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The National Union Catalog (NUC) is a printed catalog of books catalogued by the Library of Congress and other American and Canadian libraries, issued beginning in the 1950s. The National Union Catalog is divided into two series: the Pre-1956 Imprints is a 754-volume set containing all older records in a consolidated alphabetical format, while ...
The Catalog began as a series of hardcover books known as The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures, published by the University of California Press (excluding vol. A) from 1971 to 1993. The print version comprises seven volumes documenting all films produced in the United States from 1892 to 1970.
The formal, unambiguous version of the system requires some diacritics and two-letter tie characters which are often omitted in practice. The table below combines material from the ALA-LC tables for Russian (2012) [8] and, for some obsolete letters, Church Slavic (2011).
The University of Bucharest (UB) (Romanian: Universitatea din București) is a public research university in Bucharest, Romania.It was founded in its current form on 4 July 1864 (159 years ago) () by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy into the current University of Bucharest, making it one of the oldest Romanian universities.
4-6-2+2-6-4. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a 4-6-2+2-6-4 is a Garratt or Union Garratt articulated locomotive using a pair of 4-6-2 engine units back to back, with the boiler and cab suspended between them. The 4-6-2 wheel arrangement of each engine unit has four leading wheels on two ...
Sharpless catalog. The Sharpless catalog is a list of 313 H II regions (emission nebulae) intended to be comprehensive north of declination −27°. (It does include some nebulae south of that declination as well.) The first edition was published in 1953 with 142 objects (Sh1), and the second and final version was published by US astronomer ...
Caldwell catalogue. Montage of Caldwell Catalogue objects. The Caldwell catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of 109 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies for observation by amateur astronomers. The list was compiled by Patrick Moore as a complement to the Messier catalogue. [1]
Garratt locomotives. The 2-6-2+2-6-2 was the second most numerous Garratt wheel arrangement to be built, with altogether 238 examples constructed by Beyer, Peacock and Company (BP) and its licensees. Most of them were built to 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm) Cape gauge, 1,000 mm ( 3 ft in) metre gauge and the 2 ft 6 in ( 762 mm) or 2 ft ( 610 mm) narrow ...