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April 24th is a day that sends chills through the body of many Armenians. On April 24, 1915, the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire began a systematic premeditated genocide of the Armenian people–an unarmed Christian minority living under Turkish rule. More than a million Armenians were exterminated through di... | <urn:uuid:984e2e86-5b9b-44bb-b46d-45bbb74159db> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.democracynow.org/1998/4/24/armenia_genocide_remembered | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952668 | 212 | 2.75 | 3 |
difference between nomenclature and classification
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The formal system of naming species of living things is called binomial nomenclature (especially in botany, but also used by zoologists), binominal nomenclature (since 1953 the technically correct form in zoology), or binary no... | <urn:uuid:90a5bf2a-e532-416a-9f6a-307a795de0ff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.edurite.com/kbase/difference-between-nomenclature-and-classification | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928931 | 2,462 | 3.65625 | 4 |
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Close-up: Bringing First Nations history to life
Set in a traditional aboriginal ceremonial site near Gellatly Bay, a pictograph, surrounded by graffiti, was discovered more than a decade ago.
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It’s fall, peak season for sweet, plump, juicy grapes. If you thought grapes were just for snacking, you’re missing out. They’re loaded with fiber, rich in vitamins, and great for sipping, roasting, and baking. Read more
1. Find out which state is the largest grape producer in the U.S.
2. Make grape gazpacho.
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I'm Phoebe Zimmermann. And I'm Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today, we tell about writer Edith Wharton.
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Science Social Sciences Economics Agricultural and Rural Economics Community Supported Agriculture
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Gods of the Hindu Religion:
The Hindu Trinity
Brahma, Vishnu, & Shiva
In Hinduism, it is believed that the whole universe was created and run by the three fundamental forces which are symbolized by the three Gods of Hindu Trinity - namely Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. They have also been referred as the "Trimurti".
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Getting Your Child with ASD Ready for the New School Year
Three weeks before:
- Look at a calendar with your child. Mark the first day of school.
- Take your child to buy supplies.
Two weeks before:
- Make or read a social story about going back to school.
- Arrange a play date with a school friend or classmate.
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Press Release 97/34
FIVE NEW PESTICIDES ADDED TO INTERNATIONAL WATCH LIST
ROME, 23 September - Five extremely hazardous pesticides are being added to an
existing watch list so that their trade can be better monitored and managed in future,
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Food riots are not only the language of the unheard but today also the language of the hungry. It is not only that human footprint has far outgrown the resource footprint needed to sustain it, but more importantly that the resource footprint of sustainable food supplies has shrunk. In the case of Africa, alone it is es... | <urn:uuid:54b96b67-2a6a-43ef-a7b1-bb8060c25848> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/anwer_sher/2008/04/our_shrinking_resource_footpri.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97383 | 685 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Two nearby stars have been found to harbor "super-Earths" rocky planets larger than the Earth but smaller than ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune. Unlike previously discovered stars with super-Earths, both of the stars are similar to the Sun, suggesting to scientists that low-mass planets may be common around nearby... | <urn:uuid:fd28beb4-b484-44ba-9fbc-6b5e3d9e71b9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://astrobiology.com/2010/01/first-super-earths-discovered-around-sun-like-stars.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927395 | 183 | 3.609375 | 4 |
A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
Discovery of four cuneiform tablets at Hazor has strengthened archaeologist Amnon Ben-Tor's belief that he may be on the verge of finding the first Bronze Age royal archive ever to be excavated in Israel. "We're in the bank," he says, "Whether there's any money i... | <urn:uuid:b80ca014-c243-4149-a83d-a4a3cebffb2c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://archive.archaeology.org/9611/newsbriefs/hazor.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958681 | 492 | 2.859375 | 3 |
"World on Edge details the vice closing around us: a quadruple squeeze of global warming and shortages in food, water and energy. Then it explains the path out—and how little time we have left to take that path. Got anything more important to read than that?" —Peter Goldmark, former head of the Port authority of New Yo... | <urn:uuid:dd765217-773a-48db-93ff-e1f91945c059> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.earthpolicy.org/books/pb4/pb4ch2_ss3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921324 | 2,834 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Possessive pronouns show ownership.
How good is your vocabulary? Let's take a peek into the dictionary.
Possess: to have, to own
That was short.
Knowing what possess means will help you remember what these kinds of pronouns do. They show possession.
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Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. , at sacred-texts.com
ST. PETER, of the noble family of Nolasco, was born in Languedoc, about 1189. At the age of twenty-five he took a vow of chastity, and made over his vast estates to the Church. Some time after, he conceived the idea of establishing an order ... | <urn:uuid:6231db2d-bbdc-422e-b0cb-451e5a3504cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/lots/lots300.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983354 | 361 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Did you know 20 percent of Americans, ages 12 and older, have admitted to using prescription drugs for non-medical reasons? People are abusing prescription medications for a number of reasons: to get high, fall asleep, wake up, or deal with stress.
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48°36' / 17°50'
Translation of the
Piestany chapter from
Pinkas Hakehillot Slovakia
Translation of the
Published by Yad Vashem
Published in Jerusalem, 2003
Our sincere appreciation to Yad Vashem
This is a translation from: Pinkas Hakehillot Slovakia: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Slovakia,
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It should come as no surprise that there is a direct link between financial literacy and financial well-being. But a recent report suggests that bad credit card behaviour is worse in women compared with men when financial literacy is poor.
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Don't forget to get the lead out for the fishing opener
As you go through your tackle box to get ready for the 2008 fishing opener, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) encourages anglers to switch to lead-free fishing tackle. Lead is a toxic metal that has adverse effects on the nervous and reproductive syste... | <urn:uuid:5d4da425-f353-4f1e-a7d1-c18d6247d9fd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pinejournal.com/content/dont-forget-get-lead-out-fishing-opener | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949068 | 560 | 3.125 | 3 |
posted on Jul, 15 2013 @ 04:25 AM
According to the blog 'climate depot' Antarctic sea ice is well above normal for this time of year, also the bearing sea ice is also above normal,
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A unique fruit
Dwellers of the Middle East and North Africa were dependent on the
date palm. Reference to it is found in eastern proverbs and poetry. The
Bible calls it the `date tree’. Pliny, the historian acknowledges that
there is an assortment of dates. Sun-baked bricks discovered in
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Create a work of art using water colors, bubble solution, paintbrushes and bubble wands!
Blue and green, yellow and red. What colors can you find over head?
Sing, move your body and use your listening ears to hear special stories.
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Accepting the fact that help is needed for an alcohol problem is rarely easy. Many affected individuals feel overcome with shame, embarrassment, and anger. Facing one's problem requires a high level of self-awareness, courage, strength, and above all, a clear determination to make positive change. As difficult as it ma... | <urn:uuid:ec9c8da9-06a7-4aac-8b4c-542e1c6deb8c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rochester.edu/uhs/healthtopics/Alcohol/gethelp.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946327 | 1,469 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Wearable, Artificially Intelligent, Bionic Device
- Created: Wednesday, 01 June 2011
A battery-powered exoskeleton helps paraplegics stand and walk in a straight line, using a gesture-based human-machine interface.eLEGS is a wearable, artificially intelligent, bionic device that enables people with paralysis to stand u... | <urn:uuid:a8f723c3-3429-4782-99d4-19f6d0a2d21a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.techbriefs.com/2011/10-ntb/tech-briefs/bio-medical/10235-34455-196 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929984 | 586 | 2.96875 | 3 |
All dogs shed, though some dogs shed more than others. Keeping pet hair off clothes and furniture is an endless job for pet owners. Reducing your pet's shedding can decrease the amount of time you spend cleaning hair from yourself and your house. Proper grooming, appropriate nutrition, elimination of disease and occasi... | <urn:uuid:afc94cc5-7281-4d83-a8b6-3b87922170bb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dailypuppy.com/articles/how-to-reduce-pet-shedding_1384.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943088 | 421 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Heron of Alexandria (hērˈŏn) [key] or Hero, mathematician and inventor. The dates of his birth and death are unknown; conjecture places them between the 2d cent. B.C. and the 3d cent. A.D. He is believed to have lived in Alexandria; although he wrote in Greek, his origin is uncertain. Several of his works survive eithe... | <urn:uuid:eaab4900-4963-45b9-8a44-e4fb3c6d2b80> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/people/heron-alexandria.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978676 | 191 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The Clean Water Toolkit is a user-friendly guide to practices that will protect and restore streams, lakes and water supplies in your community. This interactive tookit is available as a compact disc and on the web:
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One of the snails in question.
Just a few weeks ago we wrote about scientists who’d manage to draw power from the body fluids of cockroaches. Now, another team has reported achieving a similar feat with snails: a tiny biofuel cell implanted in the creatures draws glucose and oxygen from their hemolymph (the snail equiv... | <urn:uuid:c9f69a80-50e7-4bfa-b813-4661b009dbd1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/tag/animal-cyborgs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948669 | 355 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Once the smoke clears from Dad’s barbecued burgers and the family sits down to eat today, we hope you will remember to take time to reflect on the true meaning of Independence Day.
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Dercum's disease, Dercum disease, Adiposis Dolorosa, Morbus Dercum, Adiposita Dolorosa, Fettvävsreumatism, painful fatty tumors, lipomas, weakness, obesity. This category is about a disease that has been identified for over a hundred years, yet no recent research exists on the cause of it. It was originally named by Dr... | <urn:uuid:912d5769-f7cb-4ff1-aa55-88c9747af8b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Skin_Disorders/Dercum_Disease/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00107-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91177 | 751 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Why do nuclear bombs make mushroom clouds? The phenomenon all comes down to a little something called the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, and by extension, convection. I'll begin with the somewhat longer, but less geeky explanation before descending once again into extreme nerdery.
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There is a modern view of the exurbs as these outlying areas where people move when they either can’t afford to live in the city or inner ring suburbs or can’t stand living there. But the exurbs began as a land of opulence, where the wealthy spread in order to buy up land and fill it with sprawling lawns and giant, int... | <urn:uuid:0b90ba1b-138d-4cf1-85d8-50522ebc6500> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.mprnews.org/ground-level/2010/12/the-end-of-the-exurbs-revisited/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973093 | 775 | 2.828125 | 3 |
November Survival Guide
An insider's guide to report-card writing, parent-teacher conferences, classroom activities, and more
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8
November brings many more "firsts" for new teachers — your first observation, your first round of report-card writing, and your first full slate of parent-teacher... | <urn:uuid:4415a106-080f-4925-a10d-4219468281d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/november-survival-guide | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887492 | 623 | 3.421875 | 3 |
An example of legible is neatly written text.
- that can be read or deciphered
- that can be read or deciphered easily
Origin of legibleMiddle English (northern) legeable ; from Late Latin legibilis ; from Classical Latin legere, to read: see logic
- Possible to read or decipher: legible handwriting.
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History 212: History of the United States to 1865
The main purpose of this course is to understand the creation and development of a distinctively different American civilization, from its origins through the Civil War. The course seeks a balance between giving students knowledge of specific people, events, ideas and f... | <urn:uuid:379f0a09-eafb-4805-b41b-4eb0e5a10ffd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://faculty.isi.org/catalog/resource/view/id/2949 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.771398 | 916 | 3.859375 | 4 |
Grossing up a paycheck is when the conventional method of computing a paycheck is done in reverse. When most employees are paid, they are paid a gross wage amount from which statutory and voluntary deductions are withheld and the employees are paid the remainder as net pay. When speaking of a gross up situation, the de... | <urn:uuid:d83eab8d-6ba3-4e75-99fa-949a7c9930b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://smallbusiness.chron.com/gross-up-salary-25332.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966765 | 565 | 2.96875 | 3 |
A team of researchers at the University of Connecticut is reexamining a decades-long debate as to whether deaf children should learn sign language to maximize their potential for optimal development.
Research has shown that children born deaf frequently exhibit learning deficits and as a result, often underperform in s... | <urn:uuid:f86069a4-791f-4972-b275-ae3d11bc8a4d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://today.uconn.edu/2016/02/study-of-cognitive-development-in-deaf-children-revisits-longstanding-debate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962328 | 660 | 3.5 | 4 |
I firmly believe that there is no one right way to learn a new instrument. Just as there is no one right way to lose weight, study for your midterms, or eat a block of cheese (where every way is the right way), the experience of learning a new instrument varies from person to person. The Suzuki method offers a methodol... | <urn:uuid:4f5a51cd-be6d-4710-9527-2260ac5e69c9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.epianostudio.com/2010/02/15/method-review-the-suzuki-method/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965793 | 555 | 3.890625 | 4 |
Women Workers, 1916
Both World Wars I and II offered American women the opportunity to temporarily fill jobs on the home front vacated by men entering the armed forces. In some instances this caused a shortage of labor in certain previously "female" sections of the economy. The Omaha Daily News, August 17, 1916, report... | <urn:uuid:f36c4406-9981-45e2-814c-c2de2fe8d410> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/timeline/women_workers_1916.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967813 | 386 | 3.796875 | 4 |
This is just a reminder that all the antibodies that go into the front of a newborn calf do not necessarily end up her blood.
In a recently reported research project calves were fed 185g of immunoglobulins (IgG) using a lactation-based colostrum replacer in either one or two feedings. [Cabrel, R.G. and Others, "Colostr... | <urn:uuid:75c0c8fd-f583-4c90-832e-85e800bacecb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dairyherd.com/dairy-news/Calves-with-Sam-Do-all-the-IgGs-end-up-in-the-blood-267157371.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93762 | 539 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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A chief technology officer is a top corporate executive who makes decisions regarding the development and application of new technologies. He or she often oversees engineers and technical professionals in the research and design of new products and systems. In additio... | <urn:uuid:c5e5fd33-431a-4d75-bdf5-e0d0bdec40ba> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-chief-technology-officer.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96656 | 700 | 2.578125 | 3 |
July 19, 2010: President Obama signs the Executive Order establishing a National Ocean Policy. Credit: whitehouse.gov
During this week two years ago, the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster was still dominating the news. And as our staff surveyed the Gulf, inspecting the impacts of gushing oil, it was already becoming clear ... | <urn:uuid:5ca17fbd-73fc-48f5-b614-551cfccd666a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.oceanconservancy.org/author/jjones/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959445 | 669 | 2.875 | 3 |
v 1: make soft or softer; of images and sounds [ant: sharpen
2: lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall"
3: give in, as to influence or pressure [syn: yield
4: protect from impact; "cushion the blow" [syn: cushion
5: make less severe or harsh; "He moderated his tone when the
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Over the last ten years, the Space Elevator has moved from being a "far-future science fiction" item to being a very solvable engineering problem.
The concept of a "Space Elevator" was first proposed 111 years ago as I pen these words by Russian scientist Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935). The idea then r... | <urn:uuid:d0411db0-a489-4a86-b5e5-9017f593899f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=14&doc_id=1282692&piddl_msgorder=thrd | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00104-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9475 | 611 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Q: I was out shopping over the weekend, and I noticed that one of the home centers still had some bins full of bulbs marked down to 50 percent off. Are these still good to plant? I'm also wondering, how comes bulbs get planted in fall instead of spring?
A: We're past the ideal bulb-planting time now, but that doesn't m... | <urn:uuid:a3a33850-6f2c-4a7c-9c0e-c4f7b4f0aad4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.pennlive.com/gardening/2013/12/are_those_on-sale_bulbs_still.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969334 | 437 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Joel, a prophet of Judah, probably exercised his ministry during the reign of Joash (2Chr 22. to 24.). In his youth he may have known Elijah, and he certainly was a contemporary of Elisha. The plagues of insects, which were the token of the divine chastening, give occasion for the unveiling of the coming "day of the Lo... | <urn:uuid:4089bcb8-f18c-4fab-97bd-600ebd20a9a2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/scofield-reference-notes/joel/joel-introduction.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968814 | 161 | 2.609375 | 3 |
A Critical Introduction to Counter Terrorism and State Crime
State crime frequently masquerades as counter terrorism. Counter terrorism encompasses laws, police, security, and military powers and measures directed at what states determine are terrorist threats. Terrorism is notoriously difficult to define and its defin... | <urn:uuid:99e8faa3-8c93-4f10-9753-305fa9a27cd8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://statecrime.org/state-crime-research/a-critical-introduction-to-counter-terrorism-and-state-crime/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925821 | 1,818 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Charles Darwin, who was born on February 12th in 1809, is of course most famous for his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, which revolutionized our understanding of the evolutionary process. But he was also prolifically interested in a wide range of scientific questions. He figured out how coral atolls were formed and... | <urn:uuid:06660e27-9a11-4f0a-8243-dadf15a53882> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://daily.jstor.org/darwin-in-his-own-words/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956277 | 606 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Details about The Poetics of American Song Lyrics:
The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. The essays by well-known poets and scholars including Pulitzer Prize win... | <urn:uuid:652d1a1c-c743-43fa-9206-88d742ff03a6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/the-poetics-of-american-song-lyrics-1st-edition-9781617031915-1617031917 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92004 | 446 | 2.53125 | 3 |
In linguistics, markedness refers to the way words are changed or added to give a special meaning. The unmarked choice is just the normal meaning. For example, the present tense is unmarked for English verbs. If I just say "walk" that refers to the present tense. But if I add something to "walk" (marking it), such as a... | <urn:uuid:e5d20bf2-8370-456e-bdf5-593db294331c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.analytictech.com/mb119/markedne.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971929 | 1,419 | 3.3125 | 3 |
LIGHT & HEAT
The first requirement is a warm room
with a lot of light with windows facing northeast to northwest. The room gets
natural light from 8 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the evening. On
calm days the window near by is open. The sun only reaches the leaves in the
wintertime, when it is not so intens... | <urn:uuid:27d02830-107a-4547-afd2-0816fb05764a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fivedockorchids.com/phalaenopsis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954397 | 717 | 2.875 | 3 |
BOSTON — What's ahead: The 18th Winter Olympics, Feb. 7-22, in Nagano, Japan. Opening ceremonies begin tonight at 8 on CBS.
What is the Olympic symbol and what does it mean?
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For more than 20 years (Dec. 30, 1965 – Feb. 25, 1986) Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippines. He promised to make the nation great again in his inaugural speech of December 30, 1965.
His political venture began with his election to the House of Representatives in 1949 as a Congressman from Ilocos. He became Senate Pre... | <urn:uuid:e2dfb007-f482-4a94-9e9c-16decf070a4a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kairuspulse.blogspot.com/2009/07/philippines-under-marcos-martial-law.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00090-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975489 | 6,816 | 3.203125 | 3 |
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The constitution provides for freedom of religion, and other laws and policies contributed to the generally free practice of religion.
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Sunday, April 04, 2010
The importance of Multilingualism
"Multilingualism, which can be defined as the harmonious accommodation of different languages spoken within a common space, therefore becomes an essential component of educational and cultural policies, to which attention must increasingly be paid," said Irina Bo... | <urn:uuid:9b37b8fc-e6b0-4a50-930a-a847baa57876> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wordsmithing-in-oz.blogspot.com/2010/04/importance-of-multilingualism.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927675 | 317 | 2.625 | 3 |
I just found out that the College of Engineering at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) has recently acquired a brand new Objet30 desktop 3D printer.
The desktop 3D printer, which creates functional prototypes from a range of 5 different build materials, will be used by students of the Mechanical and Aerosp... | <urn:uuid:4e9446a5-06fa-43f2-b52b-f646d9ff0952> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.stratasys.com/2011/10/24/california-state-university-acquires-an-objet30-desktop-3d-printer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933369 | 210 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Scientists Making Progress on White-Nose Syndrome
An initial report from the recent annual white-nose syndrome meeting indicates that scientists are making progress into understanding the disease which has been decimating bats since 2006.
In her account of the private meeting which brought together 170 scientists and l... | <urn:uuid:cd239e51-6f71-46a6-8660-63dacf82616a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cavingnews.com/20120610-scientists-make-progress-on-white-nose-syndrome-geomyces-destructans | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958654 | 158 | 2.734375 | 3 |
substitutes for arguments and arguments.callee in ECMAScript 5
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Thu Jan 6 00:17:38 PST 2011
On 1/5/11, Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen at wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
> the function expression form has a well-defined meaning anywhere including
> in the compound statement blocks such as if-statements. The m... | <urn:uuid:68dc8263-9190-40ba-bafe-06f05b4f7b73> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-January/012519.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897334 | 247 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Caribbean Area NRCS is helping to combat Climate Change by adopting and implementing several initiatives to improve farm energy efficiency and increase carbon sequestration. Converting land to forest, grassland or other perennial vegetation helps remove carbon from the atmosphere. Likewise, reducing on-farm energy use ... | <urn:uuid:514efe66-bb5f-4282-afe7-98ebcaa8556a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detailfull/pr/technical/dma/?cid=stelprdb1256077 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86411 | 981 | 3.375 | 3 |
all have ancient warriors in our past, and to know their history is
to know ourselves. For better or worse, ancient military might has
shaped our modern world. Through these early struggles peoples, religions
and ideas were thrust into greatness and power or wiped from the face
of earth. Ancient weapon innovations, mil... | <urn:uuid:9a2b5acb-5579-4419-a1fc-f385aec9e18a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ancientmilitary.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948987 | 796 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Some people regard video games as harmless fun, or even as a useful educational tool. Others, however, believe that videos games are having an adverse effect on the people who play them. In your opinion, do the drawbacks of video games outweigh the benefits?
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Only two Sith Lords demonstrated the ability to use Force lightning in the Star Wars films. Chronologically, the first to use this attack was Count Dooku in Attack of the Clones. Darth Sidious later demonstrated this ability in Revenge of the Sith and again in Return of the Jedi.
While debilitating to victims, Force li... | <urn:uuid:881da0a4-961c-4912-a645-fcafa86eca6f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.stardestroyer.net/mrwong/wiki/index.php?title=Force_lightning&oldid=20109 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974941 | 376 | 2.75 | 3 |
After the Tsunami Sustainable Building Guidelines for South-East Asia
The Tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 affected a dozen Indian Ocean countries, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India and Maldives, Malaysia and Myanmar, with a death toll reportedly exceeding 250,000 and millions more left homeless. Surv... | <urn:uuid:6ceabc47-70e4-402e-bbce-c6c31a22fdbb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.unep.org/roap/InformationMaterials/Publications/Publication/tabid/29644/Default.aspx?ID=3981 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94323 | 147 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Einstein wrote in 1931: "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
What Lightman means by "the mysterious" is not something New Agey or supernatural, but rather "a sense that we can stand right at the edge between... | <urn:uuid:2a962acf-1107-4788-8452-bc38440ef548> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://magnificentoctopus.blogspot.com/2005/02/mysterious.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964969 | 279 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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About the Field School
In a day of introductory classroom work followed by four days in the field, participants will learned the principles and basic techniques for finding, examining, and evaluating historic crash sites. Completion of the Field School is a... | <urn:uuid:02b8c7bf-c351-41c0-b64f-983b7a123f22> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tighar.org/Projects/Histpres/courses/courseshome.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972031 | 202 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Historical Gloss and the Separation of Powers
Curtis A. Bradley
Duke University School of Law
Trevor W. Morrison
New York University School of Law
February 5, 2012
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 126
Arguments based on historical practice are a mainstay of debates about the constitutional separation of powers. Surprisingly, h... | <urn:uuid:9851c9f9-cac1-4a2f-b879-bfabd39b763e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1999516&rec=1&srcabs=2154611&alg=1&pos=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931337 | 492 | 2.578125 | 3 |
If you have an ancestor with an unusual last name, you might try searching the census using the last name only (and don't forget to use "wild cards" in your spelling options), especially if you can narrow down the likely geographic area. That will reduce the "noise" that possible misspellings of first names creates, an... | <urn:uuid:4ece844c-916c-40db-bc83-d577c101caa1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://flpgs.blogspot.com/2009/09/census-tips.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00038-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958085 | 208 | 2.59375 | 3 |
A list of student-submitted discussion questions for Evolution of Eukaryotes.
Covers carnivorous sponges as a model for adaptation. Compares similar adaptations between carnivorous plants and carnivorous sponges. Looks at how sponge adaptability informs us about early life forms.
Covers the formation of gas hydrates, l... | <urn:uuid:50af4151-45fc-490e-be3b-6762bf49c35c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ck12.org/biology/Evolution-of-Eukaryotes/?difficulty=at+grade&by=ck12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916721 | 162 | 3.265625 | 3 |
General Course Information for ECE443: Children with Special Needs
|Course:||ECE443 - Children with Special Needs|
|Textbook:||For the correct edition of the textbook assigned to a specific class, go to: http://www.nutextdirect.com
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The Minimal Spanning Tree Problem
In the shortest route problem presented in the previous section, the objective was to determine the shortest routes between the origin and the destination nodes in the network. In our example, we determined the best route from Los Angeles to each of the six destination cities. The mini... | <urn:uuid:9107c616-0a95-4ebd-8352-25d93875f9b8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://flylib.com/books/en/3.287.1.98/1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900098 | 1,192 | 3.84375 | 4 |
A Focus on Kids' Eye Health
By Mark Mattison-Shupnick, ABOM
Release Date: July 2011
Expiration Date: July 12, 2016
Upon completion of this program, the participant should be able to:
- Understand the importance of kids’ eye health.
- Learn the business potential for adding kids’ eyewear to an office.
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U.S. Oil Reserves Reach Highest Level in 28 Years
August 20, 2013
U.S. proven reserves of crude oil and lease condensate totaled 29.5 billion barrels in 2011, a 15 percent increase from the previous year and the highest level since 1985, according to a new report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Crude ... | <urn:uuid:6b9d6fdd-5814-435e-b436-e6a3e9efc392> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=23509 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947559 | 359 | 2.640625 | 3 |
In a previous article I discussed the myth that young children are the best second language learners. In fact, studies have shown that adolescents and adults are in many ways better at learning a new language than children, except in the area of pronunciation. This is probably because they are already literate in their... | <urn:uuid:f45b77f8-6f8b-45a7-a110-4d2fa58977b0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://esl.fis.edu/parents/advice/myth2.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966607 | 682 | 3.09375 | 3 |
La Vierge Au Lys by Bouguerau
Monthly Theme: I know that Jesus Christ will come again.
Monthly Scripture: "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth." Job 19:25
Week 1 The Prophets foretold that Jesus Christ would come to earth.
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Electronic devices, such as computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), mobile telephones, and so forth, include display devices for displaying received data. Examples of data that can be received for display include web pages, electronic mail messages, and so forth.
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The sight of a face offers the brain something special. More than a set of features, it conveys the emotions, intent, and identity of the whole individual. The same is not true for the body; cues such as posture convey some social information, but the image of a body does not substitute for a face.
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“Bringing up lively energetic children can be a taxing business for most people. For parents of hyperactive children the experience can be exhausting, bewildering and often socially isolating.” So writes Judith Treseder, a hospital social work coordinator in the forward to Dr Eric Taylor book The Hyperactive Child. Wha... | <urn:uuid:87903e4c-cdc6-459a-a9e8-e53a830d0321> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.directorydolphin.com/articles/article-31.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973611 | 3,500 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Gunnison Gorge conservation area has wilderness, 14 miles of river
The National Landscape Conservation System began under former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt in 2000 but recently was strengthened and revitalized by the passage in March of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act.
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The Spider was designed to mutilate a woman's breasts. The spider is nothing but a variation of the famous breast ripper, though the spider is believed to be more painful.
The spider was usually chained to the wall - the claws were usually heated before being fixed to the woman's breasts. The torturer just had to pull ... | <urn:uuid:6acce7b3-99eb-4423-a1d6-e1fe7e5a7ff4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medievality.com/spanish-spider.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991229 | 136 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The UK has been hit hard by major flooding over the last few months, weather one Met Office scientist called the “most exceptional period of rainfall in 248 years.” Now, new research says extreme floods could become more common in Europe by 2050, causing the financial losses from these weather events to quadruple.
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Food and Faith is a blog of the Presbyterian Hunger Program.
“From dust you were made, and to dust you will return.”
Seeing as Sunday was Easter, this Lenten locution is a bit belated. But even with the promises Easter brings, it is one I do not think we should forget. Our bodies were created of earth; they are sustain... | <urn:uuid:6f835754-6671-42dc-bdff-7ca672054745> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pcusa.org/blogs/foodfaith/2013/4/2/we-are-fossil-fuels/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953318 | 923 | 2.625 | 3 |
As governments across the world defend themselves from cyber attacks, the Pentagon has concluded that such attacks from another country is an act of war, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal.
With the new determination of cyber attacks, the U.S. military now has the ability to respond to cyber attack... | <urn:uuid:7fb0d659-e533-4044-88c2-979fe78a66ec> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bitdefender.com/security/cyber-attacks-could-lead-to-war.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976355 | 213 | 2.609375 | 3 |
|Chinese Elm - Ulmus parvifolia|
Family Ulmaceae - Zelkova, Hackberry, Elm
Also commonly called Lacebark elm, after its lovely, exfoliating bark.
This Chinese Elm was started as a cutting 24 years ago.
An excellent tree that is surprisingly under-used, Chinese Elm possesses many traits which make it ideal for a multitu... | <urn:uuid:ff904051-f745-4dc4-a83b-1951537e6823> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cirrusimage.com/tree_Chinese_elm.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932232 | 1,179 | 2.796875 | 3 |
The Sirius was therefore ordered to prepare for her voyage with all expedition; and as she would be enabled to stow a greater quantity of flour by not taking all her guns, eight of them were landed on the west point of the cove, and a small breast-work thrown up in front of them.
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Washington DC (SPX) Apr 11, 2011
Sealants, like weather stripping, are what separates the inside from the outside of a building, byproviding a barrier that prevents water from seeping in, for example, or heat from leaking out. The challenge, says research chemist Christopher White of the National Institute of Standards... | <urn:uuid:27c1cb80-4eb0-403e-b67e-2207b562289f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Inexpensive_New_Instruments_Test_Building_Sealants_Under_Real_World_Conditions_999.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.883773 | 1,019 | 3.15625 | 3 |
How to Read for History
History courses usually have heavy reading loads. But you can make the load lighter if you develop effective strategies for reading. This page is designed to introduce history students to some of those strategies, but these tips are not the last word on reading effectively. Hone your own reading... | <urn:uuid:9c5580f1-a597-40df-ad6c-c64229d9bbb3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~wcm1/howtoread.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958036 | 5,028 | 3.890625 | 4 |
Weymouth Township located in the southwest section of Atlantic County in the New Jersey Pinelands or Pine Barrens and contains the towns of Belcoville and Dorothy. It covers an area of 12.12 square miles, is bordered by the Great Egg Harbor River, South River, and Tuckahoe River, and is largely rural. The area was sett... | <urn:uuid:da0d7344-f435-4dde-a796-d0da69246596> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.weymouthnj.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971622 | 252 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Leaping into March '96
As everyone knows, leap year occurs every four years when a 29th day is added to the month of February. But did you know...
- We have England's Henry VIII to thank for proclaiming that people born on Feb. 29 would celebrate their birthdays on Feb. 28 on non-leap years.
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April 5, 2012
Giant Feathered Tyrannosaur Found in China
Brandon Keim, Wired
It’s not your father’s tyrannosaur: Yutyrannus huali, a newly discovered ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, was covered from head to tail in downy feathers.
At 30 feet long and weighing 3,000 pounds, Y. huali wasn’t so large as T. rex, which came ... | <urn:uuid:89962148-8982-464f-9881-cc766ef08962> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.realclearscience.com/2012/04/05/giant_feathered_tyrannosaur_found_in_china_246360.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922149 | 201 | 2.90625 | 3 |
This page contains links to resources to help students gain literacy in the sciences and mathematics. The multifaceted internal offering is called Science Literacy Resources. There are also links here to other helpful sites.
Resources on the WeirdWildWeb
The WeirdWildWeb contains resources to help students cultivate sc... | <urn:uuid:0d6ca0d6-7a3b-4033-8123-03c419ee4947> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/sl/sl_themes.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.861456 | 457 | 3.25 | 3 |
1844 – Hopkins, Gerard Manley, born on the 28th of July in Stratford, Essex, England. Hopkins was the eldest of the nine children of Manley Hopkins, an Anglican, who had been British consul general in Hawaii and had himself published verse.
1863 – Won the poetry prize at the Highgate grammar school and was awarded a gr... | <urn:uuid:85602663-206b-4b09-be97-991a68ef1b32> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.s9.com/Biography/Hopkins-Gerard-Manley | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986328 | 602 | 2.546875 | 3 |
PDF (Accepted Manuscript)
- Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader
|Google Scholar:||Look up in Google Scholar|
New technologies have immense potential for learning, but the sheer variety possible also creates challenges for learners in terms of navigating through an increasingly complex dig... | <urn:uuid:8e8b686d-fd1c-4439-938b-468ff01f4502> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oro.open.ac.uk/21864/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.879441 | 428 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Photo: Resio (Flickr)
Ever had an “aha!” moment, where something becomes incredibly clear?
Well, you can thank your right anterior superior temporal gyrus. The anterior superior temporal gyrus is one of the important parts of your brain’s right temporal lobe that’s involved when you have a flash of intuition.
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Yesterday, a group of LHC critics filed a suit against CERN in the European Court of Human Rights, in Strasbourg . The authors of the suit are physicists, professors and students largely from Germany and Austria, who feel that the operation of the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, poses grave risks for the... | <urn:uuid:95876b5b-b79e-4adf-bf02-31c40f5f8abc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bigsciencenews.blogspot.com/2008/08/suit-alleges-cern-in-violation-of-human.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956135 | 745 | 2.84375 | 3 |
It is true that the article doesn't expound upon the order of agriculture and sociocultural change, but there is somewhat of an implication. You'll recall from the article that construction of the site is first dated to ca. 11,000 years ago -evidence for domestication is found at around 10,500 in the region.
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The Nile River of Africa is 4,160 miles, or 6656 km, long -- the longest river in the world. Its waters drain 1/10 of the area of Africa, including parts of present day Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda. The Nile Valley gave life to two of the world's first civilizations, the related cultures of Egypt and Nubia... | <urn:uuid:453e9e17-5954-4c5c-9698-d51c050c4bd2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tolerance.org/article/longest-river | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00104-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965083 | 815 | 4.25 | 4 |
report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | March 2015
The UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is the first UN Convention signed and
ratified by the EU and therefore the Union, like all other signatories, has to
present a report on the implementation of the Conv... | <urn:uuid:e0063fbf-1a6f-42ae-93b7-aee64d4a47e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.coface-eu.org/en/Policies/Disability-Dependency/Family-Dimension-UNCRPD/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931219 | 640 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Home to epithelia!
In some body locales, friction and other forces dictate a lining epithelium be more durable for protection. Stratified epithelia consist of two or more layers of epithelial cells cemented together. In the most severe environments, epithelia consist of multiple layers to provide maximum protection.
St... | <urn:uuid:9b43108d-6ead-4fd6-95f0-459d5bcc16d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mhhe.com/biosci/ap/histology_mh/stratepi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901788 | 620 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Edited by Leslie Rainer, Angelyn Bass Rivera, and David Gandreau
Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building... | <urn:uuid:a6948d6a-8958-4039-b4e3-47425851ea48> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://shop.getty.edu/products/terra-2008-978-1606060438 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898409 | 287 | 3 | 3 |
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