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Look up: Amb-

  1. AMB
    `Amb` or `AMB` may refer to *Advanced Memory Buffer, used in Fully Buffered DIMM memory *Amb (princely state), a South Asian region *Ambassador *Active magnetic bearing *Axe Murder Boyz, a two-man rap group Otis & Bonez Dubb *Ate my balls, a relatively early example of an Internet meme *AMB Property Corporation, from its ticker symbol *Ambergate railway station, from its National Rail code *Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, one of the armed sections of...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMB

  2. Amb
    small frontier state, central North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. It became part of Pakistan in 1947. Amb has an area of 27 square miles (70 ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/56

  3. AMB
    Ambient
    Found on http://www3.sympatico.ca/dhaughey/j1930.

  4. AMB Generali
    `AMB Generali Holding AG` is a German holding company consisting of about 20 insurance companies. It is the second largest insurance comany in Germany after Allianz. It is headquartered in Aachen. Companies AMB Genarali owns include AachenMünchener, CosmosDirekt, Volksfürsorge Versicherungsgruppe. The company is 85% owned by the Italian group Assicurazioni Generali.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMB_General

  5. Amb Mt
    (from the article `South Asian arts`) Garab, meaning a votive pot, is the best known religious dance of Gujart. It is danced by a group of 50 to 100 women every year for nine nights in ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/57

  6. Amb-
    • Alt. of Ambi-
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. Amb-, Ambi-
    Amb-, Am·bi- [ Latin prefix ambi- , amb- , akin to Greek ..., Sanskrit abhi , Anglo-Saxon embe , emb , Old High German umbi , umpi , German um , and also Latin ambo both. Confer Amphi- , Both , By .] A prefix meaning about , around ; -- used in words derived from the Latin.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/66

  8. AMBA
    AMBA is an abbreviation for Association of Master of Business Administration
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  9. AMBA
    `AMBA` is an acronym that may refer to: *Association of MBAs *Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture - De facto standard for for 32-bit embedded processors and System-on-a-chip designs *`AMBA` is a music production and recording alias of Tom Middleton UK. *`ÃÂ?rea Metropolitana de Buenos Aires` (Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area) ` see Gran Buenos Aires. *AMBA (Mumiy Troll album), a 2007 album by the Russian music group Mumiy Troll
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMBA

  10. Amba
    `Amba` (meaning `mother` in Sanskrit) is another name for Goddess Durga or Parvati, consort of Lord Shiva. `Amba` was the eldest daughter of King of Kashi in the Hindu epic of the Mahabharata. Along with her sisters Ambika and Ambalika, she was taken by force by Bhishma from their Swayamvara. (Bhishma challenged the assembled Kings and Princes and defeated them.) He presented them to Satyavati for marriage to Vichitravirya, the king of Hastinap...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amba

  11. Amba
    (from the article `Ruwenzori Range`) The Ruwenzori is economically important for copper and cobalt deposits, mined at Kilembe, Uganda. Hydropower for mining is provided by the Mubuku, ... Few ethnographically known tribes possess all the characteristics of the ideal, or model, tribe. The Amba of Uganda are considered to be one tribe ......
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/57

  12. amba
    (from the article `Eritrea`) ...and then capped by basalt (rock of volcanic origin). The upper layers have been highly dissected by deep gorges and river channels, forming small ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/57

  13. Amba Alagi
    Amba Alagi is a mountain in Ethiopia 129 km north of Magdala. It is 10000m high.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  14. Amba Alagi
    Mountain in Ethiopia where during World War II the occupying Italian forces under the Duke of Aosta made a last stand against the British-led invasion in May 1941. It was defended by 7,000 Italian...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  15. Amba Bongo
    `Amba Bongo` is a writer and advocate for refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo-(Kinshasa. Bongo had been involved in the Congolese Ministry of Education, but had to flee after 1991 because she denounced its corruption. She applied for asylum status in the United Kingdom soon after fleeing the Congo. Her novel `Une femme en exil` ISBN 2-7384-9705-5 came out in 2000. A second book, `Cécilia`, came out after that. She currently lives...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amba_Bongo

  16. Amba Geshen
    `Amba Geshen` is the name of a mountain in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia, northwest of Dessie, in what was the Amba Sel district of Wollo province. It is one of the mountains of Ethiopia where most of the male heirs to the Emperor of Ethiopia were interned, usually for life. It was the second of the three such mountains -- or `amba` -- said to have been used for this purpose, the other two being Debre Damo and Wehni. From some undetermined time...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amba_Geshen

  17. AMBA High-performance Bus
    `AHB` (Advanced High-performance Bus) is a bus protocol introduced in AMBA Specification version 2 published by ARM Ltd company. In addition to previous release, it has the following features: * single edge clock protocol * split transactions * several bus masters * burst transfers * pipelined operations * single-cycle bus master handover * non-tristate implementation * large bus-widths (64/128 bit) A simple transaction on the AHB consists of an...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMBA_High-p

  18. Amba language
    There are at least two languages known as `Amba`: *Amba language (Solomon Islands) *Amba language (Uganda)
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amba_langua

  19. AMBA specification
    The `Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture` was introduced in 1996 and is widely used as the on-chip bus for ARM processors. The first AMBA buses were Advanced System Bus (ASB) and Advanced Peripheral Bus (APB). In its 2nd version, ARM introduced AHB that is a single clock-edge protocol. This protocol is today a de-facto standard for 32-bit embedded processors because it is well documented and can be used without royalties. In 2003, ARM intro...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMBA_specif

  20. Ambac
    Is the holding company that provides financial guarantee insurance for both public and private sector clients. This insurance can improve credit ratings.
    Found on http://www.oasismanagement.com/glossary/

  21. AMBAC
    `AMBAC` may refer to: * Ambac Financial Group, American financial services company * Active Mass Balance Auto Control (fictional, Gundam), see Universal Century Technology
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMBAC

  22. AMBAC
    AMBAC Indemnity Corp. The number two-ranked municipal bond insurance company.
    Found on http://www.emuni.com/glossary.html

  23. Ambac Financial Group
    `Ambac Financial Group` is an American Insurer of bonds, including municipal bonds. `Ambac Financial Group, Inc.` is a holding company whose subsidiaries provide financial guarantee products and other financial services to clients in both the public and private sectors around the world. Through its financial services subsidiaries, the Company provides investment agreements, interest rate swaps, investment advisory and cash management services, p...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambac_Finan

  24. Ambachtsschool
    The `Ambachtsschool` (Jan Stuyt, 1913) is built of brick with distinctive layers of marl (a stone commonly found in the south of Limburg). The building is located on the `Burgemeester de Hesselleplein`, in Heerlen, Netherlands. However, when it was erected the square was still known as `Lindeplein`. The original building was much smaller then what we see today, it consisted only of the main entrance building with two wings. In 1917, 1920 and 192...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambachtssch

  25. Ambada
    `Ambada` is a census town in Chhindwara district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambada


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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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