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The United States is divided into five Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts, or PADDs. These were created during World War II under the Petroleum Administration for War to help organize the allocation of fuels derived from petroleum products, including gasoline and diesel (or "distillate") fuel.
The origin of this term is equally uncertain. The name Black Maria is common for race horses – cf. Black Maria (horse) – beginning with an 1832 appearance in Niles Weekly Register (October 10) and then again in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (1841). [6] The OED lists the first usage in 1835. [7]
Contact pad, the designated surface area for an electrical contact; A resistive pad used in an attenuator; An electronic notebook; A tablet computer; GridPad, the first commercially successful tablet computer
Several languages, including Japanese and Lakota Sioux, use the same word to describe blue and green. For example, in Vietnamese, the colour of both tree leaves and the sky is xanh. In Japanese, the word for blue (青, ao) is often used for colours that English speakers would refer to as green, such as the colour of a traffic signal meaning "go".
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A number of thieves operated by necessity and joined existing gangs. In the 1720s London was dominated by several large gangs. [6] A gang consisted of an association of different sub-groups of members who committed robberies together, since acting alone was less fruitful than operating with the support of companions.
The Ancient Greeks sometimes used the same word to name different colors, if they had the same intensity. Kuanos could mean both dark blue and black. [11] The Ancient Romans had two words for black: ater was a flat, dull black, while niger was a brilliant, saturated black.
The ancient Greeks classified colors by whether they were light or dark, rather than by their hue. The Greek word for dark blue, kyaneos, could also mean dark green, violet, black or brown. The ancient Greek word for a light blue, glaukos, also could mean light green, grey, or yellow. [17] The Greeks imported indigo dye from India, calling it ...