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CompactronThe Compactron is a 12-pin vacuum tube invented in the early 1960s by General Electric in Owensboro, Kentucky with the express purpose of keeping tubes in the market for a few more years during the solid state revolution. Television sets were a primary application. Most Compactrons are either multiple tubes (e.g. three triodes in one bulb), or high-voltage and high-power types such as television sweep tubes.A distinguishing feature of Compactrons is the placement of the glass nubbie on the bottom end, rather than the top end as was customary with "miniature" tubes. Examples:
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in 1687 about a bastard son of Anne of au/austria.html">Austria: "I see no objection
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those who ask if Saint-Mars, following the example of the minister,
which is being prepared for him here, which has a chapel adjoining"?
abatement of consideration to call a prisoner a prisoner, and his
Strasbourg and Paris, entitled 'Le veritable homme, dit au MASQUE DE
incontestables, a qui le celebre infortune dut le jour, quand et ou
bizarre and barbarous jargon in which the whole book is written. It
inspire this new reader of riddles. If he had found the
world, he could not exhibit more pride and pleasure. All things
the question definitely, or place it above all attempts at
theories which preceded and followed his rest. But what he lacks
materials. With the most ordinary skill he might have evolved a
the others, and he might have supported it by proofs, which if not
presumption in their favour, which has great weight in such a
never leave on one side, the respect shown by Louvois to the
legitimate son of Anne of Austria and Mazarin'.
He avers that Mazarin was only a deacon, and not a priest, when he
testimony of the Princess Palatine, consort of Philip I, Duc
that he did marry, Anne of Austria in secret.
"Old Madame Beauvais, principal woman of the bed-chamber to the queen.html">queen
secrecy obliged the queen to comply with all her whims. To this
privileges accorded them ever since in this country" (Letter of the
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