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GIF
With pictures like this you can see the restriction of 256 colours. The image is quite coarse-grained. For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) / GIFF (Graphics Interchange File Format) is a bitmap image format for pictures with up to 256 distinct colours..
Gif-sur-Yvette
Gif-sur-YvetteThe old town center of Gif-sur-Yvette Country France Région Île-de-France Départment Essonne Arrondissement Palaiseau Canton Gif-sur-Yvette INSEE 91272 Postal Code 91190 MayorCurrent Term Michel Bournat2001-2008 In..
Giff
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the giff is a monstrous humanoid. A giff is a cross between a human and a hippopotamus in appearance. A giff is usually lawful neutral in alignment. References Spelljammer: Adventures in SpaceComplete Spacefarer's HandbookDragon Magazine #339, ..
Giffard LeQuesne Martel
General Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC (1889-1958), familiarly known as "Q Martel", was a British Army officer during World War I and World War II. Originally a member of the Royal Engineers, Martel developed an interest in tanks in 1916, when he was put in charge of building an o..
Giffca
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Giffen good
A Giffen good is a product for which a rise in price of this product makes people buy even more of the product. Giffen goods may or may not exist in the real world, but there is an economic model that explains how such a thing could exist. Giffen goods are named after Sir Robert Giffen, who was attr..
Giffnock
Giffnock is an area within the south Glasgow conurbation in Scotland which homes around 9,345 people. It is located very close to where the A77 road from Glasgow to Kilmarnock crosses the A727 from Paisley to East Kilbride. It lies outside the City of Glasgow local authority area and houses the admi..
Giffnock railway station
Giffnock railway station is a railway station in the town of Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line. {| class="wikitable" style="margin: 0.5em auto; text-align: center;" |- ! Preceding station ! colspan="3" | National..
Gifford's Circus
Gifford's Circus is a traditional English circus which tours the West Country every summer. It includes acts such as a strongman, a clown, horse whispering, a chap who plays jigs on the fiddle while balancing on a rope, dancing, and acrobatics. External links [Gifford's Circus][BBC r..
Gifford, East Lothian
This page is about the village in Scotland. For other uses, see Gifford (disambiguation). Gifford is a village in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies approximately 4 miles south of Haddington and 25 miles east of Edinburgh. The area is thought to have been first settled around 1421, with Gifford bec..
Gifford, Florida
Gifford is a census-designated place (CDP) in Indian River County, Florida, United States. The population was 7,599 at the 2000 census. Geography Gifford is located at [27°40′19″N, 80°24′59″W] (27.672058, -80.416423)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the Unit..
Gifford, Illinois
Gifford is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 815 at the 2000 census. Geography Gifford is located at [40°18′25″N, 88°1′19″W] (40.306986, -88.021851)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the..
Gifford, South Carolina
Gifford is a town in Hampton County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 370 at the 2000 census. Geography Gifford is located at [32°51′39″N, 81°14′20″W] (32.860831, -81.238958)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, ..
Giffordgate
Giffordgate is a street in the town of Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. It runs adjacent to the River Tyne opposite St Mary's Church and overlooking the 12th-century Nungate Bridge. Giffordgate connects to Waterside Road (the location of the Waterside Bistro), Ford Road (which used to lead to ..
Gifford (disambiguation)
Gifford may refer to: Gifford, East Lothian, Scotland a village near Haddington, birthplace of John WitherspoonGifford, South CarolinaGifford, IllinoisGifford, FloridaAdam Gifford who endowed the* Gifford LecturesEdric Gifford, 3rd Baron GiffordFrank Gifford, American athlete and sports commentatorK..
Gifford Dalley
Gifford Dalley was a United States House of Representatives officer from 1789 to 1795. He served as the House Doorkeeper for the First, Second, and Third United States Congresses. ..
Gifford Lectures
The Gifford Lectures were established by the will of Adam Lord Gifford (d. 1887). They were established to "promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of the term— in other words, the knowledge of God." The term natural theology as used by Gifford means theology sup..
Gifford Miller
New York City Council Speaker Gifford Miller. Alan Gifford Miller (born November 6, 1969) is the former Speaker of the New York City Council, where he represented Council District 5. Barred from seeking reelection due to term limits, the Democrat ran in the Democratic primary for the opportun..
Gifford Observatory
Observatory Building showing Charles Gifford and telescope The Gifford Observatory is an astronomical observation facility located in Wellington, New Zealand. It is located on Mount Victoria, on land that is now occupied in trust by Wellington College and Wellington East Girls' College. Cont..
Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905-1910) and the Republican Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-1927, 1931-1935). He is famous for reforming the management and development of forests in the United States and his advocacy..
Gifford Pinchot III
Redirect [[Template:Uncategorized]]Gifford Pinchot III, grandson of the American conservationist by the same name (Gifford Pinchot), is a man of many interests. After earning an honors economics degree at Harvard, Pinchot sought to understand human social behavior in its complexity by studying socio..
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Gifford Pinchot National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in Washington, USA. With an area of 1.3 million acres, it extends 116 km along the western slopes of Cascade Range from Mount Rainier National Park to the Columbia River. It includes the 110,000 acre (445 km²) Mount St. Helens N..
Gifford State Forest
Gifford State Forest is the smallest state forest in Ohio, USA. It includes some hiking trails, forested hills and bluffs, and a small breeding nursery. It is located in Bern Township, in Athens County, Ohio. ..
Giff Vivian
Giff VivianNew Zealand (NZ) Batting style Left-hand bat Bowling type Slow left-arm orthodox Tests First-class Matches 7 85 '''Runs scored 421 4443 Batting average 42.10 34.71 100s/50s 1/5 6/31 Top score 100 165 Balls bowled 1311 6165 Wickets 1..
Gifhorn
Gifhorn is a city in Germany. It is located in Lower Saxony, close to Hannover, Celle, and Wolfsburg, near the Aller and Ise rivers. Gifhorn has about 43,350 inhabitants, and is capital of the district Gifhorn. Gifhorn was first mentioned in 1196, when it was located at the crossing of two importa..
Gifhorn (district)
Gifhorn Statistics State: Lower Saxony Capital: Gifhorn |- | Area:||1563 km² |- | Inhabitants:||172,000 (2001) |- | pop. density:||107 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||GF |- | Homepage:||[www.gifhorn.de] |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center|..
Gift
This page is about gifts in the common English-language sense. For other uses, see Gift (disambiguation). Love giftMan presents a cut of meat to a youth with a hoop. Athenian red-figure vase, ca. 460 BCE A gift or present is the transfer of money, goods, etc., without the direct compensation ..
GIFT
GIFT may be: giFT, a computer file-sharing systemGIFT (Gnu), the GNU Image-Finding Tool, a content-based image retrieval system (CBIRS) under GPLGIFT (video), an acronym for "God Is Forever There", the title of a feature-length movie starring and directed by Perry Farrell and Casey Niccoligamete in..
GiFT
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. This page is about the computer software giFT. For other uses, see gift (disambiguation) giFT stands for giFT: Internet File Transfer. It is a d..
GiFT-FastTrack
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. giFT-FastTrack is an implementation of the FastTrack P2P protocol used by KaZaA, iMesh, and Grokster. The [plugin] is used for the P2..
GiFT-win32
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. giFTwin32 is a Windows client for the P2P server/daemon giFT. It is written in C, using Visual C++ 6.0. Currently, it is no longer beign devlo..
GiFTcurs
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. giFTcurs is an Ncurses-based frontend for the giFT daemon; it is the only officially supported out of eight total available frontends (all uti..
Gifted
Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. Gifted children develop asynchronously; their minds are often ahead of their physical growth, and specific cognitive and emotional functions often are at different stages of development within a single person. Gi..
Gifted & Talented series
The Gifted & Talented series is a book series that has sold more than one million copies. It contained books for children and their parents. The first title in the series was Science Questions & Answers: The Human Body. Contents 1 Publishers2 Titles in the series2.1 For parents2...
Gifted and talented programmes
Contents 1 Gifted and talented programs1.1 Canada1.2 United States1.3 Australia1.4 Singapore1.5 England & Wales1.6 Republic of Ireland Gifted and talented programs A list of Gifted education programmes. Canada Alberta G.A.T.E. Ontario Academy for Gifted Children..
Gifted education
Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented. Youths are usually identified as gifted by placing highly on certain standardized tests. Advocates of gifted education argue that gifte..
Gifted Education Programme (Singapore)
The Gifted Education Programme (GEP) is a Singaporean academic programme designed for the top 1% of pupils (Based on a screening test at the end of Primary 3 and Primary 6, after the PSLE). Contents 1 History1.1 Schools offering GEP1.1.1 Primary schools1.1.2 Secondary schools1..
Giftmas
Giftmas (literally, Mass of Gift), also known as Givemas, is a term sometimes used as an alternative to the word Christmas, recognizing only the secular aspects of the holiday rather than religious celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. The current use of this term seems confined mostly to non-..
Gifton Noel-Williams
Gifton Noel-Williams, born January 21, 1980 in Islington is a Burnley F.C. striker. He started his professional career on August 1, 1996 at Watford. There he had a seven year spell playing 127 games and scoring 43 goals. For the first three seasons of his career he was playing well and was tippe..
GiFToxic
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. giFToxic is a GTK+2-based GUI frontend to the giFT daemon. External links [giFToxic - a GTK2 client for giFT] homepage ..
GiFTPiA
GiFTPiA (Japanese: ギフトピア) was developed by skip Ltd.'s division 24 and released in Japan in 2003 for the Nintendo GameCube. It is speculated for release in North America. Contents 1 Story2 Gameplay2.1 Comparing to Animal Crossing3 Music3.1 Soundtrack4 Sta..
Gifts in kind
Gifts in kind (GIK) is a kind of charitable giving in which, instead of giving money to buy needed goods and services, the goods and services themselves are given. GIK has several advantages over monetary giving: Donated goods are much less susceptible to becoming graft. The goods themselves woul..
Gifts of healing
Gifts of healing are regarded among Charismatics and Pentecostals to be supernatural enablements to minister various kinds of healing and restoration to individuals through the power of the Holy Spirit. It is generally believed that this cluster of gifts is noted in the plural in 1 Corinthians 12:..
Gifts of the Holy Spirit
The gifts of the Holy Spirit are spiritual gifts described in the New Testament. The primary passages are First Corinthians 12, Romans 12, and Ephesians 4. Some Christian scholars say that there are nine gifts and others say there may be as many as twenty-seven. Bill Bright, C. Peter Wagner, Jack D..
Giftware
A type of software license that "gave" the software licensing to its user to be used for any purpose. For example, the Allegro library for computer game development is licensed under a giftware license (available [here], on the official website). Users of the software are permitted to use..
Gift (album)
Gift is the first major label album by the nu metal group Taproot. It was released on June 27, 2000. "Again & Again" was the first single and it fared well on rock radio stations, as did the songs music video. Humorously, MTV was prone to misrepresenting the band's name as "Tarpool" rather than Ta..
Gift (disambiguation)
A gift is another word for present, or a talent or ability. Gift may also refer to: The german word for poison; in linguistics, this is known as a false friendGift (EP), an EP by The AutumnsGift, an album by The Sisterhood, taking its name from the "poison" meaning.giFT, a piece of computer softw..
Gift (EP)
Gift is an EP by the American alternative rock band The Autumns, released in a limited edition of 150 in 2003. The EP was given away at a fundraising concert put on by the band to help raise the money needed to mix their self-titled third album [link]. Track listing "Lux""Flail Dins""..
Gift (film)
Gift is a 1993 movie made by Perry Farrell and Casey Niccoli that features Farrell's band, Jane's Addiction. It is a romantic tragedy, with gothic and drug themes. Gift was released by Warner Brothers. It is a love story centered on the theme of "What would you do if you came home and found the pe..
GIFT (Gnu)
GIFT, the GNU Image Finding Tool, is a Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIRS). The GIFT is based on [Viper], the result of a research effort at the Vision Group at the computer science center of the University of Geneva. This cutting-edge research has been the subject of several pub..
Gift (law)
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Gift Aid
Gift Aid is a scheme to enable tax-effective giving by individuals to charities in the United Kingdom. The Gift Aid scheme was originally introduced in Finance Act 1990 for donation from 1 October 1990, but was originally limited to cash gifts of £250 or more. The scheme was substantially revised..
Gift economy
Economies Sectors and Systems Closed economy Dual economy Gift economy Informal economy Market economy Mixed economy Open economy Participatory economy Planned economy Undergro..
Gift from Hijaz
Armaghan-i-Hijaz (Urdu: ارمغان حجاز; or Gift from Hijaz; published in Persian, 1938) was a philosophical poetry book of Allama Iqbal, the great poet-philosopher of Islam. Contents 1 Introduction2 Topics3 Notes4 External links Introduction This work, published a few..
Gift Grub
Gift Grub is the title of a series of short comic pieces broadcast on weekdays on the breakfast show of Irish commercial radio station Today FM since 1999. The characters in the pieces are based on real people, generally local and international celebrities and political figures, and are voiced mainl..
Gift Grub 6: The Special One
Gift Grub 6: The Special One is the sixth annual collection of comedy sketches from Today FM's Gift Grub show. The album, released on November 11, 2005, takes its name from the moniker Chelsea manager José Mourinho is known by. The album went straight in at the number one position in the Irish Alb..
Gift Hoarse / Go Beavers
This is an episode of The Angry Beavers [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Plot for Gift Hoarse It's Arbor Day: Christmas for Beavers everywhere. The beavers have received their gifts from their parents. Norb has been given a cool giant train set, and D..
Gift Horse
Gift Horse is an album by Roots music band Lost Dogs, released on BEC Records in 1999. This turned out the be Gene Eugene's last album with the band when he died in The Green Room shortly after its release in early 1999. BEC Records retitled one song as "A Vegas Story" for the album's artwork. ..
Gift of Aldora
Gift of Aldora is a freeware role playing game created by Rebecca "Kinoko" Clement' under the group name, Mushroom Republic. It is about a young man named Kin who travels the land in order to save the Master of Fate and stop the world from fading to nothing. This game is in the style of co..
Gift of Gab
The Gift of Gab (born Tim Parker) is the MC for the California hip-hop duo Blackalicious, and a member of Quannum Projects (along with Chief Xcel, DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef). In 2004, he also released a solo album entitled 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up. The name seemingly is taken f..
Gift of Gab (film)
Gift of Gab is a film which was released in 1934 by Universal Pictures. Edmund Lowe stars as a man with the Gift of Gab - he can sell anyone anything. The film costars Ruth Etting and Gloria Stuart, and featured Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. Ruth Etting sings "Talking to Myself" and "Tomorrow, Wh..
Gift of Men
The Gift of Men in Middle-earth refers to a gift of Ilúvatar to his Younger Children, which remains a source of some confusion for Tolkien enthusiasts. The concept includes both mortality and free will. Below are two interpretations of the nature and extent of the Gift of Men as articulated by Tolk..
Gift of Rock
Gift Of Rock is a Christmas album released by Smash Mouth in December 2005. Containing mostly covers of various artists ranging from Louis Prima to Ringo Starr to The Kinks to The Ramones. The album did feature one original song, "Baggage Claim". ..
Gift of the Holy Ghost
Gift of the Holy Ghost is a doctrine of the Latter Day Saint movement, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The doctrine teaches that the Holy Ghost itself is a divine personage and member of the Godhead. The gift of the Holy Ghost, however, is the privilege of having the Holy ..
Gift Records
Gift Records was a record label set up by Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell, the founders of the Intelligent Dance Music label Warp Records. Set up in the early 1990s, Gift was designed to release indie music rather than the techno music for which Warp was famous. It is notable for having had Pulp on ..
Gift shop
A gift shop is a store primarily selling souvenirs relating to a particular topic, often to simply provide evidence that the consumer has visited that location. The items sold are generally fairly trivial, often including specialty food, coffee mugs, stuffed animals, t-shirts, and postcards. Items i..
Gift tax
A gift tax is a transfer tax imposed on the value of certain gifts. In the United States the gift tax is imposed on the gratuitous transfer of monetary and non-monetary property, and is generally paid by the donor. In the U.S., the gift tax is governed by Chapter 12, Subtitle B of the Internal Reve..
Gift Wrapped
Gift Wrapped is a greatest hits compilation by the Canadian Comedy Music group The Arrogant Worms, released in 2002 under the Oglio Records label. It is significant in that it marks their official debut release in the United States. In addition to many favorites, it includes two bonus tracks from..
Gift wrapping algorithm
The gift wrapping algorithm is a simple algorithm for computing the convex hull of a given set of points. Planar case In the two-dimensional case the algorithm is also known as Jarvis march, by the name of the author, and has O(NK) time complexity, where N is the number of points and K is the num..
Gifu
Gifu (岐阜) may refer to: Gifu Prefecture in Japan*Gifu District in Gifu Prefecture**Gifu City in Gifu District***Gifu Castle in Gifu CityThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to c..
Gifu, Gifu
Gifu City (岐阜市; Gifu-shi) is the capital city of Gifu Prefecture in the Chubu region of central Japan. The name Gifu was given in the Warring States Period by Oda Nobunaga, a leading feudal lord of the 16th Century. He renamed what was previously called Inoguchi Village in Mino Province ..
Gifu-Hashima Station
Gifu-Hashima Station (岐阜羽島駅) is a train station in Hashima, Gifu, Japan, on the Tokaido Shinkansen and Meitetsu Hashima Line. Adjacent stations Stations of the JR Tōkaidō Shinkansen Line Tokyo - Shinagawa - Shin-Yokohama - Odawara - Atami - Mishima - Shin-Fuji - Shizuoka - Kakegaw..
Gifu Castle
Gifu Castle (岐阜城) is a large castle atop Mt. Kinka. It was first built by the Nikaido Family in 1201 during the Kamakura Period. Originally called Inabayama Castle, Gifu Castle has gone through many numbers of repairs over the course of several generations. Even though it was famous as a phy..
Gifu Prefecture
, is located in the Chūbu region of central Japan. Its capital is Gifu City. Contents 1 History2 Geography2.1 Cities2.2 Towns and villages2.3 Mergers3 Economy4 Demographics5 Culture6 Tourism7 Prefectural symbols8 Miscellaneous topics9 ..
Gifu University
Gifu University (岐阜大学; Gifu Daigaku, abbreviated to 岐大 Gidai or 岐阜大 Gifudai) is a national university in Gifu, Japan. Contents 1 Faculties and Graduate Schools1.1 Faculties1.2 Graduate Schools2 Notable alumni2.1 Business2.2 Law & politics3 G..
GIF (disambiguation)
GIF may refer to: GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), bitmap image formatGIF Sundsvall, Swedish football clubWinter Haven's Gilbert Airport (IATA airport code: GIF) in Winter Haven, Florida, United States Gif may also refer to the commune of: Gif-sur-Yvette, in the Essonne département, France ..
GIF Sundsvall
GIF Sundsvall is a Swedish football club located in Sundsvall. The club, formed on 25 August 1903, is currently playing in the second highest Swedish league, Superettan. Achievements Allsvenskan:* Best placement (5th): 1988 Norrländska Mästerskapet:* Winners (1): 1942* Runners-up (2): 1928, 195..
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