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Discoverer (other)
Discoverer may refer to: Ships * MS World Discoverer, MS ''World Discoverer'' cruise ship wrecked off the Solomon Islands in 2000 * ''Discoverer Clear Leader'' double-hulled dynamically-positioned drillship (2007), sister ships are ** ''Discoverer Americas'' ** ''Discoverer Inspiration'' ** ''Discoverer Luanda'' ** ''Discoverer India'' * ''Discoverer Enterprise'' double-hulled dynamically-positioned drillship (1999), sister ships are ** ''Discoverer Spirit'' ** ''Discoverer Deep Seas'' * ''Silver Discoverer'' cruise ship * ''Coral Discoverer'' cruise ship * USC&GS Discoverer, USC&GS ''Discoverer'', the name of two ships of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Other uses * Discoverer program, the initial name of the Corona (satellite), Corona satellite program, including a list of satellites named ''Discoverer'' * ''The Discoverer'', a novel by Norwegian author Jan Kjærstad * Discoverer (R.E.M. song), "Discoverer" (R.E.M. song) * ''The Discoverers'', a non-fiction book * T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS World Discoverer
MS ''World Discoverer'' was a cruise ship designed for and built by Schichau Unterweser, Germany in 1974. During construction called ''BEWA Discoverer'', the ship was completed in Bremerhaven, Germany. In 2000, the ship struck an underwater obstacle and was damaged; it was subsequently grounded – to prevent sinking – and abandoned in the Solomon Islands. History The vessel was originally built as the BEWA ''Discoverer'' in 1974. The ship was sold to BEWA Cruises out of Denmark. In July 1976, the vessel was sold to Adventure Cruises, Inc. and was renamed ''World Discoverer''. The ship also became a long-term charter to Society Expeditions. In 1976, the ship was registered in Singapore. In 1987, Society Expedition came under new ownership and was renamed Society Expedition Cruises, with offices in Seattle, United States and Germany. The new owner of the ship was Discoverer Reederei who also has ownership of other vessels, such as . In 1990, she was registered in Liberi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corona (satellite)
The CORONA program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force. The CORONA satellites were used for photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union (USSR), China, and other areas beginning in June 1959 and ending in May 1972. History In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite. Officially, Sputnik was launched to correspond with the International Geophysical Year, a solar period that the International Council of Scientific Unions declared would be ideal for the launching of artificial satellites to study Earth and the solar system. However, the launch led to public concern about the perceived technological gap between the West and the Soviet Union. The unanticipated success of the mission precipitated the Sputnik Crisis, and prompted President Dwight D. Eisenhower to auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discover (other)
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Discover may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media * ''Discover'' (album), a Cactus Jack album * ''Discover'' (magazine), an American science magazine Businesses and brands * DISCover, the ''Digital Interactive Systems Corporation'' * Discover Financial, an American financial services company operating Discover Bank, which offers checking accounts, credit cards, etc. ** Discover Card, a credit card brand Science and engineering * DSCOVR, an Earth observation satellite See also * Discovery (other) * Discoverer (other) Discoverer may refer to: Ships * MS World Discoverer, MS ''World Discoverer'' cruise ship wrecked off the Solomon Islands in 2000 * ''Discoverer Clear Leader'' double-hulled dynamically-positioned drillship (2007), sister ships are ** ''Discovere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oracle Discoverer
Oracle Discoverer is a tool-set for ''ad hoc'' querying, reporting, data analysis, and Web-publishing for the Oracle Database environment. Oracle Corporation markets it as a business intelligence Business intelligence (BI) comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis and management of business information. Common functions of business intelligence technologies include reporting, online analytical ... product. It was originally a stand-alone product, however it has become a component of the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite, and renamed Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer. Components The Discoverer product comprises: * Discoverer Desktop - used to edit and run reports in a Windows client program * Discoverer Plus - used to edit and run reports in a web browser * Discoverer Viewer - used to run reports in a web browser. * Discoverer Administrator * Discoverer Catalog * Discoverer End-User layer * Discoverer Portlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NOAAS Discoverer (R 102)
NOAAS ''Discoverer'' (R 102), originally USC&GS ''Discoverer'' (OSS 02), was an American ''Oceanographer''-class oceanographic research vessel in service in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1966 to 1970 and in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1970 to 1996. Construction ''Discoverer'' was laid down on 10 September 1963 by Aerojet General Shipyards at Jacksonville, Florida. A very serious fire in the area of her meat preparation room and freezers brought her construction to a stop, but it resumed and she was launched on 29 October 1964. Soon after launching, she was moved to the Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Baltimore, Maryland, where she received a single computer system, the first system of its kind, which revolutionizing environmental data collection and processing; via the computer, ''Discoverer''s propulsion and other machinery was automated through a centralized engine room control (CERC) system, which measured a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collapse Into Now
''Collapse into Now'' is the fifteenth and final studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 7, 2011, on Warner Bros. Produced by Jacknife Lee, who previously worked with the band on ''Accelerate'' (2008), the album was preceded by the singles "It Happened Today," "Mine Smell Like Honey", "Überlin" and " Oh My Heart". Regarding the album's title, lead singer Michael Stipe noted, "It's the final thing I sing, the last song on the record before the record goes into a coda and reprises the first song. In my head, it's like I'm addressing a nine-year-old and I'm saying, 'I come from a faraway place called the 20th century. And these are the values and these are the mistakes we've made and these are the triumphs. These are the things that we held in the highest esteem. These are the things to learn from." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Discoverers (film)
''The Discoverers'' is a 2012 American dark comedy directed and written by Justin Schwarz. The film stars Griffin Dunne, Madeleine Martin, and Cara Buono. Plot Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch (Oscar and Emmy nominated Griffin Dunne) takes his begrudging teenage kids – Zoe (Madeleine Martin, “Californication”) and Jack (Devon Graye, “American Horror Stories”) – on a road trip to a conference in hopes of putting his career back on track. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley (Emmy Award-winning Stuart Margolin) goes AWOL on a Lewis and Clark historical reenactment trek, Lewis is forced to make a family detour. The Birch family find themselves on a journey of discovery and connection as they make their own passage west. Cast * Griffin Dunne as Lewis Birch * Madeleine Martin as Zoe * Cara Buono as Nell * John C. McGinley as Bill Birch * Stuart Margolin as Stanley Birch * Devon Graye as Jack * Ann Dowd as Patti * Dreama Walker as Abigail Marshall Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Discoverers
''The Discoverers'' is a non-fiction historical work by Daniel Boorstin, published in 1983, and is the first in the Knowledge Trilogy, which also includes ''The Creators'' and ''The Seekers''. The book, subtitled ''A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself'', is a history of human discovery. Discovery in many forms is described: exploration, science, medicine, mathematics, and more-theoretical ones, such as time, evolution, plate tectonics, and relativity. Boorstin praises the inventive, human mind and its eternal quest to discover the universe and humanity's place in it. In "A Personal Note to the Reader", Boorstin writes "My hero is Man, the Discoverer. The world we now view from the literate West ... had to be opened by countless Columbuses. In the deep recesses of the past, they remain anonymous." The structure of the book is topical and chronological, beginning in the prehistoric era in Babylon and Egypt. Themes ''The Discoverers'' (as well as ''The Creators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discoverer (R
Discoverer may refer to: Ships * MS ''World Discoverer'' cruise ship wrecked off the Solomon Islands in 2000 * ''Discoverer Clear Leader'' double-hulled dynamically-positioned drillship (2007), sister ships are ** '' Discoverer Americas'' ** '' Discoverer Inspiration'' ** '' Discoverer Luanda'' ** '' Discoverer India'' * ''Discoverer Enterprise'' double-hulled dynamically-positioned drillship (1999), sister ships are ** ''Discoverer Spirit'' ** '' Discoverer Deep Seas'' * '' Silver Discoverer'' cruise ship * '' Coral Discoverer'' cruise ship * USC&GS ''Discoverer'', the name of two ships of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Other uses * Corona satellites, a 1959-1962 classified U.S. military satellite program publicly labeled the ''Discoverer'' non-military scientific program * '' The Discoverer'', a novel by Norwegian author Jan Kjærstad * "Discoverer" (R.E.M. song) * ''The Discoverers'', a non-fiction book * ''The Discoverers'', film directed and written by Just ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Discoverer
''The Discoverer'' ( no, Oppdageren) is a 1999 novel by Norwegian author Jan Kjærstad. It won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize The Nordic Council Literature Prize is awarded for a work of literature written in one of the languages of the Nordic countries, that meets "high literary and artistic standards". Established in 1962, the prize is awarded every year, and is worth ... in 2001. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Discoverer, The 1999 novels 20th-century Norwegian novels Norwegian-language novels Nordic Council's Literature Prize-winning works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USC&GS Discoverer
USC&GS ''Discoverer'' was the name of two ships of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and may refer to: * , a survey ship in service from 1922 to 1941 * USC&GS ''Discoverer'', an oceanographic research ship in service in the Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1967 to 1970 and in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as from 1970 to 1996 {{DEFAULTSORT:Discoverer, USCandGS Ships of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discoverer Clear Leader
''Discoverer Clear Leader'' is a double hulled dynamically positioned drillship, capable of operating in moderate environments and water depths up to 12,000 feet (3,657m) using an , 15,000 psi blowout preventer (BOP), and a outside diameter (OD) marine riser. The Marshall Islands-flagged vessel is owned by Transocean, and is operating in the Gulf of Mexico of the United States. Sister ships ''Discoverer Clear Leader'' design is a "Transocean Offshore enhanced Enterprise-class" and has four other sister ship A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship. Such vessels share a nearly identical hull and superstructure layout, similar size, and roughly comparable features and equipment. They often share a ...s: ''Discoverer Americas'', ''Discoverer Inspiration'', ''Discoverer Luanda'', and ''Discoverer India''. References External links Transocean official website''Discoverer Clear Leader'' — V7MO2 — position and weath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
