Great Bardfield is a village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 1238 people living in Great Bardfield.
Henham
Henham is a village and civil parish in Uttlesford, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 1161 people living in Henham.
Great Chesterford
Great Chesterford is a village and civil parish in Uttlesford, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 1424 people living in Great Chesterford.
Great Sampford
Great Sampford is a village and civil parish in Uttlesford, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 509 people living in Great Sampford.
Rayne
Rayne is a village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 2162 people living in Rayne.
Syrian Desert
The Syrian Desert () is a dry, flat land area in northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq.
Bristol Temple Meads railway station
Bristol Temple Meads railway station is a main line train station in Bristol, England.
The station has main trains to Paddington, Cardiff Central and the South Coast of England. There are also trains towards Taunton.
South Western Railway have services to London Waterloo. There are trains to Plymouth and Penzance, and to Birmingham, Manchester and Scotland.
First Great Western said no to continue the services, they wanted a long-term contract because the Great Western Main Line is being updated. The new operator will be told in December 2012, with the new team starting in April 2013.
Nullarbor Plain
Nullarbor Plain (Latin: "nullus", "no", and "arbor", "tree") is an area of flat, dry land in southern Australia on the coastline of the Great Australian Bight.
It is the world's largest single piece of limestone, and occupies an area of about . At its widest point, it stretches about from east to west between South Australia (SA) and Western Australia (WA). The name comes from the Latin words meaning "no trees".
André Franquin
André Franquin (3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997) was a Belgian comics artist. His best known comic strip creations are "Gaston" and "Marsupilami". He made these when he worked on the "Spirou et Fantasio" comic strip from 1947 to 1969. This time is seen by many as the series' golden age.
Edgar P. Jacobs
Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs (30 March 1904 – 20 February 1987), better known under his pen name Edgar P. Jacobs, was a Belgian comic book writer and artist. Jacobs was one of the founding fathers of the European comics movement. He worked with Hergé on the graphic novel series that made him famous, "Blake and Mortimer".
Edgar Pierre Jacobs was born in Brussels in 1904. In 1919 he graduated from school. He took on odd jobs at the opera, including decoration, scenography, and painting. Sometimes he worked as an extra. In 1929 he received the annual Belgian government medal for excellence in classical singing.
In 1940 Jacobs turned permanently to illustration. He drew commercial illustrations and collaborated in the "Bravo" review until 1946.
The American comic strip "Flash Gordon" was not allowed in Belgium by the German forces during World War II. He was asked to write an end to the comic. But German censorship stopped this after only a couple of weeks. Jacobs then published in "Bravo" his first comic strip, "Le Rayon U" ("The U Ray"). This was in the same "Flash Gordon" style.
Around this time, he became a stage painter for a theatre adaptation for Hergé's "Cigars of the Pharaoh". This led to friendship with Hergé. As a direct result, he helped Hergé in colorizing the black and white strips of "The Shooting Star" to be ready for book publication in 1942. From 1944 on he helped in the recasting of his earlier albums "Tintin in the Congo", "Tintin in America", "King Ottokar's Sceptre" and "The Blue Lotus" for color book publication. After the project, he continued to contribute directly in the drawing as well as the storyline for the new Tintin double-albums "The Seven Crystal Balls"/"Prisoners of the Sun".
Jacobs, as a fan of opera, decided to take Hergé with him to a concert. Hergé did not like opera, however, and for decades he would gently joke with his friend Jacobs through opera singer Bianca Castafiore, a supporting character in "The Adventures of Tintin". Hergé also gave him tiny cameo roles in "Tintin" adventures, sometimes under the name Jacobini.
In 1946, he was part of the team gathered by Raymond Leblanc around the new comics magazine "Le Journal de Tintin". His story "Le secret de l’Espadon" ("The Secret of the Swordfish") was published on September 26. This was the first of the "Blake and Mortimer" series.
Yves Lambert
Yves Lambert, born the 4th of June 1936 in Nancy, is a French aerospace engineer. He was head of Eurocontrol from 1994 to 2000.
He was a graduate of the "École Polytechnique" (1956) and the French Civil Aviation University (1959). Lambert has had a career in civil aviation in Algeria and at the International Civil Aviation Organization. He returned to France to be an air navigation director until 1993.
In 1994, he was nominated head of Eurocontrol. He had this position until 2000.
Yves Lambert is member of the "Académie de l'air et de l'espace" and the Royal Aeronautical Society.
Nintendo 3DS system software
Nintendo 3DS system software is software on the Nintendo 3DS video game console that can be updated. These updates, which are downloaded through the system's Internet connection, lets Nintendo add and take away features and software. Updates also have changes from previous versions. The newest version of the system software, 4.5.0-10, was released on December 4, 2012.
The Home Menu is a GUI like the Wii's "Wii Menu" and the DSi's "DSi Menu" which lets you use applications from Nintendo game cards, 3DS applications, or DSiWare applications. The menu has space to show 60 applications, though 120 spaces, for one application each, will show when space starts to run out. On the top screen, the menu shows information such as signal strength, step count, date, time, and battery life. With the home button, the user can go to the HOME menu, except for DS games or DSiWare, which won't let the player go there without quitting the game. From the home screen, the user can manage notes, check friend lists, change the level of light, check notifications, and if updated to the latest version, browse the internet, all without closing the current application. At the home menu, the user can also take photos with the 3D cameras by pressing the L or R buttons. To open another application, the one the player is using must be closed first. Like the DSi, game cards can be swapped while in the menu.
All the following applications come with the latest version of the firmware, with the system:
All the following applications let you do something else while they are open:
All the following applications need to be downloaded from the Nintendo eShop first:
The following is a list of all the versions of Nintendo 3DS firmware.
a This update came with the specified games and has a regular last number (0, 1, 2, 3...)
b Nintendo 3DS owners who performed the 2.1.0-4 system update prior to 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Aug. 18, 2011, were automatically registered for the program.
Willy Vandersteen
Willy Vandersteen (15 February 1913 – 28 August 1990) was a Belgian maker of comic books. In his life, he made a large studio and published more than 1,000 comic albums in over 25 series. He sold more than 200 million copies worldwide.
He is considered together with Marc Sleen the founding father of Flemish comics. He is mainly popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Hergé called him "The Brueghel of the comic strip". The creation of his own studio and the mass production and commercialization of his work turned him into "the Walt Disney of the Low Countries".