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SGV may refer to: * Segovia, city in Spain. * SGV (automobile), an early American automobile manufacturer * San Gabriel Valley, one of the principal valleys of Southern California, United States * Sauerländischer Gebirgsverein, an association for hiking in Germany * Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees, an operator of passenger boats on Lake Lucerne, Switzerland * SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co., a Philippine multidisciplinary professional services firm * Soil guideline value * Aerosegovia, Nicaraguan charter airline (ICAO code) * Shikand-gumanig Vizar, a Zoroastrian theology book * Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association, see Life Sciences Switzerland Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) is the Swiss federation of scientific societies for life sciences. It was formerly known as the Union of the Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology (USGEB). Life Sciences Switzerland is a member of the Swiss Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Gabriel Valley
The San Gabriel Valley ( es, Valle de San Gabriel) is one of the principal valleys of Southern California, lying immediately to the east of the eastern city limits of the city of Los Angeles, and occupying the vast majority of the eastern part of Los Angeles County, California. Surrounding features include: * San Gabriel Mountains on the north, * San Rafael Hills to the west, with Los Angeles Basin beyond, * Crescenta Valley to the northwest, * Puente Hills to the south, with the coastal plain of Orange County, California, Orange County beyond, * Chino Hills and San Jose Hills to the east, with the Pomona Valley and Inland Empire (CA), Inland Empire beyond. * The city limits of Los Angeles bordering its western edge. The San Gabriel valley derives its name from the San Gabriel River (California), San Gabriel River that flows southward through the center of the valley, which itself was named for the Spanish Mission San Gabriel Arcángel originally built in the Whittier Narrows i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Segovia
Segovia ( , , ) is a city in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Segovia. Segovia is in the Inner Plateau (''Meseta central''), near the northern slopes of the Sistema Central range and on a bend of the Eresma river. The city is famous for its historic buildings including three main landmarks: its midtown Roman aqueduct, its cathedral (one of the last ones to be built in Europe following a Gothic style), and the medieval castle, which served as one of the templates for Walt Disney's Cinderella Castle. The city center was declared of World Heritage by UNESCO in 1985. Etymology The name of Segovia is of Celtiberian origin. Although historians have linked its old name to ', the recent discovery of the original Roman city in the nearby village of Saelices discarded this possibility. The name of "Segovia" is mentioned by Livy in the context of the Sertorian War. Under the Romans and Moors, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SGV (automobile)
SGV was a Brass Era American automobile manufacturer that made luxury automobiles using Lancia components, from 1911 to 1916. History Origin The Acme Motor Car Company sold its site and plant to J H Sternbergh for $72,100 in May 1911. Sternbergh in turn sold the Acme Motor Car Company and leased it plant to a New York consortium. The company's name was changed to SGV. SGV Company was named for Herbert M. Sternbergh, Robert E. Graham and Fred Van Tine, the owners of the company and formerly with Acme. Fred Van Tine was the shop manager and designer of the car. Herbert Sternbergh died in March 1913. Acme had been making SGV models since 1910. This was a high-quality product, based on the Lancia Beta with a relatively small , 25- hp 4-cylinder engine with pressure lubrication and a hot water jacket over the inlet manifold. Shaft-drive and a low frame that was up-swept over the rear axle were featured and the dash was made with Circassian walnut. SGV Company Newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sauerländischer Gebirgsverein
The "Sauerland Mountain Association", (Sauerländischer Gebirgsverein, briefly "SGV") is an association for hiking and Nordic Walking in the Sauerland area in Germany. It was founded in 1891 by forest administrator Ernst Ehmsen and local historian Karl Féaux de Lacroix from Arnsberg (Sauerland) and has about 50,000 members. The Association organises events and is involved in the area of the nature conservation. The association takes care of numerous footpathes and trails, for instance the Rothaarsteig, the Sauerland-Höhenflug (in German) and the Ruhrhöhenweg (in German), and marks them with signs on behalf of the nature preservation authorities of the state Northrhine-Westphalia. The length of the trails is altogether about 34,000 km, 4,300 km of these are classified as long distance trails. The association also cares about areas outside the Sauerland, namely the Ruhr valley area, the Münsterland, the Bergisches Land and the Siegerland. For its members, the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schifffahrtsgesellschaft Des Vierwaldstättersees
The ''Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees'' or Lake Lucerne Navigation Company (commonly abbreviated to SGV) is a public Swiss company operating passenger ships and boats on Lake Lucerne. The company is based in the city of Lucerne, and its origins can be traced back to 1836. Today it is the largest inland shipping company in Switzerland, and is notable for operating a number of historic paddle steamers, in addition to more modern motor vessels. The company provides public transport routes to 32 places along the shore of the lake, with interchange to both main line and mountain railways at various points. Whilst much usage of these services is tourist or leisure oriented, the company also continues to provide practical public transport links between the smaller lakeside communities. The company also owns its own shipyard, Shiptec Lucerne, which undertakes new build and rebuild work both for the SGV and for other shipping companies. History Lake Lucerne has form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soil Guideline Value
Soil Guideline Values (SGVs) are figures which are used in non-statutory technical guidance for assessors carrying out risk assessments to determine whether land is considered Contaminated land, ‘contaminated’ under United Kingdom law, that is “land which appears to… be in such a condition, by reason of substances in, on or under the land, that (a) significant harm is being caused or there is a significant possibility of such harm being caused…” This guidance stipulates three stages in such risk assessments: #Preliminary qualitative assessment including development of conceptual site model #Generic Quantitative Risk Assessment (GQRA) #Detailed Quantitative Risk Assessment (DQRA) Soil Guideline Values are used in the second stage, GQRA, to determine whether harm caused by long-term exposure to a given soil concentration of Chemical substance, chemicals ''may'' present an unacceptable risk to ''human'' health in some ''generic'' land-use scenario. The SGVs are therefore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aerosegovia
Aerosegovia was a charter airline based in Managua, Nicaragua that was formed with the assistance from Aero Caribbean. The airline ceased operations in March 2003 after the Nicaraguan Civil Aeronautics agency revoked the operating license due to lack of spare parts and other irregularities. Services Aerosegovia flew daily flights from Managua to: * Bluefields * Puerto Cabezas *Corn Island In 1999 it operated a route from Managua to Tegucigalpa (Honduras) and on to Havana (Cuba), then the flight returned to Managua through Tegucigalpa. Fleet Aerosegovia operated the following aircraft: *1 Antonov An-32 (VN-CBV) *1 Antonov An-26B (YN-CGC) *1 Antonov An-24B The Antonov An-24 (Russian/Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-24) (NATO reporting name: Coke) is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport/passenger aircraft designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau and manufactured by Kyiv, Irkut ... (NV-CGD) References External linksAeroTransport Data Bank [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shikand-gumanig Vizar
Shikand-gumanig Vizar (also called Shikand-gumanik Vichar and abbreviated as SGV) is a Zoroastrian theology book of 9th century Iran, written by Mardan-Farrukh. Part apologetics, part polemic, the book was composed when Zoroastrians endured a perilous status as a harassed and declining minority. Its author discusses several neighboring religions, hence it contains nascent elements of an academic discipline: comparative religion. This article includes a description and analysis of the text, and also briefly addresses its context and relevance, with respect to other religions and to the continuing traditions of Zoroastrianism. The Author What little is known of the person Mardan-Farrukh (Martānfarrux-i Ohrmazddātān) comes to us through the pages of his book, written in Middle Iranian using the Pahlavi script. Its title ''Shkand-Gumanik Vichar'' has been rendered ''Analytical Treatise for the Dispelling of Doubts'',R. C. Zaehner, ''DTZ'' (1961) at 194. or ''Decisive Solution f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
