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- Well Grounded: Using Local Land Use Authority to Achieve Smart Growth
- Open Ground: Effective Local Strategies for Protecting Natural Resources
- New Ground: The Advent of Local Environmental Law
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Egyptian Students Speak Out
- Grades: 6–8, 9–12
Revere High School is a gateway community, with students from every corner of the globe. This diversity allows our students to truly be citizens of the world. They are able to share their worldview and their experiences with one another. When the revolution ignited in Egy... | <urn:uuid:7c79f881-14bf-40a3-8454-0d8d919b6d1d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/classroom_solutions/2011/02/egyptian-students-speak-out | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985649 | 1,338 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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It is highly ironic that Orwell in this essay explains how he was forced to do something that he did not want to do or see any need for doing because of the mob power of the Burmese and the pressure of the "sea of yellow faces" that expect Orwell to perform "a magic trick" in killing the elephant. ... | <urn:uuid:5d7215bd-58bf-4f10-9d97-c954a90bb1f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/had-done-soley-avoid-looking-fool-with-this-265621 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977902 | 332 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Napoleon is supposed to have said that "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon". History is fluid and ever-changing, as the interpreters change in background, circumstance and understanding. My approach to studying any given event or period in history (one of my favourite subjects)... | <urn:uuid:f5303e52-abe8-411c-8f25-90cd6d9ebf2b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.humanitiesweb.org/spa/him | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947863 | 582 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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Seventeen Beduin, members of the al-Uqbi family, filed the six land claims. The complex and often bitter legal proceedings went on for over six years, and discussed in detail the history of the Negev Beduin and land laws dating back to the mid-nineteenth century.The Beduin claim the land had belonged to their families ... | <urn:uuid:5ec5cd78-f814-4b42-ad52-e9d1dba21627> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bedouinjewishjustice.blogspot.com/2012/03/court-rejects-6-beduin-negev-land.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981654 | 1,833 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Imagine you wake up in the morning, look out your window and see the vast blue horizon of Earth and the blackness of space. Our world stretches out beneath you. Mountains, lakes and oceans pass by in a beautiful stream of rapidly changing scenery as you orbit the Earth every 90 minutes. Sounds like something unreal out... | <urn:uuid:5f01a223-00a3-4867-8c18-2728d70b27bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://science.howstuffworks.com/international-space-station.htm/printable | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93514 | 4,150 | 3.796875 | 4 |
United States, Canada: Rural, Urban Singles Are Very Much Alike When It Comes to Sex
December 19, 2007
A new study finds very little difference between rural and urban singles in terms of the number of sex partners, frequency of unprotected sex, and testing for HIV and other STDs.
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Frederick Loewe was born on
June 10, 1901 in Berlin to Viennese parents, Edmond and Rosa. His father,
Edmond Loewe, was a very famous musical star who traveled considerably, including
North and South America, and much of Europe. Fritz grew up in Berlin and attended
a Prussian cadet school from the age of five until he ... | <urn:uuid:b8c58d10-1939-41fc-9482-cf169293ce68> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.frederickloewe.org/fritz/bio.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981587 | 1,264 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsh, [1857-78], at sacred-texts.com
1 Then began Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
2 How long will ye hunt for words?!
Attend, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Wherefore are we accounted as beasts,
And narrow-minded in your eyes?
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In Australia, any young animal can be called a joey, although the term is usually employed in discussions of marsupials, and most specifically kangaroos. A baby kangaroo is considered a joey until it reaches fully independent adulthood, which can take up to one year a... | <urn:uuid:f5b0377c-a423-451f-8c8e-8f275db844e8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisegeek.com/in-the-animal-world-what-is-a-joey.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964355 | 724 | 3.328125 | 3 |
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Pakistan Bordering Countries: Afghanistan, China, India, Iran
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Educating your peers about issues of sexual orientation and homophobia can be one of the most effective ways to make your school safer for LGBTQ students, and GSAs are a great framework for implementing an anti-homophobia peer education program. If your GSA is planning to organize and lead classroom anti-homophobia wor... | <urn:uuid:192f11ce-cee2-4fe9-8a75-6e2b01720474> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://socal@gsanetwork.org/print/84 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964011 | 908 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Mongolia occupies part of the heart of the Asian continent, a geographically large country with rich human and natural history and a notably low population density. Its cultural landmarks include Buddhist temples and monuments to some of its great historical figures. Equally stirring, however, are Mongolia's physical l... | <urn:uuid:615ffc70-2d4b-4ad3-8976-c292085ec219> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://traveltips.usatoday.com/famous-landmarks-mongolia-62463.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902083 | 821 | 3.171875 | 3 |
The odds of being bitten by a dog are twice as high during a full moon, according to a British study.
Gervaise of Tilbury, a 13th-century canon lawyer, was the first to note that a full moon causes men to transform into werewolves.
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Starting next year, Ford will use extra strong Gorilla Glass on the GT's windshield and rear window
That thin, lightweight glass on your smartphone could soon be found on your car.
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It’s not a secret that youth of color are more likely to be taken out of the community and placed in prison for non-violent crimes. But does this mean that we are more prone to breaking the law compared to white youth?
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American Indian language
American Indian culture
American Indian art
Native American Facts For Kids was written for young people learning about the Chumash Indian
tribe for school or home-schooling reports. We encourage students
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Faber is explaining to Montag how books are very important in our lives, and have real meaning and quality. He give three reasons as to why books are important: They have quality, they allow the leisure to process their meanings, and the prompt people to act on what they've learned. When Faber brin... | <urn:uuid:84a9cc8e-1c0d-4eeb-aac9-b59979887640> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/see-page-83-what-lesson-faber-giving-montag-by-121055 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971797 | 427 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Grow a potato vine plant: use sweet potatoes with several “eyes”. Use toothpicks and stick them in the center of the potato. Using a jar with a wide mouth, suspend the potato using the toothpicks. Make sure that the water from the jar is enough to cover some potato “eyes”. In order for the roots to grow and the potato ... | <urn:uuid:378d15c4-db2a-43a3-ac1b-828e340411a7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.prakticideas.com/grow-potato-vine-plant/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945682 | 167 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Christ Episcopal Church
The Christ Episcopal Church, a handsome yet unassuming Gothic Revival-style stone church standing at the eastern edge of Capitol Square in Raleigh, enjoys landmark status in both the architectural history of North Carolina and the history of Episcopal Church architecture. Erected between 1848 an... | <urn:uuid:783ecd72-8e8a-471a-b4cb-c3532da1a79c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ncpedia.org/christ-episcopal-church | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948658 | 759 | 2.828125 | 3 |
WhyReef - Threats
In the reef community, pacific gregory damselfish act as protectors of algae and coral, driving away many fish that would normally feast on them. So it makes sense that, where there are many damselfish—such as the waters off the coast of Hawaii and Australia—there are also healthy communities of algae... | <urn:uuid:11dfe1b5-bb1f-4a6c-9ba2-e0cdec5264b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eol.org/data_objects/2738412 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962574 | 134 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Answers for Kids
‘The Seven Cs’ of History (Creation, Corruption, Catastrophe, Confusion, Christ, Cross, Consummation) help us remember the big events which have affected, and will affect, the history of the universe.
‘And she shall bear a son, and you shall call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their ... | <urn:uuid:e8fbd1fc-e624-4582-9609-388e0f39e270> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://creation.com/answers-for-kids-224 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968004 | 2,014 | 3.234375 | 3 |
SESAME STREET EXPLORES NATIONAL PARKS
Elmo and Murray Learn about Nature at www.sesamestreet.org/parks
Travel with fun-loving Muppets Elmo and Murray from Sesame Street to two of America’s most popular national parks in a new online series, Sesame Street Explores National Parks. Six short videos and accompanying hands-... | <urn:uuid:435683e6-7e98-4316-9086-62921fb73bff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nationalparks.org/connect/npf-news/sesame-street-explores-national-parks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920457 | 825 | 2.953125 | 3 |
An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See laugh, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. (Goldsmith) That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh. (f. W. Robertson)
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Pronunciation: (nē-ol'u-jiz"um), [key]
1. a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
2. the introduction or use of new words or new senses of existing words.
3. a new doctrine, esp. a new interpretation of sacred writings.
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Cities Pledge Carbon Emissions Cuts from Buildings
The total annual emissions reduction goal is equivalent to the amount of electricity used by 700,000 to nearly 1 million American homes each year, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. If successful, the 10 participating cities will lower energy bills by ... | <urn:uuid:d3c8d136-d65a-4f89-bd05-d3490a2dc2e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.environmentalleader.com/2014/01/30/10-cities-pledge-carbon-emissions-cuts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932172 | 455 | 3.203125 | 3 |
June 30, 2016
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Table of Contents
- Multiple sclerosis (MS) facts
- Multiple sclerosis definition
- What is multiple sclerosis?
- What causes multiple sclerosis?
- What are the risk factors for developing multiple sclerosis?
- What are multiple sclerosis symptoms and signs?
- What are the differen... | <urn:uuid:a7767aba-7d86-4d26-a45b-b0858287513d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rxlist.com/multiple_sclerosis_ms/page4.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.875219 | 365 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Jim Robinson and Ragnar Torvik make an amazing observation in a new NBER paper:
at the time of independence, parliamentary constitutions outnumbered presidential constitutions 4 to 1 in Africa. Yet in country after country there was a switch towards presidentialism. …only three of the 21 countries which started with pa... | <urn:uuid:197314e6-cfee-4c98-9c14-4e06e81c8f78> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://chrisblattman.com/2009/01/08/the-rise-of-presidentialism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00090-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951469 | 302 | 2.90625 | 3 |
'Karatepe': An Approachable Target
This approximate true-color image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights a feature called "Karatepe" within the impact crater known as "Endurance." Scientists believe this layered band of rock may be a good place to begin studying Endurance ... | <urn:uuid:9c8d3812-08b7-45dd-ac23-996751c3b64c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/images.cfm?id=242 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.875484 | 154 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Launch UN-Water Report on Water resources Management for Rio+20
Delivering a "Status Report on the Application of Integrated Approaches to the Development, Management and Use of Water Resources" to the UNCSD Rio+20 Conference
The UN Commission on Sustainable Development at its 13th Session (CSD-13) in 2005 called on Go... | <urn:uuid:0689a88f-50c3-4e2e-8ee5-58271763f100> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.unwater.org/news-events/news-details/pt/c/207620/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919074 | 357 | 2.640625 | 3 |
A History of Mereside
The first recorded tribe to inhabit this area, after the Ice Age were the Iceni.
In the early years of the 11th Century, the Danes conquered England and settled in East Anglia. England was ruled over by the Danish King and his son Knut ( or Canute ). Knut ruled over England from 1016 to 1035 as pa... | <urn:uuid:3ef3ab90-9ad8-477c-a140-bac301a4fc72> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ramseymereside.co.uk/history/hhistory.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989743 | 1,800 | 3.453125 | 3 |
A new superbug from India thought to be resistant to nearly every known antibiotic poses a global threat, scientists warned on Monday, urging health authorities to track the bacteria.
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The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (The "DREAM Act") is a piece of proposed federal legislation in the United States that was introduced in the United States Senate, and the United States House Of Representatives on March 26, 2009. This bill would provide certain undocumented alien students who ... | <urn:uuid:191b68cf-765d-449d-8436-500d130eee87> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://votesmart.org/public-statement/732167/issue-position-the-dream-act?flavour=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969209 | 1,441 | 2.9375 | 3 |
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One July evening, Daniel goes rowing by himself. We find out that he has beg... | <urn:uuid:8817cd39-73e2-400c-a598-24ec2a3b8e8f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/daniel-deronda/chapter-17-summary.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988906 | 613 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Ironically, racist attitudes may have increased during President Obama’s first term. A survey conducted by researchers at Stanford found that 51 percent of Americans now associate blacks with words such as lazy and violent, compared to 48 percent who did so before the nation elected its first black president. The South... | <urn:uuid:85c38d5f-bd71-488a-a817-c23e54cd9b4a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2012-11/demographic-turmoil | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961687 | 599 | 2.71875 | 3 |
FDA website lists peanut butter recalls
The recalls of processed foods containing peanut butter are one sign of the importance of reading food labels. Federal authorities have told consumers to avoid cereals, cookies and other products containing peanut butter while they investigate salmonella contamination.
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Christmas is a sacred festival of the Christians. It is celebrated with great enthusiasm and gaiety all over the world. It is observed on 25th December to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
It is largely characterized by exchanging gifts within families and by gifts brought by Santa Claus or other mythical figures.
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The current system requires six tax rates ranging from 10 percent to 35 percent to raise the $912 billion in federal individual income tax revenue expected in 2005. That amounts to an average tax rate of 19.5 percent. If all personal income were taxed instead, the same revenue could be raised with rates ranging from ju... | <urn:uuid:e82bb3a0-e281-476b-b144-1bd77e55909b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/11/the_case_for_ta_1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943626 | 148 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Info on PIVOT
Database tables are structured in columns and rows. However, some data lends itself to switching row data as column data for expository purposes. The pivot operation in SQL allows the developer to arrange row data as column fields. For example, if there are two customers who have both visited a store exac... | <urn:uuid:b2ca562e-3f58-42da-91f0-7f387173934d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.orafaq.com/node/2272 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.861269 | 545 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Monorail seen as threat to bats
A population of critically endangered bats in Fiordland could be wiped out if a multi-million-dollar monorail project gets the go ahead from the Government, a group opposing the development says.
Save Fiordland spokesman Bill Jarvie said the group commissioned a small-scale survey to con... | <urn:uuid:48b683a6-1d02-41c1-a6d1-429d40ad063f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/9918771/Monorail-seen-as-threat-to-bats | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933594 | 431 | 2.875 | 3 |
Students should try to keep up to date with study of their lectures, so as to be able to understand subsequent lectures. They are also urged to do as many problems as possible. By doing problems, students will soon discover their strong and weak points.
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Directed Reading and Thinking Activity (DRTA)2
This procedure focuses on reading as a thinking process. Its intent is to teach children to make predictions throughout reading. Before reading, the parent-teacher asks the child to form a purpose for reading and to make predictions about the content of the story to be rea... | <urn:uuid:471ce649-dbd1-49c7-86e7-ec18fdac85f7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hslda.org/strugglinglearner/CraftDocs/DRTA.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00122-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951881 | 182 | 3.53125 | 4 |
The practice of severe self-discipline, typically for religious reasons.
- Those scriptures that contain prescriptions for worshipping gods, sacrifices, donations, ascesis and other rituals, have been prepared by wise men only to keep people subjugated.
- Through daily ascesis, even in periods of no external persecutio... | <urn:uuid:133f2aad-7cd9-4f96-933d-003b3c45efd4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ascesis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.871423 | 224 | 2.734375 | 3 |
These readings took place April 3-5 as part of the 1998 North Carolina Literary Festival. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South, the festival featured a variety of writers ranging from established poets, novelists, playwrights, historians, and other disciplines.
As part of the festival, The George... | <urn:uuid:1a9e88d6-17b8-49aa-93dc-af9bacc3049d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/about.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931225 | 313 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Male Galapagos sea lions can usually be found inland where abundant shade is present, while females occupy different habitats depending on the age of their pups (Wolf et al., 2005). During the day, sea lions can be found on beaches near the water, which they enter throughout the day. At night, they move higher on the b... | <urn:uuid:4a98ed7a-b069-4594-b093-33c865096ee2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eol.org/data_objects/18679527 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90803 | 185 | 3.59375 | 4 |
1) Place Center Band between the thumb and forefinger in your left hand with lip near top of band facing away from you
2) Bring band from bottom up with your right hand and place next to center band. The outside portion of the band will be against the center band with the flat stamped side out. Switch hands.
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One of the benefits of running
digital, is that in theory only two cables to the track are needed. All
other devices, locos, turnouts, signals, light may be connected to the
track to get their power there, and their control signals too through a
decoder, which may be installed in the turnout or signal itself.
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Below are links to recent articles in newspapers and magazines on the future of reading in an e-reader and laptop universe.
Here is Kevin Kelly writing in Smithsonian Magazine on “Reading in a Whole New Way.” The subtitle asks how “the act of reading” will change as people “move from print to pixie.” One observation he... | <urn:uuid:307409c3-a9d7-4625-9459-8e2e89ec3344> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/e-reading/25638 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939887 | 636 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The Academy of American Studies
All state accountability plans approved.
Innovations in the News
Debating the cost of online education; plus information on virtual schools, school improvement, and charter schools.
The Academy of American Studies Weaves History into All Subjects for Student Success
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Marine Environmental Education Programs-
Our innovative hands-on programs have been developing since 1979. The unique locations of rocky shore, docks, pier, and the open Bay found at the Marina are used to provide Marine Environmental Education to school children and classes from all over the Bay Area. Each program ins... | <urn:uuid:3f728d8c-3633-4253-a2fa-2a3ba0591f6d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/environmental_education_programs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901696 | 1,106 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Send Letter to Editor
The jewel-bright sparkle of a damselfly on the wing or in repose never fails to excite. These graceful insects dazzle professional and amateur entomologists alike with their shining colors and delicate wing tracery. Watching a damsel up close is like peering through a loupe at a rare and precious ... | <urn:uuid:d682a112-05bf-4297-9c71-ecbcb8655321> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dnr.wi.gov/wnrmag/html/stories/2004/apr04/damsel.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960077 | 2,457 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Many winemakers, here in Ontario and around the world, believe that the large-scale use of synthetic chemicals, such as fertilizers, prevents the grapes from offering their truest expression (remember the bit about “terroir”?). Similarly, pesticides and herbicides can interfere with the composition of the soil.
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|Weapons||Flanged Mace, Glaive, Bow & Arrow, Ild|
|Activities||Fighting for the Mongol Empire|
|Battle Status||Lost vs. the Comanche|
|Experts||Munkhtur Luvsanjambaa (Native Mongol Historian)
Jason Nguyen (Asian Combat Expert)
"The Mongols have a mission: to conquer everything; dominate everything in our path; destroy ... | <urn:uuid:d412da4f-2946-4613-af68-41fb4e903ccb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://deadliestwarrior.wikia.com/wiki/Mongol | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964219 | 1,657 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Farm biosecurity protects the health of your cattle herd by preventing the introduction and transmission of disease agents to your farm. Endemic diseases, those diseases native to U.S. cattle, can be an economic drain on cow herds if not managed properly. Taking common sense precautions to minimize the risk of diseases... | <urn:uuid:d7c60c5f-772a-4be4-960b-4922ae049164> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://beefmagazine.com/mag/beef_biosecurity_farm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942285 | 1,923 | 2.90625 | 3 |
066 The Anatomy and Function of the Parietal Lobe
Today, Leslie discusses the parts and functions of the parietal lobe. Among it’s parts, Wernicke’s area is said to help us understand spoken language. The parietal lobe is also involved in other processes such as perceiving and processing somatosensory events. Watch the... | <urn:uuid:54355ac1-c28d-4e66-8cdc-3de3b82b49e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.interactive-biology.com/2769/066-the-anatomy-and-function-of-the-parietal-lobe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906257 | 1,285 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Five facts about the Jesuits
Jesuit delegates from around the world are gathering in Rome to choose a superior general to run the largest male Catholic clerical order.
Here are five facts about the Jesuits:
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When information security professionals think of perimeter security, firewalls, SSL VPN, RADIUS servers, and other technical controls immediately come to mind. However, guarding the physical perimeter is just as important.
During the past weeks, I've written a series of articles that describe various components of an e... | <urn:uuid:a40662c2-c868-40d1-89d2-8dd3aa5da024> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/the-art-of-physical-outer-perimeter-security/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943242 | 1,180 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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A great deal of today’s people are looking for effective diet plans and other weight management techniques which would help them shed extra pounds and decrease the risks of many serious diseases. However, for some people their weight reduction efforts are so... | <urn:uuid:1b89fc24-7cdb-432e-90c1-dcf0e14a4328> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://guide2herbalremedies.com/effective-weight-management-practice-calorie-counting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968202 | 610 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The couple went on a quest to find a general theory that could explain what aging is and why and how it happens. After more than 20 years of "sustained intellectual effort"—first at Moscow State University in Russia and recently at the University of Chicago's Center of Aging—they produced a "fundamental reliability the... | <urn:uuid:a39d0b87-8fa4-4502-9377-e037476b80d4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/14015/title/Aging--in-Theory--A-Personal-Pursuit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951453 | 2,498 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Pink Book Webinar Series
This online series of 15 webinars provides an overview of the principles of vaccination, general recommendations, immunization strategies for providers, and specific information about vaccine-preventable diseases and the vaccines that prevent them. Each one-hour webinar explores a chapter from ... | <urn:uuid:f7f97b12-abaf-4749-bb90-16ceb4469ad7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/ed/webinar-epv/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.852284 | 530 | 2.640625 | 3 |
DB2 or DB/2 is a DBMS system provided by IBM Corporation that competes with the Oracle database. DB2 is predominantly used on mainframe computers (i.e. OS/390). However, versions exist for AS/400, Unix, Linux and Windows as well.
Although DB2 seems to be quite a competent database platform, it doesn't have that big a m... | <urn:uuid:3ad852e8-6058-4669-99fc-be0004316ee0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/IBM_DB2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.878892 | 119 | 2.828125 | 3 |
A Student's Guide to Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Biodiesel - a lot like diesel fuel, but made from vegetable oil or animal fat.
Deep fat fried?
Biodiesel is not regular vegetable oil and is not safe to swallow. Biodiesel
is biodegradable though, so it is much less harmful to the environment if spilled.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. has detected high levels of radiation measuring up to 11.1 sieverts per hour at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
The high levels of radiation, enough to cause death after about 40 minutes of exposure, were detected inside the containment vessel of the plant’s No. 1 reactor, TEP... | <urn:uuid:9d2f95ab-1321-42aa-b37c-1c0aaf842490> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2012/10/12/high-radiation-found-at-fukushima-n-plant-via-the-daily-yomiuri/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938434 | 113 | 2.5625 | 3 |
We live in the Information Age. For most of us, our lives have been transformed by digital technology at least to some extent over the past generation, or we've grown up with it.
The way we work, the way we learn, the way we shop, the way we play, and the way we communicate involve computerized devices big and small, f... | <urn:uuid:abf1ada4-fd99-4f84-98a0-2faeca69cdce> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.infotoday.com/LinkUp/Information-Glut-Points-To-the-Cosmos-84710.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00006-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959769 | 930 | 2.734375 | 3 |
In this article, the proposal to create a truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) in Mississippi is examined. Nearly half a century after the dismantlement of legally sanctioned Jim Crow, many aspects of the state’s violent history of racial oppression remain in the shadows. In the state with the highest number of ly... | <urn:uuid:e98eb83b-388f-4e8d-9481-72ab9a735957> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/labuda-on-mississippis-truth-and.html?m=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935937 | 435 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Identification. The name of the country of Burma (or Myanmar, as it is now officially known) is associated with the dominant ethnic group, the Burmese. Because of the current regime's lack of legitimacy and poor human rights record, it is common practice outside the country not to use the name Myanmar. The country fell... | <urn:uuid:602ce20e-5469-4774-a48b-1e7aace9f735> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.everyculture.com/Bo-Co/Burma.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964858 | 9,582 | 3.53125 | 4 |
noun (plural chuppot /ˈKHo͝opōt/ /-ōs/)
A canopy beneath which Jewish marriage ceremonies are performed.
- Standing under the marriage canopy, the chuppah, surrounded by the faces of my family and the community, I felt the strength of their prayers and blessings.
- Leah is publicly humiliated and runs away from the chu... | <urn:uuid:44bb013e-a24f-4b0d-90b6-2762c17190a7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/chuppah | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899945 | 168 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Definitions for quaich
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word quaich
A traditional, shallow, two-handled Scottish cup symbolising friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor.
a small shallow cup or drinking vessel
Origin: [Gael. cuach. Cf. Quaff.]
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There generally are three main types of forests — tropical, temperate and boreal — and each forest has its own species of animals and plants. Within these forests also are many subdivisions and classifications that take into account rainfall, soil composition and temp... | <urn:uuid:623fc667-fed7-419e-affe-a0f19f37a8c3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-different-types-of-forest-species.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958981 | 1,045 | 3.703125 | 4 |
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Mesosilver is a true colloidal silver consisting of pure, sterilized water
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Dayton, Ohio (PRWEB) April 24, 2012
In a revealing new report published by the Society of Automotive Engineers this week at the 2012 SAE World Congress, an in-depth observation study of turn signal rate-of-neglect not only exposes how widespread the problem is, but how simple the solution is.
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Newberry volcano draws a lightning storm
June 24, 2012
by John Vidale
Nature delivers sound and fury from above as well as below at volcanoes.
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Theatre 100: Introduction to Theatre
-- OnLine Section --
Instructor: Larry Wild, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Emeritus
Text: Theatre, Brief Version by Robert Cohen.
10th Edition, 2013.
Links to the Three Plays:
On-Line "Lecture" Notes
Aulularia (The Pot of Gold) |
- Theatre and the Internet
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Under a new agreement, Flicker Films is going to be releasing DVDs produced in cooperation with France's Lobster Films and David Shepard's Film Preservation Associates. The first such disc is a pair of hour-long documentaries made by Lobster Films in 2004; Discovering Cinema. The first presentation, Learning to Talk, e... | <urn:uuid:6e22f519-1213-4b8e-b479-e3f4df566b38> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/print.php?ID=30945 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00107-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98459 | 1,261 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Meaning of the name James. Listen and learn how to pronounce James so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.
MEANING: The Irish version of James. Many well-known Irishmen have been called Seamus including the 1995 Nobel poet laureate Seamus Heaney. The Nobel prize in Literature was awarded for his “”w... | <urn:uuid:90fb914d-f3fc-4e63-85ba-164e3dd92d9f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.babynamesofireland.com/j-names/j-names-for-boys | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924875 | 158 | 2.734375 | 3 |
IUPUI study reveals how dogs detect explosives, offers new training recommendations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Rushing the separation process can lead to disaster in production. Find out how to determine which approach represents the best mix of quality and speed for your shop.
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peek-char obtains the next character in input-stream
without actually reading it, thus leaving the character
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While economic policies of individual countries can have diverse objectives, there are three key points with--as experience has shown--particular relevance for social development.
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Despite the recommendation from experts, parents are increasing citing safety concerns as their reason to not vaccinate their teenage daughters against HPV, the virus that causes the most cases of cervical cancer, according to a recent study.
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The variety of bones found at Dmanisi -- skulls, ribs, vertebrae, femurs, arm bones, a shoulder blade -- gave Lordkipanidze's team a wealth of information rarely produced at early-hominid digs.
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The whole purpose of securing water assets is to ensure that we can make a living from them. To make a living involves using water in an efficient way.
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for National Geographic News
Deep in Egypt's western desert, the farming village of Abu Minqar appears like a mirage.
In a part of the world remarkable for its absence of life and color, this village of 4,000 people and their pastel-green fields seems to sprout miraculously from nothing in defiance of the laws of natur... | <urn:uuid:c2a15f44-7544-4ca7-b38e-23c45ecad836> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080108-desert-village.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945578 | 369 | 3.359375 | 3 |
8. Woman from the Mucubal (Mucubai, Mucabale, Mugubale) tribe
Photo and caption by Johan Gerrits
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Glossary of Terms
- Michael Biarnes
Some of the more harmful indoor air pollutants can be accurately monitored using the AQ Expert VOC Monitor.
In general, almost all compounds that contain a carbon atom are considered organic.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
Organic compounds that release many gaseous molecules from... | <urn:uuid:4a349deb-f5f5-4af2-bea6-f479fb7e7b51> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.e-inst.com/volatile-organic-compounds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914236 | 713 | 3.296875 | 3 |
A little learning is a dangerous thing
The theory of competition originates from the micro economic theory of the firm. In theory large numbers of small firms compete to provide goods and services to the public. Competition helps to stimulate innovation, improve productivity, prevent companies from colluding to fix pri... | <urn:uuid:e81306fa-ea62-4bce-8cd7-5a4d8bf3e84a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://taxjustice.blogspot.com/2006/10/little-learning-is-dangerous-thing.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969051 | 1,029 | 2.921875 | 3 |
From Nature magazine
A stem-cell biologist has had an eye-opening success in his latest effort to mimic mammalian organ development in vitro. Yoshiki Sasai of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CBD) in Kobe, Japan, has grown the precursor of a human eye in the lab.
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Causes of Vitiligo
Although researchers don't know the exact reason vitiligo occurs, several theories abound. Some researchers think vitiligo may be an autoimmune disease, while others believe that melanocytes in the skin destroy themselves. Some people have reported that single events, such as sunburns or emotional st... | <urn:uuid:1644d786-b032-49a3-b311-80a0b37c56a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://skin.emedtv.com/vitiligo/causes-of-vitiligo.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949289 | 391 | 3.34375 | 3 |
It's a terrible truth, unknown to most Hindus. One million old cattle a year are sold at auction by poor farmers in Tamil Nadu, India. In batches of several hundred, they are herded into trucks, driven miles to the state border, then forced to walk 200 kilometers into Kerala, there to be inhumanely slaughtered in unsan... | <urn:uuid:1ffc2981-cfb2-4b77-98d9-7ae162c14baf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/print.php?itemid=4481 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959305 | 514 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Eating is the ingestion of food to provide for all organism their nutritional needs, particularly for energy and growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive: carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat det... | <urn:uuid:ae7befc8-5454-4a4d-b26b-88dbaa9deba8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://medicalxpress.com/tags/feeding/sort/popular/1w/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962366 | 107 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Benjamin Moore, 1748-1816
Term of Office: 1775-1776 (president pro tempore)
Following the sudden departure of President Myles Cooper, the Board of Governors, with Cooper's recommendation, appointed King's College graduate Reverend Benjamin Moore ('68 KC) president pro tempore.
Despite the upheaval in New York and the c... | <urn:uuid:c0acf583-1275-48f6-b2f2-eb3c008cf26e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://library.columbia.edu/locations/cuarchives/presidents/moore_benjamin.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947882 | 214 | 2.671875 | 3 |
By happy coincidence and far from its native home in western Sumatra, titum arum, the world’s smelliest bloom, flowered at Paignton Zoo in Devon and at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.
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Over the past two decades, OECD governments, the private sector and others have spent considerable resources on environmental protection and waste reduction. Yet, waste generation is still on the rise. To help OECD governments address the increase of waste and associated pollution, new policy ideas and concepts have be... | <urn:uuid:d462e543-5bf7-4f46-aff4-7e319bc60688> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oecd.org/fr/env/dechets/wastepreventionandminimisation.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925382 | 999 | 3.234375 | 3 |
We spent Part One explaining the Kabbalah behind the three questions we ask about the stuff around us: What is it?, How is it?, and Why is it? To reiterate, the question of “what” corresponds to the sefirah of chochmah (wisdom), “how” to binah (understanding), and “why” to da’at (knowledge).
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The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, LanguageArthur Marwick
Palgrave, 2001 pp. xvi, 334
Alun MunslowUniversity of Staffordshire
Philosophers, as literary critic John Carey recently remarked, spend their lives fretting over issues that most of us give up bothering about around the age of five onwards. On the ... | <urn:uuid:e9b944a7-ce06-4491-a722-4adb3c4a7683> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Whatishistory/marwick2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948484 | 3,532 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Rising Poverty in the American Suburbs: A Presentation by Dr. Katrin Anacker in the REALTOR® University Speaker Series
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2. Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit. "Approved himself to the raw judgment of the multitude." (De Quincey)
Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow.
Not tanned; as, raw hides.
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A strong earthquake struck much of northern California and southern Oregon on Sunday, but surprisingly caused only minimal damage. Although the earthquake itself was enough to scare residents, the more than 20 aftershocks that struck in the eight hours following the quake kept the residents alert.
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Slide 1: GREEN HOUSE EFFECT MEANING OF GREEN HOUSE EFFECT : MEANING OF GREEN HOUSE EFFECT The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature that the Earth experiences because certain gases in the atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, for example) trap energy from the sun. The Earth’s atmos... | <urn:uuid:b31232a5-cde6-4aae-8fe6-f53adaf4e675> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/hemafulara-66580-green-house-effect-entertainment-ppt-powerpoint/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00090-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923498 | 1,291 | 3.859375 | 4 |
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