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American Public University System (APUS) is a private, for-profit, online university system with its headquarters in Charles Town, West Virginia. It is composed of American Military University (AMU) and American Public University (APU). APUS is wholly owned by American Public Education, Inc., a publicly traded private-sector corporation (Nasdaq ...
The current genus Apus was erected by the Italian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1777 based on tautonymy. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The word apus is the Latin word for a swift. It is derived from the Ancient Greek α, a , "without", and πούς, pous , "foot", based on the belief that these birds were a form of swallow that lacked feet.
Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky. It represents a bird-of-paradise , and its name means "without feet" in Greek because the bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet. First depicted on a celestial globe by Petrus Plancius in 1598, it was charted on a star atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria .
The bird genus Apus comprise some of the Old World members of the family Apodidae, commonly known as swifts. They are among the fastest birds in the world. They resemble swallows , to which they are not related, but have shorter tails and sickle-shaped wings.
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The name Apus nipalensis has two parts. Apus is the genus for swifts, and comes from the Latin word for the swift, or swallow with no feet. Nipalensis means from Nepal. [4] Currently, there are four subspecies of the house swift: Apus nipalensis nipalensis, Apus nipalensis subfurcatus, Apus nipalensis furcatus, and Apus nipalensis kuntzi.
At the same month, APUS netted 100 million RMB in Series A funding. July 2, 2014: APUS Launcher was released on Google Play and 28 days later APUS user group reached 10 million. October 22, 2014: APUS announced their 50 million user globally. December 1, 2014: APUS published the first APUS Global Mobile Application Analysis Report.
Eggs of Apus pallidus. The pallid swift (Apus pallidus) is a swift (order Apodiformes). Swifts have very short legs which they use only for clinging to vertical surfaces. The genus name Apus is Latin for a swift, thought by the ancients to be a type of swallow with no feet (from Ancient Greek α, a, "without", and πούς, pous, "foot"), and pallidus is Latin for "pale". [2]