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Readers Question: If monopoly is always bad, why do firms seek to become monopolists and why does government tolerate monopoly?
It is true that Monopolies have many disadvantages for society:
- Higher prices than competitive markets
- Decline in consumer surplus
- Less incentives to be efficient.
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Map of Japanese provinces with Iga province highlighted
Iga Province (伊賀国 Iga no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of Mie Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It was sometimes called Ishū (伊州).
The province had borders with Ise, Ōmi, Yamato, and Yamashiro.
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E85 gets worse mileage than premium gasoline, as well as midgrade and regular gasoline. Octane ratings don’t have a direct impact on fuel economy, and premium isn’t necessarily a better fuel for your car if it doesn’t require the high-grade fuel.
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Tulamba is more than 2500 years old. Local legend holds that Tulamba existed in the time of Noah. Tulamba faced many armies as it was on the way to the famous Multan. The forces coming from North and West had to pass Tulamba to get to Multan.
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Some organisms' internal salt levels mimic the external, thus they are able to survive in a salty environment, without water loss. Some have gills and renal or kidney organs, to help concentrate and excrete salt. Fish living in a marine environment will always be in peril of losing ... | <urn:uuid:40effca0-f637-4050-b766-992986dc223d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/why-do-some-organisms-survive-salt-water-but-not-42829 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935439 | 800 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Some of my most vivid images of the Sahel food crisis are of hands and feet.
When I traveled to Senegal recently to document Oxfam’s work on the crisis, I met with women farmers who lost their last harvest to erratic rains. Several times I noticed an injury to a woman’s foot or finger—usually something simple that with... | <urn:uuid:b27b0817-1780-410b-806e-b5cdda081c4f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://firstperson.oxfamamerica.org/2012/10/sahel-food-crisis-the-cost-of-climate-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965659 | 489 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Crucifixion, by Francis Bacon (1933).
Crucifixion (1933) (oil on canvas) was subsequently purchased by Sir Michael Sadler (who, other than friends or relations, was the first to buy a painting), and who also commissioned a second version, Crucifixion (1933) (chalk, gouache and pencil), and sent Bacon an x-ray photograp... | <urn:uuid:ea7db6db-d108-4ade-b788-8f99db62c535> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2010/12/neuroradiology-as-art.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938791 | 935 | 2.734375 | 3 |
(UNDATED) - For many Hoosiers, it's a traditional smell of the fall season: burning leaves. But state environmental officials say the smoke from those fires affects air quality.
The Indiana Department of Enviornmental Management says the elderly, young children and individuals with respiratory or heart ailments are par... | <urn:uuid:2a51d96d-ff7c-42b6-bc44-44a0b2235929> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wbiw.com/state/archive/2008/09/idem-recommends-against-burnin.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899827 | 119 | 2.75 | 3 |
(A Second Theory)
In 1993 author John Grey wrote a book titled, "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus." Since then the idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus has become a popular way to express the often-bewildering differences between the genders. Grey's hard copy edition devoted 304 pages to the subj... | <urn:uuid:4d6d2726-7355-40c1-970f-c91a33777189> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tcnj.edu/~hofmann/wormholes.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961712 | 1,099 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Build your confidence in your French skills with practice, practice, practice!
From present tense regular verbs to double object pronouns, this comprehensive guide and workbook covers all those aspects of French grammar that you might find a little intimidating or hard to remember. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Fren... | <urn:uuid:b9d9bf68-7a66-42c6-bd77-502125ca7e31> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/practice-makes-perfect-complete-french-grammar/annie-heminway/9780071787819 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914499 | 234 | 2.515625 | 3 |
By Betty Trapp Chapman
In 1839 Houston was divided into four wards, each a geographic area which provided representation for the municipal government. The crossing at Congress Avenue and Main Street became the intersecting point for dividing the wards. The First Ward, located in the northwest quadrant of that intersect... | <urn:uuid:8ea0aa0b-fdd7-41ec-9d46-750761d29b09> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://houstonhistorymagazine.org/2010/12/houstons-first-ward-producing-food-from-farm-to-counter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979813 | 974 | 3.203125 | 3 |
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A San Salvador government worker fumigates houses in the northern area of the capital city, to eliminate mosquitos, transmitters of the dengue disease in San Salvador, El Salvador, Aug. 17, 2012.
From the Pan American Health Organization website:
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Common name: Bird's Nest Fern
Asplenium australasicum (J.Sm.) Hook. APNI*
Description: Rhizome erect, stout bearing even rosettes of radiating fronds; scales brown, ciliate.
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Bicycle - Related TBI
Links and References
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According to the Brain Injury Association of America, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is among the most misdiagnosed, misunderstood, and under-funded public health problems our country faces. But, just what is ... | <urn:uuid:3efa9d9a-7c9e-4781-b5e4-32b11840e366> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://enhs.umn.edu/current/6120/bicycle/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00037-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941615 | 1,337 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Development of weapons for antisubmarine and surface warfare is accelerating as navies field advanced submarines. Italian underwater warfare specialist WASS is developing a torpedo for this mission, Flash Black, which is to be completed by year-end.
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Summertime means pool time for many children and adults, and as they venture to their favorite spots to swim, play and create lasting memories, the B.R. Ryall YMCA of Northwestern DuPage County reminds swimmers to practice safety when in or around the water. This May, the Y is recognizing National Water Safety Month to... | <urn:uuid:57bac2de-bd8e-4ff5-913c-3649db1cf0eb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130430/submitted/130439996/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959152 | 584 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The Wild School program is a free, three year initiative for K-9 schools to help the school community build connections with nature, develop ecological understandings and encourage stewardship practices that contribute to becoming environmentally responsible citizens. The Wild School program offers hands-on environment... | <urn:uuid:2ceccdbb-3657-43ef-a181-aedfbaa6bb28> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hctfeducation.ca/school-programs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951237 | 449 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Regular readers know I love me my gamma-ray bursts: the most titanic and violent explosions the Universe is capable of producing. If one were to occur within a few thousand light years of the Earth, it would sterilize our planet down to the base of the crust.
Happily for us, all GRBs happen very far away. And on Septem... | <urn:uuid:8af76a71-8ad9-4bcb-9931-62a36d59b7f9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/19/swift-bags-most-distant-titanic-explosion-ever-seen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967963 | 722 | 3.1875 | 3 |
An international team of scientists has determined the evolutionary family tree for one of the most strikingly diverse and endangered bird families in the world, the Hawaiian honeycreepers.
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NATURALIZATION IN THE RIM AREA
Crater Lake National Park
by Merel S. Sager, Assistant Park Architect.
Field Headquarters, San Francisco, Calif.
November 18, 1932
NEED FOR NATURALIZATION
When visitors are brought into the national parks they must be transported to
the points of greatest interest and they must be supplie... | <urn:uuid:9e762892-192c-4b22-b396-98a08480f3e8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.craterlakeinstitute.com/online-library/rustic-landscape/appd.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972304 | 1,246 | 2.71875 | 3 |
They look like small, translucent gems but these tiny 'gel' slivers hold the world of a patient's tumour in microcosm ready for trials of anti-cancer drugs to find the best match between treatment and tumour.
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The clock keeps ticking, the oil keeps gushing, and I am struggling to stay focused on my house (flooded basement, no air-conditioning, fallen tree limbs) amidst one of the worst environmental disasters in American history. Despite the house chaos, I recognize that I am in such a better place than folks in the Gulf of ... | <urn:uuid:fd2e6fcf-cf2d-440e-935b-dfceab40bb5f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/a-painful-lesson.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946779 | 504 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Des Griffin is currently Gerard Krefft Memorial Fellow, Australian Museum, an honorary position commemorating one of the early directors of the Museum. More about Des Griffin
Leon Paroissien AM is the Chair of Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design in Sydney. More about Leon Paroissien
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Open education materials for pre-Kindergarten to high school students
Free and open source education materials for children and teens
I am a community moderator for opensource.com as well as a mother, a librarian, and a former public school teacher. When I began writing for this site over two years ago, it was due to m... | <urn:uuid:84ff86dd-0dc4-4943-9124-e372c526c8f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://opensource.com/comment/36809 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944382 | 940 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Two new studies indicate that gastric bypass surgery could have severely dangerous side effects, including severe hypoglycemia (low blood glucose level) and even death.
Black Outs Causing Traffic Accidents
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Your electric car might get you into heaven, but it's not going to save the Earth if China keeps up at its current pace. But while China may long remain the world's largest energy consumer and CO2 emitter—that's just what happens when you represent 20% of humanity—the country can still put a dent in its energy and carb... | <urn:uuid:f29dc34b-f507-4844-8fb6-0c37af0a83a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fastcompany.com/1750411/why-chinas-carbon-emissions-may-not-spiral-out-control | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00000-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956047 | 696 | 3 | 3 |
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report circulated Monday that while the international community has focused on communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, the four main non communicable diseases “have emerged relatively unnoticed in the developing world and are now becoming a global epidem... | <urn:uuid:72551bb9-3fe6-4361-94be-0a984e07e9e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thepetwhisperer.com/why-are-these-guys-saying-noncommunicable-disease-is-the-cause-of-two-thirds-of-all-deaths-in-the-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00038-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968743 | 299 | 2.578125 | 3 |
With its neat shape, white flower heads and tolerance for coastal and alkaline conditions, Protea lanceolata makes a perfect windbreak for a coastal fynbos garden, and it will attract birds.
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IMPORTANCE OF ORAL HEALTH EDUCATION
As the Children’s Oral Health Institute (COHI) CEO, the author, Dr. Booker, is excited about the enthusiasm with which the Institute’s educational programs have been received by dentists and teachers throughout the country. Research outcomes corroborate that the doctors and educators... | <urn:uuid:bf851051-c878-40e9-a8a1-df1b6920586a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dentistrytoday.com/viewpoint/9776-dentists-and-teachers-sink-teeth-into-oral-health-education | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948552 | 2,243 | 3.671875 | 4 |
|Ohio Farm News
By Steve Bartels
Now that we are past March 15, we can seed forages just as soon as the soils will allow. The key to success for forage seeding is prior planning. A soil sample is required before you seed.
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EXTREME WEATHER AND CLIMATE CHANGE: HOW CAN WE ADDRESS UNCERTAINTY?
Cook Campus Center
Co-sponsored by Climate and Environmental Change Initiative
Katrina. Irene. Droughts in Texas and the Horn of Africa. Floods in the Midwest, Thailand and Pakistan. What’s next?
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Making STEM Subjects Fun With Experiments
Jülich, 28 August 2014 – Encouraging school students’ interest in STEM subjects (i.e. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), especially in biology – this is the goal of the "School Meets Science" project. Together with teachers, the JuLab Schools Laboratory at Fors... | <urn:uuid:81b6bbea-048e-437b-aa72-763f53ce8787> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/UK/EN/2014/14-08-28schule-erlebt-forschung.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00186-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910367 | 121 | 2.734375 | 3 |
The Palm Beach Zoo's female bald eagle, known as Noble Peace, has cataracts in both eyes and will undergo corrective surgery in her right left eye on Monday, July 1st. Noble Peace was evaluated by a veterinary ophthalmologist Dr. Susan Carastro of the Animal Eye Specialty Clinic in West Palm Beach who will perform the ... | <urn:uuid:4f2ca98f-8186-4109-9379-cce4ddfd345a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.palmbeachzoo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.details&ArticleId=81 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950648 | 939 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Mechanics: Newton's Laws of Motion
Newton's Laws of Motion: Audio Guided Solution
It's Friday night and Skyler has been assigned the noble task of baby-sitting Casey, his 2-year old brother. He puts a crash helmet on Casey, places him in the red wagon and takes him on a stroll through the neighborhood. As Skyler starts... | <urn:uuid:306c19b4-405f-487e-b83b-72067e27d6a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.physicsclassroom.com/calcpad/newtlaws/prob14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00075-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.859121 | 403 | 3.96875 | 4 |
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In this chapter, the narrative is still third-person omniscient.
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Does remodelling of the airway wall precede asthma?
Baldwin, Lindsay and Roche, William R. (2002) Does remodelling of the airway wall precede asthma? Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, 3, (4), 315-320. (doi:10.1016/S1526054202002610).
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Northern California may not be out of the woods yet. On Sunday they were slammed with a 6.0 magnitude earthquake 51 miles southwest of Sacramento.
But the fear has only begun, as a significant aftershock could follow Sunday's shaker, and it might be really big.
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An engineering group at Northwestern University led by Professor Dirk Brockmann has developed a model to predict the spread of swine influenza across the country, and their efforts offer a snapshot of what might come.
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Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research and Karen Zeigler is a demographer at the Center for Immigration Studies.
The Census Bureau recently released data from the 2013 American Community Survey (ACS), including languages spoken for those five years of age and older. The new d... | <urn:uuid:fc5ebe55-6b36-45be-92b6-20ca9a9c58c8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cis.org/record-one-in-five-us-residents-speaks-language-other-than-english-at-home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936924 | 1,392 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Family planning counts for a lot when it comes to development in poor countries. It lowers mortality among women and infants, improves educational outcomes, and slows population growth. It also makes it easier for women to enter the workforce, which acts as an economic booster shot even in wealthy nations such as Japan... | <urn:uuid:d4a5a9a0-4941-4963-b035-978ec7479fef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://qz.com/239281/how-this-smart-contraceptive-design-could-liberate-women-in-africa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958803 | 522 | 2.953125 | 3 |
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The tiny gallbladder can become a big pain
By TOM VALEO
Published March 29, 2005
The gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped sac under the liver about 2 inches above the belt line. The gallbladder holds about a shot glass' worth of bile in reserve to help your body absorb and digest fat from food: It sq... | <urn:uuid:ab1bba60-c07c-4eae-8f11-066d5ff661e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/29/Seniority/The_tiny_gallbladder_.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953256 | 1,061 | 2.765625 | 3 |
what is difference between line and polyline in autocad
October 17, 2013
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James and Elizabeth Monroe had three children, two daughters and one son. Their son, James Spence, lived only two years. The two remaining, Eliza and Maria, had typical childhoods of the period. While we don’t have photographs of these children to tell us about their lives, we do have American paintings of children and... | <urn:uuid:a70c8934-5f50-4d8d-9270-dc3c83007375> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.firstladies.org/curriculum/curriculum.aspx?Curriculum=1023 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968916 | 750 | 3.359375 | 3 |
An important new study published by the National Institute of Health has found that activation of the endocannabinoid system – something done naturally by cannabinoids – can attenuate newborn brain injury caused by germinal matrix hemorrhages, which is one of the most common and devastating cerebrovascular events that ... | <urn:uuid:900ebb36-44db-4fee-b71a-c2771b36492a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thejointblog.com/study-cannabinoids-may-treat-newborn-brain-injury-caused-by-germinal-matrix-hemorrhage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930895 | 305 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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AYP is a key provision of NCLB Act signed into law by President George Bush in January 2002. It is an annual determination of whether schools, districts and states have made progress toward the goal of having all students meets rigorous academic standards by 2014.
As with other districts in
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The Mystery of History Volume III Reader:
Sample Text and Table of Contents.
Spanning the Renaissance, the Reformation, and Exploration
Covering people and events from 1455 to 1707 A.D., The Mystery of History Volume III teaches about the Medicis, the Inquisition, Martin Luther, Shakespeare, Pocahontas, and so much mor... | <urn:uuid:cb54473d-c425-4b42-bda5-93b96764456a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.timberdoodle.com/Mystery_of_History_Vol_3_p/088-892.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910107 | 455 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Nuclear Power Dossier - Building a Nuclear Power Station
1st June, 2006
Think nuclear power and you probably think of small amounts of highly radioactive material, safely encased in vast concrete bunkers, generating an endless supply of clean electricity. Yes it's expensive and clearly there is a problem with nuclear w... | <urn:uuid:feea4d56-c9a1-403f-8215-bc8cc79d6ef4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theecologist.org/investigations/energy/comments/268895/nuclear_power_dossier_building_a_nuclear_power_station.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949802 | 1,627 | 3.53125 | 4 |
A camera is a tool. As a hammer might be used by a cabinet manufacturer, a violin maker or even a musician, the camera is used by professionals in different fields. Each field has its own ethical code and use for the camera as well as the resulting images.
With this understood, let's consider the different fields of ph... | <urn:uuid:a07626e3-c6f8-44ef-8678-c9df35da9526> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://markhancock.blogspot.com/2006/06/major-photography-fields.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950222 | 2,048 | 2.890625 | 3 |
In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a song or piece of music which is sung or played in someone’s honour. The word comes from the Latin "serenare" meaning: "to make calm".
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It takes about 1 year for Panulirus cygnus to complete its entire larval cycle. During the larval cycle there are about 11 complex stages. At the end of a year, the juvenile rock lobsters are considered puerulus. In this puerulus stage, they are normally 25 millimeters long, and look like minature adult lobsters. In th... | <urn:uuid:099a815c-6d2a-48b6-be41-3188e5c06125> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eol.org/data_objects/18664157 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962794 | 275 | 4 | 4 |
Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors
5 May 2014
Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new work led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). ... | <urn:uuid:7db07276-5843-4f72-9ae2-15c9e050e897> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.greencarcongress.com/2014/05/20140505-ozone.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923972 | 2,256 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Rachel Roberts shared the following post in another community, and I felt it was too valuable a resource not to pass on...and thanks, Rachel :-)
"By way of Michael & DEANZ - this elearning report out on Education Counts. Though this is tertiary research there is much of relevance for the schooling sector.
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Jewish World Review June 5, 2003 / 5 Sivan, 5763
"We simply cannot say we live in a country that offers equal justice to all Americans when racial disparities plague the system by which our society imposes the ultimate punishment."
Amnesty's report includes these cold facts: "The U.S. will soon carry out its 300th exec... | <urn:uuid:66e34981-cafd-47a8-bc4a-3718395cfa3d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff060503.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972999 | 1,115 | 2.96875 | 3 |
TB is linked with a deadly silicosis epidemic hidden for decades in rural South Africa. Gold mining firms must make amends, says Jaine Roberts.
Across the rural Eastern Cape province in South Africa, up to half of men admitted to hospital withtuberculosis (TB) are former gold miners. This should not be surprising: the ... | <urn:uuid:48a3cadf-f69c-4e48-a0b0-0335f2839127> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hst.org.za/category/medical-condition/tb?page=7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924049 | 1,007 | 2.78125 | 3 |
In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in [piracy], plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking.
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Avoiding Environmental Hazards: Lessons from a Tiny Worm
In order to survive, animals must be able to sense what is happening in the environment. Some animals have excellent sight, others a great sense of smell or taste. The senses are used to find food, mates, to avoid toxins and predators. The small worm C. elegans h... | <urn:uuid:2af3142e-6748-46da-8499-39d168a33506> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2014/3/17/avoiding-environmental-hazards-lessons-tiny-worm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946515 | 806 | 2.953125 | 3 |
where fact sheets and other information can be found.
Gone Wild is a website of the Plant Conservation Alliance, Alien Plant Working
Group whose purpose is to inform the public about the harmful ecological impacts of invasive non-native plants like kudzu
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1. THERE are two known things in the universe: ethe and corpor. The former is the solvent of the latter.
2. For comparison, take a lump of table-salt, which, though white, is impervious to the sight of man. Cast it into water, and it is lost to sight; though it still existeth, the sight of man can see through it.
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Ancient Roman pharmacies must have looked a lot like vegetable gardens. DNA analysis of 2000-year-old medicinal tablets suggests the pills included onions, carrots and other garden vegetables.
Medical texts written by Pliny the elder and others detail herbal remedies the Romans and Greeks used, but not a lot is known a... | <urn:uuid:2c1dc878-4469-4f7f-80cc-9c25503f4eb9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.krugerpark.co.za/krugerpark-times-e-6-dna-reveals-ingredients-25269.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973826 | 352 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Good health and good food go hand in hand. Our Nutrition Education Program (OFNP) teaches low income families how to make better food choices, handle food safely and get the most out of their food dollar. Information is shared through classes, displays, food demonstrations and more.
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Liquid range of a substance is possible range of temperature where liquid is allowed to exist. The value of its liquid range is obtained by subtracting melting point from its boiling point. If boiling point is higher than its melting point, liquid range is said to be positive; if boiling point is lower, liquid range is... | <urn:uuid:e47f5995-729a-4657-b016-8c265dafd78b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://planetstar.wikia.com/wiki/Liquid_range | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914322 | 168 | 3.859375 | 4 |
What is the difference between a PDF and a JPEG file?
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At a Wyoming elementary school, teachers and students rallied to support a boy with a disability that affects his legs, but not his spirit.
Fifth grade student Nate Watson walked his 500th mile at Sagebrush Elementary School — it’s the most any student has walked since the school began its Walking at Recess program
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Born: September 18, 1709
Litchfield, Staffordshire, England
Died: December 13, 1784
English author and lexicographer
The writings of the English author and lexicographer (an author or editor of a dictionary) Samuel Johnson express a deep respect for the past combined with an energetic independence of mind. The mid-eigh... | <urn:uuid:8add5418-2233-48c4-97b7-8d6958552265> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.notablebiographies.com/Jo-Ki/Johnson-Samuel.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97166 | 1,118 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Glossary Term – Person
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (1475–1517) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. Balboa first went to the New World in 1500 and spent several years on Hispaniola. In 1509, he founded the settlement of Darien and soon led a journey across Panama. By 15... | <urn:uuid:a542e89c-8ef5-47d0-9314-a138f5f18f62> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gilderlehrman.org/category/coverage-people/vasco-nunez-balboa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964306 | 101 | 3.640625 | 4 |
It will be seen by reference to the foregoing plan that I have marked the time for the recesses by the letter R. at the top. Immediately after them, both in the forenoon and in the afternoon, twenty minutes are left, marked G., the initial standing for general exercise. They are intended to denote periods during which ... | <urn:uuid:8f7e2045-5b18-465b-a6fe-ab3e32af52f0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/12291/28.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00149-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979026 | 656 | 2.703125 | 3 |
New rare disease gene tool launched – PanelApp
Genomics England has developed a unique resource, the ‘PanelApp’. It is a new crowdsourcing tool for the scientific community, allowing knowledge of rare disease genetics to be shared and evaluated. This will create comprehensive evidence-based gene panels for rare disease... | <urn:uuid:c69cab6e-0efe-42a7-a9c7-7635836c7568> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/rare-disease-gene-panelapp-launched/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948212 | 705 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Basic Risk Management
Introduction to the Risk Management Process
What is risk management?
Risk is anything that threatens the ability of a nonprofit to accomplish its mission.
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None of our English grammar rules ‘is’ hard… or ‘are’ they?
It seems like it should be straightforward to figure out if the subject of your sentence is singular or plural, but sometimes it’s just not.
On this week’s edition of That’s What They Say, University of Michigan English Professor Anne Curzan joins Weekend Edit... | <urn:uuid:b96bde96-0257-45df-820c-567fc0ea2104> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://michiganradio.org/post/none-our-english-grammar-rules-hard-or-are-they | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929348 | 462 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised American colleges and universities, and any students or staff arriving from nations hit by the Ebola virus, to take precautions against spreading the disease that go beyond what most schools have done.
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Weird Animal Question of the Week has sex on the brain thanks to Humphrey Mulenga's question, “How can a layman distinguish a female hyena from a male?”
These African predators are known for being tricksters—even when it comes to their genitalia.
These pseudo-penises or pseudophalluses, as they're called, are paired wi... | <urn:uuid:2f35b125-c200-417c-aea7-283872e2719f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160220-animals-sex-penises-hyenas-mating-science/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934903 | 824 | 2.546875 | 3 |
As the number and sophistication of cyberattacks increase, so does the demand for people who can prevent such digital incursions.More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and postings are up 74 percent over the past five years, according to a Peninsula Press analysis of numbers from the Bureau of L... | <urn:uuid:6d2d18b2-6426-4f83-9cd2-db610d2e1a07> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://peninsulapress.com/2015/03/31/cybersecurity-jobs-growth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00166-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956491 | 1,842 | 2.6875 | 3 |
North Star Steel of Iowa has a plant in Wilton with a beautiful six-acre prairie for a front lawn. This is the result of a lot of hard work from North Star Steel employees and help from students from Wilton High School.
Members of Wilton High School's "Students for the Earth" are sowing seeds to help fill in bare patch... | <urn:uuid:5be35475-4949-4d20-8705-6e07e13f5516> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/ia/homeowner/?cid=nrcs142p2_008675 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971357 | 173 | 2.59375 | 3 |
India's economy is rivalling that of China and the U.S.
By 2040, rapid economic growth has enabled India to catch up with China and the U.S. These three countries – the "G3" – now have by far the largest share of world GDP.** India has benefitted from a number of cultural, economic and demographic trends in recent deca... | <urn:uuid:6ad1e95a-0359-4d30-933d-db8707ed7309> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2040.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953761 | 5,578 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The news in the beef business is centered around the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in England and the few cases in the mainland of Europe. But, most economists do not expect the outbreak of this disease in Europe to have much, if any, impact on U.S. cattle prices.
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It consists of consolidated volcanic ash ejected from vents during a volcanic eruption. Rock with more than 50% tuff is called tuffaceous. The chemical and mineral composition of tuff varies according to what was in the molten magma.
Volcanic ash[change | change source]
The products of a volcanic eruption are volcanic... | <urn:uuid:d02bdd5b-b620-476e-b565-03caffbd3ae4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuff | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958772 | 1,172 | 4.25 | 4 |
a different kind of coffee break with Gerry and Ray Coffey
Disease-Free Living Through Fitness and Nutrition
Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked to Breast Cancer
Adding to evidence that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can potentially raise a woman's risk of breast cancer, a new US study links recent, long-term HRT wit... | <urn:uuid:12cc5507-8f1a-4f9c-b792-857ca049fc5a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.all-creatures.org/cb/a-hrt2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928591 | 1,602 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Multitasking is generally understood as the ability of an operating system to run several applications at once. While the definition is fairly simple, as we've seen with releases of Android OS and Apple iOS4, the reality can be significantly more complex.
While the basic idea behind multitasking is the same on your sma... | <urn:uuid:87368a61-cad0-4567-86c0-fe0989066ede> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/351280/geek_101_multitasking_your_smartphone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953281 | 1,056 | 3.15625 | 3 |
May 8, 2004.
Medical News Today (Netherlands).
Dutch researcher Ronald Pennings has found new clinical and genetic characteristics for two different inherited syndromes that cause deaf-blindness. One of the two syndromes appears to cause more hearing impairment in women than in men.
Pennings investigated Wolfram syndro... | <urn:uuid:f0ad8522-8cdd-4a48-ba75-684d8c6395e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.home.earthlink.net/~blindworld2/MEDICAL/4-05-08-01.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939744 | 580 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Pacific Fishing Zones
Marine zoning in the Pacific Ocean, in combination with other measures, could significantly improve numbers of heavily overfished bigeye tuna and improve local economies, a fish modelling study has found. Scientists have found that a network of marine zones in the Pacific Ocean could be a more eff... | <urn:uuid:35e63fd2-001a-4029-be56-20f998814ad4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/45214/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958041 | 597 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and the Nature Conservancy on Friday announced the donation of a conservation easement encompassing 10,000 acres [of tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills].
The tallgrass prairie once stretched in a giant sea of grass from Alberta down to Texas, a continuous swath of grass across the continent. Pi... | <urn:uuid:81569403-54c7-46ad-98b6-8827a27861fd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://scienceblogs.com/tfk/2006/09/03/a-unique-treasure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938567 | 774 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Did Admiral Byrd fly not only over the poles of the earth, but also inside them, to discover new continents inside the earth? The answer would be a resounding no. Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888 – 1957) was an Antarctic explorer, pioneering aviator, and US Naval Officer. On May 9, 1926, Byrd, as the navigator, and pi... | <urn:uuid:7ac17be4-8343-440f-aba3-d701f419f35f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hyborea.blogspot.com/2006/07/admiral-byrd-and-new-atlantis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967577 | 994 | 3.828125 | 4 |
This painting idea of Crazy Hair Portraits was inspired by a lesson I first saw on Pinterest, but it came from Mrs. Brown's Art Class website. I adapted the ideas for paints, and to teach the concepts I wanted to emphasize for a younger age group.
We learned about lines; how many different types of lines there are, how... | <urn:uuid:b7402fec-7016-4daa-805c-de7c90b3b4de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sleepyheaddesignsstudio.com/2012/06/crazy-hair-portrait-paintings.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958651 | 167 | 2.625 | 3 |
|Meet three out of five requirements as indicated in each of the four divisions, or a total of twelve requirements out of the twenty.
Grasses - Any three
- 1. Show samples of five kinds of perennial grasses and explain their uses for feed purposes, soil conservation, and control of erosion.
- 2. Show how to prepare a s... | <urn:uuid:62095160-3e5a-41b6-9167-6a411dcefb92> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Grasses%2C_Legumes%2C_and_Forage_Crops&direction=prev&oldid=42425 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910919 | 794 | 3.765625 | 4 |
A History of Cabaret
by John Kenrick
(The images below are thumbnails click on them to see larger versions.)
While the contemporary American cabaret came into being in the 1970s, its traditions reach back more than a hundred years. A quick look at that tradition reveals a great deal about the social and cultural change... | <urn:uuid:fb75b8be-7bae-4464-9583-ee693209ed6e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.musicals101.com/cabaret.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963369 | 2,190 | 3.15625 | 3 |
The convention is that we express the time in terms of the hour that it's closest to. "A quarter past nine", not "three-quarters to ten"; but "twenty to ten", not "forty past nine".
"Half past" is, of course, exactly in the middle. The convention is that we say "half past" rather than "half to".
Sure, there would be no... | <urn:uuid:a2f90480-23a2-41bd-a503-5743d199d14c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/87704/why-half-past-and-not-half-to/87710 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970662 | 175 | 2.640625 | 3 |
After Hitler, Before Stalin examines the crucial postwar period in Slovakia, following Nazi occupation and ending with the Communist coup of February1948. Centering his work around the major political role of the Catholic Church and its leaders, James Ramon Felak offers a fascinating study of the interrelationship of S... | <urn:uuid:ae5107ef-a055-4d60-b3d8-825338f538ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://depts.washington.edu/history/people/books/after-hitler-stalin-catholics-communists-and-democrats-slovakia-1945-1948 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941948 | 301 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Statement on Faith, Devotions, and Traditions
It is increasingly difficult to raise good children in today's world, and we at New Hope Academy feel it is the job of the school to support parents in their efforts to help their children to build character and to be morally resilient. A complete education must address the... | <urn:uuid:9a7d5534-89d7-4daf-8f0d-ab05d9fde884> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newhopeacademy.org/MD-private-school/international-faiths-religions.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969818 | 894 | 2.671875 | 3 |
What Causes Wrinkles?
The etiology of facial wrinkles has several causative factors. These include: Premature photoaging secondary to sun exposure, loss of skin elastic properties secondary to diminished production of collagen and elastin with senescence, excessive facial muscular activity/over-expression, skin thinnin... | <urn:uuid:6c40441a-24de-4ae3-8aca-c23b610a678e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.botoxtreatmentbeverlyhills.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946235 | 2,414 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Your Thanksgiving table may have a delicious turkey, mashed potatoes, and homemade stuffing, but it won't be complete until you set out at least one other item. Of course, we're talking about the cranberry sauce.
No one knows for sure how or why cranberries became so closely associated with Thanksgiving, but it probabl... | <urn:uuid:7d1ec4b5-28a1-44e5-ac15-41c0fd431dab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/is-it-thanksgiving-without-cranberries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98055 | 548 | 3.71875 | 4 |
PPPL and Princeton scientists developing novel system for verifying nuclear warheads
Posted April 23, 2013; 01:15 p.m.
Scientists at Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are developing a unique process to verify that nuclear weapons to be dismantled o... | <urn:uuid:19d8e60c-f318-46b3-bb42-cfe751373243> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/67/35Q61/index.xml?from=2007-05-01&to=2007-06-01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947383 | 1,219 | 3.03125 | 3 |
The number of women diagnosed with breast cancer who undergo a double mastectomy is increasing. However, a new study questions the need for this procedure in most women. The study was published online on May 21 in the journal JAMA Surgery.
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REEF ROAD. The Reef Road consisted of a series of beds of oyster shells that divided Corpus Christi Bay and Nueces Bay and afforded a means for Indians and early settlers to cross from San Patricio County to Nueces County at low tide, at which time the average depth of the water over the reefs was eighteen to twenty-fo... | <urn:uuid:b301475b-3500-417f-9b6b-685c3d6ab964> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rrr08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969727 | 760 | 3.546875 | 4 |
In the Lord of the Rings, Gandalf rides upon a magnificent white stallion called Shadowfax. White horses have been greatly prized in human societies as a sign of wealth and dignity, largely because their bright coats are both pretty and rare. There are reasons for that. In the wild, the same conspicuousness that inspir... | <urn:uuid:27be1bb2-2957-478d-8c49-2804a1f85a02> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/02/03/white-horses-are-less-attractive-to-horseflies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96442 | 934 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Infertility is a condition that affects approximately 1 out of every 6 couples. An infertility diagnosis is given to a couple that has been unsuccessful in efforts to conceive over the course of one full year. When the cause of infertility exists within the female partner, it is referred to as female infertility. Femal... | <urn:uuid:2cfb8b46-5740-434f-9e88-11819accc7a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://americanpregnancy.org/infertility/female-infertility/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917503 | 963 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Dies and Realizations
The Great Seal has a reverse side because in the 18th century when it was designed, pendant seals were used. These were in the form of a two-sided disk of wax attached to the document by ribbons or cords.
First color painting (1786) Unknown Artist
First popular magazine article (1856) Benson J. Lo... | <urn:uuid:7526a6cb-42f9-46f8-b8c1-8c72f8c2d96a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://greatseal.com/history/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910633 | 229 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Definition of Sterilization, male surgical
Sterilization, male surgical: Male surgical sterilization is done by vasectomy which involves sealing, tying or cutting a man's vas deferens, the tube which otherwise would carry the sperm from the testicle to the penis.
Vasectomy is a relatively short operation, usually takes... | <urn:uuid:6201cb88-3b42-4864-81b7-3475b667a68c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=9778 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920197 | 200 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Recent research from Nurses' Health Study links air pollution to a decline in the cognitive skills of older women, reports Nurse.com. The study evaluated coarse and fine pollution in relation to cognitive decline in women using a study population from the Nurses's Health Study Cognitive Cohort.
The study included 19,40... | <urn:uuid:34ff8b14-05c2-482b-aaac-19b7b230a80e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.freshairpro.com/fresh-air-news/2012/02/study-suggests-air-pollution-may-cause-cognitive-decline/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95455 | 221 | 2.75 | 3 |
Before we can know about all the advantages and disadvantages of information technology, it is essential that we know what information technology is exactly, and why it has it come to play such a important role in our daily lives. Today information technology involves more than just computer literacy; it also takes int... | <urn:uuid:afaeb964-dba7-4d0a-81de-a31ddeadc795> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Some-Advantages-And-Disadvantages-Of-Information-81036.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964243 | 361 | 2.984375 | 3 |
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