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Cascadia (other)
Cascadia and Cascadian are terms that derive from the Cascade Range and may refer to: Places * Cascadia, Oregon * Tehaleh, Washington, formerly known as Cascadia * Cascadia State Park * Diocese of Cascadia Regional * Cascadia Channel, a deep-sea channel in the Pacific Ocean * Cascadia (region) or Pacific Northwest, a region of North America * Cascadia (bioregion), the environmental interactivity of the Pacific Northwest of North America * Cascadia movement, a bioregional movement based within the Cascadia bioregion of the Pacific Northwest of North America * Cascadia subduction zone, a convergent plate boundary that separates the Juan de Fuca and North America plates Other uses * Cascadia (board game), by Randy Flynn and Shawn Stankewich * Cascadian (horse), a racehorse * ''Cascadia'' (plant), a genus of plants in the family Saxifragaceae * ''Cascadian'' (train), a named train of the Great Northern Railway (U.S.) on its route between Seattle and Spokane, Washington * Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cascade Range
The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as the North Cascades, and the notable volcanoes known as the High Cascades. The small part of the range in British Columbia is referred to as the Canadian Cascades or, locally, as the Cascade Mountains. The latter term is also sometimes used by Washington residents to refer to the Washington section of the Cascades in addition to North Cascades, the more usual U.S. term, as in North Cascades National Park. The highest peak in the range is Mount Rainier in Washington at . part of the Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes and associated mountains around the Pacific Ocean. All of the eruptions in the contiguous United States over the last 200 years have been from Cascade volcanoes. The two most recent were Lassen Peak from 1914 to 1921 and a major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cascadian (train)
The ''Cascadian'' was an American named train of the Great Northern Railway on its route between Seattle and Spokane, Washington. The ''Cascadian'' was officially listed as a streamliner on August 15, 1954. The Great Northern Railway operated a daylight train between Seattle and Spokane that traversed the Cascade Mountains through the Cascade Tunnel. It then descended the eastern slopes through the Cashmere – Wenatchee apple growing region before crossing the Columbia River and climbing up to the high Columbia plateau and the wheat fields of the Inland Empire. The ''Cascadian'' was a slow all-stops local train that required nine hours in either direction for the between Seattle and Spokane. Most passengers between these points traveled in the ''Empire Builder'' or '' Western Star'' overnight. Each of the two train sets consisted of a baggage-storage-mail car, a baggage 30’ Railway Post Office car — both generally heavyweights but painted in the ''Empire Builder'' da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cascada (other)
Cascada is a musical group. Cascada may also refer to: * Opel Cascada, a car model * Big Creek, California, previously called "Cascada" * Cascada de Texolo, a waterfall located in Veracruz, Mexico * Las Cascadas Water Park, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico See also * Kaskade (born 1971), American DJ and record producer * KASCADE KASCADE was a European physics experiment started in 1996 at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany (now Karlsruher Institut für Technologie), an extensive air shower experiment array to study the cosmic ray primary composition and the hadroni ..., a European physics experiment (1996) * Cascadia (other) * Cascade (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acadia
Acadia (french: link=no, Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River. During much of the 17th and early 18th centuries, Norridgewock on the Kennebec River and Castine at the end of the Penobscot River were the southernmost settlements of Acadia. The French government specified land bordering the Atlantic coast, roughly between the 40th and 46th parallels. It was eventually divided into British colonies. The population of Acadia included the various indigenous First Nations that comprised the Wabanaki Confederacy, the Acadian people and other French settlers. The first capital of Acadia was established in 1605 as Port-Royal. An English force from Virginia attacked and burned down the town in 1613, but it was later rebuilt nearby, where it remained the longest-serving capital of French Acadia until the British siege of Port Royal in 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirror's Edge Catalyst
''Mirror's Edge Catalyst'' is a first-person action-adventure platform game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in June 2016. It is a reboot of the 2008 game that focuses on protagonist Faith Connors. ''Mirror's Edge Catalyst'' received mixed reviews from critics upon release, with most reviewers praising the free-running gameplay and visuals, but criticising its storyline and combat system. Gameplay ''Mirror's Edge Catalyst'' is a first-person action-adventure game in which the player takes control of Faith Connors as she progresses through a futuristic city named Glass. Similar to the original ''Mirror's Edge'', players traverse the city using aspects of urban exploration and parkour movements to complete missions and evade or fight enemies. Players can also make use of environmental objects such as zip-lines and ledges, and equipment; this includes a MAG (Manifold Attachment Gear) Rope and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Wingman
''Project Wingman'' is a combat flight action video game developed by Sector D2 and published by Humble Games. It was released on 1 December 2020 on Microsoft Windows and later released on 28 October 2021 on Xbox One. The game features two game modes: campaign and conquest. Campaign mode follows the story of the war set on alternate Earth between the United Cascadian Republic and Pacific Federation through a silent protagonist with the callsign Monarch, a mercenary pilot. Conquest mode has the player conquer Cascadia in a rogue-lite game mode by conquering territories, buying new planes, and recruiting allies. Gameplay ''Project Wingman'' is a combat flight action game similar to the ''Ace Combat'' series in which the player flies a combat plane into battle and destroy enemy targets. The player can choose from a wide selection of planes inspired by real-life combat planes and equip the plane with special weapons. The player can choose to play in first-person or third-person. Fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windows Terminal
Windows Terminal is a multi-tabbed terminal emulator that Microsoft has developed for Windows 10 and later as a replacement for Windows Console. It can run any command-line app in a separate tab. It is preconfigured to run Command Prompt, PowerShell, WSL, SSH, and Azure Cloud Shell Connector. Windows Terminal comes with its own rendering back-end; starting with version 1.11 on Windows 11, command-line apps can run using this newer back-end instead of the old Windows Console. History Windows Terminal was announced at Microsoft's Build 2019 developer conference in May 2019 as a modern alternative for Windows Console, and Windows Terminal's source code first appeared on GitHub on May 3, 2019. The first preview release was version 0.2, which appeared on July 10, 2019. The first stable version of the project (version 1.0) was on May 19, 2020, at which point, Microsoft started releasing preview versions as the Windows Terminal Preview app, which could be installed side-by-side wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxifraga
''Saxifraga'' is the largest genus in the family Saxifragaceae, containing about 465 species of holarctic perennial plants, known as saxifrages or rockfoils. The Latin word ''saxifraga'' means literally "stone-breaker", from Latin ' ("rock" or "stone") + ' ("to break"). It is usually thought to indicate a medicinal use for treatment of urinary calculi (known as kidney or bladder stones), rather than breaking rocks apart. Description Most saxifrages are small perennial, biennial (e.g. '' S. adscendens'') or annual (e.g. '' S. tridactylites'') herbaceous plants whose basal or cauline leaves grow close to the ground, often in a rosette. The leaves typically have a more or less incised margin; they may be succulent, needle-like and/or hairy, reducing evaporation. The inflorescence or single flower clusters rise above the main plant body on naked stalks. The small actinomorphic hermaphrodite flowers have five petals and sepals and are usually white, but red to yellow in some specie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
METAtropolis
''METAtropolis'' is a series of science fiction audiobook collections. In 2008, Audible.com released the audiobook anthology ''METAtropolis'', edited by John Scalzi and featuring short fiction in a shared world created by Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, and Karl Schroeder. ''METAtropolis'' was planned from the beginning to be released as an audio anthology prior to any print edition. The audiobook featured the voices of Battlestar Galactica actors Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani and Kandyse McClure. In 2009 Subterranean Press released a limited edition print run of ''METAtropolis'', which was subsequently published by Tor in a standard hardcover edition, in 2010. In 2009 ''METAtropolis'' received nominations for the Audie Award for Original Work and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. In 2012 the Audie Award for Original Work was given to ''METAtropolis: Cascadia''. In 2015 ''METAtropolis: The Wings We Dare Aspire'' was a finalist for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freightliner Cascadia
Freightliner Cascadia is a heavy-duty semi-trailer truck and the flagship model of Freightliner. Its design took fuel efficiency into great consideration, As well as having improved upon several other features including the powertrain offerings, sound mitigation, safety systems, and overall mechanical reliability from its predecessors. It is offered in three basic configurations: Day Cab, Mid-Roof XT, and Raised Roof. The latter two models are sleeper cabs, offered in various lengths ranging from 48" to 72" inches (Raised Roof models 60” or 72” lengths only). The Cascadia was sold chiefly in North America until 2020, when an export, primarily geared towards the Australian and New Zealand markets, was introduced. Prior to the introduction of the export variant, its place remained occupied by the Freightliner Century (no longer in US production) for export markets. Cascadia Evolution The Cascadia Evolution is a more fuel-efficient version of the Cascadia, released in the yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cascadia Code
Cascadia Code is a purpose-built monospaced TrueType font for Windows Terminal, the new command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. It includes programming ligatures and was designed to enhance the look and feel of Windows Terminal, terminal applications and text editors such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. The font is open source under the SIL Open Font License and available on GitHub. It has been bundled with Windows Terminal since version 0.5.2762.0. Cascadia Code includes box drawing glyphs. Font family Multiple typefaces are part of the Cascadia Code font family, representing a variety of text styling options and adjustable weights. The main and Powerline variants of the types are suitable as display fonts. With the exception of Cascadia Mono, all types replace common character combinations with their elided counterparts. Other styles supported by this font family include textual arrows and stylistic sets for italics, alternate graphics, alternate control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cascadia (plant)
''Cascadia nuttallii'' is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family, Saxifragaceae. It is the sole species in genus ''Cascadia''. It is an annual native to the western United States, ranging from southwestern Washington through Oregon to northwestern California. It is a trailing herbaceous annual with stems 5 to 25 cm long. It grows from a rhizome.Michael S. Park & Patrick E. Elvander 2012''Cascadia nuttallii'' Jepson eFlora. Retrieved 11 April 2024. It grows on wet shaded cliffs and ledges, generally above 700 meters elevation. In California it is limited to the Klamath Ranges The Klamath Mountains are a rugged and lightly populated mountain range in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the western United States. As a mountain system within both the greater Pacific Coast Ranges and the California Coast R ..., and its range extends northwards through the mountains of western Oregon to southwestern Washington. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q19414149, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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