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Powers: Encyclopedia - Powers
Powers.
Powers, a comic book series by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Avon Oeming
(Super) powers, special abilities of super-humans, al...
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Will Power: Encyclopedia - Will Power
Will Power (born March 1, 1981) is a motorsport driver from Australia.
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Power: Encyclopedia - Power
The concept of power has many senses, all of which imply control or force.
Power - Physics.
Power (physics) is the amount of work done ...
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Power Girl: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Girl - Powers
Power Girl originally had powers similar to those of the original Superman: super-strength, flight, invulnerability, X-ray vision, heat v...
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Sound Power: Encyclopedia - Sound Power
Sound power or acoustic power Pac is a measure of sonic energy E per time t unit.
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Ac Power: Encyclopedia - Ac Power
Power is defined as the rate of flow of energy past a given point. In alternating current circuits, energy storage elements such as induc...
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Unlimited Power: Encyclopedia - Unlimited Power
Unlimited Power is a national bestselling book (U.S.) by author and motivational speaker Anthony Robbins. In this book, Robbins shows his...
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Wind Power: Encyclopedia - Wind Power
Wind power is the kinetic energy of wind, or the extraction of this energy by wind turbines. In 2004, wind power became the least expensi...
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Balance Of Power: Encyclopedia - Balance Of Power
Balance of power is a central concept in realist theories of international relations. Within a balance of power system, a state may choos...
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Axis Powers: Encyclopedia - Axis Powers
The Axis Powers were those opposed to the Allies. The 3 major Axis powers, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Empire of Japan, referred...
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Auxiliary Power Unit: Encyclopedia - Auxiliary Power Unit
An Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) is a relatively small self-contained generator used in aircraft to start the main engines, usually with com...
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Austin Powers: Encyclopedia - Austin Powers
Sir Austin Danger Powers, played by Mike Myers, is the title character of a series of parodies of 1960s spy films, primarily James Bond, ...
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Automobile Ancillary Power: Encyclopedia - Automobile Ancillary Power
Several different methods of automobile ancillary power exist. The ultimate source of power for most of them is the automobile's main pow...
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Austin Powers In Goldmember: Encyclopedia - Austin Powers In Goldmember
Austin Powers in Goldmember is a 2002 comedy film.
Austin Powers (Mike Myers), having conquered the '90s and the '60s, travels back to th...
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Wave Power: Encyclopedia - Wave Power
Wave power refers to the energy of ocean surface waves and the capture of that energy to do useful work - including electricity generatio...
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Power Engineering: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Engineering - Power
Power engineering is a subfield of electrical engineering that deals with the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity a...
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Black Power: Encyclopedia - Black Power
Black Power has been described as an ideal which describes the aspiration of many people of varying degrees of African descent for recogn...
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Absolute Power: Encyclopedia - Absolute Power
Absolute power, also called absolute authority, is a term used in political science to describe a head of state and head of government th...
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Power International: Encyclopedia Ii - Power International - Foreign Policy And Power
In International Relations there are two types of diplomatic power; hard power and soft power. "The expression 'soft power' was coined by...
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Power International: Encyclopedia Ii - Power International - Categories Of Powers
Political analysis often personifies nation states as powers, discussing superpowers, great powers, second-order powers and "European pow...
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Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Power - Physics
Power - Optics.
Power has two meanings in optics:
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Power Series: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Series - Operations On Power Series
Power series - Addition and subtraction.
When two functions f and g are decomposed into power series around the same center c, the powe...
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Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Power - Fiction
Power is often used in supernatural senses to refer to the motivating forces behind different disciplines of magic. This is seen in both ...
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Power International: Encyclopedia Ii - Power International - Theory
In the field of political theory, Niccolò Machiavelli theorized early and influentially on the mechanisms of gaining and retaining polit...
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Power Engineering: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Engineering - Components
Power engineering is usually broken into three parts:
Power engineering - Generation.
Generation is converting other forms of power int...
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Ac Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Ac Power - Power Factor
The ratio between real power and apparent power in a circuit is called the power factor. Where the waveforms are purely sinusoidal, the p...
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Power Sociology: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Sociology - Theories Of Power
The thought of Friedrich Nietzsche underlies much 20th century analysis of power. Nietzsche disseminated ideas on the "will to power," wh...
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Ac Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Ac Power - Apparent Power
The definition of apparent power is considered to be one of the most controversial topics in power engineering. Originally, apparent powe...
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Power Metal: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Metal - European Power Metal
Power Metal began in the mid 70's when Deep Purple Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore teamed up with Elf Vocalist Ronnie James Dio and formed *R...
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Power Transmission: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Transmission - Mechanical Power
Electronic power transmission has replaced mechanical power transmission in all but the very shortest distances. From the start of the in...
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Power Transmission: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Transmission - Electrical Power
With widespread establishment of power grids, power transmission has come to be associated most often with electric power transmission. A...
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Power Sociology: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Sociology - Analysis And Operation Of Power
Power manifests itself in a relational manner: one cannot meaningfully say that a particular social actor "has power" without also specif...
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Power Sociology: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Sociology - Theories Of Power
The thought of Friedrich Nietzsche underlies much 20th century analysis of power. Nietzsche disseminated ideas on the "will to power," wh...
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Power Of Two: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Of Two - Powers Of Two Whose Exponents Are Powers Of Two
Because modern memory cells and registers often hold a number of bits which is a power of two, the most frequent powers of two to appear ...
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Power Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Physics - Mechanical Power
In mechanics, the work done on an object is related to the forces acting on it by
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s is the displacement of the objec...
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Power Sociology: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Sociology - Analysis And Operation Of Power
Power manifests itself in a relational manner: one cannot meaningfully say that a particular social actor "has power" without also specif...
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Power Metal: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Metal - European Power Metal
It all started in the early 1980s with the German band Accept, who developed a new style of heavy metal by mixing Judas Priest-like riffs...
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Power Supply: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Supply - Electrical Power Supplies
This term covers the mains power distribution system together with any other primary or secondary sources of energy such as:
Batteries
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Labor-power: Encyclopedia Ii - Labor-power - Consumption Of Labor Power
When labor power has been purchased and an employment contract signed, normally it is not yet paid for. First, labor power must be put to...
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Rings Of Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Rings Of Power - The Power Of The Rings
The Rings of Power all had certain abilities, shared amongst them; the only different ones were the three. Below are some of the abilitie...
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Major Powers: Encyclopedia Ii - Major Powers - Current Major Powers
Brazil is considered an emerging power because:
It has a large population and territory, a strategic position in the South Atlantic an...
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Labor-power: Encyclopedia Ii - Labor-power - Labor Power As Commodity
Under capitalism, according to Marx, labor-power becomes a commodity – it is sold and bought on the market. A worker tries to sell his ...
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Labor-power: Encyclopedia Ii - Labor-power - Value Of Labour-power
Labour power is a peculiar commodity, because it is an attribute of living persons, who own it themselves. Because they own it, they cann...
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Labor-power: Encyclopedia Ii - Labor-power - Labor Power And Wages
Marx regards money-wages and salaries as the price of labour power (though workers can also be paid "in kind"). That price may contingent...
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Labor-power: Encyclopedia Ii - Labor-power - Reproduction Of Labor Power
Marx himself argued that:
"The maintenance and reproduction of the working-class is, and must ever be, a necessary condition to the repro...
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Power Nine: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Nine - The Power Nine
Power Nine - Black Lotus.
Cost: 0
Type: Artifact
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Power Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Physics - Electrical Power
Main article: Electric power
Power physics - Instantaneous electrical power.
The instantaneous electrical power P delivered to a compon...
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Power Girl: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Girl - History
As originally created, Power Girl was Kara Zor-L, the cousin of the Superman of the parallel world of Earth-Two (and thus, she was her Ea...
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Power Series: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Series - Examples
Any polynomial can be easily expressed as a power series around any center c, albeit one with most coefficients equal to zero. For instan...
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Rings Of Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Rings Of Power - The One
Main Article: One Ring
The One Ring, secretly forged by Sauron in the heart of Mount Doom, had the power to dominate the other 19 Great R...
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Power Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Physics - Units
The units of power are units of energy divided by time. The SI unit of power is the watt, which is equal to one joule per second. The pow...
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Elf Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Elf Power - Discography
Elf Power have released a number of albums and EPs on a variety of labels.
Elf Power - Albums.
Walking With the Beggar Boys (2004)
Not...
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Wind Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Wind Power - Controversy
The debate around wind energy is heated and often emotional. Arguments of both parties are listed below.
Wind power - Arguments of oppon...
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Power Rangers: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Rangers - What Is A Power Ranger?
A Power Ranger is a human or humanoid person who "morphs" from a natural, unpowered form into a superhuman warrior clad in a full-body co...
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Ac Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Ac Power - Power Factor
The ratio between real power and apparent power in a circuit is called the power factor. Where the waveforms are purely sinusoidal, the p...
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Power Chamber: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Chamber - History
According to the series and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Zordon had set up the building called the Command Center on Earth mi...
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Power Rangers: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Rangers - Characters
Rangers | Villains | Enemy Grunts | Monsters |
See List of Power Rangers characters for more extensive listings.
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Solar Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Solar Power - Deployment Of Solar Power
Deployment of solar power depends largely upon local conditions and requirements. But as all industrialised nations share a need for elec...
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Wind Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Wind Power - Utilization
Wind power - Large scale.
There are now many thousands of wind turbines operating in various parts of the world, with a total capacity ...
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Low-power: Encyclopedia Ii - Low-power - Low-power Radio
Some people claim that low power "smart" radio is inherently superior to standard broadcast radio, although others dispute this claim.
"T...
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Wind Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Wind Power - Controversy
The debate around wind energy is heated and often emotional. Arguments of both parties are listed below.
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Powers Oregon: Encyclopedia Ii - Powers Oregon - Geography
Powers is located at 42°53'7" North, 124°4'24" West (42.885186, -124.073360)GR1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city...
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Power International: Encyclopedia Ii - Power International - Recent History
The Great Powers are usually taken to be those nations or political entities that, through their great economic and military strength, ar...
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To The Power Of Three: Encyclopedia Ii - To The Power Of Three - Personnel
To The Power Of Three - Band.
Keith Emerson - Keyboards
Robert Berry - Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Carl Palmer - Drums, Percussion
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Wind Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Wind Power - Utilization
Wind power - Large scale.
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Solar Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Solar Power - Deployment Of Solar Power
Deployment of solar power depends largely upon local conditions and requirements. But as all industrialised nations share a need for elec...
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Labor-power: Encyclopedia Ii - Labor-power - Definition
Marx introduces the concept in chapter 6 of the first volume of Das Kapital, as follows:
"By labour-power or capacity for labour is to be...
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Rings Of Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Rings Of Power - The Three
The Three Rings of the Elves of Eregion were forged by Celebrimbor alone, and were never touched by Sauron. They were called Narya, the R...
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Rings Of Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Rings Of Power - The Nine
Full article: Nazgûl
The nine rings for mortal men were those divided amongst those evil-hearted men doomed to become the Nazgûl, the R...
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Ac Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Ac Power - Real Reactive And Apparent Power
Engineers use three types of power to describe energy flow in a system:
Real power (P)
Reactive power (Q)
Apparent power (S; sometimes |...
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Ac Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Ac Power - Real, Reactive, And Apparent Power
Engineers use three types of power to describe energy flow in a system:
Real power (P)
Reactive power (Q)
Apparent power (S; sometimes |...
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Power Strip: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Strip - Safety
Overloading can be a problem with any sort of power distribution adaptor. This is especially likely if multiple appliances with heating e...
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Nintendo Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Nintendo Power - Sections In Nintendo Power
Nintendo Power - Currently running.
Player's Pulse - "Mailbag" section that features letters to the editor submitted by readers. At fi...
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Captain Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Captain Power - Story
By the year 2132 advanced robotic soldiers known as Biomechs replaced human soldiers in the armed forces of the world´s nations. The exi...
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Electric Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Electric Power - Description
In resistive circuits, instantaneous electrical power is calculated using Joule's Law, which is named for British physicist James Joule, ...
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Power Rangers: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Rangers - Plot
Each of the Power Rangers seasons, or "incarnations", centers around a group of people, often teenagers (age of actors actually varies fr...
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Negawatt Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Negawatt Power - Technologies
Negawatt power - Lighting.
Incandescent light bulb: about 10% (15% for halogen lamps).
Fluorescent light bulb: 30% to 40% (depending o...
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The Power Of Shazam!: Encyclopedia Ii - The Power Of Shazam! - History
The Power of Shazam! - The graphic novel.
After a previous retcon by Roy Thomas and Tom Mandrake in 1987 with the Shazam! The New Begin...
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Tidal Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Tidal Power - Barrages
Barrages are used to close off a basin for trapping a water level inside them. The basic elements of a barrage are caissons, embankments,...
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Axis Powers: Encyclopedia Ii - Axis Powers - Origins
On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion during the Mukden incident. Italy, facing opposition to its war in Ab...
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Power Network: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Network - In Practice
Perhaps not surprisingly, some modern power networks claim some of their practices originate in the above principles and doctrines. An ea...
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Cat Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Cat Power - Biography
The daughter of divorced parents, Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall was born in Atlanta, but moved to New York City after dropping out o...
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Cat Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Cat Power - Trivia
Cat Power has garnered notoriety for her live shows, which often feature a chaotic lack of polish and structure. Songs are frequently cut...
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Power Word: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Word - Examples
Power word - Political.
Association, instead of labor union
Equal. "All men are created equal" by Thomas Jefferson, "Liberté, égal...
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Powers Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Powers Comics - Story
Powers is set in a world where superpowers are relatively common, but not mundane. It follows two detectives, Christian Walker and Deena ...
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Power Station: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Station - History
On February 16, 1985, the band performed "Some Like It Hot" and "Bang A Gong" on the Saturday Night Live TV show; this was Palmer's only ...
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Power Factor: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Factor - Explanation
In a purely resistive AC circuit, voltage and current waveforms are in step, changing polarity at the same instant in each cycle. Where r...
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Power Factor: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Factor - Mnemonics
English-language power engineering students are advised to remember: "ELI the ICE man" - the voltage E leads the current I in an inductor...
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Power Rangers: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Rangers - Criticisms
Original Executive Producer Haim Saban was criticized heavily for his use of non-SAG actors, and the one-sided contracts that the actors ...
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Amiga Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Amiga Power - Philosophy
Amiga Power had a number of principles which comprised its philosophy regarding games.
Like almost all Amiga magazines of the time, they ...
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Solar Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Solar Power - Classification
A wide range of power technologies exist which can make use of the solar energy reaching Earth. These can be classified in a number of di...
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Ibm Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Ibm Power - The Architecture
The POWER design is descended directly from the earlier 801 CPU, widely considered to be the first true RISC chip design. The 801 was use...
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Power Station: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Station - Origin
The group began as something of a whim -- it was a one-time gathering of friends to provide backing to model and would-be singer Bebe Bue...
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Supreme Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Supreme Power - Synopsis
Supreme Power - Part I: Contact #1–6.
The story begins with the origin of Hyperion, which parallels Superman's somewhat, with a baby ...
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The Mega Powers: Encyclopedia Ii - The Mega Powers - Formation
The Mega Powers officially formed as a tag team after Wrestlemania IV, where Hogan helped Savage win the WWF Championship in a 14-man tou...
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Wave Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Wave Power - The Waves
In general, large waves are more powerful. Specifically, wave power is determined by wave height, wave speed, wavelength, and water densi...
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Fusion Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Fusion Power - Power Plant Design
Fusion power - Confinement concepts.
Confinement refers to all the conditions necessary to keep a plasma dense and hot long enough to u...
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Ibm Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Ibm Power - Implementations
The first POWER1 CPUs consisted of three chips; branch, integer and floating point. These were wired together on a largish motherboard to...
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Ibm Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Ibm Power - History
IBM POWER - The 801 project.
In 1974, IBM started a project with a design objective of creating a large telephone-switching network wit...
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Amiga Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Amiga Power - Style
Amiga Power developed and maintained a familiar style throughout its six-year run. The writers were very fond of in-jokes, obscure refere...
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