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Sirocco is a hot, fast Mediterranean wind. Sirocco or similar spellings may also refer to: Media and entertainment * Sirocco (album), ''Sirocco'' (album) by Australian Crawl * Sirocco (film), ''Sirocco'' (film), starring Humphrey Bogart * Sirocco (play), ''Sirocco'' (play), a play by Noël Coward * Sirocco (Australian band) * Scirocco (film), ''Scirocco'' (film), directed by Aldo Lado * Siroco (album), ''Siroco'' (album) by Paco de Lucia * Paptimus Scirocco, a character from the anime series ''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'' * Scirocco, a character in the Silverwing series, ''Silverwing'' series of books * "Scirocco," a song by Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini on his album ''Signora Bovary'' *The ''Scirocco'', a vessel of the Martian Congressional Republic Navy in ''The Expanse (TV series), The Expanse'' TV series. * Sirocco (game), ''Sirocco'' (game), a nautically-themed multiplayer_online_battle_arena , multiplayer online battle arena developed by Lunchbox Entertainment In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirocco
Sirocco ( ) or scirocco is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and can reach hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe, especially during the summer season. Names ''Sirocco'' derives from '' šurūq'' (), verbal noun of '' šaraqa'', related to the East, ''aš-šarq''. Various names for this wind in other languages include: * * * or ''marin'' * * * * or * * , or romanized: sirókos * or * ( sr-Cyrl, југо), in Croatia rarely ''širok'' (широк) * * or * Libyan Arabic: , romanized: , which means "coming from the Qibla" * , which means "fifty" ("fifty-day wind") * , probably from with the same meaning as ; or * , pronounced širguī The Roman poet Horace refers to the sirocco at Trevico in Apulia as "Atabulus" (a Messapic word) in his account of his journey to Brundisium in 37 BC. Development Siroccos arise from warm, dry, tropical air masses that are pulled northward by low-pressure cells moving eastward across the Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockport Train Wreck
The Rockport train wreck occurred in Rockport in Mansfield Township, New Jersey, United States, about three miles outside of Hackettstown, on June 16, 1925. After a violent storm washed debris onto a grade crossing, a Lackawanna Railroad (DL&W) train derailed and crashed, killing 42 passengers and five crewmen and injuring 23 others.ICC report of 1925 - . Train The train, a non-scheduled special train of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W), was carrying 182 German-Americans from |
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Sirocco ( ) or scirocco is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and can reach hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe, especially during the summer season. Names ''Sirocco'' derives from '' šurūq'' (), verbal noun of '' šaraqa'', related to the East, ''aš-šarq''. Various names for this wind in other languages include: * * * or ''marin'' * * * * or * * , or romanized: sirókos * or * ( sr-Cyrl, југо), in Croatia rarely ''širok'' (широк) * * or * Libyan Arabic: , romanized: , which means "coming from the Qibla" * , which means "fifty" ("fifty-day wind") * , probably from with the same meaning as ; or * , pronounced širguī The Roman poet Horace refers to the sirocco at Trevico in Apulia as "Atabulus" (a Messapic word) in his account of his journey to Brundisium in 37 BC. Development Siroccos arise from warm, dry, tropical air masses that are pulled northward by low-pressure cells moving eastward across the Mediter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nokia 8 Sirocco
The Nokia 8 Sirocco (TA-1005) is a high-end smartphone by HMD Global, running the Android One variant of Android. It was introduced at MWC in February 2018, and named after the Nokia 8800 Sirocco. The successor of the Nokia 8 Sirocco is the Nokia 9 PureView. Specifications Hardware Compared to the original Nokia 8, the Sirocco edition uses a glass body with stainless steel instead of aluminium. It also has a new camera, a fingerprint sensor at the back instead of the front, 6 GB of RAM instead of 4 GB, omission of the CTIA headphone jack in favour of USB-C, a 5.5" pOLED screen rather than a 5.3" LCD, Qi wireless charging, and a larger battery capacity. The device has a Snapdragon 835 like its predecessor. The display is curved, but the phone lacks palm rejection technology which is found in other curved smartphones. The 8 Sirocco is the first Nokia device featuring IP67 water resistance, which was never found in earlier Nokia phones including Lumia series. Software The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nokia 8800
The Nokia 8800 (pronounced ''eighty-eight-hundred'') is a luxury mobile phone produced by Nokia, based on the Nokia Series 40 operating system. The 8800 features a stainless-steel housing with a scratch-resistant screen and has a weight of 134 Gram, grams. According to Nokia, the 8800's "sophisticated Mobile_phone_form_factors#Slider, slide mechanism uses premium ball bearings crafted by the makers of bearings used in high performance cars". The Nokia 8800 was first introduced on 7 April 2005 and was commercially available in the United Kingdom in October 2005 on the O2 mobile phone network. The Nokia 8801 was introduced in North America and uses the frequencies predominant in North America of 850 MHz and 1900 MHz. In most respects the Nokia 8801 is identical to the Nokia 8800 other than the use of 850/1800/1900 MHz rather than 900/1800/1900 MHz on the Nokia 8800. Features * Screen protected by scratch-resistant glass window. * Integrated SVGA camera, with V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S1 Core
S1 Core (codename Sirocco) is an open source hardware microprocessor design developed by Simply RISC. Based on Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T1, the S1 Core is licensed under the GNU General Public License, which is the license Sun chose for the OpenSPARC project. The main goal of the project is to keep the S1 Core as simple as possible to encourage developers. The major differences between T1 and S1 include: * S1 Core only has one 64-bit SPARC Core (supporting one to four independent threads of execution) instead of eight cores; * S1 Core adds a Wishbone bridge, a reset controller and a basic interrupt controller; * the S1 Core environment can be run using only free tools on a common x86 Linux machine. See also *LEON *OpenRISC OpenRISC is a project to develop a series of open-source hardware based central processing units (CPUs) on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. It includes an instruction set architecture (ISA) using an open-source lic ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirocco
Shirocco (foaled 10 April 2001) is a German Thoroughbred racehorse. He was trained in his native Germany by Andreas Schütz up to the end of his three-year-old season before moving to French trainer André Fabre to race as a four and five year old. Background Shirocco was sired by Monsun, a German racehorse and leading sire. His dam was The Minstrel mare So Sedulous who won two races when trained in England by Geoff Wragg. She was also the dam of Subiaco (winner of the Group 2 Gerling-Preis) and stakes winners Satchmo, Storm Trooper and September Storm. Racing career Shirocco is best known for winning the Breeders' Cup Turf in 2005. He also won the 2004 Deutsches Derby. Overall, he won 6 major group races in 5 countries. Awards In 2005 Shirocco was named German Horse of the Year. Stud record In October 2006 he was purchased by Darley Stud and retired to Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, England. In seven seasons on the Darley stallion roster he sired Brown Panther (win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirocco (restaurant)
Lebua at State Tower is an all-suite luxury hotel occupying the 21st to 25th floors of State Tower adjacent to the Chao Phraya River on Silom Road in the Bang Rak District of Bangkok, Thailand. The hotel is managed by Lebua Hotels & Resorts, which also manages Tower Club at Lebua, located in the same building, on the floors just above. The brand is founded by its current chief executive officer, Khun Narawadee. Lebua State Tower's rooftop restaurant, Sirocco, hosts the highest New Year's Eve ball drop in the world. Bars and restaurant * The Dome at lebua - The roof of State Tower is adorned with a golden dome. In 2007, the Dome hosted the world's most expensive meal. The Dome features the following bars and restaurants: ** Breeze offers Asian cuisine in an al fresco setting. ** Distil is a cocktail bar located on the 64th floor, offering oysters, caviar, lobster, cigars and a collection of single malt whiskey. ** Mezzaluna offers innovative French cuisine with Japanese pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirocco (parrot)
Sirocco (hatched 23 March 1997) is a kākāpō, a large, flightless, nocturnal parrot, and one of the remaining living individuals numbering only He achieved individual fame following an incident on the BBC television series '' Last Chance to See'' in which he attempted to mate with zoologist Mark Carwardine. Subsequent featuring of the incident on television channels around the world and on YouTube resulted in Sirocco becoming internationally known. In his home country of New Zealand, Sirocco has attracted thousands of people during "personal" appearances, and in January 2010 was given the title of Official Spokesbird for Conservation by Prime Minister John Key. In this role, Sirocco helps advocate for conservation through human intermediaries on social media sites and blogs. Biography Sirocco was hatched on 23 March 1997 on the island bird sanctuary of Codfish Island off the west coast of Stewart Island, south of the New Zealand mainland. At three weeks old he suffered a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmed Siroco
Şuluk Mehmed Pasha (1525 – 7 October 1571), better known in Europe as Mehmed Siroco or Mahomet Sirocco, and also spelled Sulik, Chulouk, Şolok, Seluk, or Suluc and known with the titles Pasha, Reis, or Bey, was the Ottoman Bey (regional governor) of Alexandria in the mid-16th century. Both the foreign and the Turkish nicknames (and their various spellings) were derived from the name of the southern Mediterranean wind Sirocco, from Greek ''sirokos'' and the hence derived Levantine Arabic ''shlūq'', respectively. Mehmed Siroco was appointed admiral in command of the Turkish right at the Battle of Lepanto (1571). Fighting the '' Lega Santa'' led by Admiral Agostino Barbarigo, he was known as the most aggressive attacker of the battle. He was wounded and killed in action when he struggled against Venetians at the Battle of Lepanto, as was Barbarigo. Mehmed Siroco was beheaded by the sword of Giovanni Contarini the Venetian. See also * Battle of Lepanto order of battle Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Sirocco
USS ''Sirocco'' (PC-6) is the sixth of the U.S. Navy. ''Sirocco'' was laid down 20 June 1992 by Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana. The ship was launched 29 May 1993, and sponsored by Mrs. Kathleen Smith, wife of RADM Raymond C. Smith, Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command. She was commissioned by the Navy 11 June 1994. As of 2016, the ship was stationed in Bahrain performing coastal patrol and interdiction surveillance in the region. She was decommissioned on 20 March 2023. History ''Sirocco'' is assigned to Commander Fifth Fleet through Destroyer Squadron 50 and is homeported in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. Seven Patrol Coastal class (PC) warships are forward deployed to the Fifth Fleet. PC ships were formerly crewed by one of 13 rotational PC crews and homeported in Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Virginia. There, under the auspices of Commander, Patrol Coastal Squadron One/Commander, Patrol Coastal (PC) Class Squadron the crews trained on five U.S. base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAS Sirocco
HMAS ''Sirocco'' (Q21) was a channel patrol boat operated by the Naval Auxiliary Patrol of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II. ''Sirocco'' was destroyed by fire and burnt to the waterline at Hobart Hobart ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, it is the southernmost capital city in Australia. Despite containing nearly hal ... on 26 January 1942. References * Patrol vessels of the Royal Australian Navy Maritime incidents in January 1942 World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean Ship fires {{Australia-mil-ship-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
