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Saint Barbara, patron saint of artillerymen, with a cannon. Academics - Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great; Actors - Genesius [1] Comic actors - Maturinus; Accountants - Matthew; Advertisers - Bernardino of Siena [2] Air travellers - Joseph of Cupertino; Altar servers - John Berchmans, [3] Tarcisius, Lorenzo Ruiz, Pedro Calungsod; Ambassadors ...
In the US, size names are often denoted with a code of the format nR, where the number n represents the length of the shorter edge in inches. In the normal series, the long edge is the length of the short edge plus 2 inches (10 in or less) or 3 inches (11 in and above).
Ponceau 4R (known by more than 100 synonyms, [1]: 460–461 including as C.I. 16255, [2] cochineal red A, [2] C.I. acid red 18, [2] brilliant scarlet 3R, [2] brilliant scarlet 4R, [2] new coccine, [1]: 460 ) is a synthetic colourant that may be used as a food colouring.
Arsenal's failure to sign a prolific striker might have cost the team the chance to win the Premier League title. Second-place Arsenal was unexpectedly beaten 1-0 at home by West Ham on Saturday ...
A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches.Equal to 1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou / ˈ θ aʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils).
The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West. In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.
The point was first established by the Milanese typographer, Francesco Torniella da Novara (c. 1490 – 1589) in his 1517 alphabet, L'Alfabeto.The construction of the alphabet is the first based on logical measurement called "Punto," which corresponds to the ninth part of the height of the letters or the thickness of the principal stroke.