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b.0364 Bourgogne, France
Facts and Events
Not much is known of Theudemeres. According to Gregory of Tours a war broke out between the Franks and the Romans some unknown time after the fall of the usurping Emperor Jovinus (411-413) who had been supported by the Franks. Around 422, a Roman army entered Gaul. King Theudem... | <urn:uuid:6c3e7e7a-eb73-4913-85d5-d31bc3163068> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Theodemir_Magnus_(20) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959845 | 145 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke, , at sacred-texts.com
Jehoahaz made king on the death of his father Josiah, and reigns only three months, Ch2 36:1, Ch2 36:2. He is dethroned by the king of Egypt, and Jehoiakim his brother made king in his stead, who reigns wickedly eleven years, and is dethroned and led captiv... | <urn:uuid:f0774b72-5dcd-424f-ad48-cad8f795cb85> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/clarke/ch2036.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97183 | 1,128 | 2.625 | 3 |
3D Application at the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies University of Arkansas, FayettevilleThe ability to quickly and accurately map a wide range of surfaces with high levels of precision and accuracy creates new opportunities for surveyors, researchers and engineers who perform as-built surveys, monitor deform... | <urn:uuid:5fdefe51-3688-4dcc-85e5-1cdec28fae27> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pobonline.com/articles/87039-technology-profile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934444 | 804 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Most scientists I know are map-geeks. What’s not to love about a 2-dimensional abstraction that captures gobs of information in an economical way? For those of us who love biogeography–the study of the distribution of life across the planet–how one renders the globe is vital to understanding where and why the diversity... | <urn:uuid:6c0288df-f6a4-486a-80b5-59b7dccaf359> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://eebatou.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/my-new-favorite-global-map/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922819 | 227 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Water is a polar molecule. This means it has a positive side and a negative side. This polarity allows it to be attracted to differently charged particles in the blood. Salts and other polar molecules should dissolve in the blood because blood is mostly water. Conversely, fats and other non-polar substances will not di... | <urn:uuid:5e18bc1e-c0fa-4ccf-a076-42edc80bda9a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/inquiry-into-life-13th-edition-chapter-2.8-solutions-9780077280109 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93601 | 85 | 3.09375 | 3 |
It’s true that even drab birds are interesting. Sparrows, flycatchers, and the like have fascinating behavior and life histories, and they reward careful observation. But let’s face it: bright colors give a bird extra appeal. So it’s no surprise that one of the most familiar and popular of our songbirds is the northern... | <urn:uuid:0c529c64-3898-429b-b5eb-77c956f08fbd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mvtimes.com/2013/03/27/vocal-social-cardinals-are-home-marthas-vineyard-14892/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957055 | 1,070 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Classical Chinese/Lesson 1
- 子曰: "The master says" or "The master said".
- 子: (zǐ) pronoun used to address to a teacher or master. 子 is a respectful form of address to a man, here used to address 孔子 (Confucius). Other similar uses include 孟子 (mèng zǐ) for Mencius and 孫子 (sūn zǐ) for Sun Tzu. In this case, it is assumed... | <urn:uuid:05fe0b31-970c-41ea-b2dc-c4015f4fff03> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Classical_Chinese/Lesson_1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915439 | 659 | 3.8125 | 4 |
The Colville Tribes' forebears subsisted along the eastern half of the Columbia River's tributaries. They communicated with similar Salishan languages and were nomadic until the mid-19th century, when fundamental changes to their way of life took hold.
Before the advent of Europeans in the early 19th century, the Colvi... | <urn:uuid:c6c247b8-cc54-4031-8cdf-a1f130b8a947> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1547.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952576 | 1,102 | 4.375 | 4 |
Citizen Science and Wild Birds
Citizen science is a collaboration between scientists and volunteers for the purpose of collecting and analyzing data. Researchers have been depending on citizen scientists for data on birds for many years, and therefore, these volunteers are very important to the scientific community.
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Posted by Pauline Lejeune on December 10, 2009
On September 27, German voters elected the members of their 17th Bundestag, the lower house of their federal parliament. As expected, they handed conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel a second term—the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) won 33.8% of the vote—and a chance to cre... | <urn:uuid:e421ffcb-ec70-4431-b6d4-c64e9c241e0e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fairvote.org/germany-s-federal-parliament-fair-and-accurate-representation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967415 | 994 | 3 | 3 |
The majority of men with androgen deficiency may not be receiving treatment despite having sufficient access to care, according to a report in the May 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Androgen deficiency in men means the body has lower than normal amounts of male hormones, i... | <urn:uuid:0380c4b7-e77c-4733-b1f6-7df0731951bd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/jaaj-mmw052208.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952889 | 644 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Community Guide to Development Impact Analysis by Mary Edwards
|Introduction||Fiscal||Traffic||Socio-Economic||Environmental||Putting it Together||Cost of Community Services|
As Wisconsin communities continue to grow, local officials and community members are constantly challenged by the need to balance fiscal, social,... | <urn:uuid:c17296ac-f0ba-4e52-868b-17e640f807f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lic.wisc.edu/shapingdane/facilitation/all_resources/impacts/analysis_socio.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930441 | 7,031 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Kattenhorn, S.A., Hurford, T.A. (2009)
Tectonics of Europa.
In: Europa, Pappalardo, R.T., McKinnon, W.B., Khurana, K., eds, University of Arizona Press, 199-236.
Europa has experienced significant tectonic disruption over its visible history. The description, interpretation, and modeling of tectonic features imaged by ... | <urn:uuid:a6f8987d-4df6-41e7-b757-45980fb97fdb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://webpages.uidaho.edu/~simkat/papers/europachapter.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91526 | 549 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Friedrich Max Mueller:
Appropriation of the Vedic Past
The German romantic attachment to India's ancient past, being exempted from possible colonial interests, has been widely accepted as self evident. In this paper I shall seek to demonstrate that this interest was part of a cultural politics seeking to establish a ne... | <urn:uuid:6ce5e415-bdb2-43bc-b36f-d33b77a72241> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/artsandideas/text.html?objectid=HN681.S597_17-18_045.gif | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961625 | 454 | 2.625 | 3 |
Apparently consumers don't have as much control as they thought over avoiding products with bisphenol A (BPA), a hormone-disrupting chemical. What are two items that consumers cannot avoid? Dollar bills and receipts. And that's exactly where BPA is being found, according to a new study conducted by nonprofit groups Saf... | <urn:uuid:db96fa82-b1a1-4b4a-bec8-7234eeccbeb5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/09/bpa-found-on-receipts-and_n_794067.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962241 | 341 | 3.109375 | 3 |
How long has it been since you thought about the American Revolution? In 2014 not that many of us spend our time thinking about the catalysts that caused that revolution over 200 years ago. Who has the time? Between jobs, families, bills, a bit of TV and some recreation and socializing, there are only so many hours in ... | <urn:uuid:4eab2b49-8021-442c-bc71-6cc51c49d2ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redstate.com/diary/imperfectamerica/2014/04/14/1776-2014-complacency-revolution/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969317 | 1,117 | 3.109375 | 3 |
In situations where medication, psychosocial treatment, and the combination of these interventions prove ineffective, or work too slowly to relieve severe symptoms such as psychosis or suicidality, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be considered. ECT may also be considered to treat acute episodes when medical conditi... | <urn:uuid:b978f93d-e461-4a09-a87f-4cd70b8197bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/801915/other-treatments-for-bipolar-disorder | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956335 | 694 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The recent international military effort to find missing flight MH370 revealed a serious deficiency in Chinese naval strategy. In short, without access to foreign ports for resupply the Chinese Navy cannot sustain large numbers of ships far from China. Chinese naval planners are aware of this and the political leaders ... | <urn:uuid:eb2950d2-5be1-4ae5-ba45-b9cfa0284ccf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlog/articles/20140428.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97426 | 1,047 | 2.578125 | 3 |
A combination of lower birth rates and longer life expectancies has conspired to create new geometric shapes. These two major demographic shifts are so significant that Peter Drucker predicted that historians, looking back at the 20th Century, will view the demographic changes as the most important events of the centur... | <urn:uuid:ce14dec5-60c0-4d91-86c1-137f4c9502e2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.novaimpresa.com/2012/03/talent-management-when-old-outnumber.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956163 | 866 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
The behavior engaged in by bullies: bullying Edit
Researchers accept generally that bullying contains three essential elements: “(1) the behavior is aggressive and negative; (2) the behavior is ... | <urn:uuid:84fd21c4-8890-47f5-896d-ea6f649527cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Bullying | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00166-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961326 | 3,583 | 4.0625 | 4 |
Electoral systems and voting
As the UK prepared to go to the polls, there were calls to lower the voting age to 16 to involve young people in elections more. Would a lower voting age have helped improve voter turnout?
Answer a quiz on legal ages then look at arguments for and against changing the age.
- Some minimum le... | <urn:uuid:06100274-548c-4e17-aafc-cb0af717f2cb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_3180000/newsid_3187900/3187922.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962669 | 613 | 4.71875 | 5 |
Archiving and compressing files is a very common task. Whether it is for backup purposes or exchanging files over the Internet, being able to handle the various archive and compression formats available is an important skill. Linux has tools to access all common archive and compression file formats.
Zip is the most pop... | <urn:uuid:048a5852-6ab6-43cd-b8d3-46d9e97c9b7e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/54281/archiving_compression_linux/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.836303 | 936 | 3.859375 | 4 |
County Vermont (Introduction to the 1983
McClellan’s Map of Windham
An Historical Sketch of the Map
a short period of time in the decade preceding the Civil
War, an extraordinary series of detailed county maps was
produced, which recorded the names and locations of homes
and businesses throughout the Northeastern Unite... | <urn:uuid:61458146-408e-42b0-8fe2-2a18c25664fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.old-maps.com/vermont/vt-more-pubtxt.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944936 | 2,801 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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oropharynx (the part of the throat at the back of the mouth). Most cases are designated as squamous cell carcinomas because they begin in the flat cells (squamous cells)... | <urn:uuid:16683058-3f24-4936-a25a-91805df92ee6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/gard/9360/oral-cancer/resources/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890633 | 555 | 3.71875 | 4 |
MEngM Required Course Descriptions
During the fall term, students take four courses—a total of 48 units. The following are required unless similar prior classes can be demonstrated:
2.810 Manufacturing Processes and Systems
Introduction to manufacturing systems and manufacturing processes including assembly, machining,... | <urn:uuid:ce218861-eb21-4f0d-be8f-5a6fa7af1df5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://web.mit.edu/meng-manufacturing/academics/courses.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911724 | 996 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Over the last year, one million people have fled their homes in Afghanistan to escape the brutal terrorism of the Taliban regime and to seek refuge from the worst drought to hit the country in 20 years. As many as 800,000 internal refugees seek relief within Afghanistan; thousands have crossed the border to neighboring... | <urn:uuid:5c365bd4-44cd-421c-8df5-9cdf0e073c77> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.msmagazine.com/news/printnews.asp?id=5421 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939243 | 198 | 2.96875 | 3 |
A selection of articles related to elements.
Original articles from our library related to the Elements. See Table of Contents for further available material (downloadable resources) on Elements.
- Working with the elements
- Four is the number of the physical universe. Both the square and the cross are symbols of mate... | <urn:uuid:5d3a6475-3d6c-4766-8425-f6b40251e8c3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.realmagick.com/elements | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887048 | 916 | 2.59375 | 3 |
PepsiCo To Use Potato Water To Help Run Its Chip Factories
Food Giant PepsiCo is taking new initiatives to achieve more sustainability in its factories.
PepsiCo has come up with a novel plan to reduce the water consumption in its factories. It aims to recycle the water extracted from potatoes to run its potato chip pla... | <urn:uuid:5644391c-df93-47d3-a0ed-18c7dd055904> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/pepsico-to-use-potato-water-to-help-run-its-chip-factories.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96632 | 197 | 2.59375 | 3 |
According to recent studies the vegetarians seem to eat more healthily than their meat-eating peers. “Vegan nutrition” contains more fruits and vegetables and less fat, especially saturated fat. Research being conducted states that by eating more plant-based foods and less meat and animal products might help prevent he... | <urn:uuid:3cc48918-b525-4ed3-b421-81864434a734> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.syl.com/articles/lifestylechoicesofbeingvegetarianwiththehelpoftheveganrecipes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928246 | 505 | 2.734375 | 3 |
The State Museum of Prehistory in Halle is one of the most important archaeological museums in central Europe.
A cornerstone of archaeological preservation in Saxony-Anhalt, it houses one of the oldest, most comprehensive and most important archaeological collections in Germany. This stock of more than 15 million disco... | <urn:uuid:8f554448-01a9-4d18-a552-f2cec24398a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.germany.travel/sk/towns-cities-culture/museums/nature-technology/state-museum-of-prehistory-halle.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.753081 | 211 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Fifth graders get a document based social studies test in November. Understanding political cartoons is one of the components. Here's a dbq slide show on cartoons. The first four slides give some tips on how to understand them, but I don't think that will work-you just have to be aware of ... | <urn:uuid:397f8944-87a5-454e-8782-ea16212fa7b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dbellel.blogspot.com/2005/09/political-cartoons.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963397 | 102 | 3.140625 | 3 |
These women first set up their own business after the French revolution, in the 19th century. Most of them were former house cooks forLyon’s rich and affluent families. They started treating the canuts, silk weaving workers, to popular meals. Later, when their reputation reached beyond the edge of Lyon, the most famous... | <urn:uuid:fd903e71-dfe0-41b3-abd6-67fdb33fb175> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://awomansparis.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/women-chefs-les-meres-lyonnaises/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917748 | 1,715 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Tom Siegfried - Science Editor, The Dallas Morning News
November 5, 2003
Antimatter, black holes and the expansion of the universe were all 'discovered' by physicists studying squiggles on paper. Now, predictions of strange quark matter, invisible stars and new dimensions of space and time set the stage for the biggest... | <urn:uuid:c93efd5a-7cd9-42fb-850a-4e869b94b2fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://education.jlab.org/scienceseries/strange_matters.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.879424 | 119 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Grizzly (Ursus arctos)
Known as the second largest terrestrial carnivore in North America. The average male
weighs 250 to 350 kilograms, females half that.
A full life for a grizzly in the wild is 25 years.Females have their first litter
when they are between five and seven and their last at 20.
The ideal meal is a bel... | <urn:uuid:113385dc-5d39-4931-a194-27de75299721> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/nd03/indepth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946511 | 386 | 3.234375 | 3 |
To learn how apps work, start with App Fundamentals.
To begin coding right away, read Building Your First App.
Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment. The documents listed in the left navigation provide details a... | <urn:uuid:8e5d4ee7-aa14-4661-aa69-62f0006a981f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://developer.android.com/guide/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899206 | 324 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Innovation and Technology News
Gene 'treasure trove' linked to puberty onset
Puberty onset Over 100 regions of the genome play a role in the timing of a girl's first period, a new international study has found.
Many of these regions were not previously thought to be involved in reproduction at all say researchers, repo... | <urn:uuid:bbcc3eed-60ae-47b1-9ee4-e2c7644fae4e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/07/24/4052003.htm?site=tv/newinventors&topic=tech | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967424 | 625 | 2.875 | 3 |
• The clouds appear every day, are widespread and are
highly variable on hourly to daily time scales.
• PMC brightness varies over horizontal scales of a
few kilometers, and because of the AIM high horizontal resolution,
we now know that over small regions the clouds are ten times
brighter than measured by previous spa... | <urn:uuid:0580045d-bec4-4627-8dba-1fb4d9c083f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://aim.hamptonu.edu/mission/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919655 | 166 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Practical strategies for teachers who share classroom teaching responsibilities
Filled with down-to-earth ideas, suggestions, strategies, and techniques, The Co-Teaching Book of Lists provides educators with a hands-on resource for making the co-teaching experience a success. Written by educator and popular teacher tra... | <urn:uuid:24c44118-8cf7-41a1-b320-2971d9a14439> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/the-co-teaching-book-of-lists/katherine-perez/9781118017449 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923704 | 207 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Exotic applications of optical thin films: (Left) Scanning electron microscope image of a columnar microcavity with quantum dots produced from a planar structure by a complex etching procedure. The reflecting stacks were deposited in an ion-beam sputtering system. (Right) Microcavity organic light emitting diodes with ... | <urn:uuid:dd398751-2e0b-472e-b178-d2e9d25463da> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_18/issue_6/features/fifty_years_of_optical_interference_coatings_at_th/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928633 | 1,540 | 2.96875 | 3 |
One of the most effective ways to jump-start our economy is to attract skilled workers and entrepreneurs from around the globe to spur innovation and create jobs here at home. As Congress debates comprehensive immigration reform, revamping our legal immigration policies must be a priority.
The immense contribution that... | <urn:uuid:7f2bd73f-6e73-45c7-9329-485f13986686> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ocregister.com/articles/visa-248775-ocprint-economic-skilled.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953528 | 669 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Changing Perspectives in Education
Considering Waldorf: Changing Perspectives in Education from Eugene Schwartz on Vimeo.
As Waldorf education approaches its 100th anniversary, its schools and methodologies are more widely known and practiced than ever. Waldorf methods are practiced not only in the independent schools ... | <urn:uuid:f9c2f68e-66e8-441d-9bbe-6c1e43cfd670> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://millennialchild.com/film.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00149-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932286 | 147 | 2.578125 | 3 |
This man is badass.
- Badass is defined as something or someone cool or something or someone tough, rebellious or aggressive.
When a person gets a really cool new motorcycle, it might be an example of something described as badass.
- The definition of a badass is someone who is tough, mean, violent or a bit aggressive.... | <urn:uuid:b0ebe01e-d506-42ec-a634-913200a232f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.yourdictionary.com/badass | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.872341 | 123 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Methacrylates in Sealant Applications
Producers and converters of goods are constantly looking for process improvements that allow them to increase productivity. Ultraviolet/electron beam (UV/EB) curing can increase the speed of production while decreasing the overall environmental impact. While UV/EB curing is well-kn... | <urn:uuid:5e556599-c816-4f95-8bf9-e17791cd7f34> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.adhesivesmag.com/articles/91629-methacrylates-in-sealant-applications?WT.rss_f=Curing&WT.rss_a=Methacrylates+in+Sealant+Applications&WT.rss_ev=a | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949702 | 2,618 | 2.9375 | 3 |
The software performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.
New weaknesses can be exposed because running with extra privileges, such as root or Administrator, can disable the normal security chec... | <urn:uuid:d099c943-daf4-4cd7-864c-a474c43e95c1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/250.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885959 | 1,910 | 3.296875 | 3 |
In its annual survey, “Minority Religious Communities At Risk,” the First Freedom Center of Virginia observed intensified contention over the right to freedom of religious expression in both Canada and the United States. As evidence, the editors highlighted a major Canadian Supreme Court decision as well as public crit... | <urn:uuid:18ef98bd-1097-451d-aa8d-5c213c8aa75f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2013/08/20/religious-freedom-and-multiculturalism-canadian-contentions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945915 | 2,351 | 2.5625 | 3 |
ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE IN VIRTUAL REALITY DOES IMMERSION REALLY AID LEARNING?
This study explored whether students benefited from an immersive panoramic display while studying subject matter that is visually complex and information-rich. Specifically, middle-school students learned about ancient Egyptian art and society ... | <urn:uuid:5e18365e-a5f4-40bb-b181-ef34b21a3874> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.openthesis.org/documents/Ancient-architecture-in-virtual-reality-225505.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936867 | 440 | 3.609375 | 4 |
A report making recommendations for a new, international security agenda for the Amazon, says the region’s nations should link-up and circulate data on water, energy, health and food security to ensure sustainable development and tackle challenges posed by changes in climate and land use.
A failure to do so, it says, c... | <urn:uuid:16b9682e-c7f8-4c55-9e08-22cc929f8a9f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scidev.net/global/data/news/data-sharing-and-joint-thinking-urged-for-amazonia.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929404 | 586 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Public Health - Degree Programs
While it is possible to gain experience in the field without an advanced degree, most
public health professionals need at least a Master’s degree (MSPH, MPH) for career
advancement. In general, the MPH degree will include coursework in a number of public
health disciplines, such as admin... | <urn:uuid:986dc09d-4c9a-4bc5-93a3-781df4be4d54> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.skidmore.edu/hpac/public-health/degree.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934037 | 179 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Using the new kVA method, you only need one calculation to determine the short-circuit values at every point within an entire electrical power system.
In this day of high fault currents, it's more important than ever to protect electrical equipment from extremely high current levels. Otherwise, the equipment will explo... | <urn:uuid:2ce7aac7-98a4-4a00-92de-e7e41e27100c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ecmweb.com/design/making-short-circuit-calculations-easy?quicktabs_11=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.871107 | 741 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Before Green Valley became a village, a mining camp almost took the honors in 1881 three miles to the west. A cluster of miners’ tents mushroomed beside the military road established more than a decade earlier by the army. The road from Tonto Basin followed Wild Rye Creek to its headwaters, and then continued to the mo... | <urn:uuid:9b3f92c4-04ca-4543-a61a-dcf7c07ace2e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.paysonroundup.com/news/2008/oct/01/story_payson_arizona/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983712 | 1,783 | 2.59375 | 3 |
In the first flush of the Arab Spring many attempts were made to draw historical parallels with previous revolutions. Some looked back to the spring of 1848, when a wildfire of revolt swept through Europe, starting in Sicily but leaving few countries untouched. Those of a more optimistic disposition invoked the more su... | <urn:uuid:bb2f0b58-6937-4617-90c7-bd06b53c8792> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/the-long-march-to-freedom-2274656.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965082 | 1,785 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Henry Harpending (1944-2016) died this past Sunday. He had a stroke a year ago, and then a second one three weeks ago, but apparently he died of a lung infection. This is one of the risks of getting older: you dodge one bullet only to get hit by another.
The cemeteries are full of people who die before their time, but ... | <urn:uuid:8290a9c8-10fa-45f4-8e70-77571d662618> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://evoandproud.blogspot.co.nz/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954132 | 1,817 | 2.890625 | 3 |
22 Oct 2009:
Food Recycling Program
A Major Success in San Francisco
San Francisco’s new food recycling program — the first in the U.S. that requires all food waste from homes, apartments, businesses, and restaurants to be recycled and composted — has been enthusiastically embraced by city residents
, officials say. Al... | <urn:uuid:31ce8c5e-0c24-41f5-a0d5-8c00da2c8f28> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://e360.yale.edu/digest/food-recycling-program-a-major-success-in-san-francisco/2111/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909238 | 542 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Pronunciation: (lang'gwish), [key]
1. to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
2. to lose vigor and vitality.
3. to undergo neglect or experience prolonged inactivity; suffer hardship and distress: to languish in prison for ten years.
4. to be subjected to delay or disregard; be ignored: a petition that languished ... | <urn:uuid:2334709b-1e97-47ba-9bd3-b6a7a30a2b94> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dictionary.infoplease.com/languish | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.865926 | 164 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The Winter’s Tale Theme of Gender
Leontes’s hateful ideas about women dominate the first three acts of The Winter’s Tale. After he convinces himself that his pregnant wife is having an affair and carrying another man’s child, Leontes reveals a crude and misogynistic attitude that seems to have been lurking beneath the ... | <urn:uuid:0fdf8119-c836-4bb6-b3cb-11f473c490d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/winters-tale/gender-theme.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95256 | 343 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Many critics have suggested that Wright's southern stories are his best work, and it is clear that they have continued to be widely read and often anthologized. Despite their occasionally too obvious didacticism, the stories in Uncle Tom's Children convey an emotional power that has not been diminished by the passage o... | <urn:uuid:66901411-d544-4bfe-98d7-e3a6fb56a260> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/topics/uncle-toms-children/in-depth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00082-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970183 | 276 | 3.6875 | 4 |
The Wolfram Language introduces GeoGraphics, an extension of its powerful graphical functionality to produce maps. GeoGraphics offers full automation and freedom to handle cartographic projections, choice of zoom (from the whole Earth down to meter scale), map styling (street maps, relief maps, ...), and much more. Geo... | <urn:uuid:edb286db-9cb7-46d0-bda2-ae2af96c075a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-10/geographic-computation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.833124 | 276 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. Thousands of software developers have written these apps for Apple’s “iOS” mobile platform. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a l... | <urn:uuid:1e45de2b-3a69-42a6-82f3-cc5626798557> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-deep-history-of-your-apps-steve-jobs-nextstep-and-early-object-oriented-programming/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959192 | 6,345 | 2.921875 | 3 |
A letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal from distinguished Professor of Physics at Princeton University William Happer is published today in which he states, "Even if we could hold CO2 levels fixed, the climate would continue to change because of other influences. In a time of serious world problems, wasteful... | <urn:uuid:930ffd45-0979-44dd-bf89-d791f0bf2bc0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/09/distinguished-physicist-william-happer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94858 | 1,030 | 2.53125 | 3 |
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized the 150th anniversary of our Nation's Bill of Rights, he called it the "great American charter of personal liberty and human dignity." He understood that the freedoms it protects -- among them speech, worship, assembly, and due process -- are freedoms that reinforce one a... | <urn:uuid:31a8c36f-79cd-408f-a2e4-a382205a55fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://speakwithauthority-jsm.blogspot.com/2012/12/bill-of-rights-day-and-gun-control.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967637 | 1,383 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Way beyond the orbit of Pluto spins a newly found dwarf planet, 2012 VP113, nicknamed "Biden" by the astronomers. The dwarf planet is believed to be located within the inner Oort cloud, joining the dwarf planet Sedna as a distant member of the solar system.
According to NASA, the discovery of the distant dwarf planet h... | <urn:uuid:4bec4ad7-34d7-443d-a781-0c81b6a0fb51> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ibtimes.com/new-dwarf-planet-biden-discovered-2012-vp113-most-distant-family-member-solar-system-photo-1563728 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939363 | 581 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Colossal hot cloud envelops colliding galaxies
A burst of star formation that lasted at least 200 million years may be responsible for the “halo” in NGC 6240.
Scientists have used Chandra to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large colliding galaxies. This unusually large reservoir of ... | <urn:uuid:ec27db6d-e8a6-417f-9005-d6a4d7da6def> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.astronomy.com/News-Observing/News/2013/05/Colossal%20hot%20cloud%20envelops%20colliding%20galaxies.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961923 | 542 | 3.65625 | 4 |
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2013, 10(11), 5671-5682; doi:10.3390/ijerph10115671
Abstract: Born in the early nineteen nineties, evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a paradigm intended to promote the integration of biomedical evidence into the physicians daily practice. This paradigm requires the ... | <urn:uuid:ae8611d8-8ea5-4ca2-b0d4-39c3920beacd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mdpi.com/1660-4601/10/11/5671/htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911841 | 7,012 | 2.640625 | 3 |
“Our immigrant ancestor…was part of a large group of Presbyterians who followed an emigration led by the Reverend William Martin in 1772. Several Presbyterian pastors led their congregations in emigrations from Ulster to America in the decade following Rev. Dr. Thomas Clark's emigration from Ballybay, Northern Ireland ... | <urn:uuid:2cd0edcd-ed2e-47bb-854c-4f65277fe7ca> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.martin/13132.1/mb.ashx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925016 | 2,009 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Nepal needs a better surveillance system to accurately estimate animal-borne parasitic infections that claim more victims than malaria and are comparable to HIV/AIDS in this country, says an international study.
A team of scientists from Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Switzerland and the Netherlands estimates the public ... | <urn:uuid:7139cf62-bb13-438a-8662-ad95c0cdf747> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.asiabiotech.com/publication/apbn/18/english/preserved-docs/1804/18040013x.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923061 | 606 | 3.1875 | 3 |
of Slavery in Pennsylvania
was the 225th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
1770 the legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
— the General Assembly —
had passed legislation prohibiting the
importation of slaves, but this was disallowed by the
Privy Council in London.
In... | <urn:uuid:9dc42792-ea40-40a8-9fa9-187b725a8e15> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/hus-penn.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.810738 | 248 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Brasilia is the capital of Brazil, with a population of about 3.6 million for its metropolitan area. The city was planned and developed in 1956, residential buildings located around expansive urban areas, and specific areas for almost everything, including hotel sectors. When seen from above, the main planned part of t... | <urn:uuid:2c59f077-eb5f-4a3c-b0d6-36b4ea99ee2d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA13045 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923955 | 368 | 3.09375 | 3 |
While scavenging through her family archives, Ruth Bush of Lehighton chanced upon a worn spiral-bound, orange-covered book entitled the Story of Carbon County.
As she curiously peered through its introductory pages, she learned of how it came to be, and was all the more fascinated.
The 154-page book began, "In this 'Sp... | <urn:uuid:a7d5abdb-b42c-49e2-8f6e-ce544114c637> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tnonline.com/2010/feb/06/dusting-story-carbon-county | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964366 | 957 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Enoch Poor was one of the best brigade commanders in Washington's Army. Born in Andover, MA, he had served under Amherst during the French and Indian War. Following the Lexington alarm he was appointed Colonel of the 2nd New Hampshire. He took part in Montgomery's invasion of Canada and was made Brigadier General in Fe... | <urn:uuid:3ba9d661-b233-4959-be12-110d30548b2d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2011/09/the-death-of-general-poor-part-ii.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985367 | 769 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 resources in Environmental Disasters and Publications:
1. British Columbia's Forests - A Geological Snapshot
British Columbia has developed a series of detailed province-wide maps with information on tree species, forest age, natural and human disturbance, protected areas, ownership and ...
2. Cou... | <urn:uuid:ee18c3be-c8c7-43ef-965a-8b01bd61e861> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.envirolink.org/topics.html?topic=Environmental%20Disasters&topicsku=2002119145522&topictype=topic&do=catsearch&catid=6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.835124 | 292 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Subject Headings and web searching – making the library count
Providing access to information and knowledge is a primary function of library practice and in a series of three blogs I will focus on the importance of Subject Headings.
Part 1 Subject Headings and web searching – making the library count
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Land ~ Sea Discovery Group Staff
Authors prelude; During the winter months of rain and snow this
writer / treasure hunter spends hours digging through old books
and ephemera looking for possible treasure hunting sites. Quite
often an unknown part of history is brought to light and a new
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|hope college > academic departments > american ethnic studies|
American Ethnic Studies Minor
AES 210: Introduction to Ethnic Studies, CD4
This course examines the roles that slavery and race have played in shaping the course of American history. Starting from an overall assessment of slavery’s origins in western cultu... | <urn:uuid:0cce83a6-086f-4884-a4e6-566dca838b1e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hope.edu/academic/ethnicstudies/courses.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922575 | 243 | 2.640625 | 3 |
by Simon Armitage
The Farrand Chapelette is a type of harmonium or small organ. Simon Armitage and his father before him were choir boys at the church of Saint Bartholomew in Marsden, a village in West Yorkshire. On occasions when the congregation at a service was quite small, the organist would play the harmonium inst... | <urn:uuid:537ce0a9-90db-4183-873a-9fed78a71fee> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://poetryforgcseenglish.blogspot.com/2012/09/harmonium-by-simon-armitage.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981582 | 1,463 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Giving The Gift This Holiday Season Of Dental Health
Holiday season is a time of great joy bringing families and loved ones together from all points around the globe. It is also a time of over indulging on holiday sweets and treats. The consumption of these cookies and candies have the potential to create some real dam... | <urn:uuid:01e6c24c-edcf-4ebb-8f9b-a4a213a596c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://drperrone.com/blog/giving-the-gift-this-holiday-season-of-dental-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954799 | 730 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Our three guiding questions
The IMYC has been developed around, what we believe to be, three crucial guiding questions:
What kind of world will our students live and work in?
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Ebola outbreak in west Africa overBy Jay Jacobs Jan 15, 2016
The World Health Organization (WHO) today declared Liberia free of Ebola, marking the end of the outbreak in West Africa.
The declaration comes two years after the first case was reported in Guinea and cases of re-emergence in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Writing a New Chapter of Jewish History in Hungary with JDC Ambassadors
We are leaving Budapest, after three enlightening days on a JDC mission led by Rebecca Neuwirth. The Jewish community here, long one of the largest in Europe, is struggling to find its identity in the face of a rising tide of anti-Semitism followin... | <urn:uuid:9cf96d76-fe89-4a9b-bdd7-74a3655d4db1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jdc.org/jdc-field-blog/2013/writing-a-new-chapter-of.html?s=g_em | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969243 | 1,606 | 2.578125 | 3 |
[What's the point of designing games? Veteran educator and designer Ernest Adams examines the concepts of fun, enjoyment, and personal fulfillment to reveal the key, uplifting tenets of game creation.]
The Japanese language uses suffixes to modify the word that precedes them. Two of these suffixes are -do and -jutsu. T... | <urn:uuid:34e96e92-ca7e-4fa5-bdf3-b72e0a33327a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3765/the_designers_notebook_the_tao_.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955522 | 859 | 2.875 | 3 |
The Compromise of 1850 included five bills passed to retain the balance of power between slave and free states following American acquisition of new territory in the Mexican-American War. The compromise abolished the slave trade—but not slavery—in the District of Columbia, formalized Texas's borders and paid its debts ... | <urn:uuid:7de3c79c-81b5-4886-8548-e80faf8da2be> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/definitions/compromise-of-1850-43?cp=CHEGGFREESHIP | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953045 | 282 | 4.5625 | 5 |
Learn to Say President Willkie
Wendell Willkie was born on this day in 1892 in Elwood, Indiana.
Wendell Willkie blazed in and out of American politics with the short-lived intensity of a spark of static electricity. An unlikely presidential candidate, he was the model of the dilettante crusader, the role Ross Perot see... | <urn:uuid:033b6a37-7149-420d-a80c-82d12bd8aa3a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://rsparlourtricks.blogspot.com/2007/02/learn-to-say-president-willkie.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972821 | 578 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Remember the Ixtoc I well blowout of 1979, that released about 3.3 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over more than ten months? Not many North Americans do -- because they were less environmentally conscious, because it occurred in Mexican rather than U.S. waters, because Iran's Islamic revolution and the ... | <urn:uuid:45f5f9af-9e71-45ff-8893-a143aa75b6ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/06/technologys-disaster-clock/58367/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976475 | 386 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Warsaw (Apr. 8)
The towns of Brest, famous for the Russian-German treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and Terespol, as well as surrounding districts, have been completely submerged by the overflowing of the rivers Bug and Muchowietz. It is practically impossible to send aid into the stricken regions, and the population is trying ... | <urn:uuid:8c3b835a-419c-4b33-9a8a-2074116ae931> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jta.org/1924/04/08/archive/two-jewish-towns-in-poland-suffer-from-flood | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971799 | 111 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The criminal justice system is second only to the educational system in the number of fads and “experiments” that temporarily course through the professional ranks. Some experiments—drug courts and victim statements are recent examples—show staying power and eventually become a regular facet of criminal courts.
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You might be saying Alka-what? what is Alkaline eating? I think Wikipedia has the best most basic description…
The Alkaline diet (also known as the alkaline ash diet, alkaline acid diet and the acid alkaline diet) is a diet based on the theory that certain foods, when consumed, leave an alkaline residue, or ash. Minera... | <urn:uuid:47c43edf-dd05-4bc1-8486-07066e1c42d3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://fivehive.com/2011/02/02/5-quick-alkaline-diet-recipes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909606 | 1,649 | 2.625 | 3 |
Understanding the weather conditions that have been linked to ice-crystal icing can help pilots avoid situations that may put airplane engines at risk for power loss and damage.
By Matthew L. Grzych, Meteorologist, Atmospheric Physics and Flight Test Engineering
In a majority of ice-crystal icing engine events, convect... | <urn:uuid:0143466c-1bde-45e9-b921-f7dda3bd04f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_01_10/5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00195-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932034 | 3,154 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Spiritualists and Eastern religions have used meditation for centuries as a form of mind-body medicine, and the western world is finally catching on. There are many different forms of meditation, all of which rest the mind, encouraging a practice of focus and control.
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Pronunciation: (u-lit"u-rā'shun), [key]
1. the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration), as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration), as in each to al... | <urn:uuid:974b117b-5d05-4347-a9b1-57cc050006c2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dictionary.infoplease.com/alliteration | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889932 | 153 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Sulamith Löw Goldhaber’s pioneering work with particle accelerators put her at the forefront of a seismic shift in the research of particle physics. Goldhaber met her husband, Gerson Goldhaber, at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the pair earned their PhDs in physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1951.... | <urn:uuid:15f2c642-7d8c-4660-90a8-910f7bc43cc9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jwa.org/people/goldhaber-sulamith | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928697 | 303 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Deep below the surface of an isolated mountain range in Mexico sit two rooms of splendor: translucent crystals the length and girth of mature pine trees lie pitched atop one another, as though moonbeams suddenly took on weight and substance.
In April 2000, brothers Eloy and Javier Delgado found what experts believe are... | <urn:uuid:ad559f77-917d-4434-85ce-63242438db64> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/crystal-moonbeams-61506257/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960575 | 821 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Spastic colon is another term for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a common disorder characterized by abdominal cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, constipation and diarrhea.
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Q: Why does everyone say not to use gets()?
A: Unlike fgets(), gets() cannot be told the size of the buffer it's to read into, so it cannot be prevented from overflowing that buffer if an input line is longer than expected--and Murphy's Law says that, sooner or later, a larger-than-expected input line will occur. [foot... | <urn:uuid:3f31e1db-e3fe-45d7-abcc-2e800d2c0117> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.c-faq.com/stdio/getsvsfgets.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913236 | 243 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Some useful R code examples on graphics are:
Learn R Toolkit:
It contains PowerPoint slideshows, videos, R scripts and data files to help Excel users move up to R. R code examples are provided for panel charts, conditional format, dot plot, box plots with or without points, and fully annotated histogram charts.
It is c... | <urn:uuid:025d6145-4824-4dc9-a3dc-e7d9c6030a9a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://rdatamining.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/r-code-examples-on-graphics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.717699 | 249 | 2.75 | 3 |
Our Klamath Basin Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
Earth Day Network Program credited with
Cincinnati School Board Decision to Build Green
June 5, 2006 (Washington, DC) Earth Day Network’s National Civic Education Project is bein... | <urn:uuid:356841d2-b9a0-4be6-b22a-50cd0c373287> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org/environmentalistswildlands/greenschoolsedn060606.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00023-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959643 | 1,206 | 2.90625 | 3 |
While caring for a cactus is relatively easy, potting one can be a little more complicated. The makeup of the soil is key, since cacti have specific density and nutritional requirements. The perfect potting soil should wet easily, drain well and contain some organic material for proper nutrition and adequate air. The s... | <urn:uuid:2ffa1801-2ed9-4fe9-b614-ae8e97006e43> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/79506-make-cactus-potting-soil.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886081 | 301 | 2.625 | 3 |
College-Bound, an SAT Review Project (Brooklyn Public Library)
Best Practices in New York State
(Example illustrating Qualitative Results)
This project clearly yielded both quantitative and qualitative results. The Feedback points to student achievement in both survey and anecdotal form. While the timeframe for the gra... | <urn:uuid:f303933f-39a3-45e6-aaa7-bef15f7c1473> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/obe/bestprac/bpdet14.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981241 | 750 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Orangutans may `host ancient jumping genes`
Washington: Modern-day orangutans are host to ancient jumping genes dubbed Alu, which are over 16 million years old, according to a new study.
These tiny pieces of mobile DNA are able to copy themselves using a method similar to retroviruses. They can be thought of as molecul... | <urn:uuid:9b3ef534-b083-49b8-9e38-2ee775ba2cbd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/orangutans-may-host-ancient-jumping-genes_774083.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928763 | 866 | 3.5625 | 4 |
The government burden on the average worker has grown about a $1 trillion over the past year, and if time is money, Americans are working a lot longer to pay their taxes.
We're all familiar with the saying, "working for the man."
If "the man" is Uncle Sam, Wednesday is the day the average American would earn his or her... | <urn:uuid:bf7655ad-e1b8-4505-840e-9b4be9119987> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/finance/2009/August/Cost-of-Govt-Day-Shows-Impact-of-Bailout/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97222 | 519 | 2.625 | 3 |
07 March 2012
Colorado's Top Income Tax Rate Is Low
The Tax Foundation summarizes the state of U.S. state income taxes in the map above.
In general, one has to do some analysis of the local economic base and the alternate sources of revenue tapped by states on a case by case basis looking at each state as a coherent wh... | <urn:uuid:16021d49-dbc5-4fe9-ab24-4c75c4a23581> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://washparkprophet.blogspot.com/2012/03/colorados-top-income-tax-rate-is-low.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00148-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959421 | 1,825 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Tuesday May 7, 2013 | 7 comments
Previously, we looked at how tea began as what is known today as green tea and then inadvertently spun off into yellow tea and dark tea (AKA post-fermented tea). The puzzle is still incomplete, though, as there are another three basic categories of teas that have yet to be accounted for... | <urn:uuid:c5e08c4e-da64-478d-9eae-55d6029d314d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tching.com/2013/05/the-evolution-of-tea-part-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970391 | 766 | 3.03125 | 3 |
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