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Buxton (other)
Buxton may refer to: Places ;Australia *Buxton, Victoria *Buxton, New South Wales *County of Buxton, a cadastral unit in South Australia ;Bulgaria *Buxton, Sofia ;Canada *South Buxton, Ontario *Buxton National Historic Site and Museum, Ontario ;Guyana *Buxton, Guyana ;Jamaica *Buxton, Jamaica, a Free Village in Trelawny ;Seychelles *Mont Buxton ;United Kingdom *Buxton, Derbyshire *Buxton, Norfolk ;United States of America *Buxton, Iowa, a historic African-American coal mining camp *Buxton, Kansas *Buxton, Maine *Buxton, Mississippi *Buxton, Montana *Buxton, North Carolina *Buxton, North Dakota *Buxton, Oregon *Buxton Park Arboretum, Indianola, Iowa People *Buxton (surname), a surname, and a list of people with the surname *Buxton Orr, a composer Brands and enterprises *Buxton Blue, a type of cheese *Buxton, a bottled mineral water produced by Nestlé, whose source is in Buxton, Derbyshire Education * Buxton & Leek College * Buxton School (other) * Buxton University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buxton, Victoria
Buxton is a town north-east of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria. At the 2016 census, Buxton had a population of 233. The district around Buxton was significantly impacted by the Black Saturday bushfires. It was isolated for several days with no telephone or power. Today Buxton remains a small township with a roadhouse, a post office, general store, a fishing and outdoors store, Salmon and Trout Farm, hotel, a town hall, a primary school, nursery and several bed and breakfasts. Facilities Buxton has an active Country Fire Authority The Country Fire Authority (CFA) is a volunteer fire service responsible for fire suppression, rescues, and response to other accidents and hazards across most of the state Victoria, Australia. CFA comprises over 1,200 brigades organised in 21 ... station with one medium and one light tanker. The Buxton Fire Brigade was formed in 1943 and officially recognised on 25 February 1944. After the 2009 Black Saturday fires, the Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buxton, North Dakota
Buxton is a city in Traill County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 348 at the 2020 census. Buxton was founded in 1880. Today, it has become a bedroom community for the nearby Greater Grand Forks metropolitan area. History Buxton was founded in 1880 in Buxton Township as a townsite along the Great Northern Railroad in 1880. The post office began operating in November of that year. It was incorporated as a village in 1922. It became a city in 1967, after the North Dakota Legislature enacted legislation that eliminated all existing incorporation titles for towns and villages in the state. The town was named after Thomas J. Buxton, who at the time was the city treasurer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Buxton was a close friend and business associated of the town's founder, Budd Reeve. Geography Buxton is located at (47.603230, -97.099770). According to the United States Census Bureau in 2010, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2020 census As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DR DOS "Buxton"
DR-DOS (written as DR DOS, without a hyphen, in versions up to and including 6.0) is a disk operating system for IBM PC compatibles. Upon its introduction in 1988, it was the first DOS attempting to be compatible with IBM PC DOS and MS-DOS (which were the same product sold under different names). DR-DOS was developed by Gary A. Kildall's Digital Research and derived from Concurrent PC DOS 6.0, which was an advanced successor of CP/M-86. As ownership changed, various later versions were produced with names including #Novell DOS, Novell DOS and #OpenDOS, Caldera OpenDOS. History Origins in CP/M Digital Research's original CP/M for the 8-bit Intel 8080- and Zilog Z80, Z-80-based systems spawned numerous spin-off versions, most notably CP/M-86 for the Intel 8086/Intel 8088, 8088 family of processors. Although CP/M had dominated the market since the mid-1970s, and was shipped with the vast majority of non-proprietary-architecture personal computers, the IBM PC in 1981 bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buxton's Jird
Buxton's jird (''Meriones sacramenti'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in the Negev desert and the northern coastal parts of the Sinai peninsula. Etymology This species is named for the British hunter and conservationist Sir Edward North Buxton, a founder of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire, which has since grown to become the prominent conservation organisation Flora and Fauna International. Description Buxton's jird has dark cinnamon-brown fur and a conspicuous black brushy tail. As in other jirds, the pelage of Buxton's jird is fairly long, soft and dense on the body, while the fur on the tail is short near the base and becomes progressively longer towards the tip. In most '' Meriones'' species, the sides of the body are generally lighter than the back, and there are often lighter areas around the face. The underparts are usually white, pale yellowish, buff or pale grey. The feet of Buxton's jird are pale, with str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buxton Hitmen
The Buxton Hitmen were a speedway team in the British National League (formerly the Conference League) from 1994 to 2018. The club stopped racing in the National League after the 2018 speedway season. History The team's inaugural season was in the 1994 British League Division Three in which they finished in 6th place. They following year they finished 3rd in the 1995 Academy League before joining the Conference League (division 3). During the 2002 Speedway Conference League season the team won their first silverware when winning the Conference League Knockout Cup. In the 25 years that the team raced they always competed in the third division and their best season was 2010 when they achieved the treble. After finishing 2nd in the regular season table behind Dudley Heathens during the 2010 National League speedway season they won the playoffs, defeating Newport in the final. They also won the Knockout Cup and National Trophy. Honours *Conference Knockout Cup 2002 * Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buxton Festival
The Buxton Festival is an annual summer festival of opera, music and (since 2000) a literary series, held in Buxton, Derbyshire, England since its beginnings in July 1979. The 2020 festival would have run but was cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis. The 2023 Buxton International Festival will run 6–23 July. Origins of the present-day Festival The origins of the Festival date to September 1937, when an annual drama festival was first held (running until 1942) in conjunction with the London-based Old Vic Theatre Company under Lilian Baylis. In addition to plays at the Buxton Opera House, the festival ran a summer school at the adjoining Playhouse Theatre. The Festival as it exists today came about because of the inspiration in the 1970s to encourage the restoration of the Buxton Opera House, a classic Frank Matcham building. The conductor Anthony Hose (then Head of Music at Welsh National Opera) and Malcolm Fraser (then lecturing in opera at the Royal Northern College of Music i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buxton University
Buxton University was an accredited vendor of distance education that used a postal address in the United Kingdom. It is associated with the Instantdegrees.com website.George BrownFighting Credential Fraud: A Brief Critique of Australian and American Approaches to Qualification Verification and Authentication ''World Education News & Reviews'', Volume 18, Issue 5, October 2005, retrieved from website 24 May 2007 and 16 February 2009Amy RutledgeBuying phony degrees online, WATE-TV (Knoxville, Tennessee), November 15, 2004 Charter and accreditation status The institution did not hold a royal charter, which is required for an institution in the United Kingdom to call itself a "university", per the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. However, the institution does not advertise itself as a university in the UK and uses a commercial (instead of academic) internet domain name - buxtonuniversity.co.uk. The domain, however, is registered to a "Camford Institute Subang Jaya" in Singapor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buxton School (other)
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Buxton School may refer to: * Buxton School, Leytonstone, a state-maintained school in Leytonstone, London, England * Buxton School (Massachusetts), a private school in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States See also * Buxton (other) Buxton may refer to: Places ;Australia *Buxton, Victoria *Buxton, New South Wales *County of Buxton, a cadastral unit in South Australia ;Bulgaria *Buxton, Sofia ;Canada *South Buxton, Ontario *Buxton National Historic Site and Museum, Ontario ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buxton & Leek College
Buxton & Leek College is a college of Further and Higher Education operating at their campuses and facilities in Buxton, Derbyshire, Leek, Staffordshire and Derby, Derbyshire. The college is part of the University of Derby. History Buxton & Leek College was formed in 2013 by the University of Derby bringing together all of their Further Education operations into one branded entity. Prior to this, the university ran Further Education under the name 'Buxton College’, with operations at the Buxton Campus and University of Derby's Kedleston Road site. After Leek College was merged into the university in 2012 both the 'Buxton College’ and 'Leek College’ names were dropped and replaced with the new name 'Buxton & Leek College’. Buxton College was originally named ''High Peak College'', which was an independent FE College up until 1998, when it was dissolved as an independent entity and merged into the University of Derby. ''High Peak College'' originally opened in 1955 in bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. (; ; ) is a Switzerland, Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest publicly held food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since 2014."Nestlé's Brabeck: We have a "huge advantage" over big pharma in creating medical foods" , ''CNN Money'', 1 April 2011 It ranked No. 64 on the Fortune Global 500, ''Fortune'' Global 500 in 2017 and No. 33 in the 2016 edition of the ''Forbes'' Global 2000 list of largest public companies. Nestlé's products include baby food (some including human milk oligosaccharides), medical food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea, confectionery, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buxton Blue
Buxton Blue is an English blue cheese that is a close relative of Blue Stilton, is made from cow's milk, and is lightly veined with a deep russet colouring. It is usually made in a cylindrical shape. This cheese is complemented with a chilled glass of sweet dessert wine or ruby port. Its production in Europe is regulated under Protected designation of origin laws, having PDO status, and can only be made in and around Buxton, from milk originating in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire or Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou .... See also *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
