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Kolibri
''Kolibri'', meaning ''hummingbird'', may refer to: Technology and engineering * Kolibri Games, a German gaming company * 2mm Kolibri, a pistol * Borgward Kolibri, aka Borgward-Focke BFK-1 Kolibri, a German three-seated utility helicopter built by Borgward * Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri, a German single seat helicopter from World War II * KolibriOS, a computer operating system * Zeiss Ikon Kolibri, Kolibri 523/18 was a camera made by Zeiss Ikon between 1930 and 1935 * An experimental storage battery in the Audi A2 vehicle * A Soviet torpedo Other * Kolibri (band), a Russian musical group * Kolibri (keelboat), a Dutch cabin sailing boat designed in 1963 * ''Kolibri'' (video game), a video game for the Sega 32X * Kolibri Choir, a children's choir * Night of the Long Knives, a Nazi Germany purge, by code word * The code name for the character Martin Rauch in the television series '' Deutschland 83'' and sequels See also * Colibri (other) * Kolibree Kolibree is a French com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolibri Choir
RTS Children's Choir "Kolibri" ( sr, Дечји хор РТС "Колибри" / ''Dečji Hor RTS „Kolibri”''), known simply as the "Kolibri Choir" (''Hor Kolibri'' / Хор Колибри) is a children's choir of the Radio Television of Serbia (RTS). History The Children’s Choir "Kolibri" ("kolibri" meaning "hummingbirds" in Serbo-Croatian) was founded in 1963 by Milica Manojlović who conducted the ensemble within the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation for 44 years. During the last fifty years, the "Kolibri" Choir has given hundreds of concerts at home and abroad, taken part in radio dramas, and made regular appearances in television and films. The choir had 50 members , all between 4 and 12 years old. The Choir has also been the launchpad of several pop stars in Serbia, such as teen sensation Zoran Leković. The Kolibri Choir performs at home and abroad, making regular appearances on television and in films. All their recordings are published by the Music Production of Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KolibriOS
KolibriOS, or Kolibri, is a small, open-source x86 operating system written completely in assembly. It was forked from MenuetOS in 2004 and has run under independent development since. In a 2009 review piece on alternative operating systems, ''TechRadar'' called it "tremendously impressive", noting its performance and streamlined codebase. Features * Pre-emptive multitasking, streams, and parallel execution of system calls * Boots in a few seconds from various devices, with support for NTFS and Ext2/ 3/ 4; can also boot from Coreboot and Windows (Windows will shut down) * Graphical user interface based on, and optimised for, VESA * Development kit: code editor with an integrated macro assembler (FASM) * Most distributions will fit on a single 1.44 MB floppy disk image Commands The following is a list of commands supported by the KolibriOS Shell: * about * alias * cd * clear * cp * date * echo * exit * free * help * history * kill * ls * mkdir * more * ps * pwd * reboot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolibri (band)
Kolibri is a Soviet and Russian experimental pop/rock group formed in 1988 in Saint-Petersburg playing an eclectic brand of baroque pop blended with elements of post-punk, cabaret, chanson and dominated by vocal harmony. In their heyday Kolibri, according to rock historian Andrey Burlaka, combined ironic high posturing with touchingly humane attitude, writing and performing songs that were described variously as exquisite, depressive, extravagant, romantic, naive, sophisticated and decadent. The band released six studio albums which were well received by critics both in Europe and in Russia but never had any commercial success. www.allmusic.com Kolibri/ref> Natasha Pivovarova, Kolibri's founding member, left in 1998 to form her own band Sous (The Sauce). She died in a car crash in Crimea, Ukraine, in September 2007. Band history Kolibri were formed in 1988, originally as a side project for (born 17 July 1963 in Novgorod), then a member of Sergey Kuryokhin's Populyarnaya Mekhani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolibri Games
Kolibri Games GmbH is a German mobile games company based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 2016 by Daniel Stammler, Janosch Sadowski, Tim Reiter, Oliver Löffler and Sebastian Karasek as Fluffy Fairy Games. The company develops idle games for mobile devices and gained international recognition with their game ''Idle Miner Tycoon'' that has been downloaded over 100 million times. Ubisoft acquired a 75% majority share of Kolibri Games in February 2020 with a company valuation of €160 Million. History The company was founded as Fluffy Fairy Games in a student apartment, without any external financing. In July 2016, the company released ''Idle Miner Tycoon'', a mining simulation with idle mechanics, after eight weeks of development. In January 2018, the company moved to Berlin. In April 2018, the company released ''Idle Factory Tycoon'' on iOS and Android. The idle game that simulates a factory empire has since been downloaded over 10 million times. In October 2018, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2mm Kolibri
The 2mm Kolibri (also known as the 2.7mm Kolibri Car Pistol or 2.7×9mm Kolibri) was the smallest commercially available centerfire cartridge,Barnes, Frank C. Cartridges of the World. DBI Books, 1976, p.146 patented in 1910 and introduced in 1914 by Franz Pfannl, an Austrian watchmaker, with financial support from Georg Grabner. It was designed to accompany the Kolibri semi-auto pistol or single-shot pistol, both marketed as self-defense weapons. The name is derived from '' Kolibri'', the German word for hummingbird, which is among the smallest of birds. Background The cartridge weighs 5.3 grams (82 grains), measures 3.6 millimeters (0.14 in) at its widest point, and 11 mm (0.43 in) from the base of the primer to the tip of the bullet. The cartridge is headspaced on the mouth of the case. The bullet itself masses 0.2 g (3 grains), and is estimated to have a normal muzzle velocity of , resulting in a muzzle energy of 4.0 J (3 ft-lbs).*Wilson, R. K. ''Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolibri (video Game)
''Kolibri'' is a shooting game created exclusively for the Sega 32X, a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis add-on console. It was designed by Ed Annunziata and developed by Novotrade (now known as Appaloosa). ''Kolibri'' is the word or root word for hummingbird in several European languages. Gameplay The game offers numerous power-ups for the player's ''kolibri''. Each one follows different patterns. Some are spread shots and others will home in on an enemy. This game also features a good number of puzzles which grow increasingly difficult with each level. Plot Long ago, a crystal from outer space embedded itself in the earth and started creating life. Soon another similar crystal crashed to earth and started to destroy what the first crystal had created and started to sap away its strength. Before being totally destroyed the crystal gave a lone hummingbird its power. It is up to this hummingbird to save the earth. Development and release Reception ''Kolibri'' received mostly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borgward Kolibri
The Borgward BFK-1 Kolibri, a.k.a. Borgward-Focke BFK-1 Kolibri, (Kolibri meaning "hummingbird" in German) was a German three-seated utility helicopter built by Borgward, designed by Heinrich Focke and was the first German helicopter after World War II. The helicopter first flew on July 8, 1958, in Bremen, piloted by Ewald Rohlfs Ewald Rohlfs (1911 Bremen, Germany - 1984) was a test pilot. In June 1936 Rohlfs made the first flight of a helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 is often considered the first practical, functional helicopter, first flown in .... Design and development Two prototypes were built; they had steel tubing fuselages, covered with metal and fabric and v-tails with tail rotors at their tips. The plywood covered main rotors had three blades with steel tubing spars. The helicopter had a six-cylinder air-cooled Lycoming VO-435-A1B engine, producing 260 hp. The fuel tank was capable of holding 180L. The helicopter could be used for sprayi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri
The Flettner Fl 282 ''Kolibri'' ("Hummingbird") is a single-seat intermeshing rotor helicopter, or ''synchropter'', produced by Anton Flettner of Germany. According to Yves Le Bec, the Flettner Fl 282 was the world's first series production helicopter. Design and development The Fl 282 ''Kolibri'' was an improved version of the Flettner Fl 265 announced in July 1940, which pioneered the same intermeshing rotor configuration that the ''Kolibri'' used. It had a 7.7 litre displacement, seven-cylinder Siemens-Halske Sh 14 radial engine of mounted in the center of the fuselage, with a transmission mounted on the front of the engine from which a drive shaft ran to an upper gearbox, which then split the power to a pair of opposite-rotation drive shafts to turn the rotors. The Sh 14 engine was a venerable, tried-and-true design with low specific power output and low power/weight ratio (20.28 hp/L, 0.54 hp/lb) which could (anecdotally) run for up to 400 hours without major ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeiss Ikon Kolibri
The Kolibri 523/18 was a camera by Zeiss Ikon, made between 1930 and 1935. The Kolibri took sixteen 3x4cm exposures on 127 film. The camera featured a collapsible lens tube and was arranged in a vertical format, with a flip-up viewfinder In photography, a viewfinder is what the photographer looks through to compose, and, in many cases, to focus the picture. Most viewfinders are separate, and suffer parallax, while the single-lens reflex camera lets the viewfinder use the main ... on the top. On the right-hand side was the winding knob and a tripod bush; there was another tripod bush at the bottom. The lens had small "feet" on either side, so the camera would stand horizontally, and a strut could be fixed below the lens to balance the camera vertically. There were two red windows on the back, for the small image format. A supplementary close-up lens was available, called Proxar, which allowed focusing down to 30 cm. *Lens: Carl Zeiss Tessar 5 cm/f3.5 or f4.5, Novar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolibri (keelboat)
The kolibri 560 is a Dutch cabin sailing boat A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship. Distinctions in what constitutes a sailing boat and ship vary by region and maritime culture. Types Although sailboat terminology ... designed in 1963 by G.A. Pfeiffer and built by Antoon van den Brink and his sons. The boats were a great success because they were sold as a self building package which made them affordable for a lot of people. The building packages were sold until the early 1980s and delivery periods of one year were the norm. The kolibri 560 is a 5.60 m long, 2.00 m wide with a depth of 1.00 m, sailing boat which is unsinkable, has a self draining tub and is sea worthy. Four people can sleep in this boat and it was presented at the HISWA exposition (a Dutch boat exposition) in 1964. Over a thousand were sold. In 2007 a polyester version was developed and was nicknamed Polybri. Features The kolibri 560 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Of The Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives (German: ), or the Röhm purge (German: ''Röhm-Putsch''), also called Operation Hummingbird (German: ''Unternehmen Kolibri''), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ordered a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate his power and alleviate the concerns of the German military about the role of Ernst Röhm and the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA), the Nazis' paramilitary organization, known colloquially as "Brownshirts". Nazi propaganda presented the murders as a preventive measure against an alleged imminent coup by the SA under Röhm – the so-called ''Röhm Putsch''. The primary instruments of Hitler's action, which carried out most of the killings, were the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) paramilitary force under Himmler and its Security Service (SD), and Gestapo (secret police) under Reinhard Heydrich. Göring's personal po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Torpedoes By Name
__NOTOC__ The list of torpedoes by name includes all torpedoes operated in the past or present. See also * List of lists of weapons Notes References * Boyne, Walter J. ''Clash of Titans.'' (1995) Simon and Schuster, NY, NY. . * Morison, Samuel Eliot Samuel Eliot (December 22, 1821 – September 14, 1898) was an American historian, educator, and statesman of Boston, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut. Biography Eliot was born in Boston, the son of William Havard Eliot (1796 - 1 .... ''History of United States Naval Operations in World War Two.'' 1984 edition, Volume 3. Little, Brown, and Company. * {{cite journal, author=Kurak, Steve , title=The U. S. Navy's Torpedo Inventory , url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1966/september/professional-notes-notebook-and-progress , publisher=United States Naval Institute Proceedings , date=September 1966 "Torpedo History" Geoff Kirby (1972) * Torpedoes by name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
