Parade

A parade (also called march or marchpast) is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats or sometimes large balloons. Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually celebrations of some kind. In Britain the term parade is usually reserved for either military parades or other occasions where participants march in formation; for celebratory occasions the word procession is more usual. In the Canadian Forces the term also has several less formal connotations.

Protest demonstrations can also take the form of a parade, but such cases are usually referred to as a march instead.

Parade float

The parade float got its name because the first floats were decorated barges that were towed along canals with ropes held by parade marchers on the shore. Floats were occasionally propelled from within by concealed oarsmen, but the practice was abandoned because of the high incidence of drowning when the lightweight and unstable frames capsized. Strikingly, among the first uses of grounded floats — towed by horses — was a ceremony in memory of recently drowned parade oarsmen. Today, parade floats are traditionally pulled by motor vehicles or powered themselves.

Surname

A surname or family name is a name added to a given name. In many cases, a surname is a family name and many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name". In the western hemisphere, it is commonly synonymous with last name because it is usually placed at the end of a person's given name.

In most Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries, two or more last names (or surnames) may be used. In China, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Madagascar, Taiwan, Vietnam, and parts of India, the family name is placed before a person's given name.

The style of having both a family name (surname) and a given name (forename) is far from universal. In many countries, it is common for ordinary people to have only one name or mononym.

The concept of a "surname" is a relatively recent historical development, evolving from a medieval naming practice called a "byname". Based on an individual's occupation or area of residence, a byname would be used in situations where more than one person had the same name.

CAF

CAF or caf may refer to:

Armed forces

Canadian Armed Forces (Canadian Forces), the Canadian Air Force, Army, and Navy

Canadian Air Force, now the Royal Canadian Air Force

Republic of China Air Force, the air force of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Chief of Air Force (Australia), the commander of the Royal Australian Air Force

Cactus Air Force, an American aviation force in the Battle of Guadalcanal

The Combat Air Forces, a collection of US Air Force organizations, commands and forces (as opposed to the Mobility Air Forces)

Computing and networking

Canadian Access Federation, a service of CANARIE Inc

SAP Composite Application Framework, a tool by SAP AG

Code Aurora Forum A consortium in the wireless industry engaging in software projects for Android and Linux

Core Audio Format, a file format from Apple for storing audio data

Co-array Fortran, a parallel extension to Fortran language

Federations and organisations

Governmental organisations and projects

Caisse d'allocations familiales, French governmental agencies for family-supporting subsidies

Number Two

Number Two, No. 2, or similar may refer to:

Film

No. 2 (film), a 2006 New Zealand film, also:

No. 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, the soundtrack to the film

No. 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, the soundtrack to the film

Number 2 (Austin Powers), a character from the Austin Powers films

Emilio Largo, the main antagonist in the James Bond film Thunderball

Emilio Largo, the main antagonist in the James Bond film Thunderball

Number Two (film), a 1975 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Jackass Number Two

Television

Number Two (Battlestar Galactica) or Leoben Conoy, character from the 2004 TV series

Number Two (The Prisoner), a character from the British television series The Prisoner

Numbuh Two, a character from the animated television series Codename: Kids Next Door

Music

No. 2 (band), an American alternative rock band

N° 2, a 1959 Serge Gainsbourg album

#2, the pseudonym of Paul Gray (American musician), when performing with Slipknot

"Number Two", from They Might Be Giants's album Here Come the 123s

1 (number)

1 (one; /ˈwʌn/ or UK /ˈwɒn/, also called unit, unity, and (multiplicative) identity), is a number, a numeral, and the name of the glyph representing that number. It represents a single entity, the unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of unit length is a line segment of length 1.

As a number

One, sometimes referred to as unity, is the integer before two and after zero. One is the first non-zero number in the natural numbers as well as the first odd number in the natural numbers.

Any number multiplied by one is that number, as one is the identity for multiplication. As a result, one is its own factorial, its own square, its own cube, and so on. One is also the result of the empty product, as any number multiplied by one is itself. It is also the only natural number that is neither composite nor prime with respect to division, but instead considered a unit.

As a digit

The glyph used today in the Western world to represent the number 1, a vertical line, often with a serif at the top and sometimes a short horizontal line at the bottom, traces its roots back to the Indians, who wrote 1 as a horizontal line, much like the Chinese character 一. The Gupta wrote it as a curved line, and the Nagari sometimes added a small circle on the left (rotated a quarter turn to the right, this 9-look-alike became the present day numeral 1 in the Gujarati and Punjabi scripts). The Nepali also rotated it to the right but kept the circle small. This eventually became the top serif in the modern numeral, but the occasional short horizontal line at the bottom probably originates from similarity with the Roman numeral $I$ . In some countries, the little serif at the top is sometimes extended into a long upstroke, sometimes as long as the vertical line, which can lead to confusion with the glyph for seven in other countries. Where the 1 is written with a long upstroke, the number 7 has a horizontal stroke through the vertical line.

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