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It can also be made by reacting mercury(I) nitrate with hydrochloric acid or by reacting mercury(II) sulfate with sodium chloride.
It is also used to make an amalgam with metals such as aluminum.
It was used in the past to preserve various things and as a medicine.
It is too toxic to be used as a medicine anymore.
It was used in photography.
Mercury(I) chloride, also known as calomel and mercurous chloride, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is Hg2Cl2.
The mercury is in its +1 oxidation state.
It is a white to pale yellow crystalline solid.
It is toxic, but not as toxic as mercury(II) chloride because it does not dissolve in water.
It turns back into mercury and mercury(II) chloride when reacted with ammonia or exposed to ultraviolet light.
The black color that came from the reaction with ammonia gave its name "calomel" (beautiful black).
It is the most common mercury(I) compound.
It is made by reacting mercury with mercury(II) chloride.
It can also be made by reacting mercury(I) nitrate with sources of chloride, such as sodium chloride.
It is used in electrochemistry as a reference electrode.
Reference electrodes are used to find the electrode potentials (ability to be oxidized and reduced) of other chemical substances.
Since it decomposes when light is shined on it, it is used to see how many photons are in a light beam.
It was used as medicine in the past, although it was toxic.
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Mercury(I) nitrate is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is Hg2(NO3)2.
It has mercury and nitrate ions in it.
It is a weak reducing agent in air.
It oxidizes to mercury(II) oxide and mercury(II) nitrate.
It reacts slowly with water when it is dissolved in water.
This makes a basic mercury(I) nitrate and some nitric acid.
The basic mercury(I) nitrate is yellow.
Mercury(I) nitrate can kill you if you eat or inhale it.
It is made by reacting mercury with a dilute solution of nitric acid.
A concentrated solution of nitric acid makes mercury(II) nitrate.
An amalgam is a solution of a metal in mercury.
Many metals can dissolve in mercury.
Amalgams are used in tooth fillings.
Platinum and iron cannot form amalgams.
Gold can dissolve in mercury, which is used to separate gold from its ore.
Aluminum forms an amalgam which can react with water because the thin oxide coating on the aluminum is dissolved.
Mercury(II) nitrate, also known as mercuric nitrate, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is Hg(NO3)2.
It contains mercury and nitrate ions.
Mercury(II) nitrate is a white crystalline solid.
It was used to make felt from fur.
People would get poisoned when using it to make hats, making the term "mad hatter".
Mercury(II) iodide, also known as mercuric iodide, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is HgI2.
It has mercury and iodide ions in it.
It is a red crystalline compound.
It turns yellow when heated and turns red again when it is cooled.
It is highly toxic like all mercury compounds.
Mercury(II) iodide is made by reacting a mercury(II) salt such as mercury(II) chloride with a source of iodide ions.
This makes a bright red precipitate.
It was used as a medicine, but it poisoned people who took the medicine.
It is also used to demonstrate how some things change color when heated and change back when cooled.
It can be used to test for ammonia and as a semiconductor.
Mercury(I) chloride, less toxic, insoluble
Mercury(II) chloride, more toxic, soluble
Mercury(II) nitrate, "mad hatter"
Mercury(I) iodide, also known as mercurous iodide, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is Hg2I2.
When light is shined on it, it breaks down (by disproportionation) to mercury(II) iodide and iodine.
It is toxic, as are all mercury compounds.
Preparation and use
It is made by reacting mercury and iodine.
It was once used as a medicine.
A stroopwafel () (English translation: syrup waffle or treacle waffle) is a waffle made from two thin layers of baked batter.
It has a caramel-like syrup filling in the middle.
They were first made in the town of Gouda in the Netherlands, in 1784.
Bigger versions are sold in the streets as a snack.
Dutch food
The Inline-four engine or Straight-four is an internal combustion engine with all four cylinders.
All four cylinders are mounted in a straight line along one crankshaft.
The single bank of cylinders may be in a vertical direction (straight up), or at an angle.
When the cylinders are mounted at an angle, it is sometimes called a slant-four.
When listed as an abbreviation, an inline-four engine is listed either as I4 or L4 (for longitudinal).
L4 is often used to avoid confusion between the digit 1 and the letter I.
The inline-four layout is a mechanically simple engine.
It has a natural basic engine balance.
It is smoother than one, two, and three cylinder engines.
This makes it popular for economy cars.
It does have a problem with secondary engine balance.
This causes minor vibrations in smaller engines.
These vibrations become worse as engine size and power increase.
The more powerful engines used in larger cars use different an engine layout to avoid this problem.
This inline-four gasoline configuration is the most common in cars with a displacement (engine size) up to 2.4 L. Porsche used a 3.0 L four in its 944 S2 and 968 sports cars.
Antique vehicles tended to have larger displacements to develop horsepower and torque.
The Model A Ford was built with a 3.3 L inline-four engine.
Four-cylinder diesel engines are lower revving than gasoline engines.
They often exceed 3.0 L. Toyota made a 4.1 L diesel engine that was used in the Toyota Mega Cruiser.
Larger four-cylinder engines are used in industrial applications, are often made with displacements up to about 4.6 L.
Displacement can also be very small.
Some cars sold in Japan have engines that are only 660 cc.
Racing use
The 1913 Indianapolis 500 was won by Jules Goux driving a Peugeot.
This car was powered by an inline-four engine designed by Ernest Henry.
This design was big influence for racing engines.
It was the first to use dual overhead camshafts (DOHC) and four valves per cylinder.
This became the standard design for racing inline-four engines.
This Peugeot was sold to the American driver "Wild Bob" Burman.
Burman broke the engine in 1915.
Because of World War I, Peugeot could not deliver a new engine.
Burman asked Harry Arminius Miller to build a new engine.
With John Edward and Fred Offenhauser, Miller created a new engine.
Its design was based on the Peugeot inline-four engine.
This was the first version of the engine that would dominate the Indianapolis 500 until 1976.
At first, the engine was named Miller.
Later it became known as Offenhauser.
The Offenhauser engines won five straight races at Indianapolis from 1971 to 1976.
It was not until 1981 that engines such as the Cosworth V8 engine eliminated them.
Many cars produced for the pre-WWII voiturette Grand Prix motor racing used inline-four engine designs.
These cars were rebuilt and reused after the war.
They formed the beginnings of what is now Formula One.
Motorcycle use
Modern inline-four motorcycle engines first gained their popularity with Honda's single overhead camshaft CB750 in the 1970s.
The inline-four has become one of the most common engine configurations in street bikes The inline-four is common because of its relatively high performance-to-cost ratio.
All of the Japanese motorcycle manufacturers offer motorcycles with inline-four engines.
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, CBE (born 5 November 1940; died 21 July 2010) was an English operatic tenor.
He was especially famous for singing the music of Monteverdi, Mozart and Benjamin Britten.
He sang many of the operatic roles which Britten had written for Peter Pears to sing.
Anthony Rolfe Johnson was born in Tackley in Oxfordshire.
When he was a child he enjoyed singing, but did not think of taking it up as a career.
He started to work in farm management.
Then, in his late twenties, he decided to study singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
He started his singing career by singing in operas in the chorus and in small roles at the Glyndebourne Festival between 1972 and 1976.
His first big operatic part was Vaudémont in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanthe in 1973 with the English Opera Group.
Then he sang the part of Albert Herring in Britten’s opera.
In 1978, he joined English National Opera.
He sang several roles in Mozart and Monteverdi operas, then he sang the Male Chorus (a solo part) in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and Aschenbach in Death in Venice.
Later he sang the title role in Peter Grimes.
He sang in opera houses all over the world, including including the English National Opera, Royal Opera House, La Monnaie in Brussels, La Scala, Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, the Vienna State Opera, and the Paris Opera.
Rolfe Johnson sang other music besides operas.
He sang in several oratorios, and he sang the role of Evangelist in J. S. Bach's St John Passion and St Matthew Passion, as well as in Britten’s War Requiem.
He also sang on the concert platform, and he gave recitals of Lieder.
He helped find a group called “The Songmakers’ Almanac” who sang classical songs. .
”Anthony Rolfe Johnson” – obituary in The Independent, 29 July 2010 viewspaper p. 9
Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a school for music and drama in London, England.
It was founded in 1880.
Students can study Music, Opera, Drama, Stage Management and Technical Theatre.
The first Guildhall School was in an old warehouse, but it was soon too small.
A new building was especially built and opened in 1886.
Before 1935 it was known as the Guildhall School of Music.
Since 1977 it has been next to the Barbican Arts Centre in the Barbican Complex.
The Guildhall School does not just teach students at the school.
They also organize music examinations in the whole of Britain for anyone learning musical instruments.
In 2004 these examinations joined with those of Trinity College London to form Trinity Guildhall Examinations.
Today, Trinity Guildhall offers qualifications in performing and teaching in music, speech and drama, and dance to external students (students who are not studying at the school).
Today the school has a 308-seat drama and opera theatre, concert hall, lecture / recital hall and a small studio theatre.
The students of the school regularly perform all over London.
In 2008 work began on a large extension to the School.
It will cost about £90 million.
Guildhall School of Music and Drama website
City selects preferred Milton Court developer  (June 2006)
Guildhall School seeks new extension  (February 2006)
Trinity Guildhall at the Trinity College, London
A mercury-vapor lamp is a kind of gas discharge lamp.
It makes light from mercury.
The mercury atoms release ultraviolet and visible light.
In some bulbs, the ultraviolet light shines on phosphors which make white light from it, although not all mercury-vapor lamps use phosphors.
The EU wants to ban them because they contain large amounts of mercury and are not efficient like fluorescent bulbs.
They last much longer though.
They are the bluish streetlights.
Depending on the quality of the bulb, age of the bulb, phosphor used, and other chemicals added to the mercury, the color of the light can vary from blue-white to green-white, to almost pure white.
A green tint usually indicates an older bulb, although it doesn't necessarily mean that the bulb is about to burn out.
The metal halide lamp is an improved version of the mercury vapor lamp that contains a metal halide (usually sodium iodide) in addition to the mercury.
The metal halide produces orange light, which combines with the blue-white light from the mercury to produce a very pure white light.
Incandescent bulb
A sodium vapor lamp is a kind of gas discharge lamp.
Streetlights are a major use.
There are two types; the high pressure lamp and the low pressure lamp.
The older low pressure one gives yellow light.
It is still used where the ability to show different colors is not very important.
The newer high pressure sodium vapor light emits a broader spectrum, often appearing orange but letting people see different colors.
These lights contain sodium metal in them.
They operate by a spark through a tube that contains the sodium.
The sodium emits a yellow color, which produces the light.
Because the lamp contains highly flammable sodium as well as toxic mercury, it should not be placed in the trash and must be disposed of properly at the end of its life.
A streetlight is a light bulb on a pole used for lighting streets.
Streets can be lit for safety or visibility reasons, so people can see where they are walking at night.
Streetlights are normally either orange or blue.
The blue ones are mercury-vapor lamps.
They are older and last longer.
The orange ones are sodium vapor lamps.
They are newer and more efficient.
Incandescent bulb, rarely used in streetlights
Fluorescent bulb
Aluminium oxide, also known as aluminum oxide, is a chemical compound made from aluminium and oxygen.
Its chemical formula is Al2O3.
It is a normally white, powdery solid.
It does not exist in a particular form.
It can dissolve in acids and bases.
It is used as an abrasive (sandpaper is an abrasive).
It comes in bauxite and corundum.
It does not melt easily.
It is dissolved in a cryolite melt and electrolyzed to make aluminium.
Natural occurrence
Corundum is the most common naturally occurring crystalline form of aluminium oxide.
Rubies and sapphires are types of corundum.
The reason why they have different colors is because there are other elements in it.
Al2O3 is an electrical insulator but it has a high thermal conductivity ().
Its most common occurring crystalline form, called corundum or α-aluminium oxide.
Aluminium oxide is the reason why aluminium cannot corrode.
When aluminium reacts with atmospheric oxygen, a thin layer of aluminium oxide (4 nm thickness) forms on any exposed aluminium surface.
This layer protects the metal from more oxidation.
Aluminium compounds
An abrasive is something that is very hard.
It is also rough.
It is used to rub things so they get smooth.
When abrasives are glued to paper, it makes sandpaper.
Aluminium oxide is a common abrasive.
Abrasives are used to make the ends of wood pieces smooth and to smooth the cut ends of metal.
The hardest natural abrasive is diamond.
Diamond is commonly used in saw blades designed to cut tile or stone.
Sandpaper is a piece of paper with an abrasive glued to it.
Sandpapers come in various types.
Some are very rough, while others are very smooth.
They are used to clean wood and metal and make them smooth.
Some sandpaper is made to go on a machine that rubs very fast, while other sandpaper is used by hand.
Corundum is a mineral.
It is very hard, with a Mohs hardness of 9 (diamond is 10).
It is usually clear.
Its chemical formula is aluminium oxide, Al2O3.
Sometimes some of the aluminium atoms get replaced with chromium atoms.
It then becomes ruby.
Other impurities can make sapphire.
Aluminium chloride (AlCl3), is a chemical compound.
It is a white or yellow crystalline solid.
It is made by reacting aluminium oxide with hydrochloric acid.
The anhydrous (without water) form may be made by reacting aluminium and chlorine.
It is used in the making of chemicals.
It is also used in deodorants.
It can cause slight irritation.
The Salt Lake Tribune is a newspaper based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
It was founded in 1871 and was known as Mormon Tribune by some former LDS Church members William Godbe, Elias L.T. Harrison and John Tullidge.
Joey Ramone's mother encouraged both his and his brothers' interests in music.
He was a fan of The Beatles, The Who, Iggy and The Stooges and David Bowie, among other bands.
He was also a fan of Phil Spector produced records as well.
He took up the drums at 13 and played throughout his teen years.
He idolized Pete Townshend of the Who.
Rashad Anton Evans (born September 25, 1979 in Niagara Falls, New York) is an American mixed martial artist.
He currently fights for the UFC and fights out of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Evans is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Championship and was the winner of The Ultimate Fight season 2 in the heavyweight division.
Evans holds a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Gaidojutsu
Rashad Evans' Official website
Georges St-Pierre  (born May 19, 1981 in Saint-Isidore, Quebec) (often called GSP for short) is a semi-retired Canadian mixed martial artist that fights for the UFC and fights out of Montreal, Quebec.
St-Pierre has won the UFC Welterweight Championship 3 times.
St-Pierre is a 3rd degree black belt in Kyokushin, a black belt in Gaidojutsu and a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
On December 13, 2013, he announced that he was vacating the championship and was taking time off from MMA.
Georges St-Pierre's Official website
Georges St-Pierre at ufc.com
Patricia Anne Stratigias (born December 18, 1975) is a Canadian retired professional wrestler, fitness model, and fitness guru, actress and television personality.
She is best known for her time with the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) where she wrestled under the ring name, Trish Stratus.
Stratus is a former one-time WWE Hardcore Champion, seven-time WWF/E Women's Champion and was named Babe of the Year from 2001 to 2004 and was also named Diva of the Decade.
She returned to the WWE on February 20, 2011 after she made a surpise appearance at the 2011 Elimination Chamber pay-per-view.
She will also be a trainer on the 2011 revival of Tough Enough.
She was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Stephanie McMahon in 2013.
The next year, Stratus inducted Lita in the Hall of Fame.
Trish Stratus' Official website
José Alberto Rodríguez (born May 25, 1977) is a Mexican professional wrestler, former mixed martial artist and luchador enmascarado.
He is currently signed to the WWE and competes under the ring name Alberto Del Rio.
He has also wrestled for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), Ring of Honor (ROH) and Lucha Underground (LU).
He competeed in AAA under the ring name El Patrón Alberto ("The Boss Alberto") and in ROH and LU under the name Alberto el Patrón.
In 2006 Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked Alberto Del Rio #45 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500.
On January 30, 2011, Del Rio won the 2010 Royal Rumble by last eliminating Santino Marella.
On August 17 at Triplemanía XXII, El Patrón and his father Dos Caras returned to AAA.
He spoke about returning to AAA and he addressed the WWE, claiming that they were racist.
They were interrupted by the Los Perros del Mal stable.
On December 11, 2014, Ring of Honor (ROH) announced that they had signed Rodríguez and that he would make his debut for them on January 3, 2015.
In his debut match, he defeated Christopher Daniels.
On January 17, 2015, Lucha Underground announced that they had signed Rodríguez.
He debuted for them at their television tapings in Los Angeles, California later that same day.
On October 25, 2015, Del Rio made a surprise return to the WWE at Hell in a Cell with Zeb Colter as his manager.
At Hell in a Cell, Del Rio answered John Cena's United States Open Challenge.
He defeated Cena to win his first United States Championship.
AAA World Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Técnico of the Year (2014)
CMLL World Heavyweight Championship (one time)
La Copa Junior (2006)
He was ranked #6 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2011.
WWE Championship (two times)
Money in the Bank (Raw 2011)
Bragging Rights Trophy (2010) (with Team SmackDown (Big Show, Rey Mysterio, Jack Swagger, Edge, Tyler Reks, and Kofi Kingston))
World Wrestling League
WWL World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
'''Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Best Gimmick (2010)
Christopher Todd "Chris Masters" Mordetzky (born 8 January, 1983) is an American professional wrestler of Polish ancestry.
His dad was Polish and English.
His mother was American.
He began his career at age 21.
He had been a bodybuilder since he was 14 years old.
The starlings are a family of small to medium-sized birds, the Sturnidae.
This family are passerine songbirds, whose best-known species is Sternus, the common starling.
Starlings occur naturally in the Old World, from  Europe, Asia and Africa.
Species (usually the common starling) have been introduced to  North America, Hawaii and New Zealand.
In these new areas they compete for habitat with native birds, and are considered as invasive species.
Starlings have strong feet, their flight is strong and direct, and they are very gregarious (social).
Their preferred habitat is fairly open country.
They eat insects and fruit.
Several species live around humans.
Many species search for food by opening the bill after probing it into dense vegetation; this behavior is called 'open-bill probing'.
Plumage is usually dark with a metallic sheen and white flecks (spots).
Most species nest in holes, laying blue or white eggs.
Starlings have varied and complex songs, and may copy sounds from their surroundings, including car alarms, and human speech.
The birds can recognize particular individuals by their calls.
North-East European starlings migrate, but in southern and western Europe the birds are resident.
Starlings are generally a highly social family.
Most species associate in flocks of varying sizes throughout the year.
These flocks may include other species of starlings and sometimes species from other families.
This sociality is obvious in their roosting behaviour.
In the non-breeding season some roosts can number thousands of birds.
Flocks in Britain used to number millions of birds, though numbers are now fewer than they used to be.
Sternus vulgaris is a highly gregarious species in autumn and winter.
Flock size is variable: huge flocks are a spectacular sight and sound.
These flocks often attract birds of prey such as sparrowhawks.
Flocks form a tight sphere-like formation in flight, frequently expanding and contracting and changing shape, seemingly without any leader.
Huge flocks of more than a million starlings are observed just before sunset in spring in southwestern Jutland, Denmark.
There they gather in March until they leave for their breeding ranges by mid-April.
Their flocking creates complex shapes against the sky, a phenomenon known locally as "Black Sun".
To witness this spectacle, the best place are the seaward marshlands of Tønder and Esbjerg .
Flocks of anything from five to fifty thousand starlings form in areas of the UK just before sundown during mid winter.
These flocks are commonly called a murmeration, sometimes a Starling Moot.(meaning meeting or council)
Although there are approximately 200 million starlings in North America, they are all descendants of 60 birds released in 1890 (and 40 more in 1891) in Central Park, New York, by Eugene Schieffelin.
He was a member of the Acclimation Society of North America, which  tried to introduce to North America every bird species mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.
As an introduced species, European starlings are not protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Starlings are considered a nuisance species in North America.
The birds, which travel in enormous flocks, often pose dangers to air travel, disrupt cattle operations, chase off native birds, and roost on city blocks.
They leave behind corrosive droppings and hundreds of millions of dollars of damage every year.
In 2008, U.S. government agents poisoned, shot and trapped 1.7 million starlings, more than any other nuisance species.
The starling family includes a lot of birds which look different to the common starling.
One large group is called the mynas, which genetic analysis shows is not a natural group.
Mirko Filipović (born 10 September 1974 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian mixed martial artist who currently fights for the UFC.
He is known by his nickname Mirko Cro Cop, which he gained when he was in the Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit.
Filipović also fought for the Pride Fighting Championships where he won a PrideFC 2006 Openweight Grand Prix Tournament.
People from Zagreb
Giancarlo Volpe (born 31 July 1974 in Tacoma, Washington) is an Italian American animator and director.
He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1997.
He started his career at Humongous Entertainment.
"Pajama Sam"
Other TV series
MobyGames profile
deviantART Profile
Paramount Parks was an operator of theme parks and attractions.
In 1994, the Paramount Parks became a part of Paramount Pictures.
Cedar Fair official website
Gilroy Gardens (Formerly Bonfante Gardens)
Carowinds
Star Trek The Experience
Theme park companies
Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California.
Located just 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Downtown Los Angeles, Burbank is well known for being home to Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros Studios, as well as having the largest IKEA in the United States.
The population at the 2010 census was 103,340.
Sterling Beaumon (b. 1995), actor, musician
Tyler Blackburn (b. 1986), actor, singer
Kelly Blatz (b. 1987), actor, model
Scott Borchetta (b. 1962), president/CEO of Big Machine Records
Tim Burton (b. 1958), film director, producer
Paul Cameron (b. 1932), football player
Glenn Davis (1924–2005), football player, Heisman Trophy winner
Debbe Dunning (b. 1966), actress
Masiela Lusha (b. 1985), actress, writer, humanitarian
Andrew Gold (1951–2011), singer-songwriter, born in Burbank
Mark Harmon (b. 1951), actor
Jason Hirsh (b. 1982), professional baseball player
Ron Howard (b. 1954), actor, director
Ryan Lavarnway (b. 1987), major league baseball catcher (Baltimore Orioles)
Blake Lively (b. 1987), actress
Chris Marquette (b. 1984), actor
Cady McClain (b. 1969), actress
Garry Marshall (1934–2016), director, actor
Hayley McFarland (b. 1991), actress
Sandy Neilson (b. 1956), Olympic swimming gold medalist
Greg Plitt (1977–2015), fitness model, actor.
Eve Plumb (b. 1958), actress
Debbie Reynolds (1932–2016), actress, singer
Randy Rhoads (1956–1982), musician, guitarist
Jason Ritter (b. 1980), actor, raised in Burbank
John Ritter (1948–2003), actor, TV personality, born and raised in Burbank
Adam Schiff (b. 1960), U.S. Congressman – House of Representatives
Kendall Schmidt (b. 1990), actor, singer, formed band Heffron Drive in Burbank with Dustin Belt – part of Big Time Rush (band).
Ryan Shore (b. 1974), film composer
Daniel Steres (b. 1990), professional soccer player
Frank Sullivan (b. 1930), Major League baseball pitcher-active 1953–63
Wil Wheaton (b. 1972), actor
Anton Yelchin (1989–2016), actor
Brief History of Burbank, California (Burbank Chamber of Commerce, 1961)
Of Men and Stars, A History of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, 1957–1958)
Ranchos de Los Santos, The Story of Burbank (The Burbank Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank, 1927)
The Story of Burbank from Her Eventful Pioneer Days (The Magnolia Park Chamber of Commerce, 1954)
Your Burbank Home (Burbank Merchant's Association, 1928)
City of Burbank - official
Burbank Water & Power - official
Burbank Unified School District
Burbank Chamber of Commerce
Bob Hope Airport - official
Burbankia (Burbank history and lore)
Burbank.com - Your online guide to Burbank, California
Burbank Community Book, 1944
A History of Burbank, 1968
The NHS Alliance is a National Health Service group, which is made up of doctors, hospital managers and others working in health care in England, Scotland and Wales in the United Kingdom.
It is not a part of the government or a political party.
It holds an annual conference.
Dr Michael Dixon has been Chairman of NHS Alliance since 1998, with Michael Sobanja as its Chief Executive.
NHS Alliance website
Medical and health organizations in the United Kingdom
Cryolite is a rare mineral that consists of sodium fluoride and aluminium fluoride bonded.
It is used in the production of aluminium.
It is first melted and then aluminium oxide is dissolved in it.
Then the solution is electrolyzed.
If it is immersed in water, it becomes invisible although it does not dissolve.
It used to be found in large quantities in Greenland, but it has been all used up.
Now it is made from fluorite artificially.
Aluminium fluoride, also known as aluminum fluoride, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is AlF3.
It is used to process aluminium.
It can be made by reacting aluminium with hydrofluoric acid.
It is also made by reacting hexafluorosilicic acid with aluminium oxide.
Sodium fluoride, the other part of cryolite
Hydrofluoric acid (HF) is a solution of hydrogen fluoride in water.
Its chemical formula is HF.
It is a very dangerous acid, being very corrosive and extremely toxic.
It can dissolve glass to make hexafluorosilicic acid.
If it gets on the skin, it can kill you.
It is made by reacting fluorite with sulfuric acid.
It is used in the processing of petroleum.
It is also used to make various other chemicals containing fluorine, such as teflon (the coating in a frying pan), freon (the cooling agent in an air conditioner), and fluorocarbons (used as propellants in aerosol cans).
It is used to clean metals.
It is very toxic because it bonds with calcium ions in the body and makes them so they cannot be used.
As an acid, it can be deprotonated to produce fluorides, which are also the salts of hydrofluoric acid.
(Flesh eater)
International Chemical Safety Card 0283
National Pollutant Inventory - Fluoride and compounds fact sheet
Hydrofluoric Acid Burn, The New England Journal of Medicine Acid burn case study
DR Movie is a Korean animation studio.
It was organised in Seoul in 1990.
It often works with Japanese companies on anime titles.
DRMovie official site
The New York Comic Con is a festival that takes place in New York City for fans of comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television.
Past conventions
New York Comic Con website
NYCC YouTube page
Videos and photos from New York Comic Con 2007
AMCTV.com's Sci-Fi Department's video coverage of the 2008 New York Comic Con
Midtown Comics, New York
Hexafluorosilicic acid is a chemical compound that is an acid.
Its chemical formula is H2SiF6.
It is made by the reaction of hydrofluoric acid with silicon dioxide when the hydrofluoric acid is produced.
It can be reacted with bases such as sodium hydroxide to produce a fluorosilicate salt such as sodium fluorosilicate.
It is used to make artificial cryolite.
It releases hydrogen fluoride when it is heated, so it is toxic like hydrofluoric acid.
It is used in fluoridation of water.
San Diego Comic-Con International, also known as Comic-Con International: San Diego (as given on its website), and as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, was created in 1970 from Shel Dorf and a group of San Diegans.
It was set up to celebrate comic books and for fans to meet creators, experts and other fans.
San Diego Comic Convention Souvenir Book 1994 (offline)
The "Secret Origin" of San Diego's Comic-Con International
The early days of Comic-Con, Variety, July 11, 2008
Comic-Con 2010: Best Pics  - slideshow by Life magazine
Comic-Con 2010 - slideshow by The First Post
Comic-Con's Dorf watches sadly from the sidelines as T-shirts trump talent, San Diego Union Tribune July 16, 2006
Keeping the intangibles  Maggie Thompson's memories of Comic-Con, Comics Buyer's Guide, Jan. 2009
Comic-Convention Memories
Crashing the Con  A Documentary on San Diego Comic-Con International 2008
Hydrogen fluoride is a chemical compound.
It is a highly toxic colorless gas.
It dissolves in water to produce hydrofluoric acid, a strongly toxic corrosive acid.
It is used to make fluorine.
It is much more easily liquified (made into liquid) than any other hydrogen halide.
Hydrogen halides (or hydrohalic acids) are inorganic compounds that contain a hydrogen ion and a halide ion.
The halogens are fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine.
Astatine does not make a stable hydrogen halide, so it is not included.
The hydrogen halides are diatomic molecules with no tendency to ionize in the gas phase.
Chemists therefore distinguish hydrogen chloride from hydrochloric acid.
The former is a gas at room temperature that reacts with water to give the acid.
Once the acid has formed, the diatomic molecule can not easily be regenerated.
Hydrobromic acid is an acid.
Its chemical formula is HBr.
It is a very strong acid.
It is used to make bromides by reaction with metals or metal oxides.
It can be made by reacting bromine, sulfur dioxide, and water.
This reaction makes hydrobromic acid and sulfuric acid.
It is made by dissolving hydrogen bromide in water.
It can also be made by reacting bromine with sulfur and phosphorus.
It can also be made by electrolysis of a bromide solution.
It can be made by reacting bromides with non-oxidizing acids, because oxidizing acids would turn the bromides into bromine.
Hydriodic acid
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Hydrogen bromide is a chemical compound.
It dissolves in water to produce hydrobromic acid.
It is a stinky colorless gas.
It is used to make other bromides.
It is made by reacting hot hydrogen and bromine with a catalyst.
It can be made by reacting bromides with non-oxidizing acids, such as phosphoric acid.
Bromine can be reduced by phosphorous acid to make hydrogen bromide.
Hydrogen iodide () is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is HI.
It is a colorless odorous gas.
It reacts with oxygen to make iodine and water.
It can be made by reducing iodine with hydrazine.
It can also be made by reacting iodides with non-oxidizing acids such as phosphoric acid.
It can also be made by reacting hydrogen sulfide with iodine.
Very pure hydrogen iodide can be made by combining hydrogen and iodine, but this is very slow.
It will break down if exposed to air.
It can be used to make illegal drugs and various chemical compounds of iodine.
It dissolves in water to produce hydroiodic acid.
Hydroiodic acid is a strong acid that is used to make iodides.
International Chemical Safety Card 1326
Seal script (Chinese: Simplified: 篆书 ;Traditional: 篆書; pinyin: zhuànshū) is an ancient style of Chinese calligraphy.
Chén Zhāoróng (陳昭容) Research on the Qín (Ch'in) Lineage of Writing: An Examination from the Perspective of the History of Chinese Writing (秦系文字研究﹕从漢字史的角度考察) (2003).
Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology Monograph (中央研究院歷史語言研究所專刊). . (
in Chinese)
Qiú Xīguī (裘錫圭) Chinese Writing (2000).
Translation of 文字學概要 by Gilbert L. Mattos and Jerry Norman.
Early China Special Monograph Series No.
Berkeley: The Society for the Study of  Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. .
Script translation
Richard Sears on seal script
The clerical script (; pinyin: lìshū; Japanese: 隷書体, Reishotai;) is an archaic style of Chinese calligraphy.
The guzheng, also spelled gu zheng or gu-zheng (, with gu 古 meaning "ancient"; and also called zheng 箏) is a Chinese plucked zither.
Han Mei. "
Guzheng."
In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001).
The pipa () is a four-stringed Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments (弹拨乐器/彈撥樂器).
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001).
"Kishibe's diffusionism theory on the Iranian Barbat and Chino-Japanese Pi' Pa'," from The Shayda Institute-Iranian Classical Music site
An article on the historical development of pipa
The Pipa on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pipa Performance by Gifted Musician in United States
When an organization, for example: a university, is founded there has to be an official document which lists the basic laws (the constitution) of the organization.
If this document is given to the organization by the king or queen it is called a Royal charter.
In Europe Royal charters have been used to create towns ever since the Middle Ages.
The date when the charter was made is thought of as the date when the town was founded (started), even if there had been people living there many years before.
Many groups such as the British East India Company were formed by Royal charter.
Most British university operate under Royal Charters.
This gives them the right to give degrees to the students at the end of their studies.
Charities may also have Royal charters.
They do not need to have one, but they are likely to be more successful if they have a Royal charter.
Aluminium sulfate, sometimes spelled aluminum or sulphate, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is Al2(SO4)3.
It can be made by dissolving aluminium oxide in sulfuric acid.
It is used to remove particles from water when it is processed for drinking.
It is also used in making paper.
It is used in baking powder, deodorants, slug killer,  and to make garden soils more acidic.
He wrote books about classical composers and is particularly famous for his big musical dictionary Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
This dictionary continued to be updated and published after his death.
It has now gone through seven editions.
The latest edition is available online.
George Grove was born in Clapham in South London.
His father sold fish.
His mother was into musicals.
He learned to be an engineer and was sent out to Jamaica to help to build a lighthouse.
He worked on the building of the Britannia tubular bridge over the Menai Strait.
He married the daughter of a clergyman.
He became secretary of the Society of Arts and he wrote many articles for a Dictionary of the Bible.
He spent seven years doing this.
It gave him the idea of doing something similar for music.
Grove went to many concerts.
He bought sheet music and studied it.
He wrote programme notes for concerts, writing about the music that was being played.
He wrote about a lot of music by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann.
He wrote detailed essays about the symphonies of Beethoven and was a good friend of Clara Schumann.
He travelled with the composer Arthur Sullivan to Vienna where he met many great musicians including Brahms and discovered some music by Schubert that had been forgotten.
He spent several years writing his Dictionary of Music which was published in four volumes.
Grove worked very hard to get enough money to found the Royal College of Music which was opened in 1883 by the Prince of Wales.
Grove got many great musicians to come and teach there, including the world-famous singer Jenny Lind who was already retired, and Hubert Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford and others.
The prime minister William Gladstone gave him a knighthood for what he had done for music.
The new students included many who were to become famous.
These include Hamish MacCunn and Charles Wood.
He became very fond of the student Edith Oldham and had an emotional attachment to her for the rest of his life.
His wife was not interested in his work.
He called his students his "children" and persuaded them to have a broad education.
He wanted them to read a lot.
He was director of the RCM for eleven years, retiring in 1894, just after the RCM moved into a new building which is situated on the south side of the Royal Albert Hall.
The RCM is still there today.
George Grove was a very influential man for English music.
Although he was not trained as a musician he became extremely knowledgeable and was an excellent musicologist.
The RCM setup a George Grove Memorial Scholarship in his memory.
Thurston Dart (born 3 September 1921 - died 6 March 1971), was a British musicologist, conductor and keyboard player.
He is particularly remembered for his books in which he wrote about how music from earlier centuries should be performed.
Dart studied keyboard instruments at the Royal College of Music in London from 1938 to 1939, and also studied mathematics at University College, Exeter, graduating in  1942.
He became a music lecturer and later professor at the University of Cambridge.
During his time at Cambridge, Dart did a lot of work for the early music revival.
Musicians were becoming interested in playing music from the Baroque, Renaissance and even Middle Ages.
He formed such groups as the Early Music Consort of London.
In 1964 he became King Edward Professor of Music in the University of London (King's College).
Thurston Dart played the harpsichord in many concerts and made several gramophone recordings.
He wrote a book The Interpretation of Music (London, 1954), which became very widely read.
He wrote many articles in journals about music.
Dart taught many students, included some who later became famous: the composer Michael Nyman, conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner and conductor/musicologist Christopher Hogwood.
He was one of the first musicians to make a recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos using historical instruments.
Lend-Lease was a program of the United States government put into place right before World War II.
The United States was still trying to be neutral in the War, but wanted to give supplies to the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union).
The U.S. gave the Allies several billion dollars of weapons.
The Allies gave the United States rights to air and naval bases around the world, as well as billions in future monies.
This money was not fully given until 2006.
Huey Long (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935) was an American politician.
He was Governor and Senator in Louisiana in the 1930s.
As governor he gave out free school books, built new schools, hospitals, roads, and even a new capitol building.
He was a critic of big companies and the rich.
As Senator, he came up with the idea of "Share Our Wealth" clubs, which promoted wealth redistribution.
Long was very popular among the American people.
Long was shot dead in 1935, when he was only 42.
At the time, he was saying that Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies did not go far enough.
There were rumors Long would run for president.
Long was buried on the grounds of the Louisiana Capitol.
The movie All the King's Men is based on the life of Huey Long.
During Long's lifetime, he visited various places in Europe as part of the "Global Reach" projects that he was part of.
The most prominent of these visits in the public eye was in Robertsbridge, East Sussex.
United States senators from Louisiana
Teapot Dome was a political scandal that took place in 1921 to 1922.
The name comes from an oil reserve near Teapot Rock, Wyoming.
President Warren G. Harding let the reserve and another reserve in California, be under the control of the Department of the Interior.
The Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, who had taken $100,000 from oil companies, then let oil companies use the land.
The United States Senate looked into the matter and found Fall had committed conspiracy.
It is thought to be one of the biggest political scandals in American history.
The scandal caused a large amount of damage to the legacy of former President Harding.
Political consequences
1924 Presidential Election
In 1924, Democrats tried to use Teapot Dome to their advantage in that year´s presidential election by reminding people about it.
The tactic failed and Republicans handily won.
History of Wyoming
20th century in California
An air door or air curtain is a machine used for separating two spaces from each other.
The machine is mainly used at doors into buildings.
The most common setup for air curtains is a downward-facing blower fan placed over an opening.
Normally this opening is an door to a building  The air curtain keeps flying insects out by making turbulence.
It also helps keep outside air out, avoiding cold winds by mixing-in warm air from the air curtain.
The fan must be powerful enough to generate a jet of air that can reach the floor.
''The chemical element is called Phosphorus in English
A phosphor is a chemical compound that emits light when it is exposed to light of a different wavelength (i.e. color).
Phosphors do not contain the chemical element Phosphorus, which can be made to glow a different way.
This sometimes causes confusion.
Phosphors are used in many types of lighting, including fluorescent bulbs where they change the ultraviolet light produced by excited mercury vapor into visible light.
The chemistry of phosphors varies greatly depending on what the phosphor is to be used for.
Phosphors include 'glow in the dark' materials that can be found in novelties, toys, and emergency safety lighting for buildings.
They are used in the screens of older style cathode ray tube televisions to make visible light from an electron beam.
They can also be used to visibly detect ionizing radiation.
Light-emitting diodes are devices that often use phosphors to obtain a particular color or color temperature.
A neon lamp is a light bulb that can make many colors when Noble gasses are inside of the bulb.
For example, helium would give a light yellow color and neon would make a red or orange color when an electric current is run in the tube.
It is normally used to make letters for signs.
Different gases make different colors.
Neon Lamps are used to make neon signs.
The different colors neon lamps can make
A neon glow lamp is a little orange light bulb.
There is an electric current that flows between the two electrodes.
A turbocharger, or turbo, is a gas compressor.
It is used to force air into an internal combustion engine.
A turbocharger is a form of forced induction.
It increases the amount of air entering the engine to create more power.
A turbocharger has the compressor powered by a turbine.
The turbine is driven by the exhaust gas from the engine.
It does not use a direct mechanical drive.
This helps to improve  the performance of the turbocharger.
Early builders of turbochargers called them as "turbosuperchargers".
A supercharger is an air compressor used for forcing air into an engine.
They thought that by adding a turbine to turn the supercharger, it would yield a "turbosupercharger".
The term was soon shortened to "turbocharger".
This can now create some confusion.
The term "turbosupercharged" is sometimes used to refer to an engine that uses both a crankshaft-driven supercharger and an exhaust-driven turbocharger.
This is also called twincharging.
Some companies such as Teledyne Continental Motors still use the term turbosupercharger to refer to their turbochargers.
An engine creates power by burning a mixture of air and fuel.
The air and fuel are put into the cylinders to burn.
When they burn, they push the piston down.
The piston turns the crankshaft and creates power.
For car engines, this is measured horsepower.
Naturally Aspirated (Normally Aspirated) engines
An engine that does not use a turbocharger or a supercharger is called a naturally aspirated or normally aspirated engine.
Normally, when engine specifications are listed, a note is only made if the engine uses a turbocharger or supercharger.
Most car engines are naturally aspirated.
The power they can create is limited by the amount of air the pistons can pull into the cylinders.
Turbocharged engines
A turbocharger is a small fan pump that spins around a shaft.
The pump is driven by the pressure of the exhaust gas.
A turbocharger consists of a turbine and a compressor.
They are both mounted on the same shaft.
The turbine is a heat engine.
It converts exhaust heat and pressure to rotation.
This rotation is used to turn the compressor.
The compressor takes in the draws in the outside air.
It squeezes or compresses the air.
It then sends the air to the engine.
Because the air pressure has been increased, more air and fuel may be put into the cylinders.
This is sometimes called boost pressure.
With more fuel to burn, the engine can create more power.
This increases the horsepower of the engine.
Engine damage
The engine can be damaged if the air pressure in the cylinders gets too high.
If there is too much exhaust gas sent to the turbine, the compressor can create too much pressure.
To stop this from happening, a wastegate is used.
The wastegate will limit amount of exhaust gas sent to the turbine.
The turbocharger was invented by Swiss engineer Alfred Büchi.
His patent was applied for use in 1905.
Diesel ships and locomotives with turbochargers began appearing in the 1920s.
In 1918, General Electric engineer Sanford Moss attached a turbocharger to a Liberty aircraft engine.
The engine was tested at Pikes Peak in Colorado at .
The test was to show that the turbo could add the power airplanes lose at high altitude.
Internal combustion engines lose power because at high altitude, the outside air pressure is low.
Less air and fuel can be drawn into the engine.
Production automobiles
The first turbocharged diesel truck was built by the "Swiss Machine Works Saurer" in 1938.
The first production turbocharged automobile engines came from General Motors in 1962.