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Moffat (other)
Moffat is a former burgh and spa town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Moffat or Moffatt may also refer to: Places United States * Moffat, Colorado, a town * Moffat County, Colorado * Moffat Tunnel, a railroad tunnel in Colorado * Moffatt Township, Michigan * Moffat, Texas, an unincorporated community Elsewhere * Moffat Beach, Queensland, Australia * Mount Moffat, Antarctica * Moffat Hills, Scotland, a range of hills People * Moffat (surname), a list of people with the surname Moffat or Moffatt * Moffat (given name), a list of people with the given name Moffat or Moffatt * Clan Moffat, Scottish clan Arts and entertainment * The Moffatts, Canadian band * '' The Moffats'', a children's novel by Eleanor Estes * Irene Moffat, a character in the 1987 American fantasy comedy movie ''Harry and the Hendersons'' * Sarah Moffat, a fictional television character from ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' Other uses * Moffat (company), an appliance brand originally from Australia * Moffat Commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moffat
Moffat ( gd, Mofad) is a burgh and parish in Dumfriesshire, now part of the Dumfries and Galloway local authority area in Scotland. It lies on the River Annan, with a population of around 2,500. It was a centre of the wool trade and a spa town. Moffat is around to the southeast of Glasgow, southwest of Edinburgh, northeast of Dumfries and northwest of Carlisle. The Moffat House Hotel, located at the northern end of the High Street, was designed by John Adam. The nearby Star Hotel, a mere 20 ft (6 m) wide, was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the narrowest hotel in the world. Moffat won the Britain in Bloom contest in 1996. Moffat is home to Moffat toffee. The town is held to be the ancestral seat of Clan Moffat. The Devil's Beef Tub near Moffat was used by the members of Clan Moffat and later the members of Clan Johnstone to hoard cattle stolen in predatory raids. Early tourism as a spa town From 1633 Moffat began to grow from a small village into a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Moffat
Sarah Moffat (born Clémence Moffat; July 1882 –Unknown), also known as Sarah Delice and Clémence Dumas, is a fictional character in the ITV drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' and its spin-off '' Thomas & Sarah''. She was portrayed by Pauline Collins. Early life Sarah was the daughter of Albert Moffat and Marianne Dumas, who said she was the granddaughter of Alexandre Dumas, she was baptized as Clémence Moffat. Her parents met at the Theatre Royal in 1879, and Clémence was conceived about three months before her parents' marriage and born in July 1882. She had two younger siblings, a brother Charlie, who was born in 1887, and a sister named Sophia. Charlie, whom she had to spend much time in her childhood looking after due to his ill health, died in the final days of 1899; and Sophia later married. At the age of 6, she first went on the stage with the help of Agnes Hewitt, the manager of the Olympic Theatre in Drury Lane and earned three shillings a week. Her father, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moffatt Oxidation
Moffat is a former burgh and spa town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Moffat or Moffatt may also refer to: Places United States * Moffat, Colorado, a town * Moffat County, Colorado * Moffat Tunnel, a railroad tunnel in Colorado * Moffatt Township, Michigan * Moffat, Texas, an unincorporated community Elsewhere * Moffat Beach, Queensland, Australia * Mount Moffat, Antarctica * Moffat Hills, Scotland, a range of hills People * Moffat (surname), a list of people with the surname Moffat or Moffatt * Moffat (given name), a list of people with the given name Moffat or Moffatt * Clan Moffat, Scottish clan Arts and entertainment * The Moffatts, Canadian band * '' The Moffats'', a children's novel by Eleanor Estes * Irene Moffat, a character in the 1987 American fantasy comedy movie '' Harry and the Hendersons'' * Sarah Moffat, a fictional television character from ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' Other uses * Moffat (company), an appliance brand originally from Australia * Moffat Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moffatt, New Translation
Moffatt, New Translation (MNT) is an abbreviation of the title ''The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments, a New Translation'' by James Moffatt. Description In the introduction to his 1926 edition, Moffatt wrote, "The aim I have endeavoured to keep before my mind in making this translation has been to present the books of the Old and the New Testament in effective, intelligible English. No translation of an ancient classic can be quite intelligible, it is true, unless the reader is sufficiently acquainted with its environment to understand some of its flying allusions and characteristic metaphors. But something may be done and I am convinced, ought to be done at the present day to offer the unlearned a transcript of the Biblical literature as it lies in the light thrown upon it by modern research. The Bible is not always what it seems to those who read it in the great prose of the English version or indeed, in any of the conventional versions. What it is may be partly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moffat Distribution
The Moffat distribution, named after the physicist Anthony Moffat, is a continuous probability distribution based upon the Lorentzian distribution. Its particular importance in astrophysics is due to its ability to accurately reconstruct point spread functions, whose wings cannot be accurately portrayed by either a Gaussian or Lorentzian function. Characterisation Probability density function The Moffat distribution can be described in two ways. Firstly as the distribution of a bivariate random variable (''X'',''Y'') centred at zero, and secondly as the distribution of the corresponding radii :R=\sqrt. In terms of the random vector (''X'',''Y''), the distribution has the probability density function (pdf) : f(x,y; \alpha,\beta)=\frac\left +\left(\frac\right)\right , \, where \alpha and \beta are seeing dependent parameters. In this form, the distribution is a reparameterisation of a bivariate Student distribution with zero correlation. In terms of the random variable ''R'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moffat V Moffat
Moffat v Moffat 9841 NZLR 600 is a leading New Zealand case regarding unconscionable bargains. Background Mr and Mrs Moffat after 18 years of marriage, separated and entered into a separation agreement. The separation agreement was highly one sided in favour of Mr Moffat, which not only granted him full custody of their 4 children, but also the ownership of the matrimonial house, and all its possessions. Prior to accepting, Mrs Moffat was advised by her husband's solicitor to get legal advice, but declined to do so. She signed an acknowledgement confirming this. Mrs Moffat subsequently came to her senses and tried to have this one sided agreement set aside due to it being an unconscionable bargain. She argued, that when she entered into the agreement, she was unwell both physically and mentally, thought she might have been pregnant to a man she was having an affair with, had not taken legal advice, nor did she know the value of her interest in their house and claimed that her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5542 Moffatt
5542 Moffatt, provisional designation , is a Marian asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 6 August 1978, by astronomers at the Perth Observatory in Bickley, Australia. The likely S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 5.19 hours. It was named for Australian Ethelwin Moffatt, a benefactor of the discovering observatory. Orbit and classification ''Moffatt'' is a core member of the Maria family (), a large intermediate belt family of stony asteroids. Alternatively, it has also been assigned to the stony Eunomia family (), one of the most prominent families in the intermediate main belt with more than 5,000 members. It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.2–3.0 AU once every 4 years and 2 months (1,520 days; semi-major axis of 2.59 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.16 and an inclination of 16 ° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyne (1807 Ship)
''Boyne'' was launched at Calcutta in 1807. In 1809 she sailed to England. She was sold to the Danes, but by 1811 was under English ownership under the name ''Moffat'' (or ''Moffatt''). She then made seven voyages as a "regular ship" for the British East India Company (EIC). After the EIC exited its maritime activities in 1833–34, ''Moffat'' made four voyages transporting convicts to Australia: one voyage to Port Jackson and three to Van Diemen's Land. She also made at least one voyage carrying immigrants to South Australia, and later regularly traded between Liverpool and Bombay. She was last listed in 1856. ''Boyne'' Captain John Nicholls (or Nichol) sailed from Calcutta on 17 April 1809, bound for England. ''Boyne'' was at Saugor on 14 July and Madras on 21 September. She reached the Cape of Good Hope 25 December and St Helena on 27 January 1810; she arrived at Gravesend on 17 April. In England ''Boyne'' reportedly was sold to the Danes. However, she returned to English ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moffat Toffee
Moffat toffee is a boiled sweet made in the Scottish town of Moffat. The confection is notable for its tangy but sweet centre which gives the sweet its unusual flavour. The Moffat Toffee old family recipe is thought to have been used for the first time commercially by present owner Blair Blacklock’s great-grandmother, Janet Cook Johnstone, around the late 19th century. The toffee was made by hand in batches of about 7 lbs (3 kilos) at the time. It was sold mainly in uncut flat rounds of varying sizes. It is still made in Moffat and over 300 kilos are made of the sweet every week. Moffat Toffee can be found in many sweet shops, garden centres and other retail outlets in Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ... including the Moffat Toffee Shop. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moffat Library
The Moffat Library, officially Moffat Library of Washingtonville, serves a population of 25,000 people in the village of that name in Orange County, New York, as well as the surrounding towns of Blooming Grove, Hamptonburgh and New Windsor. It is located in the center of town, at the intersection of NY 208 and NY 94. It boasts one Louis Comfort Tiffany-designed stained glass window and one Belcher mosaic stained glass window, although they were not part of the library's original design. Construction It was named after David Moffat, a native of Washingtonville who later made a fortune in railroads, mining and finance in Colorado and settled in Denver. In 1885, nearing the age of 50, he decided he wanted to do something for his hometown, and so commissioned the library for the site of his boyhood home, the trading post his father Samuel had established at the crossroads in 1811. The library would be named for his mother Catherine as well as his father. He declared its purpose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moffat Academy
Moffat Academy is a school in Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway ( sco, Dumfries an Gallowa; gd, Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland and is located in the western Southern Uplands. It covers the counties of Scotland, historic counties of ..., Scotland. It educates children from nursery to Secondary 6. History Moffat Academy traces its history to the local grammar school founded in 1639 by Dr Johnstone. During the 1810s, the school entered a low period as there were suspicions that the funds endowed by Johnstone's estate were misused. It then merged with a local parish school in 1834 and named "Moffat Academy". Until the construction of new premises beginning in 2007, the school was housed on the same site for over 150 years. In 1988, fifth and sixth year classes were added, meaning pupils could now attend the school all the way to age 18. Prior to this students staying on after fourth year had to travel south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moffat Communications
Moffat Communications was a Canadian cable and broadcasting company. Privately owned by the Moffat family, the company was based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It first went public on the stock market in 1972. In an interview with the Free Press reporter Paul Sullivan in November 1978, Moffat CEO Ronald Moffat predicted that Canada will introduce DBS services by 1983 and will beam superstations across the country. They had 60% interest in ''Consumer Behavior Centre Inc.'' of Dallas, Texas, an advertising research subsidiary. Assets The company owned the following media businesses in Canada and the United States: Media * Videon Cable-TV *CKY-TV *CKY *CITI-FM * WTN * Florida Satellite Network * Kingwood Cable and Lakewood Cable * CKXL *CHED (AM) *CHAB (AM) * CKLG *CFOX-FM *CKNG-FM *CHFM-FM *CHAM Other * Consumer Behavior Centre Inc. * Winnipeg Jets * CKBI (once owned by Lloyd Moffat) In the 1990s Moffat Communications divested itself of the Winnipeg Jets and in 1996, the NHL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
