Search results for "Button" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Bandoneons typically have more than one reed per button, dry-tuned ... the English and German concertinas. The button layouts are generally the ...
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  • One unsuccessful variation was the press-button can, which featured ... conversion press forms an integral rivet button in the lid and scores the ...
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  • case, however, the end-scale, or "button," is much thicker and ... beats against the first bead, known as the button, to create the rattling sound. ...
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  • may be a toggle or dolly, a rocker, a push-button, or any type of mechanical ... The momentary push-button switch is a type of biased switch. The most ...
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  • #The bell rang because someone pushed the button. #The bell rang because ... cause of that event (someone pushing some button). In 2, by contrast, one ...
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  • Pressing a button on the rear of the reel disengages the line pickup, and the button is then released during the forward cast to allow the line ...
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  • come equipped with a "test" button. Alternatively, artificial ... for use near a kitchen may have a silence button to cancel accidental triggering. ...
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  • and colors. They may be round, semi-round, button, drop, pear, oval, baroque ... Pearls come in eight basic shapes: round, semi-round, button, drop ...
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  • In this case, however, the end-scale, or "button," is much thicker and shaped like a bulb with one or two annular constrictions that prevent ...
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  • the result is quite similar to diatonic button accordions still manufactured ... Diatonic button accordion・・・3 Chromatic button accordions・・・11 ...
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  • United States and other countries, call button text and icons are raised ... * An alarm button or switch, which passengers can use to signal that ...
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  • channel and volume. When the user pushed a button on the remote control, it ... For a single-channel (single-function, one-button) remote control ...
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  • **A Cancel button, to clear the current calculation **On and off buttons ... It might also have a Cancel Entry button, to clear the current numbers ...
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  • [[Image:Crinoid8678.JPG|thumb|right|Button-like, fossilized pieces of crinoid stem from Ordovician limestone of Batavia, Ohio (USA).]] ...
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  • quot; is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus ... remember that a mushroom develops from a button stage into a mature structure ...
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  • #039; weapons are used. These have a push-button on the point of the blade ... competitive fencing, terminates in a push-button, similar to the one on the ...
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  • "there are about four times as many [Button] Gwinnett autographs as there are Lynch autographs." In 1994, Dr. Fields sold collector ...
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  • includes a piano accordion and a Diatonic button accordion, also called a ... bands in the Rio Grande Valley feature button-box accordion, guitar, bass ...
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  • *From the second button of the tunic. *When in formal dress, the entire ... ribbon was worn from the second hole in the tunic button. ...
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  • "Radical, Militant Librarian" Button ALA Inspiration for the button’s design came from documents obtained ...
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  • such as bells which could be rung by pushing a button. ... The chromatic harmonica usually uses a button-activated sliding bar ...
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  • In zoology, a horn is one of a pair of hard, pointed, often permanent projections on the head of various hoofed mammals (ungulates) consisting ...
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  • camera, he coined the phrase "You press the button, we do the rest." The owner could return the camera to the company with a processing fee ...
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  • goods left with burials of females. The first button seals were produced from terracotta and bone and had geometric designs. Technologies included ...
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  • were discovered by Cambridge scholar Edward A. Button. Edward A. Button ... * Button, E.A., An Atlas of Textual Criticism. Cambridge: 1911. ...
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  • * Indicating a button to activate an automatic door * Indicating an accessible transit station or vehicle * Indicating a transit route that uses ...
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  • category:image wanted {{Infobox Fashion Designer |image= |caption= |name= Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel |nationality=France French |birth_date=August ...
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  • console controller might consist of only a button and a joystick, or feature a dozen buttons and one or more joysticks. Early personal computer ...
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  • Africa, this genus receives the generic name "button spiders." The silk of the Latrodectus genus is larger in diameter than the silk of other ...
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  • 2-meter handheld ham radio battery, and a button battery, one "C" ... [[Image:Batterien.jpg|thumb|From top to bottom:Two button cells, a ...
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  • * Emergency Stop button—At each end of the escalator (in the London Underground also on the balustrade), a large red button can be pressed ...
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  • *Hazlewood, Nick. 2000. Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 9780340739112. *Keynes, Richard, and ...
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  • traditional music on the melodeon and button accordion." Ireland: D. Possumato, 2006. 71292824 ==External Links== All links retrieved November ...
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  • *Vitale, Serena. Pushkin's Button. Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. ISBN 0-374-23995-5 ...
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  • The next day, President Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington, DC signaling the official start of vehicle traffic over the Bridge at noon. ...
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  • such as adding two numbers with just a few button presses. But to add together all of the numbers from 1 to 1,000 would take thousands of button ...
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  • on the building's lights with the push of a button from Washington, D.C.. [[Image:Looking Up at Empire State Building.JPG|thumb|250px|A series ...
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  • and Co., Ltd and New York, N.Y. E.P. Button and Co., 1920), 10. ... and Co., Ltd and New York, NY: E.P. Button and Co., 1920. ...
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  • military appearance, consisted of a khaki button-up shirt, shorts, and a broad ... wear have also replaced the more formal button-up uniforms in many Scouting ...
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  • to the washing chamber. The first step is a button trap that prevents small objects (such as lint, fasteners, buttons, coins) from entering the ...
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  • For example, when a keyword is entered and the button "search" is clicked then, it would give a page of a url like thishttp://baike ...
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  • what he heard and hit the "record" button. After Stewart decided to release the recording, Cropper remembered a riff that Jones had come ...
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  • , 4-, 6-, or 8-spored basidia, and the cultivated button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus can have 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-spored basidia under some circumstances. ...
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  • center of its abdomen (often mistaken for a belly button) and the female has the ability to curl her tail upward to the point that her vulva protrudes ...
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  • because he is college educated, wears a three button suit, and because his "grandfather was a slave." She is now dancing in the train and ridicules ...
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  • bars on emergency vehicles, elevator push-button lights, status lights on ... *Elevator Push Button Lighting *Thin, lightweight message displays ...
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  • * On most calculators, the LOG button is log10(x) and LN is loge(x). * In most commonly used computer programming languages, including C, C++ ...
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  • Exoskeleton is a hard, external structure that covers, supports, and protects an animal's body, such as the chitinous covering of a crab ...
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  • *Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton On January 18, 1777, the Continental Congress ordered that the declaration be more widely ...
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  • of typical Persian gulf seals, a circular button seal, provides evidence of ... with copper rings inserted in a perforated button sealed cargo, with impressions ...
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  • be found with their relative position around the 5 button. (On computer keyboards, the 5 key of the numpad has the raised dot or bar, but the 5 key that ...
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  • blacks, match-sellers, apple-vendors, button-peddlers, baggage-carriers and those engaged in other petty pursuits."Howard Husock, [http://www ...
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  • voters, including Gail Berman, Harve Brosten, Dick Button, Tony Lo Bianco, and Raymond Serra). ===Eligibility date (Season)=== The season for ...
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  • :Abdomen – Belly button – Sex organs (Penis/Scrotum or Clitoris/Vagina) – Rectum – Anus :Hip – Buttocks – Leg – Thigh – Knee – ...
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  • is the electric cigarette lighter: Pressing the button causes a spring-loaded hammer to hit a piezoelectric crystal, and the high voltage produced ignites ...
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  • Paul Keating and Industry Minister John Button), he took the role of reaching consensus and providing political guidance on what was electorally ...
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  • technical innovations to the sport. Dick Button, 1948 and 1952 Olympic Champion, was the first skater to perform the double axel and triple loop ...
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  • country music, bluegrass, square dancing, the button accordion, and the fiddle. The musical career of Inuit singer and lyricist Susan Aglukark has promoted ...
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  • machine guns, such as miniguns, an electronic button or trigger on a joystick is commonly used. Lighter machine guns often have a butt stock attached ...
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  • Apple Inc., ( AAPL ) formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics ...
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  • process. She spent six months "button-holding diplomats after each evening session closed." Ruth Roach Pierson, Women and Peace: Theoretical ...
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  • there. Under the Australian government’s "Button Plan," or Motor Industry Development Plan, an initiative to make the Australian automobile ...
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  • controls for different settings. Now you can push a button and it will automatically set the time for defrosting an item or popping popcorn. ...
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  • Hasidim button their clothes right over left. Most do not wear neck-ties. Hasidic men most commonly wear suits in dark colors with distinctively ...
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  • More recently, on the 307 cc and the 607, the button to open the trunk is located in the "0" of the label. For specific niche models ...
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  • | rowspan="2"|1949 || High Button Shoes || Chorus Girl || Musical Theatre |- | Sauce Tartare || Chorus Girl || Musical Theatre ...
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  • anecdote tells of Formula One driver Jenson Button, who was arrested while driving a diesel-powered BMW 330cd Coupé at 230 kilometers per hour (km/h ...
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  • that someone will press the wrong button." [http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,562315,00.html Cold War Interview With Ex-Chancellor ...
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  • The earliest paraphernalia appeared in 1939, a button proclaiming membership in the Supermen of America club. By 1940 the amount of merchandise available ...
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  • *Turniciformes, button-quail *Gruiformes, cranes and allies *Charadriiformes, plovers and allies *Pteroclidiformes, sandgrouse *Columbiformes ...
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  • | before= Bob Newhartfor The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart | after = Vaughn Meaderfor The First Family }} {{succession box | title = Grammy ...
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  • for a long time, you couldn't punch a radio button without hearing his teddy–bear baritone. If he wasn't singing on TV, he was hosting ...
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  • powered by environmental energy (push of a button, temperature differences, light, vibrations, etc.). == Footnotes == ==References== ...
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  • oh or, in some dialects, the double T in button, represented in the IPA as ... , as in English bottle, church (in rhotic accents), rhythm, button and lock ...
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  • 400px|A set of men's gold cufflinks and shirt button studs.]] ==Form and function== [[Image:Kenyan man.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Kenyan man wearing ...
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  • silvery white[[Image:Pu,94.jpg|125px|Gloved hands holding a "button" of refined plutonium]] (244) [Rn] 5f6 7s2 2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 2 ...
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  • told him to aim at Ravana's belly-button. Rama took careful aim. As Ravana fell by this weapon, flowers rained from heaven upon the happy ...
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  • large pit kilns, copper melting crucibles, and button seal devices with geometric designs. Villagers domesticated numerous crops, including peas, sesame ...
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  • Missouri is also a bellwether on hot-button issues such as same-sex marriage and embryonic stem cell research. In 2004, Missouri voters overwhelmingly ...
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  • and lower the windshield with the push of a button to the optimum height for conditions. ;Heated hand grips/seats As motorcycles lack climate ...
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  • One points the head into the water, presses a button, and reads a distance. Another variant is a "fishfinder" that shows a small display ...
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  • *Button microphone *Geophone (microphone for use within the earth) *Hydrophone (microphone for underwater use) *Ionophone (plasma-based microphone) ...
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  • central and southern Manitoba was Sir Thomas Button, who traveled upstream along the Nelson River and Lake Winnipeg in 1612. The expedition he commanded ...
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  • velvet into the shape of a bear, sewed on shoe button eyes and handed it to Morris to display in the shop window. He labeled it, "Teddy’s bear ...
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  • points out that although the tendency to press a button may be building up for 500 milliseconds, the conscious will retains a right to veto that action ...
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  • allow for alternate tunings at the touch of a button. On almost all modern electric guitars, the bridge is adjustable for each string so that ...
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  • 50 mg and were enveloped in a clear acrylic button about as big as a United States half dollar coin. This acrylic button magnified the grains of lunar ...
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  • shape of a double-thumbed fist clutching a peyote button) to the tune of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man," known to be the song most respected ...
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  • new user interface, including a novel start button; more than a million copies of Microsoft Windows 95 were sold in the first four days after its ...
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  • permitting her to wear a "princess button" on her hat, that prompted Der Ling in later years, when seeking an English equivalent to ...
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  • When taking fire, tank crews "button up" and only view the battlefield through vision slits or periscopes, severely reducing their ...
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  • ready for war, "down to the last gaiter button," as the fighting began, many of its formations were understrength as reservists were living ...
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