Balise Wikipedia ~ A balise b ə ˈ l iː z is an electronic beacon or transponder placed between the rails of a railway as part of an automatic train protection ATP system The French word balise is used to distinguish these beacons from other kinds of beacons Balises are used in the KVB signalling system installed on main lines of the French railway network other than the highspeed Lignes à Grande

Eurobalise Wikipedia ~ An Eurobalise is a specific variant of a balise being a transponder placed between the rails of a railway These balises constitute an integral part of the European Train Control System where they serve as beacons giving the exact location of a train as well as transmitting signalling information in a digital telegram to the train

Lau Karleung Wikipedia ~ Lau Karleung 28 July 1934 – 25 June 2013 also known as Liu Chialiang was a Hong Kongbased Chinese actor filmmaker choreographer and martial is best known for the films he made in the 1970s and 1980s for the Shaw Brothers of his most famous works is The 36th Chamber of Shaolin which starred Gordon Liu as well as Drunken Master II which starred Jackie Chan

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Kang Kek Iew Wikipedia ~ Kang Kek Iew was born in Choyaot village Kampong Chen subdistrict Kampong Thom Province to an ethnic Chinese family who migrated to Cambodia in his fathers generation A star pupil in his school he passed his Brevet détudes secondaires de première in 1961 at the age of nineteen

Lou Gehrig Wikipedia ~ Early life Gehrig was born in 1903 at 309 East 94th Street in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan he weighed almost 14 pounds 64 kg at birth He was the second of four children of German immigrants Christina Foch 1881–1954 and Heinrich Gehrig 1867–1946 His father was a sheetmetal worker by trade who was frequently unemployed due to alcoholism and epilepsy and his mother a

Charlie Parker Wikipedia ~ Childhood Charlie Parker Jr was born in Kansas City Kansas at 852 Freeman Avenue and raised in Kansas City Missouri near Westport and later – in high school – near 15th and Olive Street He was the only child of Charles Parker and Adelaide Addie Bailey who was of mixed Choctaw and African American background He attended Lincoln High School in September 1934 but withdrew in

Bunker Wikipedia ~ A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people and valued materials from falling bombs or other attacks Bunkers are mostly underground in contrast to blockhouses which are mostly above ground They were used extensively in World War I World War II and the Cold War for weapons facilities command and control centers and storage facilities

Tetrahydrocannabinol Wikipedia ~ Tetrahydrocannabinol THC is one of at least 113 cannabinoids identified in cannabis THC is the principal psychoactive constituent of cannabis With chemical name −transΔ⁹tetrahydrocannabinol the term THC also refers to cannabinoid isomers

Liu Wikipedia ~ The other variants of the romanised surname Liu 柳 留 and 六 are uncommon among speakers of Hakka In Gan 刘劉 is most commonly transliterated as Liew or Lieu 廖 is written as Lieo or Liau In Hokkien 刘劉 is most commonly pronounced as Lau