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  Viking - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Viking (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The origin of the word ‘Viking’ is disputed, as are the reasons for the sudden expansion of Scandinavian activities in this period, though over-population, the weakness of neighbouring states, and favourable trading conditions were influential factors.
Soon Viking rule was established in the Orkneys, Shetlands, Hebrides, and parts of north and western Scotland, in parts of Ireland, and increasingly in England, where the Vikings controlled most of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, an area known as Danelaw.
Vikings also served in the imperial guard in Constantinople, where they were known as Varangians.
encyclopedia.farlex.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Viking   (1111 words)

  
 Viking automobile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Viking was an automobile manufactured by General Motors' Oldsmobile Division for model year 1929 and 1931.
Viking was one of four makes introduced by General Motors, the other lines (and their GM sister divisions) being Pontiac (Oakland), Marquette (Buick) and LaSalle (Cadillac).
Vikings were available as 4-Door Sedan, Deluxe 4-Door Sedan, Convertible Coupé with Rear Deck Seat, Deluxe Convertible Coupé with Rear Deck Seat, Close-Coupled 4-Door Sedan and Deluxe Close-Coupled 4-Door Sedan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viking_automobile   (308 words)

  
 Viking 29 Paper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Viking 29 is being built under a U.S. Department of Energy contract by the Vehicle Research Institute (VRI) at Western Washington University and JX Crystals of Issaquah, WA to demonstrate a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) generator.
Viking 29 is an experimental hybrid vehicle built to demonstrate the eight cylinder TPV generator.
The CNG fuel tank is used as a reaction bulkhead for the aluminum honeycomb deformable structure in the nose of the vehicle.
vri.etec.wwu.edu /viking_29_paper.htm   (2194 words)

  
 CSE: Green Rating Project - Automobile sector    
On an average, in total automobile segments it was found that about 67 per cent of time there was direct relation between the environmental rating and profit of company.
The cost of maintenance at authorised service stations were found to be as high as 50 to 100 per cent than the unauthorised stations, and this was the main reason why consumers avoided going to the authorised stations once their vehicle became a bit old.
However ISO 14001 adopted by automobile companies is not the actual reflection of their environment management as these companies are just assembly plants.
www.cseindia.org /programme/industry/automobile_sector.htm   (2850 words)

  
 Viking 52 Convertible - Power & Motoryacht Boat Test
Viking kept what worked, improved what needed it, and came up with a hot new 52-footer.
Viking enhanced the design by eliminating the refrigerator/ freezer that stood in the forward port corner and replacing it with four standard Sub-Zero drawers, two refrigerator and two freezer, a $5,320 option on the 50.
Viking still offers a list of standard equipment composed as if every owner were a hard-core angler: transom door, fresh- and raw-water washdowns, four rod holders, fishbox, and tackle center with bait-prep station and freezer.
www.powerandmotoryacht.com /boattests/0202viking52/index1.aspx   (772 words)

  
 Coachbult.com - Viking Coachworks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Viking was one of the first coach builders to be certified by Ford as a Qualified Vehicle Modifier (QVM) and by Cadillac as a Cadillac Master Coach Builder (CMC).
Viking provides the most secure protection available and meets or exceeds all QVM, CMC and federal safety standards.
The Galvaneel steel used by Viking is the surest rust and corrosion prevention in the limousine industry.
www.coachbuilt.com /bui/v/vikiing/viking.htm   (773 words)

  
 The resort complex *Buhta Vikingiv*
"Viking's Bay" beach – is, probably, the most beautiful place in all our region with pleasant sand and clean water under the open sky.
There was a Ukraine championship on paintball in "Viking's Bay", so long as surrounding woods and glades are the perfect ordnance yard for the people who are fond of this game.
There is the stable at "Viking's Bay", where horses of private persons could be kept, of course, for some pay.
www.viking.com.ua /summer_eng.html   (731 words)

  
 Mississippi Development Authority
Viking Range is a privately-held company which manufactures and markets the industry’s finest professional kitchen appliances for the home.
Viking also provides a tuition reimbursement program which allows employees to pursue continuing educational opportunities, such as earning a bachelor’s degree or MBA.
His Viking Range concept was designed to overcome the problems of installing commercial equipment in the home.
www.mississippi.org /content/page/2932   (586 words)

  
 Automobile find lawyer online
If the other driver denies fault, his or automobile industry her insurance company may refuse to pay the claim..
Even though beginners may be able to perform routine service tasks and make simple repairs after a few months on the job, 2005 automobile sales they usually need 1 to 2 years of experience to acquire enough skills to become certified service technicians..
The automobile became improver chore vacancies inwards niger a fixture of American culture and our infatuation with the car blossomed into a love affair..
hashspell.sitesled.com /invention-of-automobile.html   (2653 words)

  
 Franz "Olaf" Wiedemer - Professional Viking
Usually he just grunts and tries to hurl his axe through the nearest automobile ("They are truly the work of Loki," says Franz concerning the technological marvels).
Franz entered the "Viking" scene as a young man, trying to hurl his battle axe at a big stick in the annual "Hurl your Battle Axe at a Big Stick" competition in Egg Harbor, New Jersey.
There is one and only one TV show that comes close to the Viking standard of glory, honor, valour, and carnage.
members.tripod.com /~crazyman_uxb/Humor/Viking/Viking.htm   (1301 words)

  
 Atkinson Pool Company - VIKING Pool Maintenance Manual
Like your new automobile, you may have a tendency to over-maintain your Viking pool when it is new.
After you have owned your Viking pool for one year you develop your own standard of care to suit your individual family way of living.
Your Viking pool is designed to remain full of water at all times.
www.atkinsonpools.com /maintmanual.htm   (3230 words)

  
 Welcome To Viking Springs!
Viking Springs is manufacaturing all kinds of springs, wire forms etc. The following are the spring manufactured :
Viking springs is planning and working towards as one of the spring manufacturer in India.
We feel pleasure to introduce ourselves as one of the leading manufacturers of Springs, circlips, wire forms and sheet metal springs as per customer's specifications and are supplying to various reputed concerns to their entire satisfaction for more than two decades.
snsvo1.seekandsource.com /vikingsprings   (173 words)

  
 BERA: Issue 2 Automotive Industry: Automotive History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The history of the automobile begins with the technological breakthroughs that occurred in Europe during the early 1800's and continues a century later with the pioneering efforts of American manufactures to begin mass-producing cars.
The automobile, while providing greater personal freedom and economic growth, also served as the basis for questioning the value of technological progress.
Lasch questions the desirability and inevitability of progress using the automobile as a metaphor for some of the major societal changes that took place in the last half of the 20th century.
www.loc.gov /rr/business/BERA/issue2/history.html   (1078 words)

  
 Closing the circle (Norway - the official site in the United States)
The Vikings' remarkable adventures were captured in the Icelandic sagas that documented the Vikings' spread from their northern European homelands to the British Isles, and beyond to the islands of the North Atlantic-the Faeroes, Iceland, and Greenland.
Far from being horn-helmeted sackers of villages and monasteries ('Vikings are not Wagnerian opera,' says Sharon Begley of Newsweek), the Vikings were explorers, farmers, and fishers who survived in one of the last regions on Earth to be populated.
Several hundred years before famous explorers such as Vasco da Gama and Marco Polo, the Vikings were crisscrossing the globe, trading and honing their diplomatic skills in search of wealth and adventure.
www.norway.org /News/archive/2000/200002viking.htm   (743 words)

  
 Royal & SunAlliance USA :: Viking Nonstandard Auto Insurance Brand Reintroduced
Viking Insurance of Madison, Wisconsin -- through its owner, Royal and SunAlliance USA -- is embarking on a campaign this month to reintroduce the Viking Insurance brand.
Founded in 1971, Viking Insurance specializes in providing flexible term automobile insurance for customers that have traditionally found insurance difficult to afford or maintain.
Viking is marketed solely by independent agents in ten states: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington.
www.rsausa.com /rsa-usa/242/GetPage.aspx   (384 words)

  
 VIKING AUTOMOBILE
Vikings Automobiles is a Mumbai based company which was founded in 1969 and is located on the W.E.Highway Opp Dahisar Checknaka.
We are proud to say that we are the only commercial automobile dealers in Bombay who have authorization from all three major companies for spares as we are,
Bajaj Manpreet Singh has a diploma in automobile engineering from ST FRANCIS I T I TECHNICAL INSTITUTE and is also a very hardcore automobile enthusiast and our key business development executive because of his immense knowledge regarding the automotive service industry.
www.vikings.in /auto_profile.htm   (562 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Viking (disambiguation) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Viking, seafaring Scandinavians during the Viking Age (in the western trail)
Viking (ship), the reconstruction of a Viking ship which was sailed from Norway to North America in 1893
Vikings Futsal Association and Vikings Pacific League, both related to the sport of Futsal in Australia.
www.reference.com.cob-web.org:8888 /browse/wiki/Viking_(disambiguation)   (282 words)

  
 Viking Waters - News from the computer world 031215
Lok Technology has announced “an open-systems 802.11 infrastructure appliance” that provides access control, stateful firewall, intrusion detection, packet capture, SSL proxy, transparent Web cache, bandwidth management, routing, and network administration.It can handle between 100 and 500,000 simultaneous users in an SSL-based virtual private network (VPN) depending upon model and the amount of cache.
At an automobile test track north of Tokyo, NEC says it successfully demonstrated in-house developed software that allows for a fast sign-on and hand-over between standard access points.
This flaw would make it appear to Internet users that they're visiting a banking Web site, for example, when that site is actually a front for attempting to collect sensitive financial information.
www.vikingwaters.com /News/news031215.htm   (290 words)

  
 Royal & SunAlliance USA :: Viking Insurance Replaces OrionAuto Brand in 17 States
Viking Insurance of Madison, WI has announced a campaign to consolidate the Viking brand to include all products in all the states where it does business.
Viking Insurance – offering products, services and training that are second to none – is marketed solely through independent agents in all 27 of the states in which it conducts business.
Viking writes under four legal entities: Guaranty National Insurance Company, Peak Property and Casualty Insurance Corporation, Viking County Mutual Insurance Company, Viking Insurance Company of Wisconsin.
www.royalsunalliance-usa.com /rsa-usa/454/GetPage.aspx   (325 words)

  
 Viking Industries LLC Showroom - Modern Machine Shop Online
A low-cost American manufacturer and supplier of air and portable tools to the automobile aftermarket and industrial marketplace, Viking Industries today is an amalgam of several companies.
Now under new management, Viking is expanding its branded line of patented and leading edge air and portable tools.
Over the years Viking extended its line of sanding tools to include the Viking Dual Action Orbital and the smaller size, Dual Action Rotary Orbital Sander and later added the Mini Vike Straight-Line Sander.
www.mmsonline.com /showroom/VIKINGIN.html   (326 words)

  
 No. 2-00-1391, People v. Bennett
Hathorn did not notice how the man's hands were when he was struck, but she did notice that there was a man standing very close to him when the car struck him.
The decedent's wife, Carol Baertschi, testified that on the night in question she was the janitor at Viking Lanes.
Defendant testified that he did not know Baertschi, that he never had a club in his hand that night, that his father and brother were at Viking Lanes that night and both looked like him, and that no one was in the car with him when he left Viking Lanes.
www.state.il.us /court/OPINIONS/AppellateCourt/2002/2ndDistrict/April/Html/2001391.htm   (5589 words)

  
 Scout.com: Two Key Vikings Out Again?
Harris was replaced by Dontarrious Thomas last Sunday and tied for the team lead with eight tackles.
Gordon appeared to be a lock to make the team in training camp after a strong off-season and limited preseason, but injuries hurt the rookie's chances and he was cut and re-signed to the practice squad early in the season.
The Vikings Women's Organization and Second Harvest Food Bank will have drop-off barrels located outside each of the entrance gates at the Metrodome from 10 a.m.
vikings.scout.com /2/588209.html?refid=400&CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=5   (435 words)

  
 TIME.com: Viking, Marquette -- Jun. 3, 1929 -- Page 1
Viking belongs to the Cadillac-La Salle group, employs the famed V-type eight cylinder motor, sells for fess than ($1,595) the La Salle, just as La Salle sells for less than the Cadillac.
Marquette is a Buick offspring, made in the Buick plant, sold at $965 to $1,035—considerably less than the Buick figure.
The first Vikings were brought out last month; the first Marquettes went on display June 1.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,732469,00.html   (335 words)

  
 Auto Warranty Financing FAQ's from Viking Warranty
One of the most expensive purchases you'll make is your automobile.
Viking Warranty has entered into an agreement with Mepco Insurance Premium Financing to provide interest free financing for any Viking Warranty auto plan.
When you select Viking Warranty's financing option, you will be charged 10% of the total price at the time of purchase which will be billed to your major credit card.
www.vikingwarranty.com /wwcorp/fin/financing-faq.asp   (302 words)

  
 Scoop: Viking Capital Limited To List Nzax
Viking Capital Limited announced that it intends to list on the NZAX this morning, 28 June 2006, at 11.00am.
At the close of the offer period, Viking Capital Limited had successfully raised in excess of $12.4million (inclusive of the staff share plan shares).
Application has been made to NZX for permission to list the shares and warrants on the NZAX, and all requirements of NZX relating thereto that can be complied with on or before the date of the prospectus have been complied with.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/BU0606/S00434.htm   (1441 words)

  
 Viking Jobs -- Current Openings
A finisher / painter must have ability to use all types of spraying rigs and guns under air pressure and electrical systems.
Must have ability to provide a finish product that is equivalent to the furniture or automobile industry with regards to finishes and paints.
Must understand all types of ratio and mixing techniques applicable to various finishes and paints.
www.vikingjobs.com /a_jbs/jbs_cur.asp?pg=1&cat_id=8   (202 words)

  
 Sentry finalizes $200M deal for Viking Insurance - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Viking sells insurance in 27 states, including states where Sentry does not currently sell auto insurance.
Viking adds more than $425 million in premium revenue, more than 7,900 independent agencies and two new states -- California and North Carolina -- to Sentry's coverage area.
Viking was founded in 1971 and has been owned by Royal and SunAlliance since 1999.
www.bizjournals.com /milwaukee/stories/2005/10/31/daily36.html?jst=b_ln_hl   (692 words)

  
 Coia agrees to plead guilty-finally!!!
Coia's partner in the deals was Carmine Carcieri of Lincoln, a lifelong friend and the proprietor of the Viking automobile agencies in Middletown, according to evidence presented in the secret 1998 hearings of a series of internal union charges against Coia.
During the years when Coia held the top two posts at the Laborers, Carcieri's firm held the contract to lease cars to the union, business that came to be worth more than $1 million a year.
As part of a reform program imposed on the union by the Justice Department in 1995, the Laborers severed business ties with Viking because of its alleged organized crime ties.
members.tripod.com /jimmcgough/projocoiapleads-2000-1-27.htm   (618 words)

  
 Yukon Viking 1x24 Night Vision Goggle Kit
The Viking 1x24 Night Vision Goggle Kit provides clear viewing in total darkness by utilizing a single built-in IR illuminator with a range of 150 m.
Like all Viking models, the Viking 1x24 Night Vision Goggle Kit utilizes Yukon's newly designed Eclipse lens cap system, which removes lens cap hassles, dual eye diopter adjustment with central focusing, and a wide field of view (30 degrees).
In addition to the Eclipse lens cap system, the water resistant Viking utilizes a soft, one-piece eyecup to prevent external light distortion and light leakage from the device, allowing the user to remain hidden in the night.
www.nightvisionbinoculars.com /yukonvikinggoggle1.html   (344 words)

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