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Man and Boy. (sculpture) / 50.397145; -3.510708. Man and Boy is a statue situated at King's Quay on the harbour of Brixham, Devon, England. It is the result of a long fundraising effort; the residents of the town raised £76,000 for its construction. [1] The monument was created in clay by the local sculptor Elisabeth Hadley and cast in bronze ...
Morwellham Quay. Coordinates: 50°30′19″N 04°11′37″W. The 32 ft (9.8 m) overshot water wheel, which once powered a mill for crushing locally mined manganese. Elevated railway at Morwellham Quay. The Great Dock and the restored Tamar sailing ship Garlandstone. Morwellham Quay is an historic river port in Devon, England that developed to ...
Brothers Quay. Stephen and Timothy Quay ( / ˈkweɪ / KWAY; born June 17, 1947) are American identical twin brothers and stop-motion animators who are better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They received the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for their work on the play The Chairs. [1]
List of Ferris wheels. The original Ferris Wheel with a height of 80.4 metres (264 ft) next to the Ain Dubai, the current tallest Ferris wheel, with a height of 250 metres (820 ft). The Ain Dubai can carry 1750 people. The gondolas are each about twice the size of a city bus, and can be reserved for private parties.
Rota Fortunae. From an edition of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium showing Lady Fortune spinning her wheel. In medieval and ancient philosophy, the Wheel of Fortune or Rota Fortunae is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna ( Greek equivalent: Tyche) who spins it at random, changing the ...
Inner Wheel is an international organization founded in 1924 to unite wives and daughters of Rotarians. Inner Wheel Clubs exist in over 103 countries. Like Rotary, Inner Wheel is divided into local clubs and districts. Female spouses of Rotary members are traditionally called "Partners" or "Spouse". [citation needed]
Quayside. Coordinates: 54°58′08″N 1°36′17″W. The view westwards along the Tyne Valley. The Quayside is an area along the banks ( quay) of the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne (the north bank) and Gateshead (south bank) in Tyne and Wear, North East England, United Kingdom .
Fitness proportionate selection, also known as roulette wheel selection, is a genetic operator used in genetic algorithms for selecting potentially useful solutions for recombination. In fitness proportionate selection, as in all selection methods, the fitness function assigns a fitness to possible solutions or chromosomes.