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John P. D'Arcy
John Paul D'Arcy (December 28, 1957 – July 4, 1994) was an American electrical engineer and inventor closely associated with designing commercial subwoofers and lasers for Photorefractive keratectomy. He attended Palos Verdes High School in Los Angeles County from 1972 to 1975, and graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon preparatory school in 1976, before enrolling at Brown University. He worked at A Broun Sound in San Rafael, California, reconing loudspeakers for the Grateful Dead before taking a position at Miller & Kreisel Sound Corporation (M&K), where he worked from 1980 to 1984. His contributions to the filter and amplifier sections of their powered subwoofers (Models V-1B, V-2B, V-3B, VX-4 and VX-7), and to the development of the Satellite speakers (Models S-1B, S-2B, S-3B and SX-4) helped establish M&K as an early leader in the satellite/subwoofer market. M&K Executive Vice President Charles Back called D'Arcy "the best digital engineer we ever worked with.". He subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meredithe Stuart-Smith
Meredithe Stuart-Smith ( Karl; born 1957) is an American designer. She was a major figure in the Greeting card, alternative card movement of the 1980s and has continued to be influential in the subsequent development of greetings cards and lifestyle markets. She is founder of the multi-national children’s lifestyle company Meri Meri. Since 1996 she has lived primarily in the UK. Early life Stuart-Smith grew up in Kansas City, near to the headquarters of Hallmark. In 1978 she married the design engineer John P. D'Arcy (1957–1994). They moved to California where Mr. D'Arcy worked for Miller & Kreisel Sound Corporation from 1980 to 1984. Early career Stuart-Smith showed an interest in fashion and making things from an early age. In 1985 she started making greetings cards at home and selling them to stores in Los Angeles. There were no hand-made cards in the market at that time. Following local success, she exhibited in NYC in 1987, where her company Meri Meri attracted the atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spectra Physics Corporation
Spectra may refer to: * The plural of spectrum, conditions or values that vary over a continuum, especially the colours of visible light * ''Spectra'' (journal), of the Museum Computer Network (MCN) * The plural of spectrum (topology), an object representing a generalized cohomology theory in algebraic topology * Spectra (mathematical association), an association of LGBT mathematicians * Spectra (Latreille 1802), an order of stick-insects, or Phasmatodea Companies and products * Kia Spectra, a car developed by Kia Motors from 2000 to the present. * Motorola Spectra and Astro Spectra, models of two-way radio. * Optare Spectra, a bus body built by Optare. * Polaroid Spectra, a type of instant camera and instant film formerly produced by the Polaroid Corporation. * RCA Spectra 70, the name for a series of mainframe computers made by RCA, and which were sold to Univac to become the Univac 90/60 series computer. * Spectra, a brand of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene fiber. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown University Alumni
Brown is a color. It can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is usually made by combining the colors orange and black. In the RGB color model used to project colors onto television screens and computer monitors, brown combines red and green. The color brown is seen widely in nature, wood, soil, human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil. According to public opinion surveys in Europe and the United States, brown is the least favorite color of the public; it is often associated with plainness, the rustic, feces, and poverty. More positive associations include baking, warmth, wildlife, and the autumn. Etymology The term is from Old English , in origin for any dusky or dark shade of color. The first recorded use of ''brown'' as a color name in English was in 1000. The Common Germanic adjectives ''*brûnoz and *brûnâ'' meant b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northfield Mount Hermon School Alumni
Northfield may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Northfield, Aberdeen, Scotland * Northfield, Edinburgh, Scotland * Northfield, Birmingham, England * Northfield (Kettering BC Ward), Northamptonshire, England United States * Northfield, Connecticut * Northfield, Illinois * Northfield, Indiana * Northfield, Maine * Northfield, Massachusetts, a New England town ** Northfield (CDP), Massachusetts, a census-designated place in the town * Northfield, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Northfield, Minnesota * Northfield, New Jersey * Northfield, New Hampshire * Northfield, Ohio * Northfield, Vermont, town ** Northfield (CDP), Vermont, the main settled area in the town ** Northfield (village), Vermont, smaller village within the CDP; no longer incorporated * Northfield, Wisconsin, town * Northfield (community), Wisconsin, unincorporated community Elsewhere * Northfield, South Australia * Northfield Parish, New Brunswick, Canada * Northfield, Nova Scotia (other), se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Electrical Engineers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Deaths
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa's first president, and which effectively brought Apartheid to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada, the United States, and Mexico; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened Channel tunnel; The 1994 FIFA World Cup is held in the United States; Skulls from the Rwandan genocide, in which over half a million Tutsi people were massacred by Hutus., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1994 Winter Olympics rect 200 0 400 200 Northridge earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Sinking of the MS Estonia rect 0 200 300 400 Rwandan genocide rect 300 200 600 400 Nelson Mandela rect 0 400 200 600 1994 FIFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Births
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having ''handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of '' Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meri Meri Commune, Teleorman County, Romania
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Meri may refer to: *Meri (name) *Meri (mythology), folk hero in Bororo mythology *Meri, term in shakuhachi music *''The Meri'', novel by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff *''Meri'', release title of La Mer (film) in Finland * Meri (political party), now-defunct political party in Israel * Meri or Mery, an ancient Egyptian name Places *Merì, town in Italy *Meri, Cameroon, commune in Extrême-Nord region *Meri, Iran (other) *Meri, a village in Drăgăneşti Commune, Prahova County, Romania *Meri, a village in Vedea The Vedea () is a river in southern Romania that flows from the Cotmeana Plateau and empties into the Danube. It has a total length of 224 km, of which 33 km is regulated. Its drainage basin area is 5,430 km2. It flows in Argeș Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center For Computer Research In Music And Acoustics
Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. These centers and institutes may be within a department, within a school but across departments, an independent laboratory, institute or center reporting directly to the dean of research and outside any school, or semi-independent of the university itself. Independent laboratories, institutes and centers These report directly to the vice-provost and dean of research and are outside any school though any faculty involved in them must belong to a department in one of the schools. These include Bio-X and Spectrum in the area of Biological and Life Sciences; Precourt Institute for Energy and Woods Institute for the Environment in the Environmental Sciences area; the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) (see below), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) (see below), Human-Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considered among the most prestigious universities in the world. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Leland Stanford was a U.S. senator and former governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, provost of Stanford Frederick Terman inspired and supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 population of 1,013,240, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area, San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 9.7 million people respectively, the List of largest California cities by population, third-most populous city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego and ahead of San Francisco), and the List of United States cities by population, tenth-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of . San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County and the main component of the San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
