Jul 12

Salacca. leaves

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Salacca is a genus of 20 species of palms native to tropical southeastern Asia. They are very short-stemmed palms, with leaves up to 6-8 m long. The leaves have a spiny petiole; in most species they are pinnate with numerous leaflets, but some species, notably S. magnifica, have undivided leaves.

The fruit grow in clusters at the base of the plants, and are edible in many species, with a reddish-brown scaly skin covering a white pulp and one to two large inedible seeds. The Salak (S. zalacca) is the species most widely grown for the fruit, which has a slight acidic taste.

Jul 05

Casualty. only ones injured: although

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Casualty may refer to:

  • Casualty (person), a person who is killed, or injured, in a war or disaster
  • The emergency department of a hospital, also known as a casualty department
  • Casualty (TV series), a long-running UK television series set in a hospital casualty department
  • Casualty insurance, a type of insurance
May 05

Leading actor. crashes leading to

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A leading actor, leading actress, or simply lead, plays the role of the protagonist in a film or play. The word lead may also refer to the largest role in the piece and leading actor may refer to a person who typically plays such parts or an actor with a respected body of work. Some actors are typecast as leads, but most play the lead in some performances and supporting or character roles in others.

Sometimes there is more than one significant leading role in a dramatic piece, and the actors are said to play co-leads; a large supporting role may be considered a secondary lead. Award nominations for acting often reflect such ambiguities. Thus, sometimes two actors in the same performance piece are nominated for Best Actor or Best Actress — categories traditionally reserved for leads. For example, in 1935 Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone were each nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for Mutiny on the Bounty. There can even be controversy over whether a particular performance should be nominated in the Best Actor/Actress or Best Supporting Actor/Actress category.

A title role is often, but not necessarily the lead.


See also

  • Charisma
  • Lead (disambiguation)
  • Leading lady
  • Leading man
  • Movie star
Feb 07

Petits-Chevaux. bystanders e.g. pedestrians

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Petits-Chevaux, French for “little horses”, is a gambling game played with a mechanical device consisting of a board perforated with a number of concentric circular slits, in which revolve, each independently on its own axis, figures of jockeys on horseback, distinguished by numbers or colors. The bystanders having staked their money according to their choice on a board marked in divisions for this purpose, the horses are started revolving rapidly together by means of mechanism attached to the board, and the horse which stops nearest a marked goal wins, every player who has staked on that horse receiving so many times his stake. Figures of railway trains and other objects sometimes take the place of horses. In recent years there has been a tendency to supplant the petits chevaux at French resorts by the boule or ball game, on the same principle of gambling; in this a ball is rolled on a basin-shaped table so that it may eventually settle in one of a number of shallow cups, each marked with a figure.

Jan 04

Vehicle engineering. vehicle

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Vehicle engineering encompasses the fields of Automotive engineering, Aerospace engineering, and Marine engineering.


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  • Automobile
  • Vehicle dynamics
Dec 13

By administrative means. cases innocent

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By administrative means (В административном порядке, “V administrativnom poryadke”) was an expression in use in the Soviet Union applied to the cases when some actions that normally required a collegial decision were left to the decision of certain officials, i.e., by administration, rather than by deliberation or by criminal punishment.

There were several ways to do so. A deliberating body could decide to leave some cases to be settled “by administrative means”. An official could decide for himself to shortcut the deliberations; formally, these actions could be overruled collegially. Finally, some cases could be taken out of the collegial responsibilities by a statute or law.

A notable instance of the latter case was application of certain punishments “by administrative means”, i.e., without deliberations in court. See Special Council of the NKVD and 101st kilometre articles for some examples.

Nov 27

LVT. vehicle

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LVT can refer to:

  • Land value tax
  • Landing Vehicle Tracked, an amphibious military vehicle.
  • Leasehold valuation tribunal, a form of legal hearing in England and Wales.
  • LogoVisual thinking (LVT), exploring cognition and modes of thinking.
  • Leuk Voor Thuis
  • Licensed Veterinary Technician