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Westar (other)
Westar is an American satellite telecommunication system. Westar may refer to: * Westar Energy, an American electric utility * Westar Institute, a non-profit institute promoting religious literacy * Westar Rules, the name used by the West Australian Football League between 1997 and 2000 See also * Wester (other) * West (other) * Star (other) * * Western Star (other) * Star of the West (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westar
Westar was a fleet of geosynchronous communications satellites operating in the C band which were launched by Western Union from 1974 to 1984. There were seven Westar satellites in all, with five of them launched and operating under the Westar name. Background Westar 1 (launched on April 13, 1974) has the distinction of being the USA's first commercially launched geosynchronous communications satellite, following North America's first geosynchronous communications satellite, Canada's Anik A1 Anik may refer to: * Anik (satellite), satellites launched by Canadian telecommunications company Telesat * Anik, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran * Anik Mountain * Anik Bissonnette, a Canadian ballet dancer * Anik Jean (born 1977) ... in 1972. Westar 1 was put into orbit at 99° W in the Clarke belt (99° W now being the home of List of Intelsat satellites#Galaxy (Intelsat Americas), Galaxy 16). Westar 2 was launched shortly afterward on October 10, 1974. Westa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westar Energy
Evergy, Inc. is an American investor-owned utility (IOU) with publicly traded stock that has its headquarters in Topeka, Kansas, and in Kansas City, Missouri. The company was formed from a merger of Westar Energy of Topeka and Great Plains Energy of Kansas City, Missouri, parent company of Kansas City Power & Light. Evergy is the largest electric company in Kansas, serving more than 1.6 million residential, commercial and industrial customers in Kansas and Missouri. Evergy has a generating capacity of 16,000 megawatt electricity from its over 40 power plants in Kansas and Missouri. Evergy service territory covers in east Kansas and west Missouri. Evergy owns more than of transmission lines and about 52,000 miles of distribution lines. History of Westar Energy Western Resources was the product of a 1992 merger between the two major electric companies in eastern Kansas, Kansas Gas and Electric (KG&E) of Wichita and Kansas Power and Light (KPL) of Topeka. KG&E was founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westar Institute
The Westar Institute, founded by Robert W. Funk in 1985, is a member-supported nonprofit educational institute with a twofold mission: * To foster collaborative, cumulative research in religious studies * To communicate the results of the scholarship of religion to a broad, non-specialist public Westar is located in Salem, Oregon, on the campus of Willamette University. The institute has a publishing arm in the form of Polebridge Press, which publishes books, media, and two journals: *''Forum'', an academic journal which publishes scholarly articles on the historical Jesus, Christian origins, and related fields. *''The Fourth R,'' a bimonthly magazine that publishes religious studies research in nontechnical language for at a general audience. Organizational structure Westar is managed by a Board of Directors and staff. Membership is divided into Associate Members, who are members of the public, and Westar Fellows, scholars in the field of religious studies or a cognate discip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westar Rules
The West Australian Football League (WAFL) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from March to September, with the top five teams playing off in a finals series, culminating in a Grand Final. The league also runs reserves, colts (under-19) and women's competitions. The WAFL was founded in 1885 as the West Australian Football Association (WAFA), and has undergone a variety of name changes since then, re-adopting its current name in 2001. For most of its existence, the league was considered one of the traditional "big three" Australian rules football leagues, along with the Victorian Football League (VFL) and South Australian National Football League (SANFL). However, since the introduction of two Western Australia-based clubs into the VFL (later renamed the Australian Football League) – the West Coast Eagles in 1987 and the Fremantle Foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wester (other)
Wester can refer to: People * Arvid Wester (1856–1914), Swedish soldier who was active in the service of the Belgians in the Congo * August Wester (1882–1960), American wrestler * Curtis Wester (1951–1995) Canadian Football guard * Ivar Wester (1892–1967), Swedish sports shooter. * Jacob Wester (born 1987), Swedish freeskier * Jennifer Wester, American ice dancer * Johan Wester, Swedish comedian * John Charles Wester, American prelate of the Catholic Church * Keith A. Wester (1940–2002), American sound engineer * Lina Wester, Swedish ice hockey forward * Mats Wester (born 1964), Swedish musician * Oscar Wester (born 1995), Swedish freestyle skier * Peter Jansen Wester (1887–1931), Swedish-American botanist * Tess Wester, Dutch handball player * Travis Wester (born 1977), American actor * Ulla Wester (born 1953), Swedish politician Places * Wester Ross, Scotland * Wester (river) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Other * "Wester", a song from ''The Art of Drowning'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West (other)
West is a cardinal direction or compass point. West or The West may also refer to: Geography and locations Global context * The Western world * Western culture and Western civilization in general * The Western Bloc, countries allied with NATO during the Cold War * The Occident, an early-modern term originated with geographical divisions mirroring the cultural divide between the Hellenistic east and Latin West, and the political divide between the Western and Eastern Roman empires Regional contexts * West River (other) * The American frontier, also called "The Old West" or "The Wild West", an American process of westward movement from 1600 to 1920 * The Western Regions, a historical term for regions of Chinese suzerainty in Central Asia * Western Territories (''Ziemie Zachodnie'') or Recovered Territories (''Ziemie Odzyskane''), Former eastern territories of Germany annexed to Poland * West (Cornish hundred) or West Wivelshire, a county subdivision of Cornwall, Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star (other)
A star is a luminous astronomical object. Star, The Star or STAR may also refer to: Shapes and symbols * Star (polygon), a geometric shape with acute points arranged radially * Star (glyph), a typographical symbol * Star (heraldry), star-like shapes used in heraldry * Star (classification), a rating system for hotels, movies, or other products * Star (sport badge), on a team uniform, representing titles won Arts and entertainment * Star (person) or celebrity ** Movie star, a person famous for performing in films Fictional entities * Patrick Star, a character in the animated series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' * S.T.A.R. Labs, an organization in the DC Comics fictional universe * Star (Marvel Comics), the name of three fictional characters in Marvel Comics * Star, a star-shaped puppet in ''The Good Night Show'' and its animated spin-off ''Nina's World'' * Star, a character in the game ''Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' * Star Butterfly, a character in the Disney animated series ''Star vs. the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Star (other)
Western Star or ''The Western Star'' may refer to: Newspapers * ''The Western Star'' (Bessemer, Alabama), a weekly newspaper published in Bessemer, Alabama * ''Western Star'' (Kerala), a defunct English newspaper in Kerala, India * ''The Western Star'' (Corner Brook), a newspaper in Corner Brook, Newfoundland * ''The Western Star'' (Ohio), a defunct weekly newspaper in Lebanon, Ohio * ''The Western Star'' (Queensland) * '' The Western Star and Roma Advertiser'' Transportation * Western Star Trucks, an American manufacturer of commercial trucks * Western Star (train), a passenger train operated by the Great Northern Railway * , a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919 Literature * ''Western Star'', an unfinished narrative poem, winner of the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, on the settling of the United States written by Stephen Vincent Benét * The Adventure of the Western Star, an adventure in the ''Poirot Investigates'' collection of short stories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
