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Bulge
__NOTOC__ Bulge may refer to: Astronomy and geography *Bulge (astronomy), a tightly packed group of stars at the center of a spiral galaxy *Equatorial bulge, a bulge around the equator of a planet due to rotation *Tharsis bulge, vast volcanic plateau centered near the equator in Mars’ western hemisphere *Tidal bulge, a bulge of land or water on a planet created by the pull of another object in orbit Military *Bulge, a discontinuity in an extended military front line **Battle of the Bulge, a major World War II German offensive on the Western front starting in 1944 ** ''Bulge'' (game), a 1980 board wargame that simulates the Battle of the Bulge *Anti-torpedo bulge, passive warship defence against naval torpedoes between World War I and World War II People *Helge "Bulge" Bostrom (1894–1977), Canadian professional ice hockey player Other *Beta bulge, a localized disruption of the regular hydrogen bonding of a beta sheet * Bulge bracket, the world's largest and most profitable mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive (military), offensive military campaign, campaign on the Western Front (World War II), Western Front during World War II. The battle lasted from 16 December 1944 to 28 January 1945, towards the end of the war in Europe. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg. The primary military objectives were to deny further use of the Belgian port of Antwerp to the Allies and to split the Allied lines, which potentially could have allowed the Germans to encirclement, encircle and destroy the four Allied forces. Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, who since December 1941 had assumed direct command of the German army, believed that achieving these objectives would compel the Western Allies to accept a peace treaty in the Axis powers' favor. By this time, it was palpable to virtually the entire German leadership including Hitler himself that they had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulge (game)
''Bulge'', subtitled "The Battle for the Ardennes, 16 Dec '44–2 Jan '45", and also published as ''The Big Red One: The Game of the First Infantry Division at the Battle of the Bulge'', is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1980 that simulates the World War II German offensive in December 1944 known as the Battle of the Bulge. Background In December 1944, Allied intelligence believed that German forces were close to collapse and were incapable of mounting an attack. However, German forces surprised the Allies with a major offensive through the Ardennes that had the combined objectives of splitting the Allied forces in two, preventing the use of the port of Antwerp, and forcing the Allies to sue for peace. German forces managed to create a large salient in Allied lines (the "Bulge") before the attack was blunted and stopped, the Germans' objectives unfulfilled. Description ''Bulge'' is a two-player microgame that uses a small map and relatively fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Bulge (other)
The Battle of the Bulge was a major World War II German offensive in 1944. Battle of the Bulge may also refer to: Literature and film *'' Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Alternate Scenarios'', an alternate history anthology * ''Battle of the Bulge'' (1965 film), an American widescreen epic war film *'' The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles'', a 1965 documentary film * ''Battle of the Bulge'' (1991 film), a Canadian comedy short film *''The Battle of the Bulge'' a 1994 documentary for PBS by Thomas Lennon Games * ''Battle of the Bulge'' (1991 game), a board wargame by Avalon Hill *'' Axis & Allies: Battle of the Bulge'', a 2007 board game by Avalon Hill * ''Battle of the Bulge'' (video game), a 2012 IOS historical wargame {{disambiguation Other uses Battle of the Bulge, a nickname for weight loss Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health, or physical fitness, refers to a reduction of the total body mass, by a mean loss of fluid, body fat (adipose tissue), or le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulge
The Bulge is a mountain located in Coos County, New Hampshire. The mountain is part of the Pilot Range of the White Mountains. The Bulge is flanked to the northeast by The Horn, and to the southwest by Mount Cabot. The Bulge stands within the watershed of the Connecticut River, which drains into Long Island Sound in Connecticut. The southeast face of The Bulge drains into the headwaters of the West Branch of the Upper Ammonoosuc River, a tributary of the Connecticut River. The north face of The Bulge drains north, thence into the West Branch of Mill Brook, and into the Upper Ammonoosuc. The west face of The Bulge drains into Fox Brook, thence into Whipple Brook, Burnside Brook, Otter Brook, and the Israel River, another tributary of the Connecticut. See also * List of mountains in New Hampshire * White Mountain National Forest * New England Hundred Highest The New England Hundred Highest is a list of the hundred highest summits in New England, used in the mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulge (astronomy)
In astronomy, a galactic bulge (or simply bulge) is a tightly packed group of stars within a larger star formation. The term almost exclusively refers to the central group of stars found in most spiral galaxies (see galactic spheroid). Bulges were historically thought to be elliptical galaxies that happened to have a disk of stars around them, but high-resolution images using the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that many bulges lie at the heart of a spiral galaxy. It is now thought that there are at least two types of bulges: bulges that are like ellipticals and bulges that are like spiral galaxies. Classical bulges Bulges that have properties similar to those of elliptical galaxies are often called "classical bulges" due to their similarity to the historic view of bulges. These bulges are composed primarily of stars that are older, Population II stars, and hence have a reddish hue (see stellar evolution). These stars are also in orbits that are essentially random co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salient (military)
A salient, also known as a bulge, is a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory. The salient is surrounded by the enemy on multiple sides, making the troops occupying the salient vulnerable. The opponent's front line that borders a salient is referred to as a re-entrant – that is, an angle pointing inwards. A deep salient is vulnerable to being "pinched off" through the base, and this will result in a pocket in which the forces in the salient become isolated and without a supply line. On the other hand, a breakout of the forces within the salient through its tip can threaten the rear areas of the opposing forces outside it, leaving them open to an attack from behind. Implementation Salients can be formed in a number of ways. An attacker can produce a salient in the defender's line by either intentionally making a pincer movement around the military flanks of a strongpoint, which becomes the tip of the salient, or by making a broad, frontal attack which is held u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Equatorial Bulge
An equatorial bulge is a difference between the equatorial and polar diameters of a planet, due to the centrifugal force exerted by the rotation about the body's axis. A rotating body tends to form an oblate spheroid rather than a sphere. On Earth The Earth has a rather slight equatorial bulge: it is about wider at the equator than pole-to-pole, a difference which is about 1/298 of the equatorial diameter. If the Earth were scaled down to a globe with diameter of 1 meter at the equator, that difference would be only 3 millimeters. While too small to notice visually, that difference is still more than twice the largest deviations of the actual surface from the ellipsoid, including the tallest mountains and deepest oceanic trenches. The rotation of the earth also affects the sea level, the imaginary surface that is used to measure altitudes from. This surface coincides with the mean water surface level in oceans, and is extrapolated over land by taking into account the local g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beta Bulge
A beta bulge can be described as a localized disruption of the regular hydrogen bonding of beta sheet by inserting extra residues into one or both hydrogen bonded β-strands. Types β-bulges can be grouped according to their length of the disruption, the number of residues inserted into each strand, whether the disrupted β-strands are parallel or antiparallel and by their dihedral angles (which controls the placement of their side chains). Two types occur commonly. One, the ''classic beta bulge'', occurs within, or at the edge of, antiparallel beta-sheet; the first residue at the outwards bulge typically has the αR, rather than the normal β, conformation. The other type is the G1 ''beta bulge'', of which there are two common sorts, both mainly occurring in association with antiparallel sheet; one residue has the αL conformation and is usually a glycine. In one sort, the beta bulge loop, one of the hydrogen bonds of the beta-bulge also forms a beta turn or alpha turn, such that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helge "Bulge" Bostrom
Helge "Bulge, Arbuckle" Bostrom (January 9, 1894 – January 23, 1977) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 90 games in the National Hockey League. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he played for the Chicago Black Hawks. Bostrom also played for the Edmonton Eskimos in the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), and with the Vancouver Maroons in both the Pacific Coast Hockey Association The Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) was a professional ice hockey league in western Canada and the western United States, which operated from 1911 to 1924 when it then merged with the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). The PCHA was cons ... (PCHA) and the WCHL. Career statistics Playing career Coaching External links *Obituary at LostHockey.com* 1894 births 1977 deaths Canadian ice hockey defencemen Chicago Blackhawks captains Chicago Blackhawks players Edmonton Eskimos (ice hockey) players Ice hockey people from Manitoba Sportspeople from Winnipeg Vanco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-torpedo Bulge
The anti-torpedo bulge (also known as an anti-torpedo blister) is a form of defence against naval torpedoes occasionally employed in warship construction in the period between the First and Second World Wars. It involved fitting (or retrofitting) partially water-filled compartmentalized sponsons on either side of a ship's hull, intended to detonate torpedoes, absorb their explosions, and contain flooding to damaged areas within the bulges. Application Essentially, the bulge is a compartmentalized, below the waterline sponson isolated from the ship's internal volume. It is part air-filled, and part free-flooding. In theory, a torpedo strike will rupture and flood the bulge's outer air-filled component while the inner water-filled part dissipates the shock and absorbs explosive fragments, leaving the ship's main hull structurally intact. Transverse bulkheads within the bulge limit flooding to the damaged area of the structure. The bulge was developed by the British Director of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth Bulge
Line-of-sight propagation is a characteristic of electromagnetic radiation or acoustic wave propagation which means waves travel in a direct path from the source to the receiver. Electromagnetic transmission includes light emissions traveling in a straight line. The rays or waves may be diffracted, refracted, reflected, or absorbed by the atmosphere and obstructions with material and generally cannot travel over the horizon or behind obstacles. In contrast to line-of-sight propagation, at low frequency (below approximately 3 MHz) due to diffraction, radio waves can travel as ground waves, which follow the contour of the Earth. This enables AM radio stations to transmit beyond the horizon. Additionally, frequencies in the shortwave bands between approximately 1 and 30 MHz, can be refracted back to Earth by the ionosphere, called skywave or "skip" propagation, thus giving radio transmissions in this range a potentially global reach. However, at frequencies ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
