Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Vendo Company is a large retailer of cold beverage vending machines. Founded in 1937 in Kansas City, Missouri and now based in Dallas, Texas, Vendo is one of the largest manufacturers of vending machines in the world. Before there were coin-operated vending machines, soda bottles were distributed from coolers packed with ice, and payment was based on the honor system. Capitalizing on the lack of effective payment collection, brothers Elmer F. and John T Pierson of Kansas City developed a coin-operated locking lid to be placed on common ice chests. This, in effect, created the first vending machine. The brothers continued to develop this technology after establishing The Vendo Company in...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The simple station Venecia is part of the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogota, Colombia, opened in the year 2000. The station is located in southern Bogota, specifically on Autopista Sur with Carrera 54A. It serves the Venecia and Fatima neighborhoods. This station was opened April 15, 2006 as part of the section between the stations General Santander and Portal del Sur of the NQS line. The station is named Venecia due to the neighborhood of the same name that lies to the south. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venecia is the proprietary name for a fabric manufactured in Korea. It was introduced in about 2005 and is a blend of 92% nylon and 8% spandex. It has become popular due to more desirable characteristics such as a cooler feel to the skin and wrinkle resistant. It is a relatively thin, dense, stretchy latex with polyester or nylon fibers. In 2007 Venecia fabrics became very popular for women's dresses, tops and lingerie. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The veneer saw is a small double-edged tool for cutting thin hardwood veneer. Its narrow curved blade facilitates precision work, and its elevated offset handle makes it possible to cut flush with a surface. The blade is usually 3 or 4 inches long and it has 13 tpi (teeth per inch). A similarly shaped tool, known as a French flush-cut saw is designed for trimming the ends of dowels, tenons, and other protrusions flush with a surface. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venetian Arena is an indoor sporting arena located on the premises the The Venetian Macao on the Cotai Strip, in the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. It has a seating capacity of 15,000 and opened in 2007. It hosts concerts, such as Avril Lavigne, Beyonce, The Pussycat Dolls, Celine Dion, The Police Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-3-6399-4177-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Veneto is a wine region in north-eastern Italy, one of a group of three highly productive Italian regions known collectively as the Venezie (after the ancient Venetian Republic) and the biggest DOC producer of the three. Although the Venezie collectively produce more red wine than white, the Veneto region produces more whites under DOC and is home to the famous Soave wines. The region is protected from the harsh northern European climate by the Alps, the foothills of which form the Veneto's northern extremes. These cooler climes are well-suited to white varieties like Garganega (the main grape for Soave wines) while the warmer Adriatic coastal plains and river valleys are where the renowned...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venetie Airport (IATA: VEE, ICAO: PAVE, FAA LID: VEE) is a public use airport located in Venetie, in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is privately owned by the Venetie Tribal Government.Venetie Airport has one runway designated 4/22 with a gravel and dirt surface measuring 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,900 aircraft operations, an average of 158 per month: 79% air taxi and 21% general aviation. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venetian glass is a type of glass object made in Venice, Italy, primarily on the island of Murano. It is world-renowned for being colorful, elaborate, and skillfully made. Many of the important characteristics of these objects had been developed by the thirteenth century. Toward the end of that century, the center of the Venetian glass industry moved to Murano. Byzantine craftsmen played an important role in the development of Venetian glass, an art form for which the city is well-known. When Constantinople was sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, some fleeing artisans came to Venice. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) was a "shipyard", a number of state owned shipyards and armories and naval depot of munitions and storage facilities clustered together and located in Venice, northern Italy. It was the largest industrial complex in Europe prior to the Industrial Revolution, spanning an area of about 45 ha (110 acres) or fifteen percent of Venice. Surrounded by a 2 mi (3.2 km) rampart and its construction commencing in 1104 when Venice was a republic, a gated community of three thousand labourers and shipbuilders regularly worked in a number of shipyards within the Arsenal, building ships that sailed from the city's port. Данное издание не...
ISBN: 978-3-6399-4197-5
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Venetia Diamond Mine is South Africa's largest producer of diamonds. It is situated close to the South African town of Alldays in the Limpopo province and is located within the 360 km Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve. The open-pit mine is one of De Beers' six remaining diamond mines in South Africa and the only major diamond mine to be developed in the country during the past 25 years. As such, the mine represents one of De Beers' single biggest investments in South Africa. The mine was opened in 1992 by Harry Oppenheimer, a former De Beers chairman. In 2004 the mine had 955 employees and recovered 7,187,300 carats (1437.5 kg) of diamonds from 5,871,000 metric tons of ore. Данное...
ISBN: 978-3-6399-4075-6
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venezia Santa Lucia is the only railway station on the island of Venice, Italy. Mestre station is on the other side of the Ponte della Liberta (Freedom Bridge) on the mainland. The station is a modern structure compared to the historical buildings surrounding it, and was built on the site of the Santa Lucia church from which its name is derived. It is connected to the rest of Venice through the Vaporetto (public water bus) or private taxi boats. The station is the terminus of the Venice Simplon Orient Express. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venezia is a metro station currently under construction on Line C of the Rome Metro system. Part of the third phase of the line, it is expected to open in 2015. It will become an interchange station when Line D is completed by 2020.Venezia station will be located underneath the Piazza Venezia, a large square in Pigna, rione IX of Rome. Upon its completion, it will be the closest station to the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, the Roman Forum, and the Capitoline Hill.Construction for Venezia station began in 2009 with a series of excavations. During these digs, archaeologists unearthed pieces of the Emperor Hadrian's Athaenium. Данное издание не является...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! VenFin is an active private equity and venture capital investor focusing on high growth investment opportunities. The company has assets in excess of $1.1 billion spanning the telecommunications, software, energy and media sectors. VenFin also has selected fund and direct investments in China. Prior to 1 January 2006, VenFin was listed on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) with its largest investment being a 15% stake in Vodacom Group (Pty) Ltd, South Africa's largest mobile network operator. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-3-6399-5591-0
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Vengeur-class ships of the line were a class of forty 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy as a joint effort between the Surveyors of the Navy at the time. The Vengeur, sometimes referred to as the Surveyors' class of third rates, amongst other names, was the most numerous class of ships of the line ever built for the Navy. Due to some dubious practices, primarily in the commercial dockyards used for construction, this class of ships earned itself the nickname of 'Forty Thieves.' Around 1845 a number of these ships were converted into 'blockships', the current term for floating batteries, equipped with a steam/screw propulsion system. In this guise some of them saw action during...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Venice-Simplon Orient Express is a private luxury train service that travels from London to Venice that is popularly referred to as the Orient Express. The original company was founded by James Sherwood in 1982; five years earlier, in 1977, he purchased two of the original carriages at the auction when the Compagnie International des Wagons-Lits withdrew from the Orient Express service, passing on the service to the national railways of France, Germany, and Austria. Over the next few years, he spent a total of $16 million purchasing 35 sleeper, restaurant and Pullman carriages. On 25 May 1982, the first London-Venice run was made. Данное издание не является...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venice/Robertson Station is a future elevated light rail station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system. It will be located at the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Robertson Boulevard in Culver City. When it opens, this station will be served by the Expo Line: it will be the line's western terminus until Expo Phase 2 to Santa Monica is completed.This station is currently under construction as part of Expo Phase 1. It is expected to open in 2011.Venice/Robertson is located in Culver City on former rail right-of-way in Exposition Boulevard, between the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Robertson Boulevard on the west, and the intersection of Washington Boulevard and National Boulevard...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venice Marco Polo Airport (IATA: VCE, ICAO: LIPZ) is an airport located on the Italian mainland 4.3 NM (8.0 km; 4.9 mi) north of Venice, Italy, in Tessera, a frazione of the comune of Venice nearest to Mestre. The airport was named after the Venetian traveller Marco Polo, who is considered the European rediscoverer of China. With 6.717.600 passengers having passed through the airport in 2009, it is the fifth Italian airport in terms of air traffic. A modern terminal, opened in 2002 but already close to its full capacity, hosts all scheduled and charter flights, including some long-haul flights to the Middle East and North America. Данное издание не является...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta or Venkatanarasimha Rajuvaripet is a railway station in Andhra Pradesh on the border with Tamil Nadu, India with the distinction of having the longest name among all stations on the Indian Railway system. It is on the Renigunta-Arakkonam section of Southern Railway. Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta is sometimes referred to with the prefix "Sri" making the name longer by 3 letters. In railway parlance this is a flag station. It is unsignalled and passenger trains halt here. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venky Harinarayan is a web and technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Cambrian Ventures and Kosmix. Harinarayan also co-founded Junglee Corp. and played a significant role at Amazon.com in the late 1990s.Originally from Bombay, India, Harinarayan has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Madras (Class of 1988). While at Stanford, Harinarayan co-wrote a paper on implementing data cubes with Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman, which is among the top 600 most cited computer science articles over the last 20 years. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venlo is the railway station for the city of Venlo in the province of Limburg, The Netherlands. The first station in Venlo was opened on November 21, 1865. The current building dates to 1958 and is a typical Dutch station of the post-war era, featuring a clock tower and a large canopy spanning the front of the station. There is a bus station for regional and city buses in front of the station, as well as a car park. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venn Cross railway station served isolated villages on the borders of Devon and Somerset to the west of Wiveliscombe. It was on the Devon and Somerset Railway that ran between Taunton and Barnstaple. The Devon and Somerset was operated by the Bristol and Exeter Railway and was taken over with the B Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Vennbahn is a former railway line that was built partly across German territory, but is now entirely in Belgium, because the trackbed of the line, as well as the stations and other installations, were made Belgian territory in 1919 under a provision of the Treaty of Versailles. This had the effect of creating about five small exclaves of Germany on the line's western side (the exact number varies according to source). Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vennesla Station (Norwegian: Vennesla stasjon) is a railway station located at Vennesla, Norway on S rlandsbanen. The station is served by express trains operated by Norges Statsbaner to Oslo and Kristiansand.The station was opened in 1895 as part of Setesdalsbanen. In 1935 it became part of S rlandsbanen when it was extended from Neslandsvatn Station to Kristiansand Station. Setesdalsbanen has since closed and has been converted to a heritage railway. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vensecar Internacional is a cargo airline based in Caracas, Venezuela. It operates scheduled cargo services. The airline was established in 1996. It is owned by Jose Henrique D'Apollo (51%) and DHL (49%).Vensecar Internacional operates freight services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Aruba, Barbados, Bogota, Curacao, Miami, Panama City, Port of Spain, and Santo Domingo. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In submarine technology a vent is a valve fitted to the top of a submarine's ballast tanks to let air escape from the top of the ballast tank and be replaced by water entering through the open Kingston valves at the bottom of the tank. When on the surface a submarine's ballast tanks are filled with air which gives the vessel its buoyancy and in order for the submarine to submerge water is taken into the ballast tanks through the open Kingston valves in the bottom of the tanks, effacing this excess buoyancy. As the ballast tanks contain air when on the surface it is necessary to allow this air to escape, so that water may then enter the tanks, and this air is allowed to escape via the opened...
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