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Argus Peak
Argus is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word '' Argos''. It may refer to: Greek mythology * Argus (Greek myth), various mythological characters, including: **Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe **Argus (son of Arestor), builder of the ship in the tale of the Argonauts **Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes **Argus, the eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope **Argos (dog), faithful hunting dog of Odysseus ** Argeus (king of Argos), son of Megapenthes Arts and entertainment Fictional entities *Argus (comics), in the DC Comics Universe * Argus (''Mortal Kombat''), a deity * ARGUS (''Splinter Cell''), a military contractor * A.R.G.U.S., a government agency in the DC Universe *Argus Filch, in the ''Harry Potter'' series *Argus, a planet in the ''Warcraft'' franchise *Argus, a hero in '' Mobile Legends: Bang Bang'' *Argus, in the video game ''Shadow of the Colossus'' *KNRB-0 Argus, a weapons platform in the game ''Vanquish'' *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argos (other)
Argos most often refers to: * Argos, Peloponnese, a city in Argolis, Greece * Argus (Greek myth), several characters in Greek mythology * Argos (retailer), a catalogue retailer in the United Kingdom Argos or ARGOS may also refer to: Businesses * Argos Comunicación, a Mexican television and film company * Argos Energies, a Dutch oil and gas company * Grupo Argos, a Colombian cement and energy conglomerate * Argos (retailer), a catalogue retailer in the United Kingdom Places Greece * Argos, Peloponnese, a city in Argolis ** Argos-Mykines, the municipality * Argos (Nisyros), an ancient settlement on Nisyros island * Amphilochian Argos, an ancient settlement in Amphilochia * Argos Orestiko, a town in Kastoria * Argos Pelasgikon, an ancient settlement in Thessaly Other countries * Argos (river), a river in Spain * Argos, Indiana, United States, a town Fictional places * Argos (Conan), a fictional nation in the world of Conan the Barbarian * Argos (Stargate), Argos (''Stargat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hudsucker Proxy
''The Hudsucker Proxy'' is a 1994 screwball comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by the Coen brothers. Sam Raimi co-wrote the script and served as second unit director. The film stars Tim Robbins as a naïve but ambitious business school graduate who is installed as president of a manufacturing company, Jennifer Jason Leigh as a newspaper reporter, and Paul Newman as a company director who hires the graduate as part of a stock scam. The script was finished in 1985, but production did not start until 1991, when Joel Silver acquired the script for Silver Pictures. Warner Bros. subsequently agreed to distribute the film, with further financing from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films. Filming at Carolco Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina, lasted from November 1992 to March 1993. The New York City scale model set was designed by Michael J. McAlister and Mark Stetson, with further effects provided by The Computer Film Company. Upon its release in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argus, Iran
Arjas (, also Romanized as Arjās; also known as Argus, Arjāsb, and Ugāsin) is a village in Khenaman Rural District, in the Central District of Rafsanjan County, Kerman Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... Population At the 2006 census, its population was 50, in 22 families. References Populated places in Rafsanjan County {{Rafsanjan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argos (retailer)
Argos Limited is a British retailer operating in the United Kingdom online and through catalogues, and formerly in Ireland; it was acquired by British supermarket chain Sainsbury's J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company was the largest UK r ... in 2016. It was established in November 1972 and is named after the Greek city of Argos, Peloponnese, Argos. The company trades both through physical shops and online, with 29 million yearly shop transactions, and nearly 1 billion online visits per annum. It has also franchised overseas to countries such as China. History The company was founded by Richard Tompkins, who had previously established Green Shield Stamps in the United Kingdom. He came up with the idea that people could purchase goods from his "Green Shield Gift House" with cash rather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argus Media
Argus (formerly known as Petroleum Argus Ltd) is an independent provider of price information, consultancy services, conferences, market data and business intelligence for the global petroleum, natural gas, electricity, emissions, biofuels, biomass, LPG, metals, chemicals, fertilizers, agriculture and coal industries. Overview Argus is a privately held UK-registered company which produces price assessments and analysis of international energy and other commodity markets, and also offers consulting services and conferences. Argus was the first price-reporting agency to apply aIOSCOaudit for its energy benchmarks. Argus was owned by the family of its founder Jan Nasmyth and its senior staff, but in September 2016 a majority-stake was sold to the equity firm General Atlantic valuing the company at $1.4 billion. Argus's headquarters are in London, with major offices in Houston, Dubai, Singapore, Paris, Seoul, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Riga, Kyiv, Astana, Calgary, San Francisco, Mexic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argus Corporation
The Argus Corporation was an investment holding company based in Toronto, Ontario. During the 1960s and 1970s, it was the most powerful and best known conglomerate in Canada, at one time controlling the companies making up 10 percent of all shares traded daily on the Toronto Stock Exchange. At its height in the 1970s, it was a true conglomerate with many unrelated businesses. Among these were Dominion grocery stores, Orange Crush soft drinks, Massey Ferguson farm machinery, Domtar wood products and Carling O'Keefe breweries. The company was purchased by Conrad Black in 1978. Black and his associates sold off most of the Argus assets by 1985, and by 2005 Argus contained only one asset and was itself wholly owned by Black's Ravelston Corporation. Due to the fallout of ongoing lawsuits, Ravelston went bankrupt in 2008, and Argus disappeared. History Argus was founded as an investment holding company in 1945 by E. P. Taylor with minority partners Colonel W. Eric Phillips, Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argus Brewery
Argus Brewery was a brewing company located on the south side of Chicago, at the edge of the Roseland community and the historic Pullman District. Founded in 2009, the brewery produced beer for multiple Chicago restaurants as well as its own self-named brand. Argus brewery closed in March 2020. History The brewery was housed in a century-old building that originally served as the Schlitz Brewery stable. Schlitz constructed its largest facility across the tracks from the Pullman Company to provide beer to the 10,000 area workers who were forced to live in a dry community. In 2016, Ted Furman became the brewmaster at Argus Brewing, and began to reproduce recipes from his defunct brand Golden Prairie. That same year the Argus Lager won a bronze award at the World Beer Cup. In 2018, the Golden Prairie Doppel Alt was awarded a Gold Medal at the Great American Beer Festival. Argus brand original craft beers and Golden Prairie brand beers were available in local taverns and stores, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argus (camera Company)
Argus was an American maker of cameras and photographic products, founded in 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Argus originated as a subsidiary of the International Radio Corporation (IRC), founded by Charles Verschoor. History The International Radio Corporation was founded in 1931 by local businessman William E. Brown Jr., George J. Burke (who was a judge at the Nuremberg trials), and Charles Albert Vershoor. IRC started out selling a line of radios, developed by Verschoor, that had a body made out of molded plastic instead of wood. The Model A, the company's first camera, was introduced in May 1936. In August 1942, the company stopped all domestic production and focused on producing military optics and radio equipment for the armed forces during World War II. The company changed its name to Argus, Inc. in 1944. Argus introduced the Argus Model 21 in 1947, a metal-bodied camera and the company’s first model with an automatic shutter cocking to prevent double exposure and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argus (TV Series)
''Argus'' was a Norwegian debate show hosted by Mona Høiness, that aired on TV3 Channel 3 or TV 3 may refer to: Television *Canal 3 (Burkina Faso), a commercial television channel in Burkina Faso * Canal 3 Niger, a commercial television channel in Niger * Canal 3 (Guatemala), a commercial television channel in Guatemala * Can .... In the summer of 1993 Høiness threatened to quit her job as a host in protest of TV3 airing the show ''Bikini'', an American show featuring scantily-clad women on a podium surrounded by cheering men. Høiness didn't want that kind of entertainment on a channel with which she was associated. Shortly after TV3 decided to cancel ''Bikini''.''Hvem hva hvor 1994'' p. 316 References Hvor ble det av tv-jentene?(Norwegian) TV3 (Norwegian TV channel) original programming Norwegian television talk shows 1993 Norwegian television series debuts 1994 Norwegian television series endings Debate television series 1990s Norwegian television series {{n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argus (30 Rock)
"Argus" is the nineteenth episode of the 30 Rock season 4, fourth season of the American television comedy series ''30 Rock'', and the 77th overall episode of the series. It was written by ''30 Rock'' producers Josh Siegal, Dylan Morgan, and Paula Pell. The episode was directed by co-executive producer and show composer Jeff Richmond. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on April 29, 2010. Guest stars in this episode include Will Forte, Marceline Hugot, and Burke Moses. In the episode, Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) receives a peculiar gift from the late Don Geiss (Rip Torn). Meanwhile, Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and Pete Hornberger (Scott Adsit) get suspicious of Jenna Maroney's (Jane Krakowski) new boyfriend (Forte). At the same time, Liz tries to sort out List of 30 Rock characters#Grizz Griswold, Grizz Griswold's (Grizz Chapman) problem when both Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) and List of 30 Rock characters#Dot Com Slattery, "Dot Com" Slattery (Kevin Brown (actor), Kevin Brow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec (album)
''Quebec'' is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Ween, released on August 5, 2003, on Sanctuary Records. It was the first album released after the band's contract with Elektra expired, and marked its return to independent labels. Recorded during a period of strife in the band members' personal lives, ''Quebec'' was described by Dean Ween as a "very negative" album that takes on a darker tone compared to the band's prior work. Josh Freese performed the drums on the album, stepping in for Claude Coleman Jr. as he was recovering from a near-fatal car crash in 2002. Freese also played with the band on tour during this time, including during a series of benefit concerts for Coleman at New York City's Bowery Ballroom on October 7 and 8, 2002. The album cover is an edited version of the packaging for the game ''Thorns'' from the 3M Paper Games series with the band superimposed on it. Background The album was the band's first since 1991's ''The Pod'' to be released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argus (album)
''Argus'' is the third album by the British rock band Wishbone Ash, released on 28 April 1972. It is their most commercially and critically successful album, peaking at No. 3 in the UK Albums Chart. Recording Although not intended as a concept album, the album is Greek mythology-themed to a degree, particularly on the second side. The album features a blend of progressive rock, folk, and hard rock, and is considered a landmark album in the progression of twin-lead guitar harmonisation, later adopted by bands such as Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. The sound engineer on ''Argus'' was Martin Birch, who also worked with Deep Purple, later with Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and other hard rock bands. The bulk of the lyrics were provided by bassist/lead vocalist Martin Turner, although all members are credited with the music and arrangements. The album was produced by Derek Lawrence. Artwork The album cover was designed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell of the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
