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VBS Silo
VBS may refer to: * Brescia Airport's IATA airport code; * Vacation Bible School; * Valley Beth Shalom, a synagogue in Encino, California, US; * Value breakdown structure in project management; * .vbs, the file extension for VBScript scripts; * VBScript, a programming language developed by Microsoft; * VBS.tv, the broadband video network of ''Vice'' magazine; * Vereinigte Breslauer Sportfreunde, a defunct German football club; * Vetting and Barring Scheme of the Independent Safeguarding Authority, UK; * Vividh Bharati Service, an Indian radio channel; * VBS Mutual Bank, a defunct South African mutual bank; * Video Baseband Signal, an unmodulated analog B/W video signal used e.g., by the Composite Video standard; * Virtualization Based Security, a feature of the Microsoft Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brescia Airport
Brescia "Gabriele D'Annunzio" Airport ( it, Aeroporto di Brescia, ), also known as Montichiari Airport, is located in Montichiari, southeast of City of Brescia, Italy. Other nearby airports are Milan-Malpensa, Milan-Linate, Bergamo Orio al Serio and Verona-Villafranca. History The airport is on the site of Italy's first air race meeting in September 1909, and the first outside France. The meeting was attended by the aviators Louis Blériot and Glenn Curtiss, among others. Gabriele D'Annunzio flew in one of Curtiss's planes and drew on the experience of the meeting in his novel ''Forse che sì forse che no'' (1910). Franz Kafka and Max Brod also attended and separately published accounts. Ryanair operated scheduled flights to and from London Stansted Airport and Cagliari-Elmas Airport until the end of October 2010, when the airline decided to move these flights to the nearby Verona-Villafranca Airport Verona Villafranca Airport , also known as Valerio Catullo Airpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vacation Bible School
Vacation Bible School (VBS) is a religious term usually used to represent a week long event in the summer. History The origins of Vacation Bible School can be traced back to Hopedale, Illinois in 1894. Sunday school teacher D. T. Miles, who also was a public school teacher, felt she was limited by time constraints in teaching the Bible to children. So, she started a daily Bible school to teach children during the summer. The first Bible school enrolled forty students and lasted four weeks. A local school was used for classes, while an adjoining park was used for recess. In 1898, Virginia Sinclair Hawes (often identified as "Mrs. Walker Aylett Hawes"), director of the children's department at Epiphany Baptist Church in New York City, started an "Everyday Bible School" for neighborhood children during the summer at a rented beer parlor in New York's East Side. There is a bronze plaque honoring her efforts located in her hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia in the foyer of First Bap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
