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Bower
Bower may refer to: Arts and entertainment * '' Catherine, or The Bower'', an unfinished Jane Austen novel * A high-ranking card (usually a Jack) in certain card games: ** The Right and Left Bower (or Bauer), the two highest-ranking cards in the game of Euchre ** The Best and Under Bower in the game of Bester Bauer ** The Right and Left Bower in the game of Réunion *Bower Studios, a design studio based in NYC. Places * Bower, South Australia, a town * Bower, Highland, Scotland, a village and civil parish * Bower, Nebraska, a ghost town in the United States * Bower, West Virginia, a ghost town in the United States * Havering-atte-Bower, a village within the London Borough of Havering * Mount Bower, Victoria Land, Antarctica People * Bower (surname) * Bower Featherstone, Canadian civil servant convicted of espionage in 1966 * E. Bower Carty (1916–2001), Canadian public servant and Chairman of the World Scout Committee * Roger Squires (born 1932), British retired crossword c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowerbird
Bowerbirds () make up the bird family Ptilonorhynchidae. They are renowned for their unique courtship behaviour, where males build a structure and decorate it with sticks and brightly coloured objects in an attempt to attract a mate. The family has 27 species in eight genera. These are medium to large-sized passerines, ranging from the golden bowerbird at and to the great bowerbird at and . Their diet consists mainly of fruit but may also include insects (especially for nestlings), flowers, nectar and leaves in some species. The satin and spotted bowerbirds are sometimes considered agricultural pests due to their habit of feeding on introduced fruit and vegetable crops and have occasionally been killed by affected orchardists. The bowerbirds have an Austro-Papuan distribution, with ten species endemic to New Guinea, eight endemic to Australia, and two found in both. Although their distribution is centered on the tropical regions of New Guinea and northern Australia, some s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euchre
Euchre or eucre () is a trick-taking game, trick-taking card game commonly played in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the United States. It is played with a deck of 24, 28, or 32 standard playing cards. Normally there are four players, two on each team, although there are euchre game variations, variations for two to nine players. Euchre emerged in the United States in the early 19th century and, while there several theories for its origin, the most likely is that it derives from an old Alsatian game called Juckerspiel, Jucker. Euchre was subsequently responsible for introducing the Joker (playing card), joker into the modern deck of cards, first appearing in Euchre packs in the 1850s. Origins and popularity ''Eucre'' is briefly mentioned as early as 1810 by Piomingo, a Chickasaw chief, being played in a gaming house alongside All Fours (card game), all fours, loo (card game), loo, cribbage and whist. In 1829, ''uker'' was being played with ''bowers'' on a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bower Studios
Bower Studios (or simply Bower) is a furniture and design studio based in Brooklyn. They specialise in making mirrors, but they also offer furniture, lighting, and accessories. They also collaborate with other artists on special projects. The studio's partners are Danny Giannella, co-founder and creative director, Tammer Hijazi, co-founder and design director, and Jeffrey Renz, development & sales director. Collaborations In 2020, they partnered with Stærk&Christensen (designer Camilla Stærk and model/photographer Helena Christensen) on a mirror for their BOWERx collaboration series. See also *Culture of New York City New York City has been described as the cultural capital of the world. The culture of New York is reflected in its size and ethnic diversity. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in th ... References External links * American furniture designers {{decorative-art-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bower Place
Bower Place (also known as Bower Place Shopping Centre) is a shopping centre located in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. It has more than 120 stores and services including Hudson's Bay, H&M, Toys "R" Us and Shoppers Drug Mart. The mall underwent a $55 million redevelopment that commenced in September 2004 and was completed in August 2009. The mall underwent another renovation of a former Target Canada location following the company's bankruptcy and vacating (it had previously been a Zeller's location. The renovated and expanded wing opened in December 2019, with Marshalls and Shoppers Drug Mart as anchor tenants. The mall had a major anchor vacancy in the former Sears Canada location, which closed in 2018 until Motion Fitness took over the vacant space in 2022. Anchors * Hudson's Bay * H&M *Shoppers Drug Mart *Toys "R" Us *Marshalls Marshalls is an American chain of off-price department stores owned by TJX Companies. Marshalls has over 1,000 American stores, including larger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havering-atte-Bower
Havering-atte-Bower is a village and outlying settlement of Greater London, England. It is located in the far north of the London Borough of Havering, on the border with Essex, and is northeast of Charing Cross. It was one of three former parishes whose area comprised the historic Royal Liberty of Havering. Havering-atte-Bower has been the location of a number of palaces and large houses including Bower House, The Round House, Pyrgo Palace and Havering Palace. Etymology The name is of Saxon origin and is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Haueringas''.Mills, Anthony David ''Dictionary of London Place Names''. Oxford University Press, 2001. . The last syllable is the only clear difference in pronunciation as ''v'' was written as ''u'' in Middle English and Anglo-Norman orthography. It is an ancient folk name meaning ''settlement of the followers of a man called Hæfer''. The history of Havering-atte-Bower today is inextricably linked with Edward the Confessor and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine, Or The Bower
Catharine, or the Bower (''Kitty, or the Bower'') is an unfinished novel from Jane Austen's juvenilia. With its realistic setting and characters, it represents something of a bridge between her early burlesques and the soberer novels that made her name. Date Appearing in ''Volume the Third'' of Austen's early writing (begun in 1792), ''Catharine'' is itself generally dated to 1792–3. However, a (substituted) reference to the Regency has been seen as linking it to the first regency crisis of 1788–9, rather than being a later interpolation; while alternatively, because of thematic parallels in Austen's letters of 1795–6, ''The Bower'' has also been post-dated to the mid-nineties instead. Plot Summary Catharine (Kitty) Percival (the name is sometimes given as Peterson) is an orphan, ward of her aunt, Mrs. Percival, who is strict with her. Kitty has lost her dear friends, Cecilia and Mary Wynne, whose clergyman father's death scattered the family; Cecilia Wynne was sent to In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal , used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ''ancora'', which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα (ankȳra). Anchors can either be temporary or permanent. Permanent anchors are used in the creation of a mooring, and are rarely moved; a specialist service is normally needed to move or maintain them. Vessels carry one or more temporary anchors, which may be of different designs and weights. A sea anchor is a drag device, not in contact with the seabed, used to minimise drift of a vessel relative to the water. A drogue is a drag device used to slow or help steer a vessel running before a storm in a following or overtaking sea, or when crossing a bar in a breaking sea.. Overview Anchors achieve holding power either by "hooking" into the seabed, or mass, or a combination of the two. Permanent moorings use large mass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bower Award
The Franklin Institute Awards (or Benjamin Franklin Medal) is an American science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia. The Franklin Institute awards comprises the Benjamin Franklin Medals in seven areas of science and engineering, the Bower Awards and Prize for Achievement in Science, and the Bower Award for Business Leadership. Since 1824, the institute has recognized "world-changing scientists, engineers, inventors, and industrialists—all of whom reflect Benjamin Franklin’s spirit of curiosity, ingenuity, and innovation". Some of the noted past laureates include Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking. Some of the 21st century laureates of the institute awards are Bill Gates, James P. Allison, Indra Nooyi, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Blackburn, George Church, Robert S. Langer, and Alex Gorsky. Benjamin Franklin Medals In 1998, the Benjamin Franklin Medals wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bower Featherstone
Bower Featherstone was a Canadian civil servant who was convicted of espionage in 1966. Featherstone was a lithographer who worked for the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. A promising young officer in the RCMP Security Service, Gilles G. Brunet, played a significant role in his conviction, work for which he won a promotion. His handler was Eugen Kourianov. According to Nigel West, Kourianov was suddenly recalled to the Soviet Union, suggesting a mole had tipped of the Soviets. Decades later western intelligence learned that Brunet, the young officer who won promotion for his work in convicting Featherstone, had also been a mole. The main document he was convicted of handing over to the Soviets was a confidential chart of two shipwrecks southeast of Newfoundland. Although he was convicted of violating Canada's Official Secrets Act none of the documents he passed on was actually secret. Featherstone was the first individual to be convicted under the Official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bower Manuscript
The Bower Manuscript is a collection of seven fragmentary Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. treatises found buried in a Buddhist memorial stupa near Kucha, northwestern China. Written in early Gupta script (late Brahmi script) on birch bark, it is variously dated in 5th to early 6th century.L Sander (1987), ''Origin and date of the Bower Manuscript, a new approach'', in: M Yaldiz and W Lobo (eds.): Investigating the Indian Arts, Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin, pp. 313–323 The Bower manuscript includes the oldest dated fragments of an Indian medical text, the ''Navanitaka''. The Bower manuscript includes fragments of three medical (Ayurveda), two divination, and two incantation (Dharani) treatises. The collection had at least four scribes, of which three were likely Buddhists because the second, the sixth and the seventh treatises open by invoking the Buddha and other Buddhist deities. Two invoke Shiva, Vishnu, Devi and other Hindu deities.A.F. Rudolf Hoernle (1891)Remarks on Birc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandorea Jasminoides
''Pandorea jasminoides'', also known by the common names bower of beauty and bower vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a woody climber with pinnate leaves that have three to nine egg-shaped leaflets, and white or pink trumpet-shaped flowers that are red and hairy inside. It is also grown as an ornamental. Description ''Pandorea jasminoides'' is a woody climber with dark brown bark and glabrous stems. The leaves are mainly arranged in opposite pairs along the stems or sometimes in whorls of three, and are long and pinnate with three to nine leaflets. The leaflets are egg-shaped to more or less lance-shaped, long and wide. The leaves are on a petiole long, the lateral leaflets on petiolules long and the end leaflet on a petiolule long. The flowers are borne on the ends of stems or in upper leaf axils in groups long. The five sepals are fused at the base forming a cup-shaped tube long with lobes lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bower Fold
Bower Fold in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England, is the home ground of Stalybridge Celtic football club and, intermittently, Oldham rugby league club. History There has been a ground at Bower Fold since 1906. The current main stand was built in 1996, with the covered stand at the Town End (Joe Jackson Stand) dating from 1994. The main stand replaced a wooden one dating from 1909, which held 500 fans, before being converted to tip-up seating with a reduced capacity of around 400 persons. The Lord Pendry Stand (named after the local politician Tom Pendry) opened in 2004, replacing a covered terrace dating from the 1950s. The Mottram End cover stems from construction starting in the 1970s and finishing in the mid-1980s. The main stand, holding about 700 people, is all seated. Its opposite stand, the Lord Pendry stand has 652 seats. It is possible for the ground to be segregated with self-contained areas which include separate turnstiles, refreshment facilities and toilets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
