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Peregrine Payloads
Peregrine(s), or (Latin) ''Peregrinus'' may refer to: The arts * ''Passing of Peregrinus'', a 2nd-century satire by Lucian * "The Peregrin", a story in ''The Psychotechnic League'' series * "Peregrine", a song by Donovan on the 1968 album ''The Hurdy Gurdy Man'' * ''The Peregrine'', 1967 book by J. A. Baker on peregrine falcons * Peregrine (album), ''Peregrine'' (album), 2006 album by the Appleseed Cast * Peregrine (band), Australian indie rock band * "Peregrines", a 2004 short story by Suzy McKee Charnas * Tonus Peregrinus, a British vocal ensemble * ''Tonus peregrinus'', Reciting tone#tonus peregrinus, reciting tone in Gregorian chant Fictional characters *Peregrine (name)#Fictional characters Biology * Peregrine falcon, a bird of prey * Peregrinus (planthopper), ''Peregrinus'' (planthopper), a genus of planthoppers in the family Delphacidae Species * ''Erigeron peregrinus'', a flowering plant of the daisy family * ''Nicodamus peregrinus'', the red and black spider * ''Pinus pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passing Of Peregrinus
''The Passing of Peregrinus'' or ''The Death of Peregrinus'' (; ) is a satire by the Syrian Greek writer Lucian in which the lead character, the Cynic philosopher Peregrinus Proteus, takes advantage of the generosity of Christians and lives a disingenuous life before burning himself at the Olympic Games of 165 AD. The text is historically significant because it contains one of the earliest evaluations of early Christianity by a non-Christian author. Summary Lucian writes his account as a letter to Cronius the Pythagorean, a Platonist philosopher. He tells Cronius that Peregrinus has burned himself to death at the recent Olympics. The author assumes that Cronius will find this news greatly amusing and gratifying. The narrative then shifts to Elis where Lucian, having just arrived, overhears Peregrinus's follower Theagenes compare Peregrinus, or Proteus, to Heracles and even Zeus himself. Theagenes announces Peregrinus's plan to kill himself through fire. Following Theagenes's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peregrine Financial Group
Peregrine Financial Group Inc., commonly known as PFGBest, was an Iowa-based financial firm that operated for over 20 years. It was shut down in July 2012 after it was put under investigation for a $200 million shortfall in customer funds. Peregrine’s chief executive, Russell R. Wasendorf Sr., was arrested and charged with making false statements to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The firm filed for bankruptcy on July 10, while listing more than $500 million in assets and over $100 million in liabilities.Harris, AndrewPeregrine’s Wasendorf Sued for Mixing Firm, Client Funds ''Bloomberg News'', July 16, 2012. History During the mid to late-1990s, Peregrine Financial Group's office at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange had closed-circuit security cameras on the sales floor which is not and was not a common practice in the Chicago futures brokerage community while also recording all broker telephone lines. Embezzlement of customer funds Wasendorf attempted to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peregrine (horse)
Peregrine (1878 – after 1898) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. His racing career was extremely brief, consisting of two races in the space of 28 days in 1881. On 4 May he was an emphatic winner of the 2000 Guineas defeating the American challenger Iroquois. He was matched against Iroquois again in the Epsom Derby and was beaten half a length into second place. A recurrent leg injury forced his retirement at the end of the year. He made little impact as a breeding stallion. Background Peregrine was a brown horse bred in England by Mr Taylor Sharpe. He stood 16 hands high and had white markings on the heels of his hind feet. In September 1879 the yearling was offered for sale and bought for 450 guineas by the trainer Robert Peck on behalf of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. On the death of the Duke's wife, the former Lady Constance Leveson-Gower, in 1880 many of his racehorses were put up for sale and Peregrine, then an unraced two-year-old, was repor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essential Dignity
Essential dignity, in the context of an astrological horoscope or natal chart, refers to the relative “strength” or “weakness” of a planet based on its zodiac sign and specific degree. This strength or weakness is referred to as the planet’s ''essence''—what the 17th-century astrologer William Lilly called "the strength, fortitude or debility of the Planets rsignificators." Background Since most astrology centers around the unique energies of each planet, and their various effects on Earth, ''essential dignity'' is simply an extra tool for gauging any potential “pros” or ”cons” of a planet in a given horoscope chart. A specific planet may be more ”effective” in a horoscope based on the time of day or night the chart was cast, or an individual’s personal birth time, or simply what sign the planet is in. For example, the Sun is traditionally the ruler of Leo. The opposite sign of Leo is Aquarius. Thus, someone with the Sun in Aquarius will be said to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Peregrine
Operation PEREGRINE was a domestic Canadian military operation that took place between August 3 and September 16, 2003. In early August 2003, British Columbia was overwhelmed by over 800 separate forest fires. Provincial fire services were stretched to the breaking point, and tens of thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes. After responding to a severe interface fire in Barriere BC, the provincial government requested federal aid, which was initially provided by B Company, 1 PPCLI from Edmonton. The province followed up with multiple requests as the fire situation grew more desperate and, ultimately, over 2,200 Canadian Forces (CF) personnel were mobilized. After receiving a day of basic forest firefighting training from the British Columbia Forest Service, including safety procedures, fire ratings, hose handling, and fire behaviour, the soldiers took to the fire lines. At the operation's height, deployed soldiers were divided into five task forces - Task Force One ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Peregrine (AM-373)
USS ''Peregrine'' (AM-373) was an built for the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing. She was named after the peregrine, a swift and powerful falcon. ''Peregrine'' was laid down by the Savannah Machine & Foundry Co., Savannah, Georgia, 24 October 1944; launched 17 February 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Ethel K. Adams; and commissioned 27 September 1945. East Coast operations After fitting out at the Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina, and shakedown in Chesapeake Bay, ''Peregrine'' became a school ship at the Naval Mine Warfare School, Yorktown, Virginia. From 1945 to 1951 she conducted daily minesweeping operations in Yorktown, Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina; and Norfolk, Virginia, and also conducted tests on anti-roll gear, and other tests of an experimental nature. ''Peregrine'' spent most of the years from 1951 to 1955 operating out of Norfolk with cruises as far south a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolls-Royce Peregrine
The Rolls-Royce Peregrine was a , liquid-cooled V-12 aero engine designed and built by the British manufacturer Rolls-Royce in the late 1930s. It was essentially the ultimate development of the company's Kestrel engine, which had seen widespread use in military aircraft of the pre-war period. Due to the wartime priority of Rolls-Royce Merlin development and production, the Peregrine saw limited use and was cancelled with only 301 engines being built. Design and development During the 1930s the use of superchargers to increase ''effective displacement'' of an aircraft engine came into common use. Charging — the compression of the intake air to increase mass flow-rate and oxygen available for combustion — of some form was a requirement for high-altitude flight and as the power of engines improved there was no reason not to use it all the time. The Kestrel used supercharging for boost from the start but by the 1930s it had reached the limits of what its frame could handle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peregrine Mission One
''Peregrine'' Lunar Lander flight 01, commonly referred to as Peregrine Mission One, was a failed American lunar lander mission. The lander, dubbed ''Peregrine'', was built by Astrobotic Technology and carried payloads for the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Peregrine Mission One launched on 8 January 2024, at 2:18 am EST, on the maiden flight of the Vulcan Centaur (Vulcan) rocket. The goal was to land the first U.S.-built lunar lander on the Moon since the crewed Apollo Lunar Module on Apollo 17 in 1972. The lander carried multiple payloads, with a payload capacity of 90 kg. Shortly after the lander separated from the Vulcan rocket in lunar injection orbit, a propellant leak developed that prevented the lander from completing its mission. After six days in orbit, the spacecraft was redirected into Earth's atmosphere, where it burned up over the Pacific Ocean on 18 January 2024. History In July 2017, Astrobotic announced an agreement with United La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LNER Class A4 60034 Lord Faringdon
LNER Class A4 60034 Lord Faringdon (or formerly ''4903 Peregrine'' as it was before being renumbered under British Railways) was one of 35 Doncaster built Class A4 Gresley Pacific steam locomotives. It entered service on 1 July 1938 and was withdrawn on 24 August 1966. History ''Lord Faringdon'' was one of a small number of A4 Pacifics built with a double chimney and double Kylchap blastpipe. The first locomotive to have this being no. 4468 "Mallard". ''60034 Lord Faringdon'' was based at Kings Cross and ran on the London-Edinburgh line. When British Railways were nationalised and the LNER A4s were renumbered, ''60034 Lord Faringdon'' and two other locomotives ''E22 Mallard'' and '' 60033 Seagull'' were used for the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials The 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials were organised by the newly nationalised British Railways (BR). Locomotives from the former "Big Four" constituent companies ( GWR, LMS, LNER, SR) were transferred to and worked on oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citadel Of Raymond De Saint-Gilles
The Citadel of Tripoli ( ) is a 12th-century fortress in Tripoli, Lebanon. It was built at the top of a hill "during the initial Frankish siege of the city between 1102 and 1109" on the orders of Raymond de Saint-Gilles, who baptized it the Castle of Mount Pilgrim (; ) while local Muslims have been referring to it as the Castle of Saint-Gilles ( ''Qalʻat Sān Jīl''). However, very little of the original structure has survived, the castle having been rebuilt several times, and for the last time in the early 19th century, when the citadel was extensively restored and rebuilt by the Ottoman governor of Tripoli Mustafa Agha Barbar. The citadel nowadays houses the North Lebanon & Akkar Museum. History The first cornerstone was set in the 9th century during the conquest of Tripoli by Sufyan al-azadi, it was a fort 2 miles away from the old city on a strategic hill. The fort was gradually fortified and rebuilt with time by many succeeding rulers. In the citadel there are many clue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peregrinus Peak
Peregrinus Peak () is a peak (1,915 m) along the north side of Airy Glacier, 3 nautical miles (6 km) southeast of Mount Timosthenes, in central Antarctic Peninsula. Photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) November 27, 1947. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in December 1958. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ... (UK-APC) after Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, of Luceria, author of Epistola de magnete (1269), the first scientific treatise on the magnet. Mountains of Graham Land Fallières Coast {{FallièresCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peregrine Systems
Peregrine Systems, Inc. was an enterprise software company, founded in 1981, that sold enterprise asset management, change management, and ITIL-based IT service management software. Following an accounting scandal and bankruptcy in 2003, Peregrine was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2005. Micro Focus which merged with the HP Software Division in 2017, later marketed the Peregrine products as part of its IT Service Management solutions. Micro Focus was acquired by OpenText in 2023. History Peregrine Systems was founded in 1981 in Irvine, California. The founders and employees were Chris Cole, Gary Story, Ed Beck, Kevin Keyes and Richard Diederich. They started selling Peregrine Network Management System (PNMS) on a IBM Series/1, Series One computer while developing an MVS version. The MVS client/server solutions for PNMS became available in 1995. In 1989, John Moores (baseball), John Moores, founder of BMC Software and owner of the San Diego Padres Major League Baseball team, bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
