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The Presta vale or French valve, is a popular and commonly used bicycle tyre valve. The Presta valve is a slim valve with a built-in captive-nut valve cap, which must be unscrewed before you can pump the tyre up. Since there is no spring in a Presta valve, valve nut must be tightened after inflating the tyre, or the air will escape out of the tyre.
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Vale is a name applied to a type of valley common in the lowlands of England. Usually it is a wide level-floored valley between hill ridges, with a scarp on one side and a gentle slope on the other. The Vale of Oxford lies between the scarp of the Chilterns and the gentle slope of the Cotswolds.
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David Cox was an English landscape painter. He was born in 1783 at Birmingham, and died in 1859. He was apprenticed to a locket and miniature painter. He travelled for two years with Macready as a scene painter and after 1801 settled at Dulwich near London and supported himself by teaching drawing. He joined the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1813 and was drawing master at Hereford from 1814 to 1826. Later he took up painting in oils, under the influence of the painter W. Muller. In 1841 he returned to Birmingham, and to the rest of his life belong his greatest paintings, both in water-colours and in oils. His works are chiefly English landscapes, and his pictures are now very highly valued. Among some that have brought high prices are The Vale of Clwyd, Peace and War, Going to the Hayfield, Going to Market, The Skylark, The Church at Bettws-y-Coed, The Sea-shore at Rhyl. Favid Cox ranks with John Constable and a few others as among the greatest English landscape-painters of the earlier period.
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Francis Danby was an English painter. He was born in 1793 near Wexford and died in 1861. He established his reputation in 1823 by his Sunset at Sea after a Storm; and in 1825, by his Delivery of Israel out of Egypt, obtained the honour of being admitted as an associate of the Academy. Among his subsequent pictures the most celebrated are the Opening of the Sixth Seal, exhibited in 1828; the Age of Gold, in 1831; The Enchanted Island Sunset, in 1841; The Contest of the Lyre and Pipe in the Vale of Tempe, in 1842; and the Painter's Holiday, in 1844. Danby's excellence lay in his delineations of scenery, and the poetic halo with which he contrived to invest them.
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Henry James was an American writer. He was born in 1843 at New York and died in 1916. After travelling in the USA and Europe and following irregular studies in Law at Harvard, in 1856 Henry James started writing short stories and literary reviews before writing novels. He had a friendship, for a while, with HG Wells and in 1915 became a British subject and was awarded the Order of Merit.
Sir Henry James was director of the Ordnance Survey. He was born in 1803 at Rose-in-Vale and died in 1877. In 1854 he succeeded Colonel Hall as director- general of the Ordnance Survey and in 1859 introduced the art of photozincography.
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Edmund Gwenn was a Welsh actor. He was born in 1875 at Vale of Glamorgan and died in 1959.
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Virginia Vale is an American actress. She was born in 1920 at Dallas, Texas.
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The Caos 716 virus is a harmless memory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the end of .COM-files that are accessed with DOS functions FindFirst and FindNext (on DIR command execution) . The virus contains the internal text strings: CAOS virii by WMÆ Hoy en Dia, cualquier sentido que le puedas dar a la a vida no vale tanto como para que esta merezca ser vivida.Virii Experimental, no es práctico ;)
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T V R is an abbreviation for Taff Vale Railway
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Millennium Gold is a fruity, amber, cask beer produced by Crouch Vale brewery, Essex.
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