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Wack (other)
Wack or Whack may refer to: People * Gerhard Wack (born 1945), German politician * Henry Wack (1875-1955), attorney, author, and apologist for Leopold II's misrule of the Congo Free State * Pierre Wack (1922–1997), a French oil executive who was the first to develop the use of scenario planning in the private sector * Tierra Whack (born 1995), an American rapper, singer, and songwriter Arts, entertainment, and media * WACK, a radio station in Newark, New York * ''WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution'', a feminist art exhibition and book * ''Whack'', a short-lived St. John Publications comic book (1953-54) * Whack Records * WACK, a Japanese music production company * Wack, a radio personality on 102.5 WIOG in Saginaw, MI, 2005-2010 Other uses * Wack, adjective, slang (from "whacked") for oppressive, crazy, stupid, poor quality, unfashionable. As a verb, it means to kill. * Slash symbol "/", sometimes known as a whack * Windows App Certification Kit (WACK) See also * WAC (disam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Wack
Gerhard Wack (born 21 August 1945) is a German politician. He served as the State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance of the federal state Saarland from 1999 to 2012. Born in Saarlouis, Wack studied law at Saarland University in Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S .... He is married and has a daughter. References 1945 births Living people 20th-century German politicians 21st-century German politicians Jurists from Saarland People from Saarlouis Political office-holders in Saarland Saarland University alumni {{Germany-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slash (punctuation)
The slash is the oblique slanting line punctuation mark . Also known as a stroke, a solidus or several other historical or technical names including oblique and virgule. Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, exclusive 'or' and inclusive 'or', and as a date separator. A slash in the reverse direction is known as a backslash. History Slashes may be found in early writing as a variant form of dashes, vertical strokes, etc. The present use of a slash distinguished from such other marks derives from the medieval European virgule ( la, virgula, which was used as a period, scratch comma, and caesura mark. (The first sense was eventually lost to the low dot and the other two developed separately into the comma and caesura mark ) Its use as a comma became especially widespread in France, where it was also used to mark the continuation of a word onto the next line of a page, a sense later taken on by the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacker (other)
Wacker may refer to: People *Wacker von Wackenfels *The Whacker, poker player Garry Bush's nickname *Wacker (surname) * ''Wacker'', a colloquial term for an inhabitant of Liverpool, England; a partial synonym for "scouser" Places *Wacker (Heve), a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany *Wacker, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Illinois, United States *Wacker Township, McPherson County, South Dakota, United States *Ward Cove, Alaska, United States, also called Wacker, an unincorporated community in Ketchikan Gateway Borough *Wacker Drive, a street in Chicago, Illinois, United States Companies *Wacker Chemie, Munich, Germany *Wacker Neuson, Munich, Germany Sports Austria *FC Admira Wacker Mödling, a football club from Mödling *FC Wacker Innsbruck, a defunct association football club from Innsbruck *FC Wacker Innsbruck (2002), an existing association football club from Innsbruck Germany *Wacker 04 Berlin, a former football club based in Berlin *Wacker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacke
Greywacke or graywacke (German ''grauwacke'', signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix. It is a texturally immature sedimentary rock generally found in Paleozoic strata. The larger grains can be sand- to gravel-sized, and matrix materials generally constitute more than 15% of the rock by volume. The term "greywacke" can be confusing, since it can refer to either the immature (rock fragment) aspect of the rock or its fine-grained (clay) component. The origin of greywacke was unknown until turbidity currents and turbidites were understood, since, according to the normal laws of sedimentation, gravel, sand and mud should not be laid down together. Geologists now attribute its formation to submarine avalanches or strong turbidity currents. These actions churn sediment and cause mix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whac-A-Mole
Whac-A-Mole is an arcade game, originally known as or in Japan. A typical Whac-A-Mole machine consists of a waist-level cabinet with a play area and display screen, and a large, soft, black mallet. Five holes in the play area top are filled with small, plastic, cartoonish moles, which pop up at random. Points are scored by whacking each mole as it appears. The faster the reaction, the higher the score. Play The cabinet has a three-digit readout of the current player's score and, on later models, a "best score of the day" readout. The mallet is usually attached to the game by a rope to prevent it from being stolen. Current versions of Whac-A-Mole include three displays for Bonus Score, High Score, and the current game score. Home versions, distributed by Bob's Space Racers, have one display with the current score. If the player does not strike a mole within a certain time or with enough force, it eventually sinks back into its hole with no score. Although gameplay starts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAC (other)
WAC may refer to: Arts * Walker Art Center, a modern art museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota * Walton Arts Center, a performing arts center in Fayetteville, Arkansas * Warwick Arts Centre, at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England Science * WAC (gene) * Welsh Agricultural College * World Archaeological Congress * World Association of Copepodologists * World Agroforestry Centre Sports * FAI World Aerobatic Championships * Washington Athletic Club located in Seattle, Washington * Western Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division I affiliated college athletics conference * Wiener AC, an Austrian sports club * Wolfsberger AC, an Austrian football club * Wydad AC, a Moroccan sports club Transport * Wan Chai station, Hong Kong, by MTR station code * Warrington Central railway station, England, by National Rail station code2 Other * WAC Corporal, the first U.S. sounding rocket * Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, extension of Virginia Tech * Waste Acceptance Cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for servers, and Windows IoT for embedded systems. Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone. The first version of Windows was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Windows is the most popular desktop operating system in the world, with 75% market share , according to StatCounter. However, Windows is not the most used operating system when including both mobile and desktop OSes, due to Android's massive growth. , the most recent version of Windows is Windows 11 for consumer PCs and tablets, Windows 11 Enterprise for corporations, and Windows Server 2022 for servers. Genealogy By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slang
Slang is vocabulary (words, phrases, and usage (language), linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in spoken conversation but avoided in formal writing. It also sometimes refers to the language generally exclusive to the members of particular In-group and out-group, in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both. The word itself came about in the 18th century and has been defined in multiple ways since its conception. Etymology of the word ''slang'' In its earliest attested use (1756), the word ''slang'' referred to the vocabulary of "low" or "disreputable" people. By the early nineteenth century, it was no longer exclusively associated with disreputable people, but continued to be applied to usages below the level of standard educated speech. In Scots dialect it meant "talk, chat, gossip", as used by Aberdeen poet William Scott in 1832: "The slang gaed on aboot their war'ly care." In northern English dialect it meant "impertinence, abusiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wack
Henry Wellington Wack (1875 – 18 December 1954) was an American attorney and writer noted for being an apologist for Leopold II's regime of the Congo Free State. Wack was an attorney for a pharmaceutical company who became a paid advocate of the Congo Free State, who however endeavoured to ensure he appeared as an impartial observer.Hochschild, Adam: ''King Leopold's Ghost'', Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Whereas King Leopold II had been able to impose tariffs on businesses operating in the Congo, Wack successfully advocated opening up business opportunities to such tycoons as J. P. Morgan, Thomas Fortune Ryan and John D. Rockefeller Jr. met with the King following from this. Publications * ''The Romance of Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet'', by Henry Wellington Wack; with an introduction by François Coppée New York London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1905) * ''In Thamseland; being the gossiping record of rambles through England from the source of the Thames to the sea, with casual stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WACK (music Company)
WACK () is a Japanese music production company specialising in alternative idols. The company was founded by Junnosuke Watanabe in 2014, following the first disbandment of Bis and the formation of Pla2me. History 2014–2016: Establishment, formation of Bish, and second generation of Bis WACK was established by Junnosuke Watanabe on August 3, 2014, after the dissolution of the first generation of Bis and the formation of Pla2me. On January 14, 2015, the formation of Bish was announced. Bish released their debut studio album, '' Brand-New Idol Shit'', on May 27. On July 8, 2016, the relaunch of Bis was announced with the return of original member Pour Lui. The second generation of Bis released their debut studio album, '' Brand-new idol Society 2'', on November 16. 2017–2018: Formation of Empire, shuffle units, and Pedro On August 23, 2017, the formation of Empire, a collaboration group between WACK and Avex, was revealed, their first song "Empire Is Coming" was released o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whack Records
Whack Records is an independent record label founded by members of Australian dance group, Sneaky Sound System, Daimon Downey and Angus McDonald. Artists *Sneaky Sound System Discography Numbers Whack Numbers WHACK numbers are a system by which official Sneaky Sound System releases are chronologically ordered (much like that of Nine Inch Nails' Halo system). They correspond to the sequence in which the releases were made, and are named by the word "WHACK," which precedes the number on the release. WHACK numbers are sometimes modified for alternate versions of a release, such as the multiple releases of ''Sneaky Sound System''. Promotional-only releases do not have their own WHACK numbers. ;''Sneaky Sound System'' era (2004–2007) * WHACK01 – " Hip Hip Hooray" * WHACK02 – " Tease Me" * WHACK03 – " I Love It" ** * WHACK04 – ''Sneaky Sound System'' ** WHACK04X - ''Sneaky Sound System - Bonus Tracks'' ** WHACK04CE - ''Sneaky Sound System - Collector's Edition'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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