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Runaway Train Disasters
Runaway, Runaways or Run Away may refer to: Engineering * Runaway reaction, a chemical reaction releasing more heat than what can be removed and becoming uncontrollable * Thermal runaway, self-increase of the reaction rate of an exothermic process while temperature increases with the heat released and giving rise to an explosion * Chain reaction, chemical, or nuclear, reaction giving rise to an exponential propagation with catastrophic consequences * Diesel engine runaway, the impossibility to turn off a diesel engine fueled by an excess of its own lubricating oil Films * ''The Runaway'' (1917 film), an American film starring Julia Sanderson * ''The Runaway'' (1926 film), an American film starring Warner Baxter * ''Runaway'' (1958 film) (''Bari Theke Paliye''), a Bengali film by Ritwik Ghatak * ''The Runaway'' (1961), an American film starring Cesar Romero * ''The Runaway'' (1964), a British film by Tony Young * ''Runaway'' (1964 film), a New Zealand film by John O'Shea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runaway Reaction
Thermal runaway describes a process that is accelerated by increased temperature, in turn releasing Thermal energy, energy that further increases temperature. Thermal runaway occurs in situations where an increase in temperature changes the conditions in a way that causes a further increase in temperature, often leading to a destructive result. It is a kind of uncontrolled positive feedback. In chemistry (and chemical engineering), thermal runaway is associated with strongly exothermic reactions that are accelerated by temperature rise. In electrical engineering, thermal runaway is typically associated with increased Electric current, current flow and power dissipation. Thermal runaway can occur in civil engineering, notably when the heat released by large amounts of Concrete#Curing, curing concrete is not controlled. In astrophysics, runaway nuclear fusion reactions in stars can lead to nova and several types of supernova explosions, and also occur as a less dramatic event in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmine Guy
Jasmine Chanel Guy (born March 10, 1962) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She portrayed Dina in the 1988 film ''School Daze'' and Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBC ''The Cosby Show'' spin-off '' A Different World'', which originally ran from 1987 to 1993. Guy won four consecutive NAACP Image Awards from 1990 through 1993 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the show. She played Roxy Harvey on '' Dead Like Me'' and as Sheila "Grams" Bennett on '' The Vampire Diaries''. She also played the role of Gemma on ''Grey's Anatomy''. Early life Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Jaye (née Resendes) and William Vincent Guy, she was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended Northside Performing Arts High School. Her mother, a Portuguese American, was a former high-school teacher, and her father, who was African-American, was pastor of the historic Friendship Baptist Church of Atlanta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Gould
Nathaniel Gould (21 December 1857 – 25 July 1919) was a British novelist. He was a best-selling author in his lifetime. Life and writing Gould was born at Manchester, Lancashire on 21 December 1857, the only surviving child of Nathaniel Gould, a tea merchant, and his wife Mary, ''née'' Wright. Both parents came from Derbyshire yeomen families. The boy was indulgently brought up and well educated. His father died just before he was to have left school, and Gould tried first his father's tea trade and then farming at Bradbourne with his uncles. Gould became a good horseman but a poor farmer. In 1877, in reply to an advertisement, he was given a position on the ''Newark Advertiser'' gaining a good all-round knowledge of press work. After a few years he became restless, and in 1884 sailed for Australia, where he became a reporter on the ''Brisbane Telegraph'' in its shipping, commercial and racing departments. In April 1886 in Brisbane, he married Miss Elizabeth Madelaine Rusk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Runaway (short Story)
"The Runaway" () is an 1887 short story by Anton Chekhov. Background and publication history According to Chekhov's brother Mikhail Chekhov and their sister Maria Chekhova, the story was based on real incidents that Chekhov witnessed when he was working at the Chikino regional hospital as a young doctor. It was first published in the '' Peterburgskaya Gazeta'' (28 September 1887), in the section "Fleeting Notes" (Летучие заметки), and was signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте). In a slightly revised version it was reproduced in the illustrated almanac ''Stoglav'' in 1889. It was also included in the collection ''Detvora'' (Детвора, Children, St Petersburg, 1889). Chekhov then included it in Volume 2 of his Collected Works published by Adolf Marks in 1899-1901. During its author's lifetime, the story was translated into Danish, Serbo-Croatian, German, French and Czech languages. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Anna Hart
Elizabeth Anna Hart, née Smedley (1822–1890), was a British poet and novelist born in London. She was a cousin of Lewis Carroll's through her aunt, Lucy Dodgson née Hume, who was Carroll's grandmother. Hart wrote children's poetry with her sister Menella Bute Smedley as well as novels, including ''Mrs. Jerningham's Journal'' and ''The Runaway''. Biography Hart was born in 1822 to Mary Hume Smedley and Rev. Edward Smedley, a clergyman, critic, and poet. She married Thomas Barnard Hart, brother of Sir Andrew Hart, and a cousin of hers through his mother Maria Hume, an officer in the Indian Army, and had no children. Writing Wood-engraver Gwen Raverat was a fan of Hart's 1872 novel ''The Runaway'', which the artist described as "a gay, rather farcical book, which was the delight of my own childhood (and I supposed of the generation before as well) and has been very much loved by my own children, and by many others". Raverat asked publishing house Macmillan to publish an edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
