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Gale (other)
A gale is a very strong wind. Gale may also refer to: Places United States * Gale, Illinois, a village * Gale, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Gale Peak, a mountain in California * Gale, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Gale, Wisconsin, a town * Gale River, New Hampshire Elsewhere * Gale (crater), on Mars * Praia da Galé, a beach in Portugal * Gale (Chalcidice), an ancient Greek colony of Chalcis on Chalkidiki peninsula People and fictional characters * Gale (given name) * Gale (surname) * George Gale (cartoonist) (1929–2003), who drew under the name Gale * Gale (mythology), a Greek mythological witch Other uses * Gale (publisher), a publisher of reference books and databases, formerly known as the Gale Group, then Thomson Gale * Gale College, a defunct college in Wisconsin, US * HMNZS ''Gale'' (T04), a minesweeper of the Royal New Zealand Navy * Gale, a variant of the Shannon switching game * Gale, a parcel of land leased to a Freeminer for min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gale
A gale is a strong wind; the word is typically used as a descriptor in nautical contexts. The U.S. National Weather Service defines a gale as sustained surface winds moving at a speed of between 34 and 47 knots (, or ).National Weather Service Glossary s.v "gale" Forecasters typically issue s when winds of this strength are expected. In the , a gale warning is specifically a maritime warning; the land-based equivalent in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gale (mythology)
Gale ( grc, Γαλῆ, Galê, weasel, marten ) is a minor character in Greek mythology. She was a very skillful witch. Mythology According to Aelian's ''On the Characteristics of Animals'', Gale was a talented witch who dealt in herbs and potions. But she was extremely incontinent, and had abnormal sexual desires. For this Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, turned her into a small, "evil" (in the words of Aelian) animal bearing her name, ''gale'' (a land- marten or polecat). Aelian, ''On Animals'15.11/ref> Thus the animal became one of the most commonly associated ones with Hecate. Martens/weasels were thought to have magical potency in ancient Greece, though not necessarily of the beneficial kind. Gale's name shares an etymology with that of Galanthis, another mortal woman who was turned into a weasel at the hands of an angered goddess. See also * Medea * Circe * Pasiphae * Selene References Bibliography * * Claudius Aelianus Claudius Aelianus ( grc, Κλαύδ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gales (other)
Gales can refer to: Places *Wales, a country that is part of the United Kingdom, called "Gales" in Spanish, Galician, Basque and Guarani and "País de Gales" in Portuguese * Galeş, a village in Săliște town, Sibiu County, Romania * Gales Addition, Washington, U.S. * Gales Creek (other) *Gales Ferry, Connecticut, U.S. *Gales Point, Belize *Gales Township, Redwood County, Minnesota, U.S. People * Dion Gales (born 1985), American footballer *Eric Gales (born 1974), American blues rock guitarist * Henry Gales (1834–1897), English painter * Joseph Gales Sr. (1761–1841), American journalist ** Joseph Gales (1786–1860), American journalist and his son *Jules Gales (1924–1988), Luxembourgian footballer *Kenny Gales (born 1972), American footballer *Larry Gales (1936–1995), American jazz double-bassist *Pete Gales (born 1959), Canadian footballer *Seaton Gales (1828–1878), American editor *Simon Gales (born 1964), British contemporary artist *Winifred Gales (1761– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail (other)
Gail may refer to: People *Gail (given name), list of notable people with the given name Surname * Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829), French Hellenist scholar * Max Gail (born 1943), American actor * Sophie Gail (1775–1819), French singer and composer Places ;Austria * Gail (river), Austria ;United States * Gail, Texas * Gail Lake Township, Minnesota Other uses * Gail's, British cafe and bakery chain * GAIL, Gas Authority of India Limited * GAIL: GNOME Accessibility Implementation Library – implements the computing accessibility interfaces defined by the GNOME Accessibility Toolkit (ATK) * Gail Valley dialect, a Slovene dialect in Central Europe See also * Gael (given name) * Gale (other) * Gayle (other) Gayle or Gayl may refer to: People * Gayle (given name), people with the given name * Gayle (surname), people with the surname * Gayle (singer) (born 2004), American singer-songwriter Places * Gayle, North Yorkshire, England * Gayle, Jamaica, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gael
The Gaels ( ; ga, Na Gaeil ; gd, Na Gàidheil ; gv, Ny Gaeil ) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man in the British Isles. They are associated with the Gaelic languages: a branch of the Celtic languages comprising Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic. Gaelic language and culture originated in Ireland, extending to Dál Riata in western Scotland. In antiquity, the Gaels traded with the Roman Empire and also raided Roman Britain. In the Middle Ages, Gaelic culture became dominant throughout the rest of Scotland and the Isle of Man. There was also some Gaelic settlement in Wales, as well as cultural influence through Celtic Christianity. In the Viking Age, small numbers of Vikings raided and settled in Gaelic lands, becoming the Norse-Gaels. In the 9th century, Dál Riata and Pictland merged to form the Gaelic Kingdom of Alba. Meanwhile, Gaelic Ireland was made up of several kingdoms, with a High King often claiming lordship over them. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myrica Gale
''Myrica gale'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Myricaceae, native to parts of Japan, North Korea, Russia, mainland Europe, the British Isles and parts of northern North America, in Canada and the United States. Common names include bog-myrtle, sweet willow, Dutch myrtle, and sweetgale. Description ''Myrica gale'' is a deciduous shrub growing to tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, long, oblanceolate with a tapered base and broader tip, and a crinkled or finely toothed margin. The flowers are catkins, with male and female catkins on separate plants (dioecious). The fruit is a small drupe. Distribution and habitat Bog-myrtle is distributed throughout parts of the Northern Hemisphere, including: Japan, North Korea, Russia, mainland Europe, the British Isles, Canada and the United States. It typically grows in acidic peat bogs, and to cope with these difficult nitrogen-poor growing conditions, the roots have nitrogen-fixing actinobacteria which enable the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Autonomous Language Exploitation
The Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) program was funded by DARPA starting in 2005 to develop technologies for automatic information extraction from multilingual newscasts, documents and other forms of communication. The program encompassed three main challenges: automatic speech recognition, machine translation, and information retrieval. The focus of the program was on recognizing speech in Mandarin and Arabic and translating it to English. Teams led by IBM, BBN (led by John Makhoul), and SRI participated in the program. Both ICSI and University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ... participated in the program under the SRI team. References {{Reflist DARPA projects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Tool Works (automobile Company)
Western Tool Works was a pioneering brass era automobile manufacturer in Galesburg, Illinois. The company made Gale automobiles from 1904 to 1910. Early Gale runabouts were notable for having bodywork hinged at the rear of the car that could be lifted to ease access to the engine, essentially making the entire body the hood. In 1905 Western produced the Gale Model A runabout for sale at US$500. This was less expensive than the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout at US$650, the 2-seat Ford Model C "Doctor's Car" at US$850, or the Holsman high wheeler, but more expensive than the Black at $375, and the Success at US$250. The Model A came standard with a water-cooled engine mounted beneath the tilting body, chain drive, elliptic springs, spoke wheels with tube tires, and repair kit. The same year, Western offered the US$650 Gale Model B. Its water-cooled engine, springs, wheels, and tires had the same dimensions as those of the Model A, and it also had chain drive and a repair k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freeminer
''Freeminer'' is an ancient title given to coal or iron miners in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, who have earned the right to mine personal plots, known as ''gales''. History of Freemining For hundreds of years, mining of the Forest of Dean Coalfield and iron reserves has been regulated through a system of Freemining, with the Free Miner's Mine Law Court sitting at the Speech House from 1682. The earliest known existing copy of ''Dean Miners’ Laws and Privileges'', known locally as the ''Book of Dennis'', dates from 1610 but the copy itself contains references to much earlier origins. It also claims that Freemining rights were granted to Foresters by Edward I who, in so doing, also confirmed that such 'customes and franchises' had existed since 'tyme out of mynde'. Freeminers had been instrumental in recapturing Berwick-upon-Tweed several times (1296, 1305 and 1315) and it is thought that these privileges were granted as a reward for their endeavours. A plaque be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Switching Game
The Shannon switching game is a connection game for two players, invented by American mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory" some time before 1951. Two players take turns coloring the edges of an arbitrary graph. One player has the goal of connecting two distinguished vertices by a path of edges of their color. The other player aims to prevent this by using their color instead (or, equivalently, by erasing edges). The game is commonly played on a rectangular grid; this special case of the game was independently invented by American mathematician David Gale in the late 1950s and is known as Gale or Bridg-It. Rules The game is played on a finite graph with two special nodes, ''A'' and ''B''. Each edge of the graph can be either colored or removed. The two players are called ''Short'' and ''Cut'', and alternate moves. On Cut's turn, Cut deletes from the graph a non-colored edge of their choice. On Short's turn, Short colors any e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMNZS Gale (T04)
HMNZS ''Gale'' (T04) was a coastal cargo boat which was requisitioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) and converted into a minesweeper. She was the first New Zealand vessel to go into action against Japan. ''Gale'' was owned by the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company. She was one of four ships requisitioned as a consequence of the 's minefield and the loss of the liner , the others being , and . She was taken over on 10 October 1940 and handed to the dockyard for conversion. She was a sister ship to . Operational history ''Gale'' joined the 25th Minesweeping Flotilla in April 1941, sweeping for German mines in the Hauraki Gulf. On 14 May, she rescued the survivors of the ''Puriri'' sinking. Later in 1941, the flotilla swept suspected minefield areas such as near Cuvier Island and Farewell Spit. In December 1941 ''Gale'' detached to relieve in Fiji. She returned to New Zealand for refit in February 1942. In June 1942, ''Gale'' was deployed to Noumea for port minesweeping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gale College
Gale College (also Galesville University and Marynook) was a private college in Galesville, Wisconsin. It was founded by George Gale, opening in 1854 and closing in 1939. Several religious denominations used the facilities as a college and later as a training school. History Judge George Gale went to college at the University of Vermont and moved to the western frontier in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in the early 1850s. After finding little interest in starting a college in La Crosse, he bought to start Galesville at a choice spot for his planned university. The state of Wisconsin chartered the school in 1854 as Galesville University and Gale held the first classes in the county courthouse in Galesville. The first class had 16 students including Gale's son, George Gale Jr. Old Main was completed in 1862 and the campus was occupied in 1863. Gale ran the nonsectarian college until 1865 and the school floundered when his health deteriorated during his involvement in the American Civil Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
