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Highway 55
The following highways are numbered 55: International * European route E55 * Arab Mashreq International Road Network, Arab Mashreq route M55 Argentina * Provincial Route 55 (San Luis), San Luis Provincial Route 55 Australia * Carnarvon Highway * Castlereagh Highway * Karoonda Highway Belgium * N55 road (Belgium) Canada * Alberta Highway 55 * Saskatchewan Highway 55 * Quebec Autoroute 55 China * G55 Erenhot–Guangzhou Expressway, G55 Expressway Croatia * D55 road (Croatia) Czech Republic * R55 expressway (Czech Republic) Finland * Finnish national road 55 France * A55 autoroute * N55 road (France) Germany * Bundesstraße 55 Greece * Greek National Road 55, EO55 road India * Iran *Road 55 (Iran), Road 55 Ireland * N55 road (Ireland) Israel * Highway 55 (Israel) Italy * Autostrada A55 Japan * Japan National Route 55 Jordan * Pakistan * Indus Highway, National Highway 55 Korea, South * Jungang Expressway *Gukjido 55 Philippines * N55 highway (Philippines) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Maximum Speed Law
The National Maximum Speed Limit (NMSL) was a provision of the federal government of the United States 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act that effectively prohibited speed limits higher than . The limit was increased to in 1987. It was drafted in response to oil price spikes and supply disruptions during the 1973 oil crisis. Even after fuel costs began to decrease over time the law would remain in place until 1995 as proponents claimed it reduced traffic fatalities. While federal officials hoped gasoline consumption would fall by 2.2%, the actual savings were estimated at between 0.5% and 1%. The law was widely disregarded by motorists nationwide, and some U.S. state, states opposed the law, but many jurisdictions discovered it to be a major source of revenue. Actions ranged from proposing deals for an exemption to de-emphasizing speed limit enforcement. The NMSL was modified in 1987 and 1988 to allow up to limits on certain limited-access rural roads. Congress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Taiwan from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – The United States Seventh Fleet helps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
55 Days At Peking
''55 Days at Peking'' is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatizing the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Beijing (then still Peking, in English) during the Boxer Uprising, which took place in China in the summer of 1900. It was produced by Samuel Bronston for Allied Artists, with a screenplay by Philip Yordan and Bernard Gordon, and with uncredited contributions from Robert Hamer, Julian Halevy, and Ben Barzman. Noel Gerson wrote a screenplay novelization in 1963 under the pseudonym "Samuel Edwards". The film was directed primarily by Nicholas Ray, although Guy Green and Andrew Marton assumed leadership in the latter stages of filming after Ray had fallen ill. Both men were uncredited. It stars Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, with supporting roles by Flora Robson, John Ireland, Leo Genn, Robert Helpmann, Harry Andrews, and Kurt Kasznar. It also contains the first known screen appearance of future martial arts film star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messier 55
Messier 55 (also known as M55, New General Catalogue, NGC 6809, or Specter Cluster) is a globular cluster in the south of the constellation Sagittarius (constellation), Sagittarius. It was discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1752 while observing from what today is South Africa. Starting in 1754, Charles Messier made several attempts to find this object from Paris but its low declination meant from there it rises daily very little above the horizon, hampering observation. He observed and catalogued it in 1778. The cluster can be seen with 50 mm binoculars; resolving individual stars needs a medium-sized telescope. It is about 17,600 light-years away from Earth. It contains about 269,000 solar masses (). As with other Milky Way globular clusters, it has few elements other than hydrogen and helium compared to the Sun. Messier 55 therefore has "low metallicity". This quantity is normally listed as the base 10 logarithm of the proportion of the Sun; for NGC 6809 the meta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caesium
Caesium (IUPAC spelling; also spelled cesium in American English) is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-golden alkali metal with a melting point of , which makes it one of only five elemental metals that are liquid at or near room temperature. Caesium has physical and chemical properties similar to those of rubidium and potassium. It is pyrophoricity, pyrophoric and reacts with water even at . It is the least electronegativity, electronegative stable element, with a value of 0.79 on the Pauling scale. It has only one stable isotope, caesium-133. Caesium is mined mostly from pollucite. Caesium-137, a fission product, is extracted from waste produced by nuclear reactor technology, nuclear reactors. It has the largest atomic radius of all elements whose radii have been measured or calculated, at about 260 picometres. The German chemist Robert Bunsen and physicist Gustav Kirchhoff discovered caesium in 1860 by the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NGC 55
NGC 55, also known as the String of Pearls Galaxy, is a Magellanic type barred spiral galaxy located about 6.5 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on 7 July 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Along with its neighbor NGC 300, it is one of the closest galaxies to the Local Group, probably lying between the Milky Way and the Sculptor Group. It has an estimated mass of (2.0 ± 0.4) × 1010 . Nearby galaxies and group information NGC 55 and the spiral galaxy NGC 300 have traditionally been identified as members of the Sculptor Group, a nearby group of galaxies in the constellation of the same name. However, recent distance measurements indicate that the two galaxies actually lie in the foreground. It is likely that NGC 55 and NGC 300 form a gravitationally bound pair. Visual appearance The '' Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook'' writes the following about NGC 55: "Nearly edge-on and appears asymmetrical with some signs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DAF 55
The DAF 55 is a small family car produced by the Dutch company DAF from December 1967 to September 1972. At that time it was replaced with the DAF 66. All 55s featured the unique Variomatic belt-driven continuously variable transmission, with no manual transmission available. This feature of all DAF cars was very unusual for its class at the time. The 55 was available as a 2-door saloon, a 3-door estate, and a 2-door coupé. In total 164,231 DAF 55s were built. Origins The 55 was developed to be a more powerful version of the 1966 DAF 44. The redesign was extensive, and featured the following major changes: *Powertrain **Because the 44's two-cylinder DAF-designed boxer engine was at the end of its development, DAF partnered with Renault Renault S.A., commonly referred to as Groupe Renault ( , , , also known as the Renault Group in English), is a French Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
55 (album)
''55'' is the debut studio album written and produced by New York City-based electronic music duo the Knocks and was released via Neon Gold and Big Beat on March 4, 2016. It features vocals and collaborations from the likes of Fetty Wap, Cam'ron, Wyclef Jean, Carly Rae Jepsen, Matthew Koma, Magic Man, Alex Newell, POWERS, Phoebe Ryan, Justin Tranter, Walk the Moon, and X Ambassadors. Reception ''Spin'' rated the album 8 out of 10. 55.5 (The Knocks VIP Mix) 55.5 (The Knocks VIP Mix) is the fourth extended play produced by New York City based electronic music duo the Knocks, which was released on 8 July 2016. The extended play is set as a remixed spin-off to the duo's debut album ''55'', containing remixes of five songs from the album. Around the time the duo embarked on their American tour, they began to record the remixed versions of the songs and began teasing the extended play. The EP was initially planned to be released on 29 April 2016, but was ultimately pus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazeta 55
''Gazeta 55'' () is an Albanian language newspaper published in Tirana, Albania. The newspaper is a politically unaffiliated daily, with nine reporters on staff records. The tabloid's owner is Fahri Balliu, an Albanian businessman. History and profile ''Gazeta 55'' was first published on 18 October 1997. At the beginning of the 2000s ''Gazeta 55'' had a circulation of 4,500 copies. Name The number "55" was chosen because Article 55 of the Constitution of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Constitution of communist Albania, dealt with Agitation and Propaganda related crimes. Content Sections The newspaper is organised in three sections, including the magazine. # News: Includes International, National, Tirana, Politics, Business, Technology, Science, Health, Sports, Education. # Opinion: Includes Editorials, Op-Eds and Letter to the editor, Letters to the Editor. # Features: Includes Arts, Movies, Theatre, and a Sigurimi, Sigurimi file ''(mainly about the communist era) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
55 (number)
55 (fifty-five) is the natural number following 54 (number), 54 and preceding 56 (number), 56. Mathematics 55 is: *the 10th Fibonacci number and the 10th triangular number, The sum of 55's digits is also 10. *the 5th heptagonal number, the 5th square pyramidal number, and the 4th centered nonagonal number. 55 is also the 19th semiprime and the 15th squarefree semiprime, as well as the 32nd Nontotient, nontotient number (including odd numbers > 1) the 36th arithmetic number, the 38th composite number (where the Abundant number, abundance of 55 = - 38), the 43rd deficient number, the 45th Polite number#Trapezoidal numbers, trapezoidal number, and the 49th polite number. Transportation *In the United States, the National Maximum Speed Law prohibited speed limits higher than from 1974 to 1987. The number ''55'' became a popular shorthand for the 55 mph speed limit. For example, a hand with a pair of fives in Texas hold'em poker is referred to as a "speed limit". Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
55 Pandora
55 Pandora is a fairly large and very bright asteroid in the asteroid belt. Pandora was discovered by American astronomer and Catholic priest George Mary Searle on September 10, 1858, from the Dudley Observatory near Albany, NY. It was his first and only asteroid discovery. It is named after Pandora, the first woman in Greek mythology, who unwisely opened a box that released evil into the world. The name was apparently chosen by Blandina Dudley, widow of the founder of the Dudley Observatory, who had been involved in an acrimonious dispute with astronomer B. A. Gould. Gould felt that the name had an "apt significance". The asteroid shares its name with Pandora, a moon of Saturn. This object is orbiting the Sun with a period of 4.58 years, a semimajor axis of , and an eccentricity of 0.14. Its orbital plane lies at an angle of 7.2° to the plane of the ecliptic. Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Rozhen Observatory in Bulgaria during 2010 gave a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
