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Poppy is the common name for any of the plants comprising the Papaver genus in the flowering plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by large, showy, terminal flowers growing on long, hairy stalks, and flower buds that are nodding or bent downwards, turning upwards as they are opening. While members of this genus are ... | <urn:uuid:d057adb3-532e-4a85-9a57-4bdb90948b10> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Poppy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930702 | 3,408 | 3.515625 | 4 |
The yellow watermelon has a canary yellow flesh, often seedless, with occasional black seeds. Tasting no different from the common red watermelon, when ripe, yellow watermelons have the same signature two-toned green skin.
Yellow corn is a variety of sweet corn. Its ears are wrapped in tightly bound lime hued husks wit... | <urn:uuid:23bde850-9b11-4700-b158-ec2cc88f3495> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.specialtyproduce.com/produce/Banana_Trees_569.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939001 | 1,104 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Three-fourths of the world’s flowering plants and about 35 percent of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators to reproduce. More than 3,500 species of native bees help increase crop yields. Some scientists estimate that one out of every three bites of food we eat exists because of animal pollinators like be... | <urn:uuid:e8767ef4-7c51-4ecf-9e8e-c6301a3febcf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.examiner.com/article/national-pollinators-week | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912162 | 340 | 2.828125 | 3 |
2011 Virginia quake triggered landslides at extraordinary distances
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How LEDs affect energy codes
ASHRAE Section 18.104.22.168 mandates the inclusion of a control device accessible to occupants so they can turn lighting on, off, or adjust light levels when desired. The device must be capable of reducing light levels with at least one control step between 30% and 70% (inclusive) of full ... | <urn:uuid:13e1aea6-b959-4afe-9fb2-b3e23dafa169> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.csemag.com/single-article/how-leds-affect-energy-codes/986f6c15ce0a776250143a1d8ca0170e.html?tx_ttnews%5BsViewPointer%5D=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929833 | 1,069 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Part I, Chapter III
The Principle of Comparative Advantage
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Technology advances rapidly in nearly every industry. Yet, many tools and resources do not provide easy access or interpreted meaningful benefit to the general public. Some have said Accuracy&Aesthetics is developing a “building code” for semantic space based on building in the real world.
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Only 3 percent of low-income and African-American high school students in Michigan are enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) classes that help them get a toehold in college. That’s one of the lowest rates in the nation, according to a study conducted by Education Trust.
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Category : Sample Proposals
I. GENERAL BACKGROUND
The criminal justice system is the method by which the police, prosecutor, court and the correctional institution enforce the basic rules of any society as expressed in its criminal law. The various components discharge a vital responsibility for the government. Without... | <urn:uuid:c0e18785-2e85-4015-beac-88dc4092af0e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ivythesis.typepad.com/term_paper_topics/2009/05/project-proposal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923432 | 3,424 | 2.78125 | 3 |
CHICAGO Being overweight as a child could lead to early degeneration in the spine, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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|By Arow (Arow) on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 06:55 pm: Edit|
I'm desperate for help on Ap Euro. I just took a practice test and did terrible on the MC. I also did the DBQs. Please read what I wrote and tell me if it is correct (And give comments or grades if you're nice). I spent a lot of time copying it onto here, so... | <urn:uuid:f42586e6-b6b9-4db1-b83f-042beb94d08e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/messages/69/64116.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962588 | 1,389 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Here is my understanding: Android uses the Linux kernel as its low-level operating system, providing a machine-independent model for application development. However, what is exposed to the user and developer is a Java-based system so that you cannot use an Android-based device as a general-purpose computer. In contras... | <urn:uuid:81c694ea-bed7-4ade-b0d7-77f57f56df82> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eetimes.com/messages.asp?piddl_msgthreadid=30174&piddl_msgid=169893 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947832 | 527 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Editor's Note: This multi-part are on parallel algorithm design is based on the book Designing and Building Parallel Programs by Ian Foster. Designing and Building Parallel Programs promotes a view of parallel programming as an engineering discipline, in which programs are developed in a methodical fashion and both cos... | <urn:uuid:98bf6c03-0b33-4ed4-85fc-5f6705128441> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/designing-parallel-algorithms-part-5/224200613?pgno=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939191 | 1,223 | 3.6875 | 4 |
When you meet someone with HIV today, he may look much different than those who were infected with the virus 20 or 30 years ago. New medications and inroads to understanding the disease have made it possible for people to live longer and healthier lives, despite their HIV-positive status.
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related to classroom discussion and student collaboration
from the National Research Center on English Learning and
School Instructional Resources:
MiddleWeb is a Web site devoted to middle school education
and includes resources for middle school teachers and parents.
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1. At the beginning of the Introduction, Horace Gregory quotes William Carlos Williams as saying "History, history! We fools, what do we know or care?" What does Gregory think Williams means by this?
It is dangerous to get involved in history.
2. Which statement shows that Gregory believes that most people revere histo... | <urn:uuid:18dc69a9-e178-4a9f-89a2-bfba72f04a15> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/lessonplan/inamericangrain/shortanswerkey.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917724 | 137 | 3 | 3 |
Archived — Canada in the 21st Century Series
Information identified as archived on the Web is for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. It has not been altered or updated after the date of archiving. Web pages that are archived on the Web are not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards. As per the Co... | <urn:uuid:d667aa99-e1ea-4531-87bf-4856b1d3664b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/eas-aes.nsf/eng/ra01719.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951551 | 1,898 | 2.71875 | 3 |
For various reasons I've been researching, off and on, various features of what might be called Greater Scandinavian and Fennoscandian cultural sphere. It's somewhat difficult to pin down the bounds of it, so I'm trying to think through its boundaries, and I thought I'd do so 'out loud' here on the blog, in case anyone... | <urn:uuid:20c7783f-f7d2-4d3c-b2d2-f8a495ae6f8d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://branemrys.blogspot.com/2012/10/greater-scandinavia-and-fennoscandia.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97369 | 1,257 | 2.546875 | 3 |
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Outbreaks of measles and mumps in central Ohio have continued to spread this summer, resulting in record numbers of the vaccine-preventable illnesses in the state and nationwide.
A mumps outbreak that began on the Ohio State University campus in January has now infected 447 people, the largest outbre... | <urn:uuid:11768e77-acc7-4c30-9f94-17c853a67e9e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2014/07/ohio_mumps_cases_at_35-year_hi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973198 | 687 | 2.8125 | 3 |
A cross-cultural study of parents' estimates of their own and their children's intelligence in a sample of Black and Indian South Africans.
This study investigated Black and Indian South African's estimates of their own intelligence and that of their first two children. Parents gave estimates for seven types of intelli... | <urn:uuid:70b536e5-15c2-43fd-9664-afc390c2927f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/xmlui/handle/10413/1690 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954523 | 526 | 2.84375 | 3 |
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The folks at Trusteer got their hands on the logs from some phishing sites and found that people using iPhones are more likely to fall for phishing attacks than users of other devices, including PCs.
Some of the findings included:
Mobile users get to the phishing site sooner than PC users.
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mast, large metal or timber pole secured vertically or nearly vertically in a ship, used primarily for supporting sails and rigging. The mast is as old as sailing vessels, and the oldest sailboats depicted (those of ancient Egypt) had a small mast placed forward and carrying a single sail. The Phoenician bireme had one... | <urn:uuid:a4d92683-0172-44f8-8507-cf60c759669c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/history/mast.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976835 | 317 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Free Write: 10 minutes
Students will write nonstop for a period of 10 minutes without stopping to make corrections, cross anything out, or judge their thoughts. This type of "stream of consciousness" writing allows for a flow of ideas and uncovers new ideas.
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Run "generate_synthetic_microstructures.m" to execute program! This tool generates a binary image with non-overlapping elliptical particles of varying aspect ratio, area fraction, and orientation. This zip file contains scripts that generate, place, and check for overlap in large numbers of ellipses in a computationall... | <urn:uuid:3b72effa-5618-4e93-96e7-092fb76ee293> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/25389-synthetic-microstructure-generator | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.860769 | 721 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Happy Earth Awareness Month! Many people observe Earth Day (or Earth Week or Month) and participate in environmental activities during April. So I thought that this month I would write about conservation and preservation. Many people often use the terms conservation and preservation interchangeably, however, they sligh... | <urn:uuid:21435c6c-a88f-4482-9ba0-4f5ebde48384> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://allnaturalbeauty.com/articles/eco-living/68-environmental-issues/733-eco-living-conservation-and-preservation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.883978 | 1,029 | 3.03125 | 3 |
|Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera)|
The coconut palm is a palm tree in the family Arecaceae (palm family). It is a large palm, growing to 30 m tall. It has long leaves that are 4–6 m long. The term coconut refers to the fruit of the coconut palm. The coconut tree is a monocot.
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The bureaucracy consists of a group of people who are trained and dedicated to serving the country without fear or prejudice regarding the ruling political dispensation. A bureaucrat’s primary loyalty is not to his political master but to the Constitution of the country and to the service to which he belongs. In India,... | <urn:uuid:2312d338-3058-4cf0-a83f-9d39136cb6d4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140429/jsp/opinion/story_18286953.jsp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976159 | 443 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Apollo 8 was a watershed mission in the Apollo Project not just for NASA and the United States, but it also had a profound impact on how humanity viewed the Earth. Though the concept of the Earth as a spaceship hurtling through the cosmos had been around for a while, notably in Buckminster Fuller's quote: "...we're all... | <urn:uuid:e15ff1ee-a3ed-4e65-ab47-23e145bcf687> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://everything2.com/title/Apollo+8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961533 | 884 | 3.421875 | 3 |
A Safer Bean
'Healthy' soybeans can replace oils with unsafe trans fats.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Nov. 7 that they were ruling trans fats as unsafe in food. This determination could ultimately lead to a ban of trans fats in baked goods and many other foods, such as icings and fried foods. Trans f... | <urn:uuid:a16d59e7-f02b-487b-929a-16dfc00ca540> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.umsystem.edu/stories/safer_bean | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00023-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965775 | 333 | 2.921875 | 3 |
The world has 8.7 million species
The estimate is based on how species are
classed together, using a system developed by Linnaeus in the 18th
Noah’s Ark could never have contained them: there are probably about
8.7 million species of living things, the vast majority of them
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Many animal species display facial expressions, but expressions are particularly developed in primates. In fact, some primates, such as chimpanzees, have complex facial expressions with many physical and functional similarities to humans. These are “critically important for coordinating social interaction, facilitating... | <urn:uuid:d90c8670-2867-4e56-ad03-254f233ff91f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/7-primates-with-expressive-faces/face-value | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00149-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.879767 | 114 | 2.875 | 3 |
What's Behind The Stark Rise In Children's Disabilities
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:
Six million - that's how many children are considered disabled in the U.S. today, a nearly 16 percent increase from a decade ago. And what accounts for that rise is explained in a new study out this week in the Journal of Pediatrics. The resea... | <urn:uuid:472a42fb-e609-4f41-b2ea-53fd14718ac9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wvpe.org/post/whats-behind-stark-rise-childrens-disabilities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967242 | 935 | 2.78125 | 3 |
G, or the test statistic, can be determined for a specific point by taking the deviation of that test value from the mean of all the values, and then divided by the standard deviation of all the values (s), including the test value. The specific entry to be tested should be the one that has the greatest distance from t... | <urn:uuid:70e59f6c-eb8f-4b69-b76a-24a1ab049fd3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/959/2/Testing-for-Outliers-in-ActionScript-30-using-Grubbs-Test/Page2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9096 | 422 | 3.171875 | 3 |
It’s oh so easy to overlook what’s happening online—and if librarians, educators, and parents don’t notice it, why on Earth should kids?
What’s the mysterious it I’m referring to? Quite simply, every day young people are being bombarded by subtly manipulative forms of marketing on their favorite websites. Hang on a min... | <urn:uuid:a0598ee6-10bf-47f1-8eac-421ad49f23e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/02/transliteracy/whos-playing-who-how-sneaky-online-marketing-is-targeting-kids-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/?goback=.gde_1849602_member_212908232 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949442 | 2,345 | 2.953125 | 3 |
DOCUMENTARY LINK: http://youtu.be/zyIb8dUmOyM
Fao.org. Spotlight: Livestock impacts on the environment.
Goodland, R Anhang, J. “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?”
WorldWatch, November/December 2009. Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC, USA. Pp. 10–19.
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Happy birthday, snow buoys!
Since January 2014 two snow depth buoys deliver continuously information about the snow depth on Antarctic sea ice. During this time they traveled 5200 kilometers and each took more than 17500 measurements along the route.
During the Polarstern expedition 2014 sea ice physicists of the Alfre... | <urn:uuid:1357aab0-43ba-4371-91d2-6c5ce114feab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.awi.de/nc/en/about-us/service/press/press-release/zwei-bojen-feiern-geburtstag.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922667 | 148 | 2.796875 | 3 |
A liberal's legacy
He stayed true to his liberal ideals throughout the post-war era and fought against the anti-communist demagogy of the 1950s, battled for workers rights and racial justice and opposed the Vietnam War. Lawyer Joseph L. Rauh left his stamp on the nation’s law and politics, as Michael E. Parrish describ... | <urn:uuid:b724851e-e9ad-40d2-94b2-7372473563e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2010/08/a_liberals_legacy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949854 | 1,018 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The novel H7N9 avian flu appears to be less severe than the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu but more severe than the 2009 pandemic H1N1 flu, researchers reported.
The first estimate of the severity profile of the novel flu suggests that it kills 36% of those who are admitted to a hospital, according to Chinese researc... | <urn:uuid:e8452ab9-1f72-4d2a-b444-452f915fc980> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/URItheFlu/40037 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949457 | 1,490 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Zebras spend up to 60% of their day eating, but the question is what are they eating? Are they eating a smaller animal? No, zebras are not carnivores, not even omnivores. The zebra is a herbivore, a grazer, and spends most of it’s day eating grass. Their teeth and lips allow them to bite the grass off and grind it up w... | <urn:uuid:3f9146ed-bd0c-45da-9baf-6d0288682709> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://animalquestions.org/mammals/zebras/are-zebras-carnivores/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97695 | 223 | 3.0625 | 3 |
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Home > Patients & Visitors > Health Library > Interactive Tool: When Are You Most Fertile?
This interactive tool estimates your peak
fertility period, also known as your "fertile window." This is when you are
most likely to get pregnant. Do not use this tool to prevent pregnancy.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. –Machiavelli
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy in this period of social transition was not the strid... | <urn:uuid:993b7a3e-461a-44c2-82e9-cfdafe2a717e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/05/27/eco-moral-tribalism-as-a-new-world-ethic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952453 | 2,732 | 2.53125 | 3 |
|The Library of Congress > American Memory|
USING THE COLLECTIONS
SELECTED AREAS FOR RESEARCH
LAW LIBRARY EXTERNAL SITES
The Law Library of Congress contains the largest body of United States federal and state law, foreign law, international law, and comparative law and legislation in the world. The breadth and depth o... | <urn:uuid:61b75d00-62a3-4425-a862-e85b3a5925f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awlaw3/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947236 | 710 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Ever wonder how many places in America have Liberty in their names or Independence? Did you know that Thomas Jefferson refused to sign the U.S. Constitution? Here are some freedom facts for you to digest:
George Washington wanted the states on the American Flag to be represented by six-pointed stars resembling the Star... | <urn:uuid:d38a6bf6-2381-4d79-92da-c0ee27f27d44> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://staugustine.com/stories/070403/new_1647330.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95943 | 400 | 2.75 | 3 |
As rewarding as it can be to help our preschoolers learn their ABCs, parents sometimes need a break — and thanks to technology, we can take one. There are dozens of apps and websites designed to help build preschool reading skills, and many of the best are so much fun that children won't even realize they're learning. ... | <urn:uuid:f2ae748e-b969-4e91-90fc-284f276cd468> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://parentingsquad.com/5-apps-and-websites-that-build-preschool-reading-skills | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960985 | 637 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Reconciliation between Muslims and Hindus in Indian-controlled Kashmir
Hindus who fled conflict in the 1990s consider a move home. Still, distrust runs deep as key questions of Kashmir's past – and future – remain disputed.
Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir — His elderly mother by his side, O.P. Kichloo walked up to ... | <urn:uuid:42d8a00c-abc5-4de2-adac-2422fbff67f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2011/1006/Reconciliation-between-Muslims-and-Hindus-in-Indian-controlled-Kashmir/(page)/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979951 | 1,307 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Australia pulled chapters about the Great Barrier Reef and a handful of other famous sites from a UNESCO report on World Heritage sites because of concerns about the report's potential to impact tourism.
Analysis of more than 6,000 fossils in the Antarctic Peninsula suggests that a cataclysmic event wiped out the dinos... | <urn:uuid:82ba9fb0-34d7-46c6-a7c1-6d216951ec59> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/(offset)/140/(view)/all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00000-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95624 | 166 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Bacteria are life forms, which, like all other life forms, struggle for the best living conditions for themselves. Therefore they will try to avoid getting attacked by the human immune system, and therefore they have developed various ways to protect themselves from the human immune system. When safe from the immune sy... | <urn:uuid:a7bca357-8e47-4f18-ae67-560322abb67d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/uosd-cbr051413.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91949 | 513 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Note: This article is about polish custom of saluting with two-fingers. For information about offensive meaning of two-finger salute see article about it's close cousin: one-finger salute.
The salute is performed with extended middle and index finger touching each other, while ring and pinky fingers are bended and touc... | <urn:uuid:b7763a9f-c526-4ceb-934f-e1a573017dd8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fact-index.com/t/tw/two_fingers_salute.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00037-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970406 | 342 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Polygonum amphibium L.
Water knotweed, Water Smartweed
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat Family)
USDA Symbol: POAM8
This aquatic or wetland plant is rather showy when growing in colonies. The genus name is from the Greek poly (many) and gona (knee or joint), as is the family name, and refers to the thickened joints of the stem w... | <urn:uuid:f5b07475-2796-4ae6-8336-4c27e642b435> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=POAM8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00148-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.840498 | 532 | 2.71875 | 3 |
This Name Tag craftivity is a great way to get to know your students during the first week of school, as well as have a lasting, unique nameplate for the rest of the year.
Items to Gather:
- plain white paper
Step 1: Cut a piece of plain white paper to 3 inches by 8.5 inches.
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SINTEF Coordinating EU Rare Earth Metal Recycling Project
Rare metals such as neodymium and dysprosium are key materials in many green technologies such as generators that store power in wind turbines, and the electric motors that propel electric and hybrid cars. Currently China supplies the entire world with the produ... | <urn:uuid:3d545f39-332f-47b6-ac4f-b1d2b490fe3c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.environmentalleader.com/2014/02/18/sintef-coordinating-eu-rare-earth-metal-recycling-project/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943676 | 602 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Benzodiazepines Sleeping Pills and Antidepressant Recovery Experts
Brain Zaps, Electrical Shocks, Brain Shivers...
Brain Zaps, Brain Shivers, Brain Shocks. Head Shocks or Electrical shocks are a common side effect and withdrawal symptom from Antidepressants, but they can also occur with Benzodiazepines and Sleeping Pil... | <urn:uuid:59ceec08-2815-40d6-b460-c57495feb0ed> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pointofreturn.com/brain_zaps.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916129 | 2,288 | 2.625 | 3 |
Paul Croce: The Way I Teach
I believe students learn best when they can think about the material for themselves; of course this requires enough information to be able to interpret and find more. So my class times include a mixture of background presentations to inform and suggest themes, and active-learning approaches,... | <urn:uuid:67ed2d79-9b63-4f03-a01f-cdf753ac120c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.stetson.edu/artsci/american-studies/pcwayiteach.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945023 | 259 | 2.71875 | 3 |
January 24, 2012
Therapeutically Useful Stem Cell Derivatives In Need Of Stability
Human stem cells capable of giving rise to any fetal or adult cell type are known as pluripotent stem cells. It is hoped that such cells, the most well known being human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), can be used to generate cell populati... | <urn:uuid:1d911817-25d5-4dc5-a331-c88ad84ae57c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112461666/therapeutically-useful-stem-cell-derivatives-in-need-of-stability/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950184 | 308 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry. It was founded by George I, on 18 May 1725. The name comes from an old ceremony, first mentioned in 1128. In the ceremony, men participated in a vigil of fasting, prayer, and taking a bath. They did this on the day before they were ... | <urn:uuid:051f0257-c64a-4978-a437-2bc34eee284b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973154 | 364 | 2.921875 | 3 |
For roughly 2,000 years, Chinese herbalists have treated malaria using a root extract, commonly known as chang shan, from a type of hydrangea that grows in Tibet and Nepal. More recent studies suggest that halofuginone, a compound derived from this extract’s bioactive ingredient, could be used to treat many autoimmune ... | <urn:uuid:2603506e-b656-4b58-8a2b-dc34023134d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/02/secrets-of-ancient-chinese-remedy-revealed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943678 | 906 | 2.875 | 3 |
What makes a daisy a daisy? And what does a daisy do? Students learn techniques for observing, collecting, identifying, and preserving plants. Hands-on activities help them hone their observation skills and learn how to identify and classify specimens. Students can put these skills to work in the field, observing plant... | <urn:uuid:071d7ef5-6151-4cf2-83d6-6322f13b2622> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.amnh.org/explore/curriculum-collections/biodiversity-counts/plant-identification | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930119 | 466 | 3.796875 | 4 |
It’s becoming more common for school-age children to take packed lunches to school. With this shift in dietary trends, it’s important for parents to know which foods can serve as healthy fuel for growing bodies and minds. While school cafeterias are now offering healthy options, children who bring their lunches may cho... | <urn:uuid:db347401-e4a3-4325-9ebf-1aaa9d31b081> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://share.upmc.com/2014/08/5-tips-packing-healthy-school-lunches/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951589 | 780 | 3.421875 | 3 |
As the global population grows, so does the need for water. The Worldwatch Institute says increased demands for food, energy and industry, along with climate change, could lead to water scarcity in some places. The warning comes on World Water Day, March 22.
Worldwatch says billions of people are already facing some ki... | <urn:uuid:84d750c1-ad51-4b18-8522-742efc5008be> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.voanews.com/content/water-scarcity-22mar13/1626505.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960224 | 854 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Dashboard Warning Lights
Most modern cars have onboard computers called engine management systems.
The engine management system or electronic control unit (ECU) also helps to reduce emissions and increase fuel economy. A cars ECU is also linked to other components around the car such as airbag sensors and brakes depend... | <urn:uuid:075d8ea5-418b-46c9-8ebc-88e16d3eca8b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.drivingtesttips.biz/dashboard-warning-lights.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908731 | 1,894 | 2.734375 | 3 |
- Special Sections
- Public Notices
Keith “Little Bear” Brown transformed clay into works of art in just minutes.
Using his hands and a few tools, Brown, a member of the Catawba Indian tribe, creates pipes, bowls and pots that can be used for daily functions, while others creations are kept primarily for display.
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By Alex Nussbaum
Oil fields are spinning off thousands of tons of low-level radioactive trash as the U.S. drilling boom leads to a surge in illegal dumping and states debate how much landfills can safely take.
State regulators are caught between environmental and public health groups demanding more regulation and the i... | <urn:uuid:4ee5502f-9084-4636-85cb-c7af4ddd7610> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/04/16/illegal-dumping-of-radioactive-waste-surges-with-oil-boom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941596 | 1,800 | 2.9375 | 3 |
As with most building stones, use of Salem started locally with workers hauling blocks eight miles for the foundation and window sills of a county courthouse in 1819. The first quarry opened eight years later but little stone made it outside Indiana until the railroad reached Bedford and Bloomington in 1853.
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Is Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Dream' Still Alive?
- Jim Denison Denison Forum on Truth and Culture
- 2013 28 Aug
The "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" was held 50 years ago today. It gathered more than 250,000 people in the National Mall — the largest public demonstration in American history to date. From the s... | <urn:uuid:1dd77303-8efc-4b01-ae0b-f935b8e8cb6d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.crosswalk.com/newsletters-only/weblog-weekly/is-martin-luther-king-jr-s-dream-still-alive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952052 | 674 | 2.53125 | 3 |
According to a new survey of more than 8,000 Consumer Reports subscribers, an awful lot of adults are getting an awful lot of heart tests that aren’t likely to benefit them and might cause harm.
The survey found that 44% of 40-to-60-year-olds with no risk factors for heart disease reported getting a cardiovascular scre... | <urn:uuid:16d97bdb-955c-41f5-ab67-cb07d642edba> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/02/03/have-you-gotten-a-heart-test-you-didnt-really-need/?mod=WSJ_health | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959145 | 500 | 2.578125 | 3 |
|Scientific Name:||Gorilla beringei|
|Species Authority:||Matschie, 1903|
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:|
|Taxonomic Source(s):||Mittermeier, R.A., Rylands, A.B. and Wilson D.E. 2013. Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Volume 3 Primates. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.|
|Taxonomic Notes:||The eastern species of gorilla (G... | <urn:uuid:14fe9e23-738e-426f-aba1-af342572c9f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/summary/39994/0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896001 | 3,296 | 3.25 | 3 |
IQ tests have received a very large number of criticisms since their inception. One of the main arguments made against the use of IQ tests is that they don't measure creativity. But is this true? Surely creativity involves thoughtful reasoning, divergent production, pattern detection, learning, and other skills tapped ... | <urn:uuid:a57b2785-37c9-4909-90ce-ae5052f22b53> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-barry-kaufman/finding-creativity-on-iq-_b_900961.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947165 | 1,391 | 3.046875 | 3 |
- Discuss and define the term "scientific theory."
- Watch segments fromDiscovery Science Library: The Basics: Earth Science.
- Work in small groups to draft an overview of one theory explored in the program, which includes details about the theory’s evidence and significance.
Discovery Science Library: The Basics: Ear... | <urn:uuid:5230400e-f09f-4fb3-98d2-fb84eef03295> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/earth_science6-8/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908098 | 1,130 | 4.5625 | 5 |
Students will be afforded a tool to learn and understand the meanings of SAT/ACT/TESTING Vocabulary Words in a method that makes sense and allows them to extend beyond the basic words and journey into the world of effective vocabulary.
The Concept Behind Interactive Word Walls:
The concept of tying morphemic analysis a... | <urn:uuid:783d6a27-5fce-4c1f-bed6-0b2dee6fdfce> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thewordstation.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909706 | 667 | 3.71875 | 4 |
William Williams Keen Biography (1837-1932)
William Williams Keen was internationally known as an innovative surgeon, prolific writer, and outstanding teacher of surgery and anatomy. He was class valedictorian at Brown University and earned his MD at Jefferson Medical College in 1862.
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It was one of the darkest periods in Latin American history. From 1976-1983, a brutal military junta ruled Argentina in what was called “the Dirty War,” when some 10,000 persons were “disappeared” and human rights abuses were rampant. Many of the disappeared were believed to have been abducted by agents of the Argentin... | <urn:uuid:86273c97-6961-4756-b993-1f69d5218e9d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://adst.org/2014/10/argentinas-dirty-war-and-the-transition-to-democracy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98883 | 8,533 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Fairhaven is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located on the south coast of Massachusetts where the Acushnet River flows into Buzzards Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. The town shares a harbor with the city of New Bedford, a place well known for its whaling and fishing heritage; consequen... | <urn:uuid:8ff33039-b660-44c4-9dfb-211180267305> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Fairhaven%2C_Bristol%2C_Massachusetts%2C_United_States | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970883 | 1,458 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Tammuz (täˈməz) [key], ancient nature deity worshiped in Babylonia. A god of agriculture and flocks, he personified the creative powers of spring. He was loved by the fertility goddess Ishtar, who, according to one legend, was so grief-stricken at his death that she contrived to enter the underworld to get him back. Ac... | <urn:uuid:94f83365-e000-44dd-ba8c-93d6db63b472> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/society/tammuz.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982284 | 170 | 3.109375 | 3 |
03.11.13 - NASA unveiled an Exploration Design Challenge on Monday to give students from kindergarten through 12th grade the opportunity to play a unique role in the future of human spaceflight. The innovative educational opportunity was announced in a special event at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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The Java platform is extremely preferable to write an application program require to communicate with the resources on network. Java, mainly focuses on the networking relating the description of the networking capabilities of the Java platform and second one is describes a brief summary of networking in a very simple m... | <urn:uuid:d11a0799-a615-43de-894c-a15bb4f79abd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.roseindia.net/java/thread/network/index.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.858491 | 879 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Twelve-year old Lucia's dream is to be able to graduate to secondary school, and stay there - to finish the 12th grade and go on to train as a pilot. Her older sister Barita wants to do computer studies. And Portia, the youngest in the family, wants to be a dressmaker.
But tragically for these three sisters from one of... | <urn:uuid:09b6c919-296a-4fd2-9adc-7d9022469e07> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/lsel.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00023-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91294 | 986 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Preliminary Results: Iceland B96 Project
William Menke, Mike West, Bryndis Brandsdottir and Dave Sparks
Fig. 1. Godafos, a waterfall in Bardardalur (valley), Iceland.
Draft Research Notes
- Introduction and description of experiment.
- Part 1: The shallow compressional velocity structure along Bardardalur, determined
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Olga, 18, and her friend Misha, 20, belong to the second generation of ethnic Russians born and bred in Latvia after the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940.
Like all Russians here, they have heard of Putin's proposed repatriation scheme. But they are not interested.
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How to Recycle PVC (Plastic #3)
An Overview on Recycling Plastic #3
Polyvinyl chloride or PVC plastics are everywhere, and you’re not likely to be happy about how they can harm your health and the planet. Given their widespread use and relative toxicity, they are often termed the “poison plastic” in the world of plasti... | <urn:uuid:f8ea1bac-8c89-49bc-9bf5-f09824e1517f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ecolife.com/recycling/plastic/how-to-recycle-pvc-plastic-3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921345 | 1,428 | 3.234375 | 3 |
The 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking is a good time to look back at how the cruise industry has changed in the past century. With modern technological advances and innovation, it's easy to see that the industry has made improvements -- at least on the outside. But a deeper look at the state of cruising today po... | <urn:uuid:dda7a155-19b0-45a3-b4ae-e629e93541cf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ibtimes.com/how-has-cruise-industry-changed-100-years-214464 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983188 | 2,203 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Active Galaxies and Quasars - Introduction
Active Galaxies and QuasarsActive galaxies are galaxies which have a small core of emission embedded in an otherwise typical galaxy. This core may be highly variable and very bright compared to the rest of the galaxy. Models of active galaxies concentrate on the possibility of... | <urn:uuid:544e95bf-f5d8-47b2-b4d2-1a9c6bb587cc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/active_galaxies1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939473 | 1,476 | 3.953125 | 4 |
Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia one of the more common types of acute myelogenous leukemia, characterized by both malignant monocytes and myeloblasts; it usually affects middle aged to older adults, although it affects people of all ages. AML sometimes is caused by chemotherapy or radiation therapy given to treat another... | <urn:uuid:973028af-c3cd-4969-a030-3f6efedbe120> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.omicsonline.org/scholarly/acute-myelomonocytic-leukemia-journals-articles-ppts-list.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940366 | 159 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Paul says three times in Galatians 2:16 that a person is not justified by “works of the law.” What does he mean by the expression “works of the law”? How do these texts (Gal. 2:16, 17; 3:2, 5, 10; Rom. 3:20, 28) help us understand his meaning?
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Butte, Nebraska actually began on a day in 1890. A man named John Gormley set up a store from a wagon box in a location about a quarter mile north of the town's present site. Boyd County was not yet organized. Soon Mr. Gormley was joined by his partner, John Skirving, and they conducted their business from the wagon wh... | <urn:uuid:69131bd8-8d00-41ea-8511-d9514fbd44c0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/boyd1/butte.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993207 | 623 | 2.671875 | 3 |
- Comments Off on The problem with two carbon prices
Last week as the UK Budget was unveiled, the government announced, to nobody’s surprise, its intention to implement a UK carbon price floor for power generators. This mechanism would operate in tandem with the EU Emissions Trading System, effectively underpinning it ... | <urn:uuid:0a8ef705-c591-4b37-bffc-afbb30e25997> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.shell.com/climatechange/2011/03/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946517 | 691 | 2.640625 | 3 |
SRA Imagine It! meets all of the elements recommended by the National Reading Panel: instruction in phonological and phonemic awareness, explicit phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The program covers all daily reading, language arts, and writing curriculum requirements, while also meeting standards for sc... | <urn:uuid:56bf6f52-a394-4b13-9c9c-ec79a3a778d5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cjcrawford.weebly.com/sra-imagineit.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908674 | 379 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Wartime Issue 20
Tet turning point
If there was any one point when the Vietnam War was lost for the allies, the Tet Offensive of 1968 was probably it. Yet the reverse suffered at that time by the southern republic and its American and other allies, including Australia, came in the midst of palpable military success. Wi... | <urn:uuid:81f73afa-dc08-401e-864b-1c2dab497ae2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.awm.gov.au/wartime/20/tet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982918 | 2,710 | 3.078125 | 3 |
November 28, 2013
Stargazers are waiting anxiously to see if an icy comet survives a close encounter with the Sun and fulfils its billing of being “one of the brightest of the century”.
Comet Ison is to pass the star at a distance of just 727,000 miles, where it will meet temperatures of around 2,700C (4,892F), leading... | <urn:uuid:0409fdde-dfef-42a6-b5aa-815a478cb6b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.prisonplanet.com/comet-isons-survival-in-balance-as-it-brushes-sun.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919782 | 179 | 2.90625 | 3 |
UNPFII Recommends Redress of Doctrine of Discovery Harm
The 11th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ended with the acknowledgment that the racist Doctrine of Discovery continues to impact Indigenous Peoples around the world, but also that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of I... | <urn:uuid:991e995a-d368-480e-a1e0-94de9ec4dcf8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/comment/14783 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948457 | 1,014 | 2.84375 | 3 |
What is a Sensor?
Sensors are devices which measure the physical energy (like temperature) and converts it into a signal (typically analog). Later this signal can be read or observed from an instrument or an electronic device (like a microcontroller) connected to the sensor. There are more than hundreds of types of sen... | <urn:uuid:05c6844b-5202-4150-ad0c-c1ee308b30d5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://myphonefactor.in/2012/04/sensors-used-in-a-smartphone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92686 | 935 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Soil and Water Engineering
> Erosion Modeling (FS WEPP)
FS WEPP is a set of interfaces designed to
allow users to quickly evaluate erosion and sediment delivery potential
from forest roads. The erosion rates and sediment delivery are predicted
by the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model, using input
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Reaching childhood's milestones early is something parents encourage and celebrate. Parents brag when their children walk, talk and potty train earlier than others on the block.
But parents are rushing one milestone without understanding the possible consequences.
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Online Students Do Not Learn By Video Alone, Finds Study
Streamed lectures, it turns out, are a poor replacement for classroom learning. To help students absorb what they hear, add interactive activities to the curriculum.
Video is a fixture in most online courses. Since videos tend to replace in-class lectures, it’s t... | <urn:uuid:ff9c7f71-515c-4e73-8b1f-d5c929e00c0a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Online-Students-Do-Not-Learn-By-Video-Alone-Finds-Study-108552.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948433 | 1,043 | 3.171875 | 3 |
As mold threatened zinnia flowers in the space station Veggie experiment, investigators decided to take a bold move: allow an astronaut to take care of the flowers without always calling for help from home first. The result? Flowers are now blooming in space, marking a successful result after several other plants died ... | <urn:uuid:2dfadb9e-4d9c-4bea-bbc7-6755832cb395> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.space.com/31702-how-this-flower-was-saved-from-space-station-mold.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965443 | 519 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Description: Part of the Oxford Handbook series, this book is intended for use by healthcare professionals interested in applying epidemiological concepts in clinical practice. It is the appropriate size to fit into the pocket of a clinician's white coat and is designed for quick referencing with bullet-point topic sum... | <urn:uuid:2c473e70-4d33-4e5d-9586-83a6af29e54f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/oxford-handbook-of-epidemiology-for-clinicians-helen-ward/1107165835?ean=9780191654787&itm=31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926124 | 461 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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Habitat of the Carnarvon xeric shrublands, Australia
This ecoregion covers 34,900 square miles of critical/endangered deserts & xeric shrublands in Western Australia. The ecoregion's topography is chiefly low-lying, and the plantlife varies with the underlying geology, which is primarily com... | <urn:uuid:67fad23a-cc8b-433a-ab54-b189c67a64e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eol.org/pages/1177834/overview | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.849648 | 354 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Ethernet is a local area technology, with networks traditionally operating within a single building, connecting devices in close proximity. At most, Ethernet devices could have only a few hundred meters of cable between them, making it impractical to connect geographically dispersed locations. Modern advancements have ... | <urn:uuid:aad6d163-de04-4ad0-a85c-debe5ab82304> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ethernet4.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956998 | 133 | 3.96875 | 4 |
By Teachers, For Teachers
With last month’s conventions and next month’s debates, it’s a perfect time to bring a little election conversation into your classroom.
Here are some non-partisan ways to mix politics with classroom activities.
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Definition of Buffalo gnat
1. Noun. Small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals.
Generic synonyms: Gnat
Group relationships: Genus Simulium, Simulium
Buffalo Gnat Pictures
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