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Paragon
Paragon may refer to: Places *Paragon, Indiana, a town in the United States *Paragon, Nebraska, former community in the United States *The Paragon, Bath, a Georgian street in the Walcot area of Bath * The Paragon, Blackheath, London, built by Michael Searles *The Paragon, Singapore, a shopping mall *Siam Paragon, a shopping complex in Bangkok, Thailand *McLaren Technology Centre, formerly called the Paragon Technology Centre *Hull Paragon Interchange, a railway station and transportation complex in Kingston upon Hull, England *Paragon International School (Cambodia), a private school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia *Paragon International University, a private university in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Companies *Paragon China, a British manufacturer of bone china *Paragon Gaming, an American casino company *Paragon Group of Companies, a British mortgage lender *Paragon Software, a video game company founded in 1987 *Paragon Software Group, a software company founded in 1994 *Paragon Space Devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hull Paragon Interchange
Hull Paragon Interchange is a transport interchange providing rail, bus and coach services located in the city centre of Kingston upon Hull, England. The G. T. Andrews-designed station was originally named ''Paragon Station'', and together with the adjoining Station Hotel, it opened in 1847 as the new Hull terminus for the growing traffic of the York and North Midland (Y&NMR) leased to the Hull and Selby Railway (H&S). As well as trains to the west, the station was the terminus of the Y&NMR and H&S railway's Hull to Scarborough Line. From the 1860s the station also became the terminus of the Hull and Holderness and Hull and Hornsea railways. At the beginning of the 20th century the North Eastern Railway (NER) expanded the trainshed and station to the designs of William Bell, installing the present five arched span platform roof. In 1962 a modernist office block Paragon House was installed above the station main entrance, replacing a 1900s iron canopy; the offices ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Heroes
''City of Heroes'' (''CoH'') was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game which was developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCSOFT. The game was launched in North America on April 28, 2004, and in Europe by NCsoft Europe on February 4, 2005, with English, German and French servers. In the game, players created super-powered player characters that could team up with others to complete missions and fight criminals belonging to various gangs and organizations in the fictional Paragon City. Twenty-three free major updates for ''City of Heroes'' were released before its shutdown. The final live update, "Where Shadows Lie", was released on May 31, 2012. On August 31, 2012, NCsoft terminated its Paragon Studios development team, ending all production on ''City of Heroes'' with the last day of services on November 30, 2012. In April 2019, source code capable of running a ''City of Heroes'' server was distributed widely. This made it possible to create ''City of Heroes'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragon (video Game)
''Paragon'' was a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena game developed and published by Epic Games. Powered by their own Unreal Engine 4, the game started buy-to-play early access in March 2016, and free-to-play access to its open beta started in August 2016. Epic Games shut down its servers in April 2018. Gameplay ''Paragon'' was a third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game. The maps featured in the game were symmetrical, and bases were located at the two opposite ends of a map. Players were tasked with defeating the enemy team by destroying the core in their base. They had the ability to reach their opponents' bases through the three lanes featured in each map. Each lane was protected by defensive towers that protected the bases by attacking any incoming enemies that stood within its range automatically. Lanes consisted of two towers and an inhibitor; destroying all of these allowed a team to spawn more powerful minions in that lane and directly attac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siam Paragon
Siam Paragon ( th, สยามพารากอน) is a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand. It is one of the largest malls in Thailand, along with IconSiam, CentralWorld and CentralPlaza WestGate. Siam Paragon includes a range of specialty stores and restaurants as well as a multiplex (15 large screen cinemas), the Sea Life Bangkok Ocean World aquarium, an exhibition hall, the Thai Art Gallery, and an opera concert hall. It also has a bowling alley and karaoke centre. It is a joint venture by Siam Piwat, the company that owns the adjacent Siam Center/Siam Discovery shopping malls, and The Mall Group, which owns The Emporium. Siam Paragon's financial results are not reported by the privately held Siam Paragon Development. History Siam Paragon was built on the former site of the Siam Intercontinental Hotel, which was demolished in 2002 at the end of its lease. The site, leased for 30 years, is Crown Property Bureau land and at one time was the royal parkland of Sa Pathum Pal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragon Space Development Corporation
Paragon Space Development Corporation is an American company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. Paragon is a provider of environmental controls for extreme and hazardous environments. They design, build, test and operate life-support systems and leading thermal-control products for astronauts, contaminated water divers, and other extreme environment explorers, as well as for uncrewed space and terrestrial applications. History Paragon was conceived to combine the expertise of biology, chemistry and aerospace engineering to develop technical solutions to life support and thermal control problems related to human and biological spaceflight. Paragon was founded by six principal partners including Grant Anderson, Taber MacCallum, Jane Poynter, Dave Bearden, Max Nelson, and Alicia (Cesa) Pederson. Prior to co-founding Paragon, Anderson was employed at Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, California, MacCallum and Poynter were members of Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona, David was at The Aer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragon Software Group
Paragon Software Group is a German software company that develops hard drive management software, low-level file system drivers and storage technologies. The Smart Handheld Device Division (SHDD) offers multilingual dictionaries, multilingual handwriting recognition, weather information, and two-way data synchronization with desktop devices. Overview The company is headquartered in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, with offices in the US, China, Japan, Poland, and Russia. The company was established in 1994 by a group of ''Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)'' students, including founder/CEO Konstantin Komarov. A separate mobile division, called the ''Mobility Division'', was formed in 1995. The German office opened in 1998, the Swiss office in 2000. History In 2004, the company started working with Fujitsu-Siemens on its handheld PCs Russian localization. Next year, the company expanded the product line of office and gaming applications for Symbian OS and received t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya (Marvel Comics)
Paragon is the codename used by three unrelated fictional characters from Marvel Comics. The first was genetically engineered by the Enclave. The second was created as an original character for the video game '' Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects.'' The third is a superhero and a member of Nebraska's Initiative team. Paragon (Kismet) Paragon (Maya) Paragon (Maya) is a fictional character from Electronic Arts who first appeared in '' Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects''. Fictional character biography After a century-long search, a young Amazonian warrior, Maya, was chosen from an isolated, primitive, and forgotten society deep within the South American jungle. Matching a specifically required DNA structure, Maya was the perfect candidate for the ultimate weapon. Maya possessed a toxin free physical make-up, Amazonian warrior skills, and the instinctual savagery found at the core of all humanity. Having acquired the perfect specimen, Niles Van Roekel ordered her t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragon (Marvel Comics)
Paragon is the codename used by three unrelated fictional characters from Marvel Comics. The first was genetically engineered by the Enclave. The second was created as an original character for the video game '' Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects.'' The third is a superhero and a member of Nebraska's Initiative team. Paragon (Kismet) Paragon (Maya) Paragon (Maya) is a fictional character from Electronic Arts who first appeared in '' Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects''. Fictional character biography After a century-long search, a young Amazonian warrior, Maya, was chosen from an isolated, primitive, and forgotten society deep within the South American jungle. Matching a specifically required DNA structure, Maya was the perfect candidate for the ultimate weapon. Maya possessed a toxin free physical make-up, Amazonian warrior skills, and the instinctual savagery found at the core of all humanity. Having acquired the perfect specimen, Niles Van Roekel ordered her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragon Group Of Companies
The Paragon Banking Group PLC is one of the United Kingdom's largest providers of mortgages and personal loans. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History The company was established in 1985 as the National Home Loans Corporation. It launched ''Homeloans Direct'' in 1995. In 1997 it changed its name to the ''Paragon Group of Companies.'' In 2003 it acquired ''Britannic Money''. In 2014, the Paragon Group of Companies PLC launched Paragon Bank which offers a range of internet-based savings accounts and a range of lending products. In 2017, it changed its name to Paragon Banking Group PLC, as part of becoming a "fully integrated banking business". In 2018, Paragon Banking Group completed a £48m takeover of residential lender Titlestone Property Finance. Operations The company is based in Solihull Solihull (, or ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in West Midlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragon, Nebraska
Paragon is a former community that was located in Cedar County, NE about 4.5 miles northeast of Hartington, NE. It was called a community because its cemetery, school, mill, post office and store were located within a radius of about one mile of one another. The Paragon Cemetery is the only part of the community remaining today.Anderson, Twila. 1982. History of Cedar County, Nebraska. Hartington Shopper Publisher. 120 p. Available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/cedar. Accessed 2/20/2017. History The first settler, Albert Erdenberger, homesteaded here in May 1867.U.S. Homestead Records: Nebraska 1861-1936. Dakota City, Niobrara, O'Neill NE. Available through ancestry.com The Anderson, Bottolfsen and Olsen families joined the Erdenbergers in May 1869 with others following soon after. The Paragon community was first called ‘Smithland’ after Michael Smith, the initial postmaster in the area. That post office (P.O.), established December 1871, was in the NE quarter of Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragon Gaming
Paragon Gaming is a gaming company based in Enterprise, Nevada that owns and manages casinos in the United States and formerly in Canada. History Paragon Gaming was founded in 2000 by cousins Diana Bennett and Scott Menke, who were experienced gaming executives and the daughter and nephew, respectively, of prominent casino owner William Bennett. The company began working with American Indian tribes, seeking opportunities to develop tribal casinos. In 2001, Paragon proposed to develop a casino at the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, California on behalf of a yet-to-be-determined tribe. In the face of opposition from local officials, the company withdrew the proposal and announced a new plan to build a casino at the Oxnard Factory Outlet with the Greenville Rancheria of Maidu Indians. This plan, too, provoked strong opposition, and was rejected by the city council. Later in 2001, Paragon announced a deal to develop a casino near Palm Springs, California for the Augustine Band of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragon (band)
Paragon is a speed metal band from Hamburg, Germany. Biography Paragon was founded by guitarist Martin Christian (who in many of the band's album booklets is written as Martin Wöbcke when it comes to songwriting-credits). After releasing some demo tapes and a mini-CD, they were able to release an album in 1994, the debut '' World of Sin''. Shortly after this, their record company Blue Merle went bankrupt, and Martin decided to put the band on hiatus. About two years later, Martin found four new members (Andreas, Jan, Markus, and Claudius) and recorded the album '' The Final Command''. In 1999, '' Chalice of Steel'' was released. In 2001, Paragon released '' Steelbound'', engineered and produced by Piet Sielck of Iron Savior. Piet has worked with the band on every album since then. After the recording of ''Forgotten Prophecies'' in early 2007, the band's longtime bass player Jan Bünning quit the band because of "musical differences." Shortly after the band had found a replac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
