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Grabs (other)
Grabs may refer to: * Grabs, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen * Detlev Grabs (born 1960), East German swimmer * Grabs (skateboarding) See also * * Grab (other) * Up for Grabs (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grabs, Switzerland
Grabs is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Werdenberg (Wahlkreis), Werdenberg in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Canton of St. Gallen, St. Gallen in Switzerland. History Grabs is first mentioned in 841 as ''Quaravedes''. In 979 it was mentioned as ''Quadravedes'', then in 1235 as ''Grabdis'' and in 1253 as ''Graps''. Geography Grabs has an area, , of . Of this area, 50% is used for agricultural purposes, while 32.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 4.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (12.9%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). The municipality is located in the Werdenberg ''Wahlkreis.'' The eastern portion of the municipality is on edge of the Rhine valley, but doesn't reach the Rhine. The larger part of the municipality is on the eastern slope of the Churfirsten-Alvier (mountain), Alvier group. It consists of the village of Grabs, scattered settlements on the Grabserberg with the hamlet (pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detlev Grabs
Detlev Grabs (born 29 October 1960) is a German researcher in anatomy and cell biology and a former East German swimmer. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay; he failed to reach the finals in the 200 m and 400 m freestyle events. He was also part of the East German team that finished third in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 1977 European Aquatics Championships. After retiring from swimming, between 1984 and 1990 he studied human medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin, defending his PhD in 1990. Then until 1997 he worked as a post-doc at the Institute of Anatomy, Berlin (1990–1997); University of Ulm, Germany (1992); and Yale University, United States (1994–1996). In 1999 he obtained his habilitation degree in anatomy and cell biology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where he worked between 1997 and 2007. His thesis title was "The cycle of small synaptic vesicles". In 2007 he was appoint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grabs (skateboarding)
Aerials (or more commonly airs) are a type of skateboarding Skateboarding is an extreme sport, action sport that involves riding and Skateboarding trick, performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry Profession, job, and a method of tr ... trick usually performed on half-pipes, pools or quarter pipes where there is a vertical wall with a transition (curved surface linking wall and ground) available. Aerials usually combine rotation with different grabs. Most of the different types of grabs were originally aerial tricks that were performed in ditches, empty pools, and vert ramps before flatground aerials became common. Aerials can be executed by ollieing just as the front wheels reach the lip of a ramp, or can be executed simply by lifting the front wheels over the coping (or lip). The former is preferable on shallower ramps where the skateboarder has less speed to lift them above the ramp. Common aerial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grab (other)
Grab may refer to: Places Bosnia and Herzegovina * Grab, Ljubuški * Grab, Trebinje * Grab, Trnovo Croatia * Grab, Split-Dalmatia County, a village near Trilj * Grab (river), a river near Grab, Split-Dalmatia County * Grab, Zadar County, a village near Gračac Kosovo * Grab (peak) Montenegro * Grab, Bijelo Polje Poland * Grab, Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Grab, Pleszew County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Grab, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland Serbia * Grab, Lučani United States * Grab, Kentucky People * Grab (surname), a list of people * Grab (ispán), Hungarian official in the 11th century Technology * Grab (company), a multinational technology company, super-app developer * Grab (macOS), a screenshot application * Grab (tool), a mechanical device * Galactic Radiation and Background, or GRAB, a series of electronic signals intelligence satellites operated by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Other uses * Grab (ship), a two- o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
