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Polaris (Lorna Dane) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Arnold Drake and artist Jim Steranko , the character first appeared in The X-Men #49 (October 1968). [ 1 ]
Polari (from Italian parlare 'to talk') is a form of slang or cant historically used primarily in the United Kingdom by some actors, circus and fairground performers, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals and sex workers, and particularly among the gay subculture.
Polaris, the GPU architecture featured in AMD's Radeon RX 400 and RX 500 series; Polaris, an integrated library system from Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Polaris, a port of Solaris to PowerPC; Polaris, the development codename for Windows Media Player 11; Polaris Office, office suite that runs on mobile platforms
The single entered the Hot Country Singles chart, and peaked at number twenty-four. [10] The song was included as the title track of the album The Party's Over and Other Great Willie Nelson Songs. [11] The song was later popularized by former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith, who in the 1970s was a color analyst on ABC's Monday Night ...
Northern Hemisphere circumpolar stars around Polaris, with a long-exposure producing a star trail photo. A pole star is a visible star that is approximately aligned with the axis of rotation of an astronomical body; that is, a star whose apparent position is close to one of the celestial poles.
Polaris began developing a smaller consumer-sized, front-engine snowmobile to compete with the Ski-Doo in the early 1960s. In 1964, Polaris released the Comet. However, the Comet soon ran into problems as it could not travel in all types of snow conditions. Polaris then recalled the sleds and quickly developed a new prototype to avoid ...
Fly Me to Polaris: Nominated Best Actress: Cheung Pak Chi: Nominated Best New Performer: Won Richie Jen: Nominated Best Cinematography: Jingle Ma, Chan Kwok-Hung: Nominated Best Original Film Score Peter Kam: Won Best Original Film Song Song: Xing Yu Xin Yuan (星語心願) Composer: Peter Kam Lyricist: Ko Suet-nam Singer: Cecilia Cheung Won ...
Polaris Aa, the supergiant primary component, is a low-amplitude Population I classical Cepheid variable, although it was once thought to be a type II Cepheid due to its high galactic latitude. Cepheids constitute an important standard candle for determining distance, so Polaris, as the closest such star, [10] is heavily studied.