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Looking back at Sociobiology 35 years later, the philosopher of biology Michael Ruse called the book "a pretty remarkable achievement" of huge scope, "firmly in the Darwinian paradigm of evolution through natural selection". He found one aspect of the book "very peculiar" in its "metaphysical underpinning", namely that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiology:_The_New_Synthesis |
The Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a serially based system of numbering cataloged records in the Library of Congress, in the United States. It is not related to the contents of any book, and should not be confused with Library of Congress Classification (LCC). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Control_Number |
The LCCN numbering system has been in use since 1898, at which time the acronym LCCN originally stood for Library of Congress Card Number. It has also been called the Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, among other names. The Library of Congress prepared cards of bibliographic information for their library catalog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Control_Number |
Each set of cards was given a serial number to help identify it. Although most of the bibliographic information is now electronically created, stored, and shared with other libraries, there is still a need to identify each unique record, and the LCCN continues to perform that function. Librarians all over the world use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Control_Number |
In its most elementary form, the number includes a year and a serial number. The year has two digits for 1898 to 2000, and four digits beginning in 2001. The three ambiguous years (1898, 1899, and 1900) are distinguished by the size of the serial number. There are also some peculiarities in numbers beginning with a "7"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Control_Number |
The leading zeros padding the number are a more recent addition to the format, so many older works will show less-full codes. The hyphen that is often seen separating the year and serial number is optional. More recently, the Library of Congress has instructed publishers not to include a hyphen. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Control_Number |
Brown & Sharpe is a division of Hexagon AB, a Swedish multinational corporation focused mainly on metrological tools and technology. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Brown & Sharpe was one of the best-known and most influential machine tool builders and was a leading manufacturer of instruments for machinists (such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
Brown & Sharpe was founded in 1833 on South Main Street in Providence, Rhode Island by David Brown and his son Joseph R. Brown. The elder Brown retired in 1841, and the younger Brown formed a partnership with Lucian Sharpe in 1853, giving the company its name. The early years saw many innovations and inventions, includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
In 1872, the company moved from Main Street to a 33-acre parcel along the Woonasquatucket River in the Smith Hill neighborhood of Providence. The first building was designed in 1872 by Brown & Sharpe employee Thomas McFarlane. It was a huge 66,000 square-foot structure made of brick, cast iron, and concrete, and held s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
By the early 1900s, Brown & Sharpe was the world's largest manufacturer of machine tools, operating out of the sprawling Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company Complex.Brown & Sharpe was instrumental in the development of machine tools and machining technology (including toolmaking, metrology, production, etc.). It was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
Like most machine tool builders, Brown & Sharpe rode a business cycle rollercoaster during these decades. After being kept very busy during World War I, builders suffered a slump in the post–World War I recession and depression of 1920–21. The Roaring Twenties brought renewed sales, but then the Great Depression slashe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
Shortly after World War II, Henry D. Sharpe Jr. succeeded his father as president of Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company. He led its development as a modern company designed to last. The firm stopped producing its old stalwarts: sewing machines, hair clippers, and certain categories of machine tools (including its lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
Instead the company refocused on the mass production of automatic screw machines as it completed a three-year, $4 million refitting program for its Providence plant in 1957. In keeping with the latest management theories, Sharpe also reorganized the company into separate divisions, with each one responsible for its own... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
Between 1957 and 1961 the company further expanded through the acquisition of related manufacturers, most notably the machine-producing Double A Products Company. In the aftermath of these changes and expansion, the company outgrew its central plant just west of downtown Providence. In 1964, Brown & Sharpe followed oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
Such relocations were aided by the federal subsidies for highway construction and the rapid expansion in automobile ownership in the postwar era; Providence's suburbs developed throughout the 1950s. As the company's workers had become more mobile and the majority had moved to suburban areas, Brown & Sharpe decided to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
The new plant, dubbed Precision Park as a nod to Brown & Sharpe's history of pioneering manufacture of precise measurement tools, contained 700,000 square feet (65,000 m2) of easily adaptable floor space. Unlike the old Providence facility, Precision Park was built as one story. This enabled the efficient horizontal mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
While the company never again reached its wartime peak employment of 11,000, it still employed 3,394 workers in 1976. Company management had a policy of working to smooth production across the recessions of the 1970s and keep employment steady. During this time, President Sharpe and his successor Don Roach sympathized ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
In 1981, President Don Roach insisted that the company be able to shift machinists between jobs as needed, but many workers worried that they would lose traditional seniority privileges. In response, 1,600 union workers, members of the International Association of Machinists District Lodge 64, walked out on their jobs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
The strike's hostility transcended the debate over the company's labor policy. It prompted questions among management about the future of the Rhode Island work force. On March 22, 1982, some 800 picketers clashed with members of the state and local police forces, who used tear gas to control the strikers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
Governor J. Joseph Garrahy publicly apologized for the actions of the police, which appeared unduly severe to many Rhode Island citizens. Although the strike legally continued after the tear-gas incident, the picket line largely disbanded. Many workers decided to move to other companies or work. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
In 1998, nearly seventeen years after the strike began, the Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled on an appeal in the legal battle, saying that Brown & Sharpe had not illegally forced the strike. By this point, both Brown & Sharpe and its erstwhile work force were retreating from manufacturing in Rhode Island. During the lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
During the 1980s and 1990s, the company concentrated on developing coordinate-measuring machines (CMMs), devices for dimensional measuring, as a more modern and larger progression to their established micrometers. The company began to lose money as it shifted production away from machine tools and toward advanced metro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
In 1994 Brown & Sharpe acquired DEA of Italy, an established manufacturer of CMMs. In 2001, substantially all of the assets of the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, including the intellectual property, designs, trademarks, facilities and inventory, were acquired by Hexagon AB, although it did not acquire the Brown ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe |
The Libro de los Epítomes (The Book of Epitomes) is a catalogue summarising part of the library of around 15–20,000 books which Ferdinand Columbus (Spanish: Fernando Colón) assembled in the early sixteenth-century in an effort to create a library of every book in the world. The manuscript is currently part of the Arnam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro_de_los_Epítomes |
Ferdinand Columbus (1488–1539) was a Spanish bibliographer and cosmographer, and the son of the explorer Christopher Columbus. In the early sixteenth century he embarked on a project to create a library of every book in the world, assembling around 15–20,000 books during his lifetime and creating the largest library of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro_de_los_Epítomes |
To create the Libro de los Epítomes, Columbus used a team of readers and writers to prepare a summary of each book in his library. The entries vary from just a few lines for the smaller works to around 30 pages for major works such as the writings of Plato. There are close to 2,000 summaries in the book, which consists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro_de_los_Epítomes |
The catalogue was positively identified in 2019, after Guy Lazure of the University of Windsor in Canada suggested it could be a "bibliographical tool" from Ferdinand Columbus's library. It had been thought lost since its existence was last recorded in Spain at the time of Columbus's death. It was found as part of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro_de_los_Epítomes |
According to University of Cambridge academic Edward Wilson-Lee, author of a recent biography of Columbus and account of his library, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, "It's a discovery of immense importance, not only because it contains so much information about how people read 500 years ago, but also, because it co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro_de_los_Epítomes |
Spongy tissue is a type of tissue found both in plants and animals. In plants, it is part of the mesophyll, where it forms a layer next to the palisade cells in the leaf. The spongy mesophyll's function is to allow for the interchange of gases (CO2) that are needed for photosynthesis. The spongy mesophyll cells are les... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spongy_tissue |
It is also the name of a disorder of fruit ripening which can reduce the value of a fruit yield, especially in mango. In the alphonso mango variety, this problem is particularly common, giving soft, white, 'corky' tissue. Spongy tissue is also a type of animal tissue which contains smooth muscles, fibrous tissues, spac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spongy_tissue |
An example is the corpus spongiosum penis. In bone, the spongy tissue is called cancellous tissue. == References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spongy_tissue |
Altınpark (literally Golden Park) is a public park in Ankara, Turkey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altınpark |
Altınpark is in Altındağ district of Ankara, situated on the way connecting Ankara to Ankara airport. The park area is 64 ha (160 acres) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altınpark |
Up to 1977, the park area was a golf course. In 1985, it was transformed into a public park by the metropolitan municipality of Ankara. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altınpark |
The park is now operated by ANFA, a subsidiary of Ankara metropolitan municipality. 211,160 m2 (252,550 sq yd) area is reserved for the green area and 9,302 m2 (11,125 sq yd) is reserved for the flower beds where flowers and seedlings are put up for sale. The artificial pond is 32,700 m2 (39,100 sq yd). Among the build... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altınpark |
The sheepskin effect (named for the vellum on which diplomas were traditionally written) is a phenomenon in applied economics observing that people possessing a completed academic degree earn a greater income than people who have an equivalent amount of studying without possessing an academic degree. There are many app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheepskin_effect |
The latter typically use 12 years of education as a proxy for a high school diploma and 16 years as a proxy for a Bachelor's degree. A review of a quarter century of quantitative studies of both kinds finds consistent evidence of the sheepskin effect in all but a few studies. An analysis of data from the massive Genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheepskin_effect |
A funnel is the smokestack or chimney on a ship used to expel boiler steam and smoke or engine exhaust. They are also commonly referred to as stacks. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship) |
The primary purpose of a ship's funnel(s) is to lift the exhaust gases clear of the deck, in order not to foul the ship's structure or decks, and to avoid impairing the ability of the crew to carry out their duties. In steam ships the funnels also served to help induce a convection draught through the boilers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship) |
Since the introduction of steam-power to ships in the 19th century, the funnel has been a distinctive feature of the silhouette of a vessel, and used for recognition purposes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship) |
The required funnel cross-sectional area is determined by the volume of exhaust gases produced by the propulsion plant. Often this area is too great for a single funnel. Early steam vessels needed multiple funnels (SS Great Eastern had 5 when launched), but as efficiency increased new machinery needed fewer funnels. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship) |
Merchant shipping companies (and particularly liner companies such as Cunard Line and ferries such as Red Funnel) were quick to recognise the publicity value of distinctive funnels, both in terms of shape, number of funnels, and the colours they were painted. In an era when ship hulls were uniformly painted black (to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship) |
Some companies became so closely associated with their funnel colours that their nickname became a de facto company name. For example, the shipping line actually registered as 'Alfred Holt & Company' was more widely known as the Blue Funnel Line. The Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Pack... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship) |
Other colours such as the red with black stripes of the Cunard Line and the all buff colour of P&O remain icons of their respective lines and have remained in use for over a century through many changes of corporate ownership. Sometimes the shape of the funnel is used as distinguishing feature rather than just the colo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship) |
Intended as an aerodynamic aid to keep exhaust clear of the deck the modification had very little practical effect but was retained because it made the four ships of the class immediately recognisable and gave Cunard a suitable modern image. There was a trend for 'designer funnels' on liners in the 1960s as fashion and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship) |
In the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century the number of funnels became associated with speed and reliability. For this reason a number of the great liners carried additional false funnels that they did not need. Examples included the White Star Line's RMS Titanic, Hamburg America Line's SS Imperator, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship) |
A key part of the deception practiced by ships carrying out commerce raiding during both the First World War and Second World War was to disguise their ship's outline, and this included using false funnels or by changing the height or diameter of the actual funnel(s). Four naval ships with six funnels each were constru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship) |
A mack is a combined stack and mast, as fitted to some classes of 20th century warships. Although they can reduce top-weight, they have not gained universal popularity due to the problem of exhaust gases corroding electrical aerials and equipment. == References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship) |
The Indices of deprivation 2004 (ID 2004) is a deprivation index at the small area level, created by the British Department for Communities and Local Government(DCLG). It is unusual in its inclusion of a measure of geographical access as an element of deprivation and in its direct measure of poverty (through data on be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indices_of_deprivation_2004 |
These are then combined into a single overall measure. The Index is made up of seven distinct dimensions of deprivation called Domain Indices. Whilst it is known as the ID2004, most of the data actually dates from 2001. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indices_of_deprivation_2004 |
Communities and Local Government (previously the Office of Deputy Prime Minister) commissioned the Social Disadvantage Research Centre (SDRC) at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Oxford to update the Indices of deprivation 2004 (ID 2004) for England. Following an extensive public cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indices_of_deprivation_2004 |
Summary measures of the IMD 2007 are presented at local authority district level and county council level. The LSOA level Domain Indices and IMD 2007, together with the local authority district and county summaries are referred to as the Indices of Deprivation 2007 (ID 2007). (Rusty 2009) The ID 2007 are based on the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indices_of_deprivation_2004 |
IncomeThe purpose of this Domain is to capture the proportions of the population experiencing income deprivation in an area.EmploymentThis Domain measures employment deprivation by considering people of working age who are involuntarily excluded from the world of work, either through unemployment. ill health or family ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indices_of_deprivation_2004 |
That is, the children/young people sub-domain measures the deprivation in the attaining of qualifications, while the skills sub-domain measures the deprivation in the resident working age adult population.Barriers to Housing and ServicesThe purpose of this Domain is to measure barriers to housing and key local services... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indices_of_deprivation_2004 |
It comprises two sub-domains: the ‘indoors’ living environment which measures the quality of housing and the ‘outdoors’ living environment which contains two measures about air quality and road traffic accidents.CrimeThis Domain measures the rate of recorded crime for four major crime themes – burglary, theft, criminal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indices_of_deprivation_2004 |
The Indices of deprivation 2004 are measured at the Lower Layer Super Output Area level. Super Output Areas were developed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) from the Census 2001 Output Areas. There are two levels, the lowest (which the Index is based upon) being smaller than wards and containing a minimum of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indices_of_deprivation_2004 |
Earlier proposals to introduce Upper Layer Super Output Areas were dropped due to lack of demand. In addition to Super Output Areas, Summaries of the ID 2004 are presented at District level, County level and Primary Care Trust (PCT) level. While each SOA is of higher resolution than the highest resolution ward index da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indices_of_deprivation_2004 |
Some areas of deprivation can still be hidden because of the size of SOAs. Examples of this can be found by comparing central areas of Keighley using the Bradford District Deprivation Index (a Deprivation index developed by Bradford Council produced at 1991 Census Enumeration District level) with the ID2004. Additional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indices_of_deprivation_2004 |
Beijing Sport University (BSU) (Chinese: 北京体育大学) is a public university located in Beijing, China. It is a member of the National Key Universities and the Double First Class University Plan. The university is under direct leadership of the General Administration of Sport of China. In 2015, Beijing Sport University was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Science_College_of_Beijing_Sport_University |
BSU was founded in 1953 as the Central Institute of Physical Education (中央体育学院). In 1960 the university was among the first batch of key national universities designated by the State Council. Situated in the Haidian District of Beijing, BSU covers a total area of approximately 1,400 acres, with a total construction are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Science_College_of_Beijing_Sport_University |
Beijing Sport University is the only university in China with the Category I discipline of sport science (a national key discipline). AS of 2015 BSU teachers and students have collectively won 73 gold medals in the Olympic Games.BSU currently consists of eight schools and five departments: Graduate School, College of P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Science_College_of_Beijing_Sport_University |
The Training Center of General Administration of Sport of China, the Coach Academy of General Administration of Sport of China and the Center for Sport Ethics and Anti-Corruption Studies of China are also located on campus. The university is home to four national key academic disciplines, fourteen other key majors, fiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Science_College_of_Beijing_Sport_University |
There are 39 undergraduate majors offered across 20 different colleges, covering a range of subjects in the humanities, sports science, education, the sciences, economic theory, and communications. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Science_College_of_Beijing_Sport_University |
The Sport Science College ("SSC") of Beijing Sport University (BSU) was founded in 1958. Through nearly 50 years of development, the SSC has had seven departments: Department of Sport Physiology, Department of Sport Anatomy, Department of Sport Medicine, Department of Sport Biochemistry, Department of Sport Biomechanic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Science_College_of_Beijing_Sport_University |
The SSC is the cradle of sport scientists of China. It is the first university that is authorized by the National Ministry of Education to confer a doctoral degree of sport science in China. There are three bachelor's degree programs (Sport Science, Sport Rehabilitation and Health, Sport Psychology), three master's deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Science_College_of_Beijing_Sport_University |
The SSC is one of very few universities in China that provides all the programs of BS, MA. and Ph.D. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Science_College_of_Beijing_Sport_University |
in sport science. 1102 bachelors, 350 masters and 55 doctors have graduated from SSC since it was founded. There are 400 undergraduate students and 150 graduate students now in SSC. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Science_College_of_Beijing_Sport_University |
The research interests of the faculty involve all respects of sport science and health promotion. SSC faculty and students are charged with research projects for the national Olympic teams. BSU is pre-eminent in investigating the relationship between performance and incretion, elite athletes selection, hypoxic training... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Science_College_of_Beijing_Sport_University |
EURAMET (European Association of National Metrology Institutes, previously known as EUROMET, the European Collaboration in Measurement Standards) is a collaborative alliance of national metrological organizations from member states of the European Union (EU) and of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) whose purpo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURAMET |
1 Lincoln Plaza is a mixed-use, commercial and luxury residential condominium building in Lincoln Square, Manhattan, New York City, with 43 floors and 671 units. Construction began in 1971. Completed and ready for occupancy in 1974, the building is divided into eight floors of commercial space and 36 floors of luxury r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Lincoln_Plaza |
A five-story residential building at 33 West 63rd Street, a tenement constructed in the 1890s owned by Jehiel R. Elyachar, became the target of an effort by Paul Milstein to assemble a group of properties that would become the site of 1 Lincoln Plaza. After lengthy negotiations, Milstein and Elyachar had agreed to a de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Lincoln_Plaza |
The surrounding buildings on the site were demolished and 1 Lincoln Plaza was constructed around Elyachar's building at 33 West 63rd Street. The building has multiple addresses other than "1 Lincoln Plaza", including 20 West 64th Street, 33 West 63rd Street, 1897 Broadway, and 1900 Broadway. Provided a unit number is i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Lincoln_Plaza |
In January 2012, actor Nick Santino, a resident, committed suicide soon after euthanizing his pit bull Rocco, due to pressure from what some neighbors told the press was harassment by building management. The condominium board had enacted a ban on pit bulls in 2010, though Santino's dog had been allowed to remain throu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Lincoln_Plaza |
The building can be seen in almost any scene that was filmed in the plaza at Lincoln Center after 1971, including Ghostbusters. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Lincoln_Plaza |
According to the invisible ships (or ships not seen) myth, when European explorers' ships approached either North America, South America, or Australia, the appearance of their large ships was so foreign to the native people that they could not even see the vessels in front of them. It is likely based on a passage of Jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_ships |
There are several apocryphal variations on the myth, all of which involve native people being unable to see ships approaching due to perceptual blindness. In some versions, the explorer is not Captain Cook but Ferdinand Magellan or Christopher Columbus, or the land is the coast of North or South America.The story has c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_ships |
During a discussion in the film of the influence of experience on perception, neuroscientist Candace Pert relays a version of the myth whereby Native Americans were unable to see Columbus's ships because they were outside the natives' experience. The movie goes on to add a shaman to the narrative, who began to see ripp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_ships |
The invisible ships myth is likely based on the diary of botanist Joseph Banks, who traveled with Captain Cook on the HMS Endeavour and documented his account of the natives when entering Botany Bay in Australia in April 1770: These people seemd to be totaly engag'd in what they were about: the ship passed within a qua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_ships |
Soon after this she lighted a fire and the four Canoes came in from fishing; the people landed, hauld up their boats and began to dress their dinner to all appearance totaly unmovd at us, tho we were within a little more than 1/2 a mile of them. Banks goes on to say that while he was surprised the 106-foot ship did not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_ships |
According to various versions of the myth, Native Americans or Australians could not see the ships because they did not have a concept for such an object or because they did not fit into their experience. The large sailing ships did not resemble the smaller canoe-like ships that were more familiar. Philosopher J. R. Hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_ships |
?, points out there is no known historical documentation of the Native Americans' perspective, that Native Americans at the time did not have a written language to document the event, and Columbus did not know the language even if the myth did originate with him.Barry Evans of North Coast Journal suggests the more like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_ships |
The viewer is asked to count the number of times people wearing white shirts pass the ball. In the middle of the video a person in a gorilla suit walks from one side of the frame to the other, but many people who watch the video do not see the gorilla because they are focused on their task. Similarly, David Hambling wr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_ships |
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there were one billion slum residents and squatters globally. Squatting occurs world... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
It has a long history, broken down by country below. In developing countries and least developed countries, shanty towns often begin as squatted settlements. In African cities such as Lagos much of the population lives in slums. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
There are pavement dwellers in India and in Hong Kong as well as rooftop slums. Informal settlements in Latin America are known by names such as villa miseria (Argentina), pueblos jóvenes (Peru) and asentamientos irregulares (Guatemala, Uruguay). In Brazil, there are favelas in the major cities and land-based movements... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
In industrialized countries, there are often residential squats and also political squatting movements, which can be anarchist, autonomist or socialist in nature, for example in the self-managed social centres of Italy or squats in the United States. Oppositional movements from the 1960s and 1970s created freespaces in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
The majority of squatting is residential in nature. As a phenomenon it tends to occur when a poor and homeless population makes use of derelict property or land through urban homesteading. According to a 2003 estimate by the United Nations in the UN-Habitat report, there were about one billion people in squatter settle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
"In many of the world's poorer countries, there are extensive slums or shanty towns, typically built on the edges of major cities and consisting almost entirely of self-constructed housing built without the landowner's permission. While these settlements may in time become upgraded, they often start off as squats with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
Thus, there is no legal link to sewerage, electricity or water. Such settlements also exist in industrialized countries, such as for example Cañada Real on the outskirts of Madrid.Squatting can be related to political movements, such as anarchist, autonomist, or socialist. It can be a means to conserve buildings or a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
Squats can be used by local communities as free shops, cafés, venues, pirate radio stations or as multi-purpose autonomous social centres. Dutch sociologist Hans Pruijt separates types of squatters into five distinct categories: Deprivation-based – homeless people squatting for housing need An alternative housing strat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
This is as true of the Queen with her 176,000 acres (710 km2) as it is of the 54 percent of householders in Britain who are owner-occupiers. They are all the ultimate recipients of stolen land, for to regard our planet as a commodity offends every conceivable principle of natural rights." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
Others have a different view; UK police official Sue Williams, for example, has stated that "Squatting is linked to anti-social behaviour and can cause a great deal of nuisance and distress to local residents. In some cases there may also be criminal activities involved." The public attitude toward squatting varies, de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
In African countries such as Nigeria, informal settlements are created by migration from rural areas to urban areas. Reasons for squatting include the lack of low cost housing, unemployment and inability to access loans. In 1995, almost 70% of the population of the Nigerian capital Lagos were living in slums.The City o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
In Alexandria, Egypt's second city, public housing was only 0.5% of the total housing stock, whereas informal housing was 68%. : 108 An estimated 3,500 people live in the Grande Hotel Beira in Mozambique. Informal settlements in Zambia, particularly around Lusaka, are known as kombonis. As of 2011, 64% of Zambians live... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
In Liberia, squatting is one of three ways to access land, the other being ownership by deed or customary ownership. West Point was founded in Monrovia in the 1950s and is estimated to house between 29,500 and 75,000 people. During the First Liberian Civil War 1989–1997 and the Second Liberian Civil War 1999–2003, many... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
In South Africa, squatters tend to live in informal settlements or squatter camps on the outskirts of the larger cities, often but not always near townships. In the mid-1990s, an estimated 7.7 million South Africans lived in informal settlements: a fifth of the country's population. The figure was estimated to be 15 mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
The organisation has represented the squatters in land occupations such as the Macassar Village in 2009 and the Cape Town and Durban Marikana land occupations in 2013 (both named after the Marikana massacre). It also successfully challenged the KZN Slums Act, which sought to mandate the eviction of slums but was eventu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
Squatting in Sudan is defined as the "acquisition and construction of land, within the city boundaries for the purpose of housing in contradiction to Urban Planning and Land laws and building regulations." These informal settlements arose in Khartoum from the 1920s onwards, swelling in the 1960s. By the 1980s, the gove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
Land squats occurred in what would become Zimbabwe in the 1970s and were routinely evicted. Only Epworth persisted on account of its size (around 50,000 people). After Zimbabwe was created in 1980, peasant farmers and squatters disputed the distribution of land. Informal settlements have developed on the periphery of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
Israeli settlements are communities of Israeli citizens living in the Palestinian territories. The international community considers the settlements in occupied territory to be illegal, In March 2018, Israeli settlers were evicted from a house they had illegally occupied in Hebron, a Palestinian city in the West Bank. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting |
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