Coney Island, County Down is a medieval English word meaning rabbit. Coney Island railway station opened in July 1892 and was closed in January 1950. Coney Island is a spoken-word song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1989 album, "Avalon Sunset". In the song he revisits his youthful trips with his mother to the seaside at Coney Island. The Shore is a Northern Irish short film directed by Terry George. The film won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. It was filmed entirely at George's family cottage at Coney Island. Coney Island, County Down Coney
Gnome sort Gnome sort Gnome sort (dubbed stupid sort) is a sorting algorithm originally proposed by an Iranian computer scientist Hamid Sarbazi-Azad (professor of Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology) in 2000. The sort was first called "stupid sort" (not to be confused with bogosort), and then later described by Dick Grune and named "gnome sort". The gnome sort is a sorting algorithm which is similar to insertion sort in that it works with one item at a time but gets the item to the proper place by a series of swaps, similar to a bubble sort. It is conceptually simple,