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  Sofia Project
The Sofia project is an open content initiative launched by the Foothill - De Anza Community College District with funding support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
The pilot effort began with a call for contributions that was extended to faculty from Foothill-De Anza, the ETUDES Alliance, and the California Virtual Campus.
The long-term vision is to broaden participation in the Sofia project, promoting openness, sharing, and collaboration globally.
sofia.fhda.edu   (228 words)

  
  Sofia Kovalevskaya
As a result, Sofia became fairly nervous and withdrawn--traits which were evident throughout her lifetime (Perl 127-128).
In July of 1874, Sofia Kovalevskaya was granted a Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen.
In her paper, Sofia developed the theory for an unsymmetrical body where the center of its mass is not on an axis in the body.
www.agnesscott.edu /lriddle/women/kova.htm   (1495 words)

  
  Sofia.com - History of Sofia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The modern city of Sofia was named in the 14th century after the basilica St. Sofia.
The Turks captured Sofia in 1382 and made it the center of the Rumelian beylerbeyship.
Between 1879 and 1939, the population of Sofia grew from 20 000 to 300 000, while today 1 250 000 people live in Sofia.
www.sofia.com /history   (438 words)

  
 Sofia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sofia was conquered by the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Murad I in 1382, becoming the capital of the Ottoman province (beylerbeylik) of Rumelia for more than 4 centuries.
Sofia was liberated by Russian forces in 1878, during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78, and became the capital of the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria in 1879, which became Kingdom of Bulgaria in 1908.
Sofia is one of the oldest capital cities in Europe, blending its past and present in a remarkable architectural style.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sofia   (2888 words)

  
 Sofia: Tutte le informazioni su Sofia su Encyclopedia.it   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sofia: Tutte le informazioni su Sofia su Encyclopedia.it
Sofia venne catturata dall'Impero Ottomano nel 1382 e divenne la capitale della provincia turca di Rumelia.
La città conta 16 istituti universitari, tra cui l'Università di Sofia, fondata nel 1889.
www.encyclopedia.it /s/so/sofia.html   (241 words)

  
 BGGLOBE - Bulgaria travel guide, аccomodation in Bulgaria, tourism, landmarks, holidays, vacations, sea, mountain, ...
The Bulgarian capital Sofia (population: 1 182 698 inhabitants) is located in the Sofiisko pole, 550 m above the sea level and occupies a territory of 1, 311 sq.
Sofia is the largest transport junction of the country.
Sofia has one subway line, dozens of bus lines that connect the capital with near – by settlements, as well as covering shorter distances in the city itself, and trolley buses that travel in many directions.
www.bgglobe.net /index.php?l=1&s=-485   (1550 words)

  
 Launch of Sofia Pilot   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sofia, an open courseware initiative, is being launched by Foothill - De Anza Community College District, under the leadership of Foothill College's Distance Learning program with support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
According to Aristotle, sofia is the "wisdom and intellectual virtue achieved when striving after the best ends and using the best means." The name reflects the idealism and philanthropic motivation behind the project.
Sofia is not meant to replace degree-granting higher education or for-credit courses.
sofia.fhda.edu /pilot_launch.htm   (827 words)

  
 Stock Flight Systems - SOFIA
The aircraft is being heavily modified for its new role as a flying astronomical observatory.
One of the most challenging problems is keeping the aircraft steady while flying with a 10-ton telescope in a huge hole in the rear of the plane that is opened to the sky.
Extensive modifications are underway at L-3 Communications to transform the B747 aircraft into the SOFIA observatory and to deliver an FAA-certified aircraft.
www.canaerospace.com /html/sofia.html   (397 words)

  
 Sofia travel guide - Wikitravel
Today, Sofia is a dynamic Eastern European capital, distinguished by its unique combination of European and Communist-style architecture as well as many beautiful orthodox churches.
For example, recent trains are scheduled from Bucharest to Sofia in the daytime departing 11:35/arriving 21:30 and a night train departing 19:35/arriving 06:10.
Sofia is one of the oldest cities in Europe with ruins spread across the city center.
wikitravel.org /en/Sofia   (0 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- SOFIA Reborn: High-Flying Observatory Faces Years of Flight Tests
The SOFIA infrared telescope can be seen in this view through the exterior cavity opening of a modified 747 aircraft that will serve as a stratospheric base for sky observations.
NASA announced this summer SOFIA would be going forward but that responsibility for flight testing the aircraft would shift from Ames Research Center -- which has long managed the program -- to Dryden, the agency's primary flight test facility.
Taylor was less specific on the question of when SOFIA might fly its first group of teachers, one of the long standing goals for the program.
www.space.com /businesstechnology/061018_techwed_sofia.html   (1266 words)

  
 SOFIA
In an age of cookie-cutter jazz singers, Sofia Laiti is utterly distinctive.
Sofia has traveled far to reach this point in her career.
Sofia herself has best captured the secret of her appeal: "I naturally use my whole heart and soul when I sing.
www.sofialaiti.netfirms.com /sofia.htm   (837 words)

  
 Sofia - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Known as Sredets under the Bulgars, it was renamed Sofia or Sophya in 1376.
Sofia passed to the Ottomans in 1382 and became the residence of the Turkish governors of Rumelia.
Landmarks include the parliament building, the state opera house, the former royal palace, the Church of St. George (4th-5th cent.), the Church of St. Sofia (6th-7th cent.), the Banya Bashi mosque (1474), and the Alexander Nevski Cathedral.
www.highbeam.com /doc/1E1:Sofia/Sofia.html?refid=ip_hf   (280 words)

  
 NASA - SOFIA – Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
SOFIA’s extensive education and public outreach programs are being conducted by an alliance of two well-known astronomy organizations, the SETI Institute and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
SOFIA’s telescope was designed and built by a consortium of Germany’s leading aerospace companies — Kayser-Threde GmbH and MAN Technologie.
Featuring three times better image quality and greater than an order of magnitude higher sensitivity than its predecessor the KAO, SOFIA is the world’s largest mobile astronomical observatory, traveling to the right place at the right time to observe celestial events.
www.nasa.gov /centers/ames/research/technology-onepagers/sofia.html   (980 words)

  
 Sofia Violins
Many Sofia instruments are owned by professional players - even in major orchestras - including concertmasters who have purchased a Sofia instrument as their primary or alternate instrument.
Sofia violins, violas and cellos are also in the hands of talented students and serious players devoted to music as an avocation.
Sofia instruments combine the deep beauty of an aged instrument with the good health of a fine new handmade masterwork.
www.sofia-violins.com /brochure.html   (762 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sofia
Sofia (Bulgarian: София) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Bulgaria, with a population of 1,203,680, and some 1,326,377 in the metropolitan area, the Capital Municipality.
After the Liberation of Bulgaria Sofia developed rapidly and the city was soon called the little Vienna, because of its elegant architecture and many cultural institutions.
Sofia Central Mineral Bath, decorated with the finest majolica tiles and completed in 1911.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sofia   (2688 words)

  
 STG: Sofia
The combination of Sofia's beautiful settings (up in the mountains, it's actually the highest capital city in Europe), a few millennia of history, and a young, vibrant and friendly population make the city perfect for at the very least a long weekend.
In common with most other cities in Eastern Europe Sofia is surrounded by pretty ugly post-war high-rise estates, but just about everything of interest in Sofia is within the relatively compact city centre so the only time you’ll see them is on your way from the airport and back.
But, generally speaking, we found Sofia’s taxi drivers to be a pretty friendly bunch, hopping around the city in a taxi for a few days isn’t going to break the bank, and they have my undying admiration for coping with the traffic in the city centre.
www.geocities.com /stevestravelguides/sofia.htm   (9567 words)

  
 Sofia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sofia, the capital, is the largest city with a population of 1.3 million and a dominant position in the country's economic, political, and cultural life.
Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia is the oldest university in Bulgaria, having been granted its charter in 1909, and is the largest and most advanced educational and research center in the country.
Among the other higher educational institutions of Sofia are: Sofia Technical University, The University of National and World Economics, The Higher Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering, The Medical Academy, The Academy of Fine Arts, The Higher School of Drama and many more.
www.cs.columbia.edu /~radev/bulgaria/Sofia.html   (185 words)

  
 4 Hotel Reservations Sofia - Accoomodation in Sofia
The modern city of Sofia was named in the 14th century after the basilica St. Sofia.
The Roman thermal baths are under the Sofia Mineral Baths and a Roman residence with elaborate mosaics is below the "Rila" hotel.
The Turks captured Sofia in 1382 and made it the center of the Rumelian beylerbeyship.
www.4hotelreservationssofia.com   (0 words)

  
 SOFIA| JSP GUI Java Development Framework - Class and Tag Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: )
SOFIA shortens application development time on the strength of its visual development capabilities and pre-built Java components that dramatically simplify coding.
SOFIA is completely based on J2EE open-standards, allowing applications to be highly portable between different vendors' application servers.
The bottom line is SOFIA improves programmers' productivity and generates real cost and time savings.
www.salmonllc.com /website/Jsp/vanity/Sofia.jsp   (337 words)

  
 The SOFIA Project at UCLA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is a joint U.S. and German project to develop and operate a 2.5 meter infrared airborne telescope in a Boeing 747-SP.
SOFIA is designed to make sensitive infrared measurements of a wide range of astronomical objects.
Eric Becklin - as SOFIA Chief Scientist, is responsible for the science requirements and interaction with the science community.
www.astro.ucla.edu /research/sofia.html   (891 words)

  
 SOFIA 2.2 adds Linux and Portal support
SOFIA is a free, open source, model-view-controller framework that brings web application development functionality similar to ASP Dot Net Web Forms to the Java developer.
SOFIA consists of a Java class library of foundation code for building business logic and graphical user interfaces, a JSP tag library for HTML user interfaces and a Swing based component library for browser based rich clients.
SOFIA is designed for database applications and directly supports most major engines including: Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, MS SQL Server, DB2, Ingres, Postgres and Firebird.
www.theserverside.com /news/thread.tss?thread_id=25786   (4223 words)

  
 tabulas.com: ~Sofia
Posted by sofia at 04:23 pm on September 25th, 2004.
Posted by sofia at 01:57 pm on December 31st, 2003.
Posted by sofia at 07:29 pm on December 30th, 2003.
www.tabulas.com /~sofia   (675 words)

  
 Bulgaria News, Sofia News: The Sofia Echo - Bulgaria English-Language Newspaper
The money saved in salaries, which were not payed to teachers who were on strike, was going to be paid out as extraordinary remuneration, Kamen Yordanov, head of Education department at Sofia municipality announced on October 12.
Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments.
In English: Sofia Echo, Expat in Bulgaria, PropertyWise Bulgaria
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 Sofia News and Views
There are 35 articles in our Sofia news and views section.
The British team will arrive in the afternoon and they will hold an official practice session the next day, on the eve of the clash with Levski.
Chelsea fans will be granted 2,200 tickets, the management of the two teams agreed in a meeting with London police representatives, Bulgarian policemen and the UK Football Association....
www.sofia-life.com /news/newsfrontpage.php   (169 words)

  
 Sofia Coppola Talks About "Lost In Translation," Her Love Story That's Not "Nerdy"
Sofia Coppola's "Lost In Translation" has proven itself to be a sophomore smash, with mostly rave reviews, a lucrative run at the box office, several Golden Globe wins and a slew of Oscar nominations.
I don't have much to say about the film other than the facts that Sofia has a keen casting eye and a nearly perfect adherence to a polarized "realism," though I thought the soundtrack was excrutiating in certain places (and I don't mean the music).
Sofia in my opinion has done a magnificent job of placing us in the lives of the two main characters.
www.indiewire.com /people/people_030923coppola.html   (4735 words)

  
 Sofia online - Sofia Barbosa Official Website - News
The singer Sofia Barbosa performed last February 5th on her first 2005 concert, in Pinhel, with SofiaVictória and Filipe Gonçalves.
The singers confessed that not even the coldness did them hesitate, by the contrary, gave them some extra energy on stage that would end up be transmitted to the public.
Sofia Barbosa was present in the “Famines voices Ceremony” that took place in the national Auditorium, in city of Praia — Cape Verde, the past (...)
www.sofia.online.pt /news.php?newsID=177   (398 words)

  
 Sofia
Sofia offers an excellent opportunities for international congresses, symposia,meetings,conferences and fairs.Special business centers and deluxe hotels are in the proximity of the bustling city center.
Tranquillity seekers can choose from among the numerous small private hotels in Sofia's suburbs and enjoy excellent service in addition to home comfort and traditional Bulgarian hospitality.
An option is a concert,opera or theatre.Jazz and rock clubs or piano bars are also there.Disco fans will find Sofia discos as good as any in Europe.Night clubs have variety shows in the small hours.Casinos in Sofia don't close before dawn.
www.travel-bulgaria.com /content/sofia.shtml   (0 words)

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