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  Rhino Entertainment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhino Entertainment Company is a specialty record label originally known for releasing retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Richard Pryor, Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, and Spike Jones.
Rhino also owns the rights to The Monkees (which they acquired from Columbia Pictures in the late 1980s), and thus has released home videos and CDs from the group.
Rhino's retrospective compact disc releases are often remastered to restore or improve upon the original analog release's audio quality, a common practice now.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhino_Entertainment   (381 words)

  
 Rhino Entertainment: Just the facts...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rhino Entertainment is a specialty record label (additional info and facts about record label) originally known for releasing retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Stan Freberg (additional info and facts about Stan Freberg), Tom Lehrer (additional info and facts about Tom Lehrer), and Spike Jones (additional info and facts about Spike Jones).
Rhino also owns the rights to The Monkees (additional info and facts about The Monkees) (which they acquired from Columbia Pictures (additional info and facts about Columbia Pictures) in the late 1980s (The decade from 1980 to 1989)), and thus has released home videos and CDs from the group.
Rhino's retrospective compact disc releases are often remaster (additional info and facts about remaster) ed to restore or improve upon the original analog release's audio quality, a common practice now.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/rh/rhino_entertainment.htm   (302 words)

  
 Rhinoceros | Animal Facts | Chaffee Zoological Gardens of Fresno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The horned (cerato-) beast (therium) with the flat-nose (simum) is the square-lipped white rhino.
Rhinos have hind gut fermentation, like horses, and can handle considerable amounts of fiber in their diet, although they prefer quality vegetation when it is available.
Rhinos have very poor eyesight and are unable to pick out a motionless human at 30 yards, consequently they depend on their good sense of hearing and their terrific sense of smell.
www.chaffeezoo.org /animals/rhino.html   (963 words)

  
 Rhinoceros -- Kids' Planet -- Defenders of Wildlife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The white rhino is the second largest land mammal next to the elephant.
Rhino habitat ranges from savannas to dense forests in tropical and subtropical regions.
Rhinos use their horns not only in battles for territory or females but also to defend themselves from lions, tigers and hyenas.
www.kidsplanet.org /factsheets/rhinoceros.html   (324 words)

  
 Animal Info - Javan Rhinoceros
Rhino horn is valued highly for use in Oriental medicine (as a drug to reduce fever), and in Yemen horns are carved to make traditional dagger handles.
However, the Indian rhino is a little larger, its skin folds are slightly different and its skin is "knobby" as opposed to the smoother skin of the Javan rhino.
Sumatran rhinos) occurred in the same general region, and early reports failed to distinguish between them, it is impossible to be certain of the precise historical range.
www.animalinfo.org /species/artiperi/rhinsond.htm   (1408 words)

  
 Black Rhinoceros - Bagheera
The rhino may be the source of the belief in unicorns, legendary animals whose horn was said to be a panacea for all types of ailments.
Rhinos were killed in protected areas because governments could not afford to patrol the parks to stop poachers.
It is known, however, that in some areas, a mother rhino uses her horn to defend her young from attacks by cats and hyenas.
www.bagheera.com /inthewild/van_anim_rhino.htm   (1077 words)

  
 Rhino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rhinos belong to the same group of animals as horses; both are "odd-toed ungulates", or Perissodactyla.
Rhino but all are on the verge of extinction, a crisis of catastrophic proportions for such a venerable group of animals.
The fl rhino has suffered the most spectacular rate of decline of all rhino species in the last 10 to 15 years with populations reduced 85%.
www.solcomhouse.com /Rhino.htm   (476 words)

  
 Rhino : Home
Rhino® is a leader in the agricultural equipment industry with emphasis on tractor mounted rotary and flail grass mowers, front end tractor loaders, backhoes, brush cutters, stalk shredders, and hay mowers; rear blades, post hole diggers, pasture renovators, finishing mowers, rotary tillers, boom cutters, and landscape rakes.
Rhino equipment is used in agricultural, commercial, or industrial mowing applications, landscape preparation, pasture aeration, roadside maintenance, and many other farm and ranch applications.
RHINO is a registered trademark of Alamo Group, Inc. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
www.servis-rhino.com   (643 words)

  
 RHINO Case
Virtually every part of the rhino isused: the horn for alleviating fever, the skin for treating skindisease, the penis as an aphrodisiac, the bone to treat bonedisorders, and the blood "as a tonic for women who are suffering from menstrual problems".
Rhino are highly sensitive tohabitat changes, and trans-located animals often die from eatingpoisonous plants or straying over unfamiliar, dangerous inclines.
The rhinos are on the brink of extinction.
www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/RHINO.HTM   (2901 words)

  
 TraXmusic.Org review: BigTick Rhino review, by Devon Brent.
Yet Rhino is bold, powerful, and beastly, yet it’s lilting, gracious, and smooth, and it’s here to pack a punch or caress away your sorrows in your music.
Rhino is no lightweight providing 6 oscillator slots, and the inclusion of 100+ waveforms with the possibility to import your own, and 2 multimode filters with 6 filter types.
Bottom line, Rhino is what Atmosphere should have been in means of sonic control in the software world, and is offered at a pittance of the asking price.
www.traxmusic.org /bigtick-rhino.shtml   (1610 words)

  
 Rhino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Garmin Rhino is a hand-held combination GPS receiver and FRS two-way radio.
The Rhino Bar and Pumphouse is a bar located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Rhino is the nom de guerre of a legendary Sergeant in the United States Army Infantry.
The Rhino served in the 1st Cavalry Division, the 101st Airborne Division, the 1st Infantry Division, the Second Infantry Division, and the Third Infantry Division.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhino   (244 words)

  
 Rhino Pallets : Home
They were spending $5,000 per month on wood pallets, but the pallets were continually falling apart and the splinters caused unnecessary cleanup.
The company purchased 1,000 RHINO aluminum pallets over a three-month period, eliminating the problems associated with the wood pallets.
"The RHINO pallets have minimized cleanup, improved the image of the company and, to some extent, improved moral," said a senior executive.
www.rhinopallet.com   (130 words)

  
 RHINOS: A FAMILY OF VARIANT CHESS PIECES
Ralph Betza invented the the TwiKnight or TwiKnight Double-Header(the Rhino), the KnightTwi (the Mirror-Rhino) and the Bronx (the Double-Rhino) for Confusion Chess in 1996.
The Rhino's basic move came from combining the movement of the Xiangqi Horse or Mao with that of the Wazir.
While a Rhino can reach twice as many or more squares than a Nightrider, their relative value is unclear, since much of a Nightrider's value lies in its ability to jump over obstructing pieces, and to attack pieces behind lines of Pawns.
www.chessvariants.org /piececlopedia.dir/rhino.html   (1309 words)

  
 African Wildlife Foundation: Wildlives
Rhinos are also rather ill-tempered and have become more so in areas where they have been constantly disturbed.
The closest rhino relationship is between a female and her calf, lasting from 2 to 4 years.
The dramatic decline in rhino numbers is unfortunate in an era of increasing conservation and wildlife awareness, but efforts are underway to save the rhino from extinction.
www.awf.org /wildlives/5   (782 words)

  
 African Wildlife Foundation: Rhino Conservation
In the early 1970s rhino horn was in high demand in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, and these magnificent creatures were being poached to the brink of extinction.
When demands for rhino horn increased in later years, however, AWF initiated a public awareness campaign on rhino conservation (1993) specifically for Taiwan and other East Asian countries that consumed rhino horn, in the hope that educating the public about the threat to rhino survival would reduce demand.
This park proved to be so invaluable to rhino conservation that from 1994 to mid-1995 AWF donated funds to the park for horseback patrols, camera equipment and incentives for rangers.
www.awf.org /wildlives/rhino.php   (1002 words)

  
 Rhino
The baby rhinos make a squeak, and the adult fl rhinos create what is termed a "burst" in which they generate a loud burst of sound which is mostly below the range of human hearing and can travel great distance in the forest.
The largest of the Asian rhinos, male Indian rhinos weigh approximately 2,200 kg (nearly 1,000 pounds) and range in height from 170 to 186 cm (67 to 73 inches) and are 368 to 380 cm (145 to 150 inches) long.
Rhino horn: The horn on a rhinoceros is very different from that of a sheep or antelope.
www.thewildones.org /Conflict/rhino.html   (1121 words)

  
 Animal Info - Sumatran Rhinoceros
The Sumatran rhino is found in a wide variety of habitats, from lowland rain forests and swamps to mountain moss forests.
The Sumatran rhino makes seasonal movements, staying in hilly country when the lowlands are flooded during the rains, descending when the weather has become cool near the end of the rains, and returning to high ground by March.
The two main reasons for the Sumatran rhino's decline have been poaching for virtually all of the parts of its body (especially the horn), which are believed by some peoples of the Orient to have medicinal purposes, and loss of its forested habitat due to conversion of the land to other uses.
www.animalinfo.org /species/artiperi/dicesuma.htm   (1892 words)

  
 MarvelDirectory.com
Again, the Rhino was remanded to a high-security state facility, where he was kept under heavy sedation.
The Rhino's battle with the Hulk piqued the interest of the gamma-irradiated super-genius known as the Leader, one of the green goliath's foremost adversaries.
Freed from the state facility and newly empowered by the Leader, the Rhino was dispatched to crash the wedding of Banner and Betty Ross.
www.marveldirectory.com /individuals/r/rhino.htm   (702 words)

  
 Rotary Cutters
Rhino offers over 50 different basic rotary cutter models with hundreds of possible feature combinations to fit most applications.
RHINO guarantees each piece of Rhino equipment against defective materials and workmanship for a period of one year from the date of delivery to the purchaser unless otherwise specified.
RHINO reserves the right to make changes and/or improvements in design and construction of parts or machines shown herein without notice or obligation.
www.servis-rhino.com /Catalog/RotaryCutters   (143 words)

  
 RHINO WINCH - THE NEW CONCEPTS IN WINCHES!!!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Because the Rhino Winch does not need to be permanently attached to your vehicle, you are not limited to pulling in one direction.
The Rhino Winch is a new concept in winches.
The Rhino Winch attaches to your wheel, and you control it from the safety of the inside of your vehicle.
www.marimaxconcepts.net   (208 words)

  
 WWF | Rhinos | Featured Projects
Individual rhinos are either recognized by a distinctive natural characteristic or because they have been captured and "ear notched." When a rhino is "ear notched" it is tranquilized and a small triangle is cut into its ear.
This is part of a strategy to establish additional rhino populations outside Royal Chitwan National Park and brings the total number of rhinos in Bardia to 100.
Cat Tien, Vietnam's Last Rhinos - In the 1980s, a small population of 7-10 Javan rhinos, thought to be extinct in Vietnam, was discovered clinging to survival in an unprotected Vietnamese forest.
worldwildlife.org /rhinos/projects.cfm   (732 words)

  
 Rhino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The African species are the white, or square-lipped, and the fl rhinos.
This rhino was once found throughout most of India, particularly in lush river valleys.
There are fewer than 100 Javan rhinos on a game reserve in western Java, and many believe they are extinct in the wild.
www.buddycom.com /animal/special/rhino   (605 words)

  
 Rhino's Blog
In The Rhino's experience, Michael was one of the most intellegent, passionate, fearless and funny of the American Indian Movement activists.
Rhino's Bottom Line is an essay by the Editor of Indian Country Today, on the relevance of the controversial legacy of Cristobal Columbus in the year 2005.
As many know, The Rhino was a founding member back in the 1970's, of the Tennessee intentional community known as The Farm (www.thefarm.org), and its relief and development organization known as Plenty (www.plenty.org).
www.rhinosblog.info   (6210 words)

  
 Rhinoceros, modelador NURBS para Windows
Rhino proporciona las herramientas para modelar sus proyectos con precisión y dejarlos listos para el renderizado, la animación, el dibujo, la ingeniería, el análisis y la fabricación.
Rhino puede crear, editar, analizar y traducir curvas NURBS, superficies y sólidos en Windows.
Rhino también es compatible con mallas poligonales y nubes de puntos.
www.es.rhino3d.com   (190 words)

  
 Northern White Rhino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Northern White Rhino is critically endangered in ironic contrast to the status of its relative the Southern White Rhino, which is the most abundant of all rhino taxa known today.
In the 1970s and 80s, poachers reduced the number of northern white rhinos from 500 to 15, however by the early 1990s through mid 2003 the rhino population had recovered to double their low point to more than 32 rhinos.
Another ten Northern White Rhino are maintained in two zoological institutions: seven (3.4) at the Dvur Kralove in the Czech Republic and the remaining three (1.2) located at the San Diego Wild Animal Park in the United States.
www.rhinos-irf.org /rhinoinformation/whiterhino/subspecies/northern.htm   (303 words)

  
 Labock Technologies - Armored Vehicles - Bullet Resistant Glass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Rhino Runner™ Minibus and Bus have two basic types: one for military use and the other one for civilian use.
The civilian type is suitable for public transportation aswell as personnel protection while travelling from and to remote mining and oil extraction facilities.
Further, the performance of the vehicle is optimal, which is even better than a lightly armored bus, since the vehicle is built to carry the armoring, instead of the armoring being built for an existing vehicle.
www.labock.com /english/av_runner.htm   (720 words)

  
 Spider-Man Enemies: RHINO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Rhino's new sense of self-assuredness led to open resentment of his treatment at the hands of his employers and he turned on them, destroying their headquarters.
The Rhino served a commuted sentence and was discharged.
The Rhino's battle with the Hulk came to the attention of the Leader, the Hulk's foremost nemesis, who decided that the Rhino's present state was a starting point for further gamma-ray treatments to enable him to overcome the Hulk.
www.alaph.com /spiderman/enemies/rhino.html   (1001 words)

  
 Rhino Limited : design - print - media - web - promotion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rhino Ltd are a contemporary design based provider of business marketing solutions.
Rhino Ltd provide reliable assistance to many design agencies and print companies.
Rhino can work with or as part of your company enabling you to increase your value to existing and new customers alike.
www.rhinouk.com   (149 words)

  
 Download
This is a fully functional version except it has limited materials, light fixture, and plant libraries, and it also draws thin fl lines across the final rendered image.
If you would like to shape the next Rhino release, download the latest WIP/beta version and post your feedback on the Rhino newsgroup.
The latest version of the curriculum guide and training manuals that are included in the Rhino Lab Kit.
www.rhino3d.com /download.htm   (365 words)

  
 Comedy Stage Hypnosis Kansas City, Missouri
Rhino has entertained for Kansas and Missouri groups including Stanford's Comedy Club, UMKC, Webster University, Erin K's bachelorette party and for a Midwest sorority.
Hypnotism is very similar to guided meditation and as such causes many to feel relaxed and find they really want to volunteer for another of Rhino's shows.
A certified hypnotherapist, (hypnotist) Rhino has the skills and talent to make your corporate, school, bachelorette party, wedding, post prom party, grad night, convention, fair, festival, or fundraiser a fun funny fantastic event.
www.geocities.com /mindofapoet   (301 words)

  
 Rhino Software:  Fantasy Baseball Software, Fantasy Hockey Software, Fantasy Stats Service, and Custom Software ...
Rhino Hockey even includes a built-in dollar values calculator that enables poolies in salary-cap style leagues to evaluate player values before their draft and during the regular season.
Included with the software is a 1-season sign-up to the Rhino Stats Service which lets poolies download weekly NHL player stats from our web site and quickly import them into their Rhino Hockey database.
Rhino Software is a small software development and consulting company located in central Pennsylvania just outside of Harrisburg, the state capital.
www.rhinosoftware.com   (2991 words)

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