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DUO
Duo may refer to: Places *Duo, West Virginia, an unincorporated community and coal town in Greenbrier County, West Virginia *Duo, Tampere, a shopping centre in Hervanta, Tampere, Finland * DUO, a twin-tower development in Singapore Arts, entertainment and media Fictional characters * Duo (''Mega Man''), a fictional protagonist in the Capcom video game series ''Mega Man'' *Duo Maxwell, a fictional protagonist in the television series ''Gundam Wing'' * Duo, the fictional owl mascot of the language learning website and mobile application Duolingo Films * ''Duo'' (1996 film), a 1996 independent film * ''Duo'' (2006 film), a Canadian romantic comedy film directed by Richard Ciupka * ''Pas de deux'' (film), a 1969 Canadian film also known as ''Duo'' Music * Duet or duo, a musical piece performed by two musicians * Musical duo, a musical ensemble composed of two musicians Albums * ''Duo'' (Kenny Drew and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen album), 1973 *'' Duo 2'', Kenny Drew and Niels-Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duo, Tampere
DUO (originally Hervantakeskus) is a shopping center located in Hervanta, Tampere, Finland. Its original part was designed by the architects Raili and Reima Pietilä, and was completed in the autumn of 1979. The duo has three large grocery stores: Lidl, S-market and K-Supermarket. In addition, there are Alko and Tokmanni as well as restaurants, specialty shops and other commercial services. There is an underground parking garage on the ground floor. There is a total of 11,700 square meters of retail space for rent in the shopping center. The shopping center is part of the central axis of Hervanta designed by Pietilä, which is a nationally significant entity of public buildings. It was once intended to improve Hervanta's concrete-like appearance. The old part of the shopping center, designed by Raili and Reima Pietilä, has features that are characteristic of the architecture and Art Nouveau style of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is a kind of mix of a Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duolingo
Duolingo ( ) is an American educational technology company which produces learning apps and provides language certification. On its main app, users can practice vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and listening skills using spaced repetition. Duolingo offers over 100 total courses across over 40 distinct languages; including a small variety of constructed languages. The company uses a freemium model with over 500 million registered users. Duolingo offers a premium service which eliminates advertising and offers more features. Duolingo also offers the Duolingo English Test certification program and a literacy app for children called Duolingo ABC, and the company released an elementary level math app called Duolingo Math currently exclusive to iOS. History The idea for Duolingo was initiated at the end of 2009 in Pittsburgh by Carnegie Mellon University professor Luis von Ahn and his post-graduate student Severin Hacker. Von Ahn had sold his second company, reCAPTCHA, to Google ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duo Airways
Duo Airways was an airline based in the United Kingdom. Its main bases were Birmingham Airport and Edinburgh Airport. It ceased operations in May 2004. History The airline was formed by a management buyout of the former Maersk UK in June 2003. The airline relaunched services in November 2003 but a shortage of funds led to it suspending flights and entering administration on 1 May 2004. The airline sought to provide a high quality of service at moderate prices, but faced a marketing challenge in explaining that it was not a low cost, no-frills carrier, and load factors took longer than expected to reach budgeted levels. Despite overwhelmingly positive reaction from passengers and an encouraging outlook, the airline had to close down when an investor withdrew support at short notice. Destinations Duo Airways served the following destinations throughout operations: Fleet The Duo Airways fleet consisted of the following aircraft through operations: See also * Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duo Maxwell
This is a list of characters from the Japanese anime television series ''Mobile Suit Gundam Wing'', known in Japan as , and subsequent spin-offs. The codes after the characters' names indicate which series and manga the characters appear in: * EZ – '' New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Episode Zero'' * W – '' New Mobile Report Gundam Wing'' * GU – '' New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Dual Story: G-Unit'' * TI – ''New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Tiel's Impulse'' * SY – ''New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Sidestory: A Scythe in My Right Hand, You in My Left'' * BT – ''New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Blind Target'' * BP – ''New Report Gundam Wing: Battlefield of Pacifists'' * EW – '' New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz'' * FT – '' New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop'' ; Z, W, BT, BP, EW, FT :*Ascendancy: Japanese : The protagonist of ''Mobile Suit Gundam Wing'', and the pilot of the XXXG-01W Wing Gundam and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pas De Deux (film)
''Pas de deux'' (released as ''Duo'' in the United States) is a 1968 short dance film by Norman McLaren, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The film was photographed on high contrast stock, with optical, step-and-repeat printing, for a sensuous and almost stroboscopic appearance. It shows a ballerina (Margaret Mercier) dancing by herself (or rather, with images of herself), before being joined by a male dancer (Vincent Warren), to perform the ''pas de deux'' of the title, as choreographed by Ludmilla Chiriaeff. The film is choreographed to Romanian pan pipe music. Awards ''Pas de deux'' received 17 awards, including the 1969 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, an Academy Award nomination, as ''Duo'' and the Golden Sheaf Award for Best of Festival at the 1969 Yorkton Film Festival. References *Collins, Maynard (1976). ''Norman McLaren (Canadian film series)'': Canadian Film Institute The Canadian Film Institute (CFI) (french: Institut canadien du film (ICF)) Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Duo
A double act (also known as a comedy duo) is a form of comedy originating in the British music hall tradition, and American vaudeville, in which two comedians perform together as a single act. Pairings are typically long-term, in some cases for the artists' entire careers. Double acts perform on the stage, television and film. The format is particularly popular in the UK where successful acts have included Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (Cook’s deadpan delivery contrasted with Moore’s buffoonery), Morecambe and Wise and ''The Two Ronnies''. The tradition is also present in the US with acts like Wheeler and Woolsey, Abbott and Costello, Gallagher and Shean, Burns and Allen, and Lyons and Yosco. The British-American comedy double act Laurel and Hardy has been described as the most popular in the world. Format Humor is often derived from the uneven relationship between two partners, usually of the same gender, age, ethnic origin, and profession but drastically different in terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Core 2 Duo
Intel Core is a line of streamlined midrange consumer, workstation and enthusiast computer central processing units (CPUs) marketed by Intel, Intel Corporation. These processors displaced the existing mid- to high-end Pentium processors at the time of their introduction, moving the Pentium to the entry level. Identical or more capable versions of Core processors are also sold as Xeon processors for the Server (computing), server and workstation markets. The lineup of Core processors includes the List of Intel Core i3 processors, Intel Core i3, List of Intel Core i5 processors, Intel Core i5, List of Intel Core i7 processors, Intel Core i7, and List of Intel Core i9 processors, Intel Core i9, along with the X-series of Intel Core CPUs. Outline Although Intel Core is a brand that promises no internal consistency or continuity, the processors within this family have been, for the most part, broadly similar. The first products receiving this designation were the Core Solo and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Duo
Google Duo is a proprietary voice over IP (VoIP) and videotelephony service developed by Google, available for Android, iOS and web browsers. It lets users make and receive one-to-one and group audio and video calls with other Duo users in high definition, using end-to-end encryption by default. Duo can be used either with a phone number or a Google account, allowing users to call someone from their contact list. Google Duo was announced at Google's developer conference on May 18, 2016, and began its worldwide release on August 16, 2016. As of December 2022, the service is being discontinued and slated for closure by the end of 2022, with features gradually merged into Google Meet. The Google Duo mobile app has been renamed Meet and the original Meet app is scheduled to be phased out. History In December 2016, Google Duo replaced Hangouts within the suite of Google apps device manufacturers must install in order to gain access to the Google Play Store, with Hangouts inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PowerBook Duo
The PowerBook Duo is a line of subnotebooks manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from 1992 until 1997 as a more compact companion to the PowerBook line. Improving upon the PowerBook 100's portability (its immediate predecessor and Apple's third-smallest laptop), the Duo came in seven different models. They were the Duo 210, 230, 250, 270c, 280, 280c, and 2300c, with the 210 and 230 being the earliest, and the 2300c being the final incarnation before the entire line was dropped in early 1997. Weighing and slightly smaller than a sheet of paper at , and only thick, it was the lightest and smallest of all of Apple's PowerBooks at the time, and remains one of Apple's smallest notebooks ever produced. Only the MacBook Air, the Retina MacBook Pro and the Retina MacBook weigh less, though they are wider and deeper (but considerably thinner). The Duo had the most in common with the original MacBook Air which only included one USB 2.0 port, one video port (requiring an adapter) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Duo And Trio Cocktails
Duos and trios are a family of mixed drinks. A duo contains a spirit and a liqueur; a trio additionally contains a creamy ingredient, commonly cream or Irish cream. This family of drinks is named in Gary Regan's ''The Joy of Mixology''. There is much variation in their ingredients, but their defining feature is that they are somewhat sweet due to their liqueur content. Duos ; B and B: Cognac and Bénédictine ;Black nail: Irish whisky and Irish Mist ; Black Russian: vodka and Kahlúa (coffee liqueur) ;Brave bull: Tequila and Kahlúa ; Dirty mother: Brandy and Kahlúa ;Dubonnet cocktail: Gin and red Dubonnet ;French Connection: Amaretto and cognac ; Godfather: Amaretto and Scotch ; Godmother: Amaretto and vodka ; Green Hornet: Brandy and green crème de menthe ;Royal widow: Crown Royal (Canadian whisky) and amaretto ; Rusty nail: Scotch and Drambuie ;Stinger: Brandy and white crème de menthe ; Vodka stinger: vodka and white crème de menthe ;Widow's cork: Jameson Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duo, West Virginia
Duo is an unincorporated community and coal town in Greenbrier County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bur ..., United States. Duo is east-northeast of Quinwood. The community was so named on account of there being only two houses standing at the town site. References Unincorporated communities in Greenbrier County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Coal towns in West Virginia {{GreenbrierCountyWV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duo Interpretation
Duo Interpretation, or often simply called Duo Interp, or just Duo, is an official speech event of Stoa USA, the National Speech and Debate Association, the National Catholic Forensics League, National Christian Forensics and Communications Association, American Forensics Association, and the National Forensics Association. The event involves a pair of performers acting out a literary piece or program under certain constraints, including not making eye contact nor touching their partner, and not using props. Pieces used often include published books, movies, short story, short stories, Play (theatre), plays, or poems. Participants may cut anything out of their piece, but cannot add any dialogue. This event can either be dramatic or humorous. Performance Like other interpretation events, props and costumes are not allowed, and the performers rely on things such as pantomime to convey what is happening. Duo Interpretation differs from the other events in the sense that the most impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
