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61Ma On Shan Country Park — Some of Hong Kong s most dramatic scenery is to be found within the boundaries of the Ma On Shan Country Park (zh t|t=馬鞍山郊野公園). The park was established on April 27, 1979. Located in the central neck of the Sai Kung peninsula in the eastern New… …
62Shing Mun Country Park — The Shing Mun Country Park (established June 24 1977) is a country park of Hong Kong, hugging the Shing Mun Reservoir.LocationLocated in the central New Territories, it covers a total of 14 km². It extends from Lead Mine Pass in the north, to the …
63Blit (computer terminal) — In computing, the Blit was a programmable bitmap graphics terminal designed by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi Jr. of Bell Labs in 1982. When initially switched on, the Blit looked like an ordinary textual terminal, although taller than usual: Similar …
64William Curtis Noyes — William Curtis Noyes, jurist, born in Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York, 19 August, 1805; died in New York City, 25 December, 1864.He began the study of law when he was 14 in the office of Samuel B. Ludlow of Albany. His parents soon… …
65Fitz James O'Brien — (December 31 1828 April 6 1862) was an author and is often considered one of the forerunners of today s Science Fiction.He was born Michael O Brien in County Cork, and was very young when the family moved to Limerick, Ireland, educated at the… …
66Lion Rock Country Park — (zh t|t=獅子山郊野公園) (established June 24 1977) is a country park, located in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It consists of approximately 5.57 square kilometres of land, including Lion Rock and Mong Fu Shek and their surrounding scenic hillsides, of …
67Country parks and conservation in Hong Kong — Although Hong Kong is regarded as one of the world s great cities, out of the total 1,092 km² of land, about three quarters is countryside. Scenically, Hong Kong has a great deal to offer a landscape rising from sandy beaches and rocky foreshores …
68Emissary (hydraulics) — For other uses of the word see Emissary. An emissary (Latin emissarium , from ex and mittere , to send out) is a channel, natural or artificial, by which an outlet is formed to carry off any stagnant body of water. Such channels may be either… …
69Daniel Wilson (bishop) — For other people named Daniel Wilson, see Daniel Wilson (disambiguation). Bishop Daniel Wilson, 1832 Daniel Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata), born in Spitalfields, London, 2 July 1778, died in Calcutta, 2 January 1858. He was educated at… …
70Pat Sin Leng Country Park — (established August 18 1978), Plover Cove Country Park (established April 7 1978) and Plover Cove Extension Country Park (established June 1 1979) are country parks of Hong Kong, LocationHills, water, trees and flowers all the elements of the… …
