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1CC Abbreviation of one-credit completion or one-coin clear. To complete an arcade (or arcade-style) game without using continues. [1]1-up An object that gives the player an extra life (or attempt) in games where the player has a limited number of chances to complete a game or level.
Steve is a player character from the 2011 sandbox video game Minecraft.Created by Swedish video game developer Markus "Notch" Persson and introduced in the original 2009 Java-based version, Steve is the first and the original default skin available for players of contemporary versions of Minecraft.
The English word is both a noun and an adjective; from Latin adamans 'impregnable, diamondlike hardness; very firm/resolute position', from Greek adamastos 'untameable' (hence also the word diamond). Adamant or adamantine (suffix -ine 'of the nature of' or 'made of') occur in many works.
41 of the 118 known elements have names associated with, or specifically named for, places around the world or among astronomical objects. 32 of these have names tied to the places on Earth, and the other nine are named after to Solar System objects: helium for the Sun; tellurium for the Earth; selenium for the Moon; mercury (indirectly), uranium, neptunium and plutonium after their respective ...
A-type star In the Harvard spectral classification system, a class of main-sequence star having spectra dominated by Balmer absorption lines of hydrogen. Stars of spectral class A are typically blue-white or white in color, measure between 1.4 and 2.1 times the mass of the Sun, and have surface temperatures of 7,600–10,000 kelvin.
a star over a wheel [67] 26 Proserpina [76] U+1CECD (dec 118477) a pomegranate with a star inside it [76] 28 Bellona [77] U+1CECE (dec 118478) Bellona's whip / morning star and spear [77] 29 Amphitrite [91] U+1CECF (dec 118479) a "shell". [80] There is no mention of a star in the original description, but the only 19th-century ...
Star Trek: New Worlds: 2000 2021 Windows Real-time strategy: Binary Asylum Source code from a prototype build was uploaded to archive.org in 2021. [229] Star Wars: 1983 2021 Arcade Rail shooter: Atari, Inc. During 13–16 October 2021, Jason Scott uploaded to GitHub 78 repositories containing source code to several Atari arcade games. [230]
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...