Avos (ship)
Avos may refer to: * Avos, a shortening of Pirkei Avos, a tractate of the Jewish Talmud * ''Avos'' (ship), a ship in an expedition by Nikolai Rezanov which became a basis for the 1978 Russian rock opera ''Juno and Avos'' ** ''Juno and Avos'' (opera) * Avos, the plural for ''avo'', which is 1/100 of a Macao pataca, a monetary unit of Macao * AVOS Systems, an Internet company * Russian avos' The Russian ''avos (russian: авось) describes a philosophy of behavior, or attitude, of a person who ignores possible problems or hassles and, at the same time, expects or hopes for no negative results or consequences. It is an attitude that tr ...

Pirkei Avos
Pirkei Avot ( he, פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת; also transliterated as ''Pirqei Avoth'' or ''Pirkei Avos'' or ''Pirke Aboth''), which translates to English as Chapters of the Fathers, is a compilation of the ethical teachings and maxims from Rabbinic Jewish tradition. It is part of didactic Jewish ethical literature. Because of its contents, the name is sometimes given as Ethics of the Fathers. Pirkei Avot consists of the Mishnaic tractate of ''Avot'', the second-to-last tractate in the order of Nezikin in the Mishnah, plus one additional chapter. Avot is unique in that it is the only tractate of the Mishnah dealing ''solely'' with ethical and moral principles; there is relatively little halakha (laws) in Pirkei Avot. Translation of the title In the title ''Pirkei Avot'', the word "pirkei" is Hebrew for "chapters of". The word ''avot'' means "fathers", and thus ''Pirkei Avot'' is often rendered in English as "Chapters of the Fathers", or (more loosely) "Ethics of the Father ...
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Avos (ship)
Avos may refer to: * Avos, a shortening of Pirkei Avos, a tractate of the Jewish Talmud * ''Avos'' (ship), a ship in an expedition by Nikolai Rezanov which became a basis for the 1978 Russian rock opera ''Juno and Avos'' ** ''Juno and Avos'' (opera) * Avos, the plural for ''avo'', which is 1/100 of a Macao pataca, a monetary unit of Macao * AVOS Systems, an Internet company * Russian avos' The Russian ''avos (russian: авось) describes a philosophy of behavior, or attitude, of a person who ignores possible problems or hassles and, at the same time, expects or hopes for no negative results or consequences. It is an attitude that tr ...

Nikolai Rezanov
Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov (russian: Николай Петрович Резанов) ( – ), a Russian nobleman and statesman, promoted the project of Russian colonization of Alaska and California to three successive Emperors of All Russia—Catherine the Great, Paul, and Aleksander I. Aleksander I commissioned Rezanov as Russian ambassador to Japan (1804) with the aim of concluding a commercial treaty. In order to get to his post he was appointed co-commander of the First Russian circumnavigation (1803-1806), led by Adam Johann von Krusenstern. Rezanov left the expedition in 1805 when it returned to Kamchatka after visiting Japan (1804-1805). Rezanov wrote a lexicon of the Japanese language and several other works, which are preserved in the library of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member. Rezanov's greatest legacy proved the founding of the Russian-American Company in 1799. Early life Rezanov was born in Saint Petersburg on March 28, 1764 ...
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Juno And Avos (opera)
''Juno and Avos'' (russian: link=no, Юнона и Авось, Junona I Avos') is a popular Russian-language rock opera written by Alexey Rybnikov, poetry by Andrei Voznesensky. It was first performed in 1981 in the Lenkom Theatre, Moscow, directed by Mark Zakharov. Main roles in the premiere performed by Soviet stars Nikolai Karachentsov and Elena Shanina. The opera is named after the two ships ''Juno'' and ''Avos'' that constituted the expedition headed by Russian explorer Nikolai Rezanov. The plot is based on the love story of Nikolai Rezanov and Concepción Argüello, a 15-year-old daughter of José Darío Argüello, the colonial governor of Spanish California. The performance was first recorded for television in 1983, the second television version was created in 2002. The opera's first premiere abroad took place at Espace Cardin theater in Paris in 1983. Original story The libretto of ''Juno and Avos'' is based on Andrey Voznesensky's poem "Avos!" written in 1970. The p ...
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Macao Pataca
The Macanese pataca or Macau pataca (; pt, pataca de Macau; sign: $; abbreviation: P; ISO code: MOP) is the currency of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. It is subdivided into 100 ''avos'' (; ''sin''), with 10 avos called ''ho'' () in Cantonese. Macau has a currency board system under which the pataca is 100 per cent backed by foreign exchange reserves, in this case currently the Hong Kong dollar (itself backed by the United States dollar). Moreover, the currency board, Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM), has a statutory obligation to issue and redeem Macau pataca on demand against the Hong Kong dollar at a fixed exchange rate of HK$1 = MOP 1.03, and without limit. History The Spanish American silver dollar was in wide use in Asia and the Americas between the 16th to 20th centuries, and was imported by China in large quantities. They were typically minted in Mexico and then brought to the Philippines as part of the Spanish ...
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AVOS Systems
MixBit was a video sharing service created by Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, two of the co-founders of YouTube. It was released on August 8, 2013. MixBit let users create dynamic shared videos, and competed with Vine (software), Vine (owned by Twitter) and Instagram (owned by Facebook) in the video sharing website market. Its iPhone app was released in August 2013 and its Android (operating system), Android app followed two months later. MixBit ceased operations on August 21, 2018. AVOS Systems AVOS Systems was an Internet company founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Vijay Karunamurthy. In April 2011, it was announced that AVOS purchased Delicious (website), Delicious, with the transition occurring in June 2011. In May 2011, AVOS purchased the social analytics company Tap 11. In May 2014, AVOS sold Delicious to Science Inc. In 2012, AVOS launched Zeen, a web curation service allowing users to create video magazines, based on the word "zine." AVOS shut Zeen down in 2013. In 2014 A ...
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