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Sy (other)
Sy is a given name, nickname and surname. Sy or SY may also refer to: Places: * Sy, Belgium, a town in the Ardennes * Sy, Ardennes, a commune in France * Sy, Mali, a small town and commune * 1714 Sy, an asteroid Codes: * SY postcode area, the British post code area for Shrewsbury * Syria's ISO 3166-1 country code ** .sy, the country code top level domain for Syria * SY, Sun Country Airlines's IATA airline code * SY, Sybase's New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol Other uses: * Sonic Youth, an American rock band * Office of Security, a former name for the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Security Service * China Railways SY, a Chinese class of industrial 2-8-2 steam locomotive * SY or S/Y, a ship prefix for sailing yacht or steam yacht See also * Cy (other) * Psi (other) * Psy (other) Psy (full name: Park Jae-sang; born 1977) is a South Korean singer best known for his hit single "Gangnam Style". Psy or PSY may also refer to: * Psy (film), ''Psy' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sy, Belgium
Sy is a village of Wallonia in the municipality of Ferrières, Belgium, Ferrières, district of Vieuxville, located in the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. It is located in the Famenne and lays south of the city of Liège in the Belgian Ardennes near the Ourthe. This is also the village where Belgian painter (1871-1929) made some of his paintings and later died. Tourism Due to the village's close location to the Ourthe river, river tourism has become the most precious income to Sy. The village has a train station which runs along line 43. Most of its tourism comes from sport activities by the river such as canoeing, but hikes and climbing are also popular activities. File:Sy2.jpg, Rocks in the Ourthe near Sy Sy016.JPG, Church of our Holy Lady File:Sy0001.JPG, Houses in Sy File:Home of Richard Heintz (1871-1929), Chemin de Sy 32, Verleine sur Ourthe.jpg, Home of Richard Heintz (1871-1929), Chemin de Sy 32, Verleine sur Ourthe References {{Reflist Ferrières ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardennes
The Ardennes ( ; ; ; ; ), also known as the Ardennes Forest or Forest of Ardennes, is a region of extensive forests, rough terrain, rolling hills and ridges primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, extending into Germany and France. Geologically, the range is a western extension of the Eifel; both were raised during the Givetian age of the Devonian (382.7 to 387.7 million years ago), as were several other named ranges of the same greater range. The Ardennes proper stretches well into Germany and France (lending its name to the Ardennes department and the former Champagne-Ardenne region) and geologically into the Eifel (the eastern extension of the Ardennes Forest into Bitburg-Prüm, Germany); most of it is in the southeast of Wallonia, the southern and more rural part of Belgium (away from the coastal plain but encompassing more than half of the country's total area). The eastern part of the Ardennes forms the northernmost third of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, also called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sy, Ardennes
Sy () is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France. Population See also * List of short place names *Communes of the Ardennes department The following is a list of the 447 communes of the Ardennes department of France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include Frenc ... References Communes of Ardennes (department) Ardennes communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Ardennes-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sy, Mali
Sy is a small town and commune in the Cercle of San in the Ségou Region of Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b .... In 1998 the commune had a population of 8,888. References Communes of Ségou Region {{Ségou-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1714 Sy
1714 Sy, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 25 July 1951, by French astronomer Louis Boyer at Algiers Observatory in Algeria, North Africa, and named after French astronomer and orbit computer Frédéric Sy. Orbit ''Sy'' orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.2–3.0 AU once every 4 years and 1 month (1,503 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.15 and an inclination of 8 ° with respect to the ecliptic. It was first identified as at Goethe Link Observatory in 1948, extending the body's observation arc by 3 years prior to its official discovery observation at Algiers. Physical characteristics PanSTARRS large-scale survey characterized ''Sy'' as a L-type asteroid, a rare subtype which falls into the broader complex of stony S-type asteroids. Diameter and albedo According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SY Postcode Area
The SY postcode area, also known as the Shrewsbury postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 25 postcode districts in the West Midlands and Mid Wales, with small areas in North West England and North Wales. Together the districts cover most of Shropshire, north Powys, north Ceredigion, and part of south Cheshire. In addition, the SY7 and SY8 districts cover a small part of north Herefordshire, and the SY14 and SY20 districts also contain very small parts of Gwynedd and Wrexham County Borough respectively. The postcode area contains 32 post towns. Mail for the SY postcode area is processed at Chester Mail Centre, along with mail for the CH and LL postcode areas. Post towns *Aberystwyth *Bishop's Castle *Borth *Bow Street * Bucknell *Caersws *Church Stretton *Craven Arms * Ellesmere * Llanbrynmair * Llandinam * Llanfechain *Llanfyllin *Llanidloes *Llanon *Llanrhystud * Llansantffraid *Llanymynech *Ludlow *Lydbury North *Machynlleth * Malpas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, the east and southeast, Jordan to Jordan–Syria border, the south, and Israel and Lebanon to Lebanon–Syria border, the southwest. It is a republic under Syrian transitional government, a transitional government and comprises Governorates of Syria, 14 governorates. Damascus is the capital and largest city. With a population of 25 million across an area of , it is the List of countries and dependencies by population, 57th-most populous and List of countries and dependencies by area, 87th-largest country. The name "Syria" historically referred to a Syria (region), wider region. The modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization. Damascus was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Country Airlines
Sun Country Airlines is an ultra-low cost airline in the United States. Based at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport with headquarters on airport property, Sun Country operates to about 140 destinations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. The airline also has significant charter operations and is a contract cargo operator for Amazon Air. History Early years and bankruptcies (1983–2008) Sun Country was incorporated on July 2, 1982. It received its certificate of public necessity and convenience from the Civil Aeronautics Board on January 17, 1983. The company began offering charter service and the first revenue flight was on January 20, 1983, from Sioux Falls to Las Vegas, using a Boeing 727 aircraft leased from Air Florida. The airline's original staff consisted of 16 pilots, 16 flight attendants, three mechanics, and one office person. Several of the original employees previously worked for Braniff International A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybase
Sybase, Inc. was an enterprise software and services company. The company produced software relating to relational databases, with facilities located in California and Massachusetts. Sybase was acquired by SAP in 2010; SAP ceased using the Sybase name in 2014. History *1984: Robert Epstein—formerly with Ingres—and Mark Hoffman leave Britton-Lee. They, Jane Doughty, and Tom Haggin start Sybase (initially trading as ''Systemware'') in Epstein's home in Berkeley, California. Their first commercial location is half of an office suite at 2107 Dwight Way in Berkeley. They set out to create a relational database management system (RDBMS) that will organize information and make it available to computers within a network. *March 1986: Systemware enters into talks with Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth were an American rock band formed in New York City in 1981. Founding members Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar), Thurston Moore (lead guitar, vocals) and Lee Ranaldo (rhythm guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of the band, while Steve Shelley (drums) followed a series of short-term drummers in 1985, rounding out the core line-up. Jim O'Rourke (musician), Jim O'Rourke (bass, guitar, keyboards) was also a member of the band from 1999 to 2005, and Mark Ibold (bass, guitar) was a member from 2006 to 2011. Sonic Youth emerged from the experimental no wave art and music scene in New York before evolving into a more conventional rock band and becoming a prominent member of the American noise rock scene. Sonic Youth have been praised for having "redefined what rock guitar could do" using a wide variety of scordatura, unorthodox guitar tunings while prepared guitar, preparing guitars with objects like drumsticks and screwdrivers to alter the instruments' ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diplomatic Security Service
The Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) is the principal Specialist law enforcement agency, law enforcement and security agency of the United States Department of State (DOS). Its primary mission is to protect diplomatic assets, personnel, and information, and combat transnational crimes connected to Visa fraud, visa and passport fraud. DSS also conducts Counter-terrorism, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, Computer security, cybersecurity and criminal investigations domestically and abroad. Originating in diplomatic security measures implemented during the First World War, DSS was Inman Report, formally established in 1985 following the deadly 1983 bombings of the 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut, U.S. embassy and 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. It is the leading U.S. law enforcement agency abroad and the most widely deployed in the world, protecting 275 U.S. diplomatic missions in over 170 countries and in more than thirty U.S. cities. As em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Railways SY
China Railways SY is a () 2-8-2 Mikado locomotive operated by the China Railway. It was built mostly by Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works between 1960 and 1999. History and design The SY class was developed by the Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co., and the primary purpose for the locomotives was usage in industrial services. The basis for the SYs was the JF6 class, which was already a lighter variant of the JF1 class designed by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO), but the SYs would incorporate some newer design features introduced on other locomotives, such as the JS and RM classes. The SY features the JF6s lacked included taller smokestacks, different front step and handrail arrangements, different motion bracket arrangements, a higher boiler pressure (, a lower axle loading (, and all boxpok driving wheels. The new class was originally designated as the GN (), but it was quickly changed to SY (). The SY designation was possibly influenced by a quot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
