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British Polar Engines is a manufacturer of diesel engines based in Glasgow, Scotland. The company has over seventy years' experience in the manufacture and supply of spare parts for diesel engines. The engine and company take their name from the engine supplied to Amundsen's Fram, from which he conquered the South Pole.
In 1881, the Signal Corps participated in the First International Polar Year. One of the groups under the command of LT Adolphus Greely was to write another grueling chapter of suffering and extinction in the history of the Arctic. Greely's Signal Corps volunteers became separated from their base camp and were marooned on a huge ice floe.
Polar point group, a symmetry in geometry and crystallography; Pole and polar (a point and a line), a construction in geometry Polar cone; Polar coordinate system, uses a central point and angles; Polar curve (a point and a curve), a generalization of a point and a line; Polar set, with respect to a bilinear pairing of vector spaces
Cranky Kong refers to Donkey Kong as his son in Donkey Kong 64 [26] and in the manual, [27] but the manuals for Donkey Kong Country, [28] [29] Donkey Kong Land, [30] and Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest [31] state that Cranky is the original Donkey Kong and grandfather of the game's titular character. [32]
Polar Storm (also known as Pole Reversal) is a 2009 American-Canadian made-for-television science fiction-disaster-thriller film that was written and directed by Paul Ziller and was aired on the Sci-Fi Channel on March 28, 2009.
The BMW initially performed well until it came last in the evaluation test, revealing badly repaired accident damage. Finally, the presenters went to a circuit, where the cars were lapped by the Stig's German cousin. Two unbroadcast challenges gave points for each viewing of a track day video uploaded to YouTube, and an economy run. [9]
Polar Knowledge Canada is a departmental corporation of the Government of Canada under the Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) portfolio.. It is responsible for monitoring, promoting, and disseminating knowledge of the polar regions (both Arctic and Antarctic), contributing to public awareness of the importance of polar science to Canada, enhancing Canada's ...
A polar-ring galaxy is a type of galaxy with an outer ring of gas and stars that rotates over the poles of the galaxy. [1] These polar rings are thought to form when two galaxies gravitationally interact with each other. One possibility is that a material is tidally stripped from a passing galaxy to produce the polar ring. [2]