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Capricorn Records Artists
Capricorn (pl. ''capricorni'' or ''capricorns'') may refer to: * Capricornus, a constellation often called Capricorn * Capricorn (astrology), an astrological sign of the zodiac Places * Capricorn and Bunker Group, islands of the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia * Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo province, South Africa * Capricorn Caves, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia Animals *Capricorn, an animal from the ibex family, particularly the Alpine ibex * Capricornis, a genus of goat-like or antelope-like animals Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Capricorn (comics), several Marvel Comics characters * Capricorn (''Inkworld''), ''Inkheart'' character Music Groups and labels * Capricorn Records Capricorn Records was an independent record label founded by Phil Walden and Frank Fenter in 1969 in Macon, Georgia. Capricorn Records is often credited by music historians as creating the southern rock genre. History Label and studio fou ..., a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capricorn (Mike Tramp Album)
''Capricorn'' is the debut solo album by former White Lion and Freak of Nature lead singer, Mike Tramp. First released in France on the CNR Music label on October 17, 1997, the album was subsequently given a much wider distribution with the North American release on February 10, 1998, through CMC International, at which point Tramp commenced a solo tour in support of it. The album was also picked up in Britain by Music for Nations. Background Tramp started working on the album following the split of ''Freak of Nature'' and the album features former Freak of Nature bandmates, guitarist Kenny Korade and bass player Jerry Best. Former White Lion bass guitarist James LoMenzo performed backing vocals on the album. Release and promotion The song "Better Off" was released as Tramp's debut solo single and features his first solo music video. "Already Gone" was also released as a single for the album and "If I Live Tomorrow" was released as a promo single. "Take a Little Time" was rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capricorn Africa Society
The Capricorn Africa Society was a multiracial pressure group in British colonies in Southern and Eastern Africa in the 1950s and 1960s. History The organisation was established in 1949 in Southern Rhodesia by David Stirling and N. H. Wilson, with branches soon opening in Kenya, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Tanganyika; a branch was also opened in London in 1956.Bizeck Jube Phiri (1991) "The Capricorn Africa Society Revisited: The Impact of Liberalism in Zambia's Colonial History, 1949–1963", ''The International Journal of African Historical Studies'', Vol. 24, No. 1, pp65–83 With a mostly European leadership, it called for "equal rights for all civilised", giving Africans gradually increasing civic rights. The organisation briefly participated in electoral politics in Kenya. In the 1956 general elections it nominated two candidates for the fourteen European seats, choosing not to run in constituencies where independents aligned with the more liberal Michael Blundell a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391)
USCGC ''Blackthorn'' (WLB-391) was a seagoing buoy tender (WLB) which sank in 1980 in a collision near the Tampa Bay Sunshine Skyway Bridge, resulting in 23 crew member fatalities. An ''Iris''-class vessel, she was built by Marine Ironworks and Shipbuilding Corporation in Duluth, Minnesota. ''Blackthorn''s preliminary design was completed by the United States Lighthouse Service and the final design was produced by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Corporation in Duluth. On 21 May 1943 the keel was laid, she was launched on 20 July 1943 and commissioned on 27 March 1944. The original cost for the hull and machinery was $876,403. ''Blackthorn'' was one of 39 original seagoing buoy tenders built between 1942 and 1944. All but one of the original tenders, , were built in Duluth. ''Blackthorn'' was initially assigned to the Great Lakes for ice-breaking duties, but after only a few months, she was reassigned to San Pedro, California. She served in San Pedro for several years be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capricorn Investment Holdings
Cavmont Bank Limited is a commercial bank in Zambia. It is licensed by the Bank of Zambia, the central bank and national banking regulator. Location The headquarters and main branch of Cavmont Bank Limited are located at 2374 Thabo Mbeki Road, in the city of Lusaka, the capital and largest city in Zambia. The geographical coordinates of the headquarters of the bank are: 15°24'06.0"S, 28°19'20.0"E (Latitude:-15.401667; Longitude:28.322222). Overview CBL provides an array of banking services including in the areas of community banking, retail banking, investment, and corporate banking. , the bank was a retail bank with total assets valued at ZMW:946.8 million (US$96.7 million), with shareholders' equity of ZMW:118.1 million (US$12.1 million). At that time the bank employed a total of 245 people. By December 2016, the bank's total assets had increased to ZMW:1,063,735,000.00 (US$108.64 million). History The Bank was established on 1 January 2004, following a merger between Cav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer
The Scaled Composites Model 311 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer (Aircraft registration, registered N277SF) is an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan in which Steve Fossett first flew a solo nonstop airplane flight around the world in slightly more than 67 hours (2 days 19 hours) in 2005. The flight speed of set the world record for the fastest nonstop non-refueled circumnavigation, beating the mark set by the previous Rutan-designed Rutan Voyager, Voyager aircraft at 9 days 3 minutes with an average speed of . The aircraft was owned by the pilot Steve Fossett, sponsored by Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic airline, and built by Burt Rutan's company, Scaled Composites. The two companies subsequently worked together on Virgin Galactic. In February 2006, Fossett flew the GlobalFlyer for the longest aircraft flight distance in history: . Design and construction The GlobalFlyer was specifically designed to make an uninterrupted (non-refueled) circumnavigation of the globe with a single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capricorn (microprocessor)
The Capricorn family of microprocessors was developed by Hewlett-Packard in the late 1970s for the HP Series 80 scientific microcomputers. Capricorn was first used in the HP-85 desktop BASIC computer, introduced in January 1980. Steve Wozniak was inspired to build the Apple to be a computer like the HP 9830, and in 1976, he offered HP rights to the Apple computer. He was turned down and was given a release. When the calculator division started an 8-bit computer project called Capricorn, he left for Apple when he was not allowed to work on that project. Architecture Source: The Capricorn is a microprogrammed CPU containing 64 eight-bit registers, an eight-bit arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a shifter and control logic. The 64 registers are split by boundaries. There is a boundary every two bytes for the first 32 registers and one boundary per 8 bytes for the remaining 32 registers. Each low-level instruction modifies data beginning at the register addressed up to the next boundar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capricorn One
''Capricorn One'' is a 1977 thriller film in which a reporter discovers that a supposed Mars landing by a crewed mission to the planet has been faked via a conspiracy involving the government and—under duress—the crew themselves. It was written and directed by Peter Hyams and produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. It stars Elliott Gould as the reporter, and James Brolin, Sam Waterston, and O. J. Simpson as the astronauts. Hal Holbrook plays a senior NASA official who goes along with governmental and corporate interests and helps to fake the mission. The music score was created by Jerry Goldsmith. Plot Capricorn One—the first crewed mission to Mars—is on the launch pad. Just before liftoff, astronauts Charles Brubaker, Peter Willis, and John Walker are suddenly ordered out of the spacecraft by a NASA official. Bewildered, they are flown in secret to an abandoned military base in the desert. The launch proceeds on schedule, with the public unaware the spacecraft is emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johji Manabe
, also known as George Manabe, is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known in the English-speaking world for '' Caravan Kidd'', '' Outlanders'', and '' Capricorn''. He is not to be confused with an animator of the same name (but written differently; 真鍋譲二) who worked mainly in the 1970s for Oh! Production, contributing to such works as '' A Dog of Flanders'', ''Genshi Shōnen Ryû'', ''3000 Leagues in Search of Mother'', '' Dokonjō Gaeru'', ''King Arthur'', ''Galaxy Express 999'', '' Lupin the 3rd: Season 1'', '' Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro'', '' Future Boy Conan'' (episodes 8–17), and others. Works Listed chronologically. *'' Outlanders'' (8 volumes, 1985–1987, Hakusensha) *'' Caravan Kidd'' (5 volumes, 1986–1989, Shogakukan) **'' The Key of Graciale'' (1 volume, April 1987, , Hakusensha) *'' Powerful Mazegohan'' (3 volumes, 1986–1989, Hakusensha) *'' Dora'' (1 volume, December 1987, , Shinshokan) *''Capricorn'' (5 volumes, 1988–1990, Shinshokan) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capricorn (song)
"Capricorn" is a song by American rock band Vampire Weekend, released as the lead single from their fifth studio album '' Only God Was Above Us''. It was released on February 16, 2024, by Columbia Records as a double A-side with "Gen-X Cops", and is the band's first single since 2019's " This Life"/" Unbearably White". The track was written by lead singer Ezra Koenig, and was produced by Koenig and Ariel Rechtshaid. Background Vampire Weekend announced their fifth studio album '' Only God Was Above Us'' on February 8, 2024. "Capricorn" and "Gen-X Cops" were released the following week on February 16. Lyrically, the song depicts the "aching, unavoidable melancholy of growing old and discovering that adults feel just as powerless as kids do". Music video The video was directed by the band's longtime creative director Nick Harwood, and features clips capturing the essence of life in New York City during the late 1980s, concluding with the band performing the song. The video ends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overkill (Motörhead Album)
''Overkill'' is the second studio album by English rock band Motörhead, released on 3 March 1979. It was the band's first album with Bronze Records. ''Kerrang!'' magazine listed the album at number 46 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". American thrash metal band Overkill was named after this album. Background Bronze Records signed Motörhead in 1978 and booked them time in London's Wessex Studios to record a single consisting of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie" and a new song by the band called "Tear Ya Down". The band toured to promote the single "Louie Louie", which became a modest hit, while Chiswick released the ''Motörhead'' album in white vinyl, to keep the momentum going. In the ''Classic Albums'' documentary on the making of ''Ace of Spades'', Gerry Bron of Bronze Records admits: Sales of the single brought the band their first appearance on BBC Television's ''Top of the Pops'', which gave Bronze the confidence to get the band back into the studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyes Of The Universe
Barclay James Harvest are an English progressive rock band, which following a split in 1998 now exists as two successor bands. They were founded in Oldham, in September 1966 by bassist/vocalist Les Holroyd (born 1948), guitarist/vocalist John Lees (born 1947), drummer/percussionist Mel Pritchard (1948–2004), and keyboardist/vocalist Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme (1947–2010). History After signing with EMI's Parlophone label in the UK for one single in early 1968 (entitled "Early Morning / Mr. Sunshine"), they moved to the more progressively inclined Harvest label. The name of the band, according to The International Barclay James Harvest Fan Club, signifies nothing specifically. Having exhausted other possibilities, each of the band members wrote single words on pieces of paper which were drawn out of a hat one by one. All were rejected until only three were left: James, a man who used to sing with the band, Harvest because they were living in a farmhouse, and Barclay after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
