Janus may refer to Janus, the two-faced Thessalian god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings that was worshipped by Romans Janus, a two-seater glider. Janus, a criminal organization headed up by Alec Trevelyan in the James Bond movie GoldenEye. Janus Capital Group, an investment company based in Denver, Colorado. Janus chess, a chess variant. Janus, a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe. Janus, a DRM platform of Microsoft. Janus

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Janus is referred in the 1995 movie adaptation of Judge Dredd. Janus is the name of the project where the DNA of all elder judges have been compounded to yield perfect Judges. However the result yielded is the perfect judge Dredd, and his DNA twin, the perfect criminal, Rico. In the James Bond film GoldenEye, the renegade 00-agent Alec Trevelyan secretly formed the "Janus Syndicate" with himself ("Janus") as its head. This alludes to his betrayal of MI6, as Bond remarks ...

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Zündapp Janus was the name of a microcar model made by Zündapp between 1957 and 1958. Originally Zündapp made motorcycles, but in 1954 decided to make a more weatherproof vehicle. They looked at designs from Kroboth, Brütsch, and Fuldamobil before settling for a design by Dornier. The "coming or going" design was given the name of the Roman god, Janus, usually pictured having two faces: one looks forward while the other one looks back. (January is also named after this god.) The car was powered by a mid-mounted 2-stroke single cyl ...

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A door is a structure in a wall that allows easy conversion between an opening and a closed wall. It is found in many houses and other buildings: internal ones, doors giving access to the street/external world, and doors to private outdoor areas such as a garden or balcony. In an apartment building, an intermediate kind is the outer door of an apartment, inside the building. Doors are also found in vehicles, cupboards, cages, etc. See door furniture for a discussion of attachments to doors such as doorhandles and doorkno ...

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January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. January begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Capricorn and ends in the sign of Aquarius. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constellation of Sagittarius and ends in the constellation of Capricornus. January is named for Janus, the ...

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An auto-antonym or contronym, sometimes spelled contranym (occasionally called antagonym, Janus word or self-antonym), is a word with a homonym which is also an antonym. It is a word (of multiple meanings) that is defined as the reverse of one of its other meanings. For example, the word "fast" can mean "moving quickly" as in "running fast", or it can mean "not moving" as in "stuck fast". This phe ...

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January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Here a calendar year refers to the order in which the months are displayed, January to December. The first day of the medieval Julian year was usually a day other than January 1. This day was adopted as the first day of the Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The Gregorian calendar as promulgated in 1582 did not specify that Janu ...

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29 BC - Births. 29 BC - Deaths. Mariamme, executed wife of king Herod the Great (or 28 BC) 29 BC - Events. March 1 - Horace writes the ode Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus becomes Roman Consul for the fifth time. His partner is Sextus Appuleius. He was granted the title of imperator, and for the third time in Roman history the doors of the Temple of Janus were closed, signaling peace.Including:

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Veer Teja (1074- 1103) was a Jat folk-deity who lived in the state of Rajasthan in India. The history of Rajasthan is filled with lots of heroic stories and instances where people have put their life and families at risk and kept the pride and values like loyalty, freedom, truth, shelter,social reform etc intact. Veer Teja was one of these famous people in the history of Rajasthan. Veer Teja is considered to be folk-deity and worshiped in entire Rajasthan by all communities. He was born on Bhadrapad Shukla Dashmi, dated 29 Janu ...

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2008 (MMVIII) is a Leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the years 5768-5769 in the Hebrew Calendar and 1428-1430 in the Islamic Calendar. 2008 - Predicted events. FIFA will announce the host country to celebrate the 2014 FIFA World Cup The FIA will introduce new regulations for the Formula 1 in order to reduce the costs and improve racing. 2008 - January-March. Janu ...

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The Windows 3.1x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems were released from 1992 to 1994. This family of Windows could run in either Standard or 386 Enhanced memory modes. The exception was Windows for Workgroups 3.11, which could only run in 386 Enhanced mode. Windows 3.1x - Windows 3.1. Windows 3.1 (originally codenamed Janus), released on March 18, 1992, included a TrueType font system (and a set of highly legible fonts already installed) which effectively made Windows a serious deskt ...

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The Janus locomotive was of 0-6-0 wheel arrangement, diesel-electric, weighed 48 tons and had a maximum speed of 23mph. The two Rolls Royce 2xC6SFL diesel engines gave a total of 400hp. The locomotive demonstrated on British Railways was second of this type built (works number 2595/56), both of the first two locomotives being demonstrated to potential customers before going to the Appleby-Frodingham Steelworks in Scunthorpe. It is thought to have been in use there until being scrapped 1982. Eventually just short of 100 Janus locomotives were built (one even being built for use in India), some ...

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Janus is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman god. Although the name was informally proposed soon after the initial 1966 discovery, it was not officially given this name until 1983. Epimetheus received its name at the same time. According to the OED, the adjectival form of the moon's name is Janian. ...

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Janus and Epimetheus are "co-orbital". Janus' orbital radius from Saturn is currently 151,472 km and Epimetheus' orbital radius is 151,422 km, a separation of only 50 km. Since closer orbits have higher velocities the two moons must inevitably approach each other, and since Epimetheus' diameter is 115 km and Janus' is 178 km it would seem at first glance that a collision is also inevitable. But as the inner moon catches up with the outer moon their mutual gravitational attraction boosts the inner moon's momentum and raises its orbit, causing ...

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The Taurus locomotive was an 0-8-0, diesel-hydraulic, weighed 56 tons and had a maximum speed of 36mph. The two Rolls Royce 2xC8SFL diesel engines gave a total of 600hp. The transmission of this locomotive worked on a similar principle to that of the Fell diesel tested during the early 1950s. In this case, at low speeds only one engine was used, the second being engaged to increase to allow higher speeds. The maximum speed with one engine was 12mph while the minimum speed with both engines was 3.5mph. It would appear that the name came from Taurus the bull while maintaining the ‘….us’ theme of Yorkshire Engine Co ...

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Janus occupies essentially the same orbit as the moon Epimetheus. This caused some confusion for astronomers, who assumed that there was only one body in that orbit, and for a long time struggled to figure out what was going on. It was eventually realised that they were trying to reconcile observations of two distinct objects as a single object. The discovery of Janus is attributed to its first observer: Audouin Dollfus, on December 15, 1966 (IAUC 1987). The new object was given the temporary designation S/1966 S 2. Previously, ...

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The earliest records are those represented in the paintings of the Egyptian tombs, in which they are shown as single or double doors, each in a single piece of wood. In Egypt, where the climate is intensely dry, there would be no fear of their warping, but in other countries it would be necessary to frame them, which according to Vitruvius (iv. 6.) was done with stiles (sea/si) and rails (impages): the spaces enclosed being filled with panels (tympana) let into grooves made in the stiles and rails. The stiles were the vertical boards, one of ...

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Epimetheus occupies essentially the same orbit as the moon Janus. Astronomers assumed that there was only one body in that orbit, and accordingly had a hard time figuring out their orbital characteristics; it is obviously impossible to reconcile the observations of two distinct objects as a single object. Audouin Dollfus observed a moon on December 15, 1966, which he proposed to be named "Janus"[3]. On December 18, Richard L. Walker made a similar observation which is now credited as the discovery of Epimetheus[4]. However, at the time, it was believed that there was only one moon, unoff ...

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The earliest records are those represented in the paintings of the Egyptian tombs, in which they are shown as single or double doors, each in a single piece of wood. In Egypt, where the climate is intensely dry, there would be no fear of their warping, but in other countries it would be necessary to frame them, which according to Vitruvius (iv. 6.) was done with stiles (sea/si) and rails (impages): the spaces enclosed being filled with panels (tympana) let into grooves made in the stiles and rails. The stiles were the vertical boards, one of ...

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