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Blitzen may refer to: * Blitzen, one of Santa Claus' reindeer, as named in "The Night Before Christmas" * Blitzen (computer), an SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) computer system * Blitzen, a superhero from multiple Milestone Media comic books * Blitzen, Oregon, a ghost town * Blitzen, a dwarf in Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard See also * Blitz (other) * Blitzkrieg ''Blitzkrieg'(Lightning/Flash Warfare)'' is a word used to describe a combined arms surprise attack, using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, together with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Claus' Reindeer
In traditional Western festive legend and popular culture, Santa Claus's reindeer are said to pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus deliver gifts to children on Christmas Eve. While various legends offer differing details, the 1823 poem '' A Visit from St. Nicholas'' (usually attributed to Clement Clarke Moore) has proved the most enduring. It describes Santa's sleigh being pulled by a team of eight reindeer, best known as Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. The popularity of the 1939 story "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", and the 1949 Christmas song of the same name, has resulted in Rudolph often being included among the team. Origins and history Single reindeer The first reference to Santa's sleigh being pulled by a reindeer appears in " Old Santeclaus with Much Delight", an 1821 illustrated children's poem published in New York. The names of the author and the illustrator are not known. The poem, with eight colored litho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blitzen (computer)
The Blitzen was a miniaturized SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) computer system designed for NASA in the late 1980s by a team of researchers at Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ..., North Carolina State University and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina. The Blitzen was composed of a control unit and a set of simple central processing unit, processors connected in a grid topology. The machine influenced, to some extent, the design of the MasPar MP-1 computer. Applications of the Blitzen machine include high-speed image processing, where each processor operates on a pixel of the input image and communicates with its grid neighbours to apply image processing filters on the image. References Classes of computers SIMD computing {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milestone Media
Milestone Media Company LLC is the media company which created the Milestone Comics line, which were published and distributed by DC Comics. Milestone Media created the source material that was adapted as the '' Static Shock'' animated series. The company was founded in 1993 by a coalition of African-American artists and writers, consisting of Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis, Derek T. Dingle and Christopher Priest. The founders felt that minorities were severely underrepresented in American comics and wished to address this. History Development Christopher Priest participated in the early planning stages of Milestone Media, and was originally slated to become the editor-in-chief of the new company, but left the endeavor for personal reasons before any of Milestone's titles were published. Michael Davis left Milestone in 1995, after the imprint had launched, to become president of the new company Motown Animation & Filmworks. Denys Cowan soon joined him to serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blitzen, Oregon
Blitzen is a ghost town in the Catlow Valley of southern Harney County, Oregon. History It appears that at some point a post office named Blitzen was established about 10 miles south of Narrows, and named for the Donner und Blitzen River, which flowed nearby. Another post office was established in another town called Blitzen on April 10, 1915. A Mr. Stewart served as the first postmaster, and the town's population gradually declined; there were only three families left in Blitzen in 1924. The Blitzen post office continued to operate as a small rural delivery site until it was closed in February 1943.LaLande, Jeff"Catlow Valley" ''The Oregon Encyclopedia'', Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 2008. Today, there is no evidence of habitation at any of these sites except at the ghost town A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Chase And The Gods Of Asgard
''Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard'' is a trilogy of fantasy novels based on Norse mythology written by American author Rick Riordan and published by Disney- Hyperion. It is set in the same universe as the ''Camp Half-Blood Chronicles'' and ''The Kane Chronicles'' series. The first book, '' The Sword of Summer'', was released on October 6, 2015. The second book, '' The Hammer of Thor'', was released on October 4, 2016. '' The Ship of the Dead'', the third book, was released on October 3, 2017. The main protagonist, Magnus Chase, son of the Vanir god of fertility Frey, narrates the novel in first person. He is a cousin of Annabeth Chase, a main character of the ''Percy Jackson and the Olympians'' and ''The Heroes of Olympus'' series, who links the two series together. Books ''The Sword of Summer'' ''The Sword of Summer'' is the first book in the series, released on October 6, 2015, as a hardcover, e-book, and audiobook. The novel is narrated by Magnus Chase, a homeless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blitz (other)
Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to: Military uses *Blitzkrieg, blitz campaign, or blitz, a type of military campaign *The Blitz, the German aerial campaign against Britain in the Second World War *, several ships of the Prussian, Imperial German, and Austro-Hungarian navies Computing * Blitz (software), a cloud-based load-and performance-testing service *Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language * Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing * BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College *Blitz Research, a New Zealand software company Film and television * ''Blitz'' (2011 film), a film starring Jason Statham * Blitz (2024 film), a World War II-themed historical drama film *''Blitz'' or ''Killing Cars'', a 1986 Michael Verhoeven film *Blitz, a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from ''Road Rovers'' *Blitz, a robot dog from the cartoon '' C.O.P.S.'' *The Blitz, in the " Blitzgiving" episode of ''How I Met Your Mother'' Games * ''Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
