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1905: An Industry Is Born
In 1905, the city of Portland, Oregon was getting ready to host a World’s Fair as part of the 100th anniversary celebration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Several local businesses were asked to prepare exhibits for the event, including Portland Manufacturing Company, a small wooden box fac... | <urn:uuid:33c51f16-3083-4298-9c6a-f6774b182bdc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shurway.com/plywood.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974311 | 187 | 2.875 | 3 |
Metals differ so widely in hardness, ductility (the potentiality of being drawn into wire), malleability, tensile strength, density, and melting point that a definite line of distinction between them and the nonmetals cannot be drawn. The hardest elemental metal is chromium; the softest, cesium. Copper, gold, platinum,... | <urn:uuid:cbc3fc20-1860-4ef2-8526-2705e8f4232a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/science/metal-physical-properties.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891863 | 428 | 3.9375 | 4 |
OrderedDict is a subclass of
dict, and needs more memory to keep track of the order in which keys are added. This isn't trivial. The implementation adds a second
dict under the covers, and a doubly-linked list of all the keys (that's the part that remembers the order), and a bunch of weakref proxies. It's not a lot slo... | <urn:uuid:09cd8244-7ba7-49ee-bcbd-c7e8b5fece5b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18951143/are-there-any-reasons-not-to-use-an-ordered-dictionary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93897 | 443 | 2.734375 | 3 |
This week's Web 2.0 site is Where'sGeorge.com.
What is it?
Where's George (WG) is a site for tracking currency. The site offers maps and tables showing data for the travel of U.S. currency, and the cool thing is it tracks your currency! That's right: You can finally find out exactly where all your money goes!
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"mackled" = blurred (NSOED) +"mal" Fr. "bad" + claw
XXXXX - Greece
A sentient creature, capable of intelligent speech but not classified
as a being due to its violent tendencies, a manticore has a human-like
head, a lion's body, and the tail of a scorpion. The tail secretes a venom
that is instantly fatal to a victim o... | <urn:uuid:4c1d65d1-202b-4427-959e-07a569173232> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hp-lexicon.org/bestiary/bestiary_m.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948515 | 798 | 2.6875 | 3 |
If you haven’t read it already, please head over and read my Comprehending and Paraphrasing Expository Text post here. In that post, I detail the research behind this packet!
If expository text is too high level for your students, this packet is for you! It contains 36 cards with narrative text, a graphic organizer (2 ... | <urn:uuid:49b8787c-ea7e-4609-b710-50331db99109> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://speechymusings.com/2013/02/16/comprehending-and-paraphrasing-narrative-texts-packet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904766 | 234 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo
|Democratic Republic of the Congo
|Motto: Justice – Paix – Travail
"Justice – Peace – Work"
|Anthem: "Debout Congolais"
and largest city
|Recognised national languages||Lingala, Kikongo, Swahili, Tshiluba|
|-||Acting Prime Minister||Louis Alphonse Koyagialo|
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Cooke, North-Semitic Inscriptions (Oxford, 1903) is the most useful.
Beyond the introduction of the spider line it is unnecessary to mention the various steps by which the Gascoigne micrometer assumed the modern forms now in use, or to describe in detail the suggestions of Hooke, 4 Wren, Smeaton, Cassini, Bradley, Mask... | <urn:uuid:a7f2bae8-bd04-4a70-a325-5a82bf6afa54> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.yourdictionary.com/cooke | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945325 | 263 | 3.09375 | 3 |
1922 - Muskegon and Grand Rapids both set records for the warmest low temperature for the date. Grand Rapids has a low temperature of 66° and Muskegon also observes a low of 66°. Grand Rapids goes on to see a record high of 89° and Flint sees a steamy record of 90°.
1953 - The steel, bulk freight Henry Steinbrenner, wh... | <urn:uuid:767da391-ffd9-40d3-b322-a1e3851927f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.examiner.com/article/large-hail-tornadoes-and-chilly-highs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00048-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961336 | 719 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Burn Percentage in Adults: Rule of Nines
The rule of nines assesses the percentage of burn and is used to help guide treatment decisions including fluid resuscitation and becomes part of the guidelines to determine transfer to a burn unit.
You can estimate the body surface area on an adult that has been burned by using... | <urn:uuid:0d901a2d-b053-4966-a046-23c7893880d3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.emedicinehealth.com/burn_percentage_in_adults_rule_of_nines/article_em.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945585 | 234 | 2.796875 | 3 |
This was a wild week for astronomers. At a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, a proposal put forth to define the term "planet" would boost the tally from nine to 12 by adding asteroid Ceres, Pluto's moon Charon, and a distant icy object to the list.
Many astronomers criticized the proposal... | <urn:uuid:0f93967c-5a95-4473-9195-83903224a1fd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.space.com/2770-details-emerge-plan-demote-pluto.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929069 | 1,409 | 3.5625 | 4 |
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Don't Forget To Stretch!
October 3, 2011 - Dalia Jakubauskas
Even the most diligent exercisers tend to forget one of the most important components of any exercise program –stretching. A simple series of stretches takes just a few minutes and helps prevent injury to muscles and joints yet many exercisers neglect ... | <urn:uuid:aaa7fde5-ba6d-453f-baba-aee767e6bb2f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.captivacurrent.com/page/blogs.detail/display/14/Don-t-Forget-To-Stretch-.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926174 | 493 | 2.703125 | 3 |
JMeter is a Java-based tool for load testing client-server applications. Stefano Mazzocchi originally wrote it to test the performance of Apache JServ (the predecessor of Jakarta Tomcat). It has since become a subproject of Jakarta.
The most recent release of JMeter is version 1.8. You can download the latest stable ve... | <urn:uuid:69004e47-fd06-475d-a940-49d69db2bc9a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/3066 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877066 | 1,679 | 2.8125 | 3 |
From the World Heritage inscription:
Qal’at al-Bahrain is a typical tell – an artificial mound created by many successive layers of human occupation. The strata of the 300 × 600 m tell testify to continuous human presence from about 2300 BC to the 16th century AD. About 25% of the site has been excavated, revealing str... | <urn:uuid:d6bd9d92-c17b-482d-82c8-73092a34f887> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://everything-everywhere.com/2009/03/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00153-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960659 | 283 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Know Garden Sage
Garden sage (Salvia Officinalis) is an aromatic herbal shrub that has green leaves with a silvery touch. It is also known as gulsham in Hindi, neelamulli in Tamil, neelambaramu in Telugu & marameeah in Arabic.
With a firm stem & deep purple flowers, the sage plant can achieve a height of two and a half... | <urn:uuid:678a1a35-0bad-45a6-a02e-5fac62fa2acb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.remediespoint.com/herbs/garden-sage.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00084-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934175 | 534 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Date of this Version
Lion Gardener (1599-1663) was an English military engineer, formerly in the service of the prince of Orange, who was hired by members of the Connecticut Company in 1635 to oversee construction of fortifications for their new colony. On arriving in Connecticut in early 1636, his first assignment was... | <urn:uuid:6b709c54-5ce3-4d17-a22d-4a19fac97bba> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/38/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949939 | 410 | 2.625 | 3 |
When I tell someone I am majoring in English and philosophy, they almost always get a sarcastic twinkle in their eye, a friendly curl to one side of their lips, and inevitably say, “That’s cool, I really like philosophy. But don’t you think it just goes around in circles?” Through their thinly veiled politeness, I can ... | <urn:uuid:5cd9a107-9dac-45e2-b301-2adb682386de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://chicagomaroon.com/2002/07/08/dont-knock-philosophys-value/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957174 | 1,390 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Guide Prepared by Michael J. Cummings...©
in 2010 ©
is an epic poem, a long narrative work about heroic exploits that is elevated
in tone and highly formal in its language. It was composed in ancient Greek
and transmitted orally before it was written down. Many modern translators
present the Iliad in prose, making it r... | <urn:uuid:89b3faca-81fb-4688-ae66-253f2de3b6af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cummingsstudyguides.net/TheIliad.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928169 | 7,925 | 3.6875 | 4 |
A toxicology test ("tox screen") checks for drugs or other chemicals in your blood, urine, or saliva. Drugs can be swallowed, inhaled, injected, or absorbed through the skin or a mucous membrane. In rare cases, a tox screen may check your stomach contents or sweat.
A tox screen may check for one certain drug or for up ... | <urn:uuid:b4c212f5-086f-4665-8a5d-340021f22263> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/toxicology-tests | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913979 | 452 | 3.03125 | 3 |
What is the difference between a relative adverb and a relative pronoun?
|who||subject or object pronoun for people||I told you about the woman who lives next door.|
|which||subject or object pronoun for animals and things||Do you see the cat which is lying on the roof?|
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Johnson Space Center, Houston
HOUSTON – Neighbors of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston may notice some loud noises coming from the 1,600-acre site in the coming weeks.
Johnson's Engineering Directorate is ready to begin testing its prototype lander as part of Project Morpheus– a vertical test bed designed to integ... | <urn:uuid:71bafc32-2995-4d03-8832-b3f49b1c745e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/2011/J11-009.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963555 | 852 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Ecologist Ilkka Hanski has received a prestigious international award for his ground-breaking scientific achievements.
Hanski became yesterday the first European scientist to receive the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Protection Biology, which – according to a press release published by the University of H... | <urn:uuid:e90cd953-8e70-4d2d-baed-cefcdb76fa4c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/13770-finnish-ecologist-honoured-for-ground-breaking-work.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00042-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944221 | 305 | 2.703125 | 3 |
In a finding that may cause a dramatic shift in the way scientists and researchers search for a therapy for Alzheimer’s disease, a team of researchers led by Jeff Johnson, an associate professor at the School of Pharmacy, has discovered that increased expression of a protein called transthyretin in the brain appears to... | <urn:uuid:e7bd1fa4-7db6-4c8b-b273-9c281373f3bc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://scienceblog.com/4042/discovery-may-halt-progression-of-alzheimers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931086 | 1,436 | 2.796875 | 3 |
If it's not one thing, it's another: a new hypothesis floating around the scientific community suggests that evolving bigger brains and superior intellect may have led to a dramatically elevated risk of cancer in humans. Thanks, brain.
The theory runs like this. Usually cells die off in a controlled fashion—called apop... | <urn:uuid:76cf660c-268b-4b82-8f69-85d42f9435d5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gizmodo.com/5951758/evolving-bigger-brains-may-have-made-us-prone-to-cancer?tag=Brain | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958892 | 361 | 3.515625 | 4 |
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Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find... | <urn:uuid:b16417f7-c4fd-4339-9b49-2263d83822bb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/crit-kids-from-critical-1040.html?tab=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.84916 | 461 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Mucus is something everyone has, and some people wish they had a lot less of the stringy, gooey stuff. Sure, it can be gross to blow globs of snot into tissue after tissue when you have a cold or sinus infection, but mucus actually serves a very important purpose.
"Mucus is incredibly important for our bodies," explain... | <urn:uuid:89e16da0-aa4c-427b-9135-4056a45b6eeb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.webmd.com/allergies/features/the-truth-about-mucus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961819 | 583 | 2.828125 | 3 |
China exports its environmental problems as consumer culture booms
6th September, 2011
China is attempting to pursue the same impossible path as the rest of the world: generating consumer demand and wealth without destroying its natural resources and the planet
If you look at who bears the brunt of pollution in China, ... | <urn:uuid:60a30389-6f9a-41cb-a49f-cc8cf7dda781> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1036243/china_exports_its_environmental_problems_as_consumer_culture_booms.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00153-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953174 | 1,784 | 2.515625 | 3 |
From ESL Instructional Resources by Young-Kyung Min, PhD
As the number of international students and 1.5 generation students rapidly increases on our campus, it is important for faculty to create a learning environment in which both native speakers and non-native speakers become an important part of their own learning ... | <urn:uuid:21928585-5e25-41e9-a385-2223879d27cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uwb.edu/wacc/teaching/esl/eslglobalmoments | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944206 | 1,190 | 3.21875 | 3 |
1. Dicranopteris Bernhardi, Neues J. Bot. 1(2): 38. 1805.
Forking ferns [Greek dikranos, twice-forked, and pteris, fern, derived from pteron, feather, in reference to the leaf architecture]
Clifton E. Nauman
Stems long-creeping; hairs many celled, rigid to lax. Leaves usually separated several centimeters, of apparentl... | <urn:uuid:c7eb0892-52b5-4524-aefd-aafca846ece0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=109987 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.791179 | 230 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Updated at 8:23 a.m., Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Washington Place named national historic landmark
The former home of Queen Lili'oukalani the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian kingdom is among one dozen new national historic landmarks recognized for their importance in interpreting the heritage and history of the Uni... | <urn:uuid:ffa6aac9-e97c-4b33-a604-3f4f92ef2b2c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Apr/04/br/br8571324960.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947826 | 639 | 2.796875 | 3 |
The basics of this relationship in the post-WWII era seem pretty well understood: basically, the richer the country, the more “democratic” it appears to be (in the sense I’ve discussed here and here, where democracy is conceived as a system of normatively regulated competition for control of states including the usual ... | <urn:uuid:97eff60a-4204-4aa5-a735-19ee4b449c9e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ipeatunc.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97766 | 618 | 2.5625 | 3 |
When I was a kid, we had a neighbor who had a big, loud dinner bell. She'd stand on her porch and ring the bell when she wanted her children to come in for supper.
I still remember sitting on the ground watching some ants marching down the sidewalk when the neighbor lady rang the bell. The ants broke their line and sca... | <urn:uuid:0e052242-18e5-4314-8524-d62e58bed305> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/587762/Insects-hear-through-varying-organs.html?nav=5152 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974704 | 895 | 3.859375 | 4 |
Today, Huxley receives even less notice as an ethnologist than as a physical anthropologist. His contributions to ethnology begin with the observations he wrote in the journal and letters of the Rattlesnake voyage and with the many sketches he made of New Guinea people and of their artifacts and continued to 1890. Comm... | <urn:uuid:d3cac889-89b7-4eb5-ae65-2d6dff906286> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/guide19.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967441 | 3,969 | 3.03125 | 3 |
The World's Richest Countries And Biggest Economies, In 2 Graphics
Gross Domestic Product — GDP — may have its limits. But it's a useful, broad measure for looking at national economies. It's basically the total dollar value of all of the goods and services a country produces in a year.
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It sounds like your son experienced a night terror — which can be truly terrifying for parents to watch! The good news is that these eerie episodes are not dangerous nor are they uncommon (especially if your child is overtired) during toddlerhood.
What makes a night terror different from a nightmare? Nightmares typical... | <urn:uuid:b402966d-aa8e-40c6-909e-200bba728853> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.whattoexpect.com/toddler/ask-heidi/night-terrors.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96882 | 427 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Plimsoll Day is to dedicated to the memory of Samuel Plimsoll, a member of the English Parliament who championed sailors’ safety while traveling the world’s waterways in crammed ships. He was instrumental in the amendment of Britain’s Merchant Shipping Act, which came about in response to the then – national problem of... | <urn:uuid:11d4e0e5-c6ce-46e8-92e3-f1af0b150594> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/plimsoll-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960677 | 259 | 3.453125 | 3 |
The tiny Proteus motor, at only 2.5 times the width of a human hair, is small enough to enter the bloodstream and perform duties previously requiring some surgical slice-and-dice.
Researchers at Australia's Monash University developed the tiny motor to minimalize the risk of certain, more invasive surgeries. After bein... | <urn:uuid:d7c5c109-f7c3-4f87-a549-9428ee37db5a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gizmodo.com/5143437/proteus-motor-swims-through-bloodstream-looks-pretty-much-like-a-sperm?tag=bloodstream | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893986 | 161 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The Andean cat is a small, attractive wildcat with a tabby coat and long tail. It inhabits a rather harsh, cold and barren landscape in the Andes Mountains at around 4,000 meters above sea level. Its population is low at an estimated 2,000. Its primary prey is viscacahs; rodents related to chinchillas. The Andean cat a... | <urn:uuid:e13715fb-f6af-4b76-b454-4cbb637445fd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pictures-of-cats.org/Andean-Cat.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933145 | 2,179 | 3.5 | 4 |
A recent paper by Veronique de Rugy examines how policymakers use various budgeting gimmicks to increase spending and obscure liabilities. One particularly abusive mechanism is the designation of supplemental spending as an “emergency.” The emergency designation makes it easier for policymakers to skirt budgetary rules... | <urn:uuid:b9fb3b55-9eb4-4f65-bde3-eec4a6763df7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/print/emergency-spending | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00148-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962996 | 600 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Here's what the lower court had said was the reason for the law:
The salutary purpose of the statute is clear. The Legislature had seen the baneful effects of permitting foreigners, who had taken residence in this country, to rear and educate their children in the language of their native land. The result of that condi... | <urn:uuid:3c7f3949-b0ef-45e2-88dd-6704e8547a48> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981563 | 567 | 2.953125 | 3 |
They’re sometimes disguised as personal effects — fragile pots concealed amid negligées in luggage or ancient scrolls surreptitiously rolled up like newspapers in handbags. Smuggled antiquities have surfaced everywhere, from midtown Manhattan galleries to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. On January 13, an agreement t... | <urn:uuid:05960835-9052-4992-a551-266227098533> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hyperallergic.com/112351/us-china-import-deal-reveals-limits-of-arts-diplomacy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955407 | 813 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics.
The project, which the administration has been looking to unveil as early as March, w... | <urn:uuid:e5ad6bd9-8359-482b-803a-efc94da4b86e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/health-science/project-seeks-to-build-map-of-human-brain-1.1447689 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00149-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964564 | 247 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Getting seafood to the dining table comes at an expense to endangered species that too often perish in the nets and on the hooks set for the fish and shellfish we eat. The incidental capture and mortality of non-target marine animals during fishing is known as bycatch, and is one of the principal threats to marine biod... | <urn:uuid:e021f249-8f1c-40ca-8b00-3474c8140036> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bycatch.org/about-bycatch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953949 | 594 | 3.9375 | 4 |
- Horses & Other Equines search results
Popular Horse and Equine Terms
Horses and other equines are available for sale from farms, ranches, and breeders. If you are looking to purchase an animal from the horse family, it is important to be familiar with the different animals available. Below are popular horse and equin... | <urn:uuid:3156a859-efa4-4cbb-a306-233dcf533bc4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.magicyellow.com/category/horses_and_other_equines/plainview_tx.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960008 | 742 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Bad Blood: Bullying by the Numbers
Bullying. It’s a topic that’s everywhere these days, but is it really as prevalent as the news makes it sound?
Yes it is. In fact, research shows that a majority of kids in middle school are bullied, and that the effects of bullying are lifelong.
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This is an image of the star Pollux, also called Beta Geminorum, taken by Nagano based photographer Yuugi Kitahara.
Pollux is one of the twenty brightest stars in the night sky (it is also the nearest Giant star), but today we are considering it from the standpoint of distance. Pollux is 33 light-years away from the Ea... | <urn:uuid:1ed98ec2-4ae5-495b-b7ad-22c8b6318fd2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.powersof10.com/?p=679 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962492 | 558 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 155 / Number 1 / January 2007 / Pages 53-73
This paper analyzes whether reactor plutonium after denaturing by increasing its isotopic content of 238Pu to 6 to 8% can be regarded as proliferation resistant. In this case the utilization of such denatured reactor plutonium would be... | <urn:uuid:e1404118-6e12-485f-ad22-8f328bb3d435> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ans.org/pubs/journals/nse/a_2644 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889209 | 314 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Joshua Barney and the Battle of Bladensburg, War of 1812
Since the tantalizing discovery of one of the sunken ships of the Chesapeake Flotilla in 1980, Marylanders have become much more aware of the significance of the pivotal events of the "Second War for Independence" -- the War of 1812. Significantly, the sinking of... | <urn:uuid:80bde8b7-1607-4bce-83c4-9b5d1ae8c8ec> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.barneyfamily.org/docs/article_03.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980205 | 3,751 | 3.0625 | 3 |
One of the most dramatic, memorable, and ultimately baffling aspects of many witchcraft trials concern the category of the possessed, or in the terms of the time, the afflicted or bewitched. This was certainly true with Salem, where the afflicted were the major catalysts of the proceedings. Their hysterical and unnervi... | <urn:uuid:ad539cea-f2f4-4d2c-a472-0d288e81a440> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wcoventry0.tripod.com/id34.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941272 | 28,316 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Students Use LEGO Building Blocks, Robots to Solve Energy ‘Puzzle’College of Technology uses games to inspire solutions to real-world problems
More than 100 groups of 9-to 14-year-olds from all over Texas will get together to use programmable LEGO ‘bricks’ to solve some of the most critical environmental issues during ... | <urn:uuid:3515b5e9-3388-474c-a444-6d3aa08fdce7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uh.edu/uhnews/archives/2007/november-2007/112007_studentsuselego.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9336 | 620 | 3.15625 | 3 |
The quintessential man of science was also convinced that there was a code in the Bible that predicted the exact date of the Second Coming.
Hebrew University/London Evening Standard
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A network management system (NMS) is a set of hardware and/or software tools that allow an IT professional to supervise the individual components of a network within a larger network management framework.
Network management system components assist with:
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The mainstream of AI research has traditionally focused on the more explicitly analytical, intellectual, nerdy aspects of human intelligence: planning, problem-solving, categorization, language understanding. Recent attempts to broaden this focus have focused mainly on creating software with perceptual and motor skills... | <urn:uuid:d3180cc7-f0e9-4543-bca0-e13f1f902591> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-search-of-machines-of-loving-grace.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947293 | 3,374 | 2.640625 | 3 |
(NewsUSA) - Imagine an earless creature that can carry 20 times its body weight living with thousands of seemingly identical clones that will fight to the death when challenged. While this image could be taken right from a science-fiction thriller, it also depicts America's number one nuisance pest ? the ant!
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|Cincinnati's Lunken Field to be Designated a National Historic Site
Original Site of the Embry-Riddle Company and Birthplace of American Airlines
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UIGestureRecognizer is an abstract class that provides an object-oriented way to add actions to different gestures. It has been a documented class since firmware 3.2. See also: SBGestureRecognizer.
The typical code that adds a gesture recognizer is
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NEW YORK (June 21, 2010)The nations of East and Central Africa have developed a 10-year action plan to save one of humankind's closest relativesthe eastern chimpanzeefrom hunting, habitat loss, disease, and other threats, according to an announcement made today by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Interna... | <urn:uuid:37f66976-4f1d-4652-8f69-ddd0fb1f2d18> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/African-nations-commit-to-saving-chimps-14031-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92766 | 979 | 3.265625 | 3 |
From the research of historical records either term is correct. For example, in a Website called Links: WW 1 Aviation the following were listed:
Note that the USAF Museum uses the term "Escadrille Lafayette." Next there is a report in the Lafayette Escadrille D'Arizona website:
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with their Empedoclean associations to the universal elements. Though Plato traces the discovery of the regular convex polyhedra commonly associated with his name to Thaetetus, there is good evidence that they have been around since well before greek times. The following stone models were found in neolythic settlements... | <urn:uuid:080a6b20-48c4-4217-a868-d7fde5e22882> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kheper.net/topics/cosmology/solids.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943667 | 430 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Petrol stations could vanish in the near future as drivers start plugging their cars into their homes, a scientist has forecast.
Solar panel technology is improving at such a rate than soon motorists will be able to draw down enough power fuel their vehicles using the sun’s rays.
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You know when you’re eating a bunch of chips, and suddenly one falls to the ground tragically, but then you’re like, “it’s fine,” and you eat it anyways? Same. So basically, whether you thought the 5-second rule was real, or you didn’t care, I’m here to tell you that it is, in fact, legit. THANKS SCIENCE.
There is a ca... | <urn:uuid:00683e63-92c9-4bf2-ad69-25c93066bc10> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.teenvogue.com/story/five-second-rule-real-science | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942756 | 342 | 2.6875 | 3 |
XML is a cross-platform, software and hardware
independent technology used for transmitting information.
It is a markup language much like HTML used to describe data.
XML is significant role in today's application development scenerio because of the following reasons :
Easy Data Identification
Neutral to the underlying... | <urn:uuid:30e29994-6008-45f1-9685-5545a5f8783c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.roseindia.net/help/java/x/java-xml.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.747384 | 132 | 2.921875 | 3 |
The Ball-Bearing electric
Further info : Great balls of fire! 'The intriguing ball-bearing motor'
This interesting but unfortunately not very
useful device produces motion from electricity without magnetism being involved. It
operates purely by thermal means, so it works on AC or DC, and the motor can rotate in
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Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.
CONTENTS IN BRIEF Preface PART ... | <urn:uuid:e11922ef-2a20-43fa-8339-31529b4473e8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006017456.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00195-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.791342 | 2,194 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Until the end of the American Revolution, the Broome County area was inhabited by Native Americans. Two main settlements were found at Onaquaga, near present-day Windsor, and Otseningo, located along the Chenango River, just north of the present-day City of Binghamton. Smaller Settlements could be found at Chugnuts, Ca... | <urn:uuid:48a95059-a52f-4e96-a661-65c4da5feb1d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gobroomecounty.com/history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972543 | 1,480 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Making sure your organization's website is safe, secure and running without any malicious activity under the radar is a major concern today, especially since we live in a time when website activity is not limited to humans. Bots, short for Internet robots, are programmed to execute certain commands on the Web.
Last yea... | <urn:uuid:fa288e72-7bf8-4698-9e9a-3a112c37b5e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.itbusinessedge.com/slideshows/in-a-world-where-bots-may-be-taking-over-the-internet.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941492 | 242 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The Congress has traditionally placed a limit on the total amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Law-makers have enacted numerous increases to the debt limit—commonly known as the debt ceiling—some of which have been temporary but many of which have be... | <urn:uuid:215dd04b-4867-40e8-9ae4-f6d7b03498e4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44608 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957249 | 3,030 | 3.125 | 3 |
Author(s): Wright C
Abstract: This chapter looks at why learners’ grammatical competence in question formation seems to stay resistant to the best input teachers can provide, and why some learners differ so much in their rate of learning compared to others. This chapter presents data from a study of adult Mandarin L1 s... | <urn:uuid:8427ff98-0823-4409-9b22-f79ef45cc75b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/research/publication/177428 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944003 | 452 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The Brihadeswara temple is one of the most ancient and the most celebrated Hindu temple in the world. The temple is located in the city of Thanjavur that is also known as Tanjore, in the Indian province of Tamilnadu. The UNESCO has adjudged this thousand years old temple a "World Heritage Site".
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Simple Pendulum vs Compound Pendulum
Pendulums are a type of objects which displays periodic oscillatory motions. The simple pendulum is the basic form of the pendulum, which we are more familiar with, whereas the compound pendulum is an extended form of the simple pendulum. Both of these devices are very important in ... | <urn:uuid:e26ffcf5-5f03-466e-9031-643474b22059> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-simple-pendulum-and-vs-compound-pendulum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920758 | 644 | 3.921875 | 4 |
Here is a rare color photograph from World War II. Taken 70 years ago next month, it reveals American warriors from E Company, Fifth Ranger Battalion, aboard their landing craft on Weymouth Harbor, Dorset, England. They are setting out to fight the Nazis on Omaha Beach on D-Day — June 6, 1944, one of the pivot points o... | <urn:uuid:ce7ad11d-90c7-4c58-a265-fe2907ac8eda> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/upshot/seventy-years-ago-next-month-came-fury-and-death-on-d-day.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972192 | 389 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Gods on the Roman Frontier
Thursday, July 31, 2014
CUMBRIA, ENGLAND—While digging at the ancient Roman site of Maryport, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a large, stone circular structure in front of what dig director Ian Haynes of Newcastle University says is “the most north-westerly classical temple in th... | <urn:uuid:09eb881d-bc6a-470b-81ad-5bbf9f223c61> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.archaeology.org/news/2352-143107-england-roman-frontier-temple-monument-maryport | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93129 | 254 | 2.875 | 3 |
Scientists have reported that sunscreen may be to blame for dying coral reefs. In the January 2008 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, it is reported that four common sunscreen ingredients activate viruses that kill an algae that feeds coral through protosynthesis. Without the algae, the coral turns white and d... | <urn:uuid:ac60da73-b0fc-45a9-9070-037b53622903> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.skininc.com/spabusiness/sustainability/15629582.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905871 | 225 | 3.53125 | 4 |
- aloe (n.)
- Old English alewe "fragrant resin of an East Indian tree," a Biblical usage, from Latin aloe, from Greek aloe, translating Hebrew ahalim (plural, perhaps ultimately from a Dravidian language).
The Greek word probably was chosen for resemblance of sound to the Hebrew, because the Greek and Latin words refe... | <urn:uuid:dd5f3c9b-2001-4ae7-adb3-39e202d04feb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=aloe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966505 | 141 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Some much-needed good news for corals in the Florida Keys: After a decade of devastating declines, populations of staghorn and elkhorn corals in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary have remained steady over the last decade.
Coral disease devastated staghorn and elkhorn corals throughout the Keys and the Caribbea... | <urn:uuid:b6b2bc59-b531-41e2-9c48-02ff1fca21fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.livescience.com/17034-good-news-florida-keys-coral-reefs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940318 | 498 | 3.453125 | 3 |
.- On the day the Republic of South Sudan becomes the world’s newest country, Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., recalled Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to the troubled nation nearly 18 years ago.
“It was February 10, 1993, and John Paul II was at the end of an intense and extraordinary day in Khartoum,... | <urn:uuid:eaae9189-aedc-4bf9-85fd-f15261f62f46> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-spokesman-recalls-john-paul-iis-message-to-south-sudanese/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956942 | 641 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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Two new studies led by UC San Francisco (UCSF) scientists shed new light on the nature of beta cells, the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas that are compromised in diabetes. The first suggests that some cases of diabetes may be caused when beta cells are deprived of oxygen, prompting them to ... | <urn:uuid:882fabd4-a10c-4562-9477-057e43e2c1cb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=321071 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899511 | 144 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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- Russia has maintained close ties with Syria since the 1950s
- Syria one of few states that did not condemn USSR for occupying Afghanistan
- Russia revitalized their naval facilities in Syrian port of Tartus in recent years
- Russia fears losing influence in its biggest Middle East ally if the al-Assad regime falls
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Palestinian culture and identity and the role of Palestinian women
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Palestinian culture and identity and the role of Palestinian women
By Sai'da Nusseibeh
[Women's NGOs annual meeting-1997 ]
Good morning ladies-
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Sociologists have recognized that three social issues have existed since earliest times. As civilizations formed, each of them grappled with the concept of fear, shame and guilt. These are, in essence the building blocks of society. Every society has its particular ways of dealing with these issues. And each of these i... | <urn:uuid:5ff3eca7-be07-4426-add4-eccf59e4b8bd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nabataea.net/h%26s.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972336 | 24,859 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Chapter two Strategic human resource management John Bratton Strategic human resource management is the process of linking the human resource function with the strategic objectives of the organization in order to improve performance.‘If a global company is to function successfully, strategies at different levels need t... | <urn:uuid:199a55d7-e1b7-4412-b652-7fe3c16d35f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.slideshare.net/raseltyh/38215002-bgcha02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920104 | 17,426 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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20th Century American Art
Philip Evergood, Fletcher Martin, Gene Ritchie Monahan
WHERE: Tweed Museum of Art
University of Minnesota Duluth
WHEN: October 20 – December 20, 2009
In the American Midwest of the early 1900s, new styles in art had little context or meaning. T... | <urn:uuid:0ec62d08-e8ef-4550-8ab6-a175be3f916b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://d.umn.edu/tma/exhibitions/past/2009/20th_century_american.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960448 | 438 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Jesus may not have died nailed to the cross because there is no evidence that the Romans crucified prisoners two thousand years ago, a scholar has claimed.
The legend of his execution is based on the traditions of the Christian church and artistic illustrations rather than antique texts, according to theologian Gunnar ... | <urn:uuid:6317ccc9-732c-4ece-897f-788ab9dfc34a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://othersidesdiary.blogspot.com/2012/02/jesus-did-not-die-on-cross-says-scholar.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959462 | 218 | 3.03125 | 3 |
We all throw stuff away—about four and a half pounds of garbage a day, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
We’ve gotten used to hearing the three commandments of waste management: recycle, reduce, and reuse. But recently, the term “up-cycle” has come into vogue. That’s the idea that you can take waste mat... | <urn:uuid:7ddffa3b-e8b2-4afe-858f-d4db9aec9529> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kalw.org/term/rosie-riveter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936324 | 123 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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English Language Instruction for Incarcerated Youth
Between 1983 and 1991 the percentage of Latino youth in detention increased by 84%, as compared to an 8% increase for white youth and a 46% increase for youth overall (Hamparian & Leiber, 1997). This digest discusses the issue... | <urn:uuid:fd1afe4a-7e8f-426c-9141-3f30f5629411> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/incarcyouth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90195 | 1,356 | 2.984375 | 3 |
There are 4 major types of Evaporative Emissions from the fuel system of a car, these are:
- Diurnal: Evaporation caused by the fuel tank being heated by the sun
- Running Losses: Heat from the engine and exhaust system causes fuel vaporisation
- Heat Soak: Once an engine is stopped heat from the engine and exhaust sys... | <urn:uuid:5c6f6472-8fe3-4766-8efc-a88546860c5a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/2959/effect-of-loss-of-fuel-tank-vapours-on-mileage/2975 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00006-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948906 | 1,040 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Fact Sheet - Onsite Burial (Pits, Landfills)
Burial is the placement of waste in man-made or natural excavations, such as pits or landfills. Burial is the most common onshore disposal technique used for disposing of drilling wastes (mud and cuttings). Generally, the solids are buried in the same pit (the reserve pit) u... | <urn:uuid:51eae572-2943-43f6-b079-4fe7e9b18ec0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://web.ead.anl.gov/dwm/techdesc/burial/index.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922265 | 1,606 | 3.765625 | 4 |
If you type or use a computer keyboard, you can decrease your risk of carpal tunnel syndrome by making sure that you work in a "wrist neutral" position, with the wrist joint straight, not bent up or down. To help you do this, several types of office aids are available, including a cushioned wrist rest and a keyboard tr... | <urn:uuid:21455940-950a-4014-b407-512f3c07c274> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sparkpeople.com/resource/health_a-z_detail.asp?AZ=83&Page=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955623 | 207 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The Glass Menagerie Memory and the Past Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Scene.Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a big long monologue.
The music seems to answer his question, while Tom thinks it over. He searches his pockets. (Scene Six... | <urn:uuid:18f15bb1-dd57-4c67-82a0-ad439afb4bd0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/glass-menagerie/memory-the-past-quotes-7.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970134 | 191 | 3 | 3 |
Looking for a fun writing activity that integrates well with Valentine's Day? Then look no further than Vulture Verses: Love Poems for the Unloved.
This book is a funny and fact-filled collection of "friendship notes" written to some of the most unlovable creatures one could imagine. Through her poems and accompanying ... | <urn:uuid:c4393205-48b3-4cf9-99e2-76c9440acfc4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://teachwithpicturebooks.blogspot.com/2013/02/valentines-for-vermin-love-poems-for.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940251 | 551 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Mistletoe―Friend or Foe in the Garden
by BJ Jarvis, Pasco Cooperative Extension Service
Horticulture Agent and Director
Have you gotten caught under the mistletoe this year? Probably the last thing you were thinking about while getting your Christmas kisses is wondering where this holiday plant comes from.
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Cross-Section of the Universe | Space Wallpaper
About this Image
This space wallpaper of a galaxy cluster taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope gives a remarkable cross-section of the Universe, showing objects at different distances and stages in cosmic history. They range from cosmic near neighbors to objects s... | <urn:uuid:3c520a4e-610f-4af3-b673-016e42f1afcb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.space.com/25601-cross-section-of-universe-space-wallpaper.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932295 | 107 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Asteroid eludes camera but yields secrets
Deep Space 1 managed to capture this low-quality image of asteroid Braille
By Robin Lloyd
CNN Interactive Senior Writer
August 3, 1999
Web posted at: 5:16 p.m. EDT (2116 GMT)
(CNN) -- A corkscrew-shaped asteroid that dodged a NASA spacecraft camera last week could crash into Ea... | <urn:uuid:ce7d057e-5e65-4dba-b9ee-0e2bd6146ad1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9908/03/deep.space.newser/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956527 | 1,355 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Angiosperms vs Gymnosperms
Both angiosperms and gymnosperms are the seed bearing plants. They are the spermatophytes and differ from each other because of their derived characteristics, which is discussed in detail, in this article.
What is Gymnosperm?
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Shin splints are a common exercise-related problem. The term "shin splints" refers to pain along the inner edge of the shinbone (tibia).
Shin splints typically develop after physical activity. T... | <urn:uuid:94216369-245e-44ce-8630-c86d2ade689f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00407&grpwebid=26DDE4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938343 | 1,529 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Article 28. Initial letters. A family-group or genus-group name or the name of a taxon above the family group is always to begin with an upper-case initial letter, and a species-group name always with a lower-case initial letter, regardless of how they were originally published.
Recommendation 28A. Initial words. A spe... | <urn:uuid:4a26a1df-bd39-4ecb-ba67-ba5ca6e05724> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/includes/page.jsp?article=28&nfv= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912115 | 99 | 2.640625 | 3 |
By tasting a little bit of the rocks and air on Mars, NASA's robotic Phoenix lander discovered secrets about the history of water on the Red Planet over the last 4 billion years, scientists now reveal.
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2.8 Cherokee women
Reprinted by permission from Tar Heel Junior Historian 23, no. 3 (Spring 1984): 2–3, copyright North Carolina Museum of History.
Long before the arrival of the white man, women enjoyed a major role in the family life, economy, and government of the Cherokee Indians. The Cherokees originally lived in ... | <urn:uuid:fb97cbfd-230e-4792-9f9f-5e8e8b83e730> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-twoworlds/1882 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987508 | 997 | 4.375 | 4 |
The potential of the Gulf's underwater heritage surfaced
1st Meeting for the Gulf on the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. Manama, Bahrain, 16-17 October 2012
This UNESCO sub-regional meeting, gathering participants from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirate... | <urn:uuid:c402f499-4d93-4df6-af3a-75b33be27725> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/dynamic-content-single-view/news/sub_regional_meeting_for_the_gulf_on_the_convention_on_the_protection_of_the_underwater_cultural_heritage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944888 | 825 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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