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Everest is the highest mountain on Earth (as measured from sea level). The summit ridge of the mountain marks the border between Nepal and Tibet, with the actual summit located in Tibet.
Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal, was the first to identify Everest as the world's tallest peak in ... | <urn:uuid:39fb086b-c647-4eea-bfd7-952ae6932a09> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sheppardsoftware.com/Asiaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Asia2.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978194 | 731 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Gender and Automobility: Consumerism and the Great Economic Boom
Many historians consider the 1920s to be the decade that ushered in “modern times” in terms of materialism and consumerism, new cultural and moral values, rational science, and improved transportation and communications, all stimulating national standards... | <urn:uuid:3fbe2d22-0388-479f-9db8-e24a008b31f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Gender/Walsh/G_Overview3.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982142 | 3,614 | 3.21875 | 3 |
When Gluten is a Problem
By Brent Lemberg, MD
Celiac disease has become an
increasingly common diagnosis lately. In the United States nearly two million
people have it and we suspect many more remain undiagnosed. Celiac disease is an
inflammatory condition of the small intestine caused when the body’s immune
system rea... | <urn:uuid:14cb890a-da72-4e0f-afbe-0e759169435b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cayugamed.org/content.cfm?page=library&articleID=315&topicID=9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950849 | 799 | 3.484375 | 3 |
AISB Workshop on Principles of Robotics, April 4th 2016, Sheffield UK
It is five years since the publication of the EPSRC’s Principles of Robotics developed by a panel of distinguished British robotics and AI experts at an EPSRC/AHRC funded retreat.
The principles, which were aimed at “regulating robots in the real wor... | <urn:uuid:ee2c208b-c3d3-4a7c-8cf4-a41d14b83137> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sheffieldrobotics.ac.uk/aisb-workshop-por/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934885 | 812 | 2.625 | 3 |
Why are girls outperforming boys in literacy skills in the Western education system today? To date, there have been few attempts to answer this question. Literacy and Gender sets out to redress this state of affairs by re-examining the social organization of literacy in primary schools.
In studying schooling as a socia... | <urn:uuid:bf4880ec-a657-42c8-af76-5032bcd86c1c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-678.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00082-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944616 | 183 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Welcome to the Solar Technologies Resource. Photovoltaic solar renewable energy is free, and green, and increasingly popular now more than ever since governments and the general public are growing concerned about the relationship between our carbon emissions, and the subsequent effect of climate change. We all have a r... | <urn:uuid:bf021a16-0967-450b-b248-2c723d0ad495> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dfid.org.uk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950793 | 775 | 3.15625 | 3 |
The understanding reached by Admiral Ghormley and General MacArthur for the cooperation of the two air forces of their respective areas developed with the situation. The basic agreement was that during the Tulagi-Guadalcanal action the Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area, would provide for the interdiction of ene... | <urn:uuid:8f883f0c-43e6-4939-9eab-7ad6128cae4c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-CN-Solomons/USN-CN-Solomons-7.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94507 | 2,028 | 2.984375 | 3 |
As the East Coast of the United States awakes to devastation in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, IHS Global Insight has produced a preliminary evaluation of the macroeconomic impact of the superstorm.
Hurricane Sandy: Monster Storm Just In Time for Halloween
Category 1 Hurricane Sandy has now become the largest tropical sy... | <urn:uuid:c19988b8-790e-4d28-9154-c71fca0e45d2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://press.ihs.com/press-release/country-industry-forecasting/hurricane-sandy-monster-storm-just-time-halloween | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960807 | 1,667 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2010, 7(4), 1694-1707; doi:10.3390/ijerph7041694
Abstract: It has been well-established that some adolescents diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at increased risk for cigarette smoking. Current research on the genetic basis of this a... | <urn:uuid:dee244f6-9542-4790-a4e9-e6e7424d8854> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/7/4/1694/htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903275 | 9,090 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Dr. Andrew Williams discusses how the power of robotics and artificial intelligence can improve the world.
Williams, Grad ’95, is John P. Raynor, S.J., Distinguished Chair and director of the Humanoid Engineering and Intelligent Robotics Lab in the College of Engineering. His current research focus is on using those te... | <urn:uuid:e641c94f-744b-4088-a908-117165fae164> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.marquette.edu/magazine/recent.php?subaction=showfull&id=1372804203&archive=&start_from=&ucat=9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955685 | 657 | 3.203125 | 3 |
This true-color satellite image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite on July 14, 2014. Actively burning areas, detected by MODISís thermal bands, are outlined in red.
The Great Slave Lake, just southwest of center, is nearly obscured by the heavy smoke pour... | <urn:uuid:ab67cbe7-2a0e-4726-ba25-33b986727e4d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2014-07-26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937812 | 186 | 3.125 | 3 |
Dynamometer Test Facilities
Dynamometers enable industry and testing agencies to verify the performance and reliability of wind turbines drivetrain prototypes and commercial machines. Designs are tested by simulating operating field conditions in a laboratory environment. In a typical dynamometer test, a powerful motor... | <urn:uuid:befb5f06-5b48-41f7-8465-3cdf4231cafb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nrel.gov/wind/facilities_dynamometer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888068 | 582 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Introducing Windows Azure
Cloud computing is here. Running applications and storing data on machines in an Internet-accessible data center can offer plenty of advantages. Yet wherever they run, applications are built on some kind of platform. For on-premises applications, such as those running inside an organization’s ... | <urn:uuid:b14733cd-d963-4d77-a3dc-233e55010bb9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.techrepublic.com/resource-library/whitepapers/introducing-windows-azure-copy1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918716 | 125 | 2.59375 | 3 |
High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Assessment of Osh, Kyrgyzstan
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conducted a damage assessment of the city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan and surrounding neighborhood areas at the request of Amnesty International, USA (AI) in order to corroborate on the ground and news ... | <urn:uuid:7c4f0da5-9946-4bc5-869b-5fbb0cc6c19a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aaas.org/page/high-resolution-satellite-imagery-assessment-osh-kyrgyzstan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952363 | 1,004 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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Staying dedicated to exercise may help control nerve pain or peripheral neuropathy. According to one study, people who took a brisk walk for an hour or walked on a treadmill four times a week slowed how quickly their nerve damage worsened. The key is making exercise a regular pa... | <urn:uuid:aff96afd-e9f2-465c-add8-450b4d362b93> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://diabetes.ygoy.com/2012/10/27/diabetic-neuropathy-exercises-for-diabetic-nerve-pain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938228 | 374 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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Inherited Disorders and Birth Defects
If a normal woman with 45 chromosomes has a child with downs syndrome... | <urn:uuid:677d15ab-d545-4ca3-a3b7-81de6e87453d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.netwellness.org/question.cfm/78604.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956235 | 498 | 3.484375 | 3 |
One has to be careful when defining temperature not to confuse it with heat. Heat is a form of energy. Temperature is something different. We could begin with a technical definition, but I would prefer to start with a question. How hot is it? The answer to this question (or a question like this) is a measurement of tem... | <urn:uuid:ee971ea0-144b-4697-bab0-cfef36bffb9b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://physics.info/temperature/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00168-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914685 | 4,854 | 4.0625 | 4 |
|Oracle® Spatial User's Guide and Reference
10g Release 1 (10.1)
Part Number B10826-01
Oracle Spatial is an integrated set of functions and procedures that enables spatial data to be stored, accessed, and analyzed quickly and efficiently in an Oracle database.
Spatial data represents the essential location characterist... | <urn:uuid:a3e92548-9f3d-4f7a-bb4b-688317eb1a48> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://web.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/appdev.101/b10826/sdo_intro.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.879577 | 8,123 | 3.203125 | 3 |
So it’s almost Back to School time, and with all the chaos of preparing for the first day, it’s easy to lose focus on the everyday items like phones and tablets. But, here at BullGuard we’re urging you to take a minute to ensure your children stay safe at school with their devices.
The following tips will help you keep... | <urn:uuid:28bf7efa-bed1-452d-8ea3-77d4fcc35912> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bullguard.com/blog/2012/08/7-safe-tips-for-school.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909957 | 341 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Sikkim’s political history as a subject of study has attracted the least attention so far of scholars of history and as such it remains a daunting challenge that needs to be adequately met. Nevertheless, whatever facts and fictions that are presently available to us must from the basis of its assessment and study. Howe... | <urn:uuid:1d5f2ce0-231b-4b70-a97f-bfdc715b3f6b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://smilingsikkim.org/?p=746 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00154-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984756 | 5,520 | 3.625 | 4 |
|Rivers of India|
The Periyar River
First Online: June 12, 2006
The Periyar is one of the major rivers of Kerala state in southern India running a length of 140 miles. The Periyar river originates in the Western Ghats range near the border with Tamilnadu state. It flows north through Periyar National Park into Periyar ... | <urn:uuid:f4cf2b0a-7e6c-470c-a5a7-debd51a7074d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kamat.com/indica/rivers/periyar.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897633 | 135 | 3.078125 | 3 |
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Proteins are organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain and folded into a globular form. The amino acids in a polymer are joined together ... | <urn:uuid:09c95133-2a1b-4b39-b570-ff69f0ff5ed9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nanohub.org/tags/proteins/view?sort=date&limit=20&start=20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928215 | 143 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Today is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first day in office and when it comes to science, his new cabinet appointees look like a step in the right direction.
On top of naming Catherine McKenna the first ever Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Trudeau also appointed a Minister of Science, Kirsty Duncan, as wel... | <urn:uuid:2c8424fb-1805-443a-bba4-e2b451f1ea19> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/7885 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953035 | 244 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Albert Einstein famously said, “A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so.” That puts a lot of pressure, but especially on those in science, to have a “Eureka!” moment by the time they are 30. But according to economist Benjamin F. Jones of the Kellogg School of M... | <urn:uuid:7f9d970e-3fd4-479e-8bab-e961eb5ba146> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thegrindstone.com/2012/09/06/education/new-science-inventions-later-in-life-590/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969331 | 705 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Rubiks Cube - 1.15
Krzysztof Król (krolu)
Here's my first program in Python using PyGame. It calls "kostka", that means cube. It's a program for searching the solution to Rubik's Cube. It works like this: You program some combination of movements by clicking on arrows arround the spread-ed cube, and then click the Run ... | <urn:uuid:97e4687a-e69f-45da-8e73-451afd337c63> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pygame.org/project-Rubiks+Cube-463-.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916961 | 272 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Northern England has a strong industrial past, as well as an agricultural history. The cities of Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds were all major producers of textiles and other goods during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The areas in the northeast, such as Yorkshire, were agricultural producers, and the moors were h... | <urn:uuid:2e63f02a-77dd-4535-8141-0fbe68eda101> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://traveltips.usatoday.com/northern-england-vacations-43081.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971705 | 577 | 2.765625 | 3 |
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Along with transporting satellites and experiments to and from orbit, the shuttle astronauts have taken tens of thousands of photographs of Earth with handheld cameras. These photographs have documented many intriguing phenomena on land, in the oceans, and in the atmosphere. In this view, the pale green glow of the Aur... | <urn:uuid:80e93871-7a7d-4d4f-84d1-261686ee0632> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/ss_tour/slide_10.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892657 | 156 | 3.65625 | 4 |
All rural people suffer during emergencies, but men and women are affected in different ways
Emergencies arising from natural disasters, drought, diseases, civil conflict, market shocks and extreme climate events often have their greatest impact on poor rural populations. During 2009, the UN estimates that some 30 mill... | <urn:uuid:cad0a13d-7c88-4a3e-958b-31566b85cbc7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fao.org/gender/gender-home/gender-programme/gender-emergencies/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956069 | 798 | 4.0625 | 4 |
The muskrat is a semi-aquatic mammal with brownish fur and a long, rudder-like tail. It is found in marshes and other shallow-water areas throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
The muskrat has thick, glossy fur that varies in color from blackish to silvery-brown, with a paler throat and belly. Its scaly, hairless, ru... | <urn:uuid:9e5a3837-6619-4b81-adf0-24a3c5e7c5c5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fieldguide/critter/muskrat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956444 | 485 | 3.96875 | 4 |
Topic: Country Estates
Yasnaya Polyana was the home of Russian writer and thinker Leo Tolstoy, where he was born and spent nearly 60 years of his life. During the distribution of inheritance between the Tolstoy brothers in 1847 Leo Tolstoy inherited the Yasnaya Polyana estate and several villages. Soon afterwards he so... | <urn:uuid:3daa29e4-3185-4836-ade4-8ad04d42ce7c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/blog/index.blog/1438204/leo-tolstoy-russia-unthinkable-without-yasnaya-polyana/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988972 | 727 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Blue-spotted Rays, Taeniura lymma
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Blue-spotted rays, Taeniura lymma (Forsskål, 1775), aka blue-spotted fantail rays, blue spotted stingrays, blue spotted rays, and ribbontail stingrays, are colorful stingrays wi... | <urn:uuid:51a527e3-8a53-4769-9f64-e5660dc40641> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=320 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902903 | 891 | 3.25 | 3 |
What is Animal Pain?
PAIN is a word used by humans to represent one of
their experiences. They know what it is without needing to define it.
Animal pain should not be confused with human pain.
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|Dirtmeister's Science Lab on Levers|
Grade Levels: K - 5
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The Dirtmeister is your personal guide to hands-on science exploration in the classroom. By participating in Dirtmeister's Science Labs, kids have the opportunity to experience science fir... | <urn:uuid:d4de2f82-3611-44c0-9dd1-2ee5a637eb55> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirt/lever/tguide.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895888 | 926 | 4.21875 | 4 |
Corruption is a very big part of the reason why Europe is currently facing huge economic problems.
A new research project investigates what impact corruption has on the various EU countries during the debt crisis.
“There are many indications that the Greek crisis is closely linked to corruption and the problems it caus... | <urn:uuid:b920558f-0495-4467-9846-cc25456ae716> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sciencenordic.com/debt-crisis-caused-corruption | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964214 | 1,041 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Urticaria – also known as hives, weals, welts or nettle rash – is a raised, itchy rash that appears on the skin. It may appear on one part of the body or be spread across large areas.
The rash is usually very itchy and ranges in size from a few millimetres to the size of a hand.
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IT is good news for the wilderness - and for all Americans: A compromise weeks in the making has now been reached. As a result the way has been cleared to add several million acres of unspoiled land across the United States to the wilderness system, which preserves land from development.
There are now some 80 million a... | <urn:uuid:b0297df1-2031-4d8a-a3a1-cc02e3aaa45c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.csmonitor.com/1984/0508/050834.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00186-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974461 | 345 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The sarode is a popular fretless stringed instrument in northern India. The sarode is usually a solo instrument, though it has also become popular in modern Indian orchestras. I have found that listening to a great sarode player can be a mesmorizing, transcendent experience.
The sarode is between three and three and a ... | <urn:uuid:ec752c0e-ae3f-4d32-89d0-f249d7efb878> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://everything2.com/title/sarode | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961611 | 218 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Messaging Service- ( JMS )
Java Message Service was developed by Sun Microsystems
to provide a means for Java programs to access
enterprise messaging systems. Enterprise messaging
systems, often known as message oriented middleware
(MOM), provide a mechanism for integrating applications
in a loosely coupled, flexible m... | <urn:uuid:643406f7-5421-4ff0-bd86-5c192809437d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.allapplabs.com/glossary/java_messaging_service.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886137 | 414 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Environmental News Network: Southern air pollution study under way
Photo: NOAA AOC
Friday, 25 June 1999
Scientists are trying to develop tools to fight air pollution by studying hot and humid southern cities such as Atlanta, GA, and Nashville, TN.
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|Basic InformationAdolescent Parenting IntroductionHealthy Teens: Food, Eating & Nutrition During AdolescenceHealthy Teens: Exercise and SportsHealthy Teens: SleepParenting Teens: Clothing Clashes, Housing Decisions, & Financial ManagementParenting Teens: Skincare, Cosmetics, Tattoos, & Piercings Caring for Teens: Heal... | <urn:uuid:97e497a2-293b-4232-a30c-f4df8123127c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.amhc.org/1342-child-development-and-parenting-adolescence/article/45530-tattoos-and-body-piercing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9418 | 1,182 | 2.625 | 3 |
Power Systems Technology and Power Mechatronics
comprises the "classic" as well as new disciplines of power engineering.
Power Systems Technology
The energy supply is one of the most important issues of our time, so the efficient use of fossil fuels, and the expansion of renewable energies is one of the great challenge... | <urn:uuid:e1a6277c-f8d1-4560-aa2b-68f7ae90ecee> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enesys.rub.de/enesys/index.html.en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942054 | 278 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Evegreen Cemetery, North Carrollton, Mississippi
At first glance, the large grave marker shown here in Evergreen Cemetery, located in North Carrollton, Mississippi, appears to be a combination marker for a number of deceased members of the Shaw and Hemphill families who died during the past century and a half. But clos... | <urn:uuid:183d9545-ad61-4e76-b3f3-9e5df22913e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cemeteriesofdancingrabbitcreek.blogspot.com/2009/02/evergreen-cemetery-north-carrollton-ms.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957471 | 228 | 2.609375 | 3 |
This is of course the error of historicism, which in its extreme view denies any universal laws or truths. An opposite error idealizes all situations according to a simplistic theory, and ignores the inherent messiness of life. Most of us bounce back and forth between these two extremes, but rather let's find the virtu... | <urn:uuid:45bc6979-c9aa-4dbf-a569-ba8d98dd913e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://therefractedlight.blogspot.com/2010/10/black-and-white.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947008 | 2,353 | 2.765625 | 3 |
AP Radio News (March 3) narrated that:
“It’s anybody’s guess who win the best picture. It seems to be a close race between “American Hustle,” “12 Years a Slave” and “Gravity.”
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Controlled hydrogen fusion−the key to cheap, abundant energy−is still miles away but it is getting closer. After a two-day conference at Princeton, N.J. last week, U.S. and British atomic officials made the guarded announcement that several different approaches to the fusion problem have "for some months been yielding ... | <urn:uuid:15e74016-7201-4915-8c08-2b3a8eee7f5a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,810076,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936599 | 564 | 3.578125 | 4 |
PLSJC Director Alan Hall writes a weekly column discussing library and community news, history, and other interesting subjects.
The Library routinely receives inquiries about the value of old books. It is a difficult question to answer, made easier in recent years by the volume of information on the Internet providing ... | <urn:uuid:fcf4d19d-3765-48ff-a26f-753b5db815b2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.steubenville.lib.oh.us/Director/DCdetail.asp?dcID=36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944462 | 767 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Regional Geological Setting
Bangladesh lies between 20o 34′ and 26o 38′ north latitudes and 88o 01′ and 92o 41′ east longitudes and as a consequence falls in the north eastern South Asia. The Indian States of West Bengal, Meghalaya and Tripura border Bangladesh in the west, north, and east and Burma forms the southern ... | <urn:uuid:fc938572-b18e-400f-8b7c-e111dd0144ea> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://geology-book.blogspot.com/2010/06/bangladesh-tectonic-system.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00048-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941195 | 1,866 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Explain It to the Children
This week, Congress will likely approve legislation that threatens to terminate the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. The $14 million program allows more than 1,700 children in the nation’s worst school district to attend some of best school in Washington, including Sidwell Friends, where... | <urn:uuid:552c7ed7-c3cb-4a4a-8fe3-611b49563aad> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://humanevents.com/2009/03/09/explain-it-to-the-children/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949986 | 1,176 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Disease threatens aquaculture in developing world
Disease may challenge the ability of fish farming to feed the growing human population even as wild fish stocks decline and climate change hampers food production from other sources, a study shows.
Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector in the world, according t... | <urn:uuid:60d56ecb-6db3-4e00-835c-48ff48552106> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/45726 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937206 | 550 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Daylight saving time (DST) has been extended for Argentina’s San Luis province in 2010.
The province’s time zone will remain to be three hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-3).
Daylight Saving Time Extended
Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Stella Catalfamo Rubino announced the decision to extend DST... | <urn:uuid:102edfc7-d78b-4dc8-8b5e-0f92f0a2d7f7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/san-luis-extends-dst-2010.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949075 | 285 | 2.65625 | 3 |
“Animals A-Z,” paintings by students of Lani Carney, Gnomon Press/Lani Carney, 2010, 49 pp. $50.
Two years of artwork by children ages three to eight at Featherstone Center for the Arts have produced a special new book, “Animals A-Z.” Its special-ness comes not just from the vivid color reproductions of animals arrange... | <urn:uuid:5f97b53a-3e1f-4c63-8b19-9d56454047b8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mvtimes.com/2010/11/03/animals-a-z-3123/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943922 | 885 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Japanese Lesson Study
Friday, July 20
We ironed out specifics in our lesson in preparation for presenting it to the teachers at 4:30. It was agreed that Y.T. would present the lesson to the teachers, and Karen would present it to the students. We discussed the scale of our ³hook² problem, possible student difficulties,... | <urn:uuid:3f517fcf-f0cf-4d68-92ab-e9fc91628cff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathforum.org/pcmi/hstp/sum2001/wg/lessonstudy/journal/lessonstudy20.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938538 | 195 | 2.96875 | 3 |
I wrote an article for Nature News about a recent unexpected discovery about prime numbers. A prime number that ends in a 1 is less likely to be followed by another one ending in 1 than random chance would dictate. The finding is more general, extending to all primes, not just those that end in 1, and covering last dig... | <urn:uuid:4d474595-e5e3-4533-8d85-eb30bb8ce2b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/2-plausible-things-that-cannot-both-be-true/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954097 | 853 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Shrine of the Magi (1200)
Dating from c.1200, the beautiful Shrine of the Magi is the largest reliquary in the western world. The exterior is covered in a total of seven feet of gilded silver and jewels pillaged from Constantinople during the Crusades. Images of Old Testament prophets line the bottom while the twelve a... | <urn:uuid:3c277288-837c-4b5c-8713-78d57de1c708> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sacred-destinations.com/germany/cologne-cathedral/photos/IMG_0719 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946199 | 122 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Creating and using bisque stamps is a unique way to make personalized impressions on ceramic ware.
Roller Bisque Stamps
1. Draw a design for the stamp on a piece of white computer paper, taking care that the end points on each side match up. When the paper is rolled up so that the ends meet, the drawing should create a... | <urn:uuid:d6919fc2-7225-4cad-ae92-76fa667ea8a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mypotteryblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/bisque-stamps-creating-and-using.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921475 | 484 | 2.84375 | 3 |
In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton researchers have developed a method to read spintronic information off electrons, a potential step on the road to quantum computing.
Standard computers store information as classical "bits", which can take on a value of either 0 or 1. These bits allow ... | <urn:uuid:aac571e5-a66c-4801-86aa-7fb351939017> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Print.aspx?NewsId=34600 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93877 | 842 | 4.25 | 4 |
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.07.22
Jenifer Neils, Women in the Ancient World. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781606060919. $25.00 (pb).
Reviewed by Peter Keegan, Macquarie University (firstname.lastname@example.org)
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Matthew Disney is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Fla. He has MDA support to design small molecules that target the toxic RNA that underlies myotonic muscular dystrophy (MMD, also known as DM).
MDA Medical and Science Editor Margaret Wahl talked with M... | <urn:uuid:919ead12-ac5a-4f0e-9d15-e5d9caacb904> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://quest.mda.org/series/mmd-research-blocking-harmful-interactions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965462 | 1,592 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Our Primary Program
For ages 3-6 years
The best description of the Montessori Primary Program (ages 3-6) comes from the North American Montessori Teachers’ Association. The Montessori preschool classroom is a “living room” for children, where they can choose their work from self-correcting materials in specific work ar... | <urn:uuid:399a5f89-16c4-4f57-a4b0-c2ecf2c84020> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hawaiimontessori.org/programs_primary.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912827 | 359 | 3.796875 | 4 |
The propagation of high frequencies sound waves is more directional (specular), and they don't diffract as much as low frequencies. Low-frequencies diffract and thus propagate in a more omni-spherical fashion. This, to my knowledge, applies to all waves, not only sound ones.
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Courses help communities identify, understand, and respond to mental illness
In an effort to help communities identify, understand, and respond to the signs of mental illness, the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) is encouraging Michigan residents to take a Mental Health First Aid training near them. There... | <urn:uuid:9d38a694-d452-48ef-bafd-37adb2e2cd06> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cedarspringspost.com/2014/06/26/mental-health-first-aid-trainings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942799 | 488 | 2.53125 | 3 |
On March 16, 1968 , American soldiers went into a small village in Vietnam called My Lai and killed approximately 400 unarmed civilians. Two years later the American public found out what had happened at My Lai. The government called it an incident while others called it a massacre. One person, Lt. William Calley, was ... | <urn:uuid:2d6dabcb-e056-4a4a-a8b3-5552b7365a88> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.studythepast.com/vbprojects/my_lai_massacre.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.855975 | 385 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D.
Sedentary lifestyle is a type of lifestyle most commonly found in modern (particularly Western) cultures. It is characterized by sitting or remaining inactive for most of the day (for example, in an office without any (or little) exercise.
It is believed to be a factor in... | <urn:uuid:9e967b4c-8e4f-41db-99ef-2e74fd609879> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wikidoc.org/index.php/Sedentary_lifestyle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.705991 | 1,062 | 2.921875 | 3 |
About the Journal. Latest Blogs on K-12 Education Reform. Get Your Webtools Resource Bundle – Vol. 1. 84% Discount Expiring In… 4 hours 22 minutes 7 seconds!
“ 10 Step-by-Step Webtool Videos That Make You Feel Like You Can Do It Too! ” Watch these fun videos and YOU will learn 10 webtools that can improve your classroo... | <urn:uuid:eef5d991-7bb9-47cf-beca-11e4ba76f7fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pearltrees.com/knowledgeayaa/news-articles-education/id4028118 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911122 | 1,001 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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Sandia Experts Help When Sinkhole Opens Up in Louisiana
Source Newsroom: Sandia National Laboratories
Newswise — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Geological Survey turned to Sandia National Laboratories for help when the earth opened up last month near Bayou Corne, La.
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At the southern end of Brackenridge Park, just off Broadway on Millrace Street, stands a small, unassuming stone building that has witnessed over a century of progress, art, and culture in San Antonio. George Washington Brackenridge, the great South Texas businessman and philanthropist, first built “Pump Station No. 2”... | <urn:uuid:672b49db-7e8f-43f6-954d-8bdda810113b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uiw.edu/sanantonio/pumphouse.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00082-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944139 | 2,289 | 2.75 | 3 |
Today in History: February 18
A City of ruins, —silent, mournful, in deepest humiliation…The band was playing 'Hail, Columbia,' and the strains floated through the desolate city, awakening wild enthusiasm in the hearts of the colored people…
A Northern reporter's description of Charleston, South Carolina, on February 1... | <urn:uuid:95dbb4a2-6325-419e-b5ab-6b2e75e255cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb18.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931305 | 677 | 3.75 | 4 |
Learning piano chords? It's a great way to play the piano - I probably play chords more than anything else. Here are some step by step tips for getting started.
Begin learning some basic piano chords to get you started. You'll find a list here of common chords that are easy to play.
Improve your knowledge of chords. Mo... | <urn:uuid:697e1509-0c05-4d4c-882a-9ed7197c55e2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.piano-lessons-info.com/learning-piano-chords.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959551 | 382 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Electric Light Years 1878AD - 1900AD
One of the most important developments in the history of modern life took place in the north - the use of electric light. The most important figure was the Sunderland-born Joseph Swan, inventor of the first practical light bulb, whose developments would result in the widespread use ... | <urn:uuid:b4bee655-0480-47e6-8211-fb96e25fe7d1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/electric1870s.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917275 | 1,785 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Manual Section... (3) - page: putenv
NAMEputenv - change or add an environment variable
#include <stdlib.h> int putenv(char *string);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
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The pH meter measures the voltage potential (mV) difference between the inside of the pH electrode and the outside sample (reference)
Glass pH electrodes develop a voltage across a permeable glass membrane.
The voltage is related to the difference in H+ activity inside and outside the glass.
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Meeting the challenge of social pragmatics with students on the autism spectrum
Beverly Vicker, CCC-SLP
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But let us inquire whether there really is a temple of God. There is — there where He Himself says He is building and perfecting it!... I find, therefore, that there is a temple. How, then, will it be built up in the name of the Lord? Let me tell you. Before we believed in God, our little house, the heart, was decrepit... | <urn:uuid:ea0c52b3-ba58-41e8-bebf-b4b2e2409298> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/sep/01/excerpt-epistle-barnabas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977075 | 302 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Sanskrit is the
language India's classical literature is written in, with many literary works (religious
poems, prose, and epics) going back to 1500-200 BC, the Vedic period.
After this time from around 200 BC to around 11 AD, Sanskrit literature went
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2016 Rabies Clinics will be happening during April. Click here for more info.
Remember: The best way to prevent the spread of rabies is the vaccination of house pets and people.
Humans are mammals. Therefore, theoretically, human-to-human rabies transmission is possible. However, there are no laboratory-tested cases to... | <urn:uuid:ab38c9f1-5a71-4ed7-a62a-62c748deee1e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tailchaser.org/pages/Rabies.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966572 | 1,071 | 3.59375 | 4 |
We know many parents have questions about the AIMS and SAT tests. Many parents are concerned about how well their child may perform. While we believe that standardized tests are important and help our district to understand where our students stand in relation to our state, we also believe that these tests are just one... | <urn:uuid:4acb2719-db75-47aa-bcee-71a532b8bd77> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wusd13.org/index.cfm?pID=4606 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00023-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960801 | 413 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Good morning. It’s February 12, 2013. And on this day in 1809, Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln welcomed the second of their children into the world. The couple’s gradual western migration would take them from Virginia to Illinois. On this day, when their son Abraham was born, the Lincolns lived at a place called Sinking... | <urn:uuid:75707f37-551c-4b42-aef5-9ef91ce6a1ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.realclearhistory.com/historiat/2013/02/12/happy_birthday_abraham_lincoln_56.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984127 | 761 | 3.25 | 3 |
© National Portrait Gallery, London
William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan
attributed to Louis Laguerre Click on the links below to find out more
oil on canvas, circa 1716
62 1/2 in. x 46 1/2 in. (1588 mm x 1181 mm)
- Louis Laguerre (1663-1721), Painter. Artist associated with 7 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Ingamells,... | <urn:uuid:2c78ac1d-9972-476b-81ea-f10996de764a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00994/William-Cadogan-1st-Earl-Cadogan?locid=683&rNo=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.882904 | 367 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Teens and Distracted Driving
Teens and Distracted Driving: Major Findings
Teens who text and talk while driving
Over the summer of 2009, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project conducted a survey of 800 teens ages 12-17 asking about their experiences with cell phone use in cars. All of the teens in o... | <urn:uuid:ea552955-6d06-4969-9992-2ed267f72123> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pewinternet.org/2009/11/16/teens-and-distracted-driving-major-findings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00148-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976348 | 2,900 | 3.078125 | 3 |
New Charter Schools Across the Country and in the District of Columbia Face Similar Start-Up Challenges
GAO-03-899: Published: Aug 29, 2003. Publicly Released: Sep 3, 2003.
As of the 2002-2003 school year, nearly 2,700 charter schools operated in 36 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Charter schools are... | <urn:uuid:20dd002e-0290-4e3c-a25c-6ade1c507dce> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-03-899 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959241 | 707 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Next month, California will hold the first auction as part of its carbon cap and trade program. The program, which will be the second largest CO2 emissions trading system in the world, has been in the works since 2006, when the Golden State passed the Global Warming Solutions Act, a piece of legislation that mandated c... | <urn:uuid:76809a5e-8e30-43c4-94f9-0008cd349665> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/gettin-down-with-cap-n-trade/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946774 | 1,040 | 2.921875 | 3 |
In 2008, the rate of poverty in Canada was one of the highest among wealthy industrialised nations, according to a report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In 2011, OECD ranked Canada 21st out of all 27 member states for poverty level.
It is believed that at around 1 in eve... | <urn:uuid:1dc9e032-c52d-484d-9d84-fd86badc7216> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.datadotgc.ca/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948582 | 1,553 | 3.921875 | 4 |
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Since September 2001, the City of Belleville's Development Services Department has been actively developing a municipal Geographic Information System (GIS) in order to provide city staff with a computer-based tool for viewing and analyzing geographic information.
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Bahamani Kingdom (1347–1527)
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Blog written by - Animal Curator Peter Pruett
As I move through the zoo guests sometime ask why the pool is ‘green’. Most people’s idea of a pool tends to be the one we and 100,000 other people swim in during the summer. Big, crystal clear water, smells of chlorine and has that shiny white or lig... | <urn:uuid:9bf2fce2-96eb-4a73-938a-e7aac72acdb7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.lszoo.org/2010_05_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961265 | 1,037 | 2.78125 | 3 |
MIAMI, Jan. 2 -- Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and a candidate for the presidency in 1972, died Saturday in Florida, friends said. She was 80.
"She was our Moses that opened the Red Sea for us," Robert E. Williams, president of the NAACP in Flagler County, told the Associated Press late Su... | <urn:uuid:cb9b55c5-50e9-438d-92b4-cbe71fedbee9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43782-2005Jan3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990244 | 852 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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Bishop of Mainz; born at Strasburg, 22 June, 1760; died at Mainz, 15 Dec., 1818. After his ordination (20 Dec., 1783) he was professo... | <urn:uuid:867bfdb7-2a86-4710-addb-ff08df8952be> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04115i.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961607 | 848 | 2.625 | 3 |
We’re skeptical about most technology that’s designed to help remote villages (yes, even that one), but these new UAV medical couriers look like a great idea. The turn around time for medical sample analysis in remote South African villages can be excruciating. A team of engineers have attempted to adapt two different ... | <urn:uuid:f57460ea-ef59-4089-bde0-af2e1a7d08ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hackaday.com/2008/09/14/uav-medical-couriers/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=39eb77acf0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00042-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959605 | 223 | 3.03125 | 3 |
New hope for breast cancer research from unlikely source
Posted January 31, 2008
COLLEGE STATION, TX - There's new hope for breast cancer
research, and it's coming from a very unlikely place.
Researchers at the Texas A&M University College of
Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences recently published
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The Fox and the Crow
and other fables of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 57
D. L. Ashliman
- The Fox and the Crow (Aesop, translated by V. S.
- Links to Additional Type 57 Fables.
Return to folktexts, a library of folktales, folklore,
fairy tales, and mythology.
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GOOD MORNING! What is the saddest day of a person's life? Most likely it is the death of one of his closest relatives - father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter or spouse. What if the person felt no sadness over the passing of his closest ... | <urn:uuid:f264fc19-c174-4096-989c-f21745e4f863> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aish.com/tp/ss/ssw/48892427.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955141 | 1,814 | 2.984375 | 3 |
If the current US trends of foreclosures and suburban flight continue, one might expect that the suburbs of the future will be desolate, abandoned places. How will we ever recover those large swaths of land and put them back into good use? Enter the CV08, a suburb crushing, land restoring robot designed by Australian a... | <urn:uuid:8ef4f29f-7cb1-4d52-82b4-10d1d0d1ed68> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://inhabitat.com/andrew-maynards-suburb-eating-robot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962543 | 541 | 2.53125 | 3 |
This authoritative, reader-friendly introductory text presents core principles of good map design that apply regardless of production methods or technical approach. The book addresses the crucial questions that arise at each step of making a map: Who is the audience? What is the purpose of the map? Where and how will i... | <urn:uuid:d4a324c6-9940-4f3c-a5d7-5b6fe12da5f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/principles-of-map-design-1st-edition-9781606235447-1606235443 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00075-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901998 | 222 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Scribner Seminar Program
Instructor(s): Masako Inamoto, Foreign Language and Literature
What is anime and what are its origins? Why does it appeal to audiences beyond Japanese cultural boundaries? In this seminar, students will explore the world of Japanese animation, one of the most important and popular cultural prod... | <urn:uuid:a897d107-1636-4356-8278-ef1793f60494> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.skidmore.edu/fye/scribner/courses/japanese-animation.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914357 | 145 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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SL 241 Characterizing Agriculture in Floridas Lower Suwannee River Basin Area 1 Tom Obreza and Greg Means2 Introduction The Suwannee River is a major aquatic resour ce that begins in Georgia and flows throu... | <urn:uuid:783b83ca-2a82-4d3d-9dc1-f555ad93b5df> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00003156/00001 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89439 | 4,386 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Name the rover!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla
18-11-2008 14:00 CST
In an essay contest very similar to the one that The Planetary Society and LEGO teamed up to run for the Mars Exploration Rovers, JPL has announced today that they are working with Disney to collect name suggestions for the Mars Science Laboratory rover, s... | <urn:uuid:dfd62958-2ed5-40bc-9d0d-e75f47eb9c47> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2008/1745.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00000-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970223 | 489 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Being a celebrity is great: you get to go to loads of flashy parties, top designers shower you with free clothes, and if you’re really lucky people name cool stuff after you.
So Jennifer Lopez must be pretty darn stoked that a group of biologists have named a newly discovered species of water mite after her. Yup, that ... | <urn:uuid:6fbd403d-0bab-4cb3-8dcd-b9d777bbdc2c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/19/jennifer-lopez-has-a-water-mite-named-after-her-and-about-time-too-4803718/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00186-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911987 | 256 | 2.84375 | 3 |
SOLVING AND LAYING OUT A
Now let’s solve and lay out a simple curve usingthe arc definition, which is the definition you will more often use as an EA. In figure 11-10, let’s assume that the directions of the back and forward tangents and the location of the PI have previously been staked, but the tangent distances have... | <urn:uuid:810fd347-649a-4030-819c-17c1461ee002> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tpub.com/inteng/11f.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942674 | 1,062 | 3.765625 | 4 |
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