Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mary Violet Leontyne Price (/ l i ˈ ɒ n t iː n, ˈ l iː ə n t iː n / lee-ON-teen, LEE-ən-teen; born February 10, 1927) is an American spinto soprano who was the first African-American soprano to receive international acclaim. [1] From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera.
The Prentice position. The Prentice position is an orientation of a prism, used in optics, optometry and ophthalmology. [1] In this position, named after the optician Charles F. Prentice, the prism is oriented such that light enters it at an angle of 90° to the first surface, so that the beam does not refract at that surface.
Mary Victoria Price (born April 27, 1962) is an American public speaker and the author of the memoir, The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self and Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. She currently spends much of her time traveling and speaking about the life of her father, Vincent Price , as well as discussing self-development ...
In computing, an optical disc drive (ODD) is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs.
Eugenia Price (sometimes Genie Price; [1] June 22, 1916 – May 28, 1996) was an American author best known for her religious and self-help books, ...
Neil Stuppel Price is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of Viking Age Scandinavia and the archaeology of shamanism. He is currently a professor in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University , Sweden.
The unwanted interference effects are suppressed by vapour-depositing a special dielectric coating known as a phase-compensating coating on the roof surfaces of the roof prism. These phase-correction coating or P-coating on the roof surfaces was developed in 1988 by Adolf Weyrauch at Carl Zeiss [6] Other manufacturers followed soon, and since ...
Pamela Y. Price (born 1957) is an American attorney serving as the District Attorney of Alameda County, California, since January 2023. A member of the Democratic Party , she is the first African-American woman to hold the office.