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NEW AMSTERDAM [8 records]

Record 1 2023-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

A city in the southeastern part of the state of New York, in Northeastern United States.

OBS

NYC: NYC is a trademark and service mark of the City of New York.

OBS

The Big Apple, Big Apple: nicknames for the city of New York.

OBS

New Amsterdam : On September 8, 1664, New Amsterdam was renamed New York, after it was captured by the English.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Ville à l'extrémité sud-est de l'état de New York, dans le Nord-Est des États-Unis.

OBS

la Grosse Pomme : surnom donné à New York.

OBS

NYC : NYC est une marque de commerce et une marque de service de New York.

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Record 2 2011-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surveillance and Formalities (Air Transport)
  • Air Terminals
CONT

Air France tests Smartboarding®, the automated boarding process on departure from Paris to Amsterdam.... This new system is a world first. With a personal card which contains the latest biometric technology(encrypted fingerprints), RFID(radio frequency identification) and thermal printing(the back of the card can be reused up to 500 times), these passengers will be able to board through a dedicated portal whenever they choose.

Key term(s)
  • self service boarding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contrôles et formalités (Transport aérien)
  • Aérogares
DEF

Procédure automatisée permettant au client d'une compagnie aérienne d'embarquer de façon plus autonome à bord d’un aéronef, après vérification de son identité par reconnaissance de ses empreintes biométriques.

OBS

L'emploi de «smartboarding» et de «speedboarding», qui sont des noms de marque, est à proscrire.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • History
CONT

Contact Period in the Champlain Valley(1609-1664 AD)... 1609 the Mahican living in the Hudson Valley came in contact with Dutch explorer Henry Hudson. Shortly thereafter, the Dutch began to trade metal tools to the Mahican in exchange for furs. The Mahican also developed alliances with the French. When the English captured New Amsterdam in 1664, a region which included much of the Mahican's traditional territory, the Mahican were forced to develop alliances with the British. By 1700 the Mahican population had been decreased from an estimated 4, 000 to about 500 through European diseases, famine, wars, and political pressures. Many of the Mahican merged with other groups, including the Dutch, the Western Abenaki, the French, and the Mohawk Iroquois. By 1720 the Mahican no longer existed as an organized native tribe in the Champlain and Hudson Valleys. The influx of Europeans to the Northeast caused great upheaval among the region's Native American populations. Disease, confusing political and economic relations, and continuous warfare split native communities apart and forced them to join outlying groups....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Distillation
CONT

The Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis(SMDS) plant now operational at Bintulu, Malaysia, is the latest in a series of partnership projects between Shell companies and the people of Malaysia that stretches back for more than 100 years. The new plant uses advanced technology to convert natural gas, abundantly available from the Central Luconia field offshore Sarawak, into liquid fuels of high purity. These fuels can also be used as components to upgrade lower quality stock derived from conventional crude oil processing. In addition, the plant can produce high-value waxes, as well as feedstocks for detergents and lubricants. The product mix can be varied to meet market needs. The SMDS technology was developed at the Shell laboratory in Amsterdam(KSLA) over a period of 20 years. After commercial and technical assessment, Bintulu was chosen in preference to sites in other parts of the world as an appropriate location for the employment of SMDS technology in the first commercial plant.

CONT

February 2003, Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands) announced its plans to build two GTL facilities with a combined capacity of 75 000 bbls/d. QP is looking to employ Shell’s middle distillates synthesis (SDMS) technology to convert gas into diesel and kerosene.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Distillation du pétrole
OBS

technologie SMDS développée par Shell pour la synthèse des distillats moyens.

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
  • Human Diseases
CONT

A MYSTERIOUS immune deficiency syndrome in people not infected with HIV is extremely rare, scientist have concluded. Reports of the syndrome, dubbed "non-HIV AIDS", caused a furore [at] last July's AIDS conference in Amsterdam, but after extensive research scientists have come up with no evidence that it is new, nor that it is linked with any infectious agent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
  • Maladies humaines
Key term(s)
  • SIDA non-VIH
  • SIDA non VIH

Spanish

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Record 6 2002-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Toponymy
DEF

Toponym found in historical document(s) and being no more in current use.

OBS

Ex : Eboracum(for York, England) ;Mediolanum(for Milano, Italy) ;New Amsterdam(for New York, USA) ;Edo(for Tokyo, Japan).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymie
DEF

Toponyme relevé dans un ou plusieurs documents historiques et qui n'est plus usité.

OBS

Ex: Ville-Marie pour Montréal au Québec; Lutèce ou Lutetia pour Paris en France; Berlin pour Kitchener en Ontario.

Spanish

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Record 7 2001-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Grain Growing
CONT

Commodity exchanges developed in cities which were transportation or trading centres for commodities. New York was still called New Amsterdam when an open market developed along the Manhattan Island waterfront. Here businessmen traded grain, fats, oils and provisions under the very bows of the ships that carried produce to world markets and brought silks to New York. Today this exchange is known as the New York Produce Exchange. It is one of several exchanges in that city providing facilities for trading in many basic commodities including grain.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Culture des céréales
CONT

Les bourses de commerce ont vu le jour en des endroits qui étaient des centres de transport ou de commerce. New York s'appelait encore New Amsterdam qu'on y trouvait déjà un marché ouvert sur les bords de l'île de Manhattan. Les commerçants y négociaient leurs grains, leurs graisses, leurs huiles et d'autres denrées à l'ombre même des bateaux qui allaient repartir chargés vers les marchés mondiaux, après avoir déchargé leur cargaison de soierie et de drap. Aujourd'hui ce marché est devenu la Bourse des denrées de New York, l'une des diverses bourses que compte cette métropole et dont les activités s'étendent à de nombreux produits essentiels, y compris le grain.

Spanish

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Record 8 1998-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

The New York closing gold price was $394 per oz. Last quotations for I. O. C. C. gold options traded in Amsterdam, Montreal and Vancouver as provided at the close of trading each Friday by the Montreal Exchange.

Key term(s)
  • I.O.C.C. gold option

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Contrat d'option qui a pour actif sous-jacent de l'or.

CONT

Les options sur l'or ont été récemment introduites à la Bourse de Montréal (février 1982) conjointement avec la Bourse d'Amsterdam, les options sur l'or peuvent se négocier durant une période continue de 12 heures.

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