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Ajax
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Ajax (programming) With Ajax, web applications can send data to, and retrieve data from, a server asynchronously (in the background) without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page
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Ajax (programming) Ajax is not a single technology, but a group of technologies. HTML and CSS can be used in combination to mark up and style information. The DOM is accessed with JavaScript to dynamically display, and allow the user to interact with, the information presented. JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object provide a method for exchanging data asynchronously between browser and server to avoid full page reloads.
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Ajax (programming) History
In the 1990s, most web sites were based on complete HTML pages
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Ajax (programming) History
In 1998, Microsoft Outlook Web Access team implemented the first component XMLHTTP by client script.
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Ajax (programming) History
In 1999, Microsoft utilized its iframe technology to dynamically update the news stories and stock quotes on the default page for Internet Explorer, and created the XMLHTTP ActiveX control in Internet Explorer 5, which was later adopted by Mozilla, Safari, Opera and other browsers as the XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object
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Ajax (programming) History
The term Ajax was coined on 18 February 2005 by Jesse James Garrett in an article entitled "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications", based on techniques used on Google pages.
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Ajax (programming) History
On 5 April 2006, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first draft specification for the XMLHttpRequest object in an attempt to create an official web standard.
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Ajax (programming) Technologies
The term Ajax has come to represent a broad group of web technologies that can be used to implement a web application that communicates with a server in the background, without interfering with the current state of the page. In the article that coined the term Ajax, Jesse James Garrett explained that the following technologies are incorporated:
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Ajax (programming) Technologies
The Document Object Model (DOM) for dynamic display of and interaction with data
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Ajax (programming) Technologies
XML for the interchange of data, and XSLT for its manipulation
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Ajax (programming) Technologies
The XMLHttpRequest object for asynchronous communication
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Ajax (programming) Technologies
Since then however there have been a number of developments in the technologies used in an Ajax application, and the definition of the term Ajax. XML is not required for data interchange and therefore XSLT is not required for the manipulation of data. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is often used as an alternative format for data interchange, although other formats such as preformatted HTML or plain text can also be used.
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Ajax (programming) Technologies
Asynchronous HTML and HTTP (AHAH) involves using XMLHTTPRequest to retrieve (X)HTML fragments which are then inserted directly into the web page.
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Ajax (programming) Drawbacks
A workaround implemented by Ajax techniques is to change the URL fragment identifier (the part of a URL after the '#') when an Ajax-enabled page is accessed and monitor it for changes
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Ajax (programming) Drawbacks
Dynamic web page updates also make it difficult to bookmark and return to a particular state of the application. Solutions to this problem exist, many of which again use the URL fragment identifier. The solution provided by HTML5 for the above problem also applies for this.
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Ajax (programming) Drawbacks
Depending on the nature of the Ajax application, dynamic page updates may interfere disruptively with user interactions, especially if working on an unstable Internet connection. For instance, editing a search field may trigger a query to the server for search completions, but the user may not know that a search completion popup is forthcoming, and if the internet connection is slow, the popup list may show up at an inconvenient time, when the user has already proceeded to do something else.
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Ajax (programming) Drawbacks
Because most web crawlers do not execute JavaScript code, publicly indexable web applications should provide an alternative means of accessing the content that would normally be retrieved with Ajax, thereby allowing search engines to index it.
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Ajax (programming) Drawbacks
This can be achieved by making sure links and forms can be resolved properly and not relying solely on Ajax.
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Ajax (programming) Drawbacks
Similarly, some web applications which use Ajax are built in a way that cannot be read by screen-reading technologies, such as JAWS. The WAI-ARIA standards provide a way to provide hints in such a case.
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Ajax (programming) Drawbacks
Screen readers that are able to use Ajax may still not be able to properly read the dynamically generated content.
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Ajax (programming) Drawbacks
The same origin policy prevents some Ajax techniques from being used across domains, although the W3C has a draft of the XMLHttpRequest object that would enable this functionality. Methods exist to sidestep this security feature by using a special Cross Domain Communications channel embedded as an iframe within a page, or by the use of JSONP.
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Ajax (programming) Drawbacks
The asynchronous callback-style of programming required can lead to complex code that is hard to maintain, to debug and to test.
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Ajax (programming) Example
Here is an example of a simple Ajax request using the GET method.
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Ajax (programming) Example
xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){
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Ajax (programming) Example
// Ready state 4 means the request is done
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alert(xhr.responseText); // 'This is the returned text.'
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alert('Error: '+xhr.status); // An error occurred during the request
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Ajax (programming) Example
alert(xhr.responseText); // Returns 'This is the returned text.'
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Ajax (programming) jQuery example
Does the same thing as the JavaScript in get-ajax-data.js but this time leveraging the pre-written $.get in jQuery.
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Ajax (programming) jQuery example
$.get('send-ajax-data.php', function(data) {
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Ajax (programming) jQuery example
//Example for JQuery Hello World <html> <head> <title>jQuery Hello World</title>
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Ajax (programming) jQuery example
$(document).ready(function(){
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Google Code - Ajax APIs Google's Ajax APIs let a developer implement rich, dynamic websites entirely in JavaScript and HTML. A developer can create a map to a site, a dynamic search box, or download feeds with just a few lines of JavaScript.
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False flag - Operation Ajax
The replacement of Iran's Anglo-Persian Oil Company with five American oil companies and the 1953 Iranian coup d'état was the consequence of the U.S. and British-orchestrated false flag operation, Operation Ajax. Operation Ajax used political intrigue, propaganda, and agreements with Qashqai tribal leaders to depose the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammed Mosaddeq. Information regarding the CIA-sponsored coup d'etat has been largely declassified and is available in the CIA archives.
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JSON - Use in Ajax When it was originally described in the mid-2000s, Ajax commonly used XML as the data interchange format but many developers have also used JSON to pass Ajax updates between the server and the client.
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JSON - Use in Ajax The following JavaScript code is one example of a client using XMLHttpRequest to request data in JSON format from a server. (The server-side programming is omitted; it must be set up to respond to requests at url with a JSON-formatted string.)
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http_request.onreadystatechange = function () {
JSON - Use in Ajax http_request.onreadystatechange = function () {
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if (http_request.readyState == done && http_request.status == ok) {
JSON - Use in Ajax if (http_request.readyState == done && http_request.status == ok) {
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Spam in blogs - AJAX Some blog software such as Typo allow the blog administrator to allow only comments submitted via AJAX XMLHttpRequests, and discard regular form POST requests. This causes accessibility problems typical to AJAX-only applications like its behaviour on browsers with no Javascript support or where it has been explicitly disabled.
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Spam in blogs - AJAX Although this technique largely prevents spam, it is a form of security by obscurity and can easily be defeated if it becomes popular enough, since it essentially is just a different encoding of the same form data.
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Web application framework - Ajax
Ajax (programming)|Ajax, shorthand for Asynchrony|Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a web development technique for creating web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This is intended to increase a web page's interactivity, speed, and usability.
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Web application framework - Ajax
Due to the complexity of Ajax programming in JavaScript, there are numerous Ajax frameworks that exclusively deal with Ajax support. Some Ajax frameworks are even embedded as a part of larger frameworks. For example, the jQuery JavaScript library is included in Ruby on Rails.
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Web application framework - Ajax
These compilers and their associated widget set libraries make the development of rich media Ajax applications much more akin to that of developing desktop applications.
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Prototype JavaScript Framework - The Ajax object
In an effort to reduce the amount of code needed to run a cross-browser XMLHttpRequest function, Prototype provides the Ajax object to abstract the different browsers. It has two main methods: Ajax.Request() and Ajax.Updater().
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Prototype JavaScript Framework - The Ajax object
There are two forms of the Ajax object. Ajax.Request returns the raw XML output from an AJAX call, while the Ajax.Updater will inject the return inside a specified DOM object.
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Prototype JavaScript Framework - The Ajax object
The Ajax.Request below finds the current values of two HTML form input elements, issues an HTTP POST request to the server with those element name/value pairs, and runs a custom function (called showResponse below) when the HTTP response is received from the server:
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Prototype JavaScript Framework - The Ajax object
new Ajax.Request( ,
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Prototype JavaScript Framework - The Ajax object
onFailure: showError
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Prototype JavaScript Framework - The Ajax object
// The initialize method serves as a constructor
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Prototype JavaScript Framework - The Ajax object
initialize: function ()
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Prototype JavaScript Framework - The Ajax object
The framework function Object.extend(dest, src) takes two objects as parameters and copies the properties of the second object to the first one simulating inheritance. The combined object is also returned as a result from the function. As in the example above, the first parameter usually creates the base object, while the second is an anonymous object used solely for defining additional properties. The entire sub-class declaration happens within the parentheses of the function call.
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Web Atoms - Simple AJAX (AtomPromise)
In order to provide simple interface to JavaScript promises to implement AJAX and similar asynchronous functionality, Web Atoms has incorporated AtomPromise in the property system, which lets us assign promise in simple expression, but it will do the complex event wiring automatically
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Web Atoms - Simple AJAX (AtomPromise)
The following example is pretty self-explanatory that we are loading list of countries from the given url 'country-list.json'
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AJAX With Ajax, web applications can send data to, and retrieve data from, a web server|server asynchronously (in the background) without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page
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AJAX Ajax is not a single technology, but a group of technologies. Hypertext Markup Language|HTML and Cascading Style Sheets|CSS can be used in combination to mark up and style information. The Document Object Model|DOM is accessed with JavaScript to dynamically display, and allow the user to interact with, the information presented. JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object provide a method for exchanging data asynchronously between browser and server to avoid full page reloads.
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In the 1990s, most web sites were based on complete HTML pages
AJAX - History In the 1990s, most web sites were based on complete HTML pages
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AJAX - History In 1996, the Iframe#Frames|iframe tag was introduced by Internet Explorer to load content asynchronously.
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AJAX - History In 1999, Microsoft used its iframe technology to dynamically update the news stories and stock quotes on the default page for Internet Explorer,[ MSN.com]
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AJAX - History The term Ajax was coined on 18 February 2005 by Jesse James Garrett in an article entitled [ Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications], based on techniques used on Google pages.
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AJAX - Technologies * The Document Object Model (DOM) for dynamic display of and interaction with data
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* XML for the interchange of data, and XSLT for its manipulation
AJAX - Technologies * XML for the interchange of data, and XSLT for its manipulation
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* The XMLHttpRequest object for asynchronous communication
AJAX - Technologies * The XMLHttpRequest object for asynchronous communication
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AJAX - Technologies [ Asynchronous HTML and HTTP] (AHAH) involves using XMLHTTPRequest to retrieve (X)HTML fragments which are then inserted directly into the web page.
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AJAX - Drawbacks A workaround implemented by Ajax techniques is to change the URL fragment identifier (the part of a URL after the '#') when an Ajax-enabled page is accessed and monitor it for changes.
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AJAX - Drawbacks * Dynamic web page updates also make it difficult to Internet bookmark|bookmark and return to a particular state of the application. Solutions to this problem exist, many of which again use the URL fragment identifier. The solution provided by HTML5 for the above problem also applies for this.
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AJAX - Drawbacks * Depending on the nature of the Ajax application, dynamic page updates may interfere disruptively with user interactions, especially if working on an unstable Internet connection. For instance, editing a search field may trigger a query to the server for search completions, but the user may not know that a search completion popup is forthcoming, and if the internet connection is slow, the popup list may show up at an inconvenient time, when the user has already proceeded to do something else.
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* Most web crawlers do not execute JavaScript code,
AJAX - Drawbacks * Most web crawlers do not execute JavaScript code,
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AJAX - Drawbacks so a in order to be indexed by search engines, a web application must provide an alternative means of accessing the content that would normally be retrieved with Ajax.
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AJAX - Drawbacks This can be achieved by making sure links and forms can be resolved properly and not relying solely on Ajax.
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AJAX - Drawbacks * Similarly, some web applications which use Ajax are built in a way that cannot be read by screen-reading technologies, such as JAWS (screen reader)|JAWS. The WAI-ARIA standards provide a way to provide hints in such a case.
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AJAX - Drawbacks * Screen readers that are able to use Ajax may still not be able to properly read the dynamically generated content.
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AJAX - Drawbacks * The same origin policy prevents some Ajax techniques from being used across domains, although the W3C has a draft of the XMLHttpRequest object that would enable this functionality.
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AJAX - Drawbacks * The asynchronous Callback (computer programming)|callback-style of programming required can lead to complex code that is hard to maintain, to debug
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Qooxdoo - Ajax While being a client-side and server-agnostic solution, the qooxdoo project does include optional remote procedure call|RPC server implementations (currently in Java (programming language)|Java, PHP, Perl and Python (programming language)|Python) to demonstrate client-server communication
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List of JavaScript libraries - Pure Javascript/AJAX
* Google_Closure_Tools#Closure_Library|Google Closure Library
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List of Ajax frameworks
This is a list of notable Ajax frameworks, used for creating web applications with a dynamic link between the client and the server. Some of the frameworks are JavaScript compilers, for generating JavaScript and Ajax that runs in the web browser client; some are pure JavaScript libraries; others are server-side frameworks that typically utilize JavaScript libraries.
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List of Ajax frameworks - JavaScript
JavaScript frameworks are browser-side frameworks very commonly used in Ajax development.
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List of Ajax frameworks - JavaScript
There are hundreds of JavaScript frameworks available. According to latest surveys,[ BuiltWith JavaScript Technology Web Usage Statistics - 28 March 2011][ W3Techs Usage of JavaScript Libraries - 6 February 2011] the most used JavaScript frameworks are:
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List of Ajax frameworks - JavaScript
Other frameworks not among the most used include:
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List of Ajax frameworks - JavaScript
* AJAX.OOP, an open source framework, providing an OOP-style coding engine and Ajax requests-handling functionality to create web 2.0 components.
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List of Ajax frameworks - JavaScript
* Dhtmlx|DHTMLX, a JavaScript library that includes a comprehensive set of user interface components and a special module for server-side integration.
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* qooxdoo, is a comprehensive Ajax application framework. Leveraging object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build impressive cross-browser applications.
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* Smartclient, provides a zero-install DHTML/Ajax client engine, rich user interface components services and client-server databinding systems.
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* SproutCore, designed to make desktop-like apps for the web.
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* Wakanda (software)|Wakanda Framework, works on top of WakandaDB with Server-Side JavaScript, designed to build interfaces for desktop mobile Web applications.
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List of Ajax frameworks - Java
These frameworks use Java for server-side Ajax operations:
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* Apache Wicket an open-source Java server-centric framework supporting Ajax development
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* Ariba#AribaWeb|AribaWeb an open-source framework with Reflection and Object-Relational mapping
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* ItsNat a server-side Java framework focused on single-page interface applications
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* OpenWAF an open-source Web Application framework for Web 2.0 Applications.
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* OpenXava model-driven framework for creating Ajax business applications
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* RichFaces|JBoss RichFaces, ICEfaces and PrimeFaces open-source Ajax component libraries for JavaServer Faces
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* Tersus an open-source platform for developing rich web applications by visual programming
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* Vaadin a server-side Java widget framework utilizing Google Web Toolkit|GWT
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* ZK (framework)|ZK an open-source Java server+client fusion Ajax framework utilizing jQuery and XUL
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List of Ajax frameworks - C++
* [ Wt - a C++ Web Toolkit]
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List of Ajax frameworks - .NET
* ASP.NET AJAX (previously Microsoft Atlas)
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* [ Visual Web Gui]
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List of Ajax frameworks - Perl
* Catalyst_(software)|Catalyst, Catalyst::Plugin::Prototype or other js frameworks
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List of Ajax frameworks - PHP
A PHP Ajax framework is able to deal with database, search data, and build pages or parts of page and publish the page or return data to the XMLHttpRequest object.
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List of Ajax frameworks - PHP
* [ Phery] is a library that makes you able to manipulate the DOM directly from PHP through jQuery
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* [ Top Seven Ajax Frameworks]
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* Quicknet is an Ajax framework that provides secure data transmission, uses PHP on the server side
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* Sajax PHP framework with a lot of functions, easy to integrate functions yourself
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* Xajax uses only the XML format, on the server side
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* JAX Framework an Open-Source, AJAX-based Web Application Framework built on jQuery, PHP, phpdaogen and phpreportgen. Includes YAML-driven database schema, simple database schema migration, and code generators for rapid development of CRUD/Admin pages.
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* [ J4P micro ajax] J4P micro ajax in a simple way brings extensive ajax functionality in PHP applications at a minimum of size. You also can use a wide range of the jQuery library on PHP side.
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List of Ajax frameworks - Python
These frameworks use Python for client-side Ajax operations:
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List of Ajax frameworks - Ruby
The Ruby on Rails framework used to implement a Domain-specific language named RJS, which can be used to write Ruby code that generates Javascript code. The code generated by RJS was usually loaded using Ajax, e.g. by using Ajax-enabled helper methods Ruby on Rails provides, such as the link_to_remote helper. It was replaced by jQuery as of Rails
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List of Ajax frameworks - Ruby
Many of the Ruby on Rails Ajax-enabled helper methods used to work by using Prototype to perform an Ajax request in older versions of Rails. In most cases Javascript code is returned by the server to be executed by the browser, unlike the usual case where Ajax is used to retrieve data in XML or JSON format.
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Rico (Ajax) 'Rico' is an open source JavaScript library for developing rich internet applications with Ajax (programming)|Ajax.Asleson, Ryan Schutta, Nathaniel T. (2006). Foundations of Ajax. Apress. ISBN Rico builds on the Prototype JavaScript Framework, adding drag-and-drop, animation effects, and other tools.
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AFC Ajax Historically, Ajax is the most successful club in the Netherlands, with 32 List of Dutch football champions|Eredivisie titles and 18 KNVB Cups
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AFC Ajax Ajax's last international trophies were the 1995 Intercontinental Cup and the 1994–95 UEFA Champions League|1995 Champions League, where they defeated A.C
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Ajax plays at the Amsterdam Arena, which opened in 1996
AFC Ajax Ajax plays at the Amsterdam Arena, which opened in 1996
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AFC Ajax - History Ajax was founded in Amsterdam on 18 March With five national championships (1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939), Ajax was the most successful Dutch team of the nineteen thirties. In 1955, professional football was finally permitted in the Netherlands. Ajax achieved their first Eredivisie championship in 1957 and again in 1960.
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AFC Ajax - History Ajax won the championship in 1966 and 1967, scoring a record breaking 122 goals including 33 from Johan Cruyff|Johan Cruijff, and again in 1968, and reached the European Cup final of 1969 against A.C. Milan. In 1969–70 Ajax won the Dutch league championship, winning 27 out of 34 games and scoring 100 goals.
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AFC Ajax - History The 1971 European Cup final saw Ajax beat Panathinaikos F.C.|Panathinaikos 2–0 with goals from Dick van Dijk and Arie Haan. Ajax completed the treble of European Cup, Dutch National Championship and the KNVB Cup in 1972 before adding the Intercontinental Cup (football)|Intercontinental Cup. In 1973, Ajax won a third consecutive European Cup and another Dutch championship.
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AFC Ajax - History The departure of Johan Cruijff for FC Barcelona in 1973 signalled the end of this period of success. In 1977, Ajax won their first domestic championship since Johan Cruijff returned to the club in 1981, with the club producing some talented youngsters in the mid-1980s such as Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard.
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AFC Ajax - History Cruijff returned in 1985 as the new manager and Ajax ended the season with 120 goals, of which 37 were from Marco van Basten|van Basten. Ajax won the 1986–87 European Cup Winners' Cup|'87 Cup Winners' Cup and reached the final again the following season. Cruijff departed prior to the second Cup Winners' Cup final and with most of the 80's stars such as van Basten also leaving, Ajax once again declined.
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AFC Ajax - History Managed by Louis van Gaal, Ajax won the 1992 UEFA Cup. Dennis Bergkamp scored six goals in the competition and was the top goalscorer in Dutch football in 1991 and 1992.
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AFC Ajax - History The following season, Ajax lost to Juventus F.C.|Juventus on penalties in the European Cup final.
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AFC Ajax - History However, the subsequent period saw the departure of manager van Gaal along with an exodus of many key players including Clarence Seedorf in 1995; Edgar Davids, Michael Reiziger, Finidi George, and Nwankwo Kanu in 1996; Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars, and Winston Bogarde in 1997; Ronald de Boer and Frank de Boer in 1998; and Edwin van der Sar and Jari Litmanen in 1999.
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AFC Ajax - Youth program
Ajax also regularly supplies the Dutch national youth teams with local talent
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AFC Ajax - Youth program
Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen along with winger Tom de Mul, all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch international Vurnon Anita as well as Javier Martina from Curaçao.
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There are some youth players from Ajax Cape Town that have been drafted into the Eredivisie squad, such as South African internationals Steven Pienaar, Thulani Serero and Cameroonian international Eyong Enoh.
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In 1995, the year Ajax won the UEFA Champions League|Champions League, the Netherlands national football team|Dutch national team was almost entirely composed of Ajax players, with Edwin van der Sar in goal; players such as Michael Reiziger, Frank de Boer, and Danny Blind in defense; Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids, and Clarence Seedorf in midfield; and Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars in attack.
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Eddie van Schaik heads the organization as coach and consultant, introducing the Ajax football philosophy at the various Greek football training camps.
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AFC Ajax - Stadium The stadium could accommodate 29,500 spectators and Ajax continued to play there until 1996
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AFC Ajax - Stadium In 1996, Ajax moved to a new home ground in the southeast of the city known as the Amsterdam ArenA This was built by the Amsterdam city authority at a cost of $134 million
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AFC Ajax - Stadium The much-loved De Meer stadium was torn down and the land was sold to the city council. A residential neighbourhood now occupies the area. The only thing left of the old stadium are the letters AJAX, nowadays in place on the façade of the youth training grounds Sportpark De Toekomst|De Toekomst, near the Amsterdam Arena.
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Ajax, Ontario 'Ajax' (Canada 2011 Census|2011 population 109,600) is a town in the Regional Municipality of Durham|Durham Region of Southern Ontario|Southern Ontario, Canada, located in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area.
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Ajax, Ontario The town is named for , a Royal Navy cruiser that served in World War II. It is approximately east of Toronto on the shores of Lake Ontario and is bordered by the City of Pickering, Ontario|Pickering to the west and north, and the Town of Whitby, Ontario|Whitby to the east.
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Ajax, Ontario - History Before the Second World War, the territory in which Ajax is situated was a rural part of the township of Pickering, Ontario|Pickering
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Ajax was chosen as the name of this war-born community.
Ajax, Ontario - History Ajax was chosen as the name of this war-born community.
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Ajax, Ontario - History After the war, the University of Toronto leased much of the D.I.L. plant to house the flood of newly discharged soldiers who had enrolled as engineering students. War machines were moved out and the buildings were converted to classrooms and laboratories. By 1949, the last year of the University of Toronto, Ajax Division, some 7,000 engineering students had received their basic training there.
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Ajax, Ontario - History Following the departure of the University of Toronto, the town's growth was largely due to the vision of George W. Finley of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation|Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and Ajax became a planned modern community using the wartime base for its post-war foundation.
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Ajax, Ontario - History The Ajax Citizens' Association, formed by many civic-minded persons, presented a brief to the Ontario Municipal Board urging that the Improvement District of Ajax become the Corporation of the Town of Ajax
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Ajax, Ontario - History On June 22, 1973, the Ontario Legislature enacted Bill 162 to amalgamate the Town of Ajax and the Pickering Village, Ontario|Village of Pickering and annex certain portions of the Township of Pickering to the Town of Ajax, as part of the creation of the new Durham Region; this also included the remote lakeside Town of Pickering Beach. The Region and Town both officially came into being on January 1, 1974.
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Ajax, Ontario - Downtown Ajax
Today, Ajax has a busy downtown, but plans are underway to begin construction on a new Ajax City Centre, what is now a low rise industrial and commercial area in Ajax along Harwood Avenue, and Bayly Street
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Ajax, Ontario - Modern status
As is true for most suburban areas in the Greater Toronto Area, Ajax has grown considerably since the 1980s. What was once a small town mostly surrounded by agricultural areas has increasingly become a bedroom community to Toronto and its environs. Many residents commute to work in Toronto or other municipalities in Durham Region.
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Ajax, Ontario - Modern status
The following is a summary of major changes in the past several decades:
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this has ultimately contributed to the population increase in Ajax.
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*The town's very auto dependent urban form, as well as that of its neighbour municipalities, has resulted in steady increases in traffic congestion with few realistic alternatives to automobile travel
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These northern parts of Ajax namely consist of Rossland road and Taunton road
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Ajax, Ontario - Local government
Ajax is governed by an elected town City Council|Council consisting of a Mayor, and local Councillors representing each of the town's four Ward (subnational entity)|wards. In addition, two Regional Councillors each represent a pair of wards. The Mayor and the Regional councillors sit on both Ajax Town Council and Durham Region Council.
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Ajax, Ontario - Local government
The current council was elected in October The members of the council are:
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*Shaun Collier: Regional Councillor, Wards 1 and 2
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*Colleen Jordan: Regional Councillor, Wards 3 and 4
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*Renrick Ashby: Councillor, Ward 2
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*Joanne Dies: Councillor, Ward 3
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A by-election was held on March 1, 2008 to fill the Ward 2 council seat left vacant after councillor Joe Dickson was elected to the Legislature for Ajax—Pickering (provincial electoral district)|Ajax-Pickering in the Ontario general election, 2007|October 2007 provincial election.
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Ajax, Ontario According to the 2011 canadian census|2011 Canadian Census, the population of Ajax is 109,600, a 21.6% increased from 2006, which is approximately 4 times faster than Canada as a whole. Ajax's land mass is 67.07km2 with a population density is 1,634.2 people per km2. The median age is 36.2years old which is 4years younger than the national average at 40.6years old.
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Ajax, Ontario Ajax has the highest Black population of any major Canadian city (population above 100,000).
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Ajax, Ontario Religiously speaking, 18.6% of Ajax's population does not affiliate with any religion. For those who do, the religious make up is Christian (66.7%), Muslim (6.9%), Hinduism|Hindu (5.9%) and the remaining 1.9% affiliate with another religion.
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Ajax, Ontario As far as education goes, for those who are 25 to 64years old, the highest levels of education are as followed; 67.1% of people have a post-secondary schooling degree, 26.0% have a High School degree (or equivalent too) and 6.9% have nothing. The unemployment rate is 8.7% in Ajax, which is slightly to the national average at 7.8%. The median household income before taxes is $88,262, and after taxes at $75,662, which is a quite a bit higher than the national average at $54,089.
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Ajax, Ontario According to the 2011 Census, English language|English is the mother tongue of 76.1% of the population, followed by Urdu (2.1%), Tagalog language|Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) (2.1%), Tamil language|Tamil (1.9%), Persian language|Persian (Farsi) (1.3%), and Arabic language|Arabic (1.1%).
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Ajax, Ontario - Economy In 1945, with the closing of D.I.L., there was no industry within the town; but in 1949, Dowty Group|Dowty Aerospace started operations in Ajax. By 1969, major employers included Volkswagen Canada, DuPont, Paintplas, Ajax Textile, AEG Bayly Engineering and many others.
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Ajax, Ontario - Economy Shopping was virtually non-existent in the mid-1940s, but by 1970 major shopping centres such as Ajax Plaza, Harwood Place Mall and Clover Ridge Plaza were constructed. The 1980s saw an expansion of retail shopping malls to include Discovery Bay Plaza, Transit Square, Baywood Plaza, Westney Heights Plaza and most recently the Durham Centre at Harwood Avenue and Kingston Road.
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Ajax, Ontario - Economy The 1970s saw the beginning of many physical changes to the face of Ajax. New subdivisions spread over vacant land in central Ajax. The early 1980s brought extensive development to the southern part of Ajax with large, upscale housing units constructed along Lake Driveway.
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Ajax, Ontario - Economy The recession of the early 1980s did not stop residential development in Ajax. Westney Heights started north of Highway 2 and offered home buyers low interest rate mortgages while interest rates were then at an all-time high of 18% to 20%. Development north of Highway 2 stretched from Church Street in Pickering Village to Harwood Avenue, with the Millers Creek development south of the highway down to the edge of Ontario Highway 401|Highway 401.
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Ajax, Ontario - Health care
The Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering|Ajax and Pickering General Hospital first opened in 1954 with 38 adult and children's beds
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Ajax, Ontario - Emergency services
Ajax is policed by the Durham Regional Police from a station in Pickering. Ambulance/emergency medical services are provided by Durham Region. Ajax Fire Emergency Services provides firefighting services from three fire stations.
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Ajax, Ontario - Transportation
In 1973, the Town of Ajax conducted a survey of potential transit ridership in Ajax. This led to the creation of Ajax Transit with bus service beginning in 1973 under a contract with Charterways Transportation Limited, which operated service using a fleet of school buses, with heaviest ridership between the Pickering Beach area and downtown Ajax.
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In the late 1970s, the town brought the operations in house and began operations on the Elm, Duffins, and Beach routes, which exist to this day. In the early 1980s, the Harwood, Westney Heights, and Village routes began service. Service on the Puckrin route began in the late 1980s.
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In 2001, Ajax Transit and the neighbouring Pickering Transit were amalgamated into the Ajax-Pickering Transit|Ajax Pickering Transit Authority (APTA), which operated under the joint ownership and oversight of Ajax and Pickering.
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In 2006, APTA was amalgamated into Durham Region Transit along with the other municipal transit services in Durham Region.
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Lakeridge Road crosses the highway, but it is traditionally held to be the border between the towns of Ajax and Whitby
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Ajax, Ontario - Education
Ajax is served by the Durham District School Board and the Durham Catholic District School Board. There are five high schools and several elementary schools. Two of the high schools are Catholic schools: Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School (Ajax)|Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School and Archbishop Denis O'Connor Catholic High School. The other three are the public secondary schools: Ajax High School, J. Clarke Richardson Collegiate and Pickering High School, Ajax|Pickering High School.
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Ajax, Ontario - Sports The Ajax Rock (MSL)|Ajax Rock are a Box Lacrosse|box lacrosse team that, as of 2009, have been promoted to the Senior A Major Series Lacrosse league. Ajax-Pickering Rock moving up to the Major, ilindoor.com, Accessed 04 – DEC – 11 They play during the Summer months out of the Ajax Community Centre.
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Ajax, Ontario - Sports The town is the home of two minor leagues, the Ajax Spartans Minor Baseball Association and the Ajax Knights Minor Hockey Association.
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Ajax, Ontario - Sports There is also a growing rugby union club that has been established since 1949 called the Ajax Wanderers R.U.F.C.|Ajax Wanderers. Their clubhouse is located on 1717 Harwood Ave. N, just south of Taunton Rd.
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Ajax, Ontario - Sports Ajax is home to several clubs: Ajax FC, Ajax United and Ajax Azzurri. The Ajax ringette association is popular. Ajax has a football team, the Ajax-Pickering Dolphins.
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Ajax Cricket Club is located in the community.
Ajax, Ontario - Sports Ajax Cricket Club is located in the community.
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Ajax, Ontario - Sports Ajax is the home of the Ajax Skating Club and the Ajax Ice Waves, a synchronized skating team.
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Ajax, Ontario - Notable people and groups
*Toya Alexis, musician, Canadian Idol finalist
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*Jeff Beukeboom, retired National Hockey League|NHL player
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*Boi-1da, hip hop producer
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*Christian Corbet, painter, sculptor and forensic artist
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*Akeem Foster, Canadian Football League|CFL football player
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*Not by Choice, punk rock band
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*Phan Thị Kim Phúc|Kim Phuc, subject of a famous photo from the Vietnam War
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*John Saunders (journalist)|John Saunders, sports journalist for ESPN and ESPN on ABC|ABC
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*Snow (musician)|Snow, reggae artist, famous for his 1993 chart-topper Informer (song)|Informer
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*T-Minus (producer)|T-Minus, hip hop and RB producer
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*Nigel Wilson, retired Major League Baseball|MLB player
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ASP.NET AJAX 'ASP.NET AJAX' is a set of extensions to ASP.NET developed by Microsoft for implementing Ajax (programming)|Ajax functionality. It is released under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL).
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ASP.NET AJAX - Clients supporting Ajax
ASP.NET AJAX runs on the following browsers:
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* Microsoft Internet Explorer (source lang=javascriptasp:Button ID=Button1 runat=server Text=Refresh /asp:UpdatePanel ID=UpdatePanel1 runat=serverTriggersasp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID=Button1 EventName=Click //TriggersContentTemplatespan%= DateTimeNow %/span/ContentTemplate/asp:UpdatePanel/source
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ASP.NET AJAX - Web-services and JSON
ASP.NET AJAX framework brings JSON serialization features to the ASP.NET web-services and allows calling web-services from client-side JavaScript, even using third-party Javascript-libraries like jQuery.
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Rich AJAX Platform 'Remote Application Platform' ('RAP', formerly Rich Ajax Platform) Project is an open-source software project under the List of Eclipse projects#Technology projects|Eclipse Technology Project which aims to enable software developers to build Ajax (programming)|Ajax-enabled rich Internet applications by using the Eclipse (software)|Eclipse development model, plugins and a Java (programming language)|Java-only application programming interface (API)
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ColdBox Platform - Ajax support
ColdBox supports all JavaScript frameworks that provide Ajax capabilities. It also provides an auto-marshalling function to render any object to the following formats natively: XML, WDDX, JSON, JSONP, TEXT, PDF, CUSTOM.
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JavaServer Faces - JSF and Ajax
JSF is often used together with Ajax (programming)|Ajax, a Rich Internet application technology. Ajax is a combination of technologies that make it possible to create rich user interfaces. The user interface components in Project Mojarra|Mojarra (the JSF reference implementation) and Apache MyFaces were originally developed for HTML only, and Ajax had to be added via JavaScript. This has changed, however:
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JavaServer Faces - JSF and Ajax
Because JSF supports multiple output formats, Ajax-enabled components can easily be added to enrich JSF-based user interfaces. The JSF 2.0 specification provides built in support for Ajax by standardizing the Ajax request lifecycle, and providing simple development interfaces to Ajax events, allowing any event triggered by the client to go through proper validation, conversion, and finally method invocation, before returning the result to the browser via an XML DOM update.
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JSF 2 includes support for graceful degradation when JavaScript is disabled in the browser.
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JavaServer Faces - Ajax-enabled components and frameworks
* JBoss RichFaces (derived from and replaces Ajax4jsf), Ajax-enabled JSF components for layout, file upload, forms, inputs and many other features.
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* ICEfaces, open-source, Java JSF extension framework and Rich Internet application|rich components, Ajax without JavaScript
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* Apache MyFaces, The Apache Foundation JSF implementation with Ajax components
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* Sun Microsystems|Sun Java BluePrints AJAX Components
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Microsoft Public License - ASP.Net AJAX Control Toolkit
The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is a set of controls and extenders that use AJAX technologies to enable developers to improve the client experience on their web sites. The toolkit is licensed under the Microsoft Public license (MS-PL) and is available on CodePlex, Microsoft’s online community development portal for collaborative software development projects.
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Comet (programming) - Ajax with long polling
The browser makes an Ajax-style request to the server, which is kept open until the server has new data to send to the browser, which is sent to the browser in a complete response
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Specific technologies for accomplishing long-polling include the following:
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Bing Maps - AJAX and Silverlight versions
In November 2010, the AJAX and Silverlight versions were combined into a semi-hybrid site where Silverlight features such as Map Apps and Streetside could be enabled through the Bing.com/Maps site - these features still required Silverlight to be installed, but does not require use of a separate Bing Maps site.
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Bing Maps - AJAX and Silverlight versions
The AJAX and Silverlight site share the following features: Road View, Aerial View, Bird’s-Eye View, Sharing Maps, People/Business/Location Search, Building Footprints, Driving Directions, Walking Directions.
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Bing Maps - AJAX and Silverlight versions
Silverlight users exclusively can Map Apps, StreetSide View, Photosynths, and Dynamic Labels.
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AJAX Service Bus Current Ajax applications asynchronous|asynchronously communicate with a browser using XMLHttpRequest (XHR)
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AJAX Service Bus - Characteristics
The ASB is perpendicular, and connects directly from a browser running an AJAX application into one or more Service-oriented architecture|services running in a datacenter. An Enterprise service bus (ESB) provides horizontal communication between all of those services; an ASB can connect directly into the ESB as it would with a single service and extend the combined functionality to an AJAX application.
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AJAX Service Bus - Key benefits
* Supports reliability, security and scalability from the browser to the server.
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* Better manages higher server levels of systemic quality such as performance, manageability, scalability, and reliability.
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AJAJ - Similarities with AJAX
Similar to the more popularly used AJAX, AJAJ is executed asynchronously, meaning that it occurs in the background, and does not interrupt the flow of the JavaScript interpreter as it gets read
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Ajax framework In web application development, an 'Ajax framework' is a web application framework|framework which leverages Ajax (programming)|Ajax, a collection of technologies for building dynamic web pages on the client side. While data is read from and sent to the server (computing)|server by JavaScript requests, frameworks may include server-side like or client-side components to process the client's requests. The acronym AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML.
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1953 Iranian coup d'état - Execution of Operation Ajax
The official pretext for the start of the coup was Mossadegh's decree to dissolve Parliament, giving himself and his cabinet complete power to rule, while effectively stripping the Shah of his powers. It resulted in him being accused of giving himself total and dictatorial powers. The Shah, who had been resisting the CIA's demands for the coup, finally agreed to support it.
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1953 Iranian coup d'état - Execution of Operation Ajax
Having obtained the Shah's concurrence, the CIA executed the coup.Gasiorowski, M
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After the first coup attempt failed, General Zahedi, declaring that he was the rightful prime minister of Iran, shuttled between multiple safe houses attempting to avoid arrest
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However, General Zahedi, who was still on the run, met with the pro-Shah Ayatollah Mohammad Behbahani and other Shah supporters in secret
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On August 19, hired infiltrators posing as Tudeh party members began to organize a communist revolution
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By the middle of the day, large crowds of regular citizens, armed with improvised weapons, took to the streets in mass demonstrations, and beat back the Tudeh party members
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The Shah stayed in Italy until he learned that the coup removed Mossadegh. Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA, flew back with the Shah from Rome to Tehran.What's Behind the Crises in Iran and Afghanistan by E Ahmed—1980 Zahedi officially replaced Mosaddegh. Mossadegh was arrested, tried, and originally sentenced to death. But on the Shah's personal orders, his sentence was commuted to three years' solitary confinement in a military prison, followed by house arrest until his death.
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Trojan War - Ajax and a game of petteia
Ajax (mythology)|Ajax son of Telamon laid waste the Thracian peninsula of which Polymestor, a son-in-law of Priam, was king. Polymestor surrendered Polydorus (son of Priam)|Polydorus, one of Priam's children, of whom he had custody. He then attacked the town of the Phrygian king Teleutas, killed him in single combat and carried off his daughter Tecmessa.Dictis Cretensis ii. 18; Sophocles, Ajax 210. Ajax also hunted the Trojan flocks, both on Mount Ida and in the countryside.
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Trojan War - Ajax and a game of petteia
At some point in the war Achilles and Ajax were playing a board game (petteia).[ Petteia.][ Greek Board Games.] They were absorbed in the game and oblivious to the surrounding battle.[ Latrunculi.] The Trojans attacked and reached the heroes, who were only saved by an intervention of Athena.Kakrides vol
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Ajax, Louisiana 'Ajax' is an Unincorporated area|unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is located approximately 17 miles northwest of Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches along Louisiana Highway 174.
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Ajax, Louisiana The community is part of the Natchitoches Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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Ajax, Louisiana The community received its name after a naming committee was unable to come up with a suitable name. While they were talking about it, one of the men noticed a boiler plate with the name of Ajax Iron Works stamped on it. He said, Lets just call it Ajax. The iron plate still exists and is on display in the Ajax Community Center at the intersection of Highways 174 and 487.
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Ajax, Louisiana At one time Ajax had its own Post Office and school, but with the regional consolidations of these services over the years, neither exists today. Ajax receives mail through the Marthaville Post Office. Students go to the public schools at Marthaville or Natchitoches.
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Ajax, Louisiana Currently Ajax has a gas station and RV park at the intersection of Highway 174 and I-49. A volunteer fire department, lodge, community center, and community church round out the non-residential buildings in Ajax.
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Ajax, Louisiana There are no officially defined limits to what constitutes the community boundaries, but there are approximately 2 dozen residences within the several miles of Hwys 174 and 487 that are commonly considered to be part of Ajax. Population is estimated to be less than fifty.
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Ajax (Disney) The 'Mickey Mouse universe' is a fictional universe where some cartoon characters created by the The Walt Disney Company live, the most famous of which is Mickey Mouse. It is coexistent with the Duck universe, a Spin-off (media)|spin-off of the Mickey Mouse universe which centers around Mickey's friend Donald Duck and his rich uncle Scrooge McDuck. Mickey Mouse universe is not an official term used by Disney.
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Ajax (Disney) Since 1990, the actual city in which Mickey lives is most often called Mouseton and is often seen as the city next to Duck universe#Duckburg|Duckburg, Donald's hometown. According to traditional continuity, both cities are located in the List of fictional U.S. states|fictional U.S. state of Calisota, a portmanteau of California and Minnesota. The Mickey Mouse universe is also a Parallel universe (fiction)|parallel universe and characters often visit real-world places and meet historical figures.
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Ajax (Disney) - Continuity development
The Mickey Mouse universe essentially originated with the debut of Mickey himself in Although Mickey's stories included the character Pete (Disney)|Pete, who was created in Alice Solves the Puzzle|1925, the world in which Mickey lives holds a Continuity (fiction)|continuity largely independent from earlier films. An exception to this was the reintroduction of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 2010 with the release of Epic Mickey.
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In 1930, Disney began a newspaper strip called Mickey Mouse which greatly expanded Mickey's world which was already well-known from the animated cartoons
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One way the comics writers explained this discrepancy was to present the characters as real cartoon characters who are employed by Disney as actors
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Animation historian David Gerstein has noted that although the characters will appear in different settings and sometimes even change their names (Mickey's Christmas Carol), the characters are still themselves and behave in a way consistent with their natures.[ The Mickey Mouse Universe Guide] by David Gerstein
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Ajax (Disney) - Mickey's farm
In Plane Crazy (1928), the first produced Mickey Mouse story, Mickey is seen at a farm. In all of his early films Mickey is in a rural setting, but most commonly at a farm. This setting was succinctly presented in the first sentences of one of Mickey's first storybooks:
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In the Mickey Mouse newspaper strip, Mickey's farm was most likely located in the midwestern United States, as indicated by characters' comments to have arrived out west to Death Valley and to go back east to conduct business, etc
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Ajax (Disney) - Mouseton
Mickey appeared in an urban setting as early as 1931 in the short film Traffic Troubles where he works as a taxi driver
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Ajax (Disney) - Mouseton
In 1990, Disney Comics Inc
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Ajax (Disney) - Mouseton
Mouseton's location in Calisota and its positioning with regard to Duckburg (the cities being next to one another) were the subject of speculation early on, but have generally been treated consistently in American publications from 2003 onward.Example: Back From the Brink, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 661 (2005); Mouseton and Duckburg are identified and seen side-by-side as characters fly overhead.
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In Disney comics published by Egmont (media group)|Egmont (Scandinavia) and Editora Abril|Abril (Brazil), Mickey lives in Duckburg—even though Mickey and Donald only rarely team up in shared comics adventures
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In Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and Scandinavia, local tradition has it that Mickey's hometown is simply a different district of Duckburg. In Disney theme parks, the Roger Rabbit-inspired Toontown, a district in Los Angeles specifically for cartoon characters, is presented as Mickey's home.
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Ajax (Disney) - Non-Mouseton continuity
In some 1920s and 1930s Disney press releases and magazines, Mickey was described as living in Hollywood—even though the rural setting of the actual cartoons and comics had little in common with the actual Hollywood.
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In the film Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip (1940) Mickey and Pluto live in the real world city of Burbank, California, home of Walt Disney Studios (Burbank)|Walt Disney Studios.
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In Kingdom Hearts and its sequel Kingdom Hearts II, both the Mouseton and Duckburg characters live in a realm called Disney Castle.
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Ajax (Disney) - Main characters
'Mickey Mouse' (Mickey Mouse family|family) is the main protagonist. Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse most often dressed in gloves, red shorts and yellow shoes. While typically given a modest and pleasant personality, he is often an enthusiastic and determined character, seeking new adventures, excitement and mysteries. He often serves as the de facto leader of his friends.
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'Minnie Mouse' is Mickey's female counterpart, usually portrayed as his girlfriend. Originally characterized as a flapper, Minnie has often played Mickey's damsel in distress.
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'Donald Duck' is Mickey's best friend, though sometimes he serves as a playful antagonist. Donald is a short bipedal Duck, best characterized by his sailor's outfit, his often-unintelligible speech and his incredible temper. Donald's stories are often characterzed by his incredible bad luck, often brought about by his own actions. He dates Daisy Duck and is the Uncle and sometimes primary caretaker of the duck brothers Huey, Dewey and Louie.
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'Daisy Duck' is Donald Duck's girlfriend. Compared to most Disney characters, Daisy's personality is heavily subject to interpretation of the era, though she is typically portrayed as a pro-active female. Typically understanding of Donald's irascible personality, she will never fail to stand up to him should he go too far. In most stories she appears as Minnie's best friend.
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'Goofy' is Mickey and Donald's dim-witted but good-natured friend. Goofy is a tall bipedal and Accident-proneness|klutzy dog. In some stories he dates Clarabelle Cow while other times he is shown as a single parent.
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'Clarabelle Cow' is a tall, bipedal cow who is Minnie Mouse's friend. She is prone to gossip and occasionally plays a well-meaning but ineffective parent figure to Donald Duck. She has been known to date both Horace Horsecollar and Goofy.
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'Horace Horsecollar' is a tall, usually bipedal horse who is Mickey Mouse's friend. He is prone to bragging and practical joking. Before the appearance of Donald Duck and Goofy, Horace was Mickey Mouse's usual sidekick. He is often seen as the boyfriend of Clarabelle Cow.
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'Pluto (Disney)|Pluto' is Mickey Mouse's pet dog. Unlike Goofy, Pluto is portrayed as walking on four legs and almost never speaks.
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'Figaro (Disney)|Figaro' is a small black and white house cat. Introduced in the film Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio, Figaro later appears as Minnie's pet.
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'Pete (Disney)|Pete' (also called 'Peg-Leg Pete' and 'Black Pete') is an anthropomorphic cat and a common antagonist. His character ranges from a hardened criminal to an ethical menace. In the comics he at times plays one half of a villainous duo with Sylvester Shyster.
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'Phantom Blot' is a mysterious enemy of Mickey Mouse. He wears a body-length black sheet. An altered, monstrous version of the character, known as the Shadow Blot, serves as the antagonist of the first Epic Mickey game.
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'Oswald the Lucky Rabbit' is a black rabbit and Mickey Mouse's half-brother. He plays an opponent in the noncomics continuity of Epic Mickey
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Ajax (Disney) - Chief O'Hara
Seamus O'Hara is the chief of police in the Mickey Mouse universe. He plays a supportive role in Mickey Mouse's comic-book mysteries, often relying on Mickey's help to catch characters such as Pete (Disney)|Pete, Phantom Blot and the like. Known fellow officers include his friend, #Detective Casey|Detective Casey.
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O'Hara also appeared on Mickey Mouse Works and Disney's House of Mouse.
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The character was conceived by Floyd Gottfredson (and Merrill De Maris) for Walt Disney Pictures|Disney as a stereotypical Irish cop
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In Italian stories O'Hara has a wife called Petulia.
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Ajax (Disney) - Detective Casey
Detective Casey (sometimes Inspector Casey) is Chief O'Hara (Disney Comics)|Chief O'Hara's head detective, first appearing in the Mickey Mouse daily comic in the 1938 sequence The Plumber's Helper. The story was plotted and penciled by Floyd Gottfredson and written by Merrill De Maris. Casey disappeared from American comics in the 1950s, but was used frequently in Europe, especially in Italy, afterwards; from 2003, he returned as a frequent player in the American comics once again.
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Despite his occupation, Casey is an impatient man of only average intelligence. Thus, while sometimes a successful detective, he is prone to bungling cases as well. Therefore, Chief O'Hara often recruits Mickey Mouse to help solve some of Casey's cases, much to Casey's general irritation.
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Ajax (Disney) - Eega Beeva
Eega Beeva, also known by his proper name Pittisborum Psercy Pystachi Pseter Psersimmon Plummer-Push, is a human from the future, sometimes also referred to as an Extraterrestrial life|alien and first appeared on September 26, 1947 in the Mickey Mouse comic strip storyline titled The Man of Tomorrow
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Eega Beeva was created by Bill Walsh (producer)|Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson
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In his debut story, Mickey Mouse and his friend Goofy seek shelter from a thunderstorm and get lost in a cave
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In the next comic strip storyline starring Eega Beeva, Mickey Makes a Killing, his pet Pflip the Thnuckle Booh is introduced
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When Eega Beeva was still featured in the American comic strips, he made his first appearance in an Italian Disney comic
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Eega Beeva is depicted as a humanoid being with a wide head, mitten-like hands and a scrawny body
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In the most recent Italian stories (post-2000), Italian writers have generally reverted to Gottfredson's original conception of Eega as a future-man, though his precise year of origin is rarely mentioned. New Eega comics produced by Egmont Publishing|Egmont, on the other hand, often refer to his hometown as being the Mouseton of 2447—just as in Gottfredson's original stories.
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Ajax (Disney) - Mortimer Mouse
Two different characters in Mickey's world carry the name Mortimer Mouse. One is the uncle of Minnie Mouse; another is an unrelated mouse who was Mickey's rival for Minnie's affections. Mickey Mouse himself was originally going to be named Mortimer; however, Lillian Disney, Walt's wife, suggested the name Mickey instead.
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The first Mortimer was created by Walt Disney and Floyd Gottfredson for the comics. He was Minnie Mouse's ranch-owning cattleman uncle. He first appeared in the serial Mickey Mouse in Death Valley (1930). After that, he appeared or was referenced in many other Mickey Mouse comic strip adventures in the 1930s. He has occasionally appeared in more modern comics.
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In the 1936 cartoon short Mickey's Rival, the second Mortimer was introduced as Mickey's competitor for Minnie's affections
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In House of Mouse and Mickey Mouse Works, Mortimer as Mickey's rival is voiced by Maurice LaMarche, doing an exaggerated impersonation of Jon Lovitz
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Ajax (Disney) - Doctor Einmug
'Doctor Einmug' is a scientist who was created by Ted Osborne (plot) and Floyd Gottfredson (plot and art) in the story Island in the Sky, published in the Mickey Mouse daily strip from November 1936 to April He is a large man who wears a big white beard and laboratory coat.
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Doctor Einmug specializes in atomic physics and speaks in a German-like accent which was probably a nod towards Albert Einstein. His introductory story, Island in the Sky, raises many issues about the benefits but also the dangers of atomic physics just a few years before the first atom bombs were developed.
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After that, Einmug did not re-appear in American comics for almost 50 years, but he was used in Italian ones, starting some 12 years later in 1959 when he appeared in Romano Scarpa's Topolino e la dimensione Delta (Mickey Mouse and the Delta Dimension). In this story he had discovered the means to travel to what he called the Delta Dimension, which was effectively an infinite void of nothing, just space.
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Setting his laboratory up in the Delta Dimension, Einmug pursued his work and discovered that atoms were in fact living beings
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Einmug himself has also appeared in numerous European Mickey Mouse comics. He is often shown as less secretive and paranoid than in his original appearance, though his discoveries are still coveted by the likes of Pete (Disney)|Pete and the Phantom Blot.
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Einmug reappeared in American comics in 1991 in the story A Snatch in Time! in which he had developed a time machine. It was written by Lamar Waldron and drawn by Rick Hoover and Gary Martin. More recently, Einmug has also appeared in American editions of The Delta Dimension and other European-made stories.
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In American comics, Atomo Bleep-Bleep speaks with a German accent identical to Einmug's, insofar as Einmug was presented as Atomo's language teacher.
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Ajax (Disney) - Ellsworth
'Ellsworth' started out as Goofy's pet mynah bird but in later stories he became an independent anthropomorphic animal. His full name being Ellsworth Bheezer (occasionally misspelled Bhezer—beezer is old English slang for a big nose or beak). He was created for the Mickey Mouse Sunday pages, but has been used in longer comics as well, especially the ones produced in Italy, France and Brazil.
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Ajax (Disney) - Ellsworth
Ellsworth usually wears a red-orange shirt and a green cap or beret. Reflecting a trait of mynah birds who can imitate human speech, he is extremely vain and self-centered, which was originally the spotlight and center of jokes in his stories. On the other hand, Ellsworth is also a bonafide genius with awesome tech and scientific knowledge—the Y on his shirt in earlier stories stands for Yarvard (a parody of Harvard University|Harvard), his alma mater.
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Despite being more or less entirely humanized in more recent stories, Ellsworth retains his ability to fly, a unique trait among the central Disney funny animal cast.
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In manner, Ellsworth is often sarcastic and condescending, typically addressing others with statements like Let's not [do X], shall we? He's also quick to call others by insulting nicknames. But when push comes to shove, he's genuinely fond of and defensive of his pals Goofy and Mickey.
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'Bruto' (original Italian name; he has no English name) is Ellsworth's somewhat smaller adoptive son and Mickey Mouse's sidekick in numerous Italian stories. As of 2009, he has not appeared in United States|American comic books.
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Ajax (Disney) - Sylvester Shyster
'Sylvester Shyster' is a crooked lawyer and evil criminal mastermind who generally teams up with Peg-Leg Pete. The character has been described by some as a weasel or a rat (the latter being Gottfredson's own interpretation), but his ears suggest that he is rather an anthropomorphic Canidae|canine. His name in Italy|Italian translations is Lupo, meaning Wolf, even though he is clearly not one.
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He first appeared in the comic strip adventure Mickey Mouse in Death Valley, the first real Mickey Mouse continuity, which was partially written by Walt Disney and drawn by Win Smith (artist)|Win Smith and other artists, before being taken over by Floyd Gottfredson (plot and art). In this story, Sylvester Shyster was a crooked lawyer who attempted, with the help of his henchman Pete, to deprive Minnie Mouse of her inheritance.
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Shyster and Pete have been causing trouble for Mickey and his friends since then. Shyster is generally depicted as the duo's brain, with Pete acting as the brawn. He is probably the only person Pete will listen to without rebellion.
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After Shyster's first appearance, Gottfredson made no further references to his profession as a lawyer, apart from his name; one might theorize, though it is not canon, that Shyster was disbarred due to his arrest and imprisonment at the end of Mickey Mouse in Death Valley. Later creators occasionally referenced Shyster's role as a lawyer, with one story (Trial and Error, 2007) forcing Shyster to defend Mickey himself in an overseas courtroom.
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Shyster disappeared for a time after 1934, but made comebacks in 1942, 1950 and again in various 1960s Italian-created stories. More recently, publisher Egmont (media group)|Egmont Creative A/S (in Denmark) revived Shyster as a regular character, a capacity in which he continues today.
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In Race to the South Seas (March of Comics #41, 1949), a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, a variant of Shyster appeared as Scrooge McDuck's lawyer, but his appearance differed from that in the Mickey Mouse strip and he was not depicted as a villain in that story.
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Ajax (Disney) - The Sleuth
'The Sleuth' is an anthropomorphic Dog|canine
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The Sleuth is a good-natured gentleman; wearing a deerstalker hat, smoking a smoking pipe (tobacco)|pipe and using a magnifying glass, he is an obvious parody of Sherlock Holmes, Mickey basically playing the part of Dr
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The Sleuth's constant foes are Professor Nefarious (a parody of Professor Moriarty), a London-based teacher of crime and his three henchmen-pupils Fliplip, Sidney and Armadillo
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Apart from Mickey — and of course, the reader — no one seems to be aware of the Sleuth's utter incompetence. Nefarious considers the Sleuth — not Mickey — as his greatest enemy. Why Mickey would keep being the assistant of such an inept detective is never explained.
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Mickey and the Sleuth stories were produced up until the late 1980s.
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Ajax (Disney) - Eli Squinch
'Eli Squinch' is an evil miser who sometimes teams up with Pete (Disney)|Black Pete in the Mickey Mouse comics. He first appeared in Bobo the Elephant (1934) as the abusive owner of an elephant which Mickey later forced Squinch to sell him. In his second appearance, Race to Riches (1935), he teams up with Black Pete for the first time against Mickey and Horace Horsecollar.
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Squinch has gone on to appear in additional Disney stories up to the present day, though generally only one story every couple of years—while a recognized character, Squinch seems never to have been one of the most popular villains.
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Squinch's most recent United States appearance was in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #689 (2008), published by Gemstone Publishing|Gemstone.
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Ajax (Disney) - Doctor Vulter
'Doctor Vulter' is a villain featured in Mickey Mouse comics. He was created by Ted Osborne (plot) and Floyd Gottfredson (plot and art) in the story Mickey Mouse and the Pirate Submarine, published in the Mickey Mouse daily strip from September 1935 to January 1936.
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Vulter's Germanic-sounding name, his uniform and monocle, as well as his plans of world domination and militaristic gang, are obvious echoes of the Nazi menace of the time.
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After being defeated by Mickey, Vulter never appeared again in United States|American stories
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Ajax (Disney) - Gideon Goat
'Gideon Goat' or 'Giddy Goat' is an anthropomorphic goat, a supporting character in the Mickey Mouse comic strips of the 1930s
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Promotional materials for the 1935 animated short The Band Concert include Giddy Goat as one of the characters. In the released film, however, he was replaced by a dog trombonist character.
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Floyd Gottfredson made regular use of the character in his comic strips and later artists sometimes borrowed the character.
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Ajax (Disney) - Arizona Goof
'Arizona Goof' (original Italian name: 'Indiana Pipps') is an archaeology|archaeologist and a cousin of Goofy
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Ajax (Disney) - Arizona Goof
Arizona Goof received his English name in his first American comics appearance (1991). In a couple of appearances, the character was inexplicably renamed Arizona Dipp. But more recent uses (Disney Digicomics, 2009–2010) have restored his traditional English name.
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Ajax (Disney) - Arizona Goof
The character Arizona Goof was created by writer Bruno Sarda and artist Massimo De Vita in 1988, as a spoof of the film character Indiana Jones.
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Ajax (Disney) - Kat Nipp
'Kat Nipp' (not to be confused with Harvey Comics character Katnip), his name a play on the word catnip, is a villainous anthropomorphic cat. Kat Nipp is an often-drunk countryside tough guy who is a rival of Mickey Mouse.
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Nipp made his debut in the animated short The Opry House (1929), in which he posed as a snake for a snake-charming act—continuing to smoke his pipe all the while. Nipp's other two appearances in animation also came in 1929, with When the Cat's Away (1929 film)|When the Cat's Away and The Karnival Kid. The latter film introduced Nipp's habit of physically abusing Mickey, here by stretching out Mickey's nose to a ridiculous length.
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Kat Nipp reappeared in a 1931 sequence of the Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip (in which we also meet Kat Nipp's friend Barnacle Bill, a sailor who is an expert in untying knots). Kat Nipp was also used in the strips produced in Great Britain|Britain for the Mickey Mouse Annual. However, the character quickly faded away and has made only a handful of comics appearances since the mid-1930s.
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Ajax (Disney) - Rock Sassi
'Rock Sassi' (original Italian name; he has no English name) is a plainclothes police officer who usually works together with Detective Casey. He first appeared in the story La lunga notte del commissario Manetta in 1997.[ Rock Sassi] at the INDUCKS
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Like Casey, Rock Sassi is a bumbling and incompetent policeman. He is physically more robust than the overweight Casey and likes to dress flashily, often wearing cowboy boots, a stetson and a bolo tie.
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Rock Sassi is from Texas, United States. In one story, it was revealed that his entire family consists of criminals. However, despite this, Rock Sassi is fully law-abiding and has been wanting to be a policeman since his early childhood, much to the disappointment of his family.
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Ajax (Disney) - Clara Cluck
'Clara Cluck' debuted in 1934 in the Mickey Mouse cartoon Orphan's Benefit. Since then she has appeared as a semi regular character in the Mickey Mouse cartoons. In the comic books she is shown in Duck universe as Daisy Duck|Daisy Duck's best friend. Clara has been a member of Mickey's original farmyard gang since the beginning of his career, although she is seen less often than Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar.
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Clara's singing is meant to be a caricature of the Bel canto|Bel Canto style of Opera singing popular at the time of her appearance. Some of her arias are clearly modelled on those of Tosca. Her last major appearance was as one of the musicians in Symphony Hour. Curiously, although she is seen in the rehearsal scenes at the beginning, she is not seen in the performance scenes at the end.
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As with most Disney characters, she was given small cameos in Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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She also makes an appearance in the Mickey's Boo to You Parade and for rare meet and greets at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.
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Originally voiced by Florence Gill and later Russi Taylor.
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Ajax (Disney) - Spike the Bee
'Spike' is a small aggressive bee who is frequently an enemy of Donald and Pluto. In many of his appearances he is on a quest to gather food. He appears in Window Cleaners (1940), Inferior Decorator (1948), Bubble Bee (1949), Honey Harvester (1949), Slide, Donald, Slide (1949), Bee at the Beach (1950), Bee on Guard (1951) and Let's Stick Together (1952)
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Ajax (Disney) - Herman Beetle
'Herman' appears in cartoon shorts as old man beetle telling the audience flashback stories of his youth and Donald Duck serves as his nemesis
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Ajax (Disney) - Willie the Giant
'Willie the Giant' is a giant that appeared in the Disney cartoons Mickey and the Beanstalk (from the film Fun and Fancy Free, voiced by Billy Gilbert) and Mickey's Christmas Carol (voiced by Will Ryan)
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In Mickey and the Beanstalk, Willie serves as the primary villain
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In Mickey's Christmas Carol, Willie is portrayed in a much more positive light than he was in Mickey and the Beanstalk, serving as a supporting protagonist rather than a villain
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Willie is also a minor recurring character in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse children's series. Here, he is friends with Mickey. He still lives in the sky, only this time in a giant farm house.
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Ajax (Disney) - J. Audubon Woodlore
'J. Audubon Woodlore' is the park ranger of Brownstone National Park (a play on Yellowstone National Park), one of the features of which is a geyser named Old Fateful (a play on Old Faithful Geyser|Old Faithful). He was originally voiced by Bill Thompson (voice actor)|Bill Thompson. Woodlore's name is an inside joke-reference to John James Audubon, the famous 19th Century ornithologist/naturalist/painter. He is currently voiced by Corey Burton. and Later Jeff Bennett in the Future
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He first appeared in two 1954 Donald Duck cartoons Grin and Bear It and Grand Canyonscope. (It is revealed in the latter that Woodlore was a postal worker prior to his Ranger days.) One year later, in Beezy Bear, he repeatedly admonishes Humphrey the Bear You bathe too much!, not realising that the bear is really just hiding in the pond from the bees whose honey he was trying to steal.
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Woodlore prides himself on running a tight ship and is frequently oblivious to those (particularly Donald) who are humiliated and/or insulted by his constant scoldings and criticisms
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The Ranger also made an appearance in Down and Out With Donald Duck (also known as A Duckumentary), a mockumentary about Donald Duck's infamous temper, where he is out of uniform, now working in an employment agency where Donald seeks a job.
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Woodlore's name appeared on the entrance sign at Disneyland's Bear Country land, as the resident park ranger.
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Woodlore most recently appeared in an episode of Disney's House of Mouse.
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Ajax (Disney) - Ortensia the Cat
'Ortensia' is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's girlfriend
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Ajax (Disney) - The Mad Doctor
'The Mad Doctor' (also known as 'Dr. XXX') is a human mad scientist who serves as an infrequent antagonist of Mickey's. He first appeared in The Mad Doctor (1933 film)|his self-titled short, in which he attempted to operate on Pluto by attaching his body to that of a chicken; however, the entire sequence turned out to be a dream. Many years later, he served as a major antagonist in both Epic Mickey games.
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'Butch the Bulldog' is Pluto's nemesis. He first appeared in the film Bone Trouble where Pluto tried to steal his bone. Ever since then Butch has been antagonizing Pluto. Sometimes, Butch competes with Pluto for the affections of Dinah the Dachshund. At one point Butch even antagonized Figaro the Kitten. Butch appears in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse where his owner is Pete (Disney)|Pete.
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'Fifi the Peke' is Minnie's prize pooch and Pluto's girlfriend. In one cartoon Pluto and Fifi even had five puppies together. One of them was eventually named Pluto Junior. Later on Fifi was replaced as Pluto's girlfriend by Dinah the Dachshund. Fifi disappeared from animation but she appeared in the line of merchandise called Minnie 'n Me as Minnie's dog.
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'Dinah the Dachshund' appears as Pluto (dog)|Pluto's girlfriend although she sometimes dates Butch the Bulldog as well
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Dinah has more recently appeared in several cartoon shorts in the anthology series Mickey MouseWorks and Disney's House of Mouse, where 'Pluto's Arrow Error' shows Dinah as Butch's girlfriend first with no serious interest in Pluto.
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'Louie the Mountain Lion' is a mountain lion who appears as an occasional antagonist of Donald and Goofy. He first appears in two Donald Duck shorts and later Goofy shorts. He is buffonish and sometimes speaks English grumbly. His first appearance was in Lion Down where he attempts to eat Donald. In Hook, Line and Sinker (1950 film)|Hook, Line and Sinker he has a son. He also appears in Disney's House of Mouse.
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'Milton the Cat' is a red ginger Siamese cat and a rival of Pluto. He often competes with Pluto for food. He made his first appearance in the short Puss-Cafe with his pal Richard. He next appears in the short Plutopia where he talks in Pluto's dream. He made a final appearance in the short Cold Turkey (1951 short)|Cold Turkey fighting with Pluto for a roast turkey but both of them ended up with nothing.
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'Salty the Seal' is a seal who shows up in typical seal locations (the circus, the beach, the zoo, the arctic) and annoys Pluto into chasing him, causing Pluto to get into dangerous predicaments
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'Bent-Tail the Coyote' is a desert coyote and an opponent against Pluto. He always tries to get some food which Pluto is guarding (mostly livestock), but fails every time. He made his first appearance in The Legend of Coyote Rock trying to get at a flock of sheep. From the second short Sheep Dog (1949 film)|Sheep Dog onward he has a son who works with him. His last two starring shorts are Pests of the West and Camp Dog
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Ajax (Disney) - Ajax name brand
It bears no relationship to the real-world Ajax line of household cleaning products made and marketed by Colgate-Palmolive company and actually pre-dates the introduction of Ajax cleanser by Colgate-Palmolive in 1947.
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Ajax (comics) - Fictional character biography
Ajax is a member of the Pantheon (Marvel Comics)|Pantheon, and is one of the descendents of the immortal Agamemnon (comics)|Agamemnon, along with Achilles, Atalanta, Cassiopea, Delphi, Hector, Paris, Perseus, Prometheus, and Ulysses. Ajax was born in Texas. He was named after Ajax (mythology)|Ajax, a Greek warrior who fought in the Trojan War.
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When the Pantheon first encountered the Hulk (comics)|Hulk, Ajax fought him.Incredible Hulk #379 Ajax accompanied the Pantheon in bringing the captive Hulk to the Mount, but fought the Hulk again and was this time defeated by him.Incredible Hulk #381 He attacked the Hulk once more, but as the Hulk had joined the Pantheon, Atalanta helped Ajax reconcile with the Hulk.Incredible Hulk #382
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and the forces of Farnoq Dahn in the Trans-Sabal war,Incredible Hulk # ; X-Factor #76 and battled the Supreme Soviets|People's Protectorate.Incredible Hulk #393 When Atalanta was injured and invalid, Ajax visited her.Incredible Hulk #395 He battled Dracchiss alongside the Pantheon,Incredible Hulk Annual #18 and was badly burned in a fight with the U-Foes.Incredible Hulk #397
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When he discovered Atalanta and Achilles making love, Ajax flew into a jealous rage, even threatening to hurt Atalanta. He tried to kill himself, but was calmed down by the Hulk.Incredible Hulk #405
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Ajax (comics) - Powers and abilities
Without support from his battle-suit, Ajax's legs and spine would collapse under his tremendous weight
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Ajax (comics) - Mentality
Ajax took his rage out on an inanimate mountain, not realizing he was endangering himself as well
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Ajax (comics) - Mentality
The Hulk has also gotten into trouble when he fails to treat Ajax with the proper mind frame. At first he attacks Ajax again when he mistakes a simple hug for another threat against Atalanta. Then the Hulk let it slip that Bambi's mother had died, distressing Ajax who had been told, by Atalanta, she had run away and come back after the movie had ended.
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After being modified by Doctor Killebrew, Francis had enhanced strength, intuitive capacity, and after receiving implants, had super speed and agility. His nerves were also removed to dramatically increase his tolerance for pain.
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Ajax, West Virginia 'Ajax' is an Unincorporated area|unincorporated community located in Mingo County, West Virginia|Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. It was also known as 'Himler'.
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Ajax GO Station 'Ajax GO Station' is a railway station and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Ajax, Ontario|Ajax, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line train service, and is also a stop on GO Transit's Oshawa Highway 2 (Ontario)|Highway 2 (94) bus route. The station is located in proximity to Highway 401 (Ontario)|Highway 401, at the Westney Road exit, exit number 401.
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Ajax GO Station The station is also the Ajax hub for Durham Region Transit services, with most routes providing timed transfers to inbound (morning) and outbound (afternoon) GO trains. DRT's West Operational Facility, originally built for Ajax Transit, is located beside the station.
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The following Durham Region Transit routes operate from this station:
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The following GO Transit routes operate through this station:
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*90B Oshawa/Union Early Morning Bus
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*90C Newcastle/Union Early Morning Bus
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*96 Oshawa/Finch Express[ Oshawa/North York GO Bus Schedule]
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Ajax Sportman Combinatie
The 'Ajax Sportsman Combinatie' is a Netherlands|Dutch football (soccer)|football and cricket club, established in 1918 as a merger of the Leidsche Cricket- en Football-Club Ajax and Leidsche Athletiekvereeniging De Sportsman.
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Ajax Sportman Combinatie - Ajax
The Leidsche Cricket- en Football-Club Ajax was established on June 1, 1892, and played its first match in As the name indicates, the club was originally based in Leiden. The club moved to Oegstgeest in 1917, and was officially registered as an Oegstgeest-based club in 1985.
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Ajax won its first title in 1899, in the Tweede Klasse, then the second tier of football in the Netherlands. The club didn't lose any of the 12 matches that season, and had a goal difference of Key player L. Koolemans-Beijnen was selected for a precursor of the Netherlands national football team. Ajax reached the final of the KNVB Cup|Dutch cup competition in 1900, losing 3-1 to Velocitas of Breda in the final.
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Athletiekvereeniging De Sportman was established on August 30, It was involved in athletics, rowing, shooting, gymnastics, cycling and speed skating.
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FC Ajax Lasnamäe 'FC Ajax Lasnamäe' is an Estonian football (soccer)|football club based in Tallinn. They play in the II Liiga East/North zone, the third division in Estonian football.
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FC Ajax Lasnamäe - History
In 2003 and 2004 the club was known as F.C.A. Estel Tallinn.
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FC Ajax Lasnamäe - 2010 Season
FC Ajax Lasnamäe started the 2010 Esiliiga season strongly and eventually finished third behind both FC Flora's and Levadia's reserve squads and thus was promoted to Meistriliiga for the 2011 season.
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Ajax Cape Town FC Dutch Eredivisie club AFC Ajax is the parent club and acts as the majority shareholder.
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Ajax Cape Town FC - History
Ajax Cape Town was formed in 1999 by Rob Moore (South African Entrepreneur)|Rob Moore and John Comitis via the amalgamation of two Cape Town-based teams, Seven Stars (South African soccer club)|Seven Stars and Cape Town Spurs, as AFC Ajax expanded their worldwide talent-feeder network to South Africa.
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Ajax Cape Town FC - History
Ajax, nicknamed Urban Warriors, played their first official game against Kaizer Chiefs in the Iwisa Charity Spectacular on 17 July Ajax caused an upset when they beat Chiefs 1–0 with Sam Pam, the Ajax Cape Town captain, scoring the winning goal.
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Current national team coach Gordon Igesund, South Africa's most successful club coach,[ Soccer in South Africa] who won league titles with Manning Rangers, Orlando Pirates, Engen Santos|Santos and Mamelodi Sundowns|Sundowns, coached the club from 2002 until 2006.
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Since coming into existence, Ajax has never won the league title with their highest finish being runners-up in and Ajax managed to win the Rothmans Cup in 2000, the Nedbank Cup in 2007 and most recently the Telkom Knockout in 2008.
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Ajax Cape Town FC - History
In January 2007 Ajax CT managed to beat AFC Ajax 3–1 in a friendly game held in Cape Town. The next friendly, played in Amsterdam, ended in a 3–2 win for AFC Ajax in July 2009.
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Ajax Cape Town FC - History
Over the years several Ajax CT players have made the step to the mother club, among them Steven Pienaar in 2002, Daylon Claasen in 2009, Eyong Enoh in 2008 and Thulani Serero in 2011.
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In July 2013, following an abysmal 2012–13 campaign which saw Ajax Cape Town going through four managerial changes and just nearly escaping relegation, it was announced that George and John Comitis, longtime shareholders of the club, had sold their shares of the club back to AFC Ajax and that George would step down as the chairman of the club
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Ajax Cape Town FC - Youth program
Since the inception of the club from its merger under Rob Moore, Ajax Cape Town have imported the AFC Ajax philosophy and effective youth development schemes in the Western Cape. The majority of the senior squad players have come up from the club's own youth ranks, such as the likes of Nazeer Allie, Granwald Scott and Thulani Hlatshwayo, while others such as Steven Pienaar and Thulani Serero have moved on to some of the top clubs in Europe.
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With the introduction of the Ajax Cape Town Community Scheme in conjunction with the South African Police Services, Ajax CT also provides football opportunities to young people within the greater Cape Town area regardless of race, gender, social status or disability, facilitated through structured programs in a safe and fun learning environment.
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Since then the Ajax Cape Town Community Scheme has been implemented in more than 120 schools across the Western Cape as far as the Cape Winelands, reaching more than children.
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Ajax Cape Town FC - Stadium
The stadium located in Athlone, Cape Town was also host to some of Ajax CT early home matches as well.
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Moving to the Green Point Stadium, an 18,000 seat multi-purpose stadium in the Green Point area of Cape Town. The stadium was eventually demolished in 2007 to make way for the new Cape Town Stadium for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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Ajax Cape Town FC - Stadium
Construction of the new stadium was completed in 2009, and the Urban Warriors have played their home games at the Cape Town Stadium since the beginning of the Premier Soccer League season to an improved capacity of 55,000. On 3 August 2011 a contract extension of three years was negotiated with the stadium, which will see Ajax CT playing their home games there until 2014.
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The first match played at the new stadium was a Cape Town derby between Ajax CT and Santos Football Club (South Africa)|Santos on 23 January 2010 as part of the official inauguration of the stadium.
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Ajax Cape Town also has a modern training facility called Ikamva located in Parow, Cape Town. It serves as the training grounds for the senior squad, as well as for the Ajax Cape Town Youth Development Academy.
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NB: Does not include interim managers
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Ajax Cape Town FC - Performance in CAF competitions
* 'CAF Champions League: 2 appearances'
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::CAF Champions League 2005|2005 – Final Group Round
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* 'CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance'
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::2008 CAF Confederation Cup|2008 – First Round of 16
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Ajax Cape Town FC - Club records
* Most goals in a season: Mabhuti Khenyeza 23 (2008/09)
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* Record Victory: 5–1 vs Moroka Swallows (19/2/06, PSL); vs Mount Cameroon F.C.|Mount Cameroon FC (26/4/08, CAF Confederation Cup)
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* 1999–00 Premier Soccer League|1999/2000 – 4th
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* 2000–01 Premier Soccer League|2000/2001 – 11th
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* 2001–02 Premier Soccer League|2001/2002 – 14th
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* 2002–03 Premier Soccer League|2002/2003 – 13th
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* 2003–04 Premier Soccer League|2003/2004 – 2nd
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* 2004–05 Premier Soccer League|2004/2005 – 6th
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* 2005–06 Premier Soccer League|2005/2006 – 11th
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* 2006–07 Premier Soccer League|2006/2007 – 4th
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* 2007–08 Premier Soccer League|2007/2008 – 2nd
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* 2008–09 Premier Soccer League|2008/2009 – 7th
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* 2009–10 Premier Soccer League|2009/2010 – 7th
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* 2010–11 Premier Soccer League|2010/2011 – 2nd
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* 2011–12 Premier Soccer League|2011/2012 – 9th
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* 2012–13 Premier Soccer League|2012/2013 – 14th
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Ajax Cape Town FC - Club officials/Technical team
* Executive director: 'Ari Efstathiou'
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* Chief commercial officer: 'Alexi Efstathiou'
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* Head of youth development: 'Corné Groenendijk'
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Ajax Cape Town FC - Foreigners
In the South African PSL, only five non-South African nationals can be registered. Foreign players who have acquired permanent residency can be registered as locals.
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Nike Ajax Ajax was given the identifiers 'SAM-A-7' (Surface-to-air, Army, design 7), and then 'MIM-3' (Mobile Interceptor Missile, design 3) in 1962.[ Western Electric SAM-A-7/M1/MIM-3 Nike Ajax]Ajax was initially designated SAM-G-7, and later changed to SAM-A-7
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Nike Ajax Even while Ajax was being deployed, these concerns led to the contracts for the greatly improved MIM-14 Nike Hercules, which began deployment in 1959
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Nike Ajax Part of the Nike Ajax development program designed a new solid fuel rocket motor used for the missile's booster. This had originally been designed for the US Navy's missiles, and was enlarged for the Nike efforts. The rocket was so useful that it found numerous applications outside the military world as the Ajax missiles were decommissioned in the 1960s. Many sounding rockets used the booster as their first or second stage, and many of those used Nike in their name.
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Nike Ajax - Background The inherent inaccuracy of anti-aircraft artillery means that when shells reach their targets they are randomly distributed in space
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Nike Ajax - Background The western allies maintained air superiority for much of the war and their anti-aircraft systems were not as fully developed
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Nike Ajax - Background The introduction of German jet-powered bombers late in 1944 led to a re-evaluation of this policy, and on 26 January 1945 the Army Chief of Ordnance issued a requirement for a new guided missile weapon system. The request was passed to Bell Labs, then a world leader in radar, radio control and automated aiming systems (see Hendrik Wade Bode).
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Nike Ajax - Project Nike
Bell accepted the challenge, and 'Project Nike' was officially formed on 8 February The Bell team was given the task of attacking bombers flying at or more,Cagle says 600mph, but many other sources put it at 500 or more. at altitudes between , and performing a 3G turn at . Bell reported back on 14 May 1945 (and a formal report the next day) that such a development was indeed possible. They concluded that:
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A supersonic rocket missile should be vertically launched under the thrust of a solid-fuel booster which was then to be dropped; thence, self-propelled by a liquid-fuel motor, the missile should be guided to a predicted intercept point in space and detonated by remote control commands; these commands should be transmitted by radio signals determined by a ground-based computer associated with radar which would track both the target and the missile in flight.
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This was not the only Army missile project at the time, the US Army Air Force was involved in studies of the Boeing Ground-to-Air Pilotless Aircraft|Ground-to-Air Pilotless Aircraft (GAPA), a much longer-range system based on what was essentially a drone aircraft
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As part of the Key West Agreement, GAPA was handed to the newly formed US Air Force in 1948, when that force evolved out of the Army Air Force.[ GAPA (Ground-to-Air Pilotless Aircraft)], Boeing
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As the ranges and speeds being considered, even a supersonic rocket will take enough time to reach the target that the missile needs to lead the bomber in order to properly intercept it
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The Ballistics Research Laboratory was asked to calculate the proper warhead shaping to maximize the chance of a hit. Once determined, Picatinny Arsenal would produce the warhead, and Frankford Arsenal would provide a fuse. Douglas Aircraft would provide the missile airframe and carry out aerodynamic studies, while Aerojet would supply a solid fuel rocket booster for initial launch, and Bell Aircraft would provide a liquid fuel rocket for the upper stage sustainer.
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The initial design used a thin upper stage with eight JATO-derived boosters that were wrapped around its tail
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Early in the program it was realized that existing radar systems based on the conical scanning method did not supply the performance needed for a high-speed missile
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These changes, and many more, were summarized in a 28 January 1946 report. The project called for four rounds of test launches starting in 1946, with the aim of having a production design by 1949.
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Nike Ajax - Testing The first test firing of a static round was carried out at the White Sands Missile Range|White Sands Proving Ground on 17 September 1946, and then returned to Douglas in California for study
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Nike Ajax - Testing Eventually the team was forced to give up on the clustered booster concept
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Nike Ajax - Testing A new series of test firings started in September 1948, but were stopped until May 1949 after a number of modifications were carried out. Funding problems then delayed the program until January From late January through April another 16 missiles were fired, with much better results.
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Through early development, the Nike project had not been considered very important
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Keller examined the various ongoing projects and decided that the Nike was the best developed
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Production was launched in August 1952
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Nike Ajax - Deployment Deployment of the Nike I was under the direction of the Air Defense Artillery Branch (United States)|Army Antiaircraft Command, ARAACOM
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Nike Ajax - Deployment For range safety reasons, launch sites had to have considerable empty land around them in the event of an accidental warhead or fuel explosion. Originally this would require about 119 acres of land per site. This presented a serious problem for the planners, and especially the Corps of Engineers Real Estate Offices. As early as 1952 they had asked for a solution, which led to design architect Leon Chatelain, Jr. developing an underground configuration.
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Nike Ajax - Deployment On 15 November 1956 the missile was officially renamed as the 'Nike Ajax', as part of DA Circular
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Nike Ajax - Deployment Over the next four years, 265 batteries were constructed around the majority of major northern and coastal cities. They replaced 896 radar-guided anti-aircraft guns, leaving only a handful of 75mm Skysweeper emplacements as the only anti-aircraft artillery remaining in use by the US. All of the Skysweepers were removed from service by 1960.Stephen Moeller, [ Vigilant and Invincible], ADA Magazine, May/June 1995, Chapter 3, Modernization
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Nike Ajax - Deployment A Nike Ajax missile exploded accidentally at a battery in Leonardo, New Jersey on 22 May 1958, killing 6 soldiers and 4 civilians. A memorial can be found at Fort Hancock, New Jersey|Fort Hancock in the Sandy Hook Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area.[ Nike Battery NY-53 Middletown, NJ][ Nike Ajax Explosion - Sandy Hook, NJ]
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Nike Ajax - After Ajax Bell was asked to study this in May, and they considered two options; one used the WX-9 warhead on the existing missile, which they called Nike Ajax, while a slightly enlarged missile with the XW-7 warhead was known as Nike Hercules
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Nike Ajax - After Ajax But with those exceptions, Hercules was operationally similar to Ajax, and designed to operate at existing Ajax sites, using their launchers and underground facilities.
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Nike Ajax - After Ajax As the original Bell Nike team worked on Hercules, the nature of the strategic threat was changing
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Nike Ajax - After Ajax Like the Ajax and Hercules, Zeus could only attack a single target at a time, although by deploying multiple radars it was expected that up to six missiles could be guided at once
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As Ajax missiles were removed from service, thousands of unused booster rockets were left over from the program, and more when the Hercules was removed from service years later
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A complete Nike Ajax system consisted of several radars, computers, missiles and their launchers
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The launch area normally consisted of two or three underground facilities and their aboveground launchers
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Long distance surveillance was handled by the ACQ or LOPAR radar, short for Low-Power Acquisition Radar. LOPAR included an Identification friend or foe|IFF system and a system for handing off targets to the tracking radars. Two monopulse radar|monopulse tracking radars were used, the Target Tracking Radar (TTR) to track the target handed off by the LOPAR, and the Missile Tracking Radar (MTR) to track the missile as it flew toward the target.
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Nike Ajax - Description
Launch of the missile was accomplished by lighting the solid fuel booster, which provided 59,000lbf of thrust for three seconds
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As the various Ajax missile sites were overlapped, this led to the possibility that two sites might attack one target while another flew past both
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The Nike batteries were organized in Defense Areas and placed around population centers and strategic locations such as long-range bomber and important military/naval bases, nuclear production facilities and (later) ICBM sites
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Studies throughout the Nike project considered mobile launchers, but none were developed for the Ajax system. Missile sites were relocatable or transportable, and all of the support equipment was built into trailers or otherwise provided road wheels.Ed Thelen, [ Nike was 'mobile'?], Ed Thelen's Nike Missile Web Site.
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Nike Ajax - Bases * The best preserved Nike installation is site SF-88|SF88L located in the Marin Headlands just west of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. The site is a museum, and contains the missile bunkers, and control area, as well as period uniforms and vehicles that would have operated at the site. The site has been preserved in the condition it was in at the time it was decommissioned in The site began as a Nike Ajax base and was later converted to Nike Hercules.
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Nike Ajax - Bases * The second best preserved Nike installation is site NY-56 at Fort Hancock, New Jersey|Fort Hancock in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The site has been restored and contains the original missile bunkers, as well as three Nike Ajax and a Nike Hercules on display. The site is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax, Nike Hercules, and Nike Zeus are on display at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules are on display at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels, Belgium
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax and Hercules are on display at the Peterson Air and Space Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * Two Nike Ajax and a Hercules are on display at the Cape Canaveral Space Missile Museum in Cape Canaveral, Florida
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Hercules is on display at Nike Missile Site HM-69, now a registered historic site located within Everglades National Park
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* A Nike Ajax is on display at the War Museum in Athens, Greece
Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax is on display at the War Museum in Athens, Greece
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax and Hercules are on display in front of the VFW post in Cedar Lake, Indiana
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax and Hercules are on display at the Dutch Air Force Museum in Soesterberg, Netherlands
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax is on display near the administrative buildings at the former Nike site in Rustan, about 40km to the southwest of Oslo, Norway
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * Two Nike Ajax and a Nike Hercules are on display near the Bataan Building at Camp Perry, near Port Clinton, Ohio.
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax is on display near the Toledo Rockets Glass Bowl Stadium on the campus of the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio.
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax is displayed in front of an Army Surplus store located near the Letterkenny Army Depot in Pennsylvania.
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax and Hercules are on display at the Pennsylvania National Guard Department of Military Arts building at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania.
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax missile cutaway, as well as a complete Nike Ajax missile are on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian Air Space Museum at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Washington D.C.
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules are on display in the Berryman War Memorial Park in Bridgeport, Washington.
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax is on display at the Ft. Lewis Military Museum in Tacoma, Washington.
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax on its launcher is on display outside an American Legion hall in Okauchee Lake, Wisconsin
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax on its transporter (trailer) is on display outside a public storage (former site MS-20) facility in Roberts, Wisconsin
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Nike Ajax - Missiles * A Nike Ajax is on display in front of the Combat Air Museum in Topeka, Kansas.
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Ajax Heroes 'Ajax Heroes', (or officially 'Ajax København') is a Team handball|handball club based in northern Copenhagen, Denmark. The club is one of the most successful in the history of Danish handball, having won 9 Danish Handball League|Danish titles. Currently, Ajax Heroes competes in the men's Danish Handball League, and play their home matches in Bavnehøj-Hallen.
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Ajax Heroes - History The club was founded as 'IF Ajax' in During the following decades, the team took home 9 Danish championships, most recently in 1964.
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Ajax (band) Ajax is a New York-based band, led by female singer Arleen Mitchel. The outfit released the single Mind the Gap in 1989, on Wax Trax! Records. A full-length self-titled debut LP followed, which combined industrial and acid-house music. The album, and its two singles failed to chart.
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Ajax (band) Mitchel revived the name in the 1990s, most successfully on the 1995 single Ex-Junkie which became a minor club hit. Ex-Junkie is the band's first (and to date last) entry on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club charts, peaking at number 48.[ Billboard Chart Position]
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Ajax Orlando Prospects
'Ajax Orlando Prospects' was an American soccer team, founded in The team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2006, when the team left the league and the franchise was terminated.
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The Prospects played their home games at Warden Stadium on the grounds of The First Academy, a Christian college University-preparatory school|preparatory school in Orlando, Florida. The team's colors were white, red and black.
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The team was part of the 'Ajax America' organisation, an exclusive affiliate of the renowned Netherlands|Dutch football club AFC Ajax’s North American marketing and player development program.
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Ajax Orlando Prospects - Stadia
* Austin Tindell Sports Complex, Orlando, Florida 2004 (1 game)
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* Stadium at Lakeland Christian Academy (Lakeland, Florida)|Lakeland Christian Academy, Lakeland, Florida 2005
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* Bryant Stadium, Lakeland, Florida 2005 (1 game)
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* Warden Stadium, Orlando, Florida 2006
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Ajax (1913 automobile) The 'Ajax' was a France|French automobile built by the United States|American Briscoe brothers, Benjamin Briscoe|Benjamin and Frank, between 1913 and Originally built in Neuilly, it was a 12horsepower|hp cyclecar with 980cc 4-cylinder engine with friction drive. It sold for ₤78.
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Ajax (1913 automobile) Production continued after the brothers returned to the United States where they built the Argo car, which was similar to the Ajax, differing in the inclusion of a more conventional transmission.
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The 'Ajax' was a Switzerland|Swiss automobile built from 1906 to 1910.
Ajax (1906 automobile) The 'Ajax' was a Switzerland|Swiss automobile built from 1906 to 1910.
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Ajax (1906 automobile) In 1907 two Ajax cars competed at the Targa Florio race. One car was crashed, the other failed. The company made an unsuccessful venture into the Droschke (taxicab|taxi) business which forced its closure once again in February 1910, this time for good.
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Ajax was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2004.
Ajax II Ajax was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Ajax II - Breeding Medmenham was a race winner in Australia after her importation and was the dam of two other winners in Humorist and Hesione (won AJC Gimcrack Stakes, Maribyrnong Plate and Coolmore Stud Stakes|VRC Ascot Vale (2yo) Stakes).Barrie, Douglas M., Valley of Champions, Halstead Press, Sydney, 1960, p Ajax was Inbreeding|inbred to Cyllene (horse)|Cyllene (4m x 4m x 4f) and also to Martagon (4m x 4f) in the fourth generation of his Pedigree chart|pedigree.Morris Simon; Tesio Power Stallions of the World, Syntax Software
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Ajax II - Racing record Ajax was ridden by Victoria’s leading jockey and Australian Racing Hall of Fame inductee, the diminutive Harold Badger, in 37 races for 30 wins, five seconds, and two-thirds.
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Ajax II - At two years: 1936–1937 Ajax next finished second to Caesar in the Coolmore Stud Stakes|Ascot Vale Stakes, before he returned to New South Wales for wins in the AJC Sires Produce Stakes (defeating Caesar by five lengths and setting a new race record) and the Champagne Stakes (Australia)|AJC Champagne Stakes from Hua by a margin of two lengths.Pring, Peter; Analysis of Champion Racehorses, The Thoroughbred Press, Sydney, 1977, ISBN , p
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Ajax commenced his three-year-old season by winning the VATC Chatsworth Plate and then the Rosehill Guineas in a new race record time. In the AJC Derby he was defeated, by a length, by Avenger, to whom he had conceded two stone (12.7kg). Taken to Melbourne he won the Caulfield Guineas in another race record time, from Avenger and Hua, only to lose the Victoria Derby by half a head from Hua.
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The above placings were followed by Ajax’s eighteen consecutive victories:
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* 4 November weight for age (wfa) VRC Linlithgow Stakes over 8furlongs (1 mile or 1,600m)
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* 19 February VATC Futurity Stakes (Australia)|Futurity Stakes, carried 9st. 6lbs (70.5kg) and set a new race record
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* 26 February VRC Newmarket Handicap with a 3yo weight carrying record 9stone (8lbs above wfa)
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* 20 April AJC All Aged Stakes over 8furlongs
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* 23 April 1938 wfa AJC C.W. Cropper Plate 6furlongs (1,200metres)
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Ajax’s long successive winning streak continued with these wins:
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* 27 August 1938 wfa Williamstown Underwood Stakes over 8furlongs
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* 3 September 1938 wfa VATC Memsie Stakes 9 furlongs
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* 1 October 1938 wfa VRC LKS Mackinnon Stakes|Melbourne Stakes over 8furlongs
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* 12 October 1938 wfa Caulfield Stakes over 8furlongs
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* 29 October 1938 wfa VRC LKS MacKinnon Stakes 10 furlongs
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* 3 November 1938 wfa VRC Linlithgow Stakes over 8 furlongs
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* 5 November 1938 wfa VRC CB Fisher Plate 12 furlongs (2,400m)
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* 25 February 1939 VATC Futurity Stakes, for the second time, with 10 stone 6lbs. (66kg)
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* 11 March 1939 VRC C.M. Lloyd Stakes in which he started at the odds of 20/1 onBarrie, Douglas M., The Australian Bloodhorse, Angus Robertson, Sydney, 1956, p
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He was best remembered for winning these 18 consecutive races and for being defeated at his next start in the 1939 Rawson Stakes, when at 40/1 on, in a three horse race where he went down to Spear Chief by half a length.
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A fortnight later Ajax returned to the winning list in the AJC All Aged Plate and three days later won the CW Cropper Plate for the second time. Ajax finished his a four-year-old season with 15 starts for 14 wins and 1 second.
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Ajax was a 12 to 1 on when he won the VRC King's Plate
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Ajax II - At six years: 1940 As a six-year-old Ajax again won the Memsie Stakes, Melbourne Stakes and the Underwood Stakes, again for the third time. Ajax was second, by half a neck, to favourite Beau Vite in the 1940 WS Cox Plate and also finished second to High Caste in the Caulfield Stakes.
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Ajax won the All Aged Stakes, Memsie Stakes, Futurity Stakes and Underwood Stakes three times each and the 1938 Cox Plate. Ajax's record was 46 starts for 36 wins, 7 seconds and 2 thirds for prize money of £40,250. Ajax is the shortest-priced favourite ever defeated in Australia. In the 1939 Rawson Stakes, Ajax started as 40 to 1 on favourite, and was defeated by Spear Chief by half a length.
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Ajax II - Stud record He was retired to stud during 1941 to the Widden Valley region of the upper Hunter Region. Ajax was a prolific sire that produced nine individual stakes winners including these good horses:
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*Achilles (won Australian Jockey Club|AJC Epsom Handicap)
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Ajax II - Stud record *Magnificent (AJC Sires' Produce S, Champagne Stakes (Australia)|Champagne Stakes, AJC Australian Derby and Victoria Racing Club|VRC Derby).
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Ajax II - Stud record * Magnificent Lady, dam of Birthday Card (Golden Slipper Stakes and Sandown Guineas)
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Ajax’s Australian progeny earned £133,739.
Ajax II - Stud record Ajax’s Australian progeny earned £133,739.
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Ajax II - Stud record In 1948 he was sold as a 14-year old horse to the United States of America for 13,000 guineas to Mr W.J. Smith who later resold him to Messrs. Bing Crosby and Lin Howard. Ajax did not meet with the same stud success in America that he had in Australia, but he did sire Avracado $71,813, Trebor Yug $19,420 and A. Jaxson $11,444.
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Ajax II - Stud record All this justified Ajax’s inclusion in the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Ajax II - Stud record The Group races|Group 2 Sydney Turf Club Ajax Stakes contested at Rosehill Racecourse in Sydney are named in his honour.
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Ajax (mythology) :Aias redirects here. For other uses of this name, see AIAS (disambiguation) and Ajax (disambiguation).
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Ajax (mythology) To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus (Ajax the Lesser), he is called 'Telamonian Ajax', 'Greater Ajax', or 'Ajax the Great'
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Ajax (mythology) - Family
The Italian scholar Maggiani recently showed that on an Etruscan tomb dedicated to Racvi Satlnei in Bologna (5th century BC) there is a writing that says: aivastelmunsl = family of Ajax Télamon.
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Ajax (mythology) - Description
he was trained by the centaur Chiron (who had trained Ajax' father Telamon and Achilles' father Peleus and would later die of an accidental wound inflicted by Heracles, whom he was at the time training), at the same time as Achilles
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Ajax (mythology) - Description
Most notably, Ajax is not wounded in any of the battles described in the Iliad, and he is the only principal character on either side who does not receive substantial assistance from any of the gods who take part in the battles, although, in book 13, Poseidon strikes Ajax with his staff, renewing his strength.
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Ajax (mythology) - Trojan War
Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, but Hector fights on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw: the action ends without a winner and with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax a sharp sword
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Ajax (mythology) - Trojan War
Ajax is responsible for the death of many Trojans lords, including Phorcys (Trojan War)|Phorcys
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Ajax often fought in tandem with his brother Teucer, known for his skill with the bow. Ajax would wield his magnificent shield, as Teucer stood behind picking off enemy Trojans.
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Ajax (mythology) - Trojan War
Achilles was absent during these encounters because of his feud with Agamemnon. In Book 9, Agamemnon and the other Mycenaean chiefs send Ajax, Odysseus and Phoenix (son of Amyntor)|Phoenix to the tent of Achilles in an attempt to reconcile with the great warrior and induce him to return to the fight. Although Ajax speaks earnestly and is well received, he does not succeed in convincing Achilles.
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According to Hyginus, in total, Ajax killed 28 people at Troy.Hyginus, Fabulae [ 114].
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Ajax (mythology) - Death
Ajax, Unconquered, and furious, falls upon his own sword, conquered by his [own] sorrow.Metamorphoses, trans
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He does so with the same sword Hector gave him when they exchanged presents.Iliad, From his blood sprang a red flower, as at the death of Hyacinth (mythology)|Hyacinthus, which bore on its leaves the initial letters of his name Ai, also expressive of lament.Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias His ashes were deposited in a golden urn on the Rhoiteion#The Tomb of Ajax|Rhoetean promontory at the entrance of the Hellespont.
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Ajax's half-brother Teucer stood trial before his father for not bringing Ajax's body or weapons back where Teucer was acquitted for responsibility but found guilty of negligence. He was disowned by his father and wasn't allowed back on Salamis Island.
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Homer is somewhat vague about the precise manner of Ajax's death but does ascribe it to his loss in the dispute over Achilles' shield; when Odysseus visits Hades, he begs the soul of Ajax to speak to him, but Ajax, still resentful over the old quarrel, refuses and descends silently back into Erebus.
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Ajax (mythology) - Death
Pausanias also relates that a gigantic skeleton, its kneecap in diameter, appeared on the beach near Sigeion, on the Trojan coast; these bones were identified as those of Ajax.
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Ajax (mythology) - Palace
In 2001, Yannos Lolos began excavating a Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean palace on the island of Salamis which he supposed to be the home of the mythological Aiacid dynasty
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Ajax High School 'Ajax High School (AHS)' is located in Ajax, Ontario|Ajax, Ontario, Canada within the Durham District School Board. It is the largest secondary school in southern Ajax and the fourth-largest in all of Ajax, Ontario|Ajax. The school teaches students in grades 9-12 and offers a wide range of academic and extracurricular activities. The school also offers a French Immersion program. Ajax High School was given a 6.4 rating in 2007 and ranked 379th th out of 725 schools across Ontario.
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Ajax High School The school was opened in 1956 and has since undergone several large expansions. In the 1960s, a large section that today houses the main office, cafetorium, front entrance, courtyard, as well as several classrooms, was added. Later, in the early 2000s, an entire wing was added. Many of these classrooms are now devoted to mathematics and science courses.
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Ajax High School The school also organizes multiple events who constantly help make a difference in the surrounding community and worldwide
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USS Ajax Four ships of the United States Navy have been named 'Ajax', after Ajax (mythology)|Ajax, a Greek hero during the Trojan War.
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USS Ajax *, launched in 1864 as USS Manayunk, renamed Ajax in Decommissioned 1898.
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USS Ajax *, named Scindia, a collier, purchased in 1898 and later converted to a seaplane tender. Decommissioned in 1925.
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USS Ajax * , a research vessel acquired in 1917, renamed USS Rockport in Sold
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USS Ajax *, a Vulcan-class repair ship, launched in 1941 and decommissioned in 1989.
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Ajax Records (Quebec) 'Ajax Records' was a North American record company, pressed in Canada and sold in the United States from 1923 in music|1923 through 1925 in music| The company produced several important jazz and blues recordings during a pivotal time period for African-American music.
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Ajax Records (Quebec) - History
The last Ajax released was in August of 1925.
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Ajax Records (Quebec) - Recordings and Marketing
Mamie Smith, who went on to record for Victor Talking Machine Company|Victor Records when Ajax folded, was signed away from Okeh Records in 1924
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Ajax Records (Quebec) - Legacy
After Ajax was discontinued in 1925, some of the masters were reissued on the American Pathé Records|Pathé label. The audio fidelity of Ajax discs is above average for the time. Most issues are acoustic, but some late Ajax releases are electrically recorded. The historical and musical importance of the performances, and the quality of the recordings and pressings make Ajax records highly sought-after by many record collectors.
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Ajax de Ouenzé 'Ajax de Ouenzé' is a Congolese football (soccer) club based in Ouenzé, Brazzaville, that plays in the Congo Premier League.
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Ajax de Ouenzé - Honours
*'Congo Premier League: 0'
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Ajax (cleaning product)
It was one of the company's first major brands.[ The History of Soaps and Detergents], About.com The ingredients of its scouring cleanser product include sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate, sodium carbonate, and quartz.[ Product Name: Ajax Scouring Cleanser]
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The Ajax name was successfully transferred to an entire line of household cleaning products and detergents; the line enjoyed its greatest success in the 1960s and early 70s. Ajax All-Purpose Cleaner with Ammonia, introduced in 1962, was the first major competitor to Mr. Clean, which Procter and Gamble debuted in Ajax' success as the so-called White Tornado forced Procter and Gamble to introduce its own ammoniated cleaner, Top Job, in 1963.
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Ajax (cleaning product)
The brand name continues on a line of industrial detergents, cleaners and disinfectants.[ Ajax] products page at Colgate Commercial Colgate-Palmolive Company sold the US and Canadian rights to the Ajax brand name on laundry detergents, as well as to other laundry products as Fab (detergent)|Fab and Cold Power, to Phoenix Brands in 2005.
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Ajax (cleaning product)
Ajax Laundry Detergent was available in a liquid formula, with and without bleach, beginning in the mid-1980s.
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Ajax (cleaning product)
Three Ajax Spray n' Wipe products (an all-purpose cleaner, a bathroom cleaner, and a window cleaner) are well known in Australia New Zealand, where they are among the market leaders.[ Home care in New Zealand], Euromonitor report, July Ranked second was Colgate-Palmolive holding 20% value share, with its leading surface care brand Ajax. Retrieved
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Ajax (cleaning product) - Advertising
Another early slogan was Ajax..
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Ajax (cleaning product) - Advertising
The first slogan would be used again for its Ajax Laundry Detergent, when introduced in the early 1960s, with an armed knight riding a white horse. At the end of the The Doors|Doors song Touch Me (The Doors song)|Touch Me, Jim Morrison can be heard saying the slogan Stronger Than Dirt. A widely mocked commercial in the late 1970s and early 1980s declared, Armed... with AJAX!
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Ajax (cleaning product) - Advertising
United States actor Eugene Roche gained household fame as AJAX man, Squeaky Clean, in many 1970s television commercials.
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Ajax (cleaning product) - Advertising
In the UK, character actress Ann Lancaster appeared on television advertisements featuring the slogan, It cleans like a white tornado. However, Colgate ceased all UK advertising for the brand in 1996.[ Axe looms over AJAX as Colgate ditches support], Marketing Week, 19 Jan Retrieved
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Ajax (cleaning product) - Advertising
In Australia, a number of memorable, if widely panned, television commercials were produced for Ajax Spray n' Wipe from around 1988 to 2010, which were all accompanied with the same music, and featured soap opera|soap actress Paula Duncan and the same family members.
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Ajax (DJ) 'Adrian Thomas' (5 August 1971– 28 February 2013), better known as 'DJ Ajax', was an Australians|Australian Electronic Dance Music DJ known for playing a wide range of styles, including Electro music|electro, techno and electroclash.
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Ajax (DJ) - Career Thomas was a radio show host for Sunsets (Bang Gang Show) on FBi Radio|FBI Radio 94.5 and a founding member of Australian collective Bang Gang.
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Ajax (DJ) - Career He toured France, USA and the UK in 2006 for Modular UK and released a remix/mix CD package Spin City through Tinted Records. In turn, he mixed Ministry of Sound Mashed 1 and Ministry of Sound Mashed 2 with Bang Gang DJs in 2002 and 2004 respectively, and a mix CD with Tiga (musician)|Tiga titled INTHEMIX.05|In the Mix in 2005.
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Ajax (DJ) - Career Ajax was voted one of Australia's top 5 DJs in the inthemix 50 poll, taking out the number one spot in both 2006 and 2007.[ inthemix50: 2009], inthemix.com.au.
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Ajax (DJ) - Death Thomas was crossing a road in Parkville, Victoria|Parkville, an inner Melbourne suburb, in the early hours of 28 February 2013 when he was hit by a truck and died at the scene.
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Ajax (missionary) 'Ajax' was an Arianism|Arian missionary to the Germanic paganism|pagan Suevi of Kingdom of Galicia|Galicia who converted them to Christianity in 464Thompson, Spain and Britain, in Romans and Barbarians, 215. or 466.Wolfram, 181.Mathisen, 683.
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Due in part to his unusual Homeric name his origins have been debated
Ajax (missionary) Due in part to his unusual Homeric name his origins have been debated
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Ajax (missionary) Ajax was sent by Theodoric II, king of the Visigoths at Toulouse, to convert the Suevi to Arianism. The barbarian Arians showed a markedly greater missionary fervour than the Catholics in the fifth century.Thompson, Barbarian Collaborators and Christians, 240. Theodoric's action may have been a result of the reopening of Suevo-Gothic diplomacy under the Suevic king Remismund, who married a Gothic princess and became a son in arms of Theodoric. He may have been sent at Remismund's request.
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Ajax (missionary) Ajax was also a senior Arrianus inter Suevos, which may refer either to a bishop or a priest, or may not
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Ajax (missionary) Ajax's missionary venture was largely successful, especially amongst the nobility.Ferreiro, 202. He may well not have been the only Arian missionary sent to Galicia by the Visigoths; though he seems to have organised an influential church there.Ferreiro, 207.
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Ajax Duckman 'Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man' is an American animated sitcom that aired from 1994–1997, created by Everett Peck and developed by Peck. The sitcom is based on characters created by Peck in his Dark Horse Comics|Dark Horse comic. Klasky Csupo animated the series and produced it along with Reno Osborn Productions for Paramount Television|Paramount Network Television.
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Ajax Duckman - Description
The series consists of 70 episodes that aired on Saturday nights from 1994 to 1997 on the USA Network
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Ajax Duckman - Plot The series follows the adventures of a lascivious, widowed private detective duck, Eric T. Duckman who lives with his three sons, mother-in-law and sister-in-law Bernice (his late wife Beatrice's identical twin). The tagline of the show, seen in the opening credits, is Private Dick/Family Man (dick being short for detective, as well as serving as a double entendre).
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Ajax Duckman - Plot The series takes place in Los Angeles, as indicated by the episode Bev Takes a Holiday, when Beverly's detective tells her, here is the address in LA, when referring to Duckman's address.
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Ajax Duckman - Main characters
He is a widower; when his wife Beatrice died, she left their house to her sister Bernice, so as to ensure some sort of stable environment for her and Duckman's three children: Ajax, Charles and Mambo
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Ajax Duckman - Main characters
In season 4 it was revealed that Cornfed is a Lieutenant colonel (United States)|Lieutenant Colonel in the National Guard of the United States|National Guard.Season 4, Episode 18: Kidney, Popsicle, and Nuts The series has portrayed different ways in which he met Duckman: saving his life three times while working at a bakery; meeting at an airport before Ajax was born; and the two having attended high school together.
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Ajax Duckman - Main characters
Ajax is a huge Merv Griffin fan.
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Ajax Duckman - Main characters
*'Charles and Mambo Duckman' (voiced by: Dana Hill then Pat Musick, and Elizabeth Daily|E
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Ajax Duckman - Main characters
*'Bernice Florence Hufnagel' (voiced by Nancy Travis): Duckman's sister-in-law; the identical twin of Beatrice
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Ajax Duckman - Main characters
*'Grandma-ma/Sophia Longnameovich' (voiced by Nancy Travis): Duckman's apparently comatose, immensely flatulent mother-in-law
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Ajax Duckman - Main characters
*'Fluffy and Uranus' (voiced by Pat Musick): Duckman's two Care Bears|Care Bear-esque teddy-bear office assistants
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Ajax Duckman - Recurring characters
*'George Herbert Walker King Chicken' (voiced by Tim Curry): Duckman's nemesis
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Ajax Duckman - Recurring characters
Soon afterwards, she found out she was pregnant with Duckman's first son, Ajax
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Ajax Duckman - Recurring characters
*'Beverly Glenn Hufnagel' (voiced by Nancy Travis): Beatrice and Bernice's long-lost sister
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*'Gecko': Duckman's purple dog. In one episode, it was implied that Gecko was stolen by Duckman from one of his neighbors, and that his true name is Sparky.Duckman Season 1, Episode 10: Cellar Beware In the episode The Amazing Colossal Duckman, we find out he can talk, walk on two legs and smoke a pipe.
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Ajax Duckman - Guest stars
The show regularly featured high-profile guest stars, including:
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Ajax Duckman - Final episode
In the final episode, four couples (Dr
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Ajax Duckman - Video game
Towards the end of the series, a point-and-click adventure game called Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick was created for PC. In it, Duckman has become a famous detective, and a television series based on him is about to debut, but someone is pushing Duckman out of his own life, and replacing him with a bigger, better, heroic Duckman. The player's goal is to help Duckman get rid of the impostor and reclaim his rightful place.
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Ajax Duckman - Video game
Apparently it's one of the rarest CD-ROM adventure games of all time due to its limited distribution. Originally intended for release in the United States, the game was completed and ready for distribution when the publisher, PlayMates Toys, declared bankruptcy. Eventually the rights were bought at auction by FunSoft; the game had localized text added to replace the English (audio was untouched) and it was released in Germany and South Korea.
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Ajax Duckman - Episodes and home release
In January 2008, TVShowsonDVD.com reported that Duckman would be coming to region 1 DVD.[ Duckman – Studio Exec VP Goes on Record: Duckman Coming to DVD!] Details followed in May, when it was announced that the first release in the series would be the first two seasons, 22 combined episodes on three discs, on September 16, 2008.[ Duckman DVD news: Announcement for Duckman – Seasons 1 and 2] The final two seasons, 48 episodes, were released on a seven disc set on January 6, 2009.[ Duckman – An Update About the Seasons 3 4 DVD release (Yes, It Really Is Both Seasons!)] Both DVD sets were released by CBS Home Entertainment
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Ajax Duckman - Reception
In January 2009, IGN listed Duckman as the 48th best in the Top 100 Best Animated TV Shows.
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Ajax (1921 automobile) The 'Ajax' was an United States|American assembled 5 seat touring car automobile that never went beyond the prototypical stage. It was to have a Continental automobile|Continental 7-R six-cylinder (engine)|cylinder engine with a wheelbase, and had been slated to begin production in 1921.
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Ajax (American automobile)
See also: Ajax (1906 automobile) - Swiss car; Ajax (1913 automobile) - French car; or Ajax (1921 automobile) - American car.
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Ajax (American automobile)
The 'Ajax' was an United States|American automobile brand manufactured by the Nash Motors Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin|Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1925 and The Ajax was produced in the newly acquired Mitchell Motors Company plant in Racine, Wisconsin. In 1926, all Ajax models were converted into Nash Light Sixes.
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Ajax (American automobile) - Origin
Demand for Nash automobiles was so high that by November 1924, the company's existing plants were operating around the clock six days a week and Charles Warren Nash|Charles W. Nash announced a United States dollar|US$1 million expansion at the automaker's original Kenosha facility.
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Ajax (American automobile) - Origin
Mitchell Motors Company was the manufacturer of Mitchell (automobile)|Mitchell brand automobiles from 1903 to In April 1923 the company was forced into bankruptcy. At the 31 January 1924 auction of the Mitchell land and buildings with of floor space, Charles Nash offered the winning bid of $405,000.
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Ajax (American automobile) - Origin
The Ajax was built using machinery moved from Nash's other acquisition, the LaFayette Motors Company of Milwaukee, and installed in the Racine plant. Thus, new Ajax was based on an earlier design, premium version of the Lafayette from the early 1920s. The Ajax was available in three body styles: 4-door sedan, 4-door touring, and a 2-door sedan. The advertised retail price was $865 for the five-passenger touring car, and $995 for the five-passenger four-door sedan.
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Ajax (American automobile) - Origin
The Ajax came standard with engineering and quality features that included a flathead engine|L-head Nash straight-six engine with a seven main bearing crankshaft, force-feed lubrication system, three-speed transmission, four-wheel brakes (at that time unusual for a car of its price), steel disc wheels, as well as mohair velvet upholstery and an electric clock. The Ajax Six produced genuine 60mph (97km/h) driving, and its features were not found on cars of this size and low price.
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