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Avis
Avis is Latin for bird and may refer to: Aviation *Auster Avis, a 1940s four-seat light aircraft developed from the Auster Autocrat (abandoned project) *Avro Avis, a two-seat biplane *Scottish Aeroplane Syndicate Avis, an early aircraft built by Howard Wright Businesses *Avis Budget Group *Avis Car Rental Places *Avis, Portugal, a municipality in the south of Portugal * Avis, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community * Avis, Pennsylvania, United States, a borough Other uses * Avis (name), a given name and a surname * Andover Village Improvement Society, a land preservation society *''Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue'', or ''AVIS'', an Italian blood donation organisation *Avis Dam, a dam near Windhoek, Namibia * USS ''Avis'' (Sp-382), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 * Menton J. Matthews III or Avis, musician *Avis, an open-source implementation of the Elvin network event routing specification *Avis, a fictional deity on ''The Orville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andover Village Improvement Society
The Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS) is a private land trust in Andover, Massachusetts. Founded in 1894, AVIS is the second oldest land preservation society in the United States. Its goal is to acquire land within Andover and preserve it in its natural state. The organization controls 29 reservations totaling about 1,100 acres (4 km²), with 30 miles (50 km) of trails for hiking, skiing, or other passive recreational use. The largest AVIS reservations arDeer Jumpat 131 acres (0.5 km²)at , anat 226 acres (0.9 km²). Motor vehicles, hunting, fires, or camping in these conservation lands are prohibited. Volunteer wardens are responsible for the care and oversight of each reservation. With the rapid suburbanization and development occurring in Andover since the 1970s, AVIS has played a vital role in preserving Andover's land. Properties As of June 2017, AVIS owns 30 sites with approximately . {, class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" , - ! Reserv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avis Car Rental
Avis Car Rental is an American car rental company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey. Avis, Budget Rent a Car, Budget Truck Rental and Zipcar are all units of Avis Budget Group. Avis Budget Group operates the Avis brand in South Africa, North America, South America, India, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2011, Avis announced it was acquiring Avis Europe plc, which had been a separate corporation licensing the Avis brand. Since the late 1970s, Avis has featured mainly General Motors (GM) vehicles such as Chevrolet and Cadillac, but today also rents popular non-GM brands including Ford and Toyota. Avis is a rental car provider to the commercial segment serving business travelers at major airports internationally, and to leisure travellers at off-airport locations. Many of the off-airport locations are franchised operations rather than company-owned and -operated, as is the case with most airport locations. Avis was the first car rental business to be located at an ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avis Budget Group
Avis Budget Group is American car rental agency holding company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey. It is the parent company of several brands including Avis Car Rental, Budget Rent a Car, Budget Truck Rental, Payless Car Rental and Zipcar. The company also operates several smaller, regional brands including ACL Hire, Apex Car Rentals, AmicoBlue, France Cars, Maggiore Group, MoriniRent, TurisCar and TurisPrime. It is one of the three big rental car holding companies in the United States, holding a 26% market share, placing it behind both the Hertz Corporation and Enterprise Holdings. History Following the decision to dissolve the Cendant company name and split into four separate companies, the vehicle rental division of Cendant became Avis Budget Group in 2006. In 2011, Avis Budget Group acquired Avis Europe, an independently-owned company licensee, globally reuniting the Avis and Budget brands. On September 5, 2012, Avis Budget Group acquired Apex Car Rentals of New Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Commonly Used Taxonomic Affixes
This is a list of common affixes used when scientifically naming species, particularly extinct species for whom only their scientific names are used, along with their derivations. *a-, an-: ''Pronunciation'': /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/. ''Origin'': grc, ἀ-, ἀν- (''a, an-''). ''Meaning'': a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the root word; in this case, meaning "without" or "-less". This is usually used to describe organisms without a certain characteristic, as well as organisms in which that characteristic may not be immediately obvious. *:Examples: ''Anurognathus'' ("tail-less jaw"); ''Apus'' ("without foot"); '' Apteryx'' ("wingless"); ''Pteranodon'' ("toothless wing") *-acanth, acantho-, -cantho: ''Pronunciation'': /eɪkænθ/, /eɪkænθoʊ/. ''Origin'': grc, ἄκανθα (''ákantha''). ''Meaning'': spine. *:Examples: ''Acanthodes'' ("spiny base"); ''Acanthostega'' ("spine roof"); coelacanth ("hollow spine"); ''Acrocanthosaurus'' ("high-spined li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avis Dam
The Avis Dam is a dam outside of Windhoek, Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea .... It was built in 1933 by the South African colonial authorities. It first flooded in April 1934, but only exceeded 75% again in 2007. AvisDam.org Fauna There are at least 187 different species of birds in the area.References Dams in Namibia Buildings and structures in Wi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avis, Portugal
Avis (), formerly spelled Aviz, is a Municipalities of Portugal, municipality in the District of Portalegre (district), Portalegre in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,571, in an area of 605.97 km2. The present Mayor is Nuno Silva, elected by the Unitary Democratic Coalition. The municipal holiday is Easter Monday. History The fortified city, of which parts have been preserved, was home to the Order of Aviz, Knights of the Order of Aviz. The Order grew into the Kingdom of Portugal's second dynasty, the House of Aviz, and its name today subsists as one of the Portuguese Republic's highest military honors. Gallery File:Avis.jpg, Bridge into the town. File:Avis3.jpg, Church and convent of São Bento of Avis. Climate Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 6 civil parishes (''freguesia (Portugal), freguesias''): * Alcórrego e Maranhão * Aldeia Velha * Avis * Benavila e Valongo * Ervedal * Figueira e Barros See also *Castle of Avis, Castelo de A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvin (service)
Elvin is an event routing service using a Publish subscribe, publish/subscribe event delivery model. It was developed at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre, an Australian co-operative research centre at the University of Queensland that operated from 1992 until mid-2006. The Elvin publish subscribe model Elvin is most distinguished from other such systems by its support of a sophisticated content-based subscription system. Elvin clients subscribe to events using a language that resembles C programming, C boolean expressions. For example: Department "IT" && Percent-Disk-Free <= 10 This expression selects messages that have a field named Department with a string value matching "IT" and a Percent-Disk-Free field with an integer value less than or equal to 10. The Elvin subscription language supports a range of operations for matching numeric and string values, including the use of regular expression matching. Elvin is oriented around providing a fast, flexible eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Avis (SP-382)
USS ''Avis'' (SP-382) was a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1918. Construction and acquisition ''Avis'' was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1908 by Berger at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. On 28 July 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owners, Richard W. Phillips and H. R. Phillips, for use as a patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS ''Avis'' (SP-382) the same day. Operational history Assigned to the 9th, 10th, and 11th Naval Districts – a single administrative entity created by the almagation of the 9th Naval District, 10th Naval District, and 11th Naval District -- ''Avis'' departed Waukegan, Illinois, in September 1917 to take up section patrol duties at the section headquarters at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, from which she patrolled the canal system connecting Lake Superior and Lake Huron. She moved to Detroit, Michigan, on 10 November 1917 to prepare to be laid up over the winter of 1917-1918 while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Aviz
The Military Order of Saint Benedict of Aviz ( pt, Ordem Militar de São Bento de Avis, ), previously to 1910 ''Royal Military Order of Saint Benedict of Aviz'' ( pt, Real Ordem Militar de São Bento de Avis), previously to 1789 ''Knights'' (of the ''Order) of Saint Benedict of Aviz'' ( pt, Ordem de São Bento de Aviz) or ''Friars of Santa Maria of Évora'', is a Portuguese order of chivalry, founded in Portugal in 1146. It gave its name and coat of arms to the Aviz Dynasty that ruled Portugal between 1385 and 1580. Early history The order, as a monastic military order, was founded in emulation of such military orders as the Knights Templar, which existed in Portugal as early as 1128, and received a grant from Theresa, Countess of Portugal in the year of the Council of Troyes, which confirmed their early statutes. A native order of this kind sprang up in Portugal about 1146. Afonso, the first king, gave to it the town of Évora, captured from the Moors in 1166, and the Knights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avis (name)
Avis is both a given name, mostly feminine but also masculine, and a surname. Given name The earliest form of this female given name was the Old German Haduwig comprising the elements ''hadu'' "battle" and ''wig'' "fight": the original form of the modern German female name Hedwig, Haduwig was modified to Havoise by the Normans and subsequent to the Norman Invasion the name occurred frequently in England throughout the Middle Ages, the standard Middle English form of the name being Hawise. As a female given name in modern times, Avis is associated with the Latin ''avis'', meaning "bird", although the spelling Avice is sometimes found. People with the given name include: *Avis Acres (1910–1994), New Zealand children's author and illustrator * Avis Bohlen (born 1940), American diplomat, former Ambassador to Bulgaria *Avis Bunnage (1923–1990), British actress *Avis DeVoto (1904–1989), American editor and collaborator with Julia Child * Avis M. Dry (1922–2007), clinical psychol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avis, Pennsylvania
Avis is a borough in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,484 at the 2010 census. Geography Avis is located in southeastern Clinton County at (41.185234, -77.316455). It is on the north side of the valley of the West Branch Susquehanna River, which passes to the south. U.S. Route 220, a four-lane freeway, runs along the southern edge of the borough, with access from Exit 118 ( Pennsylvania Route 150) to the south of town and from Exit 120 (Pennsylvania Route 44) to the east. The borough of Jersey Shore is to the east of Avis, and Williamsport is to the east via US 220, while Lock Haven, the Clinton county seat, is to the west. According to the United States Census Bureau, Avis has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,492 people, 633 households, and 417 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 652 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the boroug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue
The ' (''AVIS'') ("Association of Voluntary Italian Blood Donors") is the major Italian non-profit and charitable organisation for blood donation, bringing together over a million volunteer blood donors across Italy. It is headquartered in Lombardy, Italy. History Pre-war In the early twentieth century, the ABO blood group system was discovered by Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner, and its application in World War I led to a rise in the awareness of therapeutic blood donation. In Italy, there were few hospitals that could provide blood transfusions, and those that did held lists of suppliers; this closed market allowed a high price (up to several months' wages) to be charged to patients for a single unit of blood. In 1927, Dr Vittorio Formentano founded the first voluntary organisation in Italy, in Milan. Two years later, his group of unpaid donors became the ', the first organisation of its kind in Italy. The goals of the group were "organizing a network of regular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
