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National Transport Library: The Highway Safety Desk Book
several boxes loaded with small appliances. The pair had systematically shoplifted merchandise from a nearby mall, each time dashing across the freeway to a motel room. A third officer drove by a parked car; nothing appeared unusual, until he saw two heads duck below the window line. He chec...
Preserving Ancient
Through Insight, researchers can obtain the necessary equipment without charge. Projects using the technology are underway at sites in Cairo, Alexandria, London and San Francisco. In Thebes, archaeologists are reconstructing a colossus of Ramses II that was destroyed by Christians hu...
Interactive Plate Tectonics
change your zoom level. To navigate just grab the image and drag it around. Switch between maps and satellite images using the buttons in the upper right. To recenter, double click on the map/image. Plate tectonics sites featured include: divergent plate...
Tough All-Terrain Military Robot Unveiled
Combat Vehicle. CREDIT: Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center Researchers unveiled today a unique unmanned military vehicle prototype that combines mobility, payload-carrying capacity, and ruggedness to aid troops in combat. The "Crusher" is a...
Desktop Publishing Glossary
whereby the image is transferred from a plate onto a rubber covered cylinder from which the printing takes place. Oldstyle (US). A style of type characterised by stressed strokes and triangular serifs. An example of an oldstyle face is Garamond. Onion skin. A translucen...
NYTimes Topic: Automobile Registration and License Plate
From Its Honorees By MARC LACEY; Salvador Rodriguez contributed reporting from Phoenix A design that would raise money for the Tea Party in Arizona has riled some members. May 05, 2011, Thursday MORE ON AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATION AND LICENSE PLATE AND: STATE LEGISLATURES,...
Shake, Rattle, and Zoom
spot identifying characteristics. VISAR could be used to steady images of car chases shot from inside a moving police car, enabling police to focus on a license plate number, or even on an image of the driver's face reflected in the rear-view mirror. VISAR could al...
Silicon Zoo
interesting hummingbird discovered on a Hewlett-Packard 7100LC PA-RISC chip. The Buffalo Chip - We have located a small herd of buffalo on a Hewlett-Packard math chip. More Buffalo Chips - Designed using the buffalo nickel, this buffalo is laying "chips" with each new revision....
Blake's Contraries Game
click on the image in the pop-up window. To return to the plate, click on the text]. As Nicholas Marsh notes, "It would be wrong to think of Experience as any wiser than Innocence" or any more cynical or world-weary; it would be equally wrong to think of Innocence as more joy...
Reference for Land Management
the Astrogeology program Global and regional maps of planets and moons. Planetary Image Locator Tool (PILOT) The USGS has released a web-based tool enabling public access to NASA spacecraft images of the Moon and Mars. PILOT allows users to perform detailed searches to explore da...
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