Indiana?
Select an area from the list below to see all locations in that area where Ivy Tech classes are offered.
www.ivytech.edu /campuses   (149 words)

  
 Stephen King related Haiku Poems from the ABSK newsgroup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
If you are a Stephen King fan, then ABSK is one of the best places on the Internet for information about the man and his books.
Many poems were placed in a common thread, and each author was contacted to see if their poems could be placed online.
No information may be used from any page without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.
www.horrorking.com /absk_haiku.html   (115 words)

  
 NPR : Ivy King, the Roller Derby Queen
NPR : Ivy King, the Roller Derby Queen
Day to Day, July 21, 2006 · Ivy King was one of the first superstars of roller derby.
King, who started her derby skating career during the mid-1930s, died last week at the age of 90.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5573249&ft=1&f=1021   (115 words)

  
 King of the Paparazzi
Moments later she had reversed her direction and was seen driving back past The IVY, according to eye witnesses, in excess of fifty miles per hour.
Check out the scene shot by our photographers and videographers who had photographed he earlier and were still at The IVY when she sped past and crashed in front of The NEWSROOM.
When she crashed, she and her companion ran into the appropriately named HIDEAWAY ANTIQUES without checking on the status of the injured driver of the van.
kingpaparazzi.blogspot.com   (642 words)

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