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Big Bertha (band)
Big Bertha is a euphonious term for an unusually large example of a class of object; notable examples include: Military guns * Big Bertha (howitzer), a heavy mortar-like howitzer built and used by Germany during World War I ** Paris Gun, called Big Bertha by the French, and several other big heavy German guns of World War I Vehicles *MR 0-10-0 Lickey Banker, a large railway banking engine, especially of a 0-10-0 steam locomotive configuration *A special version of the Vauxhall Victor automobile Fictional characters *Big Bertha (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero * Big Bertha, an "abnormal" in the ''Sanctuary'' television series * Big Bertha, a recurring enemy in the Mario franchise - see Characters in the Mario franchise Other uses *Big Bertha (lunar sample), the third largest lunar rock collected by the Apollo program during Apollo 14 *Bertha Heyman, a.k.a. "Big Bertha", a 19th-century criminal *Big Bertha (cow), a cow that broke two Guinness World Records, for being both th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phonaesthetics
Phonaesthetics (also spelled phonesthetics in North America) is the study of beauty and pleasantness associated with the sounds of certain words or parts of words. The term was first used in this sense, perhaps by during the mid-20th century and derives . Speech sounds have many aesthetic qualities, some of which are subjectively regarded as euphonious (pleasing) or cacophonous (displeasing). Phonaesthetics remains a budding and often subjective field of study, with no scientifically or otherwise formally established definition; today, it mostly exists as a marginal branch of psychology, phonetics, or poetics. More broadly, the British linguist David Crystal has regarded phonaesthetics as the study of "phonaesthesia" (i.e., sound symbolism and phonesthemes): that not just words but even certain sound combinations carry meaning. For example, he shows that English speakers tend to associate unpleasantness with the sound ''sl-'' in such words as ''sleazy'', ''slime'', ''slug'', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBM T220/T221 LCD Monitors
The IBM T220 and T221 are LCD monitors that were sold between 2001 and 2005, with a native resolution of 3840×2400 pixels (WQUXGA) on a screen with a diagonal of 22.2 inches (564 mm). This works out to 9,216,000 pixels, with a pixel density of 204 pixels per inch (80 dpcm, 0.1245 mm pixel pitch), much higher than contemporary computer monitors (about 100 pixels per inch) and approaching the resolution of print media. The display family was nicknamed "Big Bertha" in some trade journals. Costing around $8,400 in 2003, the displays saw few buyers. Such high-resolution displays would remain niche products for nearly a decade until modern high-dpi displays such as Apple's Retina display line saw more-widespread adoption. IBM T220 (9503-DG0) The IBM T220 was introduced in June 2001 and was the first monitor to natively support a resolution of 3840×2400. In order to support such a high resolution, it features an unusual connector arrangement. On the rear of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bertha (drum)
Big Bertha is a bass drum used by the The University of Texas Longhorn Band, Longhorn Band of University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at Austin. The Big Bertha name was chosen to evoke the famous German Big Bertha (Howitzer), Big Bertha howitzer and has been used for two Texas bass drums, with the second debuting in 2022. Both Big Berthas have laid claim to being the largest bass drum in the world, with the second currently holding the title. Big Bertha is wheeled onto the field for the pre-game show during varsity college football, football games, and is used in other occasions such as parades – including the London's New Year's Day Parade accompanied by the Longhorn Alumni Band – and spirit rallies. The drum is managed by the Bertha Crew, sometimes called "drum wranglers", who move the drum and play it after touchdowns, and it is nicknamed the "Sweetheart of the Longhorn Band". The original Big Bertha Description The university claimed the original Big B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bertha (golf Club)
Big Bertha is the name given by Callaway Golf to a number of its lines of golf clubs. The name was chosen to evoke the famous German Big Bertha howitzer. The original Big Bertha driver was launched in 1991. At the time, its design was considered highly modern and a radical departure from older drivers: it was crafted entirely of stainless steel and the head had a volume of . Most other drivers were still made of persimmon wood and had smaller heads. (By way of comparison, many drivers of recent years have head sizes up to the USGA legal maximum of and are made of more exotic materials such as titanium Titanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ti and atomic number 22. Found in nature only as an oxide, it can be reduced to produce a lustrous transition metal with a silver color, low density, and high strength, resistant to corrosion in ....) Since the introduction of the original Big Bertha, Callaway has introduced further clubs and lines of clubs with similar names, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bertha (cow)
Big Bertha (17 March 1945 – 31 December 1993) was a cow who held two Guinness World Records: she was the oldest cow recorded, dying just three months short of her 49th birthday, and she also held the record for lifetime breeding, having produced 39 calves. During her lifetime she helped raise $75,000 for cancer research and other charities. Life Big Bertha was born in Ireland on 17 March 1945, St Patrick's Day. Her breed has been given as either Droimeann (a native Irish cattle breed), or Friesian. She was bought at a cattle fair by farmer Jerome O'Leary and lived at his farm near the market town of Sneem in County Kerry, southwest Ireland. Big Bertha held two Guinness World Records: she was the oldest cow recorded, dying just three months short of her 49th birthday, and she also held the record for lifetime breeding, having produced 39 calves. However, by 2006, the categories had been dropped from the ''Guinness Book of World Records''. Due to her record-breaking status, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertha Heyman
Bertha Heyman (born ) was a 19th-century American criminal, also known as "Big Bertha" or the "Confidence Queen." She was described by famed New York City detective Thomas F. Byrnes as "one of the smartest confidence women in America",.. and was considered by the New York City police to be "the boldest and most expert of the many female adventuresses who infest the country.". She managed to swindle several men out of a total of many thousands of dollars, even while behind bars. Background, description, and criminal methodology She was born Bertha Schlesinger in Prussia, and came to the United States in 1878. She was married twice; first to Fritz Karko, with whom she lived in New York and later Milwaukee; and then to a man she identified as John Heyman. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo 14
Apollo 14 (January 31, 1971February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands. It was the last of the " H missions", landings at specific sites of scientific interest on the Moon for two-day stays with two lunar extravehicular activities (EVAs or moonwalks). The mission was originally scheduled for 1970, but was postponed because of the investigation following the failure of Apollo 13 to reach the Moon's surface, and the need for modifications to the spacecraft as a result. Commander Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell launched on their nine-day mission on Sunday, January 31, 1971, at 4:03:02 p.m. EST. En route to the lunar landing, the crew overcame malfunctions that might have resulted in a second consecutive aborted mission, and possibly, the premature end of the Apollo program. Shepard and Mitchell made t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bertha (lunar Sample)
Lunar Sample 14321, better known as "Big Bertha", is a lunar sample containing an embedded Earth-origin meteorite collected on the 1971 Apollo 14 mission. It was found in the Fra Mauro region of the Moon. Big Bertha is the first discovered meteorite from Earth, and the embedded meteorite portion is the oldest known Earth rock. At , this breccia rock is the third largest Moon sample returned during the Apollo program, behind Big Muley and Great Scott. Discovery Big Bertha was named after the famous large World War I German howitzer Big Bertha because it was the largest rock returned from the Moon up to that time. It was collected by Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard near the rim of Cone Crater, during the second EVA at station C1. Transcript from the Apollo 14 Lunar Surface Journal: 33:44:29Mitchell: (Garbled) help with that one? 33:44:30Shepard: That's all right, I think I got it. There's a football-size rock, Houston, coming out of this area, which will not be bagged. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bertha (howitzer)
The 42-centimetre 14 L/12 (short naval cannon), or ''Minenwerfer-Gerät'' (M-Gerät), popularly known by the nickname Big Bertha, was a German siege howitzer built by Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and fielded by the Imperial German Army from 1914 to 1918. The had a calibre barrel, making it one of the largest artillery pieces ever fielded. The designed in 1911 as an iteration of earlier super-heavy German siege guns intended to break modern fortresses in France and Belgium and entered production in 1912. Test firing began in early 1914 and the gun was estimated to be finished by October 1914. When the First World War broke out, the two guns, still prototypes, were sent to Liège, Belgium, and destroyed Forts Pontisse and Loncin. German soldiers bestowed the gun with the nickname "Big Bertha", which then spread through German newspapers to the Allies, who used it as a nickname for all super-heavy German artillery. The Paris Gun, a railway gun used to bomb Paris in 1918, has h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Characters In The Mario Franchise
The ''Mario'' franchise is a video game series by Nintendo. While Nintendo is usually the developer and publisher of games in the franchise, various series are developed by third-party companies, such as Hudson Soft and Intelligent Systems. Games in the ''Mario'' franchise primarily revolve around the protagonist Mario and often involve the trope of Bowser as the antagonist kidnapping Princess Peach, with Mario then rescuing her. Many characters have goals or plot arcs that vary from series to series; for example, the ''Luigi's Mansion'' games focus on Luigi ridding a haunted building of ghosts, while Wario stars in games that center around his greed and desire for money and treasure. Character roots begin with ''Donkey Kong'' where Mario, Donkey Kong, and Pauline originate. Designed by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto; they were built off the base of characters from Popeye. Unable to obtain licensing rights for the characters, Miyamoto made later changes to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanctuary (Canadian TV Series)
''Sanctuary'' is a Canadian science fiction-fantasy television series, created by Damian Kindler and funded largely by the Beedie Development Group. The show aired for four seasons and a total of 59 episodes, between 2008 and 2011, and a fifth season was planned but it was never made. The series was produced by Canadian television production company My Plastic Badger. The show is an expansion of an eight-webisode series that was released through the Internet in early 2007. Seeing the success of the web series, Syfy decided to buy the broadcast rights to the series and pay to re-stage the series in a season of thirteen episodes. The show centres on Dr. Helen Magnus, a 157-year-old teratologist, and her team of experts who run the Sanctuary, an organization that seeks out extraordinarily powerful creatures and people, known as Abnormals, and tries to help and to learn from them while also having to contain the more dangerous ones. The series premiered on October 3, 2008, in both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
