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VV, V V, or v. v. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Vopli Vidopliassova, or VV, a Ukrainian rock band * Vicarious Visions, a video game company * V/V, a secondary chord in music * V.V., a List of Code Geass characters#V.V., character in ''Code Geass'' People * Alison Mosshart (born 1978), stage name VV, American singer with The Kills * Vasily Vorontsov (1847–1918), pseudonym VV, Russian economist and sociologist * Ville Valo (born 1976), or VV, Finnish musician Other uses * v/v (volume by volume), the volume fraction * VV, a phoneme or digraph for the letter "w" * Aerosvit Airlines, IATA code VV * Internal Troops of Russia (Russian: ''Vnutrenniye Voiska Ministerstva Vnutrennikh Del'') * Public Affairs (political party) (Czech: ''Věci veřejné''), a political party * Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov Interacting Galaxies, a catalogue of galaxies * Province of Vibo Valentia, Italy * V//V, the Intel Viiv platform initiative See also * * * Double V campaign, World War II slogan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vopli Vidopliassova
Vopli Vidopliassova ( uk, Воплі Відоплясова ), also shortened to VV (), is a Ukrainian rock band. It was created in 1986 in Kyiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine). The leader of the band is singer Oleh Skrypka. Vopli Vidopliasova are the founders of Ukrainian rock-n-roll style and neo-ethnic rock. They first sang Ukrainian rock outside Ukraine. Their influences include folk, patriotic songs, punk, hard rock, heavy metal and, most recently, electronic music. Their song ''Den Narodzhennia'' is featured in the Russian crime films ''Brother (1997 film), Brother'' and ''Brother 2'' by director Aleksei Balabanov. Band member Oleh Skrypka has also produced several solo albums. In 2009, their record label, Kraina Mriy, released all their albums for free as a Christmas present. A lot of their early material (1986-1996) is in Drop C tuning. History The band was formed in 1986 by guitarist Yuri Zdorenko and bassist Oleksandr Pipa, who had p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Vibo Valentia
The province of Vibo Valentia ( it, provincia di Vibo Valentia; Vibonese: ) is a province in the Calabria region of southern Italy, set up by a national law of 6 March 1992 which came into effect on 1 January 1996, and formerly part of the Province of Catanzaro. Its capital is the city of Vibo Valentia and its vehicle licence plate code is VV. The province has an area of (7.6% of the total surface of Calabria), and a total population of 168,894 (ISTAT 2005); the city Vibo Valentia has a population of 35,405. There are 50 ''comuni'' (singular: ''comune'') in the province, see list of communes of the Province of Vibo Valentia. It was first settled by Italic tribe the Sicels and Vibo Valentia was established as a city in the 6th or 7th century, known as Hipponion by the Greeks of Messina and Reggio. Following this, the city was later recolonised by people from town Locri in the region of Calabria. Dionysius I of Syracuse had the city of Hipponion destroyed, and authority of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
W (other)
W is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet. W may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Books and magazines * ''W'' (magazine), an American fashion magazine * ''W, or the Memory of Childhood'', a 1975 novel by Georges Perec * W Publishing, formerly Word Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson * '' "W" Is for Wasted'', the twenty-third novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 2013 Film and television * ''W'' (1974 film), a suspense American film * ''W'' (2014 film), a thriller Hindi language film * ''W.'' (film), a 2008 film about United States President George W. Bush by Oliver Stone * ''W'' (TV series), a 2016 South Korean television series * ''Kamen Rider W'', a 2009–10 Japanese tokusatsu drama *W, the production code for the 1966 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'' Music * Wumpscut, an electro-industrial music project sometimes referred to as :w: * W (group), a Japanese pop music duo * ''The W'', a studio album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UU (other)
UU or uu may refer to: Businesses * United Utilities (LSE stock symbol UU) * Air Austral (IATA airline code UU) Language * "''uu''", an old way of spelling the letter " w" in certain Germanic languages, including Old English * The letter combination of uu Science and technology * UUNET, Internet Service Provider commonly referred to as 'UU' * Unique users, may be counted as part of web analytics in determining the popularity of a website * UMTS air interface or "Uu interface", which links User Equipment to the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network * Unix-to-Unix, as in uuencode, a data transport encoding ** .uu, a compressed archive file extension, associated with uuencode Universities * Ulster University in Northern Ireland * University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States * Uppsala University in Sweden * Utrecht University in the Netherlands * Uttaranchal University in Uttarakhand, India Other uses *Union of Utrecht (Old Catholic), a federation of Old Catholic c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V&V (other)
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V&V may refer to: * verification and validation, in engineering and quality management systems ** software verification and validation * ''Victor and Valentino'', animated television series See also * IV&V * VV (other) VV, V V, or v. v. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Vopli Vidopliassova, or VV, a Ukrainian rock band * Vicarious Visions, a video game company * V/V, a secondary chord in music * V.V., a character in ''Code Geass'' People * Alison Mossh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V De V (other) , a Spanish rap music crew
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V de V may refer to: * ''V de V'' (''Vêtements de Vacance''), a sportswear fashion brand by Michèle Rosier * V de V Sports, a motor racing organisation owned by Eric Van de Vyver ** V de V Challenge Monoplace, a single-seater racing series See also * * V (other) * VV (other) * Violadores del Verso Violadores del Verso ( es, Lyrical Molesters or Verse Rapists), also known as Doble V, are a rap music crew from Zaragoza, Spain. They used the name Doble V but were forced to return to their original long name due to legal issues (''Doble V'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double V Campaign
The Double V campaign was a slogan and drive to promote the fight for democracy in overseas campaigns and at the home front in the United States for African Americans during World War II. The Double V refers to the "V for victory" sign prominently displayed by countries fighting "for victory over aggression, slavery, and tyranny," but adopts a second "V" to represent the double victory for African Americans fighting for freedom overseas and at home. The campaign first appeared in the African-American newspaper ''Pittsburgh Courier'' on February 7, 1942. Being the largest circulated black newspaper with around 350,000 copies circulated during the war; hence other black newspapers followed suit including the Chicago Defender and the Amsterdam Star News in embracing the motto and symbol of Double V. The slogan was prompted by a response to the letter, "Should I Sacrifice to Live 'Half American? written by 26-year-old reader James G. Thompson. It was also in a response to Franklin D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V//V
Viiv (stylized as V//V) was a platform initiative from Intel similar to Intel's Centrino and vPro. Initially (through release 1.7), it was a collection of computer technologies with a particular combination of Intel ingredients to support a "media PC" concept. Intel also provided the Media Server as the core software stack on the PC to support "media" distribution through the home. Marketing Until 2007, Viiv was Intel's attempt to become the center of electronic-based home entertainment. Intel was repeating the marketing model for the very successful Centrino platform, which was their first branded platform. The Intel Viiv brand has been "de-emphasized" and comes after the CPU branding, similar to that of "Core 2 with Viiv inside", putting more focus on the CPU. , retrieved July 30, 2007 There will be no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov Interacting Galaxies
Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov Interacting Galaxies are those included in the Atlas and Catalogue of Interacting Galaxies, by B.A. Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov, R.I. Noskova and V.P. Arkhipova. It was published by the Astronomical Council of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The atlas and catalogue contain 852 interacting systems. The first part published in 1959 contained 355 interacting galaxies numbered VV1 through VV355, and the second part published in the 1970s included those numbered VV356 through VV852. In 2001, an additional 1162 objects were added from the Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies by Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov et al. These objects have numbers ranging from VV853 to VV2014. References External links The Catalogue of Interacting Galaxies by Vorontsov-Velyaminov- at Sternberg Astronomical Institute The Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Государственный астрономический институт имени Штернберга in Russian), also known as GAI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicarious Visions
Blizzard Albany (formerly Vicarious Visions, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Albany, New York. The studio was acquired by Activision in January 2005. After releasing its last game as part of that company, ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2'', Vicarious Visions became part of Activision's sister company Blizzard Entertainment in January 2021 and was merged into it in April 2022, thereby being renamed Blizzard Albany. History The studio was founded by brothers Karthik and Guha Bala in 1991 while they were in high school. In the late 1990s, Vicarious Visions appointed Michael Marvin, an Albany-based investor and entrepreneur, and founder and former CEO of MapInfo Corporation; and Charles S. Jones, investor, who sat on the boards of various software and industrial companies including Geac and PSDI, to its board of directors. Under their leadership, a sale of the company was negotiated to Activision, earning the original investors over 20x their initial investment. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Affairs (political Party)
Public Affairs ( cs, Věci veřejné, VV, nicknamed ''véčkaři'') was a conservative-liberal political party in the Czech Republic. Its main platform was transparency and opposition to political corruption. It had 24 seats in the 2010–2013 Chamber of Deputies. The party was led by anti-establishment investigative journalist and writer Radek John, and later by Jiří Kohout. Besides opposing corruption, the party was fiscally conservative. It had a number of right-wing populist policies. The party was supportive of direct democracy – the members of the party could change the course of the party by Internet referendums – and was pro-European Union. Early years Founded in 2001, the party focused on local politics in Prague, particularly Prague 1, for most of its existence. In June 2009, Radek John was recruited as its chairman, and it emerged in late 2009 as a contender in the 2010 election, polling above the 5% threshold to win seats, and occasionally above KDU-ČSL an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internal Troops Of Russia
The Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (VV; russian: Внутренние войска Министерства внутренних дел (ВВ), ''Vnutrenniye Voiska Ministerstva Vnutrennikh Del'') was a paramilitary force of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia), Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia from 1991 to 2016. The Internal Troops was a gendarmerie-like force that supported the Police of Russia, Russian police, dealt with crowd control during riots and internal conflicts, and guarded highly-important facilities such as nuclear power plants. The Internal Troops was involved in all conflicts and violent disturbances in modern Russia, including and First Chechen War, First and Second Chechen Wars, where it fell under direct military command during wartime and fulfilled missions of local defence and Rear Area, rear area security. The Internal Troops consisted of both Military volunteer, volunteers and conscripts which cau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
