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Ras el-Matn

Ras el-Matn or (Ras el-Metn) or (Ra's al-Matn) (Arabic: رأس المتن‎) is a Lebanese town and municipality in the Baabda District of Mount Lebanon Governorate stretching over 1300 hectares (13 km² - 5.018 mi²). The town has a population of nearly 10,000 inhabitants who are Druze and Orthodox Christians.

Etymology

The name literally translates "top" (ras) of "the mountain" (el-matn). It describes the town’s location as being perched on top of the shoulder of Mount Lebanon. It is well known for the abundance of pine trees there.

Location

Ras el-Matn is a town in Lebanon located on the western steep slopes of Mount Lebanon, in the upper Matn (al-Matn al-A'la) section at varying elevation between 800 to 1000 m above sea level. it's known for its panoramic views and pine trees and its natural location giving a spectacular view to the western sections of el-Matn and the Mediterranean sea. From its heights one can look out across the valley to the towns of Dhour Chweir, Baabdat, Broumana and Beit Mery

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Rasā

Rasa (rásā रसा) means "moisture, humidity" in Vedic Sanskrit, and appears as the name of a western tributary of the Indus in the Rigveda (verse 5.53.9).

In RV 9.41.6, RV 10.108 and in the Nirukta of Yaska, it is the name of a mythical stream supposed to flow round the earth and the atmosphere (compare Oceanus), also referring to the underworld in the Mahabharata and the Puranas (compare Styx).

The corresponding term in Avestan is Ranha. In the Vendidad, Ranha is mentioned just after Hapta-Həṇdu, and may possibly refer to the ocean (Sethna 1992).

References

Sethna, K.D. 1992. The Problem of Aryan Origins. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

Talageri, Shrikant: The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis, 2000. ISBN 81-7742-010-0 (chapter 4)

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Sun Raster

Sun Raster was a raster graphics file format used on SunOS by Sun Microsystems. The format has no MIME type, it is specified in @(#)rasterfile.h 1.11 89/08/21 SMI. The format was used for some research papers.

ACDSee, FFmpeg, GIMP, ImageMagick, IrfanView, LibreOffice, Netpbm, PaintShop Pro, and XnView among others support Sun Raster image files. In version 2.13 XnView supported the file extensions .ras and .sun for this graphics file format. In version 2.1.4 FFmpeg could encode and decode Sun Raster pixel formats bgr24, pal8, gray, and monow. The format does not support transparency.

The plain text Sun icon format specified in @(#)icon_load.h 10.5 89/09/05 SMI is unrelated to the Sun Raster format.

References

↑ James D. Murray, William vanRyper (May 1996). "Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats, Second Edition". O'Reilly. sunraster. ISBN 1-56592-161-5. Retrieved 2014-02-27.

↑ .ras MIME type not registered at IANA

↑ L. McLaughlin III, Editor (1990-08). "Print raster file". Line Printer Daemon Protocol. IETF. sec. 7.28. RFC 1179. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1179#section-7.28. Retrieved 2014-03-13.

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RAS

RAS or Ras may refer to:

People and titles

RAS (musician)

Hans Ras (1926–2003), Dutch philologist

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Rundfunk Anstalt Südtirol, a public broadcaster whose purpose is to relay programming from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to the German-speaking population in the province of Bolzano, Italy

Ras, an Ethiopian aristocratic and court title, as in Ras Tafari

Ras, an honorific taken from the Ethiopian and used by members of the Rastafari movement

Ras, a colloquial appellation taken from the Ethiopian for a high rank fascist dominating in one province

Locations

Stari Ras, first capital city of medieval Serbian state of Raska

Ras-e Jonubi, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran

Ras-e Sharqi, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran

“Ras” is the Arabic for a “head,” hence a cape, promontory or headland; and a common word in Arabic place names (e.g. Al Ras)

Societies and groups

Remote Astronomical Society Observatory of New Mexico, also known as RAS.

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a society to further study into topics relating to science, literature, and the arts in relation to Asia

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