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Rolfing® is a system of soft tissue manipulation and movement education that organizes the whole body in gravity. Rolfing affects the body's posture and structure by manipulating the myofascial system (connective tissue). Research has demonstrated that Rolfing creates more efficient muscle use, allows the body to conse... | <urn:uuid:26af6183-23e2-4c09-b1b8-7b62fcc3229c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://raleighrolfing.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95487 | 416 | 2.5625 | 3 |
By going public with her prophylactic double mastectomy, actress Angelina Jolie has again shone the spotlight on breast cancer and the genetic mutation known to increase the risk of getting it by 60 percent.
Although Jolie, 37, has the potential to save lives by raising awareness, facts about testing for the mutation a... | <urn:uuid:cb51f2e0-9741-4cc2-8f77-93568eee9f2f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/05/14/what-dr-ashton-wants-you-to-take-away-from-angelina-jolies-double-mastectomy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954601 | 934 | 2.578125 | 3 |
A Prayer for Owen Meany Theme of Memory and the Past
John Wheelwright narrates A Prayer for Owen Meany from kind of a detached perspective: most of the events of the novel take place between 1952 and 1968, but John tells us the story from the present, which in his case is 1987. As a result, most of the novel is actuall... | <urn:uuid:28fc0044-ab87-4607-aff3-fb62d4798581> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/owen-meany/memory-the-past-theme.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967047 | 314 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Lao Tzu’s wise words ring true. They inspire us to look for something bigger than ourselves, something that society, education, and identity cannot provide: a sustainable connection to the living network.
The living network is not ruled by ones and zeros, or born of wires. It is the original network. It has always been... | <urn:uuid:d819a951-8354-48e1-86c2-103266215601> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rhythminaction.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961115 | 711 | 2.625 | 3 |
The 20th century gave us three great networks: paved roads, the power grid and the information infrastructure. Thanks to the tools these have made possible, the middle-class North American household has become a little post-industrial factory in its own right, from mechanized agriculture (the riding lawn mower) to prin... | <urn:uuid:20bd89de-fc89-4b1a-9c2c-ed6191696896> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/31/amish-technology-grid-biz-power08-cx_et_1031tenner.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957349 | 1,037 | 3.109375 | 3 |
The molecule resveratrol, which occurs naturally in the skin of red grapes, has been shown to lower insulin levels in mice when injected directly into the brain, according to a UT Southwestern Medical Center study appearing in the December issue of the journal Endocrinology.
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Mathews man dredged up ‘oldest formal artifact found in the Americas’
This is significant, he said, because "up until the discovery of this artifact we thought people weren’t here much before 12,000 years ago." The knife would indicate a much earlier occupation of this continent.
Stanford said Saturday he is sure that ... | <urn:uuid:4e33f773-b365-4897-bd72-a7c02f60c2b8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gazettejournal.net/index.php/news/news_article/mathews_man_dredged_up_oldest_formal_artifact_found_in_the_americas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973165 | 224 | 3.09375 | 3 |
USS North Dakota: Eighth Grade Lesson -
The Floating Community - Fire and Engine Troubles
This is the only photograph of the
explosion and fire aboard the ship
on September 8, 1910. Note the
black smoke emerging from the
ventilator tower (with stripes).
The calm attitude of the men
suggests that this photo was taken
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Items by Ray Wheeler
The battle over wilderness preservation in Utah is fought on many fronts before it comes to a vote in Congress.
A checklist highlights the difference between the area preserved by the Utah Public Lands Act of 1995 and the Redrock Wilderness Act.
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During this time, there were few people in Philadelphia who could rival the wealth of Peter A.B. Widener. Born on November 13, 1834 to a bricklayer, Widener worked as a butcher and saved enough money to start one of the first meat store chains in the country. He also began buying stocks in street railways. Together wit... | <urn:uuid:26560f40-7b38-484d-964e-aa03a7e55965> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2009/03/the-widener-mansion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00082-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964327 | 922 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Mathematics Content Standards.
By the end of grade one, students understand and use the concept of ones and tens in the place value number system. Students add and subtract small numbers with ease. They measure with simple units and locate objects in space. They describe data and analyze and solve simple problems.
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Use Technology to Build Up Others, Students Told
Contributed By By Kaisey Skipper, Church News contributor
- Use emails and text messages to build up and thank others.
- Use phones “as a tool for learning and teaching” and as a “new way to learn and teach.”
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How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure
Creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) helps you be both comprehensive and specific when managing a project: Thinking in detail is critical when planning your project, but you also need to consider the big picture. If you fail to identify a major part of your project’s work, ... | <urn:uuid:5f1bd3c9-30bf-4e55-ba85-dca2c68f2116> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-create-a-work-breakdown-structure.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911554 | 453 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The Results of Evaluation
When The Case of Plastics ended, we all had opinions about what worked and what didn’t. But these were anecdotal impressions from people deeply invested in the project. For a more unbiased look at the pilot we turned to the report of our outside evaluator.
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An artist's conception shows NASA's Curiosity rover, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory, which is about the size of a Mini Cooper automobile.
Scientists have decided to point NASA's next Mars rover toward a mountain of layered minerals inside Gale Crater, after a process they compared to picking a favorite flavo... | <urn:uuid:0e41b846-5bbc-4047-a5bb-7fb9a9509795> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/07/22/7141717-and-the-next-mars-rover-goes-to | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95595 | 1,740 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Goat Internal Parasites
Many goats pick up large numbers of internal parasites on pastures if the pastures are not managed properly.
Goats that become infected may become ill or even die. They may become lethargic, have diarrhea, lose weight or just maintain their weight. Sometimes these signs may go undetected. Intern... | <urn:uuid:4117ece6-4591-4a8e-bfab-75a8f32c5ae3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://extension.psu.edu/courses/meat-goat/health/goat-internal-parasites | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967227 | 252 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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The American chemical engineer and the American petroleum industry developed side by side over the past century. The petroleum industry began when Edwin L. Drake drilled a successful oil well at Titusville Pennsylvania in 1859. Others quickly followed his lead, and before long oil wells covered the countryside. Just te... | <urn:uuid:9f6e12c8-5848-44d9-8202-15ead547fc08> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pafko.com/history/h_petro.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971764 | 3,717 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Lumbar supports – also called braces or corsets – are not very effective at preventing low back pain or reducing disability in those who suffer from an arthritic back, according to a review in a recent issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluat... | <urn:uuid:88937182-a9f6-4529-8168-b1ba7520d2b2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://arthritistoday.org/news/lumbar-supports-low-back-pain.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970185 | 330 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Abraham Lincoln (18091865). Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas 1897.
Douglas took his ground that negroes were not included in the Declaration of Independence:
I think the authors of that notable instrument intended to include all men, but they did not mean to declare all men equal in all respects. They did ... | <urn:uuid:6ff18fde-6497-4f7c-a3ab-e6a048d58105> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bartleby.com/251/pages/page415.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98433 | 538 | 3.453125 | 3 |
San Franciscans are viciously proud of their little gingerbread village of a city. Rightfully so. But soon, the demands of population growth will force San Francisco to expand its infrastructure, and all that quaint character could suffer. Imagine the wrath of the NIMBY crowds if a new wind farm came along and blocked ... | <urn:uuid:204b8190-4131-435b-b7b8-b00c9b2c922c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665015/san-francisco-in-2100-a-subterranean-world-full-of-robots-and-hover-cars | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946993 | 411 | 2.625 | 3 |
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Surging or output variations have always been one of the major processing issues in single-screw extrusion. Melt pumps compensate by removing the output variation, but the surge behind the melt pump is still there. The changing speed of the screw reacting to the pressure behind the melt pump caus... | <urn:uuid:1ab06604-0ce7-40d2-b318-8f643b7cf5eb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ptonline.com/columns/solving-feed-related-surging | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949464 | 809 | 2.9375 | 3 |
You probably know that you can change a font's color. Just select the text in question and choose a color from the Font Color dropdown in the Font group (on the Home tab). In Word 2007, this option's on the Formatting toolbar.
When using this dropdown in Word 2010, you might have noticed the gradient option, but not kn... | <urn:uuid:fbbdf37a-9d30-4eed-ad8d-43d4dc26e990> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/microsoft-office/highlight-text-with-the-gradient-fill-effect-in-word/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885324 | 683 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Whether you’re a professional video editor or an amateur that occasionally uses iMovie or Windows Movie Maker for home movies, you’ve probably noticed the bit rate setting during the process of exporting your video. What does bit rate mean in video? How do we know what the right setting is for a particular video?
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What is interactive learning?
Interactive learning is a method of engaging learners with the help of multimedia materials and teaching techniques that elicit active participation in learning (as opposed to passive reception of information).
Critique of the Interactive Learning Method
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It's part of an effort to better understand sleep's impact on our health
Sleep is crucial for rejuvenating our brains and bodies, and thanks to smartphones and fitness trackers we’re able to get deeper insights into our nightly dozing.
SleepHealth, a new iPhone app powered by IBM’s Watson intelligence system, is the la... | <urn:uuid:84bdd67b-1b41-497e-b39c-cb8b2080059b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://time.com/4244474/iphone-ibm-sleep-app/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931229 | 340 | 2.578125 | 3 |
November 1, 2012
New Federal Register Interactive Electoral College Maps Allow Users to Predict 2012 Election
New Video Short Explains Electoral College Process
Washington, DC…The National Archives’ Office of the Federal Register has launched new interactive Electoral College maps on its official Electoral College webs... | <urn:uuid:61bd5191-4823-45bc-a8d9-e43e345890c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2013/nr13-07.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92403 | 476 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Ambient energy scavenging, also called energy harvesting or power harvesting, is the process of obtaining usable energy from natural and human-made sources that surround us in the everyday environment.
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The first commercial energy station powered by ocean waves started up yesterday three miles off the Portuguese coast. The machine, which resembles a giant red sea snake, generates electricity that’s transmitted via an underwater cable to the nation’s power grid. Two more machines are expected to be added in the coming ... | <urn:uuid:8dd76e21-ab9e-47c5-b07d-32f5ffe85a98> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/09/24/first-wave-farm-sends-energy-to-portugals-power-grid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935081 | 554 | 3.125 | 3 |
Once certain information is learned and processed in the brain, the information is more likely to be retained if a short daytime nap is taken.
A recent study tested 33 healthy individuals for memory, and its connection to sleep. There were 11 males and 22 females, averaging an age of 23.3 years. All participants were g... | <urn:uuid:419e94b5-0033-4576-8fd5-bae76bb43fc6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://defeatdiabetes.org/short-daytime-nap-helps-retain-learned-knowledge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970617 | 446 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Advances Canadian culture, celebrates heritage and embraces Canadian identity.
Canada Council for the Arts
Independent, arm's length organization created by the Parliament of Canada in 1957 to foster and promote the arts. Provides a wide range of grants and services to professional Canadian artists.
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Alfred Moore Scales (1827-1889)
Alfred Moore Scales was born on November 26, 1827 in Rockingham County on his family’s plantation, Ingleside. Caldwell first studied at the Caldwell Institute in Greensboro before transferring to the University of North Carolina in 1845. Scales ...
Alfred Moore Waddell (1834-1912)
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The announcement marks an important symbolic and operational milestone in rebuilding the nation's nuclear weapons complex, which began a long retrenchment in the late 1980s as the Cold War ended and the toll of environmental damage from bomb production became known.
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Last name: Callaway
This interesting and unusual medieval English surname is of Norman French origin, and is locational from a place called "Caillovet-Orgeville" in Eure, France, and is derived from the Old Norman French "cail(ou)" for a pebble. Kelway is a dialectal variant of this placename, which was probably introd... | <urn:uuid:77077f62-1799-4811-9e05-c9e8efa97b85> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Callaway | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960789 | 350 | 2.6875 | 3 |
On the Fahrenheit scale, do 0 and 100 have any special significance? INACTIVE
Everybody knows 0 degrees on the Celsius scale is the freezing point of water and 100 degrees is the boiling point. On the Fahrenheit scale, however, freezing is 32 degrees and boiling 212. How on earth were these numbers arrived at? Do 0 and... | <urn:uuid:99740669-c92d-412f-82d5-f1e561a27c8e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1266/on-the-fahrenheit-scale-do-0-and-100-have-any-special-significance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962896 | 696 | 3.453125 | 3 |
In the Actor Model, concurrency is the default. Sequencing must by arranged explicitly. An important case of sequencing occurs when there is a data dependency between different parts of a system. One part produces a value that another part needs to perform its function.One mechanism for sequencing data-dependent operat... | <urn:uuid:4861c747-d220-4021-8013-4ede127bb716> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dalnefre.com/wp/2012/03/futures-and-capabilities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00107-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898269 | 1,868 | 2.75 | 3 |
History of guiding
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TESTING: IT’S ALL ABOUT HOW YOU HANDLE IT
by Corey Ford
When I went down to Charlotte I was skeptical. I had heard that standardized
testing drove the turnaround of its public school system – and I wasn't buying
it: Weren't teachers dumbing down the curriculum? Weren't they “teaching to
the test?” And what's the point ... | <urn:uuid:10010107-4389-4db7-b8ef-f03abbff1d2e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pbs.org/makingschoolswork/dwr/nc/testing.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959373 | 2,402 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Definitions for ibn al-haytham
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word ibn al-haytham
Alhazen, Alhacen, al-Haytham, Ibn al-Haytham, Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham(noun)
an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established exp... | <urn:uuid:9f795b78-43ae-4bce-9ab6-d0080542511f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.definitions.net/definition/ibn%20al-haytham | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.8184 | 290 | 2.75 | 3 |
Knowledge about Ignorance: New Directions in the Study of Political Information
- Author(s): Ilya Somin
- Date Posted: 2006
- Law & Economics #: 06-30
For decades, scholars have recognized that most citizens have little or no political knowledge, and that it is in fact rational for the average voter to make little effo... | <urn:uuid:5550a1f0-cb0f-4915-925e-8078e1853b17> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.law.gmu.edu/pubs/papers/06-30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950633 | 200 | 2.625 | 3 |
New research about how spinach may help you stay strong
When you think of muscle-building foods like protein-rich meat or eggs ala the film Rocky may come to mind, but research shows that veggies also play an important role. A new Swedish study concluded that natural compounds found in vegetables like spinach and beets... | <urn:uuid:12723c58-f147-4ae9-9614-97cdcd347bba> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shape.com/blogs/weight-loss-coach/popeye-was-right-how-spinach-helps-build-muscle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94418 | 477 | 2.875 | 3 |
ON A 95-DEGREE MID-SEPTEMBER DAY IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE, a Raytheon Hawker Horizon business jet taxied up to a hangar at Eglin Air Force Base, a joint-use facility whose civilian side is the Okaloosa Regional Airport. The “Hawk,” as it is called at Raytheon, is a glossy new eight-passenger bizjet to which the Federal... | <urn:uuid:cb6ee5d2-7b38-4e58-b3ab-1fa124e10f1c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/torture-chamber-11999852/?all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950885 | 3,361 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Che Guevara biography
Che Guevara Biography
Young Ernesto Guevara
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna is born June 14, 1928 in Rosario, one of the most important cities in Argentina, in a well off family. A family with aristocratic roots but socialistic ideas.
In 1937, Ernesto is 9 years old and goes to the third grade of prim... | <urn:uuid:4ab25808-72ff-4d01-b27c-3484e32ac366> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.che-lives.com/che-guevara-biography/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971202 | 5,160 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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We are looking at the relative strengths of H2S versus H2SO3. Both are acids and in water will ionize into a proton and the conjugate base. The equations for that are below.
H2SO3 <--> H+ + HSO3-
H2S <--> H+ + HS-
The equations above are called acid dissociation equations. The equilibrium constant ... | <urn:uuid:58df38cb-1251-4fb8-9e36-8d8b4224c347> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/use-chemical-equation-prove-that-h2so3-stronger-432981 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911507 | 207 | 3.5625 | 4 |
CERN Might Have Broken Light's Speed Limit: Not!
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* Insects, Arachnids, and the Speed of Light & Flight: Real Science Radio co-hosts Fred Williams and Bob Enyart discuss locust wings creasing for flight along their veins, and about tarant... | <urn:uuid:9430a9b9-edfb-4d53-a440-b5848bef57ad> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kgov.com/bel/20110923 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942114 | 1,170 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Though most true bugs eat plant sap, some feed on animals. One such true bug is the assassin bug, which feeds on fellow insects.
They get their name from their hunting prowess. They’re strong and good at overpowering victims much larger than themselves. They have raptorial forelegs similar to a praying mantis, meaning ... | <urn:uuid:f75bb8b8-9110-4ed3-bf8b-5439f307abdf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/assassin-bugs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933228 | 252 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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If I could make teaching and learning better in the school room, I would spend five minutes a day on a verse or two from Solomon, then add a few comments. Kids and adults respond to his ideas if you explain them. Those who don’t know about th... | <urn:uuid:271d34e7-9b3e-4088-b646-67847232fcc3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pagosasun.com/wisdom-in-the-classroom-one-cup-at-a-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96742 | 773 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Surfaces are a concept to allow graphical embedding of heterogeneous untrusting clients efficiently into one scene.
In Chromium, we can use surfaces for many of the embedding cases we have today:
A Surface is a fixed size rectangle that can be rendered into by submitting frames. A client can create a surface by asking ... | <urn:uuid:1c73fe78-dd47-4ed4-b6f6-b80393b6cf84> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/chromium-graphics/surfaces | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895448 | 1,355 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Simple Definition of childlike
: resembling or suggesting a child : like that of a child; especially : having or showing the pleasing qualities (such as innocence) that children often have
Examples of childlike in a sentence
a grown woman with a childlike face
We gazed at it in childlike wonder.
She took a childlike gl... | <urn:uuid:c8e9e109-73d1-487e-bef8-3df146d4b8b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/childlike | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.80712 | 437 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Simple but challenging: the Universe according to Planck
21 March 2013ESA's Planck satellite has delivered its first all-sky image of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), bringing with it new challenges about our understanding of the origin and evolution of the cosmos. The image has provided the most precise picture ... | <urn:uuid:2ecfa529-0208-4ca9-b8f2-23d5a2061077> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sci.esa.int/planck/51551-simple-but-challenging-the-universe-according-to-planck/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94421 | 3,090 | 3.296875 | 3 |
What's the Latest Development?
A paper soon to appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics reports the discovery of a "rogue planet" about 100 light-years from Earth. This planet, which is drifting in space without a sun to orbit around, is the nearest of its kind to be observed from Earth and the only one found in a hunt usi... | <urn:uuid:a9f68cf6-e49e-4e2d-b0db-364cdaedf816> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/found-in-our-neighborhood-a-planet-without-a-sun | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959677 | 274 | 4 | 4 |
Dr. Jeane Copenhaver-Johnson's work was featured in the chapter titled "Race" in the bestseller NurtureShock. She is considered one of the country's leading experts on talking with children about race. This OSU professor's research convinces her that avoiding talk about race in our homes and classrooms leaves our child... | <urn:uuid:45fe2430-f73f-4cb7-9855-23ee25e24b9a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://sites.google.com/site/rdtfnews/mar-2011 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972161 | 794 | 3 | 3 |
Anxiety is inevitable: the little jitters before giving a speech, the beads of sweat that break out when about to meet a blind date, the little knot in the stomach before a big test. These are things everyone will experience from time to time. However, for some people, anxiety can dominate their life. When this occurs,... | <urn:uuid:82e31a75-988f-4fd5-8ad5-e42661292929> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.healthboards.com/healthcenter/anxiety/sleep-sun-and-anxiety-what-you-should-know.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941169 | 811 | 3.125 | 3 |
Fine Needle Aspiration
Safe, Simple, Accurate
Your doctor has ordered a diagnostic procedure for you called Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA). This procedure will provide your doctor with a fast and accurate diagnosis that will help in determining the need for further tests or treatment. Fine Needle Aspiration is safe, simp... | <urn:uuid:169692a0-9fcb-4c20-82cc-170a0a83a42c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.virginiahospitalcenter.com/medical/laboratory/aspiration.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93991 | 759 | 2.65625 | 3 |
An anecdote is a short story, narrative or parable often used in speeches, essays, toasts, books, articles and other written or spoken products. Anecdotes are often funny, inspiring, interesting, surprising, ironic, humorous and may teach a lesson, be biographical or cause reflection. Funny or interesting anecdotes can... | <urn:uuid:b72ef9be-0ad2-4822-a3eb-0a8901e31a6d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.canuwrite.com/anecdote_edison.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967514 | 361 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Here you will find photographs of Mountain Gorillas taken in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.
Mountain Gorillas are only found in the Virunga Massif which spans the Central African countries of Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. They are critically endangered; it is likely that less than 800 individua... | <urn:uuid:b9276bbb-f931-428f-ab37-653454674cbb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gorillaimages.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934528 | 315 | 3.421875 | 3 |
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| A single photon is produced by a quantum dot (QD). Simultaneously, a pair of photons is produced by a parametric down-conversion crystal (PDC). One of the PDC photons—which has different characteristics than the QD photon—is routed into ... | <urn:uuid:a3be476c-8207-444a-b483-0830f736bb7a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=43733 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919573 | 1,094 | 3.96875 | 4 |
Catholic Emancipation, term applied to the process by which Roman Catholics in the British Isles were relieved in the late 18th and early 19th cent. of civil disabilities. They had been under oppressive regulations placed by various statutes dating as far back as the time of Henry VIII (see Penal Laws). This process of... | <urn:uuid:5d406ef2-a468-4bae-b7e5-571848ce4708> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/history/catholic-emancipation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976501 | 673 | 4.28125 | 4 |
The Bigger Picture: Visual Archives and the Smithsonian
The Empress of the Galapagos Islands, Part 3
This is the third in a series of “murder mystery” posts about a 1930s Smithsonian scientific expedition, based on records in the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ collections.
This is the third in a series of “murder my... | <urn:uuid:485019fd-1fc6-4850-a05c-6097c950a996> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/empress-galapagos-islands-part-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977233 | 1,592 | 2.875 | 3 |
Tomorrow's smart car is likely to give drivers considerable control of their interaction with the telematics interface. The driver will most likely use a voice recognition interface when driving and a touch-screen interface when stopped. After all, driving-by itself-makes many demands of the human in the driver's seat.... | <urn:uuid:aa8f196b-a438-4179-87e4-4f870eded3c6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1225092 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944927 | 1,610 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Week Five: Handy Plants
Hello again, Green Hour visitors! Today I’d like to share a “handy” and creative way to get your kids engaged in flower and seed exploration. This activity will stimulate wonder and an appreciation for nature.
Summertime is an excellent time to take your little sprouts out and about for a seed s... | <urn:uuid:7738a191-b16d-431f-8d34-877c65681780> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.nwf.org/2009/08/week-five-handy-plants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922594 | 401 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Plotting fourier series approximation of F(t)
I'm new to matlab and have a question for a class i'm taking. I've worked out everything except for the last part - which i'm absolutely stuck on...
F(t) is the function;
f(t) = t-1 for 1<t<2
= t for 0 <t<1
I had to determine a fourier representation of this analytically wh... | <urn:uuid:a3b7a37e-4acd-4cdc-92b3-908cfee13d26> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathhelpforum.com/calculus/56571-plotting-fourier-series-approximation-f-t-print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959418 | 154 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Scotland could phase out all fossil fuel and nuclear power by 2030, maintain a secure electricity supply and generate significant revenue from renewable exports, according to new research by one of the world's leading energy consultants, Garrad Hassan.
Power of Scotland Secured cover pictureIt's now widely recognised t... | <urn:uuid:4bce6b14-f42a-4ebe-bc95-316f1458ac54> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk/power-secured | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935804 | 233 | 2.859375 | 3 |
December 29, 1996 |
Four rebel leaders stepped off a jet called "The Wings of Peace" here Saturday, returning from exile to a city they once hoped to capture. A military band played a popular tune, and hundreds of rebel supporters cheered as aging guerrilla commanders Pablo Monsanto, Rolando Moran, Carlos Gonzalez and ... | <urn:uuid:b33e65a9-9b5d-40b6-a592-0a9c4d3fd0b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/guerrillas-guatemala | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957258 | 627 | 2.546875 | 3 |
On 18th Zilhaja, 632, Muhammad after performing farewell pilgrimage, halted at the plain of Ghadir Khum, where he declared Ali bin Abu Talib as his successor.
Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah had called a Conference in Evian, France known as the Evian Conference between July 4, 1952 and July 8, 1952 to discuss various economi... | <urn:uuid:2b42724c-23ee-460d-ab5f-50c652fde343> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ismaili.net/heritage/last_node/history_event | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984739 | 1,683 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Fuel efficiency will be a major concern during the eighth annual "Physics Day" at Hope College on Thursday, May 2.
In the event's traditional design and construction contest, which will be held in the Dow Center beginning at 9 a.m., teams of students from eight Michigan high schools have been challenged to create vehic... | <urn:uuid:a1f8aa36-43ae-439e-bf75-67b2fb410497> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hope.edu/print/4505 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980163 | 379 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Patent ambiguity is an uncertainty that clearly appears on the face of an instrument. Such an ambiguity will appear in the language of the document. In such documents, the court, reading the language in the light of all the facts and circumstances referred to in the instrument would not be able to derive therefrom the ... | <urn:uuid:373f83e0-0fae-43ec-93bd-fde867493329> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://definitions.uslegal.com/p/patent-ambiguity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931414 | 240 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The unique collection of galleries and museums on Berlin Museum Island, with its five temple-like buildings, houses treasures from 6,000 years of human history. Elevated to UNESCO World Heritage status in 1999, and located in Berlin's historical centre, the complex is the centrepiece of the city's museum network and is... | <urn:uuid:c87aa925-f28c-45a8-8410-8756788d9485> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.germany.travel/rs/gradovi-i-kultura/svetska-bastina-unesco-a/berlin-museum-island.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909465 | 686 | 2.8125 | 3 |
This article and detailed wiring diagram explain how to wire the common household receptacle. The 15A, 125V receptacle is the most widely used device in your home.
This is your standard receptacle that powers everything from your toaster to your TV. Whether you are replacing or adding a receptacle, here’s how to connec... | <urn:uuid:81736ac9-f31f-4641-93a1-aea018fa1281> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.electrical-online.com/wiring-receptical/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895445 | 535 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish: habitational name from Buchanan, a place near Loch
Lomond, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the
- The name Buchanan was brought independently to North America from
Scotland by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries.
George Buchanan came to MD i... | <urn:uuid:5eb8469b-2a20-4a4a-96ef-3decb1b999de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/buchanan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965921 | 82 | 2.84375 | 3 |
In our normal, microeconomic world it is not a big deal when excess demand emerges in one market and excess supply emerges in another--it is, in fact, a good thing, because it induces shifts in production that make the structure of what is made correspond more closely to what people want (or perhaps to what the people ... | <urn:uuid:c1d877d1-0c70-4fd5-9085-813d7f3b0a0d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/06/microeconomic-and-macroeconomic-excess-supply.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957092 | 1,309 | 2.609375 | 3 |
By Mia Davidson and Jan Sattler
Numerous sea shells, naturally deposited by the tides, can be found along the shore of Laguna Beach. Shells are the hard protective coverings formed by many marine invertebrates, animals lacking a backbone. Though shells may be familiar, the animals that create them frequently are not.
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SHADE TREE DIVISION
In December of 1935, the Township Council adopted an ordinance providing for the control, Planting, protection, and improvement of shade trees and shrubbery upon the highways, and municipal parks and grounds of Teaneck. The Council authorized the Township Manager to appoint a tree surgeon to supervi... | <urn:uuid:dbab303e-1af3-45f2-a6b1-21887338a337> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://teaneck.org/virtualvillage/DPW/1937report/page13.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974129 | 531 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Animal Wildlife | Arctic Wolf | The Arctic wolf is found in the most northern parts of the wolf's range, in the Arctic Circle. Arctic wolves mainly inhabit Northern Canada and Alaska, parts of Greenland and Iceland and Northern Europe. Arctic wolves are incredibly versatile and adaptive animals, able to withstand year ... | <urn:uuid:13f8242d-8c43-44c7-b544-39b05b4174a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://animal-wildlife.blogspot.com/2011/10/arctic-wolf.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898331 | 458 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Doctor Who companions
The Doctor is an alien. He is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. He travels in his spaceship called the TARDIS. It allows him to go anywhere in time and space. "TARDIS" stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space. The Doctor usually takes other people with him, who are usually called "comp... | <urn:uuid:4ea74f6f-cb3c-4fa7-891a-36d039af3a98> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Wright_(Doctor_Who) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94851 | 3,466 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) is a new online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more. GREENR is an important part of a new generat... | <urn:uuid:c136d03b-6a0b-4c3c-9363-2dc19771eeb4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gale.cengage.co.uk/greenr.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890118 | 286 | 2.90625 | 3 |
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Ishmael explains ambergris a bit more: it’s a "soft, waxy... highly fragrant... | <urn:uuid:7c9c218b-3e44-485d-b7a8-03c6662b2704> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/moby-dick/chapter-92-summary.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934202 | 288 | 2.796875 | 3 |
A short piece for the general audience of RTR radio, Perth, Australia.
(listen to the original audio podcast)
There are many reasons why climate change is also a legal issue. One reason is because climate change is expected to cause much displacement, which refers to population migration caused by the effects of climat... | <urn:uuid:f7a322eb-f196-452b-8fd8-c944251867da> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=704 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947901 | 627 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Tourism is a sensitive industry that only thrives in an atmosphere of peace, tolerance, economic, social and political stability. The political, social and cultural situation plays significant role in shaping the nature and scope of tourism in any country. There is, no doubt, a direct relation between peace and politic... | <urn:uuid:efaa5ea4-da2f-4a3d-a1dd-b93f9c4e293b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.albawaba.com/business/middle-east-tourism-545606 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944118 | 363 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Everything you need to understand or teach Rhetoric (Aristotle) by Aristotle.
Rhetoric is defined as "the faculty of observe in any given case the means of persuasion" (24) and, therefore, is used by all arts and sciences in order to persuade audiences of some specific point. Rhetoric is used in three specific fields: ... | <urn:uuid:d1ff513d-e9f3-46e8-aaa3-1d22050db53e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/Rhetoric_(Aristotle)/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922153 | 140 | 3.609375 | 4 |
When you buy seed for your pet bird, usually it comes as a bird seed mix. Some of the most common seeds found in these mixes include safflower, sunflower, millet, canary seed, hemp, thistle seed, green split peas, yellow split peas, whole peas, corn, wheat and milo. These seeds are commonly found in the United States, ... | <urn:uuid:7adf3d66-91a9-49f2-aebb-098a5fa3b799> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.birdchannel.com/bird-diet-and-health/bird-nutrition/whats-in-bird-seed.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95491 | 1,356 | 3.25 | 3 |
One of a series of views of the interior of Saint John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta.
St. Johns Co-Cathedral was built by the Knights of Malta between 1573 and 1578, having been commissioned in 1572 by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the conventual church of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St John, know... | <urn:uuid:696cdc42-147c-4080-af63-c7b503b4523b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Malta/South/Malta/Valletta/photo1466474.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.828167 | 1,624 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Out in the cold world outside of Guile, not all strings are treated in the same way. Out there there are only bytes, and there are many ways of representing a strings (sequences of characters) as binary data (sequences of bytes).
As a user, usually you don’t have to think about this very much. When you type on your key... | <urn:uuid:3cff40f1-1144-4298-a05f-d24b72d76d8c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Representing-Strings-as-Bytes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00107-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.863949 | 560 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Equation Word Problem Applications Math Fun Game Tips:
- This game provides practice in forming equations for word problem applications.
1) Decide what type of number the word problem requires. Does it ask you for
the number added, the number removed, the original number, or the number remaining?
2) Use a letter variab... | <urn:uuid:05b2863d-046b-42ba-a924-4e50c55e18b0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.slidermath.com/equation/Eqtnapps.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86342 | 263 | 3.5625 | 4 |
1. A flower and shrub of any species of the genus rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the northern hemisphere
roses are shrubs with pinnate leaves and usually prickly stems. The flowers are large, and in the wild state have five petals of a color varying from deep pink to white, or sometimes yellow. ... | <urn:uuid:00b74cc8-e292-4ee4-be53-1b7579b83c36> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Rose | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912032 | 404 | 3.1875 | 3 |
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view as it neared icy Enceladus for its closest-ever dive past the moon's active south polar region. The view shows heavily cratered northern latitudes at top, transitioning to fractured, wrinkled terrain in the middle and southern latitudes. The wavy boundary of the moon's activ... | <urn:uuid:b0f2f221-a4fe-4609-81e8-26487d4749ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17202 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89251 | 358 | 3.5 | 4 |
English lutenists and composers of Danyel's calibre were few and far between. Some of Tomkins' madrigals were dedicated to him and Dowland placing him in company with the best lute player of the day. Many lute pieces were composed by Danyel and can be found in the forms of duets, songs, and ensembles (lute, viol and vo... | <urn:uuid:1c3135c4-3133-4903-9ba7-291c1e7386c6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Name/John-Danyel/Composer/2721-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00153-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984219 | 320 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Whether it’s fending off a saber-tooth tiger or delivering a wedding toast, fear responses are hard-wired in our brains, compelling us either to flee from the situation or confront it head-on. But in recent years, scientists have established a third response: freezing. And a new study reveals how it’s integrated into t... | <urn:uuid:7184bdda-7eb9-4a75-889f-e823595f40a1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medicaldaily.com/fight-or-flight-or-freeze-scientists-find-brain-circuit-behind-third-fear-response-279176 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931382 | 727 | 3.5625 | 4 |
World Services for the Blind was founded in 1947 by Roy Kumpe
to serve people who are blind and visually impaired who needed to learn
independent living skills or job training skills that considered the
special requirements of their individual visual impairments. The goal of
the rehabilitation center then, and today, i... | <urn:uuid:804b41f1-e1b4-4e05-9940-9c33bff2a9e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://lwsb.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00092-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948495 | 216 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Extending voting rights to sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds would be a first for the United States. But is the country ready? Rutgers University professor Daniel Hart says yes, and has found that these teens are just as informed as eighteen-year-olds who currently have the right to vote. Hart discusses his research, wh... | <urn:uuid:abfe3931-ebdf-4906-bbdf-547a8d100762> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aapss.org/news/2011/02/24/interview-with-daniel-hart-time-for-american-teens-under-18-to-hit-the-polls | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00037-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984791 | 3,671 | 3.15625 | 3 |
It was April 1950. I was a young civil engineer given the task to head a five-man Port Authority (PA) inspection team to tighten the bolts on the George, the short name we all used for the George Washington Bridge (GWB). Tighten the bolts? Yes, all 3,368 of the cable band bolts, each 28 1/2-inches long, 2 1/4-inches in... | <urn:uuid:55b09271-6bbe-4691-9c60-934cebccda00> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://intransitionmag.org/archive_stories/george_washington_bridge_history.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982812 | 1,575 | 2.65625 | 3 |
UnNews:Paper to become plastic
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Paper to become plastic
Where man always bites dog
Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 17:12:UTC)(
23 November 2006
|UnNews Audio (file info)|
|Listen to this story!|
PARIS, France -- Toshiba is to turn paper into plastic, after pressure from the Frenc... | <urn:uuid:ce544390-6724-42f9-beed-a75f80852590> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnNews:Paper_to_become_plastic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968804 | 421 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954
|Born:||September 13, 1916
Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales
|Died:||November 23, 1990, age 74
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England
|Occupation(s):||Novelist, short story writer|
|Magnum opus:||Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach|... | <urn:uuid:fbd626c6-0330-45ee-b2d1-7117a061ffec> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Roald_Dahl | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984983 | 4,510 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Kota Bekasi melangkah maju dalam penanganan sampah "Bekasi bersih partisipasi blogger" adalah sebuah sosialisasi para blogger bagi kota bekasi yang dengan proyek Landfill Gas Flaring nya telah mengubah sampah kota Bekasi menjadi Carbon Credit dan Tenaga Listrik. Bekasi Bersih Partisipasi Blogger adalah partisipasi dari... | <urn:uuid:7a8aceab-4801-4d86-a327-3608b0228e37> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://maticmod.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.838773 | 1,119 | 2.5625 | 3 |
|The United States attack on Kuala Batu
The United States' so-called War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq is perhaps only the most recent example of the many times in which the long arm of US military power has reached into Asia to protect its economic interests (as in the Gulf), increase its sphere influence (as in t... | <urn:uuid:a4ba4c0e-4e46-457d-aaf8-a31a486e2064> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/potomac.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981022 | 2,411 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Efficient, Responsible Water Use
The danger of exhausting valuable aquifers by excessive pumping is paralleled by the threat of polluting the groundwater with industrial, agricultural and home landscape contaminants. Nitrates from excessive and untimely fertilization are especially threatening.
Plants, Soils and Water
... | <urn:uuid:fe7e9174-acd5-456f-bc41-f223648b130e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/earthkind/drought/efficient-use-of-water-in-the-garden-and-landscape/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935128 | 16,071 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Shhhhhhhh! That's the urging at Redwoods National Park in California, where officials intend to ban loud music within 500 feet of old-growth forests during part of the year.
The goal is to avoid disturbing federally protected bird species such as the Marbled murrelet and Spotted owl that nest in the forests.
"Current r... | <urn:uuid:2d3cf94e-1db0-44f6-8429-b7bc1b22e5d5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2014/01/turn-down-your-volume-near-old-growth-forests-redwoods-national-park24560 | 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 | 0.950457 | 280 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Treatment of bile duct cancer based on the situation
The extent of a bile duct cancer is an important factor in determining treatment options. Whenever possible, surgery is the main treatment for bile duct cancers, as it offers the only realistic chance for a cure. Because of this, doctors generally divide bile duct ca... | <urn:uuid:1c6109d3-504c-4265-86c1-9d05759a15da> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cancer.org/cancer/bileductcancer/detailedguide/bile-duct-cancer-treating-based-on-situation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942248 | 1,755 | 2.625 | 3 |
Fish is a user friendly commandline shell intended mostly for interactive use.
To verify that it has been installed you can run:
$ grep fish /etc/shells
If you wanted to make Fish your default shell run:
$ chsh -s /usr/bin/fish
Like other shells, fish lets you redirect input/output streams. This is usefull when using t... | <urn:uuid:4cf6a3f7-144a-4aa9-abeb-cec5c67ee884> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Fish&oldid=268669 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.823266 | 1,361 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Ethics and Community
Protestant churches do not have priests, but ministers. This is because all Christians have equal status in God's eyes and direct access to God. There is no special class of Christians. At the same time, some people's "gifts" are well suited to the tasks of preaching and pastoral care, and these pe... | <urn:uuid:cd5c1ade-b26d-489a-a59d-4b96de58374c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.patheos.com/Library/Protestantism/Ethics-Morality-Community | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955779 | 263 | 3.234375 | 3 |
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