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The Standard Point Location Code® (SPLC™) is a 9 digit geographic code used by North American transportation industries, especially rail. SPLC is owned and maintained by the National Motor Freight Traffic Association . [ 1 ]
Location codes are numeric, alphabetic, or alphanumeric codes that designate a particular place, location, region or landmark. These include ISO 3166 country codes; U.S. FIPS country code, place code, county code and state code; ICAO and IATA airport codes; Amtrak railway station codes
Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) [1] was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada.
Until 2021, the IOC used the code ZZX for mixed teams. [5] [19] [b] In 2021, the code was changed to MIX, matching the code for mixed teams at the Youth Olympics. [20] In 2024, the code was changed to XXB. [21]
Coat of arms of the Cutlers' Company. John Stowe stated that the arms of the Cutlers of London ("Gules, three pairs of swords in saltire argent hilts and pommels or) were granted in 1476 by Thomas Holme, Clarenceux King of Arms, and the crest "an elephant bearing a castle" by Robert Cooke (c.1535-1592/3), Clarenceux. [1]
The Land of Feast or Famine was the title of several books about Canada's north: The Land of Feast or Famine, the name of a 36-page manuscript John Hornby left when he starved to death in 1927; The Land of Feast or Famine, Helge Ingstad published a book by this title in 1931
The Sohgaura copper plate inscription is an Indian copper plate inscription written in Prakrit in the Mauryan period Brahmi script. [1] It was discovered in Sohgaura, a village on the banks of the Rapti River, about 20 km south-east of Gorakhpur, in the Gorakhpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India. [2]
Against the Giants is an adventure module written by Gary Gygax and published by TSR in 1981 for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.It combines the G series of modules previously published in 1978: Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl, and Hall of the Fire Giant King.