Chevy Chase is the name of a celebrated British Border ballad, which is probably founded on some actual encounter which took place between its heroes, Percy and Douglas, although the incidents mentioned in it are not historical. On account of the similarity of the incidents in this ballad to those of The Battle of Otterbourne, the two ballads have often been confounded; but the probability is that if any historical event is celebrated at all in the ballad of Chevy Chase, it is different from that celebrated in The Battle of Otterbourne, and that the similarity between the two ballads is to be explained by supposing that many of the events of the former were borrowed from the latter. There are two versions of the ballad bearing the name of Chevy Chase, an older one, originally called The Hunting of the Cheviot, and a more modem one. From the fact that the older version is mentioned in the Complaynt of Scotland, written in 1548, it is clear that it was known in Scotland before that time. The age of the more modern version is believed to be no later than the reign of Charles II. This is the version which forms the subject of the critique by Addison in numbers 70 and 74 of the Spectator. Research Chevy Chase
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (first Baron Acton) was a British historian. He was born in 1834 at Naples and died in 1902. He was the son of Richard Acton (seventhbaronet) and the daughter of the Duke of Dalberg, afterwards the wife of Earl Granville, Gladstone's colleague. As a Roman Catholic he was educated at Oscott, and afterwards on the Continent, partly under Dotlinger, and acquired a special taste for and profound knowledge of history. He conducted the Home and Foreign Review in 1862-64, and, in doing so, showed himself a strong opponent of ultramontane pretensions. He next edited the North British Review, which under him was rather overweighted with learning, and soon came to an end.
In 1869 he was raised to the peerage. He strongly opposed the papal-infallibility movement, and took the side of Gladstone in his attacks on Vaticanism. In 1895 he accepted the professorship of modern history at Cambridge, delivered lectures, and planned and undertook the editorship of the great work on modemhistory, comprising a series of volumes by various scholars, and issued from the university press. Except essays, letters, or articles for periodicals, he himself wrote little. His library of 60,000 volumes he left to Morley, who handed it over to the University of Cambridge. Research John Acton
A mortar is a machine for projecting a bomb via a high trajectory at a remote target. Mortars are believed to have been first used at Naples in 1435, and the first was made in England in 1543. A modem mortar bomb is stabilized in flight by means of tail fins. The high trajectory results in a high angle of attack and makes mortars more suitable than artillery for use in built-up areas or mountains; mortars are not as accurate, however. Artillery also differs in firing a projectile through a rifled barrel, thus creating greater muzzle velocity.
Mortars began to be developed when the trench lines came into use in the Great War, so that missiles could be pitched into the enemy trenches. The German minenwerfer was an early and complex design, but the archetypal early mortar was the British Stokes Gun designed by Sir Wilfrid Stokes in 1915. This simple trenchhowitzer was a tube with a fixed firing pin at the bottom end, into which a bomb carrying a blankshotguncartridge and some smokeless powder was dropped. The cartridge hit the pin, ignited the powder, and blew the bomb from the barrel.
Mortars are generally classified as light (with a calibre up to 60 mm, and a maximum range of 500 to 2000 meters); medium (with a calibre between 60 mm and 100 mm and a maximum range of 2000 to 6000 meters) and heavy (with a calibre in excess of 100 mm and a maximum range typically up to 9000 meters). Research Mortar
The Axis PC is a computer from Atlantic Systems based upon the 333mhz Intel Celeron Processor and supplied with 64 mb of RAM, a 4.3 gb hard drive, an ATI 4 mb 3d AGP graphics card, CD-ROM player, sound card, 3.5 inch floppy disk drive and a 56K voice and faxmodem. Research Axis PC
Broadband is a generic term for non-dial-up modem internet access. The term confusingly includes aDSL, DSL and cable connections. Broadband connections are often asynchronous - the rate of sending data is not the same as the rate at which data is received - and sometimes suffer from 'contention' where multiple subscribers share a physical connection, the available data transfer being shared equally between the connected users. Contention occurs throughout the Internet, but can be particularly noticeable on DSL type broadband connections where additional contention occurs closer to the user. Research Broadband
Crosstalk XVI is a flexible menu or command-driven communication program that links your PC to any other PC, minicomputer, mainframe, or subscription information service.
Crosstalk XVI has full support for auto-dial and auto-answer modems and works as a smart terminal that emulates most popular dumb terminals. It can transfer data and programs using popular error-checking protocols such as XMODEM and KERMIT. Because all important communications parameters are available on the main status screen, you can view a single screen instead of searching through layers of screens to change particular parameters. Incoming data can be routed to any display, printer, or disk. Data can be sent from the keyboard or a disk file. The screen display shows characters sent and received by the modem and whether the modem is on or offline. The product stores and transmits login information and commands to a remote system, and public databases such as CompuServe Research Crosstalk XVI
In telecommunications, HSP (Host Signal Processor) is a modem that depends on the hostCPU (the Pentium, PowerPC, etc., in the main computer) for part or most of the data processing. Research HSP
Just The Fax is a personal faxcomputer program for the PC that creates, sends, and receives faxes. Create faxes and cover sheets using a WYSIWYG editor. You can have incoming faxes announced by customizing the program with an optional sound file. Put together a library of cover sheet templates easily, and maintain a phone number database for frequently used numbers. With this version, you can use the latest fax technology, including fax-modem auto detection. Research Just The Fax
Modem is a contraction of the term Modulator/Demodulator. It is a device that modulates and demodulates signals on and off a 'carrier' frequency. It is not limited to computer data use, thus the telco-specific term 'data set' for data modems. Research Modem
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