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Flossie
Flossie may refer to: * '' Flossie, a Venus of Fifteen'', an 1897 English erotic novel * Tropical Storm Flossie (other) People with the given name Flossie * Flossie Page (1893–2006), American supercentenarian * Flossie Wong-Staal (1947–2020), Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist Animals * Flossie (cat) (1995–), British domestic cat which is currently the oldest verified cat alive See also * Floss (other) Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software modified or not to everyone free of charge. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term encompassing free ... * Flossy {{disambiguation, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Storm Flossie (other)
The name Flossie, or Flossy, has been used for nineteen tropical cyclones worldwide, two the Atlantic Ocean, eight in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and nine in the Western Pacific Ocean. In the Atlantic: * Hurricane Flossy (1956) Category 1 Hurricane that made landfall on the Gulf Coast * Hurricane Flossie (1978) Long-Lived Category 2 hurricane that stayed out to sea In the Eastern Pacific: * Tropical Storm Flossie (1983) – did not affect land. * Tropical Storm Flossie (1989) – weak storm that paralleled the Mexican coast. * Hurricane Flossie (1995) – category 1 hurricane that brushed Baja California Sur. * Hurricane Flossie (2001) – category 2 hurricane whose remnants caused flooding in California. * Hurricane Flossie (2007) – category 4 hurricane that passed near Hawaii. * Tropical Storm Flossie (2013) – almost made landfall in Hawaii, but moved to the north and weakened. * Hurricane Flossie (2019) – category 1 hurricane that neared Hawaii as a tropical depressi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haven, Kansas
Haven is a city in Reno County, Kansas, Reno County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,170. History Haven was laid out in 1886, and incorporated as a city in 1901. The first post office in Haven was established in 1873. The local High school (North America), high school American football, football team was on the winning side of a lopsided football game against another school from across the county in Sylvia, Kansas, Sylvia. Played in 1927 with a final score of 256–0, the game produced multiple national and state high school records. As of 2016, the state records include: Total points scored, points by both teams, widest margin, widest shutout, most touchdowns (38), and most rushing touchdowns (30). Also, Haven student Elvin McCoy holds state records for both individual points per game with 90 and individual touchdowns scored per game with 13. The introduction of the mercy rule means that many of thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flossie Wong-Staal
Flossie Wong-Staal (née Wong Yee Ching, ; August 27, 1946July 8, 2020) was a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist. She was the first scientist to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes, which was a major step in proving that HIV is the cause of AIDS. From 1990 to 2002, she held the Florence Riford Chair in AIDS Research at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She was co-founder and, after retiring from UCSD, she became the chief scientific officer of Immusol, which was renamed Pharmaceuticals in 2007 when it transitioned to a drug development company focused on hepatitis C and continued as chief scientific officer. Early life Wong-Staal was born as Wong Yee Ching in Guangzhou, China, in 1946. The third child in her family of four, she grew up with two brothers and a sister. In 1952, her family was among the many Chinese citizens who fled to Hong Kong after the Communist revolution in the late 1940s. During her time in Hong Kong, Wong attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flossie (cat)
Flossie (born 29 December 1995) is a British domestic cat recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest living cat ( Flossie lives in Orpington, England, with her owner Victoria Green. Life Early life Flossie was born on 29 December 1995. As a kitten, she lived in a feral cat colony near St Helens Hospital, Merseyside. Several staff who worked at the hospital adopted the kittens of the colony, including Flossie. Flossie lived with her first owner for ten years until their death, and was then adopted by their sister. The cat lived with the second owner for 14 years until her death. Her son then decided to adopt Flossie. However, after three years he had to give up the cat, being unable to support her welfare, and she was taken in by Cats Protection. Adoption In 2022, Flossie was adopted by Victoria Green. Green at first thought that the advert posted online by Cats Protection was a mistake, because the age listed for Flossie was 27 years. Green lived in Orpington a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floss (other)
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software modified or not to everyone free of charge. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term encompassing free software and open-source software. The rights guaranteed by FOSS originate from the "Four Essential Freedoms" of ''The Free Software Definition'' and the criteria of ''The Open Source Definition''. All FOSS can have publicly available source code, but not all source-available software is FOSS. FOSS is the opposite of proprietary software, which is licensed restrictively or has undisclosed source code. The historical precursor to FOSS was the hobbyist and academic public domain software ecosystem of the 1960s to 1980s. Free and open-source operating systems such as Linux distributions and descendants of BSD are widely used, powering millions of servers, desktops, smartphones, and other devices. Free-software licenses and open-source lice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
