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Alternate
Alternative or alternate may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Alternative (''Kamen Rider''), a character in the Japanese TV series ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' * Alternative comics, or independent comics are an alternative to mainstream superhero comics * Alternative fashion, fashion that stands apart from mainstream, commercial fashion. * Alternative manga, manga published outside the more commercial market, or which have different art styles, themes, and narratives to those found in the more popular manga magazines. * '' AlterNative'', academic journal * ''The Alternative'' (film), a 1978 Australian television film * ''The Alternative'', a radio show hosted by Tony Evans * ''120 Minutes'' (2004 TV program), an alternative rock music video program formerly known as ''The Alternative'' *'' The American Spectator'', an American magazine formerly known as ''The Alternative: An American Spectator'' Music * Alternative dance, a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative (Kamen Rider)
is a Japanese ''tokusatsu'' series that serves as the 12th installment in the ''Kamen Rider'' franchise and the third entry in the Heisei era. The series follows idealist journalist Shinji Kido as he attempts to stop the violent Rider War from claiming more innocent lives than it already has. Main characters Shinji Kido is a kind-hearted, friendly, simple, and naive idealist who works at the ORE Journal as a journalist trainee until he finds one of Shiro Kanzaki's Card Decks, encounters the Chinese dragon-themed Mirror Monster , and stumbles into the Mirror World while investigating Koichi Sakakibara's disappearance. Despite being told to stay out of the Rider War by Ren Akiyama, Shinji chooses to join anyway to stop the other Mirror Monsters from devouring people and stop the Rider War, forming a contract with Dragreder and becoming Kamen Rider Ryuki in the process. By the series finale, he dies protecting civilians from a pack of Mirror Monsters, but Shiro reverses the Rider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllotaxis
In botany, phyllotaxis () or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaf, leaves on a plant stem. Phyllotactic spirals form a distinctive class of patterns in nature. Leaf arrangement The basic leaf#Arrangement on the stem, arrangements of leaves on a stem are opposite and alternate (also known as spiral). Leaves may also be Whorl (botany), whorled if several leaves arise, or appear to arise, from the same level (at the same Node (botany), node) on a stem. With an opposite leaf arrangement, two leaves arise from the stem at the same level (at the same Node (botany), node), on opposite sides of the stem. An opposite leaf pair can be thought of as a whorl of two leaves. With an alternate (spiral) pattern, each leaf arises at a different point (node) on the stem. Distichous phyllotaxis, also called "two-ranked leaf arrangement" is a special case of either opposite or alternate leaf arrangement where the leaves on a stem are arranged in two vertical columns on opposite sides of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AlterNative
Alternative or alternate may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Alternative (Kamen Rider), Alternative (''Kamen Rider''), a character in the Japanese TV series ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' * Alternative comics, or independent comics are an alternative to mainstream superhero comics * Alternative fashion, fashion that stands apart from mainstream, commercial fashion. * Alternative manga, manga published outside the more commercial market, or which have different art styles, themes, and narratives to those found in the more popular manga magazines. * ''AlterNative'', academic journal * The Alternative (film), ''The Alternative'' (film), a 1978 Australian television film * ''The Alternative'', a radio show hosted by Tony Evans (radio), Tony Evans * 120 Minutes (2004 TV program), ''120 Minutes'' (2004 TV program), an alternative rock music video program formerly known as ''The Alternative'' *''The American Spectator'', an American magazine formerly known as ''The Alternative: An Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternate (theatre)
In theatre, an understudy, referred to in opera as cover or covering, is a performer who learns the lines and blocking or choreography of a regular actor, actress, or other performer in a play. Should the regular actor or actress be unable to appear on stage, the understudy takes over the part. Usually when the understudy takes over, the theater manager announces the cast change prior to the start of the performance. Coined in 1874, the term ''understudy'' has more recently generally been applied only to performers who can back up a role, but still regularly perform in another role. Similar tasks Performers who are only committed to covering a part and do not regularly appear in the show are often referred to as standbys and alternates. Standbys are normally required to sign in and remain at the theater the same as other cast members, although sometimes they may call in, until they are released by the production stage manager. If there is no doubt about the health of the actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Metal
Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) is a genre of heavy metal music that combines heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. Alternative metal bands are often characterized by heavily Downtuned guitar, downtuned, mid-paced guitar riffs, a mixture of accessible melodic vocals and Screaming (music), harsh vocals and sometimes sounds that are unconventional within other heavy metal styles. The term has been in use since the 1980s, although it came into prominence in the 1990s. Other genres considered part of the alternative metal movement included rap metal and funk metal, both of which influenced another prominent subgenre, nu metal. Nu metal expands the alternative metal sound, combining its vocal stylings and downtuned riffs with elements of other genres, such as hip hop music, hip hop, funk, thrash metal, hardcore punk and industrial metal. Alternative metal began in the 1980s with bands like Faith No More, Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternate (sports)
In team sports, substitution (or interchange) is replacing one player with another during a match. Substitute players that are not in the starting lineup (also known as bench players, backups, interchange, or reserves) reside on the bench and are available to substitute for a starter. Later in the match, that substitute may be substituted for by another substitute or by a starter who is currently on the bench. Free substitution or rolling substitution is a rule in some sports that allows players to enter and leave the game for other players many times during the course of a game, generally during a time-out or other break in live play; and for coaches to bring in and take out players an unlimited number of times. In other sports, limited substitution restricts the manner in which players can be replaced. Sports that allow free substitution Sports that allow unlimited substitution during live play * Beach soccer, futsal and indoor soccer: Unlike standard association football, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alternative (Palestine)
The Alternative ( ''al-badeel'') or the Alternative List, was an electoral alliance of several socialist Palestinian groups: * Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (''al-jabhah al-dīmūqrātiyyah li-tahrīr filastīn'') * Palestinian People's Party (''hizb al-sha`b al-filastīnī'') * Palestine Democratic Union (''al-ittihād al-dīmūqrātī al-filastīnī'') * Independents In the January 2006 PLC elections it came fourth with 2.92% of the popular vote. It had two deputies elected: Qais Abd al-Karim and Bassam as-Salhi. Its best vote was in the Bethlehem Governorate, and its next best was in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. The alliance was dissolved in early 2007. Ideology The coalition was left-wing, as it was composed of three left-wing parties. The main points of its program was a pledge to immediately start negotiations with Israel over a permanent status of Palestine; it also stressed that it will insist on including the right to return of Palestin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alternative (Denmark)
The Alternative () is a green and pro-European political party in Denmark. The party was publicly launched on 27 November 2013 by former Minister of Culture Uffe Elbæk and Josephine Fock; Elbæk had been a parliamentarian for the Social Liberal Party. Elbæk was the leader of the party until February 2020, where he stepped down and was succeeded by Fock. Currently the party is led by Franciska Rosenkilde. It collaborates with DiEM25 at the European level. The Alternative regards itself as a political movement and a cultural voice, as well as a political party. History Founding The Alternative was launched on 27 November 2013 by Uffe Elbæk and Josephine Fock, at a press conference at Christiansborg, the seat of the Folketing, the Danish parliament. Other founders include Niko Grüfeld, Torsten Gejl, and Rasmus Nordqvist. The Alternative supported Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the incumbent prime minister from the Social Democrats, but considered itself both left- an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alternative (France)
The Alternative (French: ''L'Alternative'') was an electoral coalition created the fall of 2013 by Jean-Louis Borloo and François Bayrou. It reunited the two major French centrists political parties: the Union of Democrats and Independents and the Democratic Movement. The Alternative united movements that had formerly been part of the Union for French Democracy and presented itself in the municipal elections of 2014 and in the following European Parliament election. {{DEFAULTSORT:Alternative, The Defunct political party alliances in France Democratic Movement (France) Union for French Democracy breakaway groups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternativa (North Macedonia)
Alternative (, AAA; Albanian: Alternativa) is a political party in North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ... representing the Albanian minority. History The party was formed on March 10, 2019. Afrim Gashi was elected president of the party. In the 2020 parliamentary election, the party ran in a coalition with the Alliance for Albanians.
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Alternativa (Kosovo)
The Alternative (Albanian language, Albanian: ''Alternativa'') is a Liberalism, liberal List of political parties in Kosovo, political party in Kosovo. History Ilir Deda was elected MP for Vetëvendosje in the 2014 Kosovan parliamentary election, parliamentary election of 2014. However, during the anti-governmental 2015 Kosovo protests, protests in Kosovo in 2015–16, Deda became a loud critic of his party's support for the acts of violence towards government officials and therefore left the party on 2 April 2016. Similarly, Mimoza Kusari-Lila, former Minister of Trade and Industry and Deputy Prime Minister for the New Kosovo Alliance and current mayor of Gjakova left her party in May 2016 due to the conflicts within the party and ideological differences and decided to join Deda's "new initiative". Officially launched on 8 February 2017 by Assembly of Kosovo, MP Ilir Deda and Mayor of Gjakova Mimoza Kusari-Lila in Mitrovica, Kosovo, Mitrovica, and on 13 May 2017, General Counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternativa (Italian Political Party)
Alternativa (, A or Alt) is a populist and Eurosceptic political party in Italy. It was established in February 2021 as a parliamentary sub-group of the Mixed Group named L'Alternativa c'è (). Its members are former deputies of the Five Star Movement who were expelled from the party for having voted against Mario Draghi's government. On 15 November 2021, Alternative became a full-fledged party and adopted its current name. The party's three senators sat in the Constitution, Environment, Labour group. History Following the resignation of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the Five Star Movement (M5S) asked its members to vote on the party's support to Mario Draghi's government. The party's members approved the online referendum with 59.3% of votes. During the investiture votes in the Parliament on 17–18 February 2021 for the Draghi government, 15 senators and 16 deputies voted against the new cabinet, being immediately expelled by the M5S party's acting leader Vito Cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
