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  Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A mechanically-scanned analogue television system was first demonstrated in London in February 1924 by John Logie Baird with an image of Felix the Cat and a moving picture by Baird on October 30, 1925.
Television in its original and still most popular form involves sending images and sound over Radio waves in the VHF and UHF bands, which are received by a receiver (a television set).
Typically this is an adjustable dipole antenna called "rabbit ears" for the VHF band and a small loop antenna for the UHF band.
television.iqnaut.net   (5038 words)

  
 May 16 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1919 - US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
1913 - Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d.
1964 - Boyd Tinsley, American violinist (Dave Matthews Band)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/May_16   (1018 words)

  
 Reading and Books | Recommended Reading
After a nuclear war devastates the earth, a small band of people struggles for survival in a new world where children are born with mutations.
In 2194 Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.
kids.nypl.org /reading/recommended2.cfm?ListID=60   (2467 words)

  
 Record Label Spotlight
Recorded live in concert with his band on May 23rd, 2001 in Stamford, CT, the CD sets Parris apart with some free spirited soloing and driving arrangements.
We tend to be a musical travelogue.” A good description of the band’s transatlantic membership, American / English is quality confirmation of a band now entering their twentieth year of music making.
It was Pinder who founded the band, naming the band he and Ray Thomas founded after the Duke Ellington piece and his love of the blues during post-war England.
www.mwe3.com /archive/july-august2005spotlight.htm   (9102 words)

  
 JISC inform 7
Evaluations by first-year students and a group of sixth-formers at a British Museum anthropology study day were positive.
Caroline Ingram, UK project coordinator, says: "The main problem for lecturing staff has been the classroom hardware." While technical staff have worked together to build the digital library, academic staff agreed to work independently for the first year because of the transatlantic differences in teaching anthropology.
For cataloguing, the project will rely on the selections and annotations of an ever-expanding band of users in much the same way as the Oxford English Dictionary used reading volunteers.
www.jisc.ac.uk /index.cfm?name=pub_inform7   (7506 words)

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