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Set in a sheer-sided bowl of rock, accessible by climbing gear alone, the Red Lake in Croatia has never revealed the secret of its depths.
Now, mountaineering skills and a Saab Seaeye Falcon ROV will offer the first ever insight into the third largest sinkhole lake in the world.
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Washington, Dec 13 (IANS) A concentrated form of a compound in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables lowers the number of acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells in the lab setting, say researchers.
"Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a type of cancer of the white blood cells common in children," said study co-author Danie... | <urn:uuid:b21fd454-fb06-4bd3-ab90-7eb8542353b0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/12/13/317--Vegetable-compound-found-promising-in-leukemia-.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959267 | 311 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Matt_dk sends word that NASA has chosen a new target crater into which to crash the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission vehicles. "The decision means that when NASA's LCROSS probe and its spent Centaur rocket stage slam into the moon on Oct. 9, they will crash into the large crater Cabeus, a... | <urn:uuid:e1e44ec6-48a3-4066-879e-c156a174e74e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/29/022248/lcross-team-changes-target-crater-for-impact | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942915 | 172 | 2.703125 | 3 |
What scares homeowners most about alternative, or renewable, energy systems is the upfront cost. But once the sticker shock subsides and they look at the big picture, they realize they might save money in the long run.
“Why haven’t renewables taken off? It’s the same old issue: the initial cost,” says Steven Strong, pr... | <urn:uuid:91f6dd1b-71b0-4908-a64f-094854b66ab3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.loghome.com/energy-boost/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935866 | 900 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Sa. a griffin segreant erm. armed and gorged with a crown Or.
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uppys book "Homes of family names", also at the central reference library in Bristol, records the Ballard name as having ancient beginnings in Kent, The Ballards owned Sapington Manor from the tim... | <urn:uuid:71934c8e-a4fb-4a9c-a00f-10fca6673c87> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://heraldry.celticradio.net/search.php?id=181 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961477 | 816 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Palestinian Children: The Invisible Workers of Israeli Settlements
The summer air grew considerably hotter as we drove down to the Jordan Valley. Its red fertile soil radiated heat beneath our feet as we walked toward the lush agricultural field dotted with young boys picking vegetables.
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History of the City of Covington
John Wharton Collins, a New Orleans merchant by way of New York, founded the City of Covington in 1813 as the Town of Wharton. John Collins' father, Thomas Wharton, fled to Philadelphia from Scotland after the Seven Years War in 1763 and assumed his mother's maiden name, Collins, in ord... | <urn:uuid:7e558029-b11a-451d-8d04-fdf38f933ee5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.covla.com/history/index.php | 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 | 0.972416 | 1,773 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Details about American Cultural Pluralism and Law:
This new edition of Norgren and Nanda's classic updates their examination of the intersection of American cultural pluralism and law. They document and analyze legal challenges to the existing social order raised by many cultural groups, among them, Native Americans an... | <urn:uuid:6af9a1e2-3738-4a1a-bcae-6b8ff55a545b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/american-cultural-pluralism-and-law-3rd-edition-9780275986995-0275986993?ii=7&trackid=7b9ed8f4&omre_ir=1&omre_sp= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920577 | 387 | 2.625 | 3 |
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Definition of the verb Apostrophized
What does Apostrophized mean as a doing word?
- past of apostrophize
Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for Apostrophized
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The issue of purity. 7:1-23
This passage falls within the second major section of Mark's gospel, "The journey to God's mountain", and serves as part of the period of growing discontent. Here, we see the religious leaders without understanding, confined by their religiosity. The passage is in two parts: i] Jesus exposes... | <urn:uuid:ffe996cc-3329-4fdc-9f2d-9c8967fa755b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lectionarystudies.com/studyg/sunday22bg.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954188 | 1,302 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
Text Section 41
The Victor, Buddha Śākyamuni, had prophesied that the dharma would spread in the future to Tibet, the snowy land [gangs ljongs]. The Indian scholar Śāntarakṣita [zhi ba ’tsho] came to Tibet and performed the original ceremony to ordain the first Tibetan monks at ... | <urn:uuid:56b8b5aa-98d3-45e0-b688-aa3e7cddcb90> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisdomlib.org/buddhism/book/bodhisattva-cary%C4%81vat%C4%81ra/d/doc6253.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.849808 | 1,312 | 3.15625 | 3 |
by Staff Writers
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 30, 2012
Russian scientists from the Dubna research hub and their American counterparts have added two more names to the periodic table. The first experiments with superheavy elements began in the 1960s to prove the existence of the so-called "Island of Stability" - an undi... | <urn:uuid:4d21d48d-3e24-4bd7-a02c-b90982229ab6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Russian_chemists_land_on_the_island_of_stability_999.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923303 | 587 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Originally published in The Weekly Packet, January 10, 2013
Home schoolers show their geography know-how in local bee
Brandon Aponte, a 12-year-old homeschooler from Brooklin, won the National Geographic Society bee for the third straight year.
by Anne Berleant
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What it's all about
The geophysics program enables students to be stewards of Earth's resources and environment. Students are provided with the fundamental skills in solid earth geophysics, including seismic and potential field exploration and earthquake seismology. This field combines geology, math and physics so we c... | <urn:uuid:13981db7-5d4f-4a73-8c2b-62bb395d2651> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.baylor.edu/Artsandsciences/index.php?id=62183 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894269 | 90 | 2.71875 | 3 |
This investigation into plastic packaging has revealed a great deal of information. Most plastic packaging is used only once, its chemical stability keeps it from degrading in the environment for many years, and it is accumulating in landfills. The processes that produce the plastics use fossil resources, pollute the a... | <urn:uuid:3dd8cf5f-6c54-4461-9897-bdb0a5245637> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ecologycenter.org/plastics/ptf/report9/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936074 | 1,636 | 3.375 | 3 |
Completed in 1836, the meandering chain of waterways collectively known as the Nantes–Brest canal connects Finistère to the Loire. Interweaving rivers with stretches of canal, it was built at Napoleon’s instigation to bypass the belligerent English fleets off the coast. As a focus for exploring inland Brittany, whether... | <urn:uuid:ad539609-b731-4022-acf4-ebd8dc794484> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.roughguides.com/destinations/europe/france/brittany/nantes-brest-canal/?wpfpaction=add&postid=52895 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921857 | 212 | 2.875 | 3 |
Companies are realizing that there is both an internal price and an opportunity when it comes to carbon pollution.
An odd juxtaposition, perhaps, but a white paper from CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) North America makes the point that once a company establishes an “internal carbon price,” it can be used a... | <urn:uuid:31f70990-ca54-4e18-ac6f-3fed1b3f2fce> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/12/carbon-pollution-pricing-risk-reward/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948256 | 825 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Start-up promises to revolutionise shrimp farming
A UK start-up says it has developed a low-cost, ecological alternative to traditional shrimp farming by using bacteria as both a water filter and food for its shrimp.
IKEA-like portable units using microbes and solar power to cheaply grow shrimp indoors could transform ... | <urn:uuid:1fe3f786-af97-4581-bcf2-6ab6cc1c2bd9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/46425/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00169-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948571 | 540 | 3 | 3 |
Guangdong Province is situated on China's coast, at the bottom of the roundish bulge that represents coastal China beginning with Haizhou Bay in the north - at the border between Jiangsu and Shandong Provinces - and ending with the Gulf of Tonkin in the south. West of Guangdong Province lies Guangxi Province (note that... | <urn:uuid:4d54a289-e368-4a51-89ed-e2191d209d33> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chinatravel.com/guangdong/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959978 | 1,868 | 2.90625 | 3 |
by Wayne Blank
Moses is one of the best-known people of The Holy Bible. He played a key role in the Exodus, and later he received The Ten Commandments from God (twice - he smashed the first set when he discovered the Israelites running wild at the foot of Mount Sinai i.e. Exodus 32:19 and 34:1). He directed the constru... | <urn:uuid:50a6f64f-38bd-4471-986f-6f73a171ad80> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/moses.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968671 | 632 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Her new book, “Noble Women of Faith: Asiya, Mary, Khadija, Fatima,” just out from Tughra Books, celebrates the lives of Islam’s female role models.
Abdul Haqq, along with many Muslims, laments that cultural and legal habits in many Islamic countries flies against that egalitarian instruction – practices of oppression t... | <urn:uuid:4197c6b6-8b03-4f38-ac57-c20d5d446bd4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2012/07/islams_4_noble_women.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968717 | 930 | 2.53125 | 3 |
There are several reasons to give up meat, eggs and dairy. For starters, there’s the ethical argument: animals born into the livestock industry often spend their entire existence crammed into overcrowded cages, and they fall victim to mutilation and other forms of cruelty prior to being culled. There’s also the human h... | <urn:uuid:af99ada9-6ae9-4956-a88d-f9e4c996e0e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/beef-uses-ten-times-more-resources-poultry-dairy-eggs-pork-180952103/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938381 | 754 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Antiracist Activism for Teachers and Students/White Activists
White antiracist activists are white people who challenge racial oppression in society either by their participation in established social justice organizations or through individual efforts, or both. There are white people working for racial justice in all ... | <urn:uuid:82534d57-a2ae-411b-815e-6fb2437cda9d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Antiracist_Activism_for_Teachers_and_Students/White_Activists | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923765 | 286 | 3.25 | 3 |
Guest Author - Maryn Leister
The advantages of breastfeeding to the mother are just as numerous. As soon as the baby is born, immediate breastfeeding helps mom's uterus to contract and reduces the risk of postpartum hemorrhage by decreasing the amount of lochia as well. The constant nursing of a newborn also encourages... | <urn:uuid:bf01af8e-8cf2-4388-95f4-adb8f67866b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art50242.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947661 | 1,083 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Nightingales spring’s messenger, the lovelyvoiced nightingale
I wish I’d been on the street in Madrid on that night in 1934 when Pablo Neruda, who was then Chile’s consul to Spain, told Miguel Hernández that he had never heard a nightingale. It is too cold for nightingales to survive in Chile. Hernández grew up in a go... | <urn:uuid:20066bf6-9cce-4fac-9eaf-4f0064a5c64f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138353907/poets-choice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939422 | 1,061 | 2.890625 | 3 |
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World Monuments Fund Watch
Belongs to the Ministry for the Goods and the Cultural Activities of Italy
Nikon D300 Sigma 15/30
The Collegiate Church of Castell’Arquato – Piacenza – Italy
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An innovative experiment at the University of Leicester that involved studying rotting fish has helped to create a clearer picture of what our early ancestors would have looked like.
The scientists wanted to examine the decaying process in order to understand the decomposition of soft-body parts in fish. This in turn w... | <urn:uuid:5072e617-6dbc-4c9d-a01c-327036b93a69> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-10/uol-reh101210.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954865 | 808 | 3.875 | 4 |
|Oracle9i Database Concepts
Release 2 (9.2)
Part Number A96524-01
This chapter describes the nature of and relationships among the logical storage structures in the Oracle server. It includes:
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Ancestry.com is a technology company that knows family history – not just a family history company, and not even a family history company that just happens to use technology. Technology, and particularly computing, is essential to our mission to help everyone discover, preserve and share family history. Without it, we ... | <urn:uuid:b1477c8d-fd96-4db1-9723-61dd6012b61b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.ancestry.com/techroots/imagine-future-technology-for-family-history-simulations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967 | 633 | 3.046875 | 3 |
When Mr. Baron, Marco’s father, put Marco under his cousin Forester’s care, it was his intention that he should spend a considerable part of his time in traveling, and in out-of-door exercises, such as might tend to re-establish his health and strengthen his constitution. He did not, however, intend to have him give up... | <urn:uuid:a75bcbe4-b7df-4a73-8815-7f99dba7c410> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/11681/1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985125 | 642 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Frequently Asked Questions - Bloodborne Pathogens — Occupational Exposure
- What constitutes an occupational exposure in dentistry?
- What body fluids are potentially infectious during an occupational exposure?
- What is the risk of infection after an occupational exposure?
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I'm trying to understand the following:
I guess this could be generalized as AにBをCさせる.
It's confusing. Maybe if someone can break down how to understand this and then I can memorize it.
Usually, you have a sentence like:
where the subject takes
There is a morpheme
In your example, the subject
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A small stony concretion that may form in the stomachs of certain animals, especially ruminants, and which was once used as an antidote for various ailments.
- They induced him to swallow therapeutic potions of oriental bezoar stone from the stomach of a goat and boiled spirits from a human skull.
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Maximum and minimum monthly records in global temperature databases
Posted on 15 March 2011 by shoyemore
The worldwide success of books like The Guinness Book of Records is an example of human fascination with record-breaking – the smallest, fastest, farthest, the first etc. The frequency and size of records can tell u... | <urn:uuid:93a03969-57ee-40cb-ae6a-3626c6c2de10> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.skepticalscience.com/Maximum-and-minimum-monthly-records-in-global-temperature-databases.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00067-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907481 | 1,867 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Background Reading for Basis Sets:
Basis Sets Lab Activity
Key PointsThe objective of computational chemistry is to be able to mathematically express the properties of molecules. One of the most important properties is that of the molecular orbitals. Scientist use something called a basis set to approximate these orbit... | <urn:uuid:13574bd1-0998-47ff-bae8-377dce9773f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shodor.org/chemviz/basis/students/background.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902848 | 1,964 | 4.15625 | 4 |
The power of proteins – a brief history
By the turn of the 20th century, most of the 20 common amino acids that form the protein “backbone” had been discovered. Scientists also had identified certain proteins, called enzymes, that could catalyze chemical reactions, and others, called antibodies, that could stimulate th... | <urn:uuid:59e95307-6c8b-487f-88ff-2dc189499070> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957335 | 430 | 3.6875 | 4 |
The History of the Oil Industry
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The Oil Industry of Medieval Persia (Azerbaijan and Baku)
When Marco Polo in 1264 visited the Persian city of Baku, on the shores of the Caspian Sea in modern Azerbaijan, he saw oil being collected from seeps. He wrote that "on the confin... | <urn:uuid:26a4c8ad-7d9d-49b5-921a-8791dc6920f4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sjvgeology.org/history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978634 | 2,374 | 3.5 | 4 |
a'-kan (`akhan (in 1 Chronicles 2:7 Achar, `akhar, "troubler"):
The descendant of Zerah the son of Judah who was put to death, in Joshua's time, for stealing some of the "devoted" spoil of the city of Jericho (Joshua 7). The stem `akhan is not used in Hebrew except in this name. The stem `akhar has sufficient use to de... | <urn:uuid:f26db403-3ace-4b63-a513-a62e4e847a13> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biblestudytools.com/encyclopedias/isbe/achan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974804 | 523 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The electromagnetic spectrum
Physics with animations and film.
|Electromagnetic waves fill a spectrum with wavelengths
from thousands of kilometres long down to wavelengths more than 1020 times
smaller. They may be detected using a range of quite different instruments.
graphic shows, visible light comprises only a tiny... | <urn:uuid:ed4de91d-42b4-4f67-95f9-8bd6788a4abf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/EMspectrum.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916274 | 4,875 | 3.734375 | 4 |
A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future. A plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he planted seedlings of 10 tropical tree species in small, geodesic greenhouses. Some he allowed to grow in the kind of environment they were used to out in the forest, arou... | <urn:uuid:a57cd546-8165-4071-8c77-7176d1f6fddb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/glimpsing-a-world-after-climate-change/403534/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94586 | 2,016 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Introduction to the diversity of methods for collecting and analyzing data used to understand complex environmental issues. Case studies help to illustrate research design processes, and introduce key methods of data collection and analysis relevant to the problem. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in ENVIR 100. Offer... | <urn:uuid:652f1e0b-73fe-4190-ba6f-9c6650492cc7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.washington.edu/students/icd/S/envst/250mastyles.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898498 | 516 | 3.375 | 3 |
The core of the
lengths-list-file function is a
loop containing a function to move point forward ‘defun by defun’ and
a function to count the number of words and symbols in each defun.
This core must be surrounded by functions that do various other tasks,
including finding the file, and ensuring that point starts out a... | <urn:uuid:99df0ba4-6485-41bb-8efc-651e40592411> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/lengths_002dlist_002dfile.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.883256 | 1,088 | 2.6875 | 3 |
In recent years, observers across America’s political spectrum have expressed concern over declining residential mobility and its implications for economic mobility in the United States. There is a widespread belief that Americans’ economic mobility has declined and that Americans are also less likely to “move to oppor... | <urn:uuid:3dea5de9-b885-479c-a3a7-f51a4fc08943> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/when-moving-matters-residential-and-economic-mobility-trends-america-1880-2010-8048.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97125 | 217 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Cercarial dermatitis is caused by the cercariae of certain species of schistosomes whose normal hosts are birds and mammals other than humans. These cercariae seem to have a chemotrophic reaction to secretions from the skin and are not as host-specific as other types of schistosomes. They attempt to, and, sometimes may... | <urn:uuid:065870ac-b508-4036-9b37-de402f58b1ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/swimmersitch/biology.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934783 | 488 | 3.8125 | 4 |
UCL researcher Mr Siavash Mahdavi (UCL Computer Science) has designed a new technology which can 'print out' objects directly from intricate design plans into finished, three-dimensional objects. His technology promises to revolutionise the production of many devices, including clothes, shoes, safety headgear and vehic... | <urn:uuid:c23f4117-dc59-4df5-b3bd-624fcea8a011> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theallineed.com/personal-tech/06021606.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944996 | 716 | 3.203125 | 3 |
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The CLE has created a packet of key articles that touch on the important concepts of system dynamics, How to implement SD in K-12 Education, and How to explain systems thinking in 25 words or less.
A variety of simulations allowing students to explore the consequences o... | <urn:uuid:a9c319bf-920a-4224-8586-0c3202ebe57e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.clexchange.org/curriculum/roadmaps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917028 | 387 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Cow performance should be evaluated at least once a year, and fall is a great time to take a hard look at the cowherd and make culling decisions if necessary. Jeremy Powell estimates culled cows make up about 20 percent of the cowherd income on an annual basis.
“Many factors can play a role in determining which cows sh... | <urn:uuid:56b512f9-b9f9-46f6-9bbd-4fef3e3dc406> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://deltafarmpress.com/print/cow-culling-strategies-cattle-producers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9267 | 700 | 3.34375 | 3 |
- The Bridge at the Edge of the World
- This is the introduction to an extraordinary new book (The Bridge at the Edge of the World) by Gus Speth, who is currently Dean of the School of Forestry at Yale University. I don't recommend very many books, but I feel sure that nearly every Rachel's reader will find Gus Speth's... | <urn:uuid:f70a7d6a-595e-47fa-8139-59c020875cb4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rachel.org/?q=en/newsletters/rachels_news/956 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957244 | 16,050 | 2.75 | 3 |
evacuation: executive order 9066
By December 1941 over 126,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry resided on the United States mainland. Many lived along the West Coast. Approximately seventy percent were Nisei, the first American-born generation. Their parents, Issei or immigrating generation, left Japan for a better li... | <urn:uuid:ce2aaf31-5481-452b-87e0-d24acb694365> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www2.hsp.org/exhibits/Balch%20resources/internment/html/body_a_japanese_.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934863 | 246 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Sifu Han Ching-Tan was born in Shan Dong Province, China, the day after the Moon Festival in 1900.
Sifu Han grew up in a typical Chinese farming family, so the only chance he had to practice martial arts was during his spare time away from helping out his parents' farming work. Sifu Han once said that the practice of m... | <urn:uuid:6b234e9d-bb13-4d4f-95b4-c62cc41cbe36> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.adamhsu.com/articles/taiwanblog_HanChingTan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988468 | 2,042 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The Red Branch Knights
2. Military Ranks, Orders, and Services.
At different periods of our early history the kings had in their service bodies of militia, who underwent a yearly course of training, and who were at call like a standing army whenever the monarch required them. The most celebrated of these were the "Red ... | <urn:uuid:19ba5d83-bfb8-430b-863d-20505d763fcf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.libraryireland.com/SocialHistoryAncientIreland/I-III-3.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978406 | 3,308 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Colonists from the London Company establish the first permanent English settlement in North America at the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
Samuel de Champlain, “Father of New France,” establishes the first permanent French settlement in North America at Quebec (City).
Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Champlain and ente... | <urn:uuid:e5d136f1-bc87-42cc-9115-7b703979e01e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fortat4.org/timeline.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94023 | 3,588 | 3.890625 | 4 |
You've probably been told that it's best to wash your hands in hot water because it helps to kill bacteria, but that is actually not the case. Adult skin can begin to scald at 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius), but studies have shown that hands washed using water up to that temperature still don't remove bact... | <urn:uuid:e8e20305-7f58-479a-ac86-8e09978fceae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/cleansing/basics/hand-washing2.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962006 | 321 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Web Accessibility / Usability Resources
What is Accessibility / Usability? ADA Compliant? Section 508? WAI? The W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) definition: "Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the W... | <urn:uuid:bd87acfb-2b34-4e9c-95c9-94e37f1e0445> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.memphis.edu/webdev/resources/accessibility/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00169-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904564 | 90 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Sound Formats Beyond MP3
Following are some of the sampled sound formats out there on the Internet (and sometimes swapped between PC owners). However, the MP3 format is now so popular for music that these other formats have been reduced to storing Windows sound effects and such. Some sound editors can convert audio bet... | <urn:uuid:448d7ec3-5681-4bfc-8e80-9f6d156c69b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/sound-formats-beyond-mp3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930062 | 795 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Augustus and Peter Porter
In 1805, Augustus & Peter Porter of Buffalo, New York came to Niagara Falls. The Porter brothers purchased the American Falls from the State of New York at a public auction. This purchase also provided them with the acquisition of the water rights to the eastern rapids both above and below the... | <urn:uuid:7f33330f-2cdd-4b61-b83e-bbb8ea2aa6c6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.niagarafallsinfo.com/history-item.php?entry_id=1434¤t_category_id=241 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97856 | 495 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Did Jesus Live 100 B.C.?
By G. R. S. Mead
Content | Previous | Next
WHEN some five and a half centuries before the Christian era the Buddha arose in ancient Aryavarta to substitute actuality for tradition, to break down the barriers of convention, and throw open the Way of Righteousness to all, irrespective of race or ... | <urn:uuid:c47571fa-84ce-4692-ab6f-a30c804808d4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/jesus_live_100/ch1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973794 | 9,102 | 2.875 | 3 |
Hypoxic Chamber Installed at PEIF
NMU is one of only a handful of universities nationwide to own a hypoxic chamber. The unit was installed this week in an exercise science laboratory in the PEIF. Deceptively simple in its design, the system is capable of producing oxygen-reduced air that simulates altitudes of up to 20... | <urn:uuid:bee9f976-0083-4211-a0f2-f0175cda5d8e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nmu.edu/campus/node/162 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949218 | 725 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Please note: This information was current at the time of publication. But medical information is always changing, and some information given here may be out of date. For regularly updated information on a variety of health topics, please visit familydoctor.org, the AAFP patient education Web site.
Information from Your... | <urn:uuid:ceee9a1e-736a-454c-b802-e98263446fc2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aafp.org/afp/2004/0501/p2120.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912723 | 898 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish, English, and German: nickname for a calm man, from
Middle English, Middle High German stille ‘calm’, ‘still’. The
German name may also have denoted a (deaf) mute, from the same word in
the sense ‘silent’.
- English: topographic name for someone who
lived by a fish trap in a riv... | <urn:uuid:c2cd7112-ed56-4737-b393-8aef30102cc9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/still | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.878888 | 137 | 2.859375 | 3 |
With its careful balance of the social and political dimensions of American history, America Past and Present, Sixth Edition , helps students grasp the scope and the complexity of the American past. Written by a distinguished author team, America Past and Present, Sixth Edition, presents a lively narrative, clear organ... | <urn:uuid:e5fca164-9148-4c08-a44a-cd8f7bf9acbe> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ecampus.com/america-past-present-volume-i-chapters-116/bk/9780321084040 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.717391 | 1,282 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Zooming in on star-forming galaxies in the early Universe seen with ALMA
This video sequence starts with a broad view of the sky, including the famous constellation of Orion (The Hunter). We gradually close in on an unremarkable patch of sky called the Chandra Deep Field South that has been studied by many telescopes o... | <urn:uuid:32872fe6-8f70-4d74-9e55-760235f845bc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eso.org/public/videos/eso1318a/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909383 | 367 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Wild hazelnuts (or filberts) bear exactly the same nut as the cultivated variety, although the wild ones are usually smaller. The nuts are born in clusters on the end of branches; hazel blooms in late winter to very early spring with male and female flowers on the same plant. The nut clusters are called burrs and the b... | <urn:uuid:a8980ac2-9c23-4b1f-b3ee-0bae20073c48> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://grannysu.blogspot.com/2013/07/roadside-weeds-hazelnut.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00006-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966106 | 735 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Phase, from the Greek phasis, meaning 'appearance', has a number of related meanings in English.
- The phase of a waveform is the position of any peak or trough compared to the same feature on a second waveform.
- A phase of matter is a physically distinctive form of a substance, such as the solid, liquid, and gaseous ... | <urn:uuid:ef90f9a0-0780-4355-a6cc-fcc7d1a3fe18> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.phase.name/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941402 | 1,264 | 3.125 | 3 |
Plasma Ion Sources for High Resolution Primary Ion Beams
Milling speeds with a gallium focused ion beam (FIB) are often much too slow for many sample preparation and surface engineering applications. Also, engineered devices must generally be tolerant of high gallium concentrations being implanted in the near-surface r... | <urn:uuid:8ce3c0a7-794b-484d-b4a5-021f6b6f3698> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.anl.gov/events/plasma-ion-sources-high-resolution-primary-ion-beams | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900534 | 338 | 2.765625 | 3 |
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Progress Toward Sustainable Measles Mortality Reduction --- South-East A... | <urn:uuid:6d268023-2ef0-4835-8a00-913ae4113d76> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5325a4.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923767 | 2,009 | 2.65625 | 3 |
sounds like “tare WAHr”
Terroir is how a particular region’s climate, soils and aspect (terrain) affect the taste of wine. Some regions are said to have more ‘terroir’ than others.
What is ‘terroir’ and how does it affect the taste of wine?
A Rocky History
‘Terroir’ is one of the most used and least understood wine wor... | <urn:uuid:6c44da36-fa26-450c-bb01-cc051e566433> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://winefolly.com/tutorial/terroir-definition-for-wine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929106 | 828 | 3.078125 | 3 |
A century ago, a British doctor stumbled across a remote and isolated tribe at the extreme northern end of India. He lived among the tribe members for seven years to learn the secret of their robust health.
In 1921, Oxford University published this doctor’s remarkable findings.
He reported that the tribe members were “... | <urn:uuid:e206f73a-08f7-467a-bf06-b3e586b3dbff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thebigcancerlie.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976906 | 23,719 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Growing up in New York City, I never had much consciousness of it as a coastal city. The beaches are in the farthest-off parts of the outer boroughs, and the population centers in Manhattan and Brooklyn are oriented inward rather than toward the waterfronts. But the devastating flooding of Hurricane Sandy is a powerful... | <urn:uuid:56c6d357-47e0-412a-a0f4-b40f810693e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/11/hurricane_proofing_new_york_city_dutch_style_storm_surge_barriers_across.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944932 | 1,438 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The definition of information architecture (IA), according to Wikipedia, is “the art of expressing a model or concept of information used in activities that require explicit details of complex systems.” Information architecture is the foundation on which you should build your site, since it defines not only how visitor... | <urn:uuid:d5e18560-1fd5-415b-a222-485426a3eba0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.searchdiscovery.com/blog/is-your-site-confusing-three-quick-information-architecture-audits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944986 | 871 | 3.078125 | 3 |
On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza, next to the ruins of the Aztec sacred pyramid known as the Templo Mayor, the remains of an animal—perhaps a dog or a wolf—were discovered. It had been dead for 500 years and lay in a stone-lined shaft eight feet deep. It is likely the animal had no name, nor an owner. Ye... | <urn:uuid:f62717af-0491-4f5f-94dc-a810c3286896> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2010/11/greatest-aztec/draper-text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973991 | 5,546 | 3 | 3 |
But one animal-rights group has not been as receptive, arguing that pollution, not swans, is the primary threat to aquatic vegetation. On May 13, the New York-based Fund for Animals filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging a federal permit that enabled the Maryland DNR plan to proceed. The Fund for Animals' lawsuit... | <urn:uuid:efc42b02-a442-4e46-8f79-99bac0c9e877> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0605_030605_muteswan_2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877752 | 917 | 2.8125 | 3 |
July 2, 2014 — A series of evocative lectures, films and a national traveling exhibit exploring two major civil rights movements that changed America is planned July 12-Aug. 22 in Springfield. The series includes a July 31 talk by two sisters whose father lent his name to the landmark, 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Brow... | <urn:uuid:242ef65c-337b-4189-8e3b-b1a55aa9f9ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thelibrary.org/press/article.cfm?aid=3357 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942926 | 1,678 | 2.578125 | 3 |
From the moment we are born, our lives are relentlessly and consistently tested by the elements. The list is enormous, beginning with internal factors that gradually determine which external ones will hinder our survival.
A biologist would say our ancestry affects our genetic makeup. The expression of genes inherited f... | <urn:uuid:c9628b22-414f-4ebc-bf18-b42d5f6d74d5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.themiamihurricane.com/2011/09/07/ignore-the-absolutes-stay-in-the-gray-area/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941305 | 697 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
Howorth and Darwinism (S197 & S198: 1871)
The very ingenious manner in which Mr. Howorth first misrepresents Darwinism, and then uses an argument which is not even founded on his own misrepresentation, but on a quite distinct fallacy, may puzzle some of your readers. I ther... | <urn:uuid:1faa25fe-5f30-4ec5-9d30-489062e32221> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S197198.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00075-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971486 | 1,310 | 2.609375 | 3 |
DOLLARS FOR VICTORY
Despite increased revenue from taxes, during WWII the federal government relied upon borrowing from the public through the sale of government war bonds and small denomination war stamps to meet most of the war costs. Posters played an important part in convincing people to buy bonds and help with th... | <urn:uuid:d6771ae0-5e09-4a53-9a66-810644a1bae2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/ww2/victory.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975477 | 223 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Underpinning all the other branches of science, physics affects the way we live our lives, and ultimately how life itself functions. Recent scientific advances have led to dramatic reassessment of our understanding of the world around us, and made a significant impact on our lifestyle. In this book, leading internation... | <urn:uuid:c7b54f3a-0e3b-438b-a818-5b02e9b5162f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521140027 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900605 | 941 | 2.78125 | 3 |
As a fast overview, a compound with a pH from to seven is regarded as acidic in character, whereas a material with a pH of seven to 14 is deemed alkaline in character. A pH of seven is regarded neutral, for example, pure h2o has a pH of seven. Obtaining a blood pH below 7.3 or earlier mentioned 7.41 is harmful and comm... | <urn:uuid:a3e83269-b433-4784-93a1-6413261da852> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jazztimes.com/community/articles/48650-how-and-why-to-make-your-system-alkaline | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00000-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93183 | 849 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Citronella Ants Scientific Name: Pheidole megacephala
All about Citronella Ants
Step on a Citronella ant and you may suddenly feel like you’ve walked onto a newly cleaned wood floor. Not that the Citronella ant should be used to clean wood floors, and should especially not be used to ward off pests, but it does – stran... | <urn:uuid:448a0169-1fc1-456c-a43d-d0bc55ad7e40> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pestnet.com/ants/citronella-ants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93144 | 1,256 | 3.140625 | 3 |
The Banded Sea Snake is highly venomous and common in the Pacific:
~70 sea snakes identified and some have venom stronger than a cobra's. Two families of sea snake are: the Laticaudinae (amphibious-living on land and water) and the Hydrophiinae (aquatic-never leaving the water). (62 species make up the former true snak... | <urn:uuid:1ce5e9f9-20d6-4518-b996-f23698203a92> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://deepseamustangdiver.blogspot.com/2010/11/sea-snakes_07.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949458 | 533 | 3.75 | 4 |
Transcript: Preventing Skin Cancer From the Inside Out
More than a million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed every year, affecting about one in three Americans within their lifetimes. The chief risk factor is UV exposure from the sun, but alcohol consumption may also play a role. Most of the cancers associated wit... | <urn:uuid:2f59d600-a218-4ede-aae9-5700680951e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-skin-cancer-from-the-inside-out/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958401 | 836 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Tannery and Sesame Mill
The tannery was originally owned by Karanikola. Unfortunately, only the ground floor remains of what was a two storey building. None of the original equipment has been preserved.
The sesame mill was owned by Giannaki. Only the original workshop remains. It houses mechanical equipment that was po... | <urn:uuid:35a90ab0-059c-446a-804c-6afd19540594> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.unesco.org/culture/museum-for-dialogue/item/en/164/tannery-and-sesame-mill | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984798 | 156 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Experts are tracking does, their newborns and predators.
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Monroe Mountain, Piute County • Newborn mule deer are well prepared ... | <urn:uuid:ff4fea39-cd36-4177-b1ec-d31239bb8389> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://archive.sltrib.com/printfriendly.php?id=54378254&itype=cmsid | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962189 | 1,935 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Design by doing is architectural beta-testing. Build 1:1 models in the public domain that function as immediate site analysis, architectural test case and social condenser. Put your practice to theory. Do the unthinkable: build a manifest, write a building.
2. MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL
People like pretty things.
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When you or someone you know has a sudden cardiac emergency, the first step is always seeking medical attention. Picking up the phone and calling 911 in emergency situations should be your first priority, but what should you do in the time until help arrives, and how should you handle an emergency situation when you’re... | <urn:uuid:07ec471e-8c84-4a4b-8fcf-3377ab98f67d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.mainlinehealth.org/community/how-to-handle-heart-emergencies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937016 | 840 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Re: A pk is *both* a physical and a logical object.
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:32:19 GMT
"JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message
>> "The right front tire on my car is going flat."
No, these are not necessarily the same thing. "Different" is absolute, and
>> "The tire with serial number BC324J5367 is going flat."
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During World War II, Wisconsinites contributed to the war effort in many ways. Wisconsin’s shipbuilding industry flourished in communities along the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, where manufacturers such as the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company and Globe Shipbuilding of Superior built submarines, cargo ships,... | <urn:uuid:c8a2a9f7-ccd9-4e7b-836d-fe24d7e3099e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://recollectionwisconsin.org/kewaunee-ships-of-war | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00090-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955285 | 572 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Welcome to the |
ALPHA version of the
ASL to English Dictionary
There are a growing number of ASL dictionaries available in print, CDROM and on the web. Each of these
efforts takes advantage of the growing technological capabilities in video, imaging and data processing, as well as
the growing availability of computers... | <urn:uuid:88355ef1-3572-45fe-b66a-a4e39a9ca33c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://asl.jinkle.com/about.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967364 | 444 | 2.671875 | 3 |
In this section
The open air meerkat enclosure at The Royal Children’s Hospital was developed in partnership with Zoos Victoria, with the support of the Hugh Williamson Foundation. The enclosure is home to a mob of cheeky and inquisitive meerkats, looked after by zoo keepers from the nearby Melbourne Zoo.Learn about th... | <urn:uuid:ac2bb8c0-f143-44f3-bb94-b55a3ef9b26e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rch.org.au/education/rchcreate/meerkat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936208 | 365 | 2.515625 | 3 |
On June 14, 1972, a large area of disturbed weather was identified over Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. It became a tropical depression that day while drifting eastward into the far northern Caribbean Sea. On 16 June after turning to the north, the depression became the first tropical storm of the 1972 hurricane season and... | <urn:uuid:394eac86-edd4-4aa5-95f5-5c6f9d4457ff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hurricanescience.org/history/storms/1970s/agnes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965935 | 770 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Barbour Receives Grant for HCl Emission Research
Posted by Pengxeu Thao '15, Roseville on Friday, Aug. 8, 2014
James Barbour, biomass energy scientist and lecturer in chemistry, received a grant from the Minnesota Corn Research and Promotion Council (MCR&PC) for research on hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas emissions and mit... | <urn:uuid:5ccb24d2-add6-4062-b811-5488c45c36d1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.morris.umn.edu/grants/view.php?itemID=13037 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911262 | 483 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Saying "climate change happened naturally in the past, and therefore human's can't cause it" is like saying "forest fires occurred naturally in the past. So there can't be arson."
Variation: Arson and camper carelessness can't cause fires, because forest fires often occurred naturally before people even existed!
Notes:... | <urn:uuid:ea6713a5-ba55-49d7-bde6-25812f5ee1f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.climatebites.org/climate-communication-metaphors-and-soundbites/basic-climate-science/human-activity-is-the-cause/forest-fires-occur-naturally-so-humans-cant-cause-them | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962791 | 196 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Racism and tolerance: teaching our childen
“Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.” – Dennis Leary
It is troubling to hear, particularly in the U.S., of a backlash against Muslims because of the terrorist attacks. Attacks against mosques remind me of... | <urn:uuid:0912af21-462c-4f15-bdb9-3d6ff82882af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cumberlandnewsnow.com/Opinion/Columns/2010-09-09/article-1736875/Psychology-for-Living/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976868 | 547 | 2.734375 | 3 |
But then Napoleon of France stole New Orleans and all of the attendant Louisiana territory from Spain. The Emperor soon discovered it was more trouble than it was worth and asked Jefferson (via diplomats) if the United States would like to buy it for $15 million. The dollar was still worth something back in 1803, but e... | <urn:uuid:6c9f1ffe-ef44-4d32-abfc-ea853ae416bc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tailsofbirding.blogspot.com/2010/09/clarks-nutcracker.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97405 | 1,074 | 2.890625 | 3 |
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Stanford geophysicists find new evidence for a horizontal fault below San Francisco Bay
STANFORD -- "San Francisco has its faults," observe tourist T-shirts in Bay Area airports. Despite the fame of earthquake faults like the San Andreas, surprisingly little is k... | <urn:uuid:1839a3d7-797f-4733-a4ec-8a155eeb7434> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.stanford.edu/pr/94/940920Arc4128.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942144 | 1,887 | 3.546875 | 4 |
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched the NIH 3D Print Exchange, a public website that enables users to share, download, and edit 3D print files related to health and science. These files can be used, for example, to print custom laboratory equipment and models of bacteria and human anatomy. The NIH... | <urn:uuid:111ea279-ede0-4167-8564-38a5674fcfd5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lsuhsc.edu/library/news/?tag=nih | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00084-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886501 | 181 | 2.875 | 3 |
Visser, Fleur and Roth, C.H. and Wasson, R.J. and Prosser, I.P. (2002) Quantifying Sediment Sources in Lowlying Sugarcane Land: A Sediment Budget Approach. In: Structure, Function and Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication (276). IAHS Press... | <urn:uuid:78239110-bb0d-4f00-8696-1cf2b2e4d079> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eprints.worc.ac.uk/550/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.825567 | 430 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Wednesday, June 02 2010 @ 03:37 pm EDT
Contributed by: dgrosvold
Starting on Thursday evening, Mars is within 3° of Regulus in the constellation Leo. They're almost the same brightness, and make a striking color-contrast pair high in the west after dark. Follow them each evening until they reach conjunction on Sunday, ... | <urn:uuid:13b446f3-2de4-4cd9-a2b6-e9bd241bf367> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aoas.org/index.php?page=9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00075-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936446 | 639 | 2.84375 | 3 |
A smartphone cradle and app make a handheld biosensor that uses the phone’s own camera and processing power to detect molecules or cells.
As smartphones catch up to dedicated digital cameras in their imaging capabilities, researchers are devising ways to use the popular devices to supplement or replace expensive, dedic... | <urn:uuid:686e4cae-95c6-433d-812b-21034895b1c2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.osa-opn.org/home/newsroom/2013/june/from_smartphone_to_label-free_biosensor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00169-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.875225 | 412 | 3 | 3 |
The German city of Munich, where the Nazis raided gay bars in the early days of the Third Reich, is to have a new memorial dedicated to the gay and lesbian victims of the holocaust.
The location of the memorial is significant, as on 20 October 1934, the Nazis undertook a raid on the city’s gay bars. It was one of the f... | <urn:uuid:d3b9e94c-3f09-4564-b985-055be212ebf6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/05/31/new-memorial-to-gay-holocaust-victims-to-be-built-in-munich/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00153-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977094 | 429 | 3.078125 | 3 |
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