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How we change what others think, feel, believe and do
Empathizing vs. Objectifying
People who have a lot of empathy for others and hence experience their emotions will tend to be caring and sympathetic. They see and experience other people as themselves and hence see the world either as a vast human net or connections ... | <urn:uuid:a7ceeba9-f4b8-49ef-a10f-38ce42e3f720> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.changingminds.org/explanations/preferences/empathy_object.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950576 | 643 | 3.03125 | 3 |
pronghorn or prongbuck, hoofed herbivorous mammal, Antilocapra americana, of the W United States and N Mexico. Although it is often called the American, or prong-horned, antelope, it does not belong to the true antelope family of Africa and Asia, but to a related family, the Antilocapridae, of which it is the only livi... | <urn:uuid:39ca88d4-ba3a-4b61-a285-f8fa26dc15ce> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/science/pronghorn.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933651 | 415 | 3.296875 | 3 |
A Call to Action
We can help restore wildlife diversity in our yards
By Rachel Foster
|Osoberry. Photo by Hendricks Park staff|
Once in a while, something you’ve known for a long time suddenly hits home with a force you never felt before. I was loading up some plants at Doak Creek Native Plant Nursery when the nursery’... | <urn:uuid:7215170d-7e9f-49b6-8cd1-d7f50f3784ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2010/11/11/gardening.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957873 | 1,023 | 2.8125 | 3 |
pipesis the only that does not have a test suite. This is because I prefer to use equational reasoning to prove the correctness of
pipes. For those new to Haskell, equational reasoning is the use of equations to prove code is correct without ever running it. Haskell makes this possible by strictly enforcing purity.
Equ... | <urn:uuid:cc3f4a40-f891-4c89-9d53-5c4848d842e6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.haskellforall.com/2013/10/manual-proofs-for-pipes-laws.html?showComment=1384237248624 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00148-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922323 | 1,270 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The Electoral College, administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), is not a place, it is a process that began as part of the original design of the U.S. Constitution. The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between election of the president by Congress ... | <urn:uuid:5f46cc07-e10b-4647-b2ac-758271166716> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nbc11news.com/news/politics/misc/14817966.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9689 | 190 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Language Learning & Technology
Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 712
Tools and Trends in Corpora Use for Teaching and Learning
Paginated PDF version
Virginia Commonwealth University
Language corpora have long been exploited for language instruction. Vocabulary lists for learners, for example, have been generated from ... | <urn:uuid:b7118d50-6d0a-48bd-be70-11b6a1c28fd3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num3/emerging/default.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914042 | 3,864 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Food Chemistry in the High School Classroom
This Web Seminar took place on September 22, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Presenting was Michael Tinnesand, former Associate Director of the ACS Education Division and Sally Mitchell, chemistry teacher at East Syracuse Minoa High School, East Syracuse, NY. I... | <urn:uuid:272a073e-d142-4284-b387-bda06821c860> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/ACS/webseminar5.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908006 | 606 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The arts are a significant part of early classical education at New Covenant. Students in kindergarten through grade three meet our music faculty
twice weekly for instruction in music theory, appreciation and history. They learn the basics of good music coupled with singing and listening excerses to tune their young ea... | <urn:uuid:35a64dc6-0be8-4fe1-b041-8f3447280c25> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newcovenantschools.org/academics/grammar-school/fine-arts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961404 | 257 | 2.90625 | 3 |
From these genealogical works a vivid picture emerges of the lives these women led, the values they held, and the way in which they were viewed by the priest and knights who wrote about them.
The first section outlines the way in which the dead, and the memory and tales of the dead, served to bond noble society in the ... | <urn:uuid:fdb50ed0-be71-495b-bdd1-007caa1acba4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745617893 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949409 | 654 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Scientists have built an artificial human ear by combining living tissues from cows and sheep and growing them around a flexible wire frame that retains the correct anatomical shape of the organ.
It is the latest development in 3D tissue engineering where substitute organs are made in the laboratory in the hope of usin... | <urn:uuid:cfd6c586-c21c-435e-8791-1334abc0dbe5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-grow-an-ear-from-living-tissue-8738618.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964885 | 665 | 4 | 4 |
- Hispanic Heritage Month, established in 1988, runs from September 15 to October 15
- Ruben Navarrette: Hispanics can't assume they'll be better off as their numbers grow
- He says the reality is that life is not a fiesta; median wealth of Hispanic households has fallen
- Navarrette: Hispanics need to know what they'r... | <urn:uuid:1ff5d233-6ba3-4e09-ac46-df7dde29a851> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/opinion/navarrette-hispanic-heritage/index.html?hpt=us_mid | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970726 | 1,275 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) can reverse the global warming trend and push temperatures back below the global target of 2°C above pre-industrial levels, even if current policies fail and we initially overshoot this target.
This is according to a new study, published today, 11 July, in IOP Publishin... | <urn:uuid:2e151cfa-c490-4ee8-97f5-3040ddb18874> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/iop-rso070913.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903635 | 1,227 | 3.671875 | 4 |
NBCR: Macromolecular Pattern Recognition and On-line Access to Molecular Biology Tools
|SDSC RESEARCH |Contents | Next|
Lawrence T. Reiter
UC San Diego
resident Bill Clinton announced in June 2000 that the international Human Genome Project and the Celera Genomics Corporation had together completed an initial "rough dr... | <urn:uuid:2ad72c09-9c10-45e5-aba3-2d4a6cc4a0e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sdsc.edu/pub/envision/v16.3/nbcr.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928236 | 2,116 | 2.921875 | 3 |
A tree fungus could be used to power diesel cars after it was found to contain many similar properties to that of regular diesel fuel.
It is found in the Patagonian rainforest and is remarkably similar to the fuel in its natural state, meaning that it could be used directly in a modern diesel engine with virtually no m... | <urn:uuid:96502a80-30df-4aa1-886c-60037d352904> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/scientists-find-diesel-growing-on-trees-481692 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982821 | 273 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Noun: picket pi-kit
Verb: picket pi-kit
- A protester or group of protestors posted outside a place of work, esp. during a strike to encourage others not to go to work
- A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout
- A detachment of troops gu... | <urn:uuid:a236d194-fed4-4958-8eb6-f8a07d228130> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/PICKET | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938322 | 244 | 2.5625 | 3 |
USMLE Step 1 Review/Neurology
Small, irregular pupil that does not react to light but does react to accommodation.
Localization is to the midbrain and the cause is neurosyphilis. The pupil's better response to a near than to a light stimulus is because the lesion involves the more dorsally-located fibers that subserve ... | <urn:uuid:029c35c1-f600-4e37-8cee-e80e793eef20> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/USMLE_Step_1_Review/Neurology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915194 | 168 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rules, or ever did. . . . Jefferson Davis (1864).
The wagon trains sent out in 1853 to explore the five possible routes for a Pacific Railway carried surveyor instruments, geologist's tools and artist supplies. The first field notes reached Washington during the... | <urn:uuid:53a83691-f5d4-44dd-b992-527e1ab9be36> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/_Topics/history/_Texts/HOWGIT/7*.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965623 | 5,974 | 3.546875 | 4 |
The language was started in 2007. Between then and now, the language has gained tons of recognition and a massive and extremely fast growing community. The speed at which the community has gone together and the language has become production ready is well due to the fact that Clojure can leverage any existing Java libr... | <urn:uuid:83db0541-5582-443e-be42-dfea6246b2ea> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/172937-clojure-resources-thread/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953478 | 1,340 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Joanna Shepherd-Bailey, PhD, has released a new report demonstrating how not labeling GMOs hurts the economy, makes the food industry less competitive worldwide, has a negative impact on food exports, imports, and jobs, diminishes tax revenue, and has a ripple impact on other associated industries. This is all, of cour... | <urn:uuid:453d81af-4359-4026-b4dc-f1bf1a51b010> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.anh-usa.org/economic-cost-not-labeling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934095 | 885 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?
The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range ... | <urn:uuid:00205f03-2723-4c7e-92b2-acd560cb5066> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://nrich.maths.org/public/leg.php?code=72&cl=3&cldcmpid=9941 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929211 | 1,562 | 3.234375 | 3 |
NOT so long ago the term wildfire, often in the context of global warming, began to replace bushfire.
Then came local ratings such as "catastrophic", to describe and warn of a severe fire threat.
While bushfires have always been part of the Australian landscape, post and before European settlement, I get the feeling th... | <urn:uuid:6cb41687-46c8-493b-8b1f-99bd303cf681> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/1229038/bushfire-news-services-vital/?cs=89 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962715 | 518 | 2.71875 | 3 |
How Do I Know If I Have Anorexia Nervosa?
Answer the following questions:
- Do you refuse to go above a certain body weight?
- Have your periods stopped or become irregular?
- Do you have an extreme fear of gaining weight or becoming
- Are you disturbed by your body weight or shape?
- Do you consider body weight or sha... | <urn:uuid:7e96725a-9a3b-4898-8c5b-340a6191b49d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/studentaffairs/healthTopics/eating.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886305 | 850 | 2.5625 | 3 |
SATPLOT for Analysis of SECCHI Heliospheric Imager Data
- Created: Saturday, 01 September 2012
Determining trajectories of solar transients such as coronal mass ejections is not always easy. White light images from SECCHI’s (Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation) heliospheric imagers are difficult... | <urn:uuid:b10af3a6-27dd-4da7-9a4f-de341b8b0f3e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.techbriefs.com/2012/6-ntb/tech-briefs/software/14662-npo-47826 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00075-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86606 | 457 | 2.890625 | 3 |
In this era of economic globalization, many companies are making efforts to achieve workforce diversity, which aims to employ workers from different backgrounds to provide tangible and intangible benefits to the organization. Understanding the advantages of workforce diversity helps you establish an organization with a... | <urn:uuid:2fc04360-21f1-47cc-9551-6692003b72f7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-diverse-workforce-18780.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949106 | 547 | 2.546875 | 3 |
This image of Dione is a mosaic of several of the highest resolution images taken by the Voyager spacecraft. It shows a heavily cratered surface. The large crater named Aeneas, towards the top of this image, is 150 kilometers (90 miles) in diameter. Another large crater named Dido, towards the bottom, is 125 kilometers... | <urn:uuid:6afa9a1f-dcf0-4146-ab7b-ec7cb873259e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://solarviews.com/cap/sat/dione.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.791607 | 177 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Insect species belonging to the order Hemiptera include bedbugs, true bugs and other hemipterous insects. The assassin bug pictured is another member of this order. When examined, these modern-day insects can be seen to be identical to this 25-million-year-old fossil.
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|Type of Vascular Calcification|
Whether intimal calcification stabilizes the plaque or makes it prone for rupture is a matter debate. Calcified and fibrotic lesions are more hypo-cellular, they are stiffer than cellular lesions, and further more biomechanical data suggest calcification reduces the “stresses” in a plaq... | <urn:uuid:be04e7c0-6d11-4600-a60a-8553bc425366> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.learnonly.com/2013/02/vascular-calcification-and-plaque.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937412 | 223 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Based on Horses
Right click image to enlarge.
1828 - Place des Victoires-Nationaux / National Victories Square, Paris (France). With an equestrian statue of Louis XIV. Designed as a memorial to the Treaties of Nijmegen concluded in 1678-79. "In 1793, the Place was renamed, & a wooden pyramid was erected on the site of ... | <urn:uuid:bf435b11-1423-4ff0-aa10-4a64302febb2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://peace.maripo.com/p_horses.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940629 | 2,732 | 2.578125 | 3 |
SpanglishBaby is excited to be working with WGBH Boston, the National Latino Children’s Institute and PEEP and the Big Wide World to celebrate El Día de los Niños. Cities around the country will celebrate El Día de los Niños on Monday, April 30, 2012.
PEEP and the Big Wide World introduces kids to science and has a sup... | <urn:uuid:56e04489-37c4-47a9-802d-fdc3b92f831d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://spanglishbaby.com/finds/peep-science-videos-and-activities-in-spanish-printable/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894077 | 942 | 4 | 4 |
A simple latch has two stable logic states. The latch maintains its states indefinitely until an input pulse called a trigger is received. If a trigger is received, the latch outputs change states according to defined rules, and remain in those states until another trigger is received. Latches can be interconnected to ... | <urn:uuid:6eef26cc-0438-45c4-af9a-f8190338d95e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/octal-latch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934997 | 192 | 3.6875 | 4 |
LONDON (Jun. 16)
Arab control of Palestine would mean that it would soon become a part of French Syria or fall in the hands of the Turks. This is the contention of the Lloyd George organ, the “Daily Chronicle” in an editorial today.
England cannot afford to have either the French or the Turks such near neighbors to the... | <urn:uuid:12e31907-0950-4c4a-9ecd-bb159fa2cb82> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jta.org/1923/06/18/archive/england-needs-zionists-lloyd-george-organ-says | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974031 | 421 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Civil War Overview
Civil War 1861
Civil War 1862
Civil War 1863
Civil War 1864
Civil War 1865
Civil War Battles
Robert E. Lee
Civil War Medicine
Civil War Links
Civil War Art
Republic of Texas
Civil War Gifts
Robert E. Lee Portrait
Page) President provided he will do exactly what we wish him to do—we
mean only that we ... | <urn:uuid:d805a1f3-b971-4370-89a8-340ec64f3ac1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/november/burnside-takes-command.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962722 | 5,248 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Can we harness the mind to reduce side-effects and slash drug costs?
The placebo effect seems to make little sense: get ill, take a dummy pill, and you'll recover in much the same way as someone taking real drugs. While there have been many theories bandied about over the years to explain how it works, new evidence sug... | <urn:uuid:785eec10-82b8-42ee-8e69-88e15f69e319> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gizmodo.com/tag/placebo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96806 | 300 | 3.015625 | 3 |
No women - but womanisers, ghouls, maniacs fit to rule
Papal history is the story of murder, adultery and politics as much as piety, writes David Uhler.
Some popes were poisoned. Others were suffocated or beaten to death. The body of Pope Formosus, who died of natural causes in 896 - was exhumed after nine months, dres... | <urn:uuid:9b1b5d3f-f6c7-4f5a-be36-bdfd58004bfc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/No-women--but-womanisers-ghouls-maniacs-fit-to-rule/2005/04/08/1112815728647.html?from=moreStories | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979027 | 729 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Literacy Education Online (LEO) - http://leo.stcloudstate.edu
This online writing lab offers quick reference guides to common writing concerns.
Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/4/ - This section of Purdue Owl explains in detail the var... | <urn:uuid:6a5caab0-5111-4f1f-9251-623e27295f84> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.southwesterncc.edu/learning-assistance-center/writing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.870784 | 711 | 2.84375 | 3 |
About World Press Freedom Day
Every year, May 3rd is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession.
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8th graders' film on 1930s labor leader puts them in D.C. contest
Updated 10:08 pm, Sunday, May 27, 2012
Nadia Balderas and Andrea Martinez don't seem a bit nervous as they get ready to screen their film. The young historians, after all, have done lots of research, writing and editing, and have a state title behind the... | <urn:uuid:c135300e-919c-420a-bcde-4632c74aafe9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/8th-graders-film-on-1930s-labor-leader-puts-them-3589629.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00090-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955056 | 768 | 2.671875 | 3 |
counties were first created by the Provincial Act of 1769. The
act divided the Province into five counties because "the holding
of sessions of the superior court of judicature solely at Portsmouth
or Exeter had rendered the administration of justice very expensive
and difficult and in some cases almost impracticable, t... | <urn:uuid:d3317fe6-46f7-4e7e-a0a7-a8e5b933b2d6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hillsboroughcountynh.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955214 | 255 | 3.625 | 4 |
For those unaware, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii and visionary Spark Masayuki Matsunaga spent 28 years in Congress and passed away on April 15, 1990. Spark was instrumental in passing legislation for civil rights, reparations for Japanese Americans interned during World War II, space exploration, renewable energy res... | <urn:uuid:fa35d02b-fbc7-4f13-b1d4-1a641fa752d5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Fuel-Cells/Was-Senator-Matsunaga-Right-About-Hydrogen-After-All.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00156-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93902 | 2,294 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 "for the creation of quantum mechanics". Heisenberg, along with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, set forth the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics in 1925. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle, upon wh... | <urn:uuid:23863412-ec62-4c6b-84c7-aa5c56bbe155> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/Heisenberg/1/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969947 | 261 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Is the U.S. Catching Up?
International and state trends in student achievement
“The United States’ failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country’s ability to thrive in a global economy.” Such was the dire warning issued recently by an education task force sponsored by the C... | <urn:uuid:9be94bf5-9121-422f-9a04-527449244fcf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://educationnext.org/is-the-us-catching-up/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959915 | 5,455 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Astronomy Packet: 1
All of these different branches of Astronomy began with one man, his name was Galileo. We will talk about him in more detail in the fourth astronomy packet. He was the first person to use a telescope to look at Outer Space. What he saw changed Astronomy forever.
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Late Saturday night, a six person jury in Florida found George Zimmerman “not guilty” for the murder of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges.
George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, believing that the black teenager was a threat. Ignoring 911 dispatcher instructions, Zimmerm... | <urn:uuid:660d7e29-41c6-42cb-87f0-42bb7528a937> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2013/07/15/george-zimmerman-found-not-guilty/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957026 | 709 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Read an Excerpt
THE ELECTION OF 1860 AND THE COMING OF WAR
The election of 1860 appeared to promise Negroes little hope for the future. In the first place, few black men could vote. The slaves and free Negroes of the South were disfranchised, of course, and in the North only the New England states (except Connecticut) ... | <urn:uuid:0b45b92b-53bd-4441-9aae-ec401a1881cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/negros-civil-war-james-m-mcpherson/1100618324?ean=9780307488602&itm=1&usri=james+m.+mcpherson | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972452 | 3,170 | 3.875 | 4 |
An oasis in a desert.
- An example of an oasis is an underground spring in a desert.
- An example of an oasis is a calm and peaceful room in the midst of a chaotic house.
- a fertile place in a desert, due to the presence of water
- any place or thing offering welcome relief as from difficulty or dullness
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Photo: Edge of Europe
You may have heard the term fatwa before – especially if you’re a fan of writer Salman Rushdie – and you may think a fatwa is a kind of death sentence. Well, it’s not.
A fatwa is simply an opinion handed down by an Islamic scholar about some aspect of Islamic law. For Sunni Muslims, a fatwa is a n... | <urn:uuid:5039dd13-353f-4c6e-a336-1f84f447f360> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://muslimvoices.org/fatwa-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943833 | 243 | 2.90625 | 3 |
The Alto Putumayo region is inhabited by Kichwa, Secoya, Huitoto and mestizos. The native Kichwa, Secoya and Huitoto peoples share a long history in this area. Centuries of turbulence and adaptation to external influences have brought about major changes to their social, political and economic structures. Nevertheless,... | <urn:uuid:38eaa384-5793-4b10-95cf-ce77fec6e834> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.putumayo.be/en/about/discover-the-putumayo-region/population | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977988 | 403 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Who doesn’t know the famous culinary art of Japan through its world famous dishes with sushi, takoyaki, tempura and more than hundreds of variations of soba and ramen? The great thing in this culinary art is that there is an infinite regional specialties found in different parts of this small country, even you will fin... | <urn:uuid:edfacc11-43f8-4569-ba64-cad85e68903a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.facebook-adictos.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969039 | 632 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Pollock encountered these debates while working at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights in 1999-2001. For more than two years, she listened to hundreds of parents, advocates, educators, and federal employees talk about the educational treatment of children and youth in specific schools and distric... | <urn:uuid:a7bb8d64-447a-4d3e-851f-fffc7de83ac5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=5pMCG5hmPJMC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959547 | 159 | 3.140625 | 3 |
"By harnessing a new sphere of science called 'lovotics', Hooman Samani, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Social Robotics Lab at the National University of Singapore, believes it is possible to engineer love between humans and robots. Samani's robots have artificial psychological and biological systems that... | <urn:uuid:8458a542-8df9-4196-970b-8b70076a5d26> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://3dgameman.com/tags/robot | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936495 | 347 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Hearing Loss Linked to Dementia
(Ivanhoe Newswire) – The presence of dementia is believed to double every 20 years due to the world’s aging population, making it important to identify the factors that lead to cognitive decline and dementia in older adults. A new study shows that hearing loss appears to be associated wi... | <urn:uuid:c6e827ec-c72a-4505-b5a9-0e864e8a37d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=30691 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960781 | 397 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Journal Archive >
2002 > May
The color of bias
Skin tone influences perceptions of blacks, study finds
Racial bias is more related to a black person's skin tone than other features such as hair length or texture, lip fullness or nose width, according to a study by a Tufts University social psychologist.
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While every person has a responsibility in ensuring the ongoing health of the world's busiest pollinators, no person should be placed at risk of bee stings when bees invade living zones, especially where allergic people are at risk. However, attempting to remove bees yourself is a hazardous business and the benefits of... | <urn:uuid:a2ae37b5-c511-433d-8d67-ccc4b433cf85> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Bees | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942144 | 3,983 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Even when correctly used, pharmaceuticals may end up in the environment. The main source is through human excretion of substances when the body has not been able to metabolise them completely. To a lesser extent, pharmaceuticals can enter the environment through the improper disposal of medicines and as a result of man... | <urn:uuid:ebe8cae8-cc91-4ffe-afae-e0971182dd06> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pharmaviews.eu/pharmaceuticals-in-the-environment-lets-face-the-concerns-together/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931632 | 665 | 2.8125 | 3 |
POPE JOHN PAUL PAYS HOMAGE TO JEWS KILLED IN
March 23rd ( EWTNews) Pope John Paul II visited
Yah Vashem, the memorial to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi
Holocaust that is located on a hill overlooking the small village of
Ain Karem. Yah Vashem is both a memorial for the fallen during the
Holocaust (Shoah) and a... | <urn:uuid:b44d7492-7066-4c81-8149-5dd0b99c22fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ewtn.com/holyland2000/News/ewtn_holocaust.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00092-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965498 | 1,173 | 2.609375 | 3 |
By: Lesley Suppes
On April 10 American Rivers, the nation's leading river conservation organization, released the 15th Annual Most Endangered Rivers Report. After reviewing nominees submitted by grassroots and watershed organizations nationwide, the American Rivers conservation staff evaluated and ranked the rivers bas... | <urn:uuid:87c59c12-6819-40f8-9a2d-ac8039977b65> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.realadventures.com/listings/1024239_Americas-Most-Endangered-Rivers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919143 | 1,844 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Anti-Soviet Estonian national partisans during and after WW II
Two stages can be distinguished in the Estonian forest brothers’ movement: first, battles in 1941 with the retreating Red Army called the Summer War, and secondly the resistance movement until 1953 after Estonia was again occupied in 1944.
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Title IV of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) established the national Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Reclamation Program under the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), U.S. Department of the Interior. The program was developed to reclaim land and water resources adverse... | <urn:uuid:9727e353-2803-41f3-b247-ce118898eac6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.naamlp.net/overview.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967771 | 493 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Asteroid belt boosts chances of complex life
The size and location of an asteroid belt could be a significant factor in determining whether complex life will evolve on a nearby Earth-like planet.
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Honolulu, HI High blood pressure may be one of the top killers in the country, but youd never know it by the way were behaving, say scientists attending the annual congress of the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM).
Research shows that some 73 million people in the U.S. have high blood pressure, yet many of them... | <urn:uuid:827fda23-4896-4a0c-a552-44b122d95076> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Severe-hypertension-3A-Silent-killer-still-on-the-loose-10639-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968285 | 702 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Students will improve vocabulary and writing skills by writing a sensory/descriptive story utilizing elements of both art and music as their inspiration. Students will pay close attention to the six traits of writing - editing our first drafts and making improvements in ideas and content, organization, voice, word choi... | <urn:uuid:6d0bf2fd-a667-4c46-8233-2e9548c0a9ba> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.keepingscore.org/education/lesson-plans/Composer?page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941592 | 1,007 | 4 | 4 |
Agriculture, including fishery, is an insignificant part of Singapore's economy, accounting for just 0.2 percent of GDP and employing 0.2 percent of the workforce. Since the 19th century Singapore has been fully reliant on the import of foodstuffs, obtained from its neighbors. The country has a small fishing industry c... | <urn:uuid:85dd2da4-beaf-47d7-aa42-02a72de995f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Asia-and-the-Pacific/Singapore-AGRICULTURE.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954874 | 180 | 2.671875 | 3 |
A cornerstone of applied probability, Markov chains can be used to help model how plants grow, chemicals react, and atoms diffuse--and applications are increasingly being found in such areas as engineering, computer science, economics, and education. To apply the techniques to real problems, however, it is necessary to... | <urn:uuid:1225e710-ff64-4976-95f1-0d3db6b28780> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5640.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933694 | 639 | 2.515625 | 3 |
This image, captured by the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), shows an unnamed complex crater in Mercury's southern hemisphere. The smooth crater floor is likely due to impact melt that formed during the collision that produced the crater. Also visible are the peak ring and terraced walls, as well as the ejecta blanket and a ... | <urn:uuid:0ea58302-8f4b-4ba3-aace-eac258a89915> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/multimedia/messenger_orbit_image20110812_1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937045 | 102 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Dog Anxiety: Preventing & Treating the 3 Types
Dog anxiety can almost always be traced back to the first two years of life, a traumatizing event or both.
And while anxiety prevention ideally begins when a puppy is born, there are several effective techniques to improve or eliminate it in older dogs for each of the thre... | <urn:uuid:93018675-a7cc-48b9-9618-4c541398c513> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.organic-pet-digest.com/dog-anxiety.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960497 | 3,398 | 3 | 3 |
polar ring galaxy (PRG)
There are two main types of PRGs: bulge-dominated lenticulars and disk-dominated later-type galaxies. Lenticulars have narrow rings, while disk-dominated galaxies have wide extended rings. The ring may be a tenuous disk of gas and stars where the central region depleted its quantity of gas and d... | <urn:uuid:7806f25f-2979-486b-8ce2-d031782de459> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/polar_ring_galaxy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930088 | 395 | 3.609375 | 4 |
The following information comes from the Pocket Keys for Writers and respects the MLA Style (Modern Language Association). Here is a summary of the most current information. If you want more details, click here to find the call number of Pocket Keys for Writers.
List of Works Cited
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posted on Mar, 16 2005 @ 04:25 AM
A cocktail of drugs taken by AIDS patients is believed to help prevent some cancers caused by the disease according to a new report released by
international researchers and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The drugs, which are called Highly Active Retroviral
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Info: Being a Witness - You could be called to testify at a trial.
Being a Witness
You could be called to testify at a trial.
A witness is a person who provides oral evidence in a legal proceeding concerning some event or fact of which he has knowledge and which is crucial to the outcome of the proceeding. A witness ma... | <urn:uuid:7bcce51a-13ed-45c8-9a52-5cd240f3e0d3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.allgoodlawyers.com/guestbookview.asp?key=992 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97761 | 1,111 | 2.875 | 3 |
[extropy-chat] Fly Me to the Moon
pharos at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 10:23:00 UTC 2005
On 6/5/05, Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is wrong. Ion thrusters have been in use since the 1970's on
> non-American spacecraft. Deep Space 1 was the first deep space craft
> whose primary propulsion was an ion engine.
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This website is designed to provide support to those
seeking information about a rare speech disorder
called Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS).
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is speech disorder that causes a sudden change to speech so that a native speaker is perceived to speak with a “foreign” accent. FAS is most often cau... | <urn:uuid:cd03a0a5-4b26-459f-9c49-2666dcabfeb2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.utdallas.edu/research/FAS/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969491 | 193 | 2.75 | 3 |
The natural proclivities of government are about concentrating the benefits (of government activity) in the hands of small groups in the short run and dispersing the costs over the populace in the long run. In short, government is about spending now and paying later. These proclivities manifest themselves in a very int... | <urn:uuid:ea11a4dc-9787-4fd5-8f6c-c49c5b0ccec1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2008/04/emergency-and-s.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969038 | 672 | 2.921875 | 3 |
This study employs a new approach to examine the impact of immigration on the U.S. economy. Unlike earlier studies, we do not treat the movement of immigrant labor into this country in isolation. Older studies assumed that abundant resources and demand for labor was the primary reason for immigration, assumptions more ... | <urn:uuid:0cad7be3-03d7-4d08-ac1c-447aab3858b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.parapundit.com/archives/002637.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96016 | 1,163 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Evolution and Systematics
Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships
Several families traditionally assigned to Coraciiformes have been removed from the order. Bucerotidae and Bucorvidae (hornbills), Upupidae and Phoeniculidae (hoopoes) have been given their own order, Bucerotiformes. Leptosomus (cuckoo roller) is not a ... | <urn:uuid:44b5c5fe-e573-4fd1-ba43-4870cb41de81> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eol.org/pages/7602/details | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86167 | 302 | 2.96875 | 3 |
In 1973, 16-year-old Ballarat girl Sherrilyn Mitchell disappeared. Now, 37 years later, DNA evidence could be used to solve the mystery.
Sherrilyn Mitchell went missing on 21 November 1973.
According to a Facebook group created to help solve the mystery, the teenager left her Ballarat home to meet a friend at a bus sto... | <urn:uuid:dd11c373-4ddf-43ef-b063-f53bcf8e7b69> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2010/07/29/2967611.htm?source=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958305 | 298 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Beaming high-powered lasers into the sky allows scientists to study changing weather patterns, pollution in the Earth’s atmosphere and even gravity on the Moon. But if one of those helpful lasers happens to cross paths with an airplane, it can temporarily blind or distract the pilot and potentially cause a crash.
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Black holes acting as companions to early stars may have taken more time to raise the temperature of the ancient universe than previously thought, a new study suggests.
Scientists found that the energy streaming from these early pairings took longer to raise the temperature of the universe, which means astronomers coul... | <urn:uuid:c79432bd-dd11-4a1b-ac33-e11f080fad5d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.livescience.com/43159-black-holes-heated-early-universe.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951341 | 1,128 | 4.125 | 4 |
On 1 June Caritas along with the Ministry or the Environment and other agencies such as UNDP and Oxfam organised a seminar on climate change in the capital Phonm Penn.
About 100 people, including environmentalist, members of government institutions, NGOs and benefactors attended the seminar aimed at discussing strategi... | <urn:uuid:0af957c4-be44-4568-843c-e0658fb0d250> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.caritas.org/2010/06/cambodia-threatened-by-climate-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953954 | 496 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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The pH Scale
The pH scale is used to measure how acidity and alkalinity. Something which is neither acid nor alkaline is said to be neural. The neutral pH is pH7. Distilled water is neutral.
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Injection in general is a type of medical procedure of introducing a fluid into the patient's body. The infusion of the liquid in to the body governs certain actors such as the depth, amount, location and need. Injections are usually administered in order to direct the drug to its f... | <urn:uuid:ad297687-b47e-4297-8747-2c1845f65138> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/why-do-you-think-that-injections-given-specific-445244 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912786 | 687 | 3.515625 | 4 |
National Battery Day
Date When Celebrated : Always February 18
People get a charge out of National Battery Day. We are absolutely energized about the many uses and applications. It's an opportunity to celebrate a vital invention. Batteries are used everywhere, from the battlefield to smoke alarms to headsets. They come... | <urn:uuid:4ce33c1b-4e2d-4c9d-8933-9d1ca50d0dc5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/February/batteryday.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941033 | 414 | 2.59375 | 3 |
With draconian anti-immigrant laws and deportation dragnets in high gear, it looks like America's racial barriers are hardening against the Latino community. But who draws those lines? Researchers from University of Illinois and Ohio State have examined the forms of racial identity that immigrants take on when moving i... | <urn:uuid:2e9cd322-8466-49a4-8e11-75e4962c27cb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-chen/study-on-path-to-assimila_b_609953.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949692 | 763 | 2.859375 | 3 |
April 3, 2012 > Chasing Sheep at Night?
Chasing Sheep at Night?
Don't Let Sleep Problems Get the Better of You
It's easy to think of sleep as an unproductive time when we're not getting anything done - and also to play down the negative impact impaired sleeping habits can have on our daily lives. However, undiagnosed s... | <urn:uuid:3542f9eb-966a-4960-8bfe-a952f1c22dbf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tricityvoice.com/articlefiledisplay.php?issue=2012-04-03&file=WTMF+Dr++Verma+final.txt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95945 | 1,110 | 2.5625 | 3 |
1940 Census Data Released
by: Kim Parsons, Communications Intern
On April 2nd, the 1940 manuscript census was released for the first time by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). These records are different than the statistical information that Americans are familiar with that is released soon after ... | <urn:uuid:f4a3aa09-0053-4ee7-9684-c8d8fcd4bacf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uwosh.edu/library/news/1940-census-data-released | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927848 | 294 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Kids Grow Kale For Zoo Animals To Encourage Their Own Healthy Habits
School program coordinates with local animal enclosure to promote good nutrition for children.
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IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS THAT REFUTE THE AAG: 28
The "refutation series" today touches upon a 150-year old bleeding wound: the Armenian terrorism. Even the partial documentation below proves beyond a shadow of doubt that there was significant Armenian terrorism before the WWI. Once the dimensions and depth of Armenian terro... | <urn:uuid:8beb40e5-27a9-4a3e-bf2a-4cb3d01df76f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.turkla.com/yazar.php?mid=490&yid=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.862551 | 16,547 | 2.796875 | 3 |
People who eat a lot of bread are at greater risk of kidney cancer, Italian research has suggested.
Eat vegetables rather than bread, the research suggests
The study of more than 2,300 people also claimed pasta and rice could moderately raise the risk, while vegetables and poultry reduced it.
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Improving Your Sociology Study Skills
Does This Sound Familiar?
You have been given an assignment of thirty pages in your sociology text book. You bravely sit down in a comfortable chair, look at your watch, and open the book. Upon finding the correct chapter, you page to the end and insert your finger as a goal marker... | <urn:uuid:350803a2-fe91-42db-997b-cae053a076f4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.uwsuper.edu/acaddept/si/sociology/skills.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95492 | 2,682 | 2.59375 | 3 |
In previous studies, reading ability has been associated with improved health, education, socioeconomic status and creativity. The ability to read well can directly improve some of these factors. An example is that by being able to extract information from texts, individuals are better able to gain educational qualific... | <urn:uuid:00c9a3d1-e373-4d16-bfd2-f0f04bfe6a0e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/280193.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973939 | 923 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Separation of powers is one of the most basic principles that guided the framers of the U.S. Constitution in designing the sytem of government. It is rooted in the idea that tyrranical government stems from the concentration of control over all the powers and functions of government in the hands of the same or a few in... | <urn:uuid:5dc6d491-bec4-478c-b4ba-493042a9899e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://definitions.uslegal.com/s/separation-of-powers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961906 | 250 | 4.34375 | 4 |
How Are Brain Tumors Diagnosed?
Diagnosis of a brain tumor typically begins with a neurological examination.
A review of the patient's medical history and a physical exam is performed when a patient complains of symptoms that suggest a brain tumor. The neurological exam is also performed which includes examination of e... | <urn:uuid:184dba2a-3d30-4093-a07f-e0daac05a6d8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://neuro.memorialhermann.org/conditions-treatments/brain-tumor-diagnosis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.882723 | 305 | 3.15625 | 3 |
When students start missing too much school in Baltimore, their parents are likely to receive a phone call or a home visit to find out what’s going on. But what about kids in foster care?
Under a unique data sharing agreement, Baltimore’s child welfare workers now have access to attendance data for the children they ar... | <urn:uuid:fffc1b42-3a91-4526-950a-8940adfae1cf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.attendanceworks.org/what-works/baltimore/data-sharing-with-child-welfare-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957077 | 646 | 2.84375 | 3 |
ChristianAnswers.Net WebBible Encyclopedia
Dogs were frequently mentioned both in the Old and New Testaments. Dogs were used by the Hebrews as a watch for their houses (Isa. 56:10), and for guarding their flocks (Job 30:1).
There were troops of semi-wild dogs that wandered about devouring dead bodies and the offal of t... | <urn:uuid:12a65254-1778-422b-ba9f-88cc8c3e7dc8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/dog.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953057 | 1,962 | 3.0625 | 3 |
What if some of the manufacturing jobs had been retained? How would U.S. employment have been affected? Would we have anything like the high unemployment rates experienced over the past two years?
Labor Participation Rate
First let’s look at the labor participation rate over the past 60 years.
Over the last 25-30 years... | <urn:uuid:804a7394-d154-4f32-b647-d00cf221a0af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://econintersect.com/wordpress/?p=6089 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959606 | 1,461 | 3.34375 | 3 |
The latest news about environmental and green
technologies – renewables, energy savings, fuel cells
Posted: Nov 29, 2013
Improved hydrogen-powered heat and electricity for homes
(Nanowerk News) Some homeowners have already invested in units that produce hydrogen through water electrolysis so as to produce electricity a... | <urn:uuid:44aca3c6-2b19-4743-948b-eec6f1e03144> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=33474.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920622 | 592 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Wilkins Ice Shelf
Canaries were a coal miner’s best friend even well into the 20th Century. As long as the canary in the coal mine kept singing, the miners knew their air supply was safe – however a dead canary signalled an immediate evacuation.
Climate change works on the same principal – observed climate impacts are ... | <urn:uuid:0155d43a-4409-47ee-9416-30f2c88ea942> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/en/blog/running-out-of-canaries/blog/24531/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953028 | 539 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Check out some of the latest headlines in evolution and biology:
Fungi produce variances in wine grapes
Fungi growing on grapes may contribute to flavor differences between post-harvest grapes from the same vineyard, Phys.org reports. A new study sent researchers to three adjacent, well-established vineyards: tradition... | <urn:uuid:5a3909ef-1284-4dd3-a6dc-b40776bd487f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940192 | 3,055 | 2.75 | 3 |
ABC Flash Cards.
ABC Flash Cards has the Following Features
A To Z in Upper Case
A to Z in Lower Case
ABC With Pictures
Common Words Like Cow, Dog, Cat etc To Learn Spelling with Pictures.
With this application Kids With Learn to Spell with Picture Association.
ABC Flash Cards for Kids Just Starting to learn AND and Si... | <urn:uuid:aa5b10ff-1c11-4892-95f4-bc30da0fb5ec> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.appszoom.com/android_games/casual/abc-flash-cards_cewjq.html?nav=related | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.871421 | 570 | 2.75 | 3 |
by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien)
© 2000-2004 by Kathleen M. O'Brien. All rights reserved.
Version 2.1, updated 19 May 2004
What we know as a set of Irish Annals are manuscripts that were each compiled during a particular time period, usually using older material as sources. For example, when the Annals o... | <urn:uuid:48d44649-9163-495f-a555-71cda4369039> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Conall.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.757549 | 3,466 | 3.078125 | 3 |
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The growth plates are the areas near each end of the long bones in
children and adolescents where bone growth occurs. Also known as the epiphyseal
plate or physis, this developing tissue determines how long and wide the bone
will be when fully grown.
During late adolescence, when growth stops, the growt... | <urn:uuid:83a87936-74db-45a6-a048-33d289d3411d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rushcopley.com/app/healthwise/document.aspx?navigationNode=/1/32/8/1/&id=te7662 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.850515 | 284 | 2.90625 | 3 |
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