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Śvisłač (disambiguation)
Śvisłač ([ˈɕvislaʧ] [listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info])) or Svislach may refer to the following places in Belarus: Śvisłač, a town in Hrodna voblastŚvisłač RiverŚvisłač settlement in Puchavičy raion, Minsk voblastŚvisłač settlement in Asipov..
V-ISAM
V-ISAM is a proprietary database owned by British company Sage. It is used in its ERP software. As its name indicates it is based upon the ISAM. ..
V.I.S.A.
V.I.S.A. is a French independent record label created in 1982 by Thierry De Lavau and Yves Lecarpentier. V.I.S.A.’s first releases were tapes by French alternative punk rock bands, but it eventually expanded the music range and formats releasing CD’s and LP’s from other European bands of ne..
V.I.S.A. artists
A list of artists who released via V.I.S.A. Contents 0.1 0-9:0.2 A:0.3 B:0.4 C:0.5 D:0.6 E:0.7 F:0.8 G:0.9 H:0.10 I:0.11 J:0.12 K:0.13 L:0.14 M:0.15 N:0.16 O:0.17 P:0.18 R:0.19 S:0.20 T:0.21 U..
V.I.S.A. discography
An overview of the V.I.S.A. Discography. It is divided into three collections: Androidia Flux (prefix AF)Rebel Flux (prefix RF)Ultima Flux (prefix UF) Contents 0.1 Adroidia Flux0.1.1 Co-production with Bondage Records0.2 Rebel Flux0.3 Ultima Flux1 See also Adroidia Flux..
V.I.S.A. Présente
V.I.S.A. Présente was a live compilation released in 1984 by labels Bondage Records and V.I.S.A.. This release was formed by 14 tracks of some of the most experimental groups from the European alternative escene. The most important band featured in this work was KUKL, an Icelandic group led by si..
Väisälä (crater)
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VIS
The acronym VIS may mean: Vienna International SchoolVavoua International SchoolVisalia Municipal Airport in Visalia, California - its IATA airport codeVisual Instruction Setviewable image sizeVienna Independent ShortsVatican Information Service See also: Vis ..
Vis
Vis can refer to: Vis, a type of Polish handgun, after the Latin for "power", "might", "violence".Vis, an island in the AdriaticVis, town and municipality on the aforementioned islandThe possessive pronoun of Ve_(pronoun).Vis-à-vis, a French expression meaning "with respect to". See also: VIS, Viz..
Vis-à-vis
Vis-à-vis from the French language, literally "face to face", is a type of carriage where the occupants face each other. The term is also used when describing things "(in) relation to" one another. ..
Vis-viva equation
In astrodynamics, the vis-viva equation, also referred to as orbital energy conservation equation, is one of the fundamental and useful equations that govern the motion of orbiting bodies. It is the direct result of the law of conservation of energy, where the sum of kinetic and potential energy is..
Visa
Visa or VISA may refer to: Visa (document) — a document required to enter a specific country.VISA (credit card) — one of the world's most popular credit cards.Citroën Visa — a French car manufactured from 1978 to 1988.In Finland "Visa" has been known to be used as a man's forena..
VISA-bikar
The VISA-bikar is a knock-out football cup competition in Iceland. The final is played at the end of the Icelandic season in October. Winners 1960 KR1961 KR1962 KR1963 KR1964 KR1965 Valur1966 KR1967 KR1968 ÍBV1969 ÍBA1970 Fram1971 Víkingur1972 ÍBV1973 Fram1974 Valur1975 Keflavík1976 Valur1977..
Visage
Visage was a New Romantic ensemble that began life in 1978 , mainly to provide some danceable music to be played on Steve Strange's and Rusty Egan's Billy's London nightclub. Contents 1 History2 Discography2.1 Albums2.2 Singles and EPs3 External links History Initiall..
Visage (album)
Visage is the debut album from UK-based New Romantic ensemble Visage, recorded at Genetic Sound Studios in London released by Polygram Records on November 10, 1980. Personnel Visage members at the time of the album's recording were: Steve Strange (vocals)Midge Ure (guitar, synthesizer, backing voc..
Visagie's Golden Mole
Visagie's Golden Mole (Chrysochloris visagiei) is a mole endemic to South Africa. It is listed as a critically endangered species. References Bronner (2006). [Chrysochloris visagiei]. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes ..
Visaginas
Visaginas is a town situated in the eastern part of the Republic of Lithuania near the country's biggest lake, Drūkšiai. The town covers an area of 8,96 km². Its administrative boundaries are in the process of being defined. The Vilnius-Daugavpils railway runs alongside the town, providing conv..
Visaginas city municipality
Visagino miesto savivaldybė (Location) (Coat of arms) Location Ethnographic region Aukštaitija County Utena County General information Capital Visaginas Major settlements Visaginas (pop. 29,554) - Number of elderates - Area (rank) 58th) Population (rank) 4..
Visakhapatnam
--> Visakhapatnam [pronunciation] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (also Vishākhapatnam, shortened and Anglicized: Vizag or Vizagapatnam) is a Port city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located on the eastern shore of India nestled among the Eastern Ghats Hill..
Visakhapatnam District
Visakhpatnam is the third-most advanced district in Andhra Pradesh. It has a population of 3,832,336 of which 39.95% is urban as of 2001. [link] redirect [[Template:Andhra Pradesh]] ..
Visakhapatnam Refinery
In 1957, Visakh Refinery went on stream under the ownership of M/s Caltex India Ltd. In May, 1978, M/s Caltex Oil Refinery (India) was amalgamated with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. The installed capacity of 1.5 MMTPA was increased to 4.5 MMTPA in 1985 and 7.5 MMTPA in 1999, through an expans..
Visakha Steel Employees' Congress
Visakha Steel Employees' Congress, the recognized trade union at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, in Visakhapatnam, India. VSEB is affiliated to the Indian National Trade Union Congress. The general secretary of VSEB is M. Rajashekar. ..
Visakha Steel Workers Union
Visakha Steel Workers Union, a trade union of steel workers at Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, in Visakhapatnam, India. VSWU used to be the recognized union at the plant, but the recognition was later lost to the INTUC-affiliated Visakha Steel Employees' Congress. The general secretary of VSWU is D. Adiy..
Visale
Visale is a town in the Solomon Islands. ..
Visalia, California
"Visalia" redirects here. See also Visalia, Kentucky. Visalia is a city in Tulare County, California, United States. It is the county seat of Tulare County. In 2005 the city had a population of 107,555 which makes it one of the largest inland cities of California. Contents 1 Geography2&nb..
Visalia, Kentucky
Visalia is a city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 111 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Interesting Fact4 External links Geography Visalia is located at [38°54′54″N, 84°26′59″W] (38.914923, -84.449698)..
Visalia Municipal Airport
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Visalia Oaks
Tampa Bay Devil Rays American League AAA Durham Bulls AA Montgomery Biscuits A Visalia OaksSouthwest Michigan Devil RaysHudson Valley Renegades R Princeton Devil Rays The Visalia Oaks are a minor league baseball team in Visalia, California, USA. They are a "high-A" class team ..
Visano
> Statistics Region: Lombardy Province: Brescia Location: External link [Mapquest - Visano] ..
Visanthe Shiancoe
Visanthe Shiancoe (born June 18, 1980 in Laurel, Maryland, United States) is a National Football League tight end. Shianchoe was drafted out of Morgan State in 2002 by the New York Giants in the 3rd round with the 91st overall pick. Shianchoe enjoyed a lucrative career at Morgan State, playing in ..
Visarga
Visarga (visargá) is a Sanskrit word meaning "sending forth, discharge". In Sanskrit phonology ({{IAST), visarga (also called, equivalently visarjanīya by earlier grammarians) is the name of a phone, approximately IPA [h], written as IAST ḥ, Harvard-Kyoto H, Devanagari ः. Visarga is..
Visas Marr
Visas Marr (born 3,976 BBY) is a fictional character in the Star Wars video game [[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords]]. Contents 1 History1.1 Possible Endings2 Behind the scenes3 Romance4 Cut content5 Appearances History Visas is from the ..
Visavadar
Visavadar is a city and a municipality in Junagadh district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Geography Visavadar is located at [21.38° N 70.68° E][Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Visavadar]. It has an average elevation of 91 metres (298 feet). Demographics As..
Visayan
Visayan may refer to: Visayan languages, spoken in the central Philippines.Bisaya, the Visayan people.Visayas, an archipelago consisting of islands in central Philippines. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred yo..
Visayan languages
The Visayan languages of the Philippines, along with Tagalog and Bikol, are part of the Central Philippine language family. Most Visayan languages are spoken in the Visayas region but they are also spoken in the Bicol Region (particularly in Sorsogon and Masbate), islands south of Luzon such as thos..
Visayan Sea
The Visayan Sea is a small sea within the Philippine archipelago, surrounded on three sides by the islands of the Visayas. The Eastern Visayas and Western Visayas lie to the east and west, while the Central Visayas lie to the south. It is bounded on the north by Masbate, on the east by Leyte, on t..
Visayas
Map of the Philippines showing Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao Visayas is one of the three island groupings in the Philippines along with Luzon and Mindanao. It consists of several islands, forming the central part of the country's archipelago. The major islands are: PalawanPanayNegrosCebuBoho..
VISA (credit card)
Visa is a brand of credit card and debit card operated by the Visa International Service Association of San Francisco, California, USA, an economic joint venture of 21,000 financial institutions that issue and market Visa products. The Visa card was launched in 1976 and the card was derived f..
Visa (document)
An entry visa valid in all Schengen treaty countries issued by France Visas for Laos, Thailand, and Sri Lanka A visa (short for the Latin carta visa, lit. "the document having been seen") is a document issued by a country giving a certain individual permission to formally request entran..
Visa Airways
Visa Airways is an airline based in India. Code data IATA Code: 9A External links [Visa Airways] Airlines of India Air Deccan • Air India • Air-India Express • Air Sahara • Alliance Air • Archana Airways • Blue Dart Aviation • Club One Air..
Visa Cash
Visa Cash is a smart card electronic cash system owned by VISA. Trialled in various locations Worldwide (including Leeds, UK in 1997), the system works via a 'chip' embedded in a bank card, and looks similar to the so-called 'Chip and PIN' cards issued in inter alia France and the UK. The card i..
Visa Delta
Visa Delta is a major debit card issued by Visa in the United Kingdom. Of the major banks in the UK, the ones issuing debit cards under the Visa Delta scheme are: Barclays Bank, Lloyds TSB, Abbey and Halifax Bank of Scotland who abandoned Switch due to a delay in chip and pin rollout. The scheme is..
Visa Electron
Visa Electron logo Visa Electron is a debit or credit card available across most of the world, with the exception of the United States, Canada and Australia. The card was introduced by VISA in the 80s and is a sister card to the Visa Delta card. If the Visa Electron logo is the only VISA logo..
Visa Express
The Visa Express program was a U.S. State Department program that allowed residents of Saudi Arabia to enter the U.S. without proving their identities. It became controversial when some of the 9/11 hijackers used this program to gain entry into the country, and the program was eventually shut down. ..
Visa for Avalon
Visa for Avalon is a 1965 novel by Bryher. It was re-released by Paris Press in 2004 with a new introduction by Susan McCabe. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. During a fishing vacation to Trelawney in an unidentified country, Mr. Robinson (his first n..
Visa fraud
Visa Fraud has different criteria in various parts of the world, but the commonly accepted points are the sale, provision, or transfer of otherwise legitimate Visas, misrepresentation of reasons for traveling and forgery or alteration of a Visa. The United States reports that most cases of visa fra..
Visa Hongisto
Visa Hongisto (born April 9, 1987 in Valkeala, Finland) is a Finnish sprinter. His club team is Valkealan Kajo. Contents 1 Progression1.1 100m1.2 200m2 Personal bests3 Physical characteristics4 References Progression 100m Year Time Wind City Date 2002 ..
Visa Oshwal
A sub-caste of the generic "Oswal" or "Oshwal" or "Osval". "Visa" means twenty as opposed to the "Dasa" - ten. This is simply to relate the hierachies of the two sub-castes between each other. Origin: apocryphal from the city of "Ossia" or "Osia" in the Jodhpur district of Rajasthan state in north-w..
Visa Waiver Program
The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) is a program of the United States of America which allows citizens of specific countries to travel to the US for tourism or business for up to 90 days without having to obtain a visa. Contents 1 History2 Eligible countries2.1 British passport holders3&..
Visbek
Visbek is a municipality in the district of Vechta, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 12 km north of Vechta. ..
Visborg
Visborg (Wisborg) refers to a fortress in the town of Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland. There was no one fortress called "Visborg", rather it refers to successive fortresses built in Visby (Borg in Old Norse means fortress or castle). Though Visborg is usually a reference to the castle buil..
Visbreaker
A visbreaker is a chemical plant where thermal cracking in a furnace reactor (at high temperature) is used to transform heavy hydrocarbons (e.g. vacuum distillation residue) into lighter hydrocarbons (LPG, gasoline, etc). Heavy hydrocarbons are generally used as fuel oil in chemical plants. The pr..
Visbur
In Scandinavian mythology, Visbur was a king of the House of Ynglings and the son of Vanlade. Snorri Sturluson relates in Ynglinga saga that Visbur was the son of Vanlade and Drífa, a daughter of Snær the Old. He married a daughter of Aud the Rich, and they had two sons, Gisl and Öndur. Howeve..
Visby
''This article is about the city. See Visby-class corvette for the ship. Visby City armsIn 1971 incorporated in the arms of Gotland Municipality [57° 38´ N 18° 17´ E] Charter City (1645) Municipality Gotland Municipality County Gotland County Province Gotland Popula..
Visby (disambiguation)
Visby can mean: Visby - the largest city on the Swedish island of GotlandVisby-class corvette - a Swedish Navy class of corvettes named after the city of Visby This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this pa..
Visby Airport
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Visby class corvette
Visby class corvette General Characteristics Displacement: 650 tonnes Length: 72 m Beam: 10.4 m Draft: 2.5 m Propulsion: 2 Waterjets, powered by: high: 4 gas turbines, total rating 16 MWlow: 2 diesel engines, total rating 2.6 MW Speed: 35+ knots Range: Complement: 43 Armament: Bo..
Visby lenses
The Visby lenses are ten lens-shaped rock crystals found in a viking grave in Gotland dating from the 10th century. Some of them are mounted in silver and may have been carried as a pendant, but others appear not to have been used as jewelry. The lenses are almost perfectly elliptical and very simil..
Visby Ringwall
Visby Ringwall is a medieval defensive wall surrounding the old Swedish city Visby. The ringwall was likely begun in the 13th century. Around 1280 it was rebuilt to reach its current height, and getting the characteristic towers, although some towers were not constructed until the 15th century. Th..
Viscaceae
Viscaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. In the past few decades there have been several systems of plant taxonomy to recognize this family, such as the Cronquist system, of 1981. It is famous for the true mistletoe (of Christmas and Asterix fame). However, the APG II system,..
Viscacha
The viscacha or vizcacha is a rodent of the chinchilla family Chinchillidae. There are two genera and four species of viscacha. plains viscacha (Lagostomus maximus): Resident of the Pampas of Argentina, easily differentiated from other viscachas by black and gray mustache-like facial markings. Th..
Visceral Bleeding
Visceral Bleeding (V.B) is a death metal band from Sweden. The band was formed sometime in the late nineties by Peter Persson and Niklas Dewerud. Influenced by bands such as Suffocation and Monstrosity they performed what they thought the death metal scene was lacking. Visceral Bleeding are one ..
Visceral fat
Visceral fat, also known as organ fat, is located inside the peritoneal cavity as opposed to subcutaneous fat which is found underneath the skin and intramuscular fat which is found interspersed in skeletal muscle. Visceral fat is composed of several adipose depots including mesenteric, epididymal w..
Visceral larval migrans
Visceral larva migrans is a condition in children caused by the migratory larvae of nematodes like Toxocara vitulloram ,T.canis etc. See also Cutaneous larva migrans ..
Visceral leishmaniasis
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as Kala-Azar, is the most severe form of leishmaniasis, a disease caused by parasites of the Leishmania genus. The parasite migrates to the visceral organs such as liver, spleen and bone marrow and if left untreated will almost always result in the death of t..
Visceral nerve
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Viscera (album)
Viscera is a 2004 album by God Module. Track listing The SourceInside OutFalse PretenseStill So StrangeLucidA Night Like ThisSectionsForeseenLost TimeWinter TortureA Simple Restriction ..
Viscera (disambiguation)
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Viscera is the plural form of viscus, which refers to an organism's internal organs. Viscera can also refer to: The stage name of professional wrestler Nelson Frazier, Jr.Viscera (album), a 2005 album by God Module This is a [..
Viscidium
Viscidium is a sticky substance in flowers used to collect pollen or pollinia; entomological orchid pollination uses the viscidium dually. When an insect initially becomes engaged with a second flower of a compatible species the viscidium of this flower grabs the pollinia off of the host insect's ba..
VISCII
The Vietnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange (VISCII) is a character set comprising the Vietnamese alphabet, punctuation, and other graphemes. Vietnamese requires slightly too many (134) letter/diacritic combinations to make a traditional extended ASCII character set for it. There are es..
Visco
Visco can refer to: Visco, a commune in the province of Udine (northern Italy)Visco CorporationVisco fuse This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly ..
Viscoelasticity
A viscoelastic material is one in which: hysteresis is seen in the stress-strain curve.stress relaxation occurs: step constant strain causes decreasing stresscreep occurs: step constant stress causes increasing strain Viscoelastic material models are frequently used to describe the behaviour of (so..
Viscometer
A viscometer (also called viscosimeter) is an instrument used to measure the viscosity and flow parameters of a fluid. The classical method of measuring due to Stokes, consisted of measuring the time for a fluid to flow through a capillary tube. Refined by Cannon, Ubbelohde and others, the glass t..
Visconde de Mauá
Visconde de Mauá, or simply Mauá as it is called by the locals, is a small village or district that belongs to the county of Resende in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The village was founded by German imigrants on the beginig of the 20th century. ..
Visconde do Rio Branco
Visconde do Rio Branco is a Brazilian city in the state of Minas Gerais. As of 2004 its population is estimated to be 34,726. Banhada pelo Rio Chopotó. ..
Visconte Maggiolo
Visconte Maggiolo (1478 - 1530) was an Italian cartographer and sailor. He was in Florence and was a and fellow sailor of esplorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. He died of malaria in 1530. ..
Visconti-Sforza tarot cards
The first known Tarot deck, then still called Trionfi cards, were commissioned by Filippo Maria Visconti [link]. The 78 card deck is commonly known as the Visconti-Sforza tarot cards after the ruling houses of Milan. The House of Visconti ruled Milan between 1277 and 1447, followed by..
Visconti (pens)
Visconti is an Italian manufacturer of fine fountain pens. The company was funded in 1988 in Florence by Dante Del Vecchio and Luigi Poli, collectors of fountain pens for many years. Their products represented the rediscovery and relaunch of celluloid as material for fountain pens. External link &..
Viscose
Viscose is a viscous organic liquid used to make rayon and cellophane. Cellulose from wood or cotton fibres is treated with sodium hydroxide, then mixed with carbon disulfide to form cellulose xanthate, which is dissolved in more sodium hydroxide. The resulting viscose is extruded into an acid bat..
Viscosity
The pitch drop experiment at the University of Queensland. The viscosity of pitch is 100 billion times that of water. Viscosity is a measure of the resistance of a fluid to deform under shear stress. It is commonly perceived as "thickness", or resistance to pouring. Viscosity describes a f..
Viscosity (printmaking)
Viscosity is a planographic printmaking technique. The process is based upon the property that water will not mix with oil; it extends this practice by creating tacky vs. oily ink surfaces. A tacky ink surface is rolled on a flat monotyping surface, it is then drawn into or wiped away. A second lay..
Viscosity (software)
In object oriented programming, viscosity refers to the ease at which a developer can add design-preserving code to a system. If it is easier to add a hack than it is to add code that fits into the program's design, then the system has high viscosity. If it is easy to add new code to the program w..
Viscosity index
Viscosity Index (or VI) is a petroleum industry term. It is a lubricating oil quality indicator, an arbitrary measure for the change of kinematic viscosity with temperature. The viscosity of liquids decreases as temperature increases. The viscosity of a lubricant is closely related to its ability to..
Viscosity solution
In mathematics, the viscosity solution concept was introduced in the early 1980's by Pierre-Louis Lions and Michael Crandall as a generalization of the classical concept of what is meant by a 'solution' to a partial differential equation (PDE). It has been found that the viscosity solution is the n..
Viscount
A viscount is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl (in Britain) or a count (his continental equivalent). Contents 1 Etymology2 Viscount in Britain and the Commonwealth2.1 Coronet3 Continen..
Viscountess Bayning of Foxley
Viscountess Bayning of Foxley was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created for life in 1674 for Anne Murray. She was the daughter of Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning of Sudbury and sister of Paul Bayning, 2nd Viscount Bayning of Sudbury (on whose death in 1638 the Viscountcy became extinc..
Viscount Aboyne
Viscount Aboyne was a peerage title in the Peerage of Scotland and was created on 20 April 1632 for George Gordon, Earl of Enzie, eldest son of the Marquess of Huntly. Upon his succession to the Huntly title, the 1st Viscount lost that title, which passed to his second son. Upon the 2nd Viscount's..
Viscount Addison
Viscount Addison, of Stallingborough in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 6 July 1945 for Christopher Addison, 1st Baron Addison, a politician who served as Member of Parliament, Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council. He had been c..
Viscount Alanbrooke
Viscount Alanbrooke, of Brookeborough in the County of Fermanagh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 29 January 1946 for Alan Brooke, a Field Marshal who had previously been created Baron Alanbrooke, with the same territorial designation, on 18 September 1945. There ..
Viscount Allen
Viscount Allen, in the County of Kildare, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland that was created on 28 August 1717, along with the title Baron Allen, of Stillorgan in the County of Dublin for John Allen, a former Member of the Irish House of Commons for County Dublin, County Carlow and County Wicklo..
Viscount Allenby
Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 7 October 1919 for Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby. The family seat is Newnham Lodge, near Hook, North Hampshire. Viscounts Allenby (..
Viscount Allendale
Viscount Allendale, of Allendale and Hexham in the County of Northumberland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 5 July 1911 for the Liberal politician Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Baron Allendale. The title of Baron Allendale, of Allendale and Hexham in the County of Nort..
Viscount Alverstone
Viscount Alverstone was a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 24 November 1913 for Richard Webster, 1st Baron Alverstone, the Lord Chief Justice. He had been created Baron Alverstone on 18 June 1900. The titles became extinct upon his death in 1915. Barons Alverstone (..
Viscount Amory
Viscount Amory, of Tiverton in the County of Devon was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created on 1 September 1960 for the former Chancellor Derick Heathcoat-Amory. It became extinct upon his death on 20 January 1981. Viscounts Amory (..
Viscount Ashbrook
The title of Viscount Ashbrook was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1751. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Castle Durrow (1733), also in the Peerage of Ireland. The family seat is Arley Hall Barons Castle Durrow (..
Viscount Astor
Viscount Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for William Waldorf Astor, who had previously been created Baron Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent. The titles remain united. The 1st Viscount's second son was cr..
Viscount Bangor
The title of Viscount Bangor was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1781. The Bangor in question is in county Down, Northern Ireland. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Bangor (1770), also in the Peerage of Ireland. Viscounts Bangor (..
Viscount Barrington
Viscount Barrington, of Ardglass, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1720 (along with the subsidiary title Baron Barrington, of Newcastle) for the lawyer, theologian and politician John Shute Barrington. The seventh Baron was created Baron Shute in the Peerage of the United Kin..
Viscount Bateman
Viscount Bateman was a peerage titled created on 12 July 1725 in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created for the MP for Leominster, William Bateman. On the same day he was created Baron Culmore. Both titles became extinct in 1802 upon the death of the 2nd Viscount. As it was an Irish peerage, both ho..
Viscount Bayning of Sudbury
Viscount Bayning of Sudbury was a title created for Sir Paul Bayning, Bt on 8 March 1628. Sir Paul had previously been created Baron Bayning of Horkesley on 27 February 1628. He had been created a baronet, of Bentley Parva, Esssex, on 24 September 1611 in the Baronetage of England/ On the death of ..
Viscount Bearsted
Viscount Bearsted, of Maidstone in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1925 for the businessman Marcus Samuel, the joint-founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company. He had already been created a Baronet in 1903 and Baron Bearsted, of Maidsto..
Viscount Bennett
Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1941 for the former Prime Minister of Canada Richard Bedford Bennett. He never married so the title became extinct on his ..
Viscount Beresford
Viscount Beresford, of Beresford in the County of Stafford, was a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1814 for the noted military commander Lt. Gen. Lord Beresford in 1823. He had been created Baron Beresford, of Albuera and of Dungarvan in the County of Waterford, in 1814...
Viscount Bertie of Thame
Viscount Bertie of Thame, in the County of Oxfordshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1918 for the prominent diplomat Sir Francis Bertie on his retirement as British Ambassador to France. Bertie was the second son of Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon. He had ..
Viscount Blakenham
Viscount Blakenham, of Little Blakenham in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1963 for the Conservative politician Hon. John Hugh Hare, third son of Richard Granville Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel. Viscounts Blakenham (..
Viscount Bledisloe
Viscount Bledisloe, of Lydney in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1935 for the Conservative politician Sir Charles Bathurst upon his retirement as Governor-General of New Zealand. He had already been created Baron Bledisloe, of Lydney in th..
Viscount Blundell
The title Viscount Blundell was created in 1720 in the Peerage of Ireland for the 4th Baronet Blundell and became extinct upon his death in 1756. Baronets Blundell of Edendeny (..
Viscount Bolingbroke
The title Viscount Bolingbroke was created in 1712 the Peerage of Great Britain for Henry St John. St John was also given the title of Baron St John. After the first Viscount's death, the title was inherited by Frederick St John, who had previously succeeded to the titles of Viscount St John and Bar..
Viscount Boyd of Merton
Viscount Boyd of Merton, of Merton-in-Penninghame in the County of Wigtown, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1960 for Alan Lennox-Boyd upon his retirement from politics. During his parliamentary career as an M.P., he had been Colonial Secretary. Being opposed to th..
Viscount Boyne
The title of Viscount Boyne was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1717. The Viscount holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Hamilton of Stackallen (1715) in the Peerage of Ireland and Baron Brancepeth (1866) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. As Baron Brancepeth, the Viscount sat in the House ..
Viscount Bracken
Viscount Bracken, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1952 for the journalist and Conservative politician Brendan Bracken. The title became extinct on his death in 1958. Viscount Bracken (..
Viscount Brackley
The title Viscount Brackley has been created twice; once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The English title was created in 1616 for Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere however he died a year later and the viscountcy merged with the earldom of Bridgewater, whi..
Viscount Brentford
The title Viscount Brentford was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1929 for the then Home Secretary. The Viscount Brentford is also twice a baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom (1919 and 1956) created for the first and third Viscounts respectively. The family seat is Cousle..
Viscount Bridgeman
Viscount Bridgeman, of Leigh in the County of Shropshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1929 for the Conservative politician William Clive Bridgeman. He was the grandson of George Augustus Frederick Henry Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford. The family seat is Watle..
Viscount Bridport
The title of Viscount Bridport was created twice in British history. It was first created in 1800 in the Peerage of Great Britain for Alexander Hood, 1st Baron Bridport, already Baron Bridport in both the Peerage of Ireland (1794) and the Peerage of Great Britain (1796). This Viscountcy and the Br..
Viscount Brookeborough
Viscount Brookeborough, of Colebrooke in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1952 for Sir Basil Brooke, 5th Baronet of Colebrooke, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Brooke was the nephew of Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscou..
Viscount Buckmaster
Viscount Buckmaster is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1933 for the ex-Lord Chancellor, Stanley Buckmaster, who had previously been created Baron Buckmaster. Viscounts Buckmaster (..
Viscount Caldecote
Viscount Caldecote is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1939 for Thomas Inskip so that he could sit in the House of Lords and serve as Lord Chancellor. Viscounts Caldecote (..
Viscount Camrose
Viscount Camrose is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 20 January 1941 for William Berry, who had on 19 June 1929 been created Baron Camrose. Before this, on 4 July 1921, he had been created a baronet, of Hackwood Park, Hampshire. The first three Viscounts all headed T..
Viscount Canterbury
Viscount Canterbury, of the City of Canterbury, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1835 for the Tory politician Charles Manners-Sutton, who had previously served as Speaker of the House of Commons. He was created Baron Bottesford, of Bottesford in the County of Leice..
Viscount Cardwell
Viscount Cardwell, of Ellerbeck was title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created in 1874 for the prominent politician Edward Cardwell. It became extinct upon his death without issue in 1886. Viscounts Cardwell of Ellerbeck (..
Viscount Cave
Viscount Cave, of Richmond in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1918 for the lawyer and Conservative politician Sir George Cave, who later served as Lord Chancellor. On the day of his death in 1928 his resignation as Lord Chancellor had been ac..
Viscount Chandos
The Viscount Chandos is a Viscountcy in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was first bestowed upon Oliver Lyttelton, grandson of George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton and first cousin of Charles George Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham. Viscounts Chandos (..
Viscount Chaplin
The title Viscount Chaplin is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1916 for Henry Chaplin, a Tory MP, Cabinet minister, country landowner and racehorse owner. The title became extinct upon the death of the third viscount with three daughters but no sons in 1981. Viscounts Chaplin..
Viscount Charlemont
The title of Viscount Charlemont was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1665. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Charlemont (1620). The fourth Viscount was created Earl of Charlemont in 1763 and the second Earl was created Baron Charlemont in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 183..
Viscount Chelmsford
Viscount Chelmsford is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy is united with the Barony of Chelmsford, created in 1858. Barons Chelmsford (..
Viscount Chetwynd
The title of Viscount Chetwynd was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1717. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Rathdowne (1717). Viscounts Chetwynd (..
Viscount Chilston
Viscount Chilston is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1911 together with the title Baron Douglas of Baads. Viscounts Chilston (..
Viscount Churchill
The title Viscount Churchill, of Rolleston in the County of Leicester, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1902 for Victor Spencer, 3rd Baron Churchill. Lord Churchill's subsidiary title, Baron Churchill, of Whichwood in the County of Oxford, was created in 1815 for Lord Francis Spen..
Viscount Clifden
Viscount Clifden was a title created for James Agar on 12 January 1781, in the Peerage of Great Britain. Its subordinate titles include Baron Clifden (1776), Baron Mendip (1802), and Baron Dover (1833). It became extinct upon the death of the 8th Viscount, Arthur Victor Agar-Robertes. Viscounts Cli..
Viscount Cobham
The title Viscount Cobham was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1718 for Richard Temple, 1st Baron Cobham, who had been created Baron Cobham, of Cobham in the County of Kent, in 1714, along with a second Barony of Cobham with the same territorial designation as the earlier one. Lord Cobham ..
Viscount Colville of Culross
Viscount Colville of Culross is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscount holds the subsidiary titles of Lord Colville of Culross (created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1604) and Baron Colville of Culross (created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1885). Lords Colville of Cul..
Viscount Combermere
The title of Viscount Combermere, of Bhurtpore in the East Indies and of Combermere in the County of Chester, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1827. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Combermere, of Combermere in the County of Chester (1814). Viscounts Combermere (..
Viscount Cowdray
Viscount Cowdray,of Cowdray in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy is united with the Barony of Cowdray, created in 1910. The family seat is Cowdray House, near Midhurst, Sussex. Viscounts Cowdray (..
Viscount Craigavon
Viscount Craigavon is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1927 for James Craig, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Viscounts Craigavon (1927) James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon (1871–1940)James Craig, 2nd Viscount Craigavon (1906–1974)Janric Fraser Craig, 3rd V..
Viscount Cross
The title Viscount Cross was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1886 for Richard Cross, a Conservative politician. It became extinct on the death of the 3rd Viscount in December 2004. Viscounts Cross (..
Viscount Daventry
Viscount Daventry, of Daventry in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 6 May 1943 for Muriel FitzRoy (née Douglas-Pennant), in honour of her late husband, Captain The Rt Hon. Edward FitzRoy, who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from ..
Viscount Davidson
The Viscountcy of Davidson was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1937. Viscounts Davidson (..
Viscount Dawson of Penn
Viscount Dawson of Penn, of Penn in the County of Buckinghamshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created in 1936 for Bertrand Edward Dawson, the long-time physician to the Royal household. He had already been created Baron Dawson of Penn, of Penn in the County of Buckingh..
Viscount Devonport
Viscount Devonport, of Wittington in the County of Buckinghamshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for the Liberal politician Hudson Ewbanke Kearley. He had already been created a Baronet in 1908 and Baron Devonport, of Wittington in the County of Buckinghams..
Viscount De L'Isle
The Viscountcy of De L'Isle was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1956 for William Philip Sidney, 6th Baron de L'Isle and Dudley, who was Governor-General of Australia 1961-65. The family seat is Penshurst Place, near Tonbridge, Kent. Sidney Baronets of Penshurst Place (..
Viscount de Vesci
The title of Viscount de Vesci was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1776. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Knapton (1750), also in the Peerage of Ireland, and is an Irish baronet (1698). Viscounts de Vesci (..
Viscount Dilhorne
Viscount Dilhorne, of Greens Norton in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1964 for the lawyer and Conservative politician Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, 4th Baronet, of Dilhorn. He had already been created Baron Dilhorne, of Towcester in th..
Viscount Dillon
The title of Viscount Dillon was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1622. The Viscount is also Comte Dillon in France. Viscounts Dillon (..
Viscount Doneraile
The title of Viscount Doneraile has been twice created in the Peerage of Ireland, both times for members of the St Leger family. It was first created in 1703, but this creation became extinct in 1767. It was then created once again in 1785. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Donerai..
Viscount Downe
The title of Viscount Downe was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1680. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Dawnay (1897) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, under which he sat in the House of Lords before 1999. Viscounts Downe, First Creation (..
Viscount Dungannon
Viscount Dungannon was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created twice. The first creation came in 1662 when Marcus Trevor was made Baron Trevor, of Rostrevor in the County of Down, and Viscount Dungannon. These titles became extinct on the death of the third Viscount in 1706. The Trevor e..
Viscount Dunrossil
Viscount Dunrossil, of Vallaquie and of the Isle of North Uist in the County of Inverness-shire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1959 for William Morrison upon his retirement as Speaker of the British House of Commons. Viscounts Dunrossil (..
Viscount Eccles
Viscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy was bestowed in 1964 on David Eccles, a Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament, Minister of Works, Minister of Education and President of the Board of Trade durin..
Viscount Esher
Viscount Esher, of Esher in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy was bestowed in 1897 on Sir William Baliol Brett, 1st Baron Esher, upon his retirement as Master of the Rolls. Viscounts Esher (..
Viscount Eversley
Viscount Eversley, of Heckfield in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1857 for Charles Shaw-Lefevre on his retirement as Speaker of the House of Commons. The viscountcy became extinct on his death in 1888. However, the Eversley title was re..
Viscount Exmouth
Viscount Exmouth, of Canonteign in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy was bestowed in 1816 on Edward Pellew, who had been created a Baronet in 1796 and Baron Exmouth, of Canonteign in the County of Devon, in 1814. The Viscountcy and Barony of Exmouth..
Viscount Falkland
The title Viscount of Falkland was created in 1620 for Sir Henry Cary, in the Peerage of Scotland, along with the subsidiary title of Lord Cary. Theoretically, since all Viscounts in the Peerage of Scotland use "of" in their titles, the Viscount should be the Viscount of Falkland. However, most Sco..
Viscount Falmouth
The title Viscount Falmouth has been created twice, first in the Peerage of England, and then in the Peerage of Great Britain. George Fitzroy was the beneficiary of the first creation; he was later made Duke of Northumberland, but he left no heirs, so his title became extinct at his death. Arms ..
Viscount Ferrard
The Viscountcy of Ferrard was created in 1797 for Margaretta Foster. Her husband John was created Baron Oriel. Thus, their son Thomas inherited both titles. The third Viscount had inherited yet another title - the Viscountcy of Massereene - prior to inheriting the Ferrard title. Therafter, the two..
Viscount Finlay
Viscount Finlay was a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on March 27 1919 for Robert Finlay, who had previously been created Baron Finlay on his appointment as Lord Chancellor in 1916. Both titles became extinct on the death of the second Viscount in 1945. Viscounts Finlay (..
Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent
Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent, of Derwent in the County of Derbyshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1921 for Lord Edmund Fitzalan-Howard, the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was the second son of Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk. The tit..
Viscount FitzWilliam
The title Viscount FitzWilliam, of Merrion in the County of Dublin, was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1629 for Thomas FitzWilliam, along with the title Baron FitzWilliam, of Thorncastle in the County of Dublin. The 2nd Viscount was created Earl of Tyrconnell in 1661; on his death the Earldom ..
Viscount Furness
Viscount Furness, of Grantley in the West Riding of the County of Yorkshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1918 for the businessman Marmaduke Furness, 2nd Baron Furness. The title Baron Furness, of Grantley in the West Riding of the County of Yorkshire, had been..
Viscount Gage
The title of Viscount Gage was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1720. The Viscount bears the subsidiary titles of Baron Gage of Castlebar (1720) in the Peerage of Ireland, and Baron Gage of High Meadow (1790) in the Peerage of Great Britain. Under the latter title he sat in the House of Lords ..
Viscount Galway
The title of Viscount Galway has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created first in 1687, but became extinct in 1691. It was created again in 1692, becoming extinct in 1720. The most recent creation was in 1727. The present Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Ki..
Viscount Gormanston
The title of Viscount Gormanston was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1478, and is the senior Viscount of Ireland, as well as the bearer of the oldest vicomital title in either Britain or Ireland. The Viscount bears the subsidiary titles of Baron Gormanston (1370) and Baron Loundres (1478) in t..
Viscount Gort
The Viscountcy of Gort has been created twice, once in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy was first created in 1816 along with the subsidiary title Baron Kiltarton, with which it remains united. The sixth Viscount, Field Marshal John Vereker, receive..
Viscount Goschen
Viscount Goschen, of Hawkhurst in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy was created in 1900 for George Goschen upon his retirement from a long political career, during which he served variously as Member of Parliament, Vice President of the Board of Trad..
Viscount Gough
Viscount Gough, of Goojerat in the Punjab and of the city of Limerick, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy was created in 1849 for Hugh Gough, who had already been created Baron Gough in 1846, and would later become a Field Marshal. The subsidiary title, also in the peer..
Viscount Grandison
Viscount Grandison of Limerick is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1620 for Sir Oliver St John, the Chief Governor of Ireland, with special remainder to the male issue of his niece Barbara Villiers, wife of Sir Edward Villiers, elder half-brother of George Villiers, 1st Duke of B..
Viscount Greenwood
Viscount Greenwood, of Holbourne in the County of London, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for the politician Hamar Greenwood, the last Chief Secretary for Ireland. He had already been created a Baronet in 1915 and Baron Greenwood, of Llanbister in the County ..
Viscount Hailsham
Viscount Hailsham is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The 1st and 2nd Viscounts were the only father and son ever to both serve as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom. The second Viscount, Quintin Hogg, disclaimed his peerage under the Peerage Act to sit in the House of Commons, but ..
Viscount Hall
Viscount Hall, of Cynon Valley in the County of Glamorgan, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 28 October 1946 for the Labour politician George Hall. The title became extinct upon the death of his son, the second Viscount. Viscounts Hall (..
Viscount Hambleden
Viscount Hambleden is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Its first holder was a peeress suo jure; she was the widow of William Henry Smith (1825–1891). The second and third viscounts were involved in the management of the family business, W H Smith. Viscounts Hambleden (..
Viscount Hampden
Viscount Hampden is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The title was created twice, first for the 4th Baron Trevor, Bishop of Durham (in the Peerage of Great Britain), and then again for Henry Brand upon his retirement as Speaker of the British House of Commons. The family seat is Glynde..
Viscount Hanworth
Viscount Hanworth is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 January 1936 for Ernest Pollock, the Master of the Rolls, who had created Baron Hanworth on 28 January 1926. Barons Hanworth (..
Viscount Harberton
The title of Viscount Harberton was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1791 for Arthur Pomeroy, who had previously represented County Kildare in the Irish House of Commons. He had already been created Baron Harberton in 1783, also in the Peerage of Ireland. Viscounts Harberton (..
Viscount Harcourt
The title Viscount Harcourt has been created twice, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was first created in Great Britain in 1711 for Simon Harcourt, Lord Chancellor. The third viscount was created Earl Harcourt in 1749, but all titles became ext..
Viscount Hardinge
Viscount Hardinge, of Lahore and of King’s Newton in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1846 for the soldier and Tory politician Sir Henry Hardinge. His son, the second Viscount, represented Downpatrick in Parliament. His great-great-grandson, t..
Viscount Hawarden
The title of Viscount Hawarden was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1793. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron de Montalt (1785), also in the Peerage of Ireland, and is an Irish baronet (1705). Viscounts Hawarden (..
Viscount Head
Viscount Head, of Throope in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1960 for Anthony Henry Head, a Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for War and Minister of Defence during his career. The family seat i..
Viscount Hereford
Viscount Hereford is the senior Viscount in the Peerage of England. The Viscount is also the only one of the three English Viscounts who does not hold a higher title. The peerage dates to 1550. In 1611 Edward Devereux, a younger son of Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford, was created a baronet ..
Viscount Hewart
Viscount Hewart, of Bury in the County of Lancaster, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1940 for Gordon Hewart on his retirement as Lord Chief Justice. He had already been created Baron Hewart, of Bury in the County of Lancaster, in 1922. The titles became extinct on..
Viscount Hill
Viscount Hill is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that dates to 1842. The recipient of the title, Rowland Hill, had previously been created Baron Hill in 1814, and again in 1816. At the first Viscount's death, the barony of 1814 became extinct because he had no male issue. The barony of ..
Viscount Hood
The title Viscount Hood was created in 1796 in the Peerage of Great Britain. Its recipient, Samuel Hood, had previously been created Baron Hood in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1795, his wife Susanna was created Baroness Hood, in her own right, in the Peerage of Great Britain. Lord Hood thus holds, in ..
Viscount Horne of Slamannan
Viscount Horne of Slamannan, of Slamannan in the County of Stirlingshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for the Conservative politician Robert Stevenson Horne, who had previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The title became extinct on his death i..
Viscount Howard of Bindon
The title of Viscount Howard of Bindon in the Peerage of England was held by three members of the Howard family between 1559 and 1610. It was created for Thomas Howard, the second son of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Buckingham. His two sons succeeded h..
Viscount Hudson
Viscount Hudson, of Pewsey in the County of Wiltshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1952 for the Conservative politician Robert Hudson. The title became extinct on the death of the second Viscount in 1963. Viscounts Hudson (..
Viscount Ingleby
Viscount Ingleby, of Snilesworth in the North Riding of Yorkshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy was created in 1956 for the Conservative politician Osbert Peake after his retirement from politics. The family seat is Snilesworth Lodge, near Osmotherley, North Yorks..
Viscount Kemsley
Viscount Kemsley is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1945 for James Berry, who had been created a Baron in 1936 and a Baronet in 1928. Baronets of Dropmore (..
Viscount Keppel
Viscount Keppel was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created on 22 April 1782, along with the subsidiary title Baron Elden, for the First Lord of the Admiralty Admiral Augustus Keppel. It became extinct upon his death. Augustus Keppel was the second son of the 2nd Earl of Albemarle Viscount ..
Viscount Kingston
The peerage title Viscount Kingston has been created twice, once in Ireland and once in Scotland. The Scottish creation, which is actually rendered as Viscount of Kingston, was created in 1651 for Alexander Seton, and was forfeited in 1715 when the third viscount was attainted. The Irish title was ..
Viscount Knollys
The Viscountcy of Knollys is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1911 for Francis Knollys, who had been previously created a Baron in 1902. The family seat is Bramerton Hall, near Norwich, Norfolk. Viscounts Knollys (..
Viscount Knutsford
Viscount Knutsford is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy was created in 1895 for the politician Henry Holland, who had previously been created Baron Knustford. The Viscounts also hold a baronetcy, Holland of Sandlebridge, created in 1853 The family seat is Broadclyst Hou..
Viscount Lambert
Viscount Lambert, of South Molton in the County of Devon, was a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1945 for George Lambert, who had been a Member of Parliament since 1891. The title became extinct on the death of his second son, the 3rd Viscount, in 1999. Viscount..
Viscount Langford
Viscount Langford was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1766 when Elizabeth Rowley was made Baroness Summerhill and Viscountess Langford. She was the wife of Hercules Langford Rowley, a member of the Irish Privy Council. The title became extinct in 1796 on the death of the second ..
Viscount Leathers
Viscount Leathers, of Purfleet in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1954 for the businessman and Conservative politician Frederick James Leathers. He had already been created Baron Leathers, of Purfleet in the County of Essex, in 1941. Viscounts..
Viscount Leverhulme
The title Viscount Leverhulme, of the Western Isles in the Counties of Inverness and Ross & Cromarty, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1922 for William Lever, 1st Baron Leverhulme. The Viscounts Leverhulme also held the title Baron Leverhulme, of Bolton-le-Moors in the County Pala..
Viscount Lifford
The title of Viscount Lifford was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1781. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Lifford (1768), also in the Peerage of Ireland. Viscounts Lifford (..
Viscount Lismore
The title of Baron Lismore of Shanbully, county Tipperary was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1785. The 2nd Baron was created Viscount Lismore in 1806 and was made Baron Lismore in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1838. The peerages became extinct upon the death of the second Viscount in ..
Viscount Long
Viscount Long, of Wraxall in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1921 for the Conservative politician Walter Long, who had previously served as Member of Parliament, President of the Board of Agriculture, President of the Local Government Board..
Viscount Lorton
Viscount Lorton is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1806 for General Hon. Robert Edward King, who had already been made Baron Erris in the Peerage of Ireland in 1800. He was the younger son of Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston. His son, the second Viscount, succeeded to the Earld..
Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax
Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax, of Hethersett in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1957 for the businessman and public servant Harold Vincent Mackintosh. He had already been created a Baronet, of Halifax in the County of Yorkshire, in 1935, and..
Viscount Malvern
Viscount Malvern, of Rhodesia and of Bexley in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1955 for Sir Godfrey Huggins, the first Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Viscounts Malvern (..
Viscount Marchwood
Viscount Marchwood, of Penang and of Marchwood in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1945 for the Conservative politician Frederick George Penny. He had already been created a Baronet in 1933 and Baron Marchwood, of Penang and of Marchwood i..
Viscount Margesson
The title Viscount Margesson was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1942. The Viscount holds no subsidiary titles. Viscounts Margesson (..
Viscount Massereene
The Viscount Massereene and Ferrard holds two Viscountcies in the Peerage of Ireland. The Viscountcy of Massereene dates to 1660, and the Viscountcy of Ferrard to 1797. The Viscount also holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Lougneagh (1660) and Baron Oriel (1790) in the Peerage of Ireland and Baro..
Viscount Maugham
The title Viscount Maugham, of Hartfield in the County of Sussex, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1939 for Frederic Herbert Maugham, Baron Maugham. Viscounts Maugham (..
Viscount Maynard
The title Baron Maynard was created in 1620 in the Peerage of Ireland and again in 1628, in the Peerage of England. In 1766, the sixth baron was created Viscount Maynard and Baron Maynard again, both in the Peerage of Great Britain. On his death in 1775, the baronies became extinct, whilst the visco..
Viscount Melbourne
Viscount Melbourne, of Kilmore in the County of Cavan, was a title created for Peniston Lamb, 1st Baron Melbourne in 1781 in the Peerage of Ireland. He had previously been created Lord Melbourne, Baron of Kilmore in the County of Cavan, in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1770, and was further created Bar..
Viscount Melville
The title of Viscount Melville was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1802 for Henry Dundas, a notable politician of the period. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Dunira (1802). The family seat is Wey House, near Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset. Viscounts Melville (..
Viscount Melville Sound
Viscount Melville Sound is a body of water that separates Victoria Island and Prince of Wales Island from the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Nunavut, Canada. East of the sound lies Lancaster Sound, leading into Baffin Bay; westward lies the McClure Strait and the Arctic Ocean. ..
Viscount Mersey
The title Viscount Mersey was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1916. The Viscount also holds the titles of Lord Nairne (1681), in the Peerage of Scotland, and Baron Mersey (1910), in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The family seat is Bignor Park, near Pulborough, Sussex. Viscount..
Viscount Midleton
The titles of Baron Midleton and Viscount Midleton in the Peerage of Ireland were created in 1715 and 1717 respectively for Alan Brodrick, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. In 1796 his successor, the 4th Viscount, was created Baron Brodrick in the Peerage of Great Britain. These titles remain extant..
Viscount Mills
Viscount Mills, of Kensington in the County of London, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1962 for the Conservative politician Percy Mills. He had already been created a Baronet in 1952 and Baron Mills, of Studley in the County of Warwickshire, in 1957. Viscounts Mil..
Viscount Milner
Viscount Milner was a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 15 July 1902 for Alfred Milner, who had previously been created Baron Milner on his appointment to the Privy Council in 1901. Both titles became extinct upon his death. Viscounts Milner Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1..
Viscount Molesworth
The title of Viscount Molesworth was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1716. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Philipstown (1716), also in the Peerage of Ireland. Viscounts Molesworth (..
Viscount Monck
The title Viscount Monck was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1801. The Barony of Monck in the Peerage of Ireland was also created then. In 1866, the Viscount received a second Barony of Monck, this time in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The three titles remain united. Viscounts Monck (..
Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, of Brenchley in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1957 for the lawyer and Conservative politician Sir Walter Monckton upon his retirement from politics. Viscounts Monckton of Brenchley (1957) Walter Turner Monckton..
Viscount Monsell
The title Viscount Monsell, of Evesham in the County of Worcester, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1939 for First Lord of the Admiralty Bolton Eyres-Monsell. Viscounts Monsell (..
Viscount Montagu
The title of Viscount Montagu was created for Anthony Browne in the Peerage of England on September 2, 1554. It became extinct in 1797. Viscounts Montagu (1554) Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu 1528–1592Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu 1574–1629Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount..
Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Viscount Montgomery of Alamein is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1946 as a modern, hereditary victory title for the famous Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, commemorating his crucial victory in the Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October till 3 November 1942) i..
Viscount Mountgarret
The title of Viscount Mountgarret was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1550. In 1794, the 12th Viscount was made Earl of Kilkenny, but this title became extinct with his death in 1846. The Viscount bears the subsidiary titles of Feudal Baron Kells in Ossory (1550) in Ireland and Baron Mountga..
Viscount Muirshiel
Viscount Muirshiel, of Kilmacolm in the County of Renfrew, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1964 for the Scottish politician John Scott Maclay, who had previously served as Secretary of State for Scotland. Maclay was the fifth son of James Paton Maclay, 1st Baron M..
Viscount Newcomen
The title Viscount Newcomen was created in 1803 for the wife of the first Baronet Gleadowe-Newcomen. Their son inherited the baronetcy in 1807, then the viscountcy in 1817. Both titles became extinct upon the death of the second viscount in 1825. Baronets Gleadowe-Newcomen of Carrickglass (..
Viscount Newhaven
Viscount Newhaven was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. The title was created in 1681 for Charles Cheyne or Cheyney, who was also Clerk of the Pipe. He married Lady Jane Cavendish, daughter of the first Duke of Newcastle and had a son William Cheyne, who became 2nd Viscount Newhaven. William was a..
Viscount Northcliffe
The title Viscount Northcliffe, of St Peter in the County of Kent, was created in 1918 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom for the famous press baron Alfred Harmsworth. He had already been created a Baronet in 1904 and Baron Northcliffe, of the Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent, in 1905. All the..
Viscount Norwich
The peerage title Viscount Norwich was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1952 for the former Conservative Cabinet minister and French Ambassador Duff Cooper. Viscounts Norwich (..
Viscount of Arbuthnott
The title Viscount of Arbuthnott was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1641, along with the title Lord Inverbervie, for Sir Robert Arbuthnott. The family seat is Arbuthnott House, near Inverbervie, Kincardineshire (Aberdeenshire). Kincardineshire was a Scottish shire (later known as a county)..
Viscount of Kenmure
The title of Viscount of Kenmure was created in the Peerage of Scotland by Charles I in 1633 for Sir John Gordon . Viscounts Kenmure John Gordon, 1st Viscount of Kenmure (1599-1634)John Gordon, 2nd Viscount of Kenmure (died 1639)John Gordon, 3nd Viscount of Kenmure (died 1643)Robert Gordon, 4th Vis..
Viscount of Narbonne
The Viscount of Narbonne was the secular ruler of Narbonne in the Middle Ages. Narbonne had been the capital of the Visigoth province of Septimania, until the eighth century, after which it became the Carolingian Viscounty of Narbonne. Narbonne was nominally subject to the Carolingian Counts of Toul..
Viscount of Oxfuird
The title Viscount of Oxfuird was created in 1651 for Sir James Makgill, Baronet, along with the subsidiary title of Lord Makgill of Cousland, with remainder to heirs male whomsoever, a Scottish concept that permitted inheritance by persons not descended from the original grantee, but descended in t..
Viscount of Stormont
The title of Viscount Stormont is a title in the Peerage of Scotland; it was created in 1621 by James VI for his friend and helper Sir David Murray who had saved him from the attack of Earl Gowrie in 1600. Murray had already been created Lord Scone, also in the Peerage of Scotland in 1605. The 2nd V..
Viscount Ogle
Viscounts Ogle of Catherlough (1645, Peerage of Ireland) William Ogle, Viscount Ogle (c.1600-1682) (extinct on his death)..
Viscount Palmerston
Viscount Palmerston was a title in the Peerage of Ireland created on March 12, 1723, along with the subsidiary title Baron Temple of Mount Temple. Upon the death of the third Viscount (who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), the title became extinct. The Irish branch of the Temple fami..
Viscount Plumer
The title Viscount Plumer was created in 1929 for the colonial official Herbert Plumer, who had already been created Baron Plumer in 1919. Both titles became extinct after the death of his son and successor in 1944. Barons Plumer (1919) Herbert Onslow Plumer, 1st Baron Plumer (1857-1932), created V..
Viscount Portal
The title Viscount Portal was created for Wyndham Portal in 1945. He had been created Baron Portal in 1935. Both titles became extinct on his death. Barons Portal (..
Viscount Portman
The title of Viscount Portman was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1873. The Viscount holds the subsidiary title of Baron Portman (1837). Viscounts Portman (..
Viscount Powerscourt
The title of Viscount Powerscourt has been created several times in the Peerage of Ireland, each time for members of the Wingfield family. It was created first in 1618, becoming extinct in 1634. It was created a second time in 1665, but became extinct in 1718. The most recent creation was in 1744..
Viscount Purbeck
Viscount Purbeck was a title in the Peerage of England that was created on 19 July 1619, along with the title Baron Stoke, for John Villiers, the brother of the 1st Duke of Buckingham and the 1st Earl of Angelsey. It became extinct upon his death on 18 February 1657. Viscounts Purbeck (..
Viscount Ranelagh
The titles of Viscount Ranelagh and Baron Jones of Navan were created in the Peerage of England by Charles I on 25 August 1628 to Sir Roger Jones, son of Thomas Jones (1550-1619) Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Thomas Jones father was Henry Jones, Esq. of Middleton in Lancashire..
Viscount Rhondda
Viscount Rhondda, of Llanwern in the County of Monmouthshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1918 for the Welsh businessman and Liberal politician David Alfred Thomas, with special remainder to his daughter Margaret. Thomas had already been created Baron Rhondda,..
Viscount Ridley
Viscount Ridley is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1900 for the Conservative politician Sir Matthew Ridley, 5th Baronet, of Blagdon. At the same time he was created Baron Wensleydale, of Blagdon and Blyth in the County of Northumberland. The latter title was a revival..
Viscount Rochdale
Viscount Rochdale, of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and Baron Rochdale, of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, are peerage titles in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The title Baron Rochdale was created in 1913 for George Kemp, a businessman, military commander and form..
Viscount Rothermere
Viscount Rothermere, of Hemsted in the County of Kent, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It is held by the Harmsworth family of newspaper proprietors and every holder of the title has served as Chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust plc. Lord Rothermere is also Baron Rotherm..
Viscount Ruffside
Viscount Ruffside, of Hexham in the County of Northumberland, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1951 for the politician Clifton Brown on his retirement as Speaker of the House of Commons. The title became extinct on his death in 1958. His daughter Lady Audrey Hylton..
Viscount Runciman of Doxford
Viscount Runciman of Doxford, of Doxford in the County of Northumberland, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was conferred on Walter Runciman, a politician whose career included service as a Member of Parliament, President of the Board of Trade and Lord President of the Coun..
Viscount Sackville
The titles of Viscount Sackville and Baron Bolebrooke were created in 1782 in the Peerage of Great Britain for Lord George Germaine (previously Sackville), the soldier and politician. The titles became extinct on the death in 1843 of his son Charles, 2nd Viscount, who had also succeeded as 5th Duke ..
Viscount Samuel
Viscount Samuel is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Viscounts Samuel (..
Viscount Sarsfield
The title Viscount Sarsfield was created in 1627 in the Peerage of Ireland for Sir Dominick Sarsfield. The title was forfeit in 1691 by the 4th Viscount for his part in the Williamite war in Ireland. Baronets Sarsfield of Carrickleamlery (..
Viscount Savage
Viscount Savage was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1626 for Sir Thomas Savage, 2nd Bt., husband of Elizabeth Darcy (whom he married in 1602) and heir-apparent by special remainder to his father-in-law's titles of Baron Darcy of Chiche (1613), Viscount Colchester (1621) and Earl..
Viscount Scarsdale
Viscount Scarsdale and Baron Scarsdale are titles in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and Peerage of Great Britain, respectively. The first member of the Curzon family to hold a hereditary title was John Curzon, was who created a baronet in both Nova Scotia (1636) and England (1641). The Barony w..
Viscount Selby
Viscount Selby, of the City of Carlisle, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1905 for William Gully upon his retirement as Speaker of the British House of Commons. Viscounts Selby (..
Viscount Sidmouth
The title of Viscount Sidmouth was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1805 for Henry Addington, a former Prime Minister. The family seat is Upottery Manor. Viscounts Sidmouth (..
Viscount Simon
Viscount Simon, of Stackpole Elidor in the County of Pembrokeshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1940 for the lawyer and Liberal politician Sir John Simon. Viscounts Simon (..
Viscount Slim
Viscount Slim, of Yarralumla in the Australian Capital Territory and of Bishopston in the City and County of Bristol, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1960 for Field Marshal William Slim upon the end of his term as Governor-General of Australia. Viscounts Slim (..
Viscount Somerset
Viscount Somerset was a title in the Peerage of Ireland created in 1626 for Thomas Somerset, the second son of the Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester and the brother of Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester. On his death the title became extinct. Viscounts Somerset (..
Viscount Soulbury
Viscount Soulbury, of Soulbury in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1954 for the Conservative politician Herwald Ramsbotham at the end of his term as Governor-General of Ceylon. Ramsbotham had already been created Baron Soulbury, of Soulbury..
Viscount Southwell
The title of Viscount Southwell was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1776. The Viscount holds the subsidiary title of Baron Southwell (1717), also in the Peerage of Ireland, and is an Irish baronet (1662). Southwell Baronets of Castlemattress (..
Viscount Stansgate
Viscount Stansgate is a currently disclaimed title in the peerage of the United Kingdom that has had two holders. The second Viscount, Tony Benn, inherited the title in 1960, and disclaimed it in 1963 on the day the Peerage Act 1963 passed into law and made it possible for him to do so. The title wa..
Viscount Stonehaven
Viscount Stonehaven, of Ury in the County of Kincardine, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1938 for the Conservative politician and former Governor General of Australia Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet, of Stonehaven. He had already been created Baron Stonehaven, of Ury i..
Viscount Strangford
The peerage title Viscount Strangford was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1628 for Sir Thomas Smythe. In 1825 the sixth viscount was created Baron Penshurst in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, enabling him to sit in the House of Lords. These titles became extinct in 1869 with the death of the..
Viscount Strathallan
The title of Lord Maderty was created in 1609 for James Drummond, a younger son of the 2nd Lord Drummond of Cargill. The titles of Viscount Strathallan and Lord Drummond of Cromlix were created in 1686 for William Drummond, a younger son of the 2nd Lord Maderty. Both creations were in the Peerage of..
Viscount Stuart of Findhorn
Viscount Stuart of Findhorn, of Findhorn in the County of Moray, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1959 for the Conservative politician James Stuart after his retirement from the British House of Commons. Stuart was the third son of Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of M..
Viscount St Davids
Viscount St Davids, of Lydstep Haven in the County of Pembroke, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1918 for Sir John Wynford Philipps, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle. He had already been created Baron St Davids, of Roch Castle in the County of Pembroke, in 1908. The B..
Viscount St John
The title Viscount St John was created in 1716 for Sir Henry St John, Baronet of Lydiard Tregoze in the Baronetage of England, along with the subsidiary title Baron St John of Battersea. The title, in the Peerage of Great Britain, merged with that of Viscount Bolingbroke when the third Viscount St J..
Viscount St Vincent
The title of Viscount Saint Vincent was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1801 for John Jervis, the noted admiral. Viscounts St Vincent (..
Viscount Sydney
Viscount Sydney is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1789, to Thomas Townshend, 1st Baron Sydney (the Barony having been created in 1783). The third Viscount, John, became Earl Sydney in 1874. The Earldom, Viscounty and Barony all became extinct at the death of the first Earl. Visc..
Viscount Taaffe
The title of Viscount Taaffe was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1628. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron of Ballymote (1628). Family History The family history presents points of unusual interest. From the 13th century the Taaffe's had been one of the leading families in Irela..
Viscount Tenby
Viscount Tenby, of Bulford in the County of Pembroke, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1957 for Gwilym Lloyd George (second son of David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, the former Prime Minister) upon his retirement from politics. Gwilym Lloy..
Viscount Thurso
Viscount Thurso, of Ulbster in the County of Caithness, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1952 for the Scottish Liberal politician Sir Archibald Sinclair, 4th Baronet, of Ulbster. The Baronetcy, of Ulbster in the County of Caithness, had been created in the B..
Viscount Torrington
Viscount Torrington is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1721 for Sir George Byng along with the title of Lord Byng of Southill. The family seat is Great Hunts Place, near Winchester, Hampshire. Viscounts Torrington (..
Viscount Trenchard
Viscount Trenchard is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1936 for Hugh Trenchard, who had in 1919 been made a Baronet, in 1930 been made Baron Trenchard, and in 1927 Marshal of the Royal Air Force. The family seat is Standon Lordship, near Ware, Hertfordshire. ..
Viscount Ullswater
Viscount Ullswater, of Campsea Ashe in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy was created in 1921 for James Lowther upon his retirement as Speaker of the House of Commons. The family are a cadet branch of the Earls of Lonsdale (descended from a younger..
Viscount Valentia
Viscount Valentia is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It has been created twice. The first creation came in 1621 for Henry Power. A year later, his kinsman Sir Francis Annesley, 1st Baronet, of Newport Pagnell, was given a "reversionary grant" of the Viscountcy, which stated that on Power's death ..
Viscount Vane
Viscount Vane was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1720 for Hon. William Vane, who had previously represented County Durham in Parliament and who later sat for Steyning and Kent. He was created Baron Vane of Dungannon, in the County of Tyrone, at the same time he was given the Vi..
Viscount Ward of Witley
Viscount Ward of Witley, of Great Witley in the County of Worcestershire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1960 for the Conservative politician George Reginald Ward. He was the youngest son of William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley. The title became extinct on Lor..
Viscount Watkinson
Viscount Watkinson, of Woking in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1964 for the Conservative politician and businessman Harold Watkinson. The title became extinct on his death in 1995. Viscount Watkinson (..
Viscount Waverley
Viscount Waverley, of Westdean in the County of Sussex, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1952 for John Anderson, a distinguished politician who served variously as Governor of Bengal, Member of Parliament, Lord Privy Seal, Home Secretary, Lord President of t..
Viscount Weir
Viscount Weir, of Eastwood, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1938 for the Scottish businessman and politician William Weir, who had previously served as Secretary of State for Air. Weir had already been created Baron Weir, of Eas..
Viscount Wimborne
Viscount Wimborne is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1918 for Ivor Guest, 2nd Baron Wimborne, upon his retirement as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The subsidiary titles held by the Viscount are: Baron Wimborne (created 1880) and Baron Ashby St Ledgers (1910). ..
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Viscount Younger of Leckie is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1923 for the politician George Younger. The 1st Viscount had previously been created a Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1911. The 4th Viscount was also created a life peer as Baron..
Viscous coupling unit
Viscous coupling is an application used in all-wheel drive systems. The idea of the coupling is based on a special fluid which is inside of a hermetic container. In the container there are numerous plates which are installed very close to each other. Odd plates are attached to a cylinder-like oute..
Visco fuse
A visco fuse. Visco fuse is required for all consumer fireworks. It is the fuse that, most commonly in green, is found as a twisted, coated, strand. It can also be used to create delays in the rate of firing multiple fireworks linked together. It is a cord with a black powder core. There are..
Viscri
Viscri (German: Deutschweißkirch or simply Weißkirch, Hungarian: Szászfehéregyháza) is a small village in Transylvania (Siebenbuergen), in the mid part of Romania Braşov County. The city is mostly known for its highly fortified church, which was originally built around 1100 AD. It is part o..
Viscum
Viscum is a genus of about 70-100 species of mistletoes, native to temperate and tropical regions of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Traditionally, the genus has been placed in its own family Viscaceae, but recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group shows this family to be cor..
Viscum album
Viscum album is a species of mistletoe, the species originally so-named, and also known as European Mistletoe or Common Mistletoe to distinguish it from other related species. It is native to Europe, and western and southern Asia. It is a hemi-parasitic shrub, which grows on the stems of other tr..
Viscus
"Viscera" redirects here. For , see . In anatomy, a viscus (plural: viscera) is an internal organ of an animal (including humans), in particular an internal organ of the thorax or abdomen. The viscera, when removed from a butchered animal, are known collectively as offal. Internal organs are often ..
Visé
Visé (Dutch: Wezet) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège on the Meuse River. On January 1 2005 Visé had a total population of 16,870. The total area is 27.99 km² which gives a population density of 602.67 inhabitants per km². ..
Vise
Vise (tool) - a mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping or holdingVisé is a municipality in Belgium This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly ..
Viséan
The Viséan Age is the middle of three ages in the Mississippian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period. It lasted from 345.3±2.1 million years ago to 326.5±1.6 million years ago. It was preceded by the Tournasian Age and followed by the Serpukhovian Age. Carboniferous period Mississippian Pennsy..
Visegrád
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Visegrad
Visegrad or Vishegrad may refer to: Visegrád, a town in HungaryVisegrád group - a political grouping of central European countries.Višegrad, a town in Bosnia and HerzegovinaVishegrad, a village in BulgariaVishegrad, a medieval fortress in BulgariaVishegrad, the highest peak of Sakar, a mountain ..
Visegrád group
Political map in 2004 The Visegrád Group (also called the Visegrád 4 or V4) is an alliance of four Central European states: PolandCzech RepublicSlovakiaHungary The [Visegrád Group] originated in a summit of the heads of state or government of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland hel..
Viseisei
Viseisei is a village in Fiji's Ba Province. According to tradition, it is the oldest settlement in Fiji, established by Lutunasobasoba when the first Melanesian canoes beached at nearby Vuda Point. Fiji's current President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, who holds the chiefly title of Tui Vuda, hails from V..
Viseme
A viseme is a basic unit of speech in the visual domain that corresponds to the phoneme (which is the basic unit of speech in the acoustic domain). It describes the particular facial and oral movements that occur alongside the voicing of phonemes. Phonemes and visemes do not share a one-to-one corr..
Viseu
Vişeu is also a river in northern Romania. Viseu Location - Region - Subregion - District or A.R. CentroDão-LafõesViseu Party Fernando Ruas PSD Area 507.1 km² Population - Total - Density 96,810191/km² parishes 34 Coordinates [40º40'N 7..
Viseu (district)
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Viseu Football Association
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Vise (tool)
A vise (or vice in the United Kingdom and some other places) is a mechanical screw apparatus used for holding or clamping a work piece to allow work to be performed on it using other tools, such as saws, planes, drills, mills, screwdrivers, sandpaper, etc. In general, vises have a fixed jaw with ano..
Visfatin
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Vishal
''Vishal is a first name found in the Hindu community. It is also a common adjective found in north Indian languages like, Hindi, Marathi,Gujarat. The word has its root in the parent language Sanskrit. In languages, it means big or of large proportions but not to refer to size. The meaning comes cl..
Vishal-Shekhar
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Vishal Agarwal
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Vishal Bharadwaj
Vishal Bharadwaj is an Indian film director, writer and musical composer. He was born and raised in the Bijnoir district of Uttar Pradesh. As a young man, he moved to Delhi and started playing harmonium for little known ghazal singers at the various food festivals in Delhi’s Pragati Maidan. He was..
Vishal Haryana Party
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Vishal Marwaha
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Vishanti
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Vishera River
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Vishera River, Komi Republic
The Vishera (Vyshera) River (Вишера (Вышера) in Russian) is a river in the Komi Republic in Russia, right tributary of the Vychegda River. It is 247 km in length. The area of its drainage basin is 8,780 sq km. The Vishera River freezes up in November and stays under the ice until April. ..
Vishera River, Perm Krai
The Vishera River (Russian: ) is a river in Perm Krai, Russia, left tributary of the Kama River. It is 415 km in length. The area of its basin is 31,200 km². Main tributaries: Yazva and Kolva. The Vishera River freezes up in the late October–early November and stays under the ice un..
Vishing
Vishing is the practice of leveraging Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology to trick private personal and financial information from the public for the purpose of financial reward. The term is a combination of "voice" and phishing. Vishing exploits the public's trust in landline telephone ..
Vishishtadvaita
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Vishnevets
Vishnevets (Ukrainian: смт Вишнівець; Polish: ) is a town in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It is located at around [49°53′60″N, 25°45′0″E]. ..
Vishnevo
Vishnevo may refer to: Vyshneve, a town in Kiev Oblast, UkraineVishnevo, Russia, a village in Kursk Oblast, Russia This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an referred you here..
Vishniac
Vishniac could refer to: Roman Vishniac (1897-1990), a Russian-American, Jewish, photographer and biologist.Wolf V. Vishniac (1922-1973), microbiologist who died during an expedition to Antarctica.Vishniac, a crater on Mars, named after Wolf V. Vishniac. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation..
Vishniac (crater)
Vishniac is the largest crater of the Martian surface feature called the Giant's Footprint. It was named after Wolf V. Vishniac, a microbiologist who died on an expedition to Antarctica. The feature was originally observed by Mariner 7 in 1969. In 1999, the Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Cam..
Vishnu
For other uses of the name Vishnu, see Vishnu (disambiguation). Vishnu (IAST viṣṇu, Devanagari विष्णु, with honorific Shri Vishnu; śrī viṣṇu, श्री विष्णु), is a form of God, in Hinduism. For Vaishnavas, he is the Ultimate Reality or God, as is Shiva for S..
Vishnugupta
People named Vishnugupta: Vishnugupta. Indian king, Gupta Empire, 540-550 CE.Vishnugupta known more popularly as Chanakya. Historic Indian political thinker and prime minister of Chandragupta Maurya, Mauryan Empire.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associate..
Vishnugupta (Gupta Empire)
Vishnugupta was one of the lesser known kings of the Gupta Dynasty. He is generally considered to be the last recognized king of the Gupta Empire. His reign lasted 10 years, from 540 to 550 CE. ..
Vishnukarn
Thai word, similar to Vishvakarman of Indian mythology. ..
Vishnukundina
The Vishnukundina dynasty ruled over the eastern Deccan in South India comprising of the area covered by modern day Andhra Pradesh and Kalinga (Orissa. It played an important role in the history of the Deccan during the 5th and 6th centuries C.E.). They are believed to be one of the ancestors of the..
Vishnuvardhan
Vishnuvardhan (real name is Sampath Kumar) (born September 18, 1950) is a popular actor in the Indian state of Karnataka. He is the one of the most versatile, talented, stylish and popular actors in the Kannada film Industry. Be it a romantic, action, emotional, music, comedy or a family drama m..
Vishnuvardhana
Hoysala Kings (1000-1346) Nripa Kama (1000 - 1045) Vinayaditya (1045 - 1098) Ereyanga (1098 - 1100) Veera Ballala I (1100 -1108) Vishnuvardhana (1108 - 1152) Narasimha I (1152 – 1173) Veera Ballala II (1173 – 1220) Narasimha II (1220 – 1235) Vira Someshwara (1235 – 1253) ..
Vishnuvardhana II
Vishnuvardhana II (673 – 682 C.E.) became the Eastern Chalukya king following the very short rule of his father Indra Bhattaraka His son Mangi Yuvaraja succeeded him. |- style="text-align: center;" References Durga Prasad, History of the Andhras up to 1565 A. D., P. G. Publishers, Guntur ..
Vishnu (disambiguation)
The name Vishnu can mean: Vishnu, a form of God in Hinduism.The word is occasionally used as a Hindu Indian man's name.Vishnu Springs, Illinois, a Ghost town in the USA.Vishnu Temple, a rock formation in one of the canyons of the Colorado River in the USA.The Vishnu Schist, a geological rock formati..
Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (August 10, 1860 – September 19, 1936) was an Indian classical musician widely acclaimed to have brought in a renaissance in Indian music. He reorganized the Ragas in Hindustani music into the currently used Thaat scale from the previous classifications of Ra..
Vishnu Prabhakar
Vishnu Prabhakar (विष्णु प्रभाकर) (b. 1912) is a Hindi writer. He has written several short stories, novels, plays and travelogues to his credit. Contents 1 Early life2 Writing Style3 Major works4..
Vishnu Purana
Hindu texts ..
Vishnu Ramkrishna Karkare
Vishnu Ramakrishna Karkare (C. 1910 - 6 April 1974) , a Hindu Mahasabha activist was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in an attempt to assinate Mahatma Gandhi Contents 1 Early life2 Life at Ahmednagar3 Relief work during partition4 List of accused Early life Vishnu..
Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje
Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje is the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, India. He was born in Madhya Pradesh on 6 September, 1939. He started practicing law in 1964 after completing his LLB from Indore. He was appointed judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court on 28 July, 1990. He served as activing Chief Justice ..
Vishnu sahasranama
Part of a onHinduism This box: [ view] • [ talk] • [ edit] The Vishnu sahasranāma (literally: "Vishnu of the thousand names") is a list of 1,000 names for Vishnu, one of the main forms of God in Hinduism and the only Ultimate Reality for Vaishnavites (followers ..
Vishnu sahasranama/Full prayer
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Vishnu Sarma
Vishnu Sarma was the author of the anthropomorphic political treatise called Panchatantra. He lived in Benares at around 200 BC. He was a scholar in Sanskrit and the official Guru of the then princes of Kasi. He started writing down Panchatantra to teach political science to his royal young disci..
Vishrampur
Vishrampur is a census town in Surguja district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Vishrampur had a population of 12,366. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Vishrampur has an average literacy..
Vishtaspa
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Vishten
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Vishten plays a mixture of Acadian, Irish, and Scott..
Vishu
Kani Konna (Cassia fistula), Kerala's regional flower, is a popular vishukanni Vishu (Malayalam:[വിഷു]) is a festival held in the state of Kerala (and adjoining areas of Tamil Nadu) in India around the first day in the Malayalam month of Medam (April – May). This occasi..
Vishuddha
Vishuddha chakra symbolizes the pure consciousness, and creativity. On a psychic level, it governs expression, inspiration in speech, eloquence, and perception of the archetypal models. Tantric chakras Sahasrara Ajna Vishuddha Anahata Manipura Swadhisthana Muladhara Bindu Vishuddha, also ..
Vishuddhananda
Swami Vishuddhananda was the 8th president of the Ramakrishna Mission. But this 'Swami' was very different from Vishuddhananda Paramhansa, the spiritual 'Guru' of Gopinath Kaviraj. The revered paramhansa was a great yogi, with his ashram in Maldahia area of Varanasi (Benaras). He initiated Gopinat..
Vishvakarman
Vishwakarma is the presiding deity of all craftsmen and architects. Son of Brahma, he is the divine craftsman of the whole universe, and the official builder of all the gods' palaces. Vishwakarma is also the designer of all the flying chariots of the gods, and all their weapons. External links ..
Vishva Hindu Parishad
The Vishva Hindu Parishad (Sanskrit for "World Hindu Council"), widely recognized by its initials 'VHP', is a Hindu organization in India, an offshoot of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. It was founded in 1964. Its slogan is "Dharmo rakshiti rakshitah", or "By defending what is righteous, you will b..
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT) is an engineering college affiliated to the University of Pune, India. It was established in 1984. The school is financed and run by the Bansilal Ramanath Agrawal Charitable Trust. Currently Mr. H. K. Abhyankar is the principal of the institute, which is kno..
Vishwamitri River
The Vishwamitri river is a seasonal river which flows east to west between the Mahi and Narmada rivers in Gujarat, India. It originates in the hills of Pavagadh. The Vishwamitri flows west through the city of Vadodara and joins with the Dhadhar River and Khanpur River and empties into the Gulf o..
Vishwanath
Vishwanath could refer to Lord Shiva, one among the trinity of Hinduism.Dr. K. Viswanath, a Telugu film director.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point di..
Vishwanath Temple
Vishwanath temple, the most famous temple of the city of Varanasi, India, is dedicated to Lord Shiva. The original was supposed to have been built in 1490. In the ensuring years, the temple has been destroyed and rebuilt several times due to demolitions by invaders. The Mughal emperor Akbar allowed ..
Vishwaveena
A variation of the guitar used in Indian classical music. Invented by Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. ..
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (b. Rajasthan, India, 1952) is an exponent of Hindustani music (North Indian classical music). Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is one of the most celebrated shishyas (disciples) of the sitar shaman Ravi Shankar. Born in Jaipur in Rajasthan in July 1952, he is the younger brother of S..
Vishwa Thulasi
Vishwa Thulasi (2004) is an award-winning feature film directed by Sumathy Ram. The film is in Tamil, with English subtitles. This film's score and soundtrack were composed by Ilayaraaja and M. S. Viswanathan. It was well received upon screening at the 2005 WorldFest Houston International Film Fe..
Vishwa Vidyalaya - Central Secretariat Line
Lines of theDelhi Metrosystem █ Shahdara - Rithala Line █ Vishwa Vidyalaya - Central Secretariat Line █ Indraprastha - Dwarka Sub City Line The Vishwa Vidyalaya - Central Secretariat Line of the Delhi Metro system in Delhi consists of 10 metro stations from Vishwa V..
Visibility
In meteorology, visibility is a measure of the distance at which an object or light can be seen. It is important to all forms of traffic: roads, sailing and aviation. Meteorological visibility refers to transparency of air: in dark, meteorological visibility is still the same as in the same air in d..
Visibility graph
A visibility graph is a graph of intervisible locations. Each node or vertex in the graph represents a point location, and each edge represents a visible connection between them (that is, if two locations can see each other, an edge is drawn between them). Visibility graphs are classically regarde..
Visibility graph analysis
Visibility graph analysis (VGA) is a method of analysing the inter-visibility connections within buildings or urban networks. Visibility graph analysis was developed from the architectural theory of space syntax by Turner et al (2001), and is applied through construction of a visibility graph withi..
Visible
For other uses, see Visibility. Visible is a not-for-profit, free, quarterly magazine dedicated to giving LGBT history more visibility. The first of its kind, it aims to reveal the full diversity and richness of the LGBT community’s history. The emphasis is put on good design, accessibility an..
Visible balance
The visible balance is that part of the balance of trade figures that refers to international trade in physical goods, but not trade in services; it thus contrasts with the invisible balance. Most countries do not have a zero visible balance: they usually run a surplus or a deficit. This will be of..
Visible Forms
Visible Forms is the first album by Swedish musical group Audrey, released in 2006. Track listing "Mecklenburg" - 4:46"Views" - 5:09"Six yields" - 3:37"Treacherous art" - 6:00"The significance of being overt" - 3:04"Plain pieces" - 3:25"Leaving / letting go" - 5:38"Vague" - 4:34"Traverse" - 6:18 ..
Visible From Space
Visible From Space is an American band based in New York City that was formed in 2002. Its members include lead singer, songwriter, and American Idol Season 4 semi-finalist Judd Harris; guitarist and songwriter Rick Nossa; bassist Robert Gingery; drummer Paul Amorese; and keyboardist Jon Loyd. The..
Visible Human Project
The Visible Human Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualization applications. A male and a female cadaver were cut into thin slices which were then photographed and digitized. The project is run by th..
Visible light astronomy
Visible light astronomy encompasses a wide variety of observations via telescopes that are sensitive in the range of visible light. It includes imaging, where a picture of some sort is made of the object; photometry, where the amount of light coming from an object is measured, spectroscopy, where t..
Visible Light Communications
Visible Light Communications, shortly VLC, is a next generation communications media using visible light between 400T Hz and 800T Hz, that is safe for your eyes. It uses ordinary fluorescent bulb or LED to transmit signals. When using fluorescent bulb, it can send information 10 kbit/s, and if LED..
Visible Measures
[Visible Measures, Inc.], founded in 2004 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a privately held software startup company that calls itself The Rich Internet Application Analytics Company. Companies are increasingly employing Rich Internet technologies such as AJAX in order to devel..
Visible minority
Visible minorities are persons who are not of the majority race in a given population. For example, in Canada, visible minorities are defined as "persons, other than Aboriginals who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour." The term is primarily used in Canada and is a demographic categor..
Visible Noise
Visible Noise is an independent record label label from the UK. The most famous band on their roster is lostprophets. Notable artists lostprophetsBullet For My ValentineBring Me The HorizonDays Of WorthLabratFire Apple RedDevil Sold His Soul See also List of record labelsList of independent UK reco..
Visible spectrum
"Visible Light" redirects here. For , see . The visible spectrum (or sometimes optical spectrum) is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light or simply light. There are no exact boun..
Visible Speech
Illustrations of Visible Speech chart of English sounds Visible speech is the name of the system used by Alexander Melville Bell, who was known internationally as a teacher of speech and proper elocution and an author of books on the subject. The system is composed of symbols that show..
Visibomb(Ratchet and Clank)
The Visibomb or Visibomb Gun is a weapon from the Ratchet & Clank series of videogames. It is a unique weapon in that it lets you control the rocket it fires via a small camera. It has 20 ammo. It is available in both Ratchet and Clank and [[Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando]] Look The Visibomb is ..
VisiCalc
VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. It is generally considered to be the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool. VisiCalc's origin Conceived by Dan Bricklin, refined by Bob Frankston, de..
VisiCorp
VisiCorp was an early personal computer software publisher. Its most famous products are Visi On and VisiCalc. It was founded in 1976 by Dan Fylstra as Personal Software, and in 1982 was renamed "VisiCorp" with the success of VisiCalc. VisiCorp was sold to Pallidan Software after a legal feud betw..
Visigoth
Migrations The Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe (the Ostrogoths being the other). Together these tribes were among the loosely-termed Germanic peoples who disturbed the late Roman Empire during the Migration Period. After the collapse of the western..
Visigothic art
The Visigoths entered Hispania (modern Spain and Portugal) in 415 and they rose to be the dominant people there until the Moorish invasion of 711 brought their kingdom to an end. This period in Iberian art is dominated by their style. Visigothic art is generally considered in the English-speaking w..
Visigothic Code
The Visigothic Code (Latin, Forum Iudicum or Liber Judiciorum; Spanish, Fuero Juzgo; Asturian, Fueru Xulgu) are a set of laws that the Visigoth king of Hispania, Reccesuinth (for which it is sometimes called the Code of Reccesuinth), that were enlarged by the novel legislation of Wamba, Erwig and Eg..
Visigothic script
Visigothic script was a type of medieval script, so called because it originated in the Visigothic kingdom in Spain. It is also called littera toletana or littera mozarabica. The script was used from approximately the late 7th century until the 13th century, mostly in Visigothic Spain but also some..
Visimajoris
Visimajoris is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. He is a demon who has clashed with Doctor Strange. External Link [Visimajoris at marvunapp.com] ..
Visine
A bottle of Visine® Original Visine® is a brand of eye drops produced by Pfizer Inc. Contents 1 Visine® Original1.1 Administration1.2 Adverse effects2 References3 External link Visine® Original The active ingredient in the original Visine® formulation is tet..
Visingsö
Visingsö in lake Vättern Visingsö is an island in the southern half of the lake Vättern in Sweden. Visingsö lies 30 km north of the city Jönköping and 6 km west of Gränna from which a ferry connects the island. According to legend, a Giant named Vist created Visingsö by throwing a..
Visiobrand
VisioBrand is a Swiss company that operates a search engine for brands online. Visiobrand provides a search for targeted brands and branded products, including quick extraction of targeted data and content. It also includes a tool for route navigation and communication personalization managed in r..
Vision
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vision may mean: Visual perception via the visual system; one of the sensesComputer vision, a field of artificial intelligence Vision (religion), inspirational renderings believed to come from a deityA visual hallucination, possib..
Vision-logic
In Ken Wilber's integral theory, vision-logic is a post-formal but personal level of cognitive development. A characteristic of vision-logic is the ability to conceptualize and compare different perspectives or point of view. In Wilber's theory, vision-logic corresponds to awareness at the centauric..
Visionaire
An art and fashion publication that has come out in limited, numbered editions 3 times a year since Spring of 1991. Each issue has a specific format and theme around which prominent artists, designers, photographers, and others guest edit the publication. The New Yorker called it a "gallery in pri..
Visionaire (software)
"Visionaire - the adventure-creation-system" is a software package to create own graphical adventure games, similar in style to classic games like Monkey-Island. The program is in first place for fans of the genre who want to create their own games but don't have much experience with a programming ..
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
--> Visionaries - Knights of the Magical Light is a half hour animated television series from 1987. It is based on the action figure toy line of the same name by Hasbro. A total of 13 episodes were produced by Sunbow Productions, and were released on Region 2 DVD in 2004. There was also a short-l..
Visionaries with Antanas Mockus
Visionaries with Antanas Mockus (Visionarios con Antanas Mockus) is a political party in Colombia, led by Antanas Mockus. At the last legislative elections, 12 March 2006, the party won no parliamentary representation. ..
Visionary
Narrowly, a visionary is one who experiences a supernatural vision or apparition. By extension, visionary came to mean also a person with a clear, distinctive and specific (in some details) vision of the future, usually connected with advances in technology or political arrangements. Examples woul..
Visionary: The Video Singles
Visionary: The Video Singles is a boxed set by Michael Jackson which was released on 20 February 2006. Each week over a five-month period Sony BMG released 20 of Michael Jackson's biggest hit singles. Each single was issued as a DualDisc allowing each single to contain both the songs and their a..
Visionary (disambiguation)
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A visionary is (narrowly defined) one who experiences a supernatural vision or apparition. Visionary may also refer to: Visionary (DS9 episode), an episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine[[Visionary: The Video ..
Visionary (DS9 episode)
"Visionary" is the title of a [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]] episode, from the third season. Its episode number is 463, and it first aired on February 27 1995. Episode Summary [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Poisoned by radiation, Miles O'Brien expe..
Visionary architecture
Part of the Modern architecture series. Modern architecture Art Nouveau architecture Brutalist architecture Critical regionalism De Stijl Deconstructivism Expressionist architecture Futurist architecture Functionalist architecture The International style Organic architecture Postmodern..
Visionary art
Annunciation by Mati Klarwein from the Santana Abraxas album cover. Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences. Both trained and self-taught (or outsider) a..
Visionary Comics Studio
Visionary Comics Studio is a fledgling Comics Studio which launched in 2006. Contents 1 Overview2 The Visionary Universe3 Studio Staff4 Creators / Studio Members5 References Overview Based in Annapolis, Maryland, the studio is known as the world's first, dedicated teac..
Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc
Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc (or VESI) is an American roleplaying games company located in Powder Springs, Georgia. Founded by Steve Brown in the 1990s, the company is the creator of The Everlasting. External link [VESI's Web site] ..
Visionary Underground
Visionary Underground are an East London based collective with DJ Feelfree, VJ Coco and vocalist Damion. After three years they released their debut album Keep The Grime on in November 2005. The breakbeat to drum n bass breaks sounds are fused with dub, ragga, asian, electro and hiphop breaks. On th..
Visions-A Tribute to Burzum
Visions-A Tribute to Burzum is a compilation album, released by Unholy Records, of covers of songs by the infamous black metal band Burzum. Politics Varg Vikernes, the sole member of Burzum, is known to be an active neo-nazi sympathiser, with a history of violent crime including arson and murder..
Visions (album)
Atreyu's debut release, a seven-track EP entitled Visions, was released some time during 1998 or 1999. The exact release date is unknown, as no confirmation on the EP's release has ever been made. It is suspected that the EP was sold at the band's local shows. It is marked as being released through..
Visions (Magic: The Gathering)
Visions Expansion Symbol Release Date February 1997 Mechanics Comes-into-play creatures Keywords None new Size 167 cards Sets in Mirage Block '[[Mirage (Magic: The Gathering) '[[Visions (Magic: The Gathering) '[[Weatherlight (Magic: The Gathering) [[Magic: The Gathering]]Chronology '[[Mi..
Visions (Stratovarius album)
Visions is an album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius. Track listing "The Kiss of Judas" – 5:49"Black Diamond" – 5:39"Forever Free" – 6:00"Before the Winter" – 6:07"Legions" – 5:43"The Abyss of Your Eyes" – 5:38"Holy Light" – 5:45"Paradise" &nd..
Visions du réel
Visions du Réel is an international film festival, specializing in documentary films. It is held each year in Nyon, Switzerland. External links [Official website] (in French, German and English) ..
Visions from the Spiral Generator
Visions From The Spiral Generator is the fourth full-length album by Swedish progressive/folk metal band Vintersorg. It was released on June 24, 2002. This album saw a drastic shift in style in the band that was foreshadowed on the band's prior album, Cosmic Genesis. The lyrics continued to be mix..
Visions of Atlantis
Visions of Atlantis is a symphonic metal band from Styria, Austria, founded in 2000. Discography Eternal Endless Infinity (2002)CastAway (2004) Band Members Melissa Ferlaak - Female VocalsMario Plank - Male VocalsMartin Harb - SynthesizerWolfgang "Wops" Koch - GuitarMichael Koren - BassThomas Case..
Visions of Cody
Visions of Cody cover Visions of Cody is a novel by Jack Kerouac, perhaps his most stylistically free and varied. It was written in 1951-1952, and though not published in its entirety until 1973, it had by then achieved an underground reputation. Since its first printing, Visions of Cody has..
Visions of Ecstasy
Visions of Ecstasy is a 1989 short (19 minutes) film directed by Nigel Wingrove. It was refused certification in by the British Board of Film Classification because of scenes featuring a sexualised representation of Saint Teresa of Ávila caressing the body of Jesus on the cross. The BBFC felt that..
Visions of Europe
Visions of Europe is a live album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius. The album contains the greatest Stratovarius songs and was recorded in Italy and Greece. Track listing Disc 1 "Forever Free" – 1:34"Kiss of Judas" – 6:35"Father Time" – 6:39"Distant Skies" – 5:..
Visions of Excess
Visions of Excess is a 1985 album by The Golden Palominos. Track listing "Boy [Go]" (5:30)"Clustering Train" (6:07)"Omaha" (3:11)"The Animal Speaks" (4:07)"Silver Bullet" (5:09)"(Kind of) True" (4:47)"Buenos Aires" (3:48)"Only One Party" (4:30) ..
Visions of Gandhi
Visions Of Gandhi is the third album from Philadelphia Underground Hip Hop group Jedi Mind Tricks. MC Jus Allah split from the group after the release of their album Violent By Design, returning the group back to its original lineup of Vinnie Paz and Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind. Producer Stoupe ex..
Visions of Gerard
Visions of Gerard is a 1963 novel by American Beat writer Jack Kerouac. Unique among Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerard focuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood as evidenced in the tragically short yet happy life of his older brother, Gerard. Kerouac paints a picture of the boy as a sain..
Visions of Iddo the Seer
The book called the Visions of Iddo the Seer is a lost text that was probably written by the Biblical Prophet Iddo, who lived at the time of Rehoboam. The book is described at . The passage reads: "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the pr..
Visions of Johanna
"Visions of Johanna" is a song by Bob Dylan from the 1966 album Blonde on Blonde. Many of his fans consider it among Dylan's greatest works, and Dylan referred to it as his favorite song on the album which captured that "Wild, thin, Mercury sound". The identity of Johanna has been widely speculated..
Visions of Light
Visions of Light is a documentary about the art of cinematography from 1992. Many filmmakers appear in the film including Robert Wise, László Kovács and James Wong Howe. The film documentary features clips from the following films: Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895)Repas de bébé (1895)L'..
Visions of Order
Visions of Order (1964) is a posthumously-published work by conservative scholar Richard M. Weaver which argues that Western culture is in decline because many of its intellectuals refuse to believe in an underlying order of things--in the way things are, irrespective of beliefs about them. More sp..
Visions of the Beast
Visions of the Beast was released by Iron Maiden on June 2, 2003 and contains every video the band has ever made - 31 in total - until the year 2002. It also includes never-before-seen Camp Chaos animated versions of six classic tracks, interactive menus and discographies, and some special hidden ex..
Visions of the Emerald Beyond
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Vision (comics)
This article is about Marvel Comics' modern-day character The Vision. For the original 1940s character, see Vision (Golden Age) The Vision is an Marvel Comics superhero, a longtime member of the Avengers. He first appeared in The Avengers #57 (October 1968). The Vision is a complex, humanoid andr..
Vision (Golden Age)
This article is on the original 1940s Vision. For the modern-day comic-book character, see Vision (comics) The Vision is a fictional superhero created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby during the 1930-'40s Golden Age of comic books. He first appeared in Marvel Mystery Comics #13 (Nov. 1940), published b..
Vision (IRC)
Vision is the leading IRC client for BeOS, and the only one currently maintained. It is also the only one not known to suffer from a well-known buffer overrun in relation to the NetPositive web browser. Vision is based on an early IRC client for BeOS, called Bowser. However, neither projects websit..
Vision (religion)
This page is about inspirational renderings in a religious context. For other meanings, see vision. In religion, visions comprise inspirational renderings, generally of a future state and/or of a mythical being, and are believed (by followers of the religion) to come from a deity, directly or indi..
Vision (York)
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Vision 2010
Vision 2010 is a projected economic plan for Nigeria to improve economically. Nigeria is a lesser developed country, whose politics have been shaped by chronic military dictatorships, dependence on oil, ethnic and social cleavages, and a population too large to feed. In the creation of Vision 2010,..
Vision Airlines
Vision Airlines, formerly Vision Air, is a Las Vegas, Nevada based scheduled airline. This airline operates scheduled air tours of the Grand Canyon, Marble Canyon, Hoover Dam, and Monument Valley. During the summer season, Vision Airlines flys white water rafters to their destinations along the C..
Vision Airways Corporation
Vision Airways Corporation was an airline based in Timmins, Ontario, Canada. On November 25 1994 its operating licenses were suspended. Code data IATA Code: V6ICAO Code: VSNCallsign: Vision References [Canadian Transportation Agency] Lists of Aircraft | Aircraft manufacturers | Aircraf..
Vision America
Vision America is an American Christian political organization founded in 1994 by Baptist pastor Rick Scarborough to "inform, encourage and mobilize pastors and their congregations to be proactive in restoring Judeo-Christian values to the moral and civic framework in their communities, states, an..
Vision and prophecy
In literature, vision and prophecy are literary devices used to present a possible timeline of future events. They can be distinguished by vision referring to what an individual sees happen. The New Testament book of Revelation (Bible) thus uses vision as a literary device in this regard. It is a..
Vision Brisbane
''For other uses see: Vision Vision Approved Construction begins July 2006 Due completion 2010 Address 105 Mary Street, Brisbane Height Roof 245m Spire 283m Floors 72 Fins 259m Companies Austcorp (Arch.) Observation Deck Yes, 2 story, On Level 60 & 61 (2..
Vision Class
Vision Class is one of Royal Caribbean International's class of cruise ships. The first two of the ships were built at Masa-Yards, Helsinki New Shipyard (now Aker Finnyards) in Helsinki, Finland. Ships Enchantment of the SeasGrandeur of the SeasLegend of the SeasRhapsody of the SeasSplendour of th..
Vision Communications
Vision Communications, Inc. is a Springfield, MO company consisting of 99 Hit FM, 1340 AM KADI, Sign Pro, and Equally Yoked Christian Singles. Vision Communications is owned by RC Amer. [99 Hit FM (KADI 99.5 FM) website]..
Vision dans le cristal. Oniromancie obsessionelle. Et neuf graphomanies entoptiques
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Vision dans le cristal. Oniromancie obsessionelle. Et neuf graphomanies entoptiques.
Vision dans le cristal. Oniromancie obsessionelle. Et neuf graphomanies entoptiques. is a 1945 book by Dolfi Trost. The book forms part of his surrealist art theory, specifically on the area of entoptic graphomania - a surrealist technique invented by the author. The work contains nine examples of t..
Vision Divine
Vision Divine was born in 1998, originally as a solo project from Olaf Thorsen (former guitarist and mastermind of the Italian band Labyrinth). Very soon, Fabio Lione (currently Rhapsody’s singer) rejoins him after the first Labyrinth period (No Limits), and then what was supposed to be a solo pro..
Vision Express
Vision Express is a leading High Street optician in the United Kingdom, selling glasses and contact lenses. The company opened its first store in 1988 at the MetroCentre and as of 2006 it has over 220 stores across the UK. Their headquarters are in Lenton, Nottingham. Their parent company GrandVisi..
Vision Festival
The Vision Festival is a free jazz festival, founded by dancer-coreographer Patricia Nicholson Parker and held annually in New York City since 1996. The 10th Annual festival was held from June 14 to June 19, 2005 at the Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts. External links [Official Site]..
Vision FM
Vision FM, or the Vision Radio Network is a "Christian media ministry" of United Christian Broadcasters Australia to the people of Australia. UCB's motto is "God reaching people through people", and the radio network is a means to that end. It aims to make Christian Radio available for every Austr..
Vision Forum
Vision Forum is a publishing company based in San Antonio, Texas. Its work includes publishing books and producing audio products and documentary films designed to encourage the restoration of the biblical family. Some of the subjects covered in Vision Forum's materials are creationism, homeschoolin..
Vision for Space Exploration
Image from NASA site Two planned configurations for a return to the Moon, heavy lift (left) and crew (right) The Vision for Space Exploration is the United States space policy announced on January 14, 2004 by President George W. Bush. It is seen as a response to the Space Shuttle Columbi..
Vision hypothesis
The vision hypothesis is a term used to cover a range of theories that question the physical resurrection of Jesus, and suggest that sightings of a risen Jesus were visionary experiences. As the literal bodily resurrection of Jesus is a cornerstone of Christian belief, the vision hypothesis is contr..
Vision Impossible
Vision Impossible is an episode from the 3rd season of Disney Channel's That's So Raven, which aired on January 6, 2006. In this episode, Raven Baxter (Raven Symone) starts having problems with her visions, and a psychic doctor from one of the past episodes comes and helps with her vision problem..
Vision industries
Vision Industries is an American supercar manufacturer which was founded in 1997 by John Misumi. The company, based in Los Angeles, California, designs, engineers, and constructs a mid-engine ultra-high performance sports car called the Vision SZR, (formerly code-named K/2). The Vision SZR produces..
Vision insurance
Vision insurance is a form of insurance that provides coverage for the services rendered by an eye care professional such as an optometrist. There a many forms of vision insurance with the most widely known method being the Vision Service Plan (VSP). The typical vision insurance plan provides yearly..
Vision International College
Vision International College was founded in 1974 in Launceston, Tasmania by Australian theologian and author, Dr Ken Chant. Now located outside of Sydney, Australia in Macquarie Fields, New South Wales, the college provides vocational ministry training by distance education with an emphasis on Commu..
Vision International University
Vision International University is an unaccredited institution in Ramona, California offering academic degree programs designed to prepare men and women for professional service in Christian Ministry. The University offers distance education and online learning programs. The institution traces its..
Vision in Product Design
Vision in Product Design (ViP) is a widely applied design method that focuses on possibilities rather than on problem solving. The essence of ViP is to create the raison d'être of a future product by creating a context before designing the product. The 'product' of ViP can be anything that results..
Vision loss
Vision loss or visual loss is the absence of vision where it existed before, which can happen either acutely (i.e. abruptly) or chronically (i.e. over a long period of time). The effects of visual loss can, before the acquisition of alternative adaptations and skills, be devastating; especially wh..
Vision Macau
Vision Macau (Associação Visão de Macau) is a political party in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau, a former Portuguese possession. Macau is a state in which political parties don't play a role. Though some civic groups put forward lists at the elections and might be considered ..
Vision magazine
Vision Magazine: Ministering through Multimedia is the leading publication for churches seeking to use multimedia and creativity effectively in their ministries. Established in 2003 with their first 2 issues, Vision Magazine expanded to quarterly publication the following year. The magazine offers i..
Vision mixer
A Sony BVS-3200CP vision mixer A vision mixer (also called video switcher, video mixer or production switcher) is a device used to select between several different video sources and in some cases composite (mix) video sources together and add special effects. This is similar to what a mixing c..
Vision Montreal
Vision Montreal (French: Vision Montréal) is one of three municipal political parties in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Vision Montreal presently forms the oppostion on Montreal City Council under former mayor Pierre Bourque. ..
Vision of a Knight (Raphael)
Vision of a Knight Raphael, circa 1504 egg tempera on poplar, 17.1 × 17.1 cm National Gallery, London The Vision of a Knight or The Dream is an egg tempera painting on poplar by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, finished in 1504. It is housed at the National Gallery in London. T..
Vision of Disorder
Vision of Disorder was a hardcore / thrash metal band from Long Island, New York, USA. The band's frenetic and socially aware amalgam of hardcore and thrash metal gained the band a strong underground following before their demise in 2002. Contents 1 History2 Members3 Discography..
Vision of Ezra
The Vision of Ezra is an ancient apocryphal text, claiming to have been written by the biblical Ezra. The earliest surviving manuscripts, composed in latin, date to the 11th Century AD, though textual peculiarities strongly suggest that the text was originally written in Greek. Like the Apocalypse o..
Vision of Love
"Vision of Love" is a pop/R&B song written by Mariah Carey and Ben Margulies, and produced by Rhett Lawrence for Carey's debut album Mariah Carey (1990). It was released as the album's first single in the second quarter of 1990 in the United States and the third quarter of 1990 elsewhere (see 1990 ..
Vision of St. John on Patmos
Vision of St. John the Evangelist Antonio da Correggio, 1520-22 Fresco, 966 × 888 cm San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma The Vision of St. John the Evangelist at Patmos (1520-1522) is a series of fresco by the Italian late Renaissance artist Antonio Allegri da Correggio. It occupies the interi..
Vision of the Future
Vision of the Future is the second and final book in the Hand of Thrawn duology by Timothy Zahn. Timothy Zahn's Star Wars novels The Thrawn Trilogy Heir to the Empire | Dark Force Rising | The Last Command The Hand of Thrawn Duology Specter of the Past | Vision of the Future Other Star W..
Vision of the Seas
Vision of the Seas'' Launched: 1998 Status: in service Tonnage: 78,491 gross tons Length: 915 feet Beam: 105.6 feet Speed: 22 knots Decks: 11 Complement: 2,435 passengers, 765 crew Vision of the Seas is a Vision Class cruise ship for Royal Caribbean International. This was the last Vi..
Vision On
--> Vision On was a British children's television programme, shown on BBC1 from 1964 to 1977. It was designed to appeal to deaf as well as hearing viewers. Conceived by BBC producers Ursula Eason and Patrick Dowling, it replaced a monthly series called For The Deaf, and was intended to reflect ch..
Vision Park
Vision Park is an electronic entertainment company and has been credited on the following games: Globetrotter 2 (a.k.a. Round the World Challenge; publisher)Seek & Destroy (1996) External links [Vision Park (unavailable as of time of writing)] ..
Vision Quest
Vision Quest is a 1985 film starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino. Modine plays Spokane, Washington high school wrestler Louden Swain, who falls in love with Carla (Linda Fiorentino), an aspiring artist from Trenton, New Jersey, on her way to San Francisco. The film includes an appearance ..
Vision quest
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. For the film, see Vision Quest or Seren Anturia. A vision quest is a rite of passage in some Native American cu..
VISION QUEST RECORDS
Vision Productions was established in 1996 in Tokyo, Japan. The company goal is to promote Electronic Music created by computers and digital instruments, like Synthesizers, V Drums and Electronic keyboards. The first event in 1996 gathered 180 people in a small club in Tokyo. Over the years these nu..
Vision Racing
Vision Racing is a team in the Indy Racing League founded in 2005 when Tony George purchased the assets of the defunct Kelley Racing. Most people view the team as an insurance policy for George that his stepson Ed Carpenter will always have a seat in the series and if the series is ever in danger ..
Vision science
Vision science is the science dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of visual perception and the visual system. Vision scientists study various aspects of vision from the perspectives of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science, psychophysics, and optometry. See Palmer, S.E. (1999). V..
Vision Serpent
The Vision Serpent is an important creature in Pre-Columbian Maya mythology. The serpent was a very important social and religious symbol, revered by the Maya. Maya mythology describes serpents as being the vehicles by which celestial bodies, such as the sun and stars, cross the heavens. The sheddi..
Vision Skill Consulting Limited
Vision Skill Consulting Limited provides professional business, management and training consultancy services to companies wishing to enhance their efficiency, effectiveness and competitiveness. Vision Skill offer their services in the following key areas: 1.) Transport Industry ''Operations an..
Vision span
Vision span or perceptual span is the angular span (vertically and horizontally), within which the human eye has sharp enough vision to read text. The visual field of the human eye spans approximately 120 degrees of arc. However, most of that arc is peripheral vision. The human eye has much g..
Vision Technologies Systems Inc.
Vision Technologies Systems (VTS) is an integrated engineering group providing solutions and services in the aerospace, electronics, land systems, and marine sectors. VTS has 3,300 professional and technical employees. VTS is the United States Headquarters of Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST E..
Vision therapy
Vision therapy, also known as visual therapy or visual training, is a broadly-defined set of treatment programs related to the improvement of visual health and comfort. Probably, the best known form of vision therapy is orthoptics which treats binocular vision disorders such as amblyopia, strabismu..
Vision Thing
Vision Thing, the third and last album by UK band The Sisters of Mercy was released in 1990, on band's own label Merciful Release (under distribution contract with EastWest). Designed by songwriter and singer Andrew Eldritch as an assault on USA policy. Described by Andrew Eldritch as 'a fine al..
Vision TV
Vision TV Network is a Canadian cable television specialty channel with a mandate to air multi-faith religious programming. It is owned by S-VOX. It has two programming streams, Mosaic and Cornerstone. Its Mosaic bloc consists of faith related programming representing 75 faith groups within seven m..
Vision Valley
Vision Valley is The Vines' third album. It was released on the 1st of April 2006 in Australia and the 3rd of April 2006 everywhere except the USA, where it was released on April 4th. There are no contributions made to the record by bassist Patrick Matthews due to his involvement with the band You..
Vision Vancouver
Vision Vancouver is one of three parties represented in Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, Canada. Vision formed in the months leading up to the 2005 municipal election. Vision was founded by former Coalition of Progressive Electors members first elected to Vancouver city council in 2002. Followi..
Visioo Writer
Visioo-writer - The OpenDocument file viewer is a program designed to run on multiple operating systems with the explicit ability to view OpenDocument and OpenOffice/StarOffice documents. It is currently in a stable state (version 0.6) but updates continue. The goal is to create a small application ..
Visiophone
A Visiophone is a telephone which provides both visual and audio means of communication. Visiophones were common in Science Fiction as early as the 19th Century. In the 80s, visiophone-like devices were commercialised, but were not succesful enough to be generalised. A modern implementation of a..
Visio Corporation
Visio Corporation was a software company based in Seattle, Washington. Its principal product was a diagramming application software of the same name. It was acquired by Microsoft and is now in a division of that company, which continues to develop the application under the name Microsoft Visio. His..
VISis
VISis ("Vienna International School info screen") is an internal video broadcasting system of the Vienna International School based in Vienna, Austria. The broadcasting system provides purely factual content to the entire VIS community, however, its current content is mainly focused on the school. ..
Visitacion Valley, San Francisco, California
Visitacion Valley is a neighbourhood located in the south eastern quadrant of San Francisco, California. The Visitacion Valley is roughly defined by McLaren Park to the West, Mansell Blvd to the North, Bayview Hill and Candlestick Cove to the East, and the San Francisco / San Mateo County line to ..
Visitation
Visitation can refer to several things: Visitation, in history, an official visit, usually for purposes of inspection, and the record of that visit. Both in English and Spanish (colonial) history. Heraldic visitations were made to establish the right of a person to bear arms, and are used today in ..
Visitations (Juan MacLean album)
Visitations is a remix album from electronic artist The Juan MacLean. It was released on DFA Records in June 2006 as a download only album. The album is a compilation of remixes from a variety of artists including Reverso 68, X-Press 2, Cajmere, Putsch 79, Booka Shade and also contains an exclusiv..
Visitation (Catholic)
Visitation, from Altarpiece of the Virgin (St Vaast Altarpiece) by Jacques Daret The Visitation is the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth as recorded in the Gospel of Luke. It is also the term for a Christian feast day (May 31) commemorating this visit. Event Mary, having heard at the An..
VisitCumbria
VisitCumbria lists pages in the encyclopedia that are relevant to those interested in the English county of Cumbria. See the category Cumbria below for links to the Cumbrian pages - e.g. towns, villages, railway stations, places of interest, people born in Cumbria, etc. Contents 1 People1.1&n..
Visited network
A network other than a mobile node's Home Network, to which the mobile node is currently connected. ..
Visiting card
Visiting card of Johann van Beethoven, brother of Ludwig van Beethoven Visiting card of Kaiser Wilhelm A modern-day calling (or 'visiting') card. Visiting cards also known as calling cards first appeared in China in the 15th century, and in Europe in the 17th century. The footmen o..
Visiting Forces Agreement
The Visiting Forces Agreement is a bilateral agreement between the Philippines and the United States which has been in force since February 10, 1998, as an extension of the U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty of 1951. The 9-article Agreement has been the subject of increasing controversy in the P..
Visiting Gresham Professor
Visiting Professors at Gresham College were first appointed in 2000. 1 Baroness Warnock of Weeke Rhetoric 1 Sept 2000 2 Abdullah Ibrahim Music 1 Sept 2000 3 Dr Robin Wilson History of Mathematics 1 Sept 2001 4 Professor Richard Langham Smith Music 1 Sept 2003 5 ..
Visiting hours
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Visiting Hours Records
Visiting Hours is the name of an independent record label started by Joe Darone from the band Suit of Lights in 2004. The first release was a limted edition white vinyl single by Suit of Lights, followed by Suit of Lights' debut album in 2005. ..
Visiting Ours
"Visiting Ours" was the sixth episode aired of TV comedy series Arrested Development. Contents 1 Synopsis2 Episode notes2.1 References2.2 Callbacks/Running Jokes2.3 Hidden/Background Jokes2.4 Character Cameos2.5 Foreshadowing/Future References2.6 Goofs3&n..
VisitLab
VisitLab is a Web analytics system with a rich user management framework. Presently in a Free Beta stage, it is developed using open-source resources. VisitLab believes in the idea of 'infinite scalability' and the project developers have designed the system with hardware scalability and API stabili..
Visitor
For the Catholic equivalent, see Canonical visitation A Visitor, in United Kingdom law and history, is an overseer of an autonomous ecclesiastical or eleemosynary institution (i.e. a charitable institution set up for the perpetual distribution of the founder's alms and bounty), who can intervene in ..
Visitors
Visitors is a 2003 movie dealing with the experiences of a woman sailing solo on a yacht around the world. The movie was directed by Richard Franklin and starred Radha Mitchell in the lead role. Visitors is also the name of a web log analyzer under the GNU GPL license. See also Les Visiteurs; a blo..
Visitorsko Lake
Visitorsko Lake (Montenegrin: Visitorsko jezero) is a lake in the Plav Municipality, Montenegro. It is a mountain lake, noted for its floating island. ..
Visitors (Buffy novel)
Canonicity warning: The following is not considered canonical in the Buffyverse.'' Visitors is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy. Contents 1 Book Description2 Trivia3 Continuity3.1 Canonical issues3.2 Timing4 See also5 External links..
Visitors (program)
Visitors is a minimalistic HTTP server log analysis program written in C. It does not require any configuration or write access to the filesystem. Visitors can produce output in plain text or HTML format and also creates Graphviz dot files showing popular paths between pages on a site. Visitors is ..
Visitors (V TV series)
The Visitors is the name given to a fictional alien race from the miniseries V and the TV series derived from it. These "Visitors" are reptilian humanoids who disguise themselves to look human, and prefer to eat live prey. They claimed to be from the fourth planet orbitting Sirius, but as with all ..
Visitors from Down the Street
Visitors From Down the Street is an episode from the first season of the television series ''Crusade. Plot synopsis [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. The Excalibur detects a distress call and picks up a saucer-shaped life pod. Although never having s..
Visitor attractions in Bermuda
This is a list of visitor attractions in Bermuda. Gibbs Hill LighthouseSt. Davids LighthouseCity HallSt. GeorgesSt Peter's ChurchThe Aquarium and ZooBotanical GardensThe Dock YardThe Bermuda Maritime MuseumCrystal, Fantasy and Leamington CavesBeachesForts ..
Visitor attractions in Paris
This is a list of some of the visitor attractions in the city proper of Paris France. Arc de Triomphe - monument at the center of the Place de l'Étoile, commemorating the victories of France and honoring those who died in battle.Centre Georges-Pompidou - Hosting the Paris Museum of Modern Art.The ..
Visitor attractions in Regina
Attractions for visitors to Regina, Saskatchewan Royal Saskatchewan Museum (museum of natural history)Saskatchewan Science Centre (interactive science museum with IMAX theatre)Norman Mackenzie Art GallerySaskatchewan Legislative BuildingRCMP national training centre and museumGovernment House (Sask..
Visitor center
A visitor center or centre (see spelling differences) may be: A visitor center at a specific attraction or place of interest, such as a landmark, national park, national forest, or state park, providing information (such as trail maps, and about camp sites, staff contact, restrooms, etc.) and in-de..
Visitor information for Dublin, Ireland
''This article provides basic information for visitors to Dublin. More detailed and more substantial information can be found in the main article. Contents 1 Basics2 From the Airport to Town3 Orientation4 Tourist Information Basics The currency is the Euro.English is the dom..
Visitor Location Register
Visitor Location Register (VLR) is a database - part of the GSM mobile phone system - which stores information about all the mobiles that are currently under the jurisdiction of the MSC (Mobile Switching Center) to which it is attached. Of all the information it stores about MS (Mobile Station), the..
Visitor Mountain
Visitor is a mountain in Montenegro. ..
Visitor pattern
In object-oriented programming and software engineering, the visitor design pattern is a way of separating an algorithm from an object structure. A practical result of this separation is the ability to add new operations to existing object structures without modifying those structures. The idea is..
Visitor Q
Visitor Q, or Bijita Q (Japanese title) (2001) is a controversial film directed by cult Japanese director Takashi Miike. It was filmed as the sixth and final part of the Love Cinema series consisting of six straight-to-video releases by independent filmmakers via a brief but exclusive run at the m..
VisitScotland
VisitScotland is Scotland's national tourism agency. It is a Scottish public body, based in Edinburgh, with branch offices in Inverness and London. It was formerly called the Scottish Tourist Board. See also Tourism in Scotland External links [Official website][ConventionScotland..
Visits to St. Elizabeth's
Visits to St Elizabeths is a poem by Elizabeth Bishop which is modelled on the English nursery rhyme This is the house that Jack built. The poem refers to the confinement of Ezra Pound to St. Elizabeths Hospital. The nursery rhyme style gives an unusual effect to the strange or unsettling descripti..
Visit and Search
Visit and Search is the right of a belligerent warship, under certain conditions, to board a neutral merchant ship in order to verify its true character. According to the U.S. Navy, "Under the law of armed conflict, belligerent warships or aircraft may vist and search a merchant vessel for the pur..
VISIT FLORIDA
VISIT FLORIDA is the first ever private/public marketing partnership in the United States and is designed to increase Florida's number one industry--tourism. On June 19, 1996, Governor Lawton Chiles signed a bill that dissolved Florida's Department of Commerce and turned its tourism functions ove..
Visit of King George IV to Scotland
Sir David Wilkie's flattering portrait of the kilted King George IV, with lighting chosen to tone down the brightness of his kilt and his knees shown bare, without the pink tights he wore at the event. The 1822 visit of King George IV to Scotland was the first visit of a reigning monarch to Sc..
Visiware
Visiware, S.A. is one of the leading interactive television agencies in North America and Europe. The company develops various video game titles for both PC and latest video game console systems. See also Playin' TV External links [Official website] ..
Visi On
VisiCorp's VisiOn was a short-lived but influential graphical user interface-based operating environment program for IBM PC compatible personal computers running early versions of MS-DOS. Although Visi On was never popular (as it had steep minimum system requirements for its day), it was a notable..
Viskan
Viskan is a river in the south west of Sweden. It is about 150 kilometers long and has its outlet in the Kattegat. It runs through Borås. ..
Viske Hundred
Viske Hundred, or Viske härad, was a hundred of Hallandia in Sweden. ..
Viskyar Ridge
|- | style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85 | Coordinates: | style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220 | [62°32′29″S, 59°39′28″W]Coordinates: |- |} Viskyar Ridge (’rid vis-’kyar) is a rocky r..
Vislor Turlough
Vislor Turlough (also spelled Vizlor Turlough) or simply Turlough is a fictional character played by Mark Strickson in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was a of the Fifth Doctor, being a regular in the programme from 1983 to 1984. When Turlough first appea..
Visma
Visma ASA (OSE: [VIS]) is a Norwegian company headquartered in Oslo providing ERP and CRM software and services around those products for SME customers. The company acts as holding company for its three divisions Visma Software, Visma Services and Visma Financial & Productivity Service. ..
Vismia
Vismia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Clusiaceae. Like many members of the Clusiaceae, these plants contain xanthones. ..
Vismon
Vismon was the Bell Labs system which put author's faces on one of their internal email system. The name was a pun on the sysmon program used at Bell to show the load on computer systems. The system inspired Rich Burridge to develop the similar but more widespread faces system which spread with Uni..
Visnagar
Visnagar is a city and a municipality in Mahesana district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Geography Visnagar is located at [23.7° N 72.55° E][Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Visnagar]. It has an average elevation of 117 metres (383 feet). Demographics As of..
Visnes
Visnes is a small place on the westcoast of Norway, on the island Karmøy. Visnes is also very close to Haugesund. It was in Visnes that the copper vein that provided material for the Statue of Liberty was found. The copper mine, which closed in 1972, has its own museum [link]. ..
Visnum Hundred
Visnum Hundred, or Visnums härad, was a hundred of Wermelandia in Sweden. ..
Visoki Dečani monastery
Christ Carrying the Cross, a fresco from Dečani. Visoki Dečani (Serbian: Манастир Високи Дечани / Manastir Visoki Dečani) is a major Serb Orthodox Christian monastery in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohia, 12 km south of the town of Peć. Its cathedral is t..
Visoko
For the municipality in Croatia, see Visoko, Varaždin County. Visoko Coat of arms Visoko }} Latitude 43.9889° N Longitude 18.1781° E Mayor Munib Alibegović Surface (km²) 231 Population(2006) 17,000 (estimated) Time zone (UTC) UTC+1 Central Europea..
Visokoi Island
Orthographic projection centred on the South Sandwich Islands South Sandwich Islands Visokoi Island ([56°42′S 027°12′W]) is one of the South Sandwich Islands, 7.2 km (4.5 mi) long and 4.8 km (3 mi) wide, capped by Mount Hodson, a volcanic peak (915 m). It was discovered ..
Visonair
Visonair is an Internet TV network created by Dreamocean Interactive. Its aim was to become the first Open Access or Public Access Internet TV based network offering live or pre-recorded streaming at cheap prices. Development for all of the software and systems used within Visonair started in 2005 ..
Visonik
This article lacks information on the [Importanceimportance] of the subject matter. If you are familiar with it, please expand the article, or discuss its significance on the talk page. Visonik is a brand of car audio equipment offering a range of different products. They have several show..
Visopsys
Visopsys (VISual OPerating SYStem) is a free software operating system for x86 personal computers available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Like AtheOS, it was created entirely by a single hobbyist programmer. The development begun in 1997. The latest version is 0.62 from A..
VISOR
This article is about the Star Trek device. ViSOR, in the United Kingdom, is the Violent and Sex Offender Register. In the Star Trek fictional universe, a VISOR is a device used by the blind to artificially provide them with a sense of sight. The device scans the electromagnetic spectrum, creating..
Visor
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Alan Bean on the moon wearing a helmet with a visor A visor is a surface that protects the eyes, such as shading them from the sun or other bright light or protecting them from objects. Types of visors include: A type of hat consisting only of a viso..
Visorak
A web of Visorak. The Visorak (or in their tongue, "the stealers of life"; as Toa Whenua stated in [[Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows|Web of Shadows]]) are an army of spiderlike creatures from LEGO's Bionicle storyline, specifically the latter half of the Adventures story arc. Contents 1 De..
Visordown
This article or section needs a complete rewrite for }}}. \"Minority motorcycle website\" When members of Visordown were asked to suggest how Visordown would be listed on Wikipedia (as a topic for discussion), various quotes came out - including the headline above. The style of the quote is a clea..
Visor (armor)
the prominent visor of a bascinet, c. 1400. Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, Austria. A visor was used in conjunction with some Medieval war helmets such as the bascinet. The visor usually consisted of a hinged piece of steel that contained openings for vision and breathing. Visors protect..
Visor (disambiguation)
A visor is a surface designed for protecting the eyes. Visor (armor) Visor can also be: Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR), in the United Kingdom.Visor, a PDA series made by Handspring. A VISOR is a fictional Star Trek device worn by blind crewman Geordi La Forge. This is a [disambiguati..
Visor (ice hockey)
A visor or shield in ice hockey is a device attached to the front of a hockey helmet to reduce potential of injury to the face. They may cover the upper half of the face or the full face. There is currently a great debate about whether NHL players should be forced to wear visors. A series of eye i..
Visor Deluxe
The Handspring Visor Deluxe is one of the Visor family of PDAs produced by Handspring, inc. between 1999 and 2004. It has the following properties: OS: Palm 3.0.1 flash memory: 8M interface: ir port, springboard expansion slot, Hotsync cradle connector screen: ..
Visor om Slutet
Visor om Slutet (English: Songs of the end) is an all-acoustic folk metal album by the Finnish band Finntroll. It was released in 2003 by [Spinefarm]. Visor om Slutet was released after a number of misfortunes befell several band members, including the death of guitarist Teemu Raimora..
Visovac Monastery
The Visovac Monastery is a Roman Catholic monastery on the island of Visovac in the Krka National Park, Croatia. Visovac was settled by Augustinian monks, who established a small monastery and church dedicated to the Apostle Paul in the 14th century. It 1445 the Augustinian monastery was enlarged a..
Visp
Visp (French: Viège) is a municipality in the Canton of Valais in Switzerland and the seat of the district of Visp. Its population is around 7,000. The two valleys are Mattertal and Saastal. It borders with Brig-Gils. The majority of the population is German-speaking. Economy Its chemical ind..
Vispute
This article lacks information on the [Importanceimportance] of the subject matter. If you are familiar with it, please expand the article, or discuss its significance on the talk page. Vispute is an Indian last name. It is most commonly found in Khandesh area of Maharashtra i.e. in Jalgao..
Visp (district)
The Swiss District of Visp (German: Bezirk Visp, French: District de Viège) is a district in the Canton of Valais. It consists of the following municipalities: Name of the Municipality Population(31 Dec. 2002) Area in km² Baltschieder 1128 31.4 Eisten 258 38.0 Embd 354 1..
Visqueen
Ben Hooker, Rachel Flotard and Kim Warnick in Visqueen's video "Mrs. Elder". Visqueen is a power pop/punk rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2001. It is named after a brand of polyethylene film that United States Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge once recommended as a defense..
Visquine (tarpaulin)
Visquine is a brand of plastic sheeting, commonly between 4 and 10 mils (0.1 to 0.25 mm) thick, used as a temporary tarpaulin. Common usages would be to cover concrete as it sets, as a drop cloth when painting, lining decorative ponds, covering the ground before applying stone or wood chips to prev..
Visravas
Visravas is the son of Prajapati Pulastya, or, according to a statement of the Mahabharata, a reproduction of half Pulastya himself. ..
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Vissarion
See Vissarion (disambiguation) for other people called Vissarion. Sergey Torop (Russian: Сергей Анатольевич Тороп), known by his followers as Vissarion (Виссарион, born January 14, 1961), is a Russian mystic. He founded and heads a religious movement known as the..
Vissarion (disambiguation)
Vissarion is the Russian variant of Bessarion. Vissarion, a charismatic religious figure in Siberia.Vissarion Belinsky, literary critic.Vissarion Korkoliacos, Greek Orthodox monk, 20th Century This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title..
Vissarion Belinsky
"Belinsky" redirects here. For , see . Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (Russian: ) (born May 30, 1811 OS (June 11 NS)—died May 26, 1848 OS (June 7 NS)) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. Belinsky believed that the only realm of freedom in the repressive reign of Nichola..
Vissarion Jughashvili
Vissarion (Beso) Ivanovich Jugashvili (Виссарион (Бесо) Иванович Джугашвили in Russian; ბესƮ..
Vissarion Korkoliacos
see Vissarion (disambiguation) for other people called Vissarion. Vissarion Korkoliacos (Greek: Βησσαρίων Κορκολιάκος), also spelled as Visarion/Vissarion Korkoliakos, (1908 - 1991), was a Greek Orthodox monk of the Agathonos Monastery, close to Lamia, Central Greece. He became a..
Vissarion Shebalin
Vissation Shebalin Vissarion Shebalin (June 11, 1902, Omsk–May 29, 1963) was a Russian composer. Biography His parents were school teachers. He studied in the musical college in Omsk. He was 20 years old when following the advice of his professor went to Moscow to show his first compo..
Visschershoek
Visschershoek in the municipality of Goedereede. Visschershoek ([51°48′N 3°52′E]) is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Goedereede, and lies about 20 km west of Hellevoetsluis.ANWB Topografische Atlas Nederland, Topografische Dien..
Visselhövede
The title of this article contains the character ö. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Visselhoevede. Visselhövede (IPA pronunciation [fɪsl̩ˈhøːvədə]) is a town of 11,000 inhabitants in the federal state of Lower Saxony, Germany. Nearby towns inc..
Vissel Kobe
Kobe-Universiade game meeting commemoration stadium is a Japanese professional soccer (football) club, currently playing in the J. League Division 2. The team is located in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. The home stadium is Kobe Wing Stadium, in Hyōgo-ku, though some home matches are played at Kob..
Vissenaken
Vissenaken (sometimes spelled Vissenacken) is a town in Belgium. It is situated in the municipality of Tienen. ..
Vissenbjerg
Vissenbjerg is a city in central Denmark, located in Vissenbjerg municipality on the island of Funen. External links [Vissenbjerg municipality] ..
Vissenbjerg municipality
Vissenbjerg municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Funen County on the island of Funen in central Denmark. The municipal covers an area of 47 km², and has a total population of 6,096 (2005). Its mayor is Lene Due Andersen, a member of the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne) politic..
Visser One
In the Animorphs novels, Visser One is a Yeerk rank. For most of the series, it was held by Edriss 562. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. After her death in book 45, the former Visser Three ascended to that rank. ..
Visser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary, is a fictional character in Animorphs. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from then-Visser One. Sadistic and cruel, with a penchant for torture, he is the only Yeerk to have ever infested an Andalite. Throughout the A..
VisSim
VisSim is a visual block diagram language for modeling, simulating and analyzing dynamic systems. It is developed by Visual Solutions. VisSim is widely used in control system design and digital signal processing for multidomain simulation and design. It includes blocks for arithmetic, Boolean, and ..
Vista
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vista or VISTA refers to: Windows Vista, Microsoft's upcoming operating system, which was formerly code-named "Longhorn". At present, Longhorn is reserved for Server Version since the official launch and rename to Vista.WebCT Vis..
Vista, California
Vista is a city in northern San Diego County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 89,857. It was incorporated January 28, 1963. Together with Oceanside and Carlsbad, it makes up the Tri-City area. The book 50 Fabulous Places to Raise Your Family listed Vista as t..
Vista, Missouri
Vista is a village in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States. The population was 55 at the 2000 census. Geography Vista is located at [37°59′20″N, 93°39′51″W] (37.988824, -93.664037)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the v..
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VistaDB
VistaDB is the world's first fully managed and typesafe SQL database engine designed for the Microsoft .NET Framework and Compact Framework platforms. VistaDB enables .NET developers to build robust small to midsize WinForms and ASP.NET applications that can run on desktops, servers, web servers,..
Vistajet
Vistajet was a low-cost airline based in Canada. Contents 1 Code Data2 History3 Services4 References Code Data ICAO Code: VJTCallsign: Vista History VistaJet entered the eastern Canada market in April 1997 as a low-cost carrier, but ceased operations in September. The comp..
Vistalite Drums
--> Vistalite drums were introduced in 1973 by the Ludwig drum company. They were popularized by rock drummers like John Bonham of Led Zeppelin. A multitude of professional drummers used vistalites or similar acrylic drums in the 70's and 80's as well. Jazzmen like Billy Cobham and Lionel Hampton ..
Vistamar School
Vistamar School is a non-profit, private, co-ed college-prep high school in the South Bay of Los Angeles, California. THE VISTAMAR STORY: The South Bay has become one of southern California's most desirable business and residential areas, increasingly attracting families to the area. However, educ..
Vistani
The Vistani are a fictional race of mystical gypsies native to the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting of Ravenloft. Little is known about the Vistani, as they are essentially plot devices for the Dungeon Master, but some of what is known is summarized below: Vistani are capable of controlling the ..
VistaVision
A VistaVision 35 mm horizontal camera film frame. The dotted area shows the area actually used. The VistaVision logo VistaVision is a variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format created by Paramount Pictures in 1954 based on the Glamorama and Superama widescreen systems. Paramount, w..
Vista (Middle-earth)
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Vista is a part of the atmosphere that surrounds the world of Arda before the cataclysm at the end of the Second Age. Vista forms the inner layer of normal air: above it is Ilmen, and above that Vaiya. Vista is the breathable air, with in the top part the clouds,..
VISTA (telescope)
VISTA is the Visible & Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, a 4m telescope in development which will is being built at Paranal Observatory in Chile. It is hoped that it will be operational in 2006. It will have a wide field of view, and as the name suggests it will focus on optical and infrared ..
Vista Alegre
Vista Alegre may refer to: Vista Alegre: a ceramics, china and porcelain company in Portugal.Vista Alegre: a crater in Brazil. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the li..
Vista Alegre (company)
Vista Alegre is one of the most renowned china, porcelain and casual dishes manufacturing companies in the World. It is a Portuguese company located in Ílhavo in the district of Aveiro. By May 2001, Grupo Vista Alegre joined with the Atlantis Group and created the largest nacional tableware Group ..
Vista Alegre crater
The Vista Alegre Crater is a meteor crater in Paraná State, Brazil. It is 9.5 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 65 million years (Paleocene or earlier). Data for it was presented in 2004 at an annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society. External links ["Vista Alegre" on..
Vista Center, New Jersey
Vista Center is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Jackson Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 541. Geography Vista Center is located at [40°9′34″N, 74°19′23″W] (40.159360, -74.322931)..
Vista Customization Pack
Vista Customization Pack is a software created by the VCP team which transforms the Windows XP operating system to the appearance of the newWindows Vista OS (Windows Aero). It is a freeware and downloadable free of charge. The latest version is version 3.6. External links [Vista Customization ..
Vista del Campo
Vista del Campo (VDC), also known as East Campus Apartments, is a student apartment community built on University of California, Irvine(UCI) land, and managed by American Campus Communities (ACC). It is owned by EAH-East Campus Apartments, LLC, which is controlled by EAH University Properties, Inc...
Vista Federal Credit Union
The Vista Federal Credit Union is a non profit financial cooperative, organized to exclusively serve employees of The Walt Disney Company. As with most Credit unions, Vista is owned and democratically controlled by its members, providing a safe and affordable place for any financial transactions. ..
Vista Hill Foundation
Vista Hill Foundation is an educational foundation in San Diego, California. The foundation was formed in 1957. External links [Home Page for Vista Hill] ..
Vista Hundred
Vista Hundred, or Vista härad, was a hundred of Smalandia in Sweden. See also Viste Hundred in Westrogothia ..
Vista Murrieta High School
Vista Murrieta High School is a comprehensive, four-year high school located in Murrieta, California. It is operated by the Murrieta Valley Unified School District. During the 2005-2006 school year, the school served approximately 3,100 students. External links [Vista Murrieta High School]..
Vista Ridge High School
Vista Ridge High School (VRHS) was established in 2003 to serve as the third high school in the Leander Independent School District of Austin, Texas. The school was built due to the rapid growth in the area. The school is well known for its high achievement in academic and extracurricular activities..
Vista Ridge Mall
Vista Ridge Mall is the shopping mall serving Lewisville, Texas and the surrounding communities. It is located at the southwest corner of Interstate 35E and Texas Farm to Market Road 3040 (locally known as Round Grove Road). The name comes from the nearby high terrain which offers an unobstructed ..
Vista transformation pack
Vista Transformation Pack is a computer application written by "Windows X" that modifies several system files and settings in Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit only as of v4) or Windows Server 2003 to make it look like Windows Vista (formerly known as Codename: Longhorn). This application is an update ..
Vista University
Vista University, South Africa was established in 1981[link] by the apartheid government to ensure that urban black South Africans seeking tertiary education would be accommodated within the townships rather than on campuses reserved for other population groups[link]. Its cam..
Vista Verde Middle School
Vista Verde Middle School is a K-8 year round school in Irvine, California. It is part of the Irvine Unified School District This school-related article is a stub. Please add on to it to make it a full part of Wikipedia. ..
Vista West, Wyoming
Vista West is a census-designated place (CDP) in Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 1,008. Geography Vista West is located at [42°52′13″N, 106°26′16″W] (42.870265, -106.437911)[Geographic references#1GR1]. ..
Viste
Viste is: Viste Hundred, or Viste härad, a hundred of Westrogothia in Sweden.Viste, the location of a cave with rich finds from Stone Age, located in the municipality of Randaberg, Norway. See Vistehola.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the ..
Visteon
Visteon logo from 2005. Visteon NYSE: [VC] is an automotive parts company spun off from the Ford Motor Company. Visteon is to the Ford Motor Company as Delphi is to General Motors and Denso is to Toyota. In 2004, it had 70,000 employees worldwide and $18.7 billion USD in sales, and ..
Viste Hundred
Viste Hundred, or Viste härad, was a hundred of Westrogothia in Sweden. See also Vista Hundred in Smalandia ..
Visto
Visto is a private US company located in Redwood Shores, CA. It specializes in corporate connectivity software. Patent Litigation In December 2005 Visto filed a lawsuit against Microsoft for "misuse of proprietary technology".[link] Also in December 2005, Visto signed a licensing agreem..
Vistula
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. The Vistula (Polish: ) is the longest river in Poland. It is 1,047 kilometers (678 miles) long and drains an area of 194,424 km² (75,067 sq. miles), of which 168,699 km² (65,135 sq. miles) lies within Poland (over half the area of the country) [link..
Vistula, Michigan
Vistula is a former village in what is now Toledo, Ohio. In 1833 this village along with the village of Port Lawrence, Michigan merged to what is now known as the city of Toledo. This occurred before Michigan's concession of Ohio's claim to the Toledo Strip, a territory disputed between the two s..
Vistula-Oder Offensive
The Vistula-Oder Offensive took place between 12 January, 1945 until 2 February, 1945 and was a successful Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the European Theatre of World War II that carried the Soviet troops from the Vistula river in Poland to the Oder river deep in Germany, about seventy..
Vistulans
Vistulans (Polish: Wiślanie) were a Lechitic tribe inhabiting, since at least 7th century, lands known today as Lesser Poland. In 9th century, Vistulans created a tribal state, with major centers in Kraków, Sandomierz, and Stradów. At the end of the century, they were subjugated by Great Moravia..
Vistulan Country
Vistulan Country (Russian Привислинский Край, Privislinskiy Kray, Polish: Kraj Przywiślański) was an informal name of the Polish lands incorporated into Imperial Russia after the fall of the November Uprising. After 1837 all voivodships that constituted the Kingdom of Poland were..
Vistula (disambiguation)
Vistula and the Polish language equivalent, Wisła, is the name of several places and organizations in Poland: The river Vistula, the primary use of the nameVistula Lagoon, a fresh-water lagoon on the Baltic Sea that is cut off from Gdańsk Bay by the Vistula SpitVistula Spit, a strech of land sepa..
Vistula Lagoon
Landsat photo Vistula Lagoon The Vistula Lagoon (or Bay, Gulf) (Polish: , Russian: , German: ) is a fresh water lagoon on the Baltic Sea which is cut off from Gdańsk Bay by the Vistula Spit. It takes a few branches of Vistula, notably Nogat and Pregolya rivers and is connected to Gdańsk Bay..
Vistula Spit
Landsat photo Vistula Spit The Vistula Spit (Polish: Mierzeja Wiślana, Russian: :Балтийская коса, German: Frische Nehrung) is a spit, or peninsular stretch of land cutting Vistula Lagoon off from Gdansk Bay. It is split in half by the border between Poland and Kaliningrad Oblas..
Visua
Visua are Rodrigo Raggi, act of psychedelic trance from Mexico, he has releases in many compilations with Groove zone records, Cosmic Conspiracy records, Yellow sunshine explosion, Midijum records, Planet B.E.N and Spintwist, moreover it has worked with projects like Gaudium and Aerospace. Compilat..
Visual-Mesh
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since July 2006. Visual-Mesh is a multi-platf..
Visual3D
For the game engine and development toolset, see Visual3D.NET. Visual3D is advanced software for managing and reporting 3D data. It has been tested in scientific and clinical labs world wide. Visual3D is capable of rigorous and accurate 3D motion analysis. Visual3D has evolved from a clinical resea..
Visual3D.NET
Visual3D.NET is a 3D platform, game engine, and visual development toolset built upon the .NET Framework 2.0, Managed DirectX 9, and the Microsoft XNA software development platform for Windows, Xbox 360, and Windows Mobile devices. Visual3D.NET is developed by RealmWare Corporation to provide distr..
VisualAge
VisualAge was the name of a family of computer integrated development environments from IBM, which included support for a few popular (and not so popular) computer Programming languages. Contents 1 Early history1.1 The VisualAge Name1.2 Evolution2 External links Early history..
VisualBoyAdvance
VisualBoyAdvance ("VBA") is a Free Software emulator distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It emulates software targeted for the Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo. VBA is (as of 2006) the most popular su..
VisualCocktail
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VisualFlow
Sony's VisualFlow is an application bundled with their VAIO line of laptops, and it is a fullscreen image browser. As you select folders and files, they are depicted as moving left or right, or spiralling up or down (similar to DNA's Helix). The interface was red on a black background and resembled..
Visualise Tour
Visualise Tour is Delta Goodrem's second DVD, reaching number 1 on the Australian Aria DVD Charts and certificated 4 times platinum Released on Sunday, November 13, it entered at number #1 and is Delta Goodrem's second DVD to reach number 1. The 'Visualise' DVD will be Delta's first-ever full li..
Visualising scientific data
In the physical sciences, tables of data collected from experiments on physical processes is often visualised through the use of a graph. See the disambiguation page for Graph for other uses of the term. For example, if one were to collect data on the speed of a body at certain points in time, a ta..
Visualization
Visualization can refer to in technology: Visualization (graphic), as in any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate any message.Scientific visualization, an application of computer graphics which is concerned with the presentation of potentially huge quantities of lab..
Visualization (graphic)
Visualization of how a car deforms in an asymmetrical crash using finite element analysis. Visualization is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message. Visualization through visual imagery has been an effective way to communicate both abstract and concr..
Visualization of Financial Implications
Visualization of Financial Implications (VOFI) is a tool for investment management. External links [VOFI Research Papers], Münster School of Business Administration and Economics, University of Münster[VOFI Examples] ..
Visualizer
Visualizer is a term specifically used in advertising agencies in non-native English speaking countries Malaysia, Singapore and others, a position designed to assist Art director or Art Directors in producing quick & good quality artworks to meet deadline. A Visualizer is a person able and willing..
Visualize EG
An HP 2D Graphics card used in their Series 700 UNIX workstations. Visualize-EG (project name Graffiti) was the basic graphics card in the era of HP's older B,C and J class workstations (eg. B132). Due to this, EG was the integrated (on the motherboard) display device, although it was also availab..
VisualKore
VisualKore is a modified version of the Ragnarok Online bot program known as Kore, originally made by Kura. The program is a derivative of OpenKore and henceforth has the same benefits of different and numerous contributors from all parts of the globe. VisualKore has intuitive graphical user interfa..
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VisualNoiz
VisualNoiz is a collaboration between Jason Roth and Dan Boujoulian Multimedia VisualNoiz supports [Detroit]'s music community by recording bands and providing webspace for free distribution of music.Jasons MiniDV feature Too Dead to Die is nearing completion and will be the first release ..
VisualWorks
VisualWorks is one of the leading implementations of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks lineage goes back to the first Smalltalk-80 implementation by Xerox PARC. In late 80s, a group of Smalltalk-80 developers spun off ParcPlace Systems to further develop Smalltalk-80 as a commercial ..
Visual acuity
Traditional Snellen chart used for visual acuity testing. Illustration only; this is a scaled image and hence not suitable for vision testing. Visual acuity (VA) is one of many visual perception (eye-based sensory) abilities and is defined as the behavioral ability to resolve fine image detail..
Visual agnosia
Visual agnosia is the inability of the brain to make sense of or make use of some part of otherwise normal visual stimulus, and is typified by the inability to recognize familiar objects or faces. This is distinct from blindness, which is a lack of sensory input to the brain due to damage to the eye..
Visual angle
The visual angle is the angle that a visual stimulus subtends at the eye. Simply speaking, it is the angle between the light rays from the two ends of the viewed object as they hit the eye. It is usually measured in degrees or minutes of arc. If one looks at a one-centimeter object at a distance o..
Visual anthropology
Visual anthropology is a subfield of cultural anthropology that developed out of the theory and practice of ethnographic photography, film and since the mid-1990s, new media. It also encompasses the anthropological study of representation, including areas such as performance, museums, art, and the..
Visual Approach Slope Indicator
The Visual Approach Slope Indicator (VASI) is a system of lights on the side of a runway that provide visual descent guidance information during the approach to a runway. These lights are visible from 3-5 miles during the day and up to 20 miles or more at night. Contents 1 Four types of VASI..
Visual Artists Rights Act
For other meanings of VARA see Vara (disambiguation) The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA), 17 U.S.C. § 106A, is a United States law protecting artist rights. With the VARA, Congress defined certain works as visual arts. The act was the first to legislate moral rights of attribution and in..
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Visual Arts Brampton
Wikinews has news related to: [[Wikinews:|}}}]] Wikinews has news related to: [[Wikinews:|}}}]] Visual Arts Brampton was formed in 1986 to organize the arts community, providing workshops, exhibits and a regular newsletter, among other things. The president and founding member of this seven..
Visual arts of the United States
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Visual Assist
Visual Assist is an add-in developed by Whole Tomato for Microsoft Visual Studio and all languages it supports, that primarily enhances the Intellisense feature of the IDE. In other words, it enhances the syntax highlighting feature and also provides generally more accurate and complete code suggest..
Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Visual Audio Sensory Theater is the debut album by V.A.S.T.. The album mixed samples of Benedictine Monks of the Abbey of Saint-Mauer and Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, with an 18-piece orchestra, guitars and electronics. "Here", "I'm Dying", "Dirty Hole" and "Touched" were used for the TV series, ..
Visual Basic
This article is about the Visual Basic language shipping with Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 and earlier. For the Visual Basic shipping with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, see Visual Basic .NET. Visual Basic (VB) is an event driven programming language and associated development environment prototyped..
Visual Basic .NET
Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented computer language that can be viewed as an evolution of Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB) implemented on the Microsoft .NET framework. Its introduction has been controversial, as significant changes were made that broke backward compatibility with VB an..
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition is a freely downloadable IDE and compiler made by Microsoft Corporation. This edition does not include some of the features available in the more complete Professional editions. Some features are missing - but it can still often be used effectively for making soft..
Visual Basic Extension
In computer programming, a Visual Basic Extension (commonly abbreviated VBX) or custom control, was the component model used in Microsoft Visual Basic versions 1.0 to 3.0. It is still supported in the 16-bit version of version 4.0, but was obsoleted by OCXs. VBX has also been supported in some versi..
Visual Basic for Applications
Contents 1 Description2 Usage3 Examples4 Future5 External links Description Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft's Visual Basic which is built into all Microsoft Office applications (including Apple Mac OS versions), some other Microsof..
Visual C++
Due to technical limitations, the article on Visual C# is located at Microsoft Visual C Sharp. Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Professional Edition Visual C++ 6.0 Microsoft Visual C++ (also known as MSVC) is an Integrated development environment (IDE) product for the C, C++, and C++/CLI pro..
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
Visual C++ Express Edition is a freely downloadable IDE and compiler made by Microsoft Corporation. This edition does not include some of the features available in the more complete Standard, Professional, and Team Suite editions. Some common software libraries are missing -- specifically the Micr..
Visual Cafe
Visual Café (formally Visual Café for Java) is an integrated development environment for the Java programming language. It includes a GUI builder. It was marketed as a series of editions: "Standard Edition," "Enterprise Suite," "Expert Edition," "Professional Edition," and "Development Edition."..
Visual communication
Visual communication is the communication of ideas through the visual display of information. Primarily associated with two dimensional images, it includes: art, signs, photography, typography, drawing fundamentals, colour and electronic resources. Recent research in the field has focused on web des..
Visual Component Framework
The Visual Component Framework (VCF) is an open source project for development under Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh that is distributed under the BSD license. It is an advanced C++ application framework that makes it easy to produce powerful C++ applications. The framework is based on a tho..
Visual Component Library
In computing, VCL (Visual Component Library) is a visual component-based framework for developing Microsoft Windows applications, developed by Borland for use in its Delphi and C++ Builder software development environment. It is written in Object Pascal. Much of popularity of VCL comes from its ti..
Visual Concepts
Visual Concepts is a video game developer best known for developing Sega Sports' 2K series of sports games. After the success of the series, they were picked up by Sega and became a second-party developer. In January 2005, Visual Concepts was sold to Take-Two Interactive along with their wholly-owne..
Visual cortex
Brodmann area 17 (primary visual cortex) is shown in red in this image which also shows area 18 (orange) and 19 (yellow) Visual cortex is the term applied to both the primary visual cortex (also known as striate cortex or "V1") and upstream visual cortical areas also known as extrastriate cort..
Visual cryptography
Visual cryptography is a cryptographic technique which allows visual information (pictures, text, etc.) to be encrypted in such a way that the decryption can be performed by humans (without computers). The first visual cryptographic technique was pioneered by Moni Naor and Adi Shamir in 1994. It in..
Visual culture
Visual culture is a field of study within cultural studies focusing on aspects of culture that rely on visual images. Among cultural studies theorists working with contemporary culture, this often overlaps with film studies and the study of television, although it can also include video game studies..
Visual C Sharp 2005 Express Edition
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition is a freely downloadable IDE and compiler made by Microsoft Corporation. This edition does not include some of the features available in the more complete Standard, Professional, and Team Suite editions of the program. Visual C# 2005 Express Edition was released ..
Visual DataFlex
Visual DataFlex is a programming language by [Data Access], targeted at creating database and client-server type programs. Visual DataFlex is intended to enable developers to quickly build highly-reliable corporate software solutions and commercial application products with Microsoft Windo..
Visual design impressions
Sets of screens that are provided to show the various ways of representing one same set of objectives while also visually representing the client’s brand. The selection of one visual design impression solidifies the visual direction for an application. Often, we refer to the presentation of Visua..
Visual DialogScript
Visual DialogScript (or VDS) is an interpreted programming language for Microsoft Windows. VDS is intended primarily for developing graphical interfaces quickly, not for building sophisticated applications, however VDS scripts do have access to the Windows API. Scripting Language VDS was original..
Visual editor
Visual editors are editors which display the text being edited on the screen as it is being edited, as opposed to line-oriented editors (such as ed, ex and edlin). The term is generally used in discussing character mode, as opposed to GUI, applications. All GUI editors are visual editors, but not a..
Visual effects
Visual effects (vfx) is the term given to a sub-category of special effects in which images or film frames are created or manipulated for film and video. Visual effects usually involve the integration of live-action footage with computer generated imagery or other elements (such as pyrotechnics or ..
Visual Effects Society
The Visual Effects Society (VES) is the entertainment industry's only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners including artists, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in all areas of entertainmen..
Visual Effects Society Awards 2004
3rd Visual Effects Society Awards February 16, 2005 The 3rd Visual Effects Society Awards, given in on 16 February, 2005, honored the best visual effects in film and television. Contents 1 Winners1.1 Film1.2 Television1.3 Music1.4 Video games Winners Film Bes..
Visual Effects Society Awards 2005
4th Visual Effects Society Awards February 16, 2006 --> The 4th Visual Effects Society Awards, given in Los Angeles on 16 February, 2006, honored the best visual effects in film and television. Contents 1 Winners1.1 Film1.2 Television1.3 Music1.4 Video games Win..
Visual evoked potential
A visual evoked potential (VEP) is an evoked potential caused by sensory stimulation of a subject's visual field. Commonly-used visual stimuli are flashing lights, or checkerboards on a video screen that flicker between black on white to white on black (invert contrast). Visual evoked potentials a..
Visual extinction
Visual extinction is a neurological disorder characterised by severe impairment in identifying two or more visual stimuli displayed briefly at the same time. Patients having this condition can successfully identify single objects presented to them briefly. In case of multiple stimuli patients eithe..
Visual field
The term visual field is sometimes used as a synonym to field of view, though they do not designate the same thing. The visual field is the "spatial array of visual sensations available to observation in introspectionist psychological experiments" (J. Smythies [link]), while field of view ..
Visual field test
A visual field test is an examination that may be performed to analyze a patient's visual field. The exam may be performed by a technician in one of several ways. The test may be performed by a technician directly, with the assistance of a machine, or completely by an automated machine. Other names..
Visual flight
Visual flight is the control of an aircraft by using the view from the aircraft as the primary reference point. A pilot observes the outside world and uses the flight controls to take the aircraft safely to the place they want to go. The alternative is to fly the aircraft primarily using feedback fr..
Visual flight (aircraft)
See Visual Flight Rules for a discussion of the regulations pertaining to visual flight. Visual flight or "Visual Attitude Flying" is a method of controlling an aircraft where the aircraft attitude is determined by observing outside visual references. The remainder of this article is applicable t..
Visual flight rules
"VFR" redirects here. For , see . Visual flight rules (VFR) are a set of aviation regulations under which a pilot may operate an aircraft, if weather conditions are sufficient to allow the pilot to visually control the aircraft's attitude, navigate, and maintain separation with obstacles such as t..
Visual FoxPro
Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language produced by Microsoft. It is derived from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Technologies beginning in 1984; Fox Technologies merged with Microsoft in 1992 and the software acquired furt..
Visual gag
In comedy, a visual gag or sight gag is anything which conveys its humour visually, often without words being used at all. Visual gags are often used in surreal comedy, with many Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches making use of them, such as the "Mrs Gorilla" sketch in which a series of middle-a..
Visual geography
Visual geography is the study of geography in paintings, photos and other forms of the visual arts. Both human geography and physical geography in the visual arts are studied. ..
Visual Imagination
Visual Imagination Ltd. is a British company producing genre magazines. It was founded in 1985 by Stephen Payne and originally only published the science fiction magazine Fantasy Image. Since buying the magazine Starburst from Marvel UK, its list of titles has expanded to include: StarburstTV Zone..
Visual impairment
Visual impairment or vision impairment is vision loss that constitutes a significant limitation of visual capability resulting from disease, trauma, or a congenital or degenerative condition that cannot be corrected by conventional means, including refractive correction, medication, or surgeryArdit..
Visual Instruction Set
Visual Instruction Set (or VIS) is a SIMD instruction set used on the SPARC series of CPUs, implemented only on the 64-bit UltraSPARC processors. In hardware terms VIS is somewhat limited. It re-uses the existing floating point registers to hold multiple 8, 16, or 32-bit integer values. This can ha..
Visual InterDev
Microsoft Visual InterDev, part of Microsoft Visual Studio 97 and 6.0, is an IDE used to create web applications using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) technologies. It has code completion, database server management tools, and an integrated debugger. The extensive InterDev IDE is shared with Mi..
Visual IRC
Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system. Unlike many other IRC clients, nearly all of the functionality in ViRC is driven by the included script, with the result that the program's behavior can be extended or changed without altering the source..
Visual J++
Visual J++ (pronounced "Jay Plus Plus") is Microsoft's now discontinued implementation of an IDE for the Java programming language. Optimized for the Windows Platform, J++ programs can run on the MSJVM (Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java), which was Microsoft's attempt at a faster interpreter. Synta..
Visual journalism
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since July 2006. Visual journalism is the pr..
Visual Kei
Visual Kei, literally "visual type", refers to a movement in J-Rock which started in the 1980s and became widely popular in Japan by the 1990s. Contents 1 Origins2 Characteristics2.1 Bands3 Current status4 External links Origins Largely the movement is credited to have ..
Visual language
When you create an image to communicate an idea, you are using visual language. We can 'visualize' our thinking as well as verbalize it. The elements in an image represent concepts in a spatial context, rather than the linear form used for words. Speech and visual communication are a parallel and u..
Visual learning
Visual learning is a proven teaching method in which graphic organizers, such as webs, concept maps idea maps, and slide shows are used to help students of all ages think and learn more effectively. Students create graphic organizers by selecting symbols to represent ideas and information. To show ..
Visual literacy
Visual literacy is the set of skills involved in the interpretation and criticism of images. The concept of Visual literacy is also the ability to create/use images to communicate. Visual literacy is a field of study in academia, drawing on art history and criticism, psychology, semiotic, philosoph..
Visual markers of marital status
Humans use clothing, hairstyle, accessories, jewelry, tattoos, and other bodily adornments as indicators of social status. One status that is usually of extreme interest is marital status. In many places and times, someone who is married is supposed to be off-limits for flirtation, casual sex, or co..
Visual memory
Visual memory is a part of memory preserving some characteristics of our senses pertaining to visual experience. We are able to place in memory information that resembles objects, places, animals or people in sort of a mental image. Some authors refer to this experience as an “our mind's eye” t..
Visual meteorological conditions
In aviation, visual meteorological conditions (or VMC) are those in which visual flight rules (VFR) flight is permitted—that is, conditions in which pilots have sufficient visibility to fly the aircraft without reference to instruments and can maintain visual separation from terrain and other airc..
Visual modeling
Visual modeling is the graphic representation of objects and systems of interest using graphical languages. Visual modeling languages may be General-Purpose Modeling (GPM) languages (e.g., UML) or Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) languages (e.g., SysML). They include industry open standards, such as ..
Visual Molecular Dynamics
Screenshot of VMD 1.8.3 Visual molecular dynamics (VMD) is a molecular modelling and visualization computer program. VMD is primarily developed as a tool for viewing and analyzing the results of molecular dynamics simulations, but it also includes tools for working with volumetric data, sequen..
Visual music
Visual Music, sometimes called "color music", refers to methods or devices which can translate sounds into a related visual presentation. It also refers to the use of musical structures in visual imagery, which can include silent films or silent Lumia work. Visual music overlaps to some degree with ..
Visual neuroscience
Visual neuroscience is the branch of neuroscience devoted to the study of the visual system. Its goals are to understand the neurophysiology of the visual system, and to understand how neural activity results in visual perception. ..
Visual novel
Anime games Formats Visual novels Dojin soft AnimePlay Genres Dating sims Erotic games Ren'ai games Gender-specific Bishōjo games BL games GxB All pairings A visual novel is an interactive fiction game featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art. As t..
Visual Objects
Visual Objects is a computer programming language that is used to create software programs that operate primarily under Windows. Although it can be used as a general-purpose programming tool, it is almost exclusively used to create database programs. The original Visual Objects project (code-named ..
Visual Outbreak
Founded in 2003, Visual Outbreak is a small special effects company located in Brisbane on the east coast of Australia. They have done the effects on numerous music videos and short films for local bands and directors. As well as digital effects they provide armouring services, pyrotechnics and figh..
Visual Paradox
Visual Paradox is an Israeli Electronic/Trance duo made up of Gaddy Marian and Uriel Ginzburg. Their first album, "Kick The Habit" was released in 2001 on Com.pact records, a label founded by Visual Paradox member Gaddy Marian. In the three years after their debut album Visual Paradox appeared on s..
Visual perception
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Visual perception is one of the senses, consisting of the ability to detect light and interpret (see) it. The r..
Visual phototransduction
Visual phototransduction is a process by which light is converted into electrical signals in the rod cells, cone cells and photosensitive ganglion cells of the retina of the eye. Photoreceptors The process of phototransduction is a complicated one, and in order to understand it, one must have an un..
Visual Pinball
Visual Pinball is a program that allows programmers to create and play pseudo-3D renditions of pinball machines on a home computer. It is unlike any pinball simulation program made previously in terms of realistic graphics and physics. This gives pinball players an opportunity to play renditions of ..
Visual PinMAME
Visual PinMAME is a program (a COM class) that works on top of Visual Pinball that allows for 3-D renderings of actual pinball table designs. Specifically, Visual PinMAME is for emulating ROM chips used in more modern pinball tables, as opposed to tables with mechanical scoring and/or tables with ju..
Visual pollution
Visual pollution is the term given to unattractive visual elements of a vista or landscape. Commonly cited examples are billboards, litter, graffiti, telephone lines and poles, buildings, signs and weeds. External links [The study for visual pollution in Albuquerque] ..
Visual processing
Visual processing is the sequence of steps that information takes as it flows from visual sensors to cognitive processing. The sensors may be zoological eyes or they may be cameras or sensor arrays that sense various portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. See also Visual system ..
Visual programming language
Visual programming language (VPL) is any programming language that lets users specify programs in a two-(or more)-dimensional way. Conventional textual languages are not considered two-dimensional since the compiler or interpreter processes them as one-dimensional streams of characters. A VPL allows..
Visual Prolog
Visual Prolog, also formerly known as PDC Prolog and Turbo Prolog, is a strongly typed object-oriented extension of Prolog. As Turbo Prolog it was marketed by Borland, but it is now developed and marketed by the Danish firm Prolog Development Center (PDC) that originally produced it. Visual Prolog..
Visual prosthetic
A visual prosthetic is a form of neural prostheses intended to restore lost vision or amplify existing vision. Scientific research since at least the 1950s has investigated interfacing electronics at the level of the retina, optic nerve, thalamus, and cortex. Notable current researchers include Cl..
Visual proximity
Visual proximity is the spatial relationship between design elements (objects, images or text) in a visual medium. ..
Visual Radio
Visual radio is a generic term for adding visuals to normal audio radio broadcasts. Visual Radio is a trademark for the Nokia solution for visual radio. Contents 1 Nokia Visual Radio2 Other forms of visual radio2.1 spodradio.com2.2 DAB Digital Radio3 External links Nok..
Visual reasoning
In a frequently cited paperFerguson, Eugene S. 1977. The Minds Eye: Non-Verbal Thought in Technology. Science 197 (4306):827-836. in the journal Science and later book Ferguson, Eugene S. 1992. Engineering and the mind's eye. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Eugene S. Ferguson, a mechanical engineer an..
Visual reorientation illusions
Visual reorientation illusions or VRIs are 90- or 180-degree instant rotations of one's visual orientation. They often happen when coming out of dark rooms or passages. There is, however, a difference between VRIs and simple confusion. The VRI is a distinct perceptual event. One's bearings are known..
Visual rhetoric
Visual rhetoric is the fairly recent development of a theoretical framework describing how visual images communicate, as opposed to aural or verbal messages. The study of visual rhetoric is different from that of visual or graphic design, in that it emphasizes images as rational expressions of cult..
Visual routine
A visual routine is a means of extracting information from a visual scene. In his studies on human visual cognition, Shimon Ullman proposed that the human visual system's task of perceiving shape properties and spatial relations is split into two successive stages: an early "bottom-up" state during ..
Visual Science
Visual Science is a computer and video game development company based in Dundee, U.K.. It was established in 1993 by Russell Kay, who was programmer of the hugely successful Lemmings games. Over the years, Visual Science has delivered many games for industry leading publishers such as Electronic..
Visual search
Visual Search is an extension of attention and vigilance. Visual search involves and active scan of the environment for particular features. Such as trying to locate certain brand of cereal at the grocery store or a picture of a friend in a group photograph. The process of Visual Search..
Visual search paradigm
Visual search is a psychophysical paradigm that is often to study visual attention by asking subjects to find one (or more) specific stimulus (target) among an array of stimuli. Non-target items (distractors) are often similar to the target stimulus excepet in a single dimension (e.g., color or orie..
Visual short term memory
In the study of vision, visual short-term memory (VSTM) is one of three broad memory systems including iconic memory and long-term memory. VSTM is a type of short-term memory, but one limited to information within the visual domain. The Visuospatial Sketchpad is a VSTM subcomponent within the theo..
Visual Smalltalk Enterprise
Visual Smalltalk Enterprise (VSE) is a Smalltalk dialect that runs only on Microsoft Windows, and is the last in a long line of Smalltalk implementations first produced by Digitalk. VSE is now only available as a special patch version called VSE 2000 available from Cincom, but only if you already h..
Visual snow
Visual snow is a transitory or persisting visual symptom where people see snow or television-like static in parts or the whole of their visual fields. According to the notion of hallucinatory form constants by Klüver (1942) and Siegel and Jarvik (1975), it can be conceived as a variety of visual ha..
Visual sociology
Visual sociology is an area of sociology concerned with the visual dimensions of social life. This subdiscipline is nurtured by the [International Visual Sociology Association] (IVSA), which holds annual conferences and publishes the journal, [Visual Studies]. Because of the int..
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is the source control and development collaboration module of Microsoft's new Visual Studio Team System product. It is designed to replace Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for most teams, and provide enhanced features such as distributed collaboration, extensive metri..
Visual Studio Team System
Visual Studio Team System is a set of development collaboration, metrics, and reporting tools from Microsoft. The Visual Studio Team Edition versions were released in November 2005, and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server was released in March 2006. Contents 1 Platform2 Versions2.1&nbs..
Visual system
The visual system is the part of the nervous system which allows organisms to see. It interprets the information from visible light to build a representation of the world surrounding the body. The visual system has the complex task of (re)constructing a three dimensional world from a two dimensional..
Visual technology
Visual technology is the engineering discipline dealing with visual representation. It includes: PhotographyPrintingVideo Types Major fields of technology [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ Edit] Applied Science Artificial intelligence | Ceramic engineering | Computing tec..
Visual Test
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Visual Test started as MS-Test from Microsoft. It ..
Visual thinking
Picture thinking, visual thinking or visual/spatial learning is the phenomenon of thinking through visual processing, where most people would think with linguistic or verbal processing. It is nonlinear and often has the nature of a computer simulation, in the sense that a lot of data is put through ..
Visual Trading Systems (company)
Company background New York-based company offering online trading systems for the Forex market. Corporate organization: New York State limited liability company, "Visual Trading Systems, LLC", established 2002. Headquarters: Empire State Building, 64th Floor, New York City. Products Visual Trad..
Visual utopia
Visual Utopia (or VU for short) is an online multiplayer game (Browser Based MMORTS) created by ZeTa in which the players can create empires, build armies and construct large colonies. You can also join kingdoms, or even create them. These kingdoms allow players to work together and help each other...
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition (VWD) is a free web development tool and IDE created by Microsoft as part of the Visual Studio 2005 suite released November 7, 2005. VWD is targeted primarily at non-professional web developers and designers (e.g., hobbyists, students, and enthusiasts) and ..
Visuddhimagga
The Visuddhimagga ("The path to purity") is a Theravada Buddhist commentary written by Buddhaghosa approximately in 430 CE in Sri Lanka. It is considered the most important Theravada text outside of the Tipitaka canon of scriptures. The Visuddhimagga is based on the Rathavinitasutta, which describes..
Visudo
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. visudo is a unix command that edits the sudoers file in a safe fashion. The sudoers file allows listed users access to execute to a subset of c..
Visunarat
Visunarat was the king of Lan Xang from 1500 until 1520. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Visuospatial Sketchpad
Visuospatial Sketchpad is a component of Working Memory Model proposed by Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch in 1974. The visuospatial sketchpad (VS) is the section of one's normal mental facility which provides a virtual environment for physical simulation, calculation, visualization and optical memor..
Visva-Bharati University
Established by Rabindranath Tagore in 1921, the Visva-Bharati University (Bangla: বিশ্ব-ভারতী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়), located at Santiniketan, West Bengal in India is a central university. It has several institutes within itself for undergraduate, postgrad..
Visvadevas
The word Visvadevas means "Lords of the universe" or "All Gods". The term is used to address the various gods as a whole. In the Vedas a number of hymns are addressed to them. ..
Visvaldas Mažonas
Visvaldas Mažonas is a Lithuanian radical-right reactionary politician, leader of Lithuanian Patriotic Union(Lietuvos patriotų sąjunga). Mr. Mažonas became known primarily after the impeachment of Rolandas Paksas, former president of Lithuania. During the impeachment, V. Mažonas stood for Mr. ..
Visvanatha Chakravarti
Visvanatha Chakravarti Thakura (1626? - 1708?) was a Gaudiya Vaishnava acharya born in the village of Deva-gram within Nadia district, West Bengal, India. His parents were Radhi Sreni brahmanas. He also had two brothers named Rambhadra and Raghunatha. His initiating guru was Sriyuta Krsnacarana Cak..
Visvedevas
The Visvedevas ( viśve-devāḥ "all-gods") are the various Vedic gods taken together as a whole. In the Rigveda a number of hymns are addressed to them, including (according to Griffith) 1.89, 3.54-56, 4.55, 5.41-51, 6.49-52, 7.34-37, 39, 40, 42, 43, 8.27-30, 58, 83 10.31, 35, 36, 56, 57, 61-66, ..
Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum
Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM) is a museum in Bangalore, India. Its management comes under the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Government of India. The museum was erected as part of the centenary celebrations of the engineer-statesman Sir M. Visvesvaraya (1861&..
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
The Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur (formerly known as Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering (VRCE), Nagpur) is one of the first six Regional Engineering Colleges established under the scheme sponsored by Government of India and the Maharshtra State Government...
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, named after Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Also spelt Visveswaraiah) is the Technical University of Karnataka. The University has jurisdiction throughout Karnataka and at present 141 Engineering colleges are affiliated to it. The intake ..
Visviri
Visviri is a hamlet located at the northern end of Chile, near the Bolivian settlement of Charaña. It is notable for being Chile's northermost populated area. Administratively it is part of the General Lagos province, within the Tarapacá Region. Pop. 265 (2002). Coordinates: } ..
Viswamaanava
redirect [[Template:Not verified]]Viswamaanava is a Hindu cultural ideology. Viswa means universal and maanava means human. This ideology is inherent in all Indian scriptures, culture, and traditions. It is extensively discussed and partially practised in Advaita Vedanta traditions. Many great int..
Viswamitra
This page contains Indic text. Without rendering support, you may see irregular vowel positioning and a lack of conjuncts. [Enabling complex text support for Indic scriptsMore...] Brahmarishi Viswamitra or Vishwamitra (Sanskrit: , IAST: viśvamitra) is one of the most venerated sag..
Viswanath's constant
Viswanath's constant is a mathematical constant, occurring in number theory - more specifically in the study of randomized Fibonacci sequences. The value of Viswanath's constant is approximately 1.13198824. Contents 1 Definition2 Explication3 Significance4 See also5 Exte..
Viswanatham
Viswanatham is a panchayat town in Virudhunagar district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Viswanatham had a population of 22,121. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Viswanatham has an average..
Viswanathan
Viswanathan is the name of: Ed Viswanathan, Indian writer and engineerKaavya Viswanathan (born 1987), Indian-American Harvard undergraduate student, noted for plagiarism in her 2006 novelViswanathan Anand (born 1969), Former FIDE World Chess Champion (2000-2002)M. S. Viswanathan, Tamil film music co..
Viswanathan Anand
-->Viswanathan Anand (IPA: vɪs'vɑˌnəˌðən ɑnˌənd) (born December 11, 1969 in Chennai (then called Madras), India) is an Indian chess grandmaster. In the July 2006 FIDE Elo rating list, Anand has a rating of 2779, making him the number two in the world (after Veselin Topalov). Anand is one..
Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1895–1976), popularly known as the Kavi Samraat or the emperor of poetry, was a modern Telugu poet. Born in the village of Nandamuru in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Viswanatha was a disciple of the "Tirupati Venkata Kavulu" duo. Viswanatha's style of poetry wa..
Visy Industries
Visy Industries was established in Melbourne, Australia in 1948 and has grown to become one of the world’s largest privately-owned paper recycling and packaging companies. In 2003, Visy employed more than 8000 people. Total manufacturing revenues exceeded $2.5 billion and total manufacturing asse..
Vis (island)
Vis [ˈʋiːs] (Greek Issa, Italian Lissa, ), is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, the furthest one from the coast that is also inhabited. There are two towns and municipalities on the island, Vis (1,960 inhabitants in the municipality) and Komiža (1,677). History Vis was inhabited ..
Vis (town)
Coat of arms of Vis Vis is a town on the island of the same name in Croatia, population 1,776 (as of 2001). It is the center of the Vis municipality. [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit ] Municipalities of Split-Dalmatia County SplitBaška Voda | Bol | Cista Provo | Dicmo ..
Vis (weapon)
ViS pistolet wz. 35 Type pistol Nation(s) of origin Poland Era World War II History Date of design Production period 1935 to 19451992 onwards Service duration 1939 Operators Poland, Germany War service Polish Defensive War, World War II Variants Number built m..
VIS Idoli
VIS Idoli (often only Idoli) was a New Wave (pop art) band, officially founded on 1 March 1980 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The line-up included three primary school friends: Vlada Divljan, Zdenko Kolar, and drummer Boža Jovanović as well as Divljan's high school friends Srđan Šaper and Nebojša K..
Vis u Ramin
Vis O Ramin (in Persian: ) is an ancient love story in Persian Literature. The epic is written by the Persian poet Asad Gorgani (فخرالدين اسعد گرگاني) in 11th century. The story dates from pre-Islamic Persia. Gorgani claimed a Sassanid origin for it, however, some believe it to be ..
Vis viva
In the history of science, vis viva (from the Latin for living force) is an obsolete scientific theory that served as an elementary and limited early formulation of the principle of conservation of energy. It can be thought of as a type of kinetic energy or of energy related to sensible motions. P..
Vi Subversa
Vi Subversa was the singer of UK anarcho-punk band Poison Girls. She was also the mother of Pete Fender and Gem Stone, who were members of the anarcho-punk bands Fatal Microbes and Rubella Ballet. ..
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