Occidental may refer to: . Western world (of or pertaining to); Places. Occidental, California, a town in Sonoma County, California, US; Occidental Park (Seattle) Other uses. Interlingue, a constructed language formerly known as Occidental; Occidental College, located in Los Angeles, California, US; Occidental Life Insurance Company, a former American insurer ...

The Western Hemisphere is the half of Earth that lies west of the prime meridian (which crosses Greenwich, London, United Kingdom) and east of the antimeridian. The other half is called the Eastern Hemisphere.Politically, the term Western Hemisphere is often used as a metonymy for the Americas, even though geographically the hemisphere also includes parts of other continents.

West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the 12th-least populous state, with a population of ...

Arts and entertainment. MODE (magazine), a defunct U.S. women's fashion magazine; Mode magazine, a fictional fashion magazine which is the setting for the ABC series Ugly Betty; Mode, a 1996 video game; Mode Records, a record label; Mode Media, a defunct digital media company; Mode series, a quartet of novels by Piers Anthony; Modern Organization for Dance …

A computer is a digital electronic machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically.Modern computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs.These programs enable computers to perform a wide range of tasks. A computer system is a "complete" computer that includes the …

Le terme occident est emprunté au latin occidens, participe présent de occidere.Ce verbe est composé de la particule ob signifiant « objet » et de cadere qui signifie « tomber, choir », « tomber à terre », « succomber, périr » [7].En parlant d’un astre (notamment du Soleil), le terme signifie « se coucher » et peut se traduire littéralement par « soleil couchant » [8].

Unlike the rest of New South Wales, Broken Hill and the surrounding region (specified as Yancowinna County) observes Australian Central Standard Time (UTC+09:30), a time zone it shares with nearby South Australia and the Northern Territory. Heron Island, 72 km (45 mi) off the coast off Gladstone in Queensland, has two time zones: the island resort follows DST all year …

Garter snake is a common name for generally harmless, small to medium-sized snakes belonging to the genus Thamnophis in the family Colubridae.Native to North and Central America, species in the genus Thamnophis can be found from the subarctic plains of Canada to Costa Rica.. With about 35 recognized species and subspecies, garter snakes are highly variable in …

Un virus est un agent infectieux nécessitant un hôte, souvent une cellule, dont les constituants et le métabolisme déclenchent la réplication.Le nom virus a été emprunté au XVI e siècle par Ambroise Paré [1] au latin vīrus, ī, n. (« venin, poison, proprement suc des plantes ») [2], [3], [a].La science des virus est la virologie, et ses experts sont des virologues ou virologistes.

Western Asia, West Asia, or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost subregion of the larger geographical region of Asia, as defined by some academics, UN bodies and other institutions. It is almost entirely a part of the Middle East, and includes Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Mesopotamia, the Armenian Highlands, the Levant, the island of Cyprus, the Sinai Peninsula, …