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Stentor (other)
Stentor is a figure from Greek mythology. Stentor can also refer to: * Stentor Alliance, alliance of telecommunications companies in Canada * '' Stentor'', genus of large, unicellular, ciliate protozoa * 2146 Stentor, an asteroid * Armstrong Siddeley Stentor, liquid-fuelled rocket engine used in the Blue Steel missile * STENTOR (satellite), a French communications satellite * Les Stentors, a French vocal music group Others * ''The Stentor'', student-run newspaper at Lake Forest College * a newsreader for the 19th century Austro-Hungarian ''Telefon Hírmondó'' (telephone news service), who would need a loud voice to communicate over unamplified signals. * ''Stentor'', a PACS in the US Health industry. * ''Stentor'' has also been used in organs for a type of very loud flue stop, and for a department of such stops as in the "Stentor Division" in the Wanamaker Organ The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States of America) is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stentor
In Greek mythology, Stentor (Ancient Greek: Στέντωρ; ''gen''.: Στέντορος) was a herald of the Greek forces during the Trojan War. Mythology Stentor is mentioned briefly in Homer's ''Iliad'' in which Hera in the guise of Stentor, whose "voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men" encourages the Greeks to fight. Elsewhere, Stentor is said to have died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes.Scholia on ''Iliad'' 5.785; Eustathius on Homer, ''Iliad'' 607.29 Stentor's story is the origin of the term " stentorian", meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous. Aristotle uses the concept in his ''Politics'' Book 7, Chapter IV saying, "For who can be the general of such a vast multitude, or who the herald, unless he have the voice of a Stentor?" See also *List of Trojan War characters Notes References * Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Od ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stentor Alliance
The Stentor Alliance was a formal alliance of Canada's major telecommunications companies, specifically its incumbent local exchange carriers. It derives its name from the Greek mythological figure Stentor. Formed in 1992 to succeed ''Telecom Canada'' (which was previously known as the ''Trans-Canada Telephone System'', and before that as the ''Telephone Association of Canada''), the alliance comprised the following companies at the time of inception: * Alberta Government Telephones, now Telus * BC Tel, now part of Telus * Bell Canada * Island Telephone Company, now part of Bell Aliant * Manitoba Telephone System, now Manitoba Telecom Services Bell MTS * Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company, now part of Bell Aliant * NBTel, now part of Bell Aliant * Newfoundland Telephone, now part of Bell Aliant * Northwestel (associate member) * Québec Téléphone, now part of Telus (associate member) * SaskTel (Saskatchewan Telecommunications) The Trans-Canada and Telecom Canada al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stentor (ciliate)
''Stentor'', sometimes called trumpet animalcules, are a genus of filter-feeding, heterotrophic ciliates, representative of the heterotrichs. They are usually horn-shaped, and reach lengths of two millimeters; as such, they are among the largest known extant unicellular organisms. They reproduce asexually through Fission (biology), binary fission. Description The body, or Cortex (anatomy), cortex, is generally horn-shaped, hence the association with the Stentor, Greek herald, and the former name "trumpet animalcule". A ring of prominent cilia around the anterior "bell" sweep in food and aid in swimming. Some reach several millimeters in length, making them among the largest single-celled organisms. ''Stentor'' can come in different colors: for example, ''S. coeruleus'' can appear blue due to the presence of stentorin, a natural pigment. As in many freshwater protozoans, ''Stentor'' has a contractile vacuole. Because the concentration of salt inside the cell and in the surroundi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2146 Stentor
2146 Stentor is a Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 24 October 1976, by Danish astronomer Richard Martin West at the ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. The dark Jovian asteroid has a rotation period of 16.4 hours and belongs to the 100 largest Jupiter trojans. It was named after Stentor from Greek mythology, a Herald of the Greeks during the Trojan War. Orbit and classification ''Stentor'' is a Jovian asteroid orbiting in the leading Greek camp at Jupiter's Lagrangian point, 60 ° ahead of the gas giant's orbit in a 1:1 resonance . It is a non- family asteroid in the Jovian background population. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 4.7–5.7 AU once every 11 years and 10 months (4,327 days; semi-major axis of 5.2 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of 39 ° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its official discovery observation at La Silla in Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armstrong Siddeley Stentor
The Armstrong Siddeley Stentor, latterly Bristol Siddeley BSSt.1 Stentor, was a two-chamber High-test_peroxide#Applications, HTP rocket engine used to power the Blue Steel missile, Blue Steel stand-off missile carried by Britain's V bomber force. The high thrust chamber was used for the first 29 seconds, after which it was shut down and a smaller cruise chamber was used for the rest of the powered flight. Design and development It was fuelled by Gamma (Rocket engine)#Advantages of kerosene / peroxide engines, hydrogen peroxide with kerosene. The engine incorporated an integral tubular mounting frame which was attached by six lugs to the rear bulkhead of the missile airframe, the complete engine being enclosed in a tube-shaped fairing with the nozzles at the rear. Applications *Blue Steel (missile), Blue Steel missile Engines on display Preserved Stentor engines are on display at the following museums: * Royal Air Force Museum Cosford * Midland Air Museum * University of Live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Stentors
Les Stentors are a 4-member vocal super group made up of operatic voices from all regions of France. Their self-titled debut album, ''Les Stentors'', was released in 2010. Their second album ''Voyage en France'', released on 14 May 2012, was an immediate success, shooting straight to #1 on the SNEP, the Official French Albums Chart, in its first week of release. Members *Vyanney Guyonnet - baritone *Mowgli Laps - tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ... *Sébastien Lemoine - bass *Mathieu Sempere - tenor Discography Albums Singles References External linksOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:Stentors, Les French musical groups Musical groups established in 2010 Opera crossover singers Musical quartets 2010 establishments in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts college in Lake Forest, Illinois. Founded in 1857 as Lind University by a group of Presbyterian ministers, the college has been coeducational since 1876 and an undergraduate-focused liberal arts institution since 1903. Lake Forest enrolls approximately 1,500 students representing 43 states and 80 countries. Lake Forest offers 32 undergraduate major and minor programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and features programs of study in pre-law, pre-medicine, communication, business, finance, and computer science. The majority of students live on the college's wooded 107-acre campus located a half-mile from the Lake Michigan shore. Lake Forest is affiliated with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. The college has 23 varsity teams which compete in the NCAA Division III Midwest Conference. History Lake Forest College was founded in 1857 by Reverend Robert W. Patterson as a Presbyterian alternative to the Meth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telefon Hírmondó
The Telefon Hírmondó (also Telefonhírmondó, generally translated as "Telephone Herald") was a "telephone newspaper" located in Budapest, Hungary, which, beginning in 1893, provided news and entertainment to subscribers over telephone lines. It was both the first and the longest surviving telephone newspaper system, although from late 1925 until its termination in 1944 it was primarily used to retransmit programmes broadcast by an affiliated radio station. Three decades before the development of radio broadcasting, the ''Telefon Hírmondó'' was the first service to electronically deliver a wide range of spoken and musical programming to a diverse audience. Although its inventor envisioned that the technology could be eventually expanded to serve a national or international audience, the technical limitations of the time ultimately limited its service area to just the city of Budapest. Establishment The ''Telefon Hírmondó'' was founded by Tivadar Puskás (a few reviews tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picture Archiving And Communication System
A picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a medical imaging technology which provides economical storage and convenient access to images from multiple modalities (source machine types). Electronic images and reports are transmitted digitally via PACS; this eliminates the need to manually file, retrieve, or transport film jackets, the folders used to store and protect X-ray film. The universal format for PACS image storage and transfer is DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine). Non-image data, such as scanned documents, may be incorporated using consumer industry standard formats like PDF (Portable Document Format), once encapsulated in DICOM. A PACS consists of four major components: The imaging modalities such as X-ray plain film (PF), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a secured network for the transmission of patient information, workstations for interpreting and reviewing images, and archives for the storage and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
