CentralNotice How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article is about the book by Doug Richmond. For the Radiohead song How to Disappear Completely, see Kid A . The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for books . Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged , redirected , or deleted . Find sources: "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images (April 2013) How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found Author Doug Richmond Country United States Language English Publisher Carol Publishing Group Publication date 1995 Media type Print ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Bell ringing practice in Stoke Gabriel parish church, Devon , England Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a series of mathematical patterns called changes . Change ringing differs from many other forms of campanology , in that players make no attempt to produce a conventional melody , but instead ring the bells in a set of permutations . Today, change ringing can be found all over the world, performed in a variety of media, but it remains most popular in English churches, where it was developed in the 17th century. Such a church's bell tower typically contains a set of a few large church bells , known as a ring of bells , rigged to swing freely for slightly more than one revolution. The considerable inertias involved mean that each bell usually requires its o...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article is about the island in Nagasaki. For other islands nicknamed Gunkanjima, see Gunkanjima . Hashima Native name: 端島 Nickname: Battleship Island Aerial view Geography Location East Asia Area rank none Country Japan Prefecture Nagasaki Prefecture Demographics Population 0 (as of 2015) Hashima Island ( 端島 , or Hashima — -shima is a Japanese suffix for island ? ) , commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島; meaning Battleship Island ), is an abandoned island lying about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the city of Nagasaki , in southern Japan. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture . The island's most notable features are the abandoned historical concrete buildings, undisturbed except by nature, and the surrounding sea wall . Wh...

CentralNotice Yamato From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For other ships of the same name, see Yamato (ship) . Yamato during sea trials off Japan near Bungo Strait , 20 October 1941. History Empire of Japan Name: Yamato Ordered: March 1937 Builder: Kure Naval Arsenal Laid down: 4 November 1937 Launched: 8 August 1940 Commissioned: 16 December 1941 Struck: 31 August 1945 Fate: Sunk, 7 April 1945 General characteristics (as built) Class & type: Yamato -class battleship Displacement: 65,027 t (64,000 long tons) 71,659 t (70,527 long tons) (full load) Length: 256 m (839 ft 11 in) ( waterline ) 263 m (862 ft 10 in) (overall) Beam: 38.9 m (127 ft 7 in) Draft: 11 m (36 ft 1 in) Installed power: 12 Kampon boilers 150,000 shp (110,000 kW) Propulsion: 4 shafts; 4 steam ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . This article includes a list of references , but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (August 2013) This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2013) Katsuobushi shavings from a package Katsuobushi ( 鰹節 or かつおぶし ? ) or okaka ( おかか ? ) is the Japanese name for dried, fermented , and smoked skipjack tuna ( Katsuwonus pelamis ). Sometimes known as Bonito flakes , young bonito is sometimes used as ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For other uses, see Tower of Silence (disambiguation) . Interior view of Tower of Silence Early 20th century drawing of the Tower of Silence on Malabar Hill, Bombay. The Malabar Hill Tower of Silence today. A Tower of Silence is a circular, raised structure used by Zoroastrians for exposure of the dead, particularly to scavenging birds for the purposes of excarnation . Zoroastrian exposure of the dead is first attested in the mid-5th century BCE Histories of Herodotus , but the use of towers is first documented in the early 9th century. [ 1 ] :156–162 The doctrinal rationale for exposure is to avoid contact with earth or fire, both of which are considered sacred. One of the earliest literary descriptions of such a building appears in the late 9th-century Epistles of Manu...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article possibly contains original research . Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (August 2009) This is a sub-article to Moon landing conspiracy theories The examination of Apollo Moon photographs is an endeavor undertaken by certain people engaged in the debate as to the merits of Moon landing conspiracy theories . A number of allegations and refutations with a variable degree of notability are put forward due to this examination. 1 Allegations and refutations 1.1 Absence of stars 1.2 Inconsistent color and angle of shadows and light 1.3 Apparent "hot spots" in some photographs 1.4 Issues with crosshairs in photographs 1.5 Apparently identical backgrounds...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Present day Earth bathymetry (and altimetry ). Data from the National Geophysical Data Center 's TerrainBase Digital Terrain Model . Bathymetry is the study of underwater depth of lake or ocean floors . In other words, bathymetry is the underwater equivalent to hypsometry or topography. The name comes from Greek βαθύς ( bathus ), "deep", [ 1 ] and μέτρον ( metron ), "measure". [ 2 ] Bathymetric (or hydrographic ) charts are typically produced to support safety of surface or sub-surface navigation, and usually show seafloor relief or terrain as contour lines (called depth contours or isobaths ) and selected depths ( soundings ), and typically also provide surface navigational information. Bathymetric maps (a more general term where navigational safety is not a concern) may also use a Di...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2010) This article's lead section may not adequately summarize key points of its contents . Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page . (May 2010) Logo of the Dharma Initiative The Dharma Initiative , also written DHARMA ( Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications [ 1 ] ), is a fictional research project featured in the tele...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search The Trachtenberg system is a system of rapid mental calculation . The system consists of a number of readily memorized operations that allow one to perform arithmetic computations very quickly. It was developed by the Russian Jewish engineer Jakow Trachtenberg in order to keep his mind occupied while being held in a Nazi concentration camp . The rest of this article presents some methods devised by Trachtenberg. These are for illustration only. To actually learn the method requires practice. Students begin learning the Trachtenberg system using multiplication algorithms. These initial algorithms are discussed first followed by a more general method for multiplication. Even if you know well how to do arithmetic, the Trachtenberg method can be faster. It is also a method you may use to check ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For the puzzle with the same name, see Nurikabe (puzzle) . A depiction of the nurikabe The nurikabe (ぬりかべ) is a Yōkai , or spirit, from Japanese folklore . It manifests as a wall that impedes or misdirects walking travelers at night. Trying to go around is futile as it extends itself forever. Knocking on the lower left part of the wall makes it disappear. [ 1 ] It has been suggested that the legend was created to explain travellers losing their bearings on long journeys. [ 2 ] References [ edit ] ^ THE日本 Visual Human Life. 講談社. 1986: 759. ISBN 4-06-202038-6 ^ "Nurikabe". The Element Encyclopedia of the Psychic World 1 . Harper Element. 2006. p. 491. |access-date= requires |url= ( help ) 妖怪ドットコム 『図説 妖怪辞典』 幻冬舎コミックス、2008年。 ISBN 978-4-344-81486-8 。 v t e Japanese ...

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CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Shigeru Mizuki 水木 しげる Born Shigeru Mura ( 1922-03-08 ) March 8, 1922 Osaka , Osaka Prefecture Died November 30, 2015 ( 2015-11-30 ) (aged 93) Tokyo , Japan Nationality Japanese Area(s) Writer, penciller , inker , manga artist , Notable works GeGeGe no Kitaro Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths Akuma-kun Showa: A History of Japan Awards See below Part of a series on Anime and Manga Anime History Industry Original net animation Original video animation Fansub Fandub Companies Longest series Manga History International market Mangaka ( list ) Dōjinshi Scanlation Publishers Best-selling series Longest series Alternative Demographic groups Children Shōnen Shōjo Seinen Josei Genres Harem Magical girl Mecha Yaoi Y...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search It has been suggested that this article be merged with Segmented sleep . ( Discuss ) Proposed since June 2015. Polyphasic sleep is the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period—usually more than two, in contrast to biphasic sleep (twice per day) or monophasic sleep (once per day). The term was first used in the early 20th-century by psychologist J. S. Szymanski, who observed daily fluctuations in activity patterns ( Stampi 1992 ). It does not imply any particular sleep schedule. The circadian rhythm disorder known as irregular sleep-wake syndrome is an example of polyphasic sleep in humans. Polyphasic sleep is common in many animals, and is believed to be the ancestral sleep state for mammals, although simians are monophasic. [ 1 ] The term polyphasic sleep is also cur...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search "ESA" redirects here. For other uses, see ESA (disambiguation) . European Space Agency Czech : Evropská Kosmická Agentura Danish : Europæiske rumfartsorganisation German : Europäische Weltraumorganisation Estonian : Euroopa Kosmoseagentuur French : Agence spatiale européenne Finnish : Euroopan avaruusjärjestö Greek : Ευρωπαϊκή Διαστημική Υπηρεσία Hungarian : Európai Űrügynökség Irish : Gníomhaireacht Spáis na hEorpa Italian : Agenzia Spaziale Europea Dutch : Europese Ruimtevaartorganisatie Norwegian : Den europeiske romfartsorganisasjonen Polish : Europejska Agencja Kosmiczna Portuguese : Agência Espacial Europeia Romanian : Agenţia Spaţială Europeană Spanish : Agencia Espacial Europea Swedish : Europeiska Rymdorganisationen Acronym ESA ASE Owner 22 European states ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For the film, see The Brazen Bull . Perillos being forced into the brazen bull that he built for Phalaris. The brazen bull , bronze bull , or Sicilian bull , was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece . [ 1 ] According to Diodorus Siculus , recounting the story in Bibliotheca historica , Perillos of Athens invented and proposed it to Phalaris , the tyrant of Akragas , Sicily , as a new means of executing criminals. [ 2 ] The bull was made entirely of bronze , hollow, with a door in one side. [ 3 ] The bull was in the form and size of an actual bull and had an acoustic apparatus that converted screams into the sound of a bull. The condemned were locked in the device, and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside roasted to death. 1 Rei...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For the Daniel Silva novel, see Moscow Rules (novel) . This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . This article relies largely or entirely upon a single source . Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. (December 2011) This article includes a list of references , but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2011) The Moscow rules are rules-of-thumb said to have been developed during the Cold War to be used by spies and others working in Moscow. The rules are associated with Moscow because the ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Not to be confused with linear discriminant analysis . In natural language processing , Latent Dirichlet allocation ( LDA ) is a generative model that allows sets of observations to be explained by unobserved groups that explain why some parts of the data are similar. For example, if observations are words collected into documents, it posits that each document is a mixture of a small number of topics and that each word's creation is attributable to one of the document's topics. LDA is an example of a topic model and was first presented as a graphical model for topic discovery by David Blei , Andrew Ng , and Michael I. Jordan in 2003. [ 1 ] 1 Topics in LDA 2 Model 2.1 Mathematical definition 3 Inference 4 Faster Sampling 5 Applications, extensions and similar techniques 6 See ...

CentralNotice High-Rise From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search High-Rise Teaser poster Directed by Ben Wheatley Produced by Jeremy Thomas Written by Amy Jump Based on High Rise by J.G. Ballard Starring Tom Hiddleston Jeremy Irons Sienna Miller Luke Evans Elisabeth Moss James Purefoy Music by Clint Mansell Cinematography Laurie Rose Edited by Ben Wheatley Amy Jump Production company Recorded Picture Company Distributed by Magnet Releasing - USA StudioCanal - United Kingdom Soda Pictures - Canada Release dates September 13, 2015 ( 2015-09-13 ) ( Toronto International Film Festival ) March 18, 2016 ( 2016-03-18 ) (United Kingdom) Running time 112 minutes Country United Kingdom Language English High-Rise is a 2015 British film directed by Ben Wheatley , sta...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Doktor Mugg is a Swedish television series, named after the program's title character. The series takes place in the fictitious town Dasseborg (Outhouseburg) and revolves around toilet humor , mugg and dass being colloquial terms for toilet in the Swedish language . Other important main characters are Kapten Filling (Captain Skivvies) and Walter Closett. The series has been shown on Sweden 's TV4 a number of times, as a part of children's programming. It has also been released on DVD. 1 Story 2 PC Game 3 Cast 4 References Story [ edit ] Doktor Mugg is a man dressed in a black suit and has a toilet ring around his head. He is a formerly employed researcher in Dasseborg's toilet factory (which is controlled by the most powerful man in Dasseborg, Walter Closett). Doktor Mugg trie...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Sequent calculus is, in essence, a style of formal logical argumentation where every line of a proof is a conditional tautology (called a sequent by Gerhard Gentzen ) instead of an unconditional tautology. Each conditional tautology is inferred from other conditional tautologies on earlier lines in a formal argument according to rules and procedures of inference , giving a better approximation to the style of natural deduction used by mathematicians than David Hilbert's earlier style of formal logic where every line was an unconditional tautology. There may be more subtle distinctions to be made; for example, there may be non-logical axioms upon which all propositions are implicitly dependent. Then sequents signify conditional theorems in a first-order language rather than conditional tautol...

CentralNotice Anisakis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Anisakis Anisakis simplex Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Nematoda Class: Secernentea Order: Ascaridida Family: Anisakidae Genus: Anisakis Dujardin , 1845 Species A. pegreffii A. physeteris A. schupakovi A. simplex ( Rudolphi , 1809) Dujardin , 1845 A. typica A. ziphidarum Anisakis is a genus of parasitic nematodes , which have life cycles involving fish and marine mammals . [ 1 ] They are infective to humans and cause anisakiasis . People who produce immunoglobulin E in response to this parasite may subsequently have an allergic reaction, including anaphylaxis , after eating fish that have been infected with Anisakis species. 1 Etymology 2 Life cycle 3 Morphology 4 Health implications 4.1 Anisak...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search American Family Publishers Industry magazine subscriptions Headquarters Salt Lake City, Utah , America Area served all over America Products magazine subscriptions American Family Publishers was an American company that sold magazine subscriptions. It was incorporated in 1996 in Utah. [ 1 ] It is best known for running sweepstakes in which a large amount of money was offered as the grand prize (in a range of several hundred thousand to one or more million dollars). [ 1 ] The winner was chosen at random, by a professional auditing company, from among all who responded to the sweepstakes, regardless of whether a magazine subscription was purchased. [ 2 ] 1 History 2 Competitors 3 See also 4 References 5 External links History [ edit ] Originally based in New...

CentralNotice Ubik From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Ubik Cover of first edition (hardcover) Author Philip K. Dick Country United States Genre Science fiction Philosophical fiction Publisher Doubleday Publication date 1969 Media type Print ( Hardcover & Paperback ) Pages 202 pp ISBN 978-0-575-07921-2 & 0-679-73664-6 OCLC 67871286 Ubik ( / ˈ juː b ɨ k / EW -bik ) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick . It is one of Dick's most acclaimed novels. It was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest novels since 1923. In his review for Time , critic Lev Grossman described it as "a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you'll never be sure you've woken up from." [ 1 ] 1 Plot synopsis 2 Interpretation 3 Adaptations 3.1 Videogame 3.2 A...