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Touchstone (US-Irish Band)
Touchstone may refer to: * Touchstone (assaying tool), a stone used to identify precious metals * Touchstone (metaphor), a means of assaying relative merits of a concept Entertainment * Touchstone (album), ''Touchstone'' (album), a 1982 album by Chick Corea * Touchstone (English band), rock group from the U.K. * Touchstone (US-Irish band), Irish-music band from the U.S. * The Touchstone (album), ''The Touchstone'' (album), by British jazz trio Azimuth * The Touchstone (novella), ''The Touchstone'' (novella), a novella by Edith Wharton * The Touchstone (play), ''The Touchstone'' (play), an 1817 comedy play by James Kenney * Touchstone (As You Like It), Touchstone (''As You Like It''), a fictional character in Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'' * Touchstone (Garth Nix character), a fictional character from Garth Nix's ''Old Kingdom trilogy'' * Touchstone (Stargate SG-1), Touchstone (''Stargate SG-1''), an episode of the television series ''Stargate SG-1'' * Touchstone (Syphon Filter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchstone (assaying Tool)
file:Pierre de touche.jpg, Touchstone set A touchstone is a small tablet of dark stone such as slate or lydite, used for Metallurgical assay, assaying precious metal alloys. It has a finely grained surface on which soft metals leave a visible trace. History The touchstone was used during the Indus Valley civilization#Chronology, Harappa period of the Indus Valley civilization ca. 2600–1900 BC for testing the purity of soft metals. It was also used in Ancient Greece. The touchstone allowed anyone to easily and quickly determine the purity of a metal sample. This, in turn, led to the widespread adoption of gold as a standard of exchange. Although mixing gold with less expensive materials was common in coinage, using a touchstone one could easily determine the quantity of gold in the coin, and thereby calculate its intrinsic worth. Operation Drawing a line with gold on a touchstone will leave a visible trace. Because different alloys of gold have different colors (see gold#Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TouchStone Software
TouchStone Software Corporation, Inc., founded in 1982, is an American software developer for the personal computer (PC) industry, specializing in system update technology.Peering Into Penny Stocks By John Gantz, InfoWorld, 29 Apr 1985, Page 72, ''...What's been the top-performing...stock...It's Touchstone Software...it went public August 16, 1984...first product...at...Comdex...communications program called PC Works...Unihost and Macline to allow...computers to link with IBM PC's...1984 sales were a mere $609,000...25-employee payroll...'' It also owns and operates a network of Internet Web properties. Based in Marco Island, Florida, the company was a subsidiary of |
HP TouchPad
The HP TouchPad is a tablet computer that was developed and designed by Hewlett-Packard. The HP TouchPad was launched on July 1, 2011, in the United States; July 15 in Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany; and August 15 in Australia. On August 18, 2011, 49 days after the TouchPad was launched in the United States, HP announced that it would discontinue all current devices running webOS. Remaining TouchPad stock received substantial price reductions, and quickly sold out. History The HP TouchPad was announced on February 9, 2011, at the webOS "Think Beyond" event held at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco alongside the HP Veer and HP Pre 3. Initial sales of the device sold 25,000 of 270,000 units, and did not meet HP's expectations, rapidly becoming overshadowed by the launch of the iPad 2 in March. On August 16, 2011, it was reported that Best Buy refused to pay HP for any more TouchPad stock. In Europe, the TouchPad was estimated to have sold 12,000 in its first month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Touchstone
The United States's Touchstone nuclear test series was a group of 13 nuclear test Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Nuclear testing is a sensitive political issue. Governments have often performed tests to signal strength. Bec ...s conducted in 1987–1988. These tests A bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual explosions does not exceed 5 seconds and where the burial points of all explosive devices can be connected by segments of straight lines, each of them connecting two burial points and does not exceed 40 kilometers in length". followed the '' Operation Musketeer'' series and preceded the '' Operation Cornerstone'' series. Joint Verification Experiment (JVE) The series included ''Touchstone Kearsarge'', a joint US-Soviet test as part of the ''Joint Verification Experiment'' (JVE). The JVE's p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchstone Theatre
Touchstone Theatre is a professional theatre company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, founded in 1976 by a group of University of British Columbia theatre graduates. Touchstone's focus is on the development and production of work by Canadian Playwrights (newcomer, Indigenous, and settler). . Touchstone is currently under the artistic leadership of Lois Anderson (AD) and Libby Willoughby (GM/Producer). Former Artistic Directors are Ian Fenwick, Gordon McCall, John Cooper, Katrina Dunn, and Roy Surette. Activities Touchstone Theatre's stated mandate is that it "''develops and presents professional theatrical productions. We explore the contemporary Canadian play through content and form. We stimulate public interest in Canadian cultural perspectives.''" In fulfillment of its mandate, much of Touchstone's activities have fallen into one of three categories: it mounts premiere productions of plays by British Columbian playwrights; it mounts second productions of important p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchstone Memorial Award
The F. Morris Touchstone Award is an award given by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association to the nation's most outstanding NCAA Division I lacrosse head coach. The award was first presented in 1958. The award is named after F. Morris Touchstone who was head coach at the United States Military Academy from 1928 to 1957. His teams had a record of 214-73-4. Of his 82 first-team All-Americans The All-America designation is an annual honor bestowed on outstanding athletes in the United States who are considered to be among the best athletes in their respective sport. Individuals receiving this distinction are typically added to an Al ..., 42 played under Touchstone.''2009 Army Lacrosse Media Guide'' Army Athletic Communications, United States Milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchstone File
A Touchstone file was originally a proprietary file format for the eponymous frequency-domain linear circuit simulator from EEsof, launched in 1984 and acquired by HP. The simulator has been called HP/EEsof, then its engine has been successively included in the jOmega and ADS software suites and it is now owned by Keysight. The Touchstone simulator has long since been superseded, but its file format lives on. A Touchstone file (also known as an S''n''P file after its set of file extensions) is an ASCII text file used for documenting the ''n''-port network parameter data and noise data of linear active devices, passive filters, passive devices, or interconnect networks. An example of the format of the S-parameter section is given in the article about S-parameter Scattering parameters or S-parameters (the elements of a scattering matrix or S-matrix) describe the electrical behavior of linear electrical networks when undergoing various steady state stimuli by electrical signal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchstone (magazine)
''Touchstone'' is a bimonthly conservative ecumenical Christian publication of the Fellowship of St. James. It is subtitled ''A Journal of Mere Christianity'', which replaced ''A Journal of Ecumenical Orthodoxy''. ''Touchstone'' was started in 1986 as a Chicago-area newsletter and gradually expanded into a quarterly, and is currently published six times a year. It covers matters related to Christianity, culture, literature, secularism, and world affairs. The subtitle of the journal is a reference to C. S. Lewis' concept of " mere Christianity". The publication describes its approach as both theologically conservative and ecumenical Ecumenism ( ; alternatively spelled oecumenism)also called interdenominationalism, or ecumenicalismis the concept and principle that Christians who belong to different Christian denominations should work together to develop closer relationships .... It has won the Associated Church Press's Award of Excellence (first place) for journals f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchstone (horse)
Touchstone (1831–1861) was a British bred Thoroughbred racehorse and a leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland on four occasions. He was owned and bred by Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, who bought him for the low price, at the time, of 600 guineas at the insistence of his chief stud groom Mr. Thomas Nutting. Background He was a brown colt, foaled in 1831, by Camel, his dam was the good broodmare, Banter, by Master Henry. Touchstone was a full brother to the St. Leger Stakes winner, Launcelot (br c 1837).Bloodlines: Touchstone Retrieved on 2009-9-5 Touchstone was described as a "peculiar horse" (according to The Druid), with an unusual conformation including fleshy legs and a thickened front ankle. He was a frail foal with badly turned hocks that caused him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James M
James may refer to: People * James (given name) * James (surname) * James (musician), aka Faruq Mahfuz Anam James, (born 1964), Bollywood musician * James, brother of Jesus * King James (other), various kings named James * Prince James (other) * Saint James (other) Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Film and television * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * "James", a television episode of ''Adventure Time'' Music * James (band), a band from Manchester ** ''James'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Touchstone
James Touchstone (died December 14, 1872) was an American politician from Maryland. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Cecil County from 1868 to 1870. Career Touchstone was a Democrat. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the Maryland General Assembly, legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. It consists of 141 delegates elected from 47 districts. The House of Delegates Chamber is in the Maryland State House ..., representing Cecil County from 1868 to 1870. Touchstone wrote about politics in newspapers. He worked as a blacksmith. Personal life Touchstone lived in Port Deposit. His son was James M. Touchstone, who also served in the Maryland House of Delegates. He died on December 14, 1872, at the age of 56, in Port Deposit. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Touchstone, James Year of birth uncertain 1810s births 1872 deaths Politicians from Cecil County, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster LLC (, ) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA, Hachette, HarperCollins and Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster is considered one of the Big Five (publishers), 'Big Five' English language publishers. , Simon & Schuster was the third largest publisher in the United States, publishing 2,000 titles annually under 35 different Imprint (trade name), imprints. History Early years In 1924, Richard L. Simon, Richard Simon's aunt, a crossword puzzle enthusiast, asked whether there was a book of ''New York World'' crossword puzzles, which were popular at the time. After discovering that none had been published, Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster, Max Schuster decided to launch a company to exploit the opportunity.Frederick Lewis Allen, ''Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s'', p. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
