Cee

Cee or CEE may refer to:

C

C is the third letter in the English alphabet and a letter of the alphabets of many other writing systems which inherited it from the Latin alphabet. It is also the third letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is named cee (pronounced /ˈsiː/) in English.

History

"C" comes from the same letter as "G". The Semites named it gimel. The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a staff sling, which may have been the meaning of the name gimel. Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was gamal. Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states "It is hard to imagine how gimel = "camel" can be derived from the picture of a camel (it may show his hump, or his head and neck!)".

In the Etruscan language, plosive consonants had no contrastive voicing, so the Greek 'Γ' (Gamma) was adopted into the Etruscan alphabet to represent /k/. Already in the Western Greek alphabet, Gamma first took a '' form in Early Etruscan, then '' in Classical Etruscan. In Latin it eventually took the 'c' form in Classical Latin. In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters 'c k q' were used to represent the sounds /k/ and /ɡ/ (which were not differentiated in writing). Of these, 'q' was used to represent /k/ or /ɡ/ before a rounded vowel, 'k' before 'a', and 'c' elsewhere. During the 3rd century BC, a modified character was introduced for /ɡ/, and 'c' itself was retained for /k/. The use of 'c' (and its variant 'g') replaced most usages of 'k' and 'q'. Hence, in the classical period and after, 'g' was treated as the equivalent of Greek gamma, and 'c' as the equivalent of kappa; this shows in the romanization of Greek words, as in 'KAΔMOΣ', 'KYPOΣ', and 'ΦΩKIΣ' came into Latin as 'cadmvs', 'cyrvs' and 'phocis', respectively.

Europlug

The Europlug (CEE 7/16) is a non-rewirable flat, two-pole domestic AC power plug that must be supplied attached to a power cord. It is rated for voltages up to 250 V and currents up to 2.5 A. It was designed such that it can safely be used in the domestic power sockets of most European countries, except for the BS 1363 system found in Cyprus, Gibraltar, Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom.

History

The Europlug design, intended for use with socket-outlets meeting other standards, appeared first in 1963 as Alternative II of Standard Sheet XVI in the second edition of CEE Publication 7. The Europlug is therefore sometimes also referred to as the "CEE 7/16" plug. It was also described in 1975 as plug C5 in IEC Technical Report 83. In 1990 it was defined by Cenelec standard EN 50075 which has national equivalents in most European countries, as described in IEC 60083<ref name="iec83"">"IEC/TR 60083: Plugs and socket-outlets for domestic and similar general use standardized in member countries of IEC" (PDF). Retrieved 2 March 2015. </ref> which superseded IEC/TR 83 (and no longer uses the C5 designation).

Shining (Marcia Hines album)

Shining is the second studio album by American-Australian singer Marcia Hines. Hines had been resident in Australia since 1970. Shining peaked at #3, and remains Hines’ highest charting studio album. It sold more than 150,000 copies.

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Shining (EP)

Shining is the first EP by pop singer Crystal Kay. It was released on November 28, 2007. The EP features five tracks, all of which have a Christmas or holiday theme. A music video was made for the main promotional track, also called "Shining". The song was used in commercials for "Parco X'Mas TV" throughout the Christmas period, in which Kay starred. "Happy 045 Xmas"had been released digitally in 2005, and "No More Blue Christmas'" (a Natalie Cole cover) had been released on Kay's first English studio album Natural: World Premiere Album in December 2003.

First press editions of the EP had a sleeve cover and a greeting card.

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Emotional Rollercoaster (album)

Emotional Rollercoaster is the first unreleased studio album by Keke Wyatt. The album was planned to be released on May 31, 2005, but after two postponed release dates, the release was cancelled altogether. One single, "Put Your Hands on Me", was released in April, and was highly successful on the US urban radio.

"Ghetto Rose" and "Who Knew?" were both released as singles, but not until she released 2005's Ghetto Rose and 2010's Who Knew?, respectively.

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