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Biology prefixes and suffixes bio- myco- / -mycete phagy phyto- / -phyte -vore zoo- / -zoan The suffix vore comes from the Latin word vorare, meaning to devour, and is used to form nouns indicating what kind of a diet an animal has. Equivalent adjectives can be formed through use of t..
Évora
Évora Location - Region - Subregion - District or A.R. AlentejoAlentejo CentralÉvora Party Ernesto Oliveira PS Area 1,307.0 km² Population - Total - Density 55,61943/km² parishes 19 Coordinates [38º33'N 07º57'W] Municipal holiday S..
Évora (district)
District of Évora Alandroal | Arraiolos | Borba | Estremoz | Évora | Montemor-o-Novo | Mora | Mourão | Portel Redondo | Reguengos de Monsaraz | Vendas Novas | Viana do Alentejo | Vila Viçosa ..
Évora Football Association
The Évora Football Association (Associação de Futebol de Évora, abrv. AF Évora) is the district governing body for the all football competitions in the Portuguese district of Évora. It is also the regulator of the clubs registered in the district. Notable clubs in the Évora FA Lusitano de �..
Vor
Vor/VOR can refer to: The Voice of Russia.The goddess Vör in Norse mythology.The Vor of Barrayar, the noble families of Barrayar in the Vorkosigan Saga.The Volvo Ocean Race.VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) is a radio navigation aid.The vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) is a reflex eye movement. ..
Vor'na'tu
The Vor'na'tu was an ancient Jedi artifact that the Galactic Empire acquired. The Empire then lost it to the Rebel Alliance. In order to keep the Empire from getting hold of it, it was broken into four pieces, which were later destroyed. ..
Vor-Tech
Vor-Tech was an animated television series produced by Fox and Universal Animation which also aired later on ABC's The Power Block. This show also had a toy line. The VOR-tech undercover conversion squad is a group of secret agents led by Hudson Roarke. Their mission is to stop Lord Matrix, Hudson�..
VOR: The Maelstrom
VOR: The Maelstrom is a science-fiction tactical-table game (TTG), set in the 22nd century. In this world, the Earth has been sucked into a pocket universe known as the Maelstrom (hence the name, 'VOR: The Maelstrom'). The Maelstrom itself is a cannibal pocket universe, possibly sentient, that suc..
Voracity Patch
Voracity Patch is an avant-garde rock band from Finland, who first garnered international fame in the late 1970s. The band is noted for its unorthodox antics, especially during concerts. Although the band has had a changing line up over the years, two members have remained a constant for fans. The ..
Vorador
Vorador is a video game character in the Legacy of Kain series. Throughout the series, Vorador has been voiced by Paul Lukather. For a brief time in the game's early production, Vorador's name was changed to "Infernus" but it was soon changed back to Vorador. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning�..
Vorarephilia
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Vorarlberg
Vorarlberg State ISO]]) Capital Bregenz Governor Herbert Sausgruber (ÖVP) Area - Total km² - Population density>Density Ranked 8th372,791143/km² The state flag of Vorarlberg The state of Vorarlberg on the map of Austria Vorarlberg is the westernmost sta..
Vorarlbergerisch
Vorarlbergerisch (or Vorarlbergisch) is a Germanic dialect spoken in Vorarlberg, a province of Austria. As an Alemannic dialect it is related to Swiss German. For more information see Austrian language. ..
Vorarlberghalle
Vorarlberghalle is an indoor sporting arena located in Feldkirch, Austria. The capacity of the arena is 4,500 people and was built in 2000. It is currently home to the EC Feldkirch ice hockey team ..
Vorarlberg School
The Vorarlberg School of Architecture refers to a group of architects and builders founded in the year 1657 by M Beer in the Austrian town of Au. The school remained active in southern Germany and Switzerland until the end of the 18th century. Its most important members came from the Beer, Moosbrugg..
Vorbarra
Vorbarra is a surname in the sci-fi book series the Vorkosigan Saga. It is the name of the Emperors of Barrayar and the namesake of the planet. The emperors of Barrayar all carried the name Vorbarra. At the end of the most recently published book, the current Emperor was Emperor Gregor Vorbarra,..
Vorbasse
Vorbasse is the 2nd biggest town in Billund municipality, Denmark. Annually, the biggest market in Denmark is arranged, Vorbasse Market (running for the 275th year, as of 2005), with approximately 250,000 visitors. The town is also renowned for having its own little naval port, Vorbasse Krigshavn, a..
Vorbis
Vorbis is an open and free lossy audio compression codec project headed by the Xiph.org Foundation. It is most commonly used in conjunction with the Ogg container and is then called Ogg Vorbis. Although the Vorbis format is often simply referred to as Ogg, this is technically incorrect as Ogg, l..
Vorbis comment
A Vorbis comment is a metadata container used in the Vorbis, FLAC, and Speex audio file formats. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number or other information about the file to be added to the file itself. Format A Vorbis tag is a list of fields in the format FieldName..
Vorbis II
Vorbis I is a forward-adaptive monolithic transform CODEC based on the Modified Discrete Cosine Transform. The codec is structured to allow addition of a hybrid wavelet filterbank in Vorbis II to offer better transient response and reproduction using a transform better suited to localized time event..
Vordaks
Vordaks are fictional evil creatures from the game book series Lone Wolf by Joe Dever. They exist in the world of Magnamund, and are one of a series of monsters. Physiology They have grey skin and are skeletal in appearance despite having flesh. History They are undead lieutenants of the Darklord ..
Vordel
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Vorden
Vorden Country Netherlands Province Gelderland Area - Land - Water 67.89 km² 67.40 km² 0.49 km² Population (2004) - Density 8,406 125/km² Vorden is a former municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands, about 10 kilometres south-east of Zutphen. On January 1, 2005 th..
Vordereifel
Vordereifel is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the eastern edge of the Eifel, west of Mayen. The seat of the municipality is in Mayen, itself not part of the municipality. The Verbandsgemeinde Vorderei..
Vordermühle
Position Information Population:(in 2005) 30 Geographical position: 7° 26' 02" Ost51° 04' 57" Nord Height above sealevel: 250 m Postal code : 51688 Prefix: 02267 pictures Vordermühle street numbers 7-9 Vordermühle street numbers 5 The chapel of Vordermühle Vor..
Vordingborg
Map of the future municipality The Goose Tower (Gåsetårnet) spire in Vordingborg, Denmark. (2005) View of Vordingborg, Denmark. (August 2004) Vordingborg is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Storstrøm County on the southeast coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in sou..
Vordingborg Castle
The ruins of Vordingborg Castle are located in the town of Vordingborg, Denmark, and are the town's most famous attraction. It was built in 1175 by King Valdemar the Great as a defensive castle. At the same time his half-brother built another castle in a remote location, which is known as Copenhag..
Vordingborg Transmitter
Vordingborg Transmitter is a facility for FM- and TV-transmission at Vordingborg, Denmark, situated at [55°03′07″N, 11°59′18″E]. It uses as antenna tower a 320.3 metre tall guyed mast. External links http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46795http://home.arcor.de/Seba..
Vordonia
Vordonia (Greek: Βορδόνια) is a small village in the base of Taygetos mountain. Most of the population left the village after the WWII war and move to Athens, many migrated to other countries, primarily the USA and Australia. Contents 1 Geography2 Historical population3 Oth..
Vordorf
Basics States of Germany: Lower Saxony District: Gifhorn Surface: 19,26 km² Inhabitants: “3.326 (2003)'' Population density: 173 inhabitants over km² License plate: GF Community Identification Number: 03 1 51 034 address of thelocal government: Hauptstraße 4385..
Vordul Mega
Rapper Vordul Mega (a.k.a. Vordul Megilah) is half of underground hip hop duo Cannibal Ox and is a member of the hip hop group Atoms Family. Vordul's solo album debut is Revolution of Young Havoks, released in 2004. Cannibal Ox counterpart, Vast Aire, released Look Mom... No Hands earlier the sam..
Vorea Ujko
--> Vorea Ujko (1918-1989), pseudonym of Domenico Bellizzi, is among the most popular and respected of the Arbëresh (Italo-Albanian) poets. Ujko was a modest priest from Frascineto (Alb. Frasnita) in Calabria who taught modern literature in Firmo (Alb. Firma) where his memory has been cherished s..
Voree, Wisconsin
Voree is an unincorporated community on the outskirts of present-day Burlington, Wisconsin. It is best known as the historic and current headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), a denomination of the Latter Day Saint (Mormon) movement. In 1844, after the death o..
Voree Plates
The Voree Plates, sometimes called The Record of Rajah Manchou of Vorito were a tiny set of metal plates discovered in 1845 in Voree (now Burlington), Wisconsin. History According to Latter Day Saint or Mormon belief, the ancient inhabitants of the Americas engraved records on metal plates. Joseph..
Vores Øl
Vores Øl (Danish for Our Beer) is presented as the first open source beer. Today also known as [Free Beer]. The recipe is published under a Creative Commons license. The beer was created by students at the IT-University in Copenhagen together with Superflex, a Copenhagen-based artist col..
Vorgan Bloodletter
Vorgan Bloodletter is a crazed follower of Erythnul, God of Slaughter in Dungeons and Dragons, who is encased in blood red full plate armour which he cannot remove. The armour is a renowned artefact which is extremely protective, and has two hand crossbows fitted into the wrists. Vorgan is an enemy ..
Vori
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Vorian Atreides
Vorian Atreides is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. Vorian is a key character in the Legends of Dune trilogy created by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Contents 1 Family H..
Voriconazole
Voriconazole (Vfend®, Pfizer) is a triazole antifungal medication used to treat serious fungal infections. It is used to treat invasive fungal infections that are generally seen in patients who are immunocompromised. These infections include invasive candidiasis and aspergillosis. Contents ..
Vorik
Ensign Vorik is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. Played by Alexander Enberg, his character is a Vulcan male who serves aboard the USS Voyager as a highly qualified engineer. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Ensign Vorik underwent his fi..
Vorkosigan Saga
The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science-fiction novels and short stories by Lois McMaster Bujold, most of which concern Miles Vorkosigan, a disabled aristocrat from the planet Barrayar who creates his own private army at the age of just seventeen. The novels The Vor Game, Barrayar, and Mirror Da..
Vorkriegsjugend
Vorkriegsjugend were a cult and very influential hardcore punk band from Germany. The band only existed for 4 years (1982-85). However, they are considered to be one of the most notable and influential German bands of the period. While active they released a double 7" and an LP. Their discography..
Vorkuta
Vorkuta (Russian: ) is a coal mining town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic circle in the Pechora coal basin, at [67°30′N 64°00′E]. Its population as of the 2002 census was 84,917. It had its origin in one of the more notorious forced labour camps of the..
Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie
Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie (German: Lectures on Number Theory) is a textbook of number theory written by German mathematicians P.G.L. Dirichlet and Richard Dedekind, and published in 1863. Based on Dirichlet's number theory course at the University of Göttingen, the Vorlesungen were edited by..
Vorlik Blade
The Vorlik Blade is the most powerful sword in the game of Skies of Arcadia. The Vorlik Blade is a cutlass owned by the character Vyse, and has an attack power and accuracy of 200, which is the highest possible in the whole game. The Vorlik Blade is obtained by first finding Velorium, a powerful met..
Vorlin
Vorlin is a constructed language (conlang) developed in the 1990s by Rick Harrison. Harrison was the editor of the magazine Journal of Planned Languages and prepared a detail bibliography of conlangs. Both the author and the language received respect from the conlang community. The underlying desig..
Vorlon
The Vorlons are an ancient race from the science fiction series Babylon 5. Advanced, enigmatic and extremely reclusive, the Vorlons are more than a little frightening. They maintained only one representative, Ambassador Kosh, on the station. When in the presence of other races, Vorlons invariably co..
Vorma
Vorma from the Eidsvoll train station looking north Vorma is a river in Norway that brings water from lake Mjøsa into the Glomma river. The Vorma is 30 kilometers long and flows through the town of Eidsvoll. The Vorma goes from Lake Mjøsa via Minnesund to join with the Glomma at Årnes. V..
Vormedal
Vormedal is a small village outside Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway. It is inside Karmøy municipality. ..
Vormsi
Estonia's fourth largest island, Vormsi, is located between Hiiumaa and the mainland with a total area of 92 square kilometers. It is part of a rural municipality with the same name in Lääne County. History Vormsi's history as an inhabited island dates back as far as the 13th century. During m..
Vormstad
Vormstad is a village in the municipality of Orkdal, Norway. The village is located between Svorkmo and Fannrem. Its population (SSB 2005) is 231. ..
Vormsund
Vormsund is a village in the municipality of Nes, Akershus, Norway. Its population (2005) is 478. ..
Vornado
Vornado Air Circulation Systems Inc. is a manufacturer of fans based in Andover, Kansas. It was founded in 1989. Its president and founder is Michael C. Coup. Vornado Air Circulation Systems Inc. makes air circulators that are based on the original Vornado fans that were built by the O.A. Sutton..
Vornado Realty Trust
Vornado Realty Trust NYSE: [VNO] is a New York based Real estate investment trust. It is the inheritor of real estate formerly controlled by companies including Two Guys and Alexanders. Major holdings AmeriCold Realty Trust (47.6%)Alexander's Inc. (33%)Merchandise MartCharles E. Smith Com..
Vorna Valley, Gauteng
Vorna Valley is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 2. Suburbs in Region 2 of Johannesburg Barbeque | Barbeque Downs Business Park | Blue Hills | Bridle Park | Carlswald | Country View | Crowthorne | Diepsloot | Ebony Park | Erand | Glen Austin | Halfway Ga..
Vornbach Abbey
Vornbach Abbey (Kloster Vornbach; sometimes spelt Formbach) was a monastery of the Benedictines in Neuhaus am Inn in Bavaria, Germany. History The monastery, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Saint Benedict, was founded in 1094 by Count Ekkebert of Formbach and his wife Mathilde, and also by Count U..
Vorobyovy Gory
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Vorona
Vorona is a monotypic genus of extinct birds described from fossils found near the village of Berivotra on Madagascar. It is sometimes assumed to have had sickle claws like Velociraptor, but this is based on confusion with another Malagasy fossil, the dromaeosaur Rahonavis. Its affiliation is hard..
Vorondil
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Vorondil the Hunter was the Steward of Gondor in the year 1998 Third Age. He was a descendant of Húrin of Emyn Arnen, an earlier Steward of Gondor and the father of Mardil Voronwë, the first Ruling Steward of Gondor. Vorondil was a gre..
Voroneţ Monastery
Voroneţ is a monastery in Romania, found near the town of Gura Humorului. It is one of the famous painted monasteries, found in southern Bukovina, now in Suceava County. Often known as the "Sistine Chapel of the East", the frescos at Voroneţ feature an intense shade of blue known in Romania as "V..
Voronezh
Coat of Arms Voronezh (Russian: ) is a large city in the Southwest Russia, not far from Ukraine. It is located on the Voronezh River, twelve kilometers away from the emptying of Voronezh River into the Don. Voronezh is the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is an important railw..
Voronezhavia
Voronezhavia is an airline based in Voronezh, Russia. Code Data IATA Code: ZTICAO Code: VRNCallsign: Voronezhavia Services Domestic destinations: Anapa, Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Moscow, Norilsk, Perm, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Voronezh International destinations: Adana, Bak..
Voronezh Front
The Voronezh Front (Russian: Воронежский Фронт) was a Front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War. [#endnote_front] The name indicated the primary geograhical region in which the Front first fought, based on the town of Voronezh o..
Voronezh Oblast
Voronezh Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Major cities are Voronezh, Borisoglebsk, Rossosh, Liski, and Novovoronezh. Voronezh Oblast Воронежская область Flag of Voronezh Coat of arms of Voronezh Administrativ..
Voronezh River
Voronezh (Воро́неж in Russian) is a river in Tambov, Lipetsk, and Voronezh Oblasts in Russia, a left tributary of the Don. The Voronezh River is 342 km in length. The area of its drainage basin is 21,600 sq km. It freezes up in the first half of December and stays under the ice until late Ma..
Voronezh State University
Voronezh State University is the one of the main universities in Central Russia. The university was founded in 1918, when some staff, students and property from the University of Tartu were transferred by the Soviet government because of the German occupation of Estonia. The University has 18 de..
Voronkovo
Voronkovo (location: 47°41'N 029°06'E) is a village in the Administrative Region of Rybnitsa in Transnistria. It is also the site of the Church of the Blessed Virgin's Assumption, a Russian Orthodox church featured on gold and silver coins issued in the series of Orthodox Temples (Transnistria) by..
Voronoi diagram
This is the Voronoi diagram of a random set of points in the plane (all points lie within the image). In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram, named after Georgy Voronoi, also called a Voronoi tessellation, a Voronoi decomposition, or a Dirichlet tessellation (after Lejeune Dirichlet), is special k..
Vorontsov
Vorontsov, also Woronzow, (Russian: Воронцо́в) is a celebrated Russian family, which attained the dignity of Counts of the Holy Roman Empire in 1744 and Serene Princes of the Russian Empire in 1852. Most likely, the Vorontsovs represent a collateral branch of the great Velyaminov family ..
Voronwë
In Tolkien's The Silmarillion, Voronwë was a Ñoldorin Elf mariner from Gondolin who was one of a crew of several ships sent by Turgon to solicit aid from the Valar. The Doom of Mandos, however, made any such attempt futile, and Voronwë was the only one to survive. Voronwë was relatively young a..
Voronya
Voronya (Russian: ) may refer to one of the following. Voronya River, Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.Voronya Cave, Arabica Massif, Gagra RangeThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you..
Voronya Cave
The Voronya Cave (aka Krubera-Voronia Cave) is the deepest known cave in the world. It is located in the Arabika Massif of the Gagra Range, in Abkhazia, West Caucasus. The height difference in the cave is 2,140 (± 9) metres. The same cave set the previous record for depth at 1,710 metres in..
Voronya River
Voronya River (Воронья in Russian) is a river on the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is 155 km in length. The area of its basin is 9,940 sq km. The Voronya River flows out of Lake Lovozero and into the White Sea. ..
Vorort
See Tagsatzung for the meaning in historical Switzerland. Vorort is a German term that could be considered roughly considered equivalent to a suburb. The term is contrasted with Vorstadt, which describes a more densely populated area. Vienna In Vienna, the historical terms Vorstädte and Vororte ..
Voroshilov
Voroshilov may refer to: Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969), Marshal of the Soviet Union.Luhansk, Ukraine (former Voroshilovgrad).Ussuriysk, Russian Far East (formet Voroshilov).KV tank (Kliment Voroshilov tank series). This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles ..
Voros McCracken
Robert "Vörös" McCracken is a prominent sabermetrician. Vörös is a nickname from his Hungarian heritage, meaning "red." He is most widely recognized for his pioneering work on Defense Independent Pitching Statistics (DIPS). He first publicly disclosed his ideas about DIPS on November 18, 1999 ..
Vorotynsk
Vorotynsk (Russian: ) was one of the Upper Oka towns and seat of the mediaeval Princes Vorotynsky. It was first mentioned in the Hypatian Codex under the year 1155. In 1480, Vorotynsk was the principal base of Russian operations against the Tatars during the Great standing on the Ugra river. The tow..
Vorotynsky
Vorotynsky was one of the most eminent Rurikid princely houses of Muscovite Russia. Their lands lay principally in the Upper Oka region and comprised the towns of Peremyshl and Vorotynsk as well as parts (дольницы) of Novosil and Odoyev. Between Russia and Lithuania Originally lords of Vor..
Voro language
The Voro language can refer to two different languages: Voro language (Adamawa) — an Adamawa language of Nigeria.Võro language — a Finno-Ugric language of Estonia. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to..
Voro language (Adamawa)
Voro is an Adamawa language of Nigeria. ..
Vorpal
Jabberwocky illustration by John Tenniel. Note the character in the bottom right of the picture: the blade he holds is presumably the same vorpal blade with which he would then slay the Jabberwock Vorpal is a word coined by Lewis Carroll for the poem "Jabberwocky," used first in the line "He t..
Vorpax
Vorpax is a character featured in the television show [[Mortal Kombat: Conquest]]. She is a sexy but sinister woman who can be both an invaluable ally and a treacherous enemy. --> The first-born daughter of Kreeya, a queen of an unspecified realm in Outworld, Vorpax is one of an entire world fil..
Vorpommern
Vorpommern (Polish: Pomorze Przednie) is a region of Western Pomerania west of the River Oder in north-eastern Germany, including the island of Rügen but excluding the city of Szczecin (German: Stettin). The region is sometimes also called Upper Pomerania or Hither Pomerania. Today it forms part of..
Vorposten Peak
Vorposten Peak ([71°25′S 15°31′E]) is an isolated peak (1,670 m) about 25 miles northeast of the Payer Mountains in central Queen Maud Land. This feature was discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition under Ritscher, 1938-39, and named Vorposten (the outpost) because of its locati..
Vorselaar
Location of Vorselaar in Antwerp province Vorselaar is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises only the town of Vorselaar proper. On January 1 2006 Vorselaar had a total population of 7,359. The total area is 27.62 km² which gives a population ..
Vorskla River
The Vorskla River (Ukrainian: Ворскла), located in northeastern Ukraine, is tributary to the Dnieper. In 1399, the Battle of the Vorskla River was fought in the area. In 1709, the city of Poltava, on the banks of the Vorskla River, was besieged by Charles XII. It has a length of 464 km and..
Vorskla Stadium
Vorskla Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Poltava, Ukraine. It is currently used mostly for football matches, and is the home of FC Vorskla Poltava. The stadium holds 25,000 people. It was built in 1974. ..
Vorsoth
Vorsoth is the final boss for the game [[Star Trek: Elite Force]]. This spider-like creature is only seen in the last playable level, the last level is only a long movie clip. ..
Vorsprung durch Technik
Vorsprung durch Technik (pronounced /ˈfoːɐʃpʁʊŋ dʊɐç ˈtεçnɪk/, German for Lead Through Technology) was a tagline used in several advertising campaigns all over the world for Audi automobiles, a German automobile maker owned wholly by Volkswagen. After its repeated use in advertising c..
Vorstadt
Vorstadt is a German term that could be considered roughly equivalent to a suburb, i.e. a less densely settled area outside a city. Historically, the term Vorstadt often applied to settlements outside city walls. Vienna In Vienna, the historical Vorstädte need to be distinguished from the Vororte...
Vorstand
Vorstand refers to the executive team or management council of a German corporation. The analogue to it in American business is the board of directors. The vorstand is known for team consensus. The Vorstand is controlled by the Aufsichtsrat or Supervisory Board. See also CorporationCorporate gove..
Vorstenbosch
Vorstenbosch is one of the population centres of the municipality Bernheze. Bernheze is located in the province of Noord-Brabant, one of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands. Before 1994 it formed with Nistelrode the municipality Nistelrode. The number of inhabitants is about 1,800 (2005). Interest..
Vorta
Weyoun, a high-ranking Vorta. The Vorta are a fictional humanoid species in Star Trek. The Vorta were created to serve the Founders of the Dominion in administrative tasks. They are typically employed as diplomats or as officers charged with managing Jem'Hadar battalions. They worship the Fou..
Vortech
Vortech is an experimental Progressive Industrial Thrash Metal band from Tornio, Finland. The band was formed in 2000, originally called Aftershock for a short while, then later on as Sound Ogre for 4 years. Contents 1 Biography2 Releases2.1 Studio albums2.2 Demos3 Band m..
Vortec IRC
Vortec IRC is a dedicated IRC client. It has multi-server support, supports sound, has built-in file transfer capabilities, and has a great easy-to-use interface. Vortec also offers a powerful script engine which allows you to use individual scripts to change the behaviour of, or complement the main..
Vortel
A Vortel, or a vertical portal, is a web page specific to a perticular subject. Compare with Web portal, which is a web page with information about various subjects. ..
Vorterkaka Nunatak
Vorterkaka Nunatak ([72°20′S 27°29′E]) is a rock outcrop 1 miles south of Bleikskoltane Rocks at the southeast extremity of the Sor Rondane Mountains. It was mapped in 1957 by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump, 1946-47, and named Vorterkaka (a ro..
Vortex
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Vortex created by the passage of an aircraft wing, revealed by coloured smoke A vortex is a spinning, often turbulent, flow (or any spiral motion) with closed streamlines. The shape of media or mass rotating rapidly around a center forms a vortex. It i..
Vortex (album)
Remix album from Collide featuring remixes of songs from Chasing the Ghost (2001) and Some Kind of Strange (2003). ..
Vortex (Canada's Wonderland)
Vortex at Paramount Canada's Wonderland is a suspended roller coaster, which enables it to swing under the track like Big Bad Wolf at Busch Gardens Europe (formerly Busch Gardens Williamsburg). It officially opened during the 1991 season. Ride Elements Cars are able to swing side-to-side Externa..
Vortex (club)
Opened in the summer of 2004, the Vortex is a Music Venue and bar located on 11th Street in Beaumont, Texas. It is unusual in that it caters to a subculture which has few venues of its own in the Southeast Texas city. In addition to showcasing roots, punk, rockabilly, grunge, indie, pop, blues, an..
Vortex (disambiguation)
A Vortex is a dynamic phenomenon of fluids. Vortex may also refer to: "Vortex (DS9 episode)", a first-season episode of [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]].Vortex life forms, fictional aliens from the Ecco the Dolphin video game series.The Versatile Ocean Subsea Robot for Technical Experiments.Vortex So..
Vortex (DS9 episode)
Crodon's necklace has a rock that changes shape. "Vortex" is the 11th episode in the first season of [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]. Quick Overview: A visitor from the Gamma Quadrant claims he has met a Changeling before. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending detail..
Vortex (Great America)
Vortex at Paramount's Great America is a near copy of the one at Paramount's Carowinds. Although, it's slightly shorter. This was Bolliger and Mabillard 's 2nd coaster after Iron Wolf at Six Flags Great America and officially opened on March 9, 1991. It is also a stand-up roller coaster. Ride El..
Vortex (Kings Island)
Vortex at Paramount's Kings Island is a steel roller coaster built by Arrow Dynamics and officially opened on April 11, 1987. When it opened, it held the record for most inversions (6). Ride Elements 2 LoopsDouble CorkscrewBatwing (2 Inversions) Construction Data Approx. 1,000 tons of steel Extern..
Vortex (novel)
Vortex is the 1991 war novel by Larry Bond and Patrick Larkin. Plot summary [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. In a tense, hypothetical 1990s apartheid South Africa, a reformist president and his cabinet are killed after their train is destroyed by a sp..
Vortex (roller coaster)
Vortex at Paramount's Carowinds was built during the last year before Paramount bought the park in the year 1992. This extraordinary ride (of its time) officially opened on March 14, 1992. Vortex was Bolliger and Mabillard's 3rd ride and is a stand-up roller coaster. Although very small, the ride ..
Vortex (video game)
Vortex (formerly known as Citadel) is a 3D shooter game developed by Argonaut Software for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. It is one of only 3 titles designed to use the Super FX 1 enhancement chip. References ..
Vortex engine
The concept of a Vortex Engine, proposed by Louis Michaud, aims to replace the physical Tower in the Solar updraft tower with a vortex of air. The interior of the vortex contains lower pressure air, much as the air inside a physical Solar Tower would be at lower pressure. This could provide a more e..
Vortex football
The Vortex football originated in the mid 1990's as a lime-green football with a black extension branching off three fins for maximum aerodynamic efficiency. John Elway, distinguished Broncos quarterback, made several endorsements for this product. ..
Vortex generator
1967 Model Cessna 182K in flight showing after-market vortex generators on the wing leading edge After-market Micro Dynamics vortex generators mounted on the wing of a Cessna 182K A vortex generator is an aerodynamic surface, consisting of a small vane that creates a vortex. They can be..
Vortex Healing
Vortex Healing is an alternative method of healing which claims to tap into a particular energy vortex, which accesses a "healing realm" of divine consciousness which was created by a being known as an "avatar" (roughly the Hindu equivalent to Jesus Christ, of which there are supposedly many through..
Vortex Induced Vibration
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Vortex Jazz Club
The Vortex Jazz Club is a London venue that features live jazz music. For many years the Vortex was located in Church Street, Stoke Newington, however following the acquisition of that building by property developers, the club has as of 2005 relocated to the Dalston Culture House in Gillett St..
Vortex life form
The Vortex life forms (also known as Vortex-kind or simply Vortex) are a fictional alien species from the Ecco the Dolphin video game franchise. Vortex is also the name of the planet they come from; it orbits a star in the head of the constellation Pegasus and is the third planet in the fictional st..
Vortex lift
Vortex lift is a form of lift generated by delta wings operating at high angles of attack. How it works Vortex lift works by capturing vortices generated from the sharply swept leading edge of the wing. The vortex, formed roughly parallel to the leading edge of the wing, is trapped by the..
Vortex mixer
A Mini-Vortexer with micro-centrifuge tube. A vortex mixer is a simple device used most commonly in cell culture and microbiology laboratories to suspend cells, although it can be used to mix many other substances. It consists of an electric motor with the drive shaft oriented vertically and..
Vortex ring
A vortex ring, also called a toroidal vortex or Hill's vortex, is a region of rotating fluid moving through the same or different fluid where the flow pattern takes on a doughnut shape. The movement of the fluid is about the poloidal or circular axis of the doughnut, in a twisting vortex motion. ..
Vortex ring gun
The vortex ring gun is currently (as of early 2006) being developed. It fires a blank cartridge into a barrel which widens towards its muzzle. The pressure accelerates the air or gas in the barrel at high speed and it becomes a high-speed travelling vortex ring. The weapon has been shown to knock d..
Vortex ring toys
A vortex ring is a rolling donut of fluid which is moving through another fluid. A smoke ring is a common example of a vortex ring. Because of the way they are rotating, a vortex ring can hold itself together and travel for quite a distance. Contents 1 Vortex ring toys2 Vortex ring ge..
Vortex satellite
Vortex, previously known as Chalet, is a class of spy satellite. Vortex is a United States Department of Defense and United States Air Force SIGINT satellite which has a huge antenna that can listen to radio transmission originating from Earth or Space. It is operated by the National Reconnaissance ..
Vortex Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Festival
Vortex Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Festival is a film festival presented by the Rhode Island International Film Festival which will have its first showing on May 27, 2006, in Providence, Rhode Island. This festival will feature not only independently produced films, but will have a special sid..
Vortex shedding
Vortex shedding is caused when air flows past a blunt structure. The airflow past the object creates alternating low-pressure vortexes on the downwind side of the object. The object will tend to move toward the low-pressure zone. Eventually, if the frequency of vortex shedding matches the reson..
Vortex Software
Vortex Software was a video game developer founded by Costa Panayi and Paul Canter in the early 1980s to sell the game Cosmos which Panayi had developed for the Sinclair ZX81. They converted the game to the ZX Spectrum when it appeared, but due to the low sales of the ZX81 version they licensed the ..
Vortex tube
(In vorticity dynamics, a 'vortex-tube' is also a surface in the fluid formed by all the vortex-lines passing through a given reducible closed curve drawn in the fluid - see George Batchelor's book, section 2.6) The vortex tube, also known as the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube, is a heat pump with no..
Vortical
Vortical means pertaining to a vortex or to vortices. In fluid dynamics, the movement of a fluid can be said to be vortical if the fluid moves around in a circle, or in a helix, or if it tends to spin around some axis. Such motion can also be called solenoidal. Vortical movement is characterized ..
Vorticella
Vorticella is a genus of protozoa, with over 100 known species. They are stalked bell-shaped ciliates, placed among the peritrichs. Each cell has a separate stalk, which contains a contracile fibril called a myoneme. When stimulated this shortens, causing the stalk to coil like a spring. Reprod..
Vorticism
Wyndham Lewis Vorticism was a short lived, British art movement of the early 20th century. It is considered to be the only significant British movement of the early twentieth century but lasted less than three years. Contents 1 Origins2 Participants3 ''BLAST''4 Demise and..
Vorticity
Vorticity is a mathematical concept used in fluid dynamics. It can be related to the amount of "circulation" or "rotation" (or more strictly, the local angular rate of rotation) in a fluid. Contents 1 Fluid dynamics2 Atmospheric sciences3 Other fields4 See also5 Further ..
Vorticity equation
The vorticity equation is an important prognostic equation in the atmospheric sciences. Vorticity is a vector, therefore, there are three components. The equation of vorticity (three components in the canonical form) describes the total derivative (that is, the local change due to local change with ..
Vorticon
The Vorticon are a race of grayish, dog-like, bipedal aliens featured in the Commander Keen computer games. They have formidable claws, rayguns and sometimes work as, oddly enough, ninja. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. In episode one, the Vorticon s..
Vortigaunt
A group of Vortigaunts in Half-Life. Vortigaunts (sometimes known as "alien slaves") are a fictional species from the Half-Life video game series. Their native home is the Xen border world, from which they travelled to Earth during the portal storms. They serve as frequently encountered enemi..
Vortigern
Vortigern, (also spelled Vortiger and Vortigen) was a 5th century Brython warlord, whose existence is considered likely, though information about him is clouded by legend. He is traditionally said to have invited the Anglo-Saxons to settle in Britain as mercenaries, only to see them revolt and estab..
Vortimer
In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, a fictional "account" of the rulers of England, Vortimer is a legendary king of the Britons. He is the son of King Vortigern, whom he usurps, but is killed by his own father who reclaims the crown. Preceded by:Vortigern Mythical British Kings ..
Vortiporius
In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, a fictional account of the rulers of Britain, Vortiporius is a mythical king of the Britons. After his rule, Saxons briefly take over the rule of the island. |- style="text-align: center;" Source ["Instances of literary forgery"],..
Vortová
Vortová is a small village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 250 inhabitants. Hamlet Lhoty is administrative part of Vortová. External links [Village website] (in Czech) ..
Voruta
Voruta may have been a capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania established in the time of king Mindaugas in the 13th century. The exact location of Voruta is unknown and there are many contradictory theories about it. Historians argue that Voruta may have been either an actual city or just a misint..
Voruta (newspaper)
Voruta is a Lithuanian weekly historical newspaper. History Preparations for publishing Voruta started in 1988 and first trial issue was published in 1989. Its founder and chief editor is Juozas Vercinkevičius. Edvardas Gudavičius, Regina Žepkaitė, Antanas Tyla, Arūnas Bubnys, Vincas Martink�..
Vorwärts
Front page of the first issue (October 1 1876) of Vorwärts Vorwärts ("Forward") was the central organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany published daily in Berlin from 1891 to 1933 by decision of the party's Halle Congress, as the successor of Berliner Volksblatt, founded in 1884. Fr..
Vorwärts Stadium
Vorwärts Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Steyr, Austria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of SK Vorwärts Steyr. The stadium holds 6,000 people and was built in 2000. ..
Vorwerk
There are communes and places that have the name Vorwerk in Lower Saxony, Germany: Vorwerk (Lower Saxony), in the Rotenburg (district) district,Vorwerk (Uelzen), a locality of Altenmedingen, in the Uelzen district,A subdivision of Celle in the district of Celle,Vorwerk (company), a German company w..
Vor of Barrayar
The Vor of Barrayar are a military caste and essentially aristocracy of the planet Barrayar in the sci-fi book series the Vorkosigan Saga. On Barrayar, there exist two sets of people: the Vor and everyone else, occasionally referred to in the books as plebes or proles. Vor status is considered ge..

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