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Almaden Country School (San Jose, California) , a wine producer owned by Constellation Brands
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Almaden may refer to: Places United States *Almaden Valley, San Jose, California **Almaden Mine, an alternate name for New Almaden Quicksilver Mine **IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose ** Almaden Air Force Station, a former US Air Force station **Almaden station, a light rail station in San Jose *Old Almaden Winery, a park in Santa Clara County, California Other places *Almaden, Queensland, Australia * Almadén, a town in Spain notable for its mercury mines Other uses *Almaden Vineyards Almaden Vineyards, historically written as Almadén Vineyards, is a Californian winery. Founded in 1852, it is the oldest commercial winery in California. Originally located and established in Almaden Valley, San Jose, the winery has since mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almaden Valley, San Jose
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New Almaden Quicksilver Mine
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IBM Almaden Research Center
IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries. IBM Research is the largest industrial research organization in the world and has twelve labs on six continents. IBM employees have garnered six Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, 20 inductees into the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame, 19 National Medals of Technology, five National Medals of Science and three Kavli Prizes. , the company has generated more patents than any other business in each of 25 consecutive years, which is a record. History The roots of today's IBM Research began with the 1945 opening of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University. This was the first IBM laboratory devoted to pure science and later expanded into additional IBM Research locations in Westchester County, New York, starting in the 1950s,Beatty, Jack, (editor''Colussus: how ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almaden Air Force Station
Mount Umunhum (Ohlone languages, Ohlone for "Resting Place of the Hummingbird") is a peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, located in Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County, California. It is the fourth-highest Mountain, peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, after Loma Prieta, Crystal Peak (Santa Clara County, California), Crystal Peak, and Mount Chual, Mt. Chual. Most of the mountain is located within the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve. Geology Mt. Umunhum consists of a Geological formation, geologic formation that is known as the ''Coast Range Ophiolite.'' This ophiolite is a piece of Middle Jurassic oceanic crust and Mantle (geology), mantle that has been obduction, obducted onto land and largely been converted to serpentinite. It has been extensively Fault (geology), faulted and diapirically Geologic uplift, uplifted and erosion, eroded to form Mt. Umunhum and extensive outcrop areas throughout the Santa Cruz Mountain foothills and elsewhere. The Coast Range Ophiolite is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almaden Station
Almaden was a light rail station on the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail system. This station was the southern terminus of VTA's Ohlone/Chynoweth–Almaden line, popularly known as the Almaden Shuttle. Location Almaden station is located near Winfield Boulevard and Coleman south of Blossom Hill in southern San Jose, California. It consists of an island platform, but only one of the two tracks were used in service. History This location was once home to a large lumber company and was the southern terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad's "Lick Branch," which was abandoned in 1981. The station was closed on December 27, 2019, when the light rail was replaced by a bus service. Station amenities *Bicycle A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-powered assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Almaden Winery
Old or OLD may refer to: Places *Old, Baranya, Hungary *Old, Northamptonshire, England * Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD) *OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, Maine, United States People * Old (surname) Music * OLD (band), a grindcore/industrial metal group * ''Old'' (Danny Brown album), a 2013 album by Danny Brown * ''Old'' (Starflyer 59 album), a 2003 album by Starflyer 59 * "Old" (song), a 1995 song by Machine Head *''Old LP'', a 2019 album by That Dog Other uses * ''Old'' (film), a 2021 American thriller film *''Oxford Latin Dictionary'' *Online dating *Over-Locknut Distance (or Dimension), a measurement of a bicycle wheel and frame *Old age See also *List of people known as the Old The Old is an epithet that may refer to: *Basarab the Old, Prince of Wallachia in the 1470s *Emund the Old (died 1060), King of Sweden *Gorm the Old (died 958), first historically recognized king of Denm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almaden, Queensland
Almaden is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Almaden had a population of 71 people. Geography Almaden is on the Mareeba-to-Chillagoe railway line (part of the Tablelands railway line) which runs between Mareeba and the mining and cattle town of Mungana. Almaden railway station serves the town (). The Etheridge railway line branches off at Almdaden towards Forsayth, with Ootann railway station, in the south of the locality of Almaden (). The Burke Developmental Road passes through from east to north-west. Ootann Road exits to the south. History The town is named after the town of Almadén in Cuidad Real Province, Spain, which is known for its mercury mine. The mineral deposits in Queensland's Almaden are tripolite (diatomite). Tate Tin Mines Provisional School opened on 17 October 1894. On 1 January 1909 it became Tate Tin Mines State School. It closed on 31 Jan 1924 but reopened on 3 February 1930. It cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almadén
Almadén () is a town and municipality in the Spanish province of Ciudad Real, within the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. The town is located at 4° 49' W and 38° 46' N and is 589 meters above sea level. Almadén is approximately 300 km south of Madrid in the Sierra Morena. The name Almadén is from the Arabic word ''al-maʻdin'', meaning "the metal". Originally a Roman (then Moorish) settlement, the town was captured in 1151 by Alfonso VII and given to the Knights of the Order of Calatrava. The mercury deposits of Almadén account for the largest quantity of liquid mercury metal produced in the world. Approximately 250,000 metric tons of mercury have been produced there in the past 2,000 years. Due to the human toxicity of mercury and its byproducts, the mine has variously employed penal labour, slave labour, and prisoners of war over its long history. Almadén mine stopped working in 2002, due to the prohibition of mercury mining in Europe. In 2006, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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