Furniture

State Highway 99, also referred to as OK-99 or SH-99, is a north-south state highway through central Oklahoma. It runs from the Texas border at Lake Texoma to the Kansas border near Lake Hulah. It is 241 miles long. The highway overlaps U.S. 377 for over half its length.

Route description

From the Oklahoma/Texas border through Stroud, OK-99 is signed along with U.S. 377. At Stroud, the U.S. route ends (though the end is not officially signed) and the roadbed exclusively becomes OK-99. Seventeen miles north of Stroud, the highway meets State Highway 33, which it overlaps for two miles through the town of Drumright. It crosses the Cimarron River at Oilton, and has an interchange with the Cimarron Turnpike between Jennings and Hallett.

It is then concurrent with U.S. 64 for six miles before passing through Cleveland, where it crosses the Arkansas River. Throughout its final 55 miles, in Osage County, the highway passes through a relatively sparse region, though it meets State Highway 20 in Hominy and overlaps OK-11 south of Pawhuska and U.S. 60 north of the city. Its final junction is with OK-10 ten miles south of the Oklahoma border.

The Highway 99 designation

OK-99 links up with K-99 after crossing the border into Kansas. This road continues for 233 miles to the Nebraska border, where it becomes Nebraska Highway 99, which lasts an additional 14 miles. Thus, OK-99 is part of a triple-state highway numbered “99″, which lasts a total of 488 miles.

Spurs

OK-99 has two lettered spurs:

• OK-99A is a designation for two distinct highways:
  • A connector highway from U.S. 377/OK-99 to the unincorporated town of Harden City. It was originally known as OK-61A [1].
  • A highway that runs from OK-3E to OK-48 near Bearden.
• OK-99C connects U.S. 377/OK-99 in Madill to OK-32 near Lake Texoma.
• OK-99D was a loop north of Hominy, Oklahoma serving the nearby state prison, Connors Correctional Center. The loop was decommissioned in the 1990s, and the bridge over Bird Creek is no longer passable [2].

External links

• OK-99 at OKHighways
• OK-99 at Roadklahoma

Charles Thorold Wood (June 15, 1777 - March 13, 1852) was an English ornithologist.

He was the eldest son of Willoughby Wood, of Alford, Lincolnshire. He was the author of The Ornithological Guide (1835).

References

• Mullens

and Swann - A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917)

An Adirondack chair (or in some parts of Canada, a Muskoka chair) is a type of chair used primarily in an outdoors setting. The precursor to today’s Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee in 1903. He was on vacation in Westport, New York and needed outdoor chairs for his summer home. He tested the first designs on his family.

The original Adirondack chair was made with eleven pieces of wood, cut from a single board. It had a straight back and seat, which were set at a slant to sit better on the steep mountain inclines of the area. It also featured wide armrests which became a hallmark of the Adirondack Chair.

Today’s Adirondack chairs usually feature a rounded back and contoured seat. The style has also been translated to other pieces of furniture, from gliders to love seats. Some modern Adirondack chairs are made out of engineered wood instead of wood.

After arriving at a final design for the “Westport plank chair,” Lee offered it to Harry Bunnell, a carpenter friend in Westport, who was in need of a winter income. Bunnell quickly realized the chair was the perfect item to sell to Westport’s summer residents and apparently without asking Lee’s permission, Bunnell filed for and received patent number 794,777 in 1905.Harry C Bunnell patent no.794,777 Bunnell manufactured his plank chairs for the next twenty years. His “Westport Chairs” were all signed and made of hemlock in colors of green or medium dark brown.

Adirondack chairs are becoming popular as outdoor seating at cafés, because the flat armrests are suitable for setting food and beverages on, making it possible to provide individual seating without using tables.

Alternative name

The Canadian name “Muskoka chair” comes from the Muskoka cottage and outdoor recreation region in southern Ontario.

References

G-Plan was a pioneering range of furniture in the United Kingdom, produced by E Gomme Ltd.

Launched in 1954 and backed by consumer advertising, G-Plan was sold direct to the public via showrooms and exhibitions which displayed the furniture in room sets - the first use of lifestyle marketing in Britain - rather than through traditional furniture shops.

In another first, G-Plan was designed to be mixed and matched, and - another novelty in the post-World War II era - was also modern and affordable. As Scandinavian designs gained popularity, a Danish-designed range was added in the early-1960s. The success of G-Plan lead to E Gomme becoming one of the UK’s largest furniture manufacturers.

The company, now based at modern offices near Melksham, Wiltshire, presently operates under the name of G-Plan Upholstry Ltd.

See also

• Ercol
• Lucian Ercolani
• UK topics

It’s more than 100 years now since Ebenezer Gomme set up his furniture making business in 1898 in the town of High Wycombe, in Bucks. He joined hundreds of other furniture makers in the area, satisfying the insatiable demand for furniture from the rapidly growing cities of Industrial Revolution England and drawing on the abundant supplies of timber from the Chiltern beech woods that surrounded them.

By dint of hard work and insistence on the highest standard of quality, the company grew steadily from its humble beginnings. There were interruptions and set backs. During the First World War the company was set to making DC9 aircraft; in 1922 the factory was completely gutted in a disastrous fire. But, by 1939 it had become one of the largest manufacturers in the industry at the time.

Then came war again and once more the company’s services were required – this time they played a leading part in the production of the famous de Havilland Mosquito aircraft.

The experience gained in machining and assembling wooden parts to tolerances normally associated with metal working stood the company in good stead when life eventually got back to normal in the 1950s.

Once again there was much pent up demand to supply and Donald Gomme – Ebenezer’s grandson – was able and willing to supply it. One of his many bright ideas was to promote his products direct to the consumer – unheard of at that time for a manufacturer. And thus G Plan – the name he coined in 1953 - became the first furniture brand to be heavily promoted through advertising.

The first G Plan model – Brandon in light oak – was ultra modern for the time and the company’s fresh and vigorous approach became all the rage, leading to a hey day of success throughout the sixties. G Plan was one of the first to latch onto the fashion for teak, Scandinavian style furniture, for example.

In fact G Plan can lay claim to a whole series of ‘firsts” in the world of furniture. It was the first company to introduce the concept of whole house furnishing – much boosted by significant TV advertising in the early seventies. In those heady days there was even a flagship London showroom in George Square, W1.

It was also the first to introduce modular furniture: Form Five was the name of the first range, which had a base unit with a sliding door mechanism and five bookcase display elements for the tops.

G Plan was also the first to introduce flip-action extending dining tables; and the first to put stops on cutlery drawers to prevent them (and their contents) from being spilled onto the floor.

In 1987 the Gomme family – major shareholders in the company, which had gone public in 1958 - decided to retire. They sold the business to the then directors, who, three years later, sold it to the Christie Tyler group of companies. In 1996 the Morris Furniture Group acquired the licence to make and market G Plan Cabinet furniture from its state of the art facilities in Glasgow. It has since developed and extended the range into today’s highly successful collection, securing the future of the famous brand for the 21st century.

External links

• GPlan.com
• GPlanCabinets.co.uk

Anatoli Papanov (; 31 October 1922 in Vyazma, Smolensk Oblast, Russia - 7 August, 1987 in Moscow, Russia) was a Russian actor.

Papanov starred in some of the best and well-known Soviet films, often together with his friend, Andrei Mironov. Mostly known for his great performances in comedies, he also had serious and dramatic roles, such as that of the political prisoner in “The Cold Summer of ‘53″(”Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего”). Anatoli Papanov was honored as People’s Artist of the USSR (1973).

Selected filmography

• Nu, pogodi! (voice) (1969-1987)
• Beware of the Automobile (Берегись автомобиля) (1966)
• The Diamond Arm (Бриллиантовая рука) (1968)
• The Twelve Chairs (Двенадцать стульев) (1976)
• Cold Summer of 1953 (Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего) (1987)

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The 5th Interceptor Command was part of the Far East Air Force, during the World War II era. The commander was Brigadier General H.B. Clagett, based at Nielson Field.

5th Interceptor Command — December 8, 1941

At the time of the 1941 Japanese invasion, of the Philippines, the commander and part of the U.S. 35th Pursuit Group was at sea, en route to the Philippines. The 21st and 34th Squadrons, of the 35th PG, were attached to the U.S. 24th Pursuit Group.

• U.S. 5th Interceptor Command Group
  • U.S. 24th Pursuit Group
  • Philippine Aircraft Warning Detachment
    
  • U.S. 680th Maintenance Detachment

Watheroo is a national park in Western Australia (Australia), 187 km north of Perth.

Fact sheet

• Area: 445 km²
• Coordinates:
• Date of establishment: 1969
• Managing authorities: Department of Conservation and Land Management
• IUCN category: II

See also

• Protected areas of Western Australia

Stadion SRC Mladost is a multi-use city-owned stadium in Čakovec, Croatia. The stadium is now primarily used for football matches and various track and field athletics events, but it also hosts some larger concerts from time to time. It is currently home stadium to football clubs NK Čakovec and NK Međimurje. The stadium has a total capacity of 7,000 from which 5,000 is seating.

The stadium is located in northwestern suburban part of the city of Čakovec in the Mladost centre for sports and recreation, where several other sports buildings and grounds are located. It was built in the mid-1980s to serve for the purposes of the 1987 Summer Universiade, which was partially held in Čakovec. The stadium was slightly renovated with expansion of its seating capacity in 2004, when NK Međimurje managed promotion to the top flight. The seating capacity was then expanded from 1,500 to 5,000 seats. There is currently no floodlighting in the stadium, but there are plans to install it in the near future.

The most recent international match held in the stadium was a friendly between under-21 teams of Croatia and Greece in April 2001.

Umklapp scattering (also U-process or Umklapp process) is an anharmonic phonon-phonon (or electron-phonon) scattering process creating a third phonon with a momentum k-vector outside the first Brillouin zone. Umklapp scattering is one process limiting the thermal conductivity in crystalline materials, the others being phonon scattering on crystal defects and at the surface of the sample.

Figure 1 schematically shows the possible scattering processes of two incoming phonons with wave-vectors (k-vectors) k₁ and k₂ (red) creating one outgoing phonon with a wave vector k₃ (blue). As long as the sum of k₁ and k₂ stay inside the first Brillouin zone (gray squares) k₃ is the sum of the former two conserving phonon momentum. This process is called normal scattering (N-process).

With increasing phonon momentum and thus wave vector of k₁ and k₂ their sum might point outside the Brillouin zone (k’₃). As shown in Figure 2, k-vectors outside the first Brillouin zone are physically equivalent to vectors inside it and can be mathematically transformed into each other by the addition of a reciprocal lattice vector G. These processes are called Umklapp scattering and change the total phonon momentum.

Umklapp scattering is the dominant process for thermal resistivity at low temperatures for low defect crystals.

The name derives from the German word umklappen (to turn over).

Kris Jamsa is an author of computer science books. Jamsa received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the United States Air Force Academy. He also. received a master’s degree in computer science from Las Vegas University of Nevada, a doctoral degree from Arizona State University, an MBA from San Diego State University, and a master’s degree in Education from Aspen University.