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One day Fox was out walking along. He'd been hunting but had no luck. It was a long time since he'd eaten. His stomach was growling so loudly he could hardly hear anything else. Suddenly he realized someone was coming singing a song. Quicker than the flick of a wren's tail Fox leaped off the path and crouched down on h... | <urn:uuid:2dffc183-d013-4342-9f60-e1134299639e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kahonwes.com/iroquois/hungryfx.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.995256 | 1,208 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Fish and Shellfish Advisories
Alerto de Cangrejos de Tenazas Azules en la
Region de la Bahia de Newark
Exposure to low levels of some contaminants
in the environment may have long lasting health
effects on people. Mercury, PCBs and dioxins are
among the major contaminants found in some New
Jersey fish in portions of th... | <urn:uuid:82f88a2e-3040-4244-9dac-7d6ff21ed458> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ourpassaic.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917133 | 1,545 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The wolverine is a mid-sized carnivore with a legendary reputation for being a fearless predator and a crafty thief of trap lines. The wolverine's home range is remote, rugged and snow covered for most of the year-the kind of places humans rarely go.
Mothers-to-be have been known to dig through as much as 15 feet of sn... | <urn:uuid:f56d7060-83f0-4e57-9c20-1fd933395d92> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.snowest.com/2010/01/help-needed-for-forest-service-wolverine-study?tpid=139 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947533 | 826 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Without proper instructions, a traffic-calming device can become more like a traffic hazard.
City officials call the obstruction that has been placed in the intersection of Harvard Road and Goldfield Drive a "traffic-calming device."
The makeshift traffic circle may slow traffic at that intersection, but the confusion ... | <urn:uuid:442b54c9-8e74-4678-b5e5-7b44fb584f8a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2001/nov/12/a_calming_device/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964816 | 495 | 3.03125 | 3 |
On Jan. 28, 1986 just moments after takeoff the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded. All seven crew members aboard were killed. Among them were Ronald McNair, 35, who was to be the second African American to go into space, and school teacher Christa McAuliffe, 37, who was selected from thousands of applicants for the tea... | <urn:uuid:b8aeaca0-a80a-4997-8e19-850b0f550e4a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/record-editor/2013/01/28/space-shuttle-challenger/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992121 | 132 | 2.671875 | 3 |
||Life in Ancient Egypt
Gods & Religion: Fragment from a Woman's Coffin
god wearing a solar disk crown and seated upon a throne forms the primary
decorative device on this painted coffin fragment. The inscription
in front of the deity identifies him as Re-Horakhty-Atum, the god central
in creation myths. To the ancient... | <urn:uuid:d6a560bd-fefd-4227-9583-5dd766fb58a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.carnegiemnh.org/online/egypt/coffinfragment.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907951 | 477 | 3.109375 | 3 |
- listen to a radio debate on teenagers and technology
- discuss the dangers and benefits of new technologies
- do a sentence matching exercise
- prepare and write an IELTS style question on the subject
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Last week a researcher revealed what he claimed to be a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel to a public security mailing list. The report took the form of a Perl script that generates an Excel document with a hyperlink in it which, when clicked by the user, invoked the flaw. It appears he did find a vulnerability, but it ... | <urn:uuid:bbd103c5-2f9c-4b5a-8f7c-99687c27e8d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1981802,00.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948667 | 196 | 2.625 | 3 |
Architecture: 19th Century
19th-century architecture was greatly influenced by earlier architectural movements and foreign, exotic styles, which were adapted to the new technologies of the early modern age. The revivals of Greek, Gothic, and Renaissance designs were fused with contemporary engineering methods and mater... | <urn:uuid:e1829694-f6ad-42f8-b8c8-c63716e264f9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/nineteenth-century-architecture.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00038-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945816 | 3,021 | 3.859375 | 4 |
Help support New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99...
(Greek zoe; Latin vita; French La vie, German Das Leben; vital principle; Greek psyche; Latin anima, vis vitalis, German leberzskraft... | <urn:uuid:133a1433-839e-44e7-8a41-6d47898eebea> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09238c.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955396 | 8,260 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Many public utilities, including those that supply drinking water to residents, are using a technology known as “smart meters,” which use radio signals to determine meter readings through mobile telecommunications. Questions have come up about potential health effects associated with radio frequency radiation (RFR), th... | <urn:uuid:b790a34f-6dde-4500-a1ac-7843b7040094> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/water/factsheet/rfr.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947512 | 162 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Orange juice is one of the most important juices and is used as a key ingredient in making cocktails. Other alkaline fruits include citrus fruits, tropical fruits and berries. To squeeze most juice out of your fruits, bring them to room temperature. Before squeezing, rub the fruits against your palm or on a hard surfac... | <urn:uuid:000a3ff1-5283-4fe1-beb9-63c74efcc185> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.adventuresinveg.com/orangejuicealkaline/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958645 | 641 | 2.75 | 3 |
No, these aren't photos from the Hollywood studio where Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing. These are real training simulations in Houston just three months before these men would actually set foot on the moon.
Amazingly, there are some people who still don't believe that humans actually landed on the moon—these fo... | <urn:uuid:f2a91be5-7406-4e83-9464-18c8f3c7b4c1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/and-why-do-they-suddenly-appear-whenever-you-are-nea-1555428364 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00169-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948848 | 398 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Through a fast-paced game of matching and sequencing, players discover fascinating facts about and reinforce their understanding of star life cycles.
Before you start: Enlarge 130% (on 11x17 paper) and copy the Star Stage and Stage Descriptions cards on two different colors of card stock for each group and cut out the ... | <urn:uuid:2682b25b-bbe8-4241-92ef-eb73019a98e4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/skytellers/stars/activities/scramble.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942517 | 469 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Normally when the subject of autonomous vehicles comes up, the conversation jumps to passenger cars. That is a bit odd when you consider what vehicles actually spend the most time on highways: trucks. But Mercedes-Benz is already working on that, and have recently begun testing an autonomous truck.
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Consuming dairy products at least once per day was associated with a significant improvement in a range of mental functions, including abstract reasoning, visual-spatial memory, organization, and working memory.
Writing in the International Dairy Journal, researchers from the University of South Australia and the Unive... | <urn:uuid:764aa650-c67b-459c-850a-040d92e771c6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dairyreporter.com/R-D/Dairy-foods-linked-to-better-brain-function-Study | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924862 | 499 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Simple Definition of uncommon
: not often found, seen, or experienced
: not ordinary : remarkable or exceptional
Examples of uncommon in a sentence
It is not uncommon for people to become depressed after they retire.
an athlete with uncommon ability
a soldier of uncommon courage
She is an uncommon woman.
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Unlike the severe reproductive losses associated with the first case of PRRS (porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome), and the very high grow-finish mortality seen with porcine circovirus Type 2, sow mortality can be a slow, insidious problem.
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I think you're underestimating the potential value of this-- I'm guessing you know some circuits and comp arch as well, but I'm going to break it down a bit more than you need for the benefit of others.
You're obviously right that something like this has little or no value for local interconnect, but global interconnec... | <urn:uuid:6cb4786b-b930-4b29-afd5-6bb2fb93e83a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/03/03/ibm_apd_demonstration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963813 | 954 | 2.578125 | 3 |
A C Programming Language programmer has to tell the system the type of numbers or characters he is using in his program. these are data types. There are many data types in C Programming Language. Data types are used to store various types of data.
C has a concept of 'data types' which are used to define a variable befo... | <urn:uuid:c681d3b0-85f7-46eb-a011-8540ca888f62> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://r4r.co.in/c/basic_tutorials/05/data_types_in_c_language.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92143 | 481 | 4.15625 | 4 |
Zinc supplements are crucial for the body
Posted Monday, September 1 2014 at 01:00
Lean meat, peanuts and pumpkin seeds are common foods that we consume every day. But are you aware that these foods are rich in zinc, a mineral that is crucial for the body’s immune system?
Zinc is not made in the body, which means a per... | <urn:uuid:f67fa283-d3f7-4a17-9c46-2e3b2f4d1803> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Health---Living/Zinc-supplements-are-crucial-for-the-body/-/689846/2436484/-/f3m0sqz/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967999 | 457 | 2.921875 | 3 |
THIS WEEK; Fall Planting
By PATRICIA JONAS
Published: September 17, 2000
Fall is ideal for planting: root systems have time to settle in still-warm soil before hard freeze. Evergreens are best planted before the end of September; most deciduous trees and shrubs can be planted through early November.
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East European Jewish tombstones follow the Ashkenazic pattern that was developed in Central Europe from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. Their most typical traits include vertical position (as opposed to Sephardic tombstones, which usually lie horizontally), rectangular shape, and the prominence of inscription f... | <urn:uuid:69d46518-2dfd-4cd5-9e3e-19b706887a7b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Tombstones | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931494 | 3,549 | 3.734375 | 4 |
CDC’s Work With Refugees Makes the World Safer
For the past five years, approximately 68,000 refugees and 500,000 immigrants per year come to the United States from around the world. These diverse groups hail from places where standards of care, access to health care and treatment, and exposure to infectious diseases d... | <urn:uuid:7ecf457a-6b2f-40d1-bb68-dc3cdae1b79c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/stories/CDC_work_with_refugees.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95063 | 993 | 3.296875 | 3 |
1. Reproducibility is key to science – if it can’t be reproduced then it can not be verified (that is, the experiment can’t be tried again to determine if the same result was produced then no-one can verify your work, and no-one can falsify it if it was incorrect), and therefore (according to various scientific philoso... | <urn:uuid:307b91c8-f6f3-4674-aab9-abbcf58edca6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.r-bloggers.com/in-praise-of-projecttemplate-for-reproducible-research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94493 | 1,257 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Family trees, with all the dates carefully researched and neatly recorded, tell you that your ancestors existed. But to get to know them as people–the lives they lived, their hardships and triumphs–you need to know their stories. For that kind of information, nothing beats an archive of historical newspapers, as the fo... | <urn:uuid:20a2d134-4b58-4d0d-af59-6d63be779201> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://m14genealogy.blogspot.com/2011/01/familys-sorrow-revealed-in-1848.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986257 | 689 | 2.859375 | 3 |
1. What is the history of your state's presidential selection system since 1968 for both major parties?
Construct a table with the following information:
Type of Presidential Selection System (Caucus, Primary)
Date of event
Results of event
You must report the results of both major parties. You may decide to construct ... | <urn:uuid:63505cac-eba7-4bb7-9d64-fa706a1825af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://guides.temple.edu/presidential_primaries | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940856 | 1,449 | 3.46875 | 3 |
On the 10th of August, 1932, the residents of Brickbend awoke to find steam rising from a kilometre long fissure in the earth’s crust. It hadn’t been there the night before.
Three days later Carl Anderson drove his Chrysler Plymouth from a nearby city to the site of the crevice. He took one look at the all the steam an... | <urn:uuid:f9404a43-0432-4760-94ce-a6e0ba20c027> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redbubble.com/people/jahnah/writing/1814588-the-brickbend-geothermal-power-company | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970992 | 413 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Trading forests: land-use change and carbon emissions embodied in production and exports of forest-risk commodities
Article written by Focali members Sabine Henders and Martin Persson together with Thomas Kastner. Published in Environmental Research Letters. Also read the Focali brief and watch Focali video based on th... | <urn:uuid:22ff55b1-4af0-4755-a9df-dc9f2ce7be90> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.focali.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/trading-forests-land-use-change-and-carbon-emissions-embodied-in-production-and-exports-of-forest-risk-commodities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943422 | 518 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Definition of Genus doodia
1. Noun. In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; small terrestrial colony-forming ferns of Australasia.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Blechnaceae, Family Blechnaceae
Member holonyms: Doodia, Rasp Fern
Genus Doodia Pictures
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A New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) analysis of the New York City Police Department‘s (NYPD) arrest data reveals that 87 percent of the people who were stopped and frisked in 2011 were African-American and Latino compared to a mere 9 percent of whites.
Latinos and blacks make up 59 percent of the city’s population... | <urn:uuid:5e701df7-3191-40bc-8243-372fbdf727b8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://newsone.com/1876305/stop-and-frisk-tactics-towards-blacks-and-latinos-worsen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965773 | 683 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Now that the libraries have yielded up so much of the buried treasures of Irish literature and that so much more which has not yet seen the light of day has been surveyed and appraised by competent authorities, one is better able than one was even so recently as ten years ago to fix a value and attach a definition to I... | <urn:uuid:4507abaf-84a2-4cb1-9bcd-6c164f448ebf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://celt.ucc.ie/published/E900007-014/text001.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961764 | 6,618 | 3.09375 | 3 |
by Barbara J. Little
Why are there two different spellings: archaeology and archeology? Both spellings are correct, but there are some twists and turns to the answer! If you look up the word in a dictionary, you’ll find it under “archaeology” with the variant “e” spelling also listed, but you probably won’t find it und... | <urn:uuid:a15a8472-0ca9-4a8a-a21d-dc9bf1bb85e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.saa.org/ForthePublic/Resources/OtherUsefulResources/Whyaretheretwodifferentspellingsarchaeology/tabid/1078/Default.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955754 | 890 | 3.1875 | 3 |
EPA releases report on Yallourn mine discharge
The Environmental Protection Authority has released the results of testing of the water pumped from the flooded Yallourn mine into the Morwell River. A risk assessment of the results has found that the releases present a low risk of environmental and ecological harm.
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The Belle Époque
The twentieth century came to a close in an atmosphere astonishingly reminiscent of that which had presided over its birth—the “belle époque” (and it was beautiful, at least for capital). The bourgeois choir of the European powers, the United States, and Japan (which I will call here “the triad” and wh... | <urn:uuid:61973f08-2d9d-4e33-9a29-37688236b53e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://monthlyreview.org/2000/06/01/the-political-economy-of-the-twentieth-century/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953673 | 7,161 | 2.78125 | 3 |
- Access Number -- The
telephone number your computer uses to connect to the Internet or
online service provider such as AOL or Prodigy.
- Address -- The unique code
assigned to the location of a file in storage on the Internet (or any
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Conforming to Table Design Rules
Designing tables for relational databases follows a formalized procedure called normalization. Dr. Codd described the complete normalization process in his 1972 paper "Further Normalization of the Data Base Relational Model." This paper isn't an easy read; it's steeped in the language o... | <urn:uuid:ea96a488-4c7d-4f92-b4ca-467f2163169b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.databasejournal.com/features/msaccess/article.php/10895_3684441_3/Chapter-4-Exploring-Relational-Database-Theory-and-Practice.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906937 | 2,071 | 3.109375 | 3 |
There are so many kinds of penstemons that the American Penstemon Society publishes a newsletter and illustrated guides for choosing these plants. Except for one species from Asia, all the rest are native to North America, with most coming from the West Coast. The genus name refers to the presence of a fifth stamen.
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Ozone (O3) is a relatively unstable molecule made up of three atoms of oxygen (O). Although it represents only a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, ozone is crucial for life on Earth.
Depending on where ozone resides, it can protect or harm life on Earth. Most ozone resides in the stratosphere (a layer of the atmosphere ... | <urn:uuid:2f5c84de-1d42-408a-8c06-65553e21e189> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Ozone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916759 | 266 | 4.0625 | 4 |
As a result of the shortage of land, its largest cities ring the coastline. The mammoth metropolis of Tokyo, and the other major cities along the Pacific Ocean are home to most of its people.
The first ever recorded mention of Japan was made in the first century AD. By 710 AD its first permanent capital was founded.
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German scientists dug 50 metres underground and discovered small pieces of copper. After studying these pieces for a long time, Germany announced that the ancient Germans 25,000 years ago had a nationwide telephone network.
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Wang Lung and his family walk into town on their hundred-mile journey south. Passing through the town they join a crowd of other people who are waiting for the steam locomotive that will take them to their destination. Wang Lung has never seen one of these "firewagons" before, but he pays the fare of two pieces of silv... | <urn:uuid:d110d51a-1f27-4670-85b4-c0a6df7402c5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.studyworld.com/studyworld_studynotes/novelguide/thegoodearth/summaries/Chapter10-13.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00153-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984546 | 1,128 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Global health gains offset by HIV/AIDS epidemic and mortality in Eastern Europe
EMBARGO: 00:01H (London time) Friday May 26, 2006. In North America the embargo lifts at 18:30H ET Thursday May 25, 2006.Substantial gains in health have been made by most populations between 1990 and 2001, reveals a study on the global bur... | <urn:uuid:9d67ffeb-2edc-4ec2-9e65-27ab8a7d318b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-05/l-ghg052406.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95015 | 579 | 2.734375 | 3 |
This image shows a great white expanse on the surface of Earth, but it's not snow or super-fine sand: in fact, it's a dried up salt lake in Turkey called Lake Tersakan—and satellites even use it as a calibration tool.
The second biggest lake in Turkey and one of the largest saline lakes in the world, Lake Tersakan drie... | <urn:uuid:ff1289de-ea6f-42f6-86df-f6b6d0dc259c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gizmodo.com/this-dried-up-salt-lake-lets-satellites-set-their-white-1238928498 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91633 | 179 | 3.328125 | 3 |
National Geographic News
Frogs with extra legs or missing legs have been showing up with greater frequency over the past decade, and scientists have been baffled by the cause.
Some researchers have concluded that pesticide runoff from farms is to blame; others say a common parasite is the culprit. Now, a new study sugg... | <urn:uuid:c48f7abf-399a-4355-ae4f-ff336d827c7c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0709_020709_deformedfrogs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968672 | 508 | 3.59375 | 4 |
They are already fighting in Kansas and Nebraska territories. Slaveowners and abolitionists have attempted to live together, but it isn't working. As early as 1856 the territory has two governmentsone for slavery and one against. Then a posse of about 800 pro-slavery men head for the free town of Lawrence, Kansas, and ... | <urn:uuid:8177e5dc-1f54-46d3-adee-1edca2533ba8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web05/segment7b.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964599 | 345 | 3.078125 | 3 |
The sight of Nelson Mandela walking proudly out of prison after 27 years, grayer and thinner but unbroken and unbowed, was an appropriate endpiece for a week that also saw the Communist Party give up its monopoly in the Soviet Union. Each is an important victory for the indomitable spirit that makes all people yearn to... | <urn:uuid:d432ce25-a635-4f82-b9ac-272df1717df2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-02-13/news/9001130069_1_nelson-mandela-post-apartheid-multiracial-society | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97378 | 619 | 2.625 | 3 |
Ursinus Summer Fellow Charlie Lee 2014 is in the trenches of a national focus on the long-term impact of concussions on athletes. He is spending his summer exploring the changes that occur in the brain after an athlete suffers a concussion.
Lee, from Cerritos, Calif., is collecting and analyzing data from Ursinus athle... | <urn:uuid:8cb89ac1-c7a0-436a-9af7-49d12f5762ff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.ursinus.edu/2013/academics/sciences/concussions-athletes-the-focus-of-summer-fellow-research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00000-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926429 | 509 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Coe, R. (2004) 'Issues arising from the use of effect sizes in analysing and reporting research.', in But what does it mean ? the use of effect sizes in educational research. Slough: National Foundation for Educational Research.
Effect sizes may be seen as an alternative - or supplement - to the use of statistical sign... | <urn:uuid:1a85d037-574d-430f-9000-21d4dc282808> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dro.dur.ac.uk/1988/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.876055 | 322 | 2.9375 | 3 |
In her poem, "In an Artist's studio," Christina Rossetti responds to the tendency of Victorian poets to objectify women in their experiment with aestheticism. Her poem recalls Robert Browning's "Andrea del Sarto" in which a male artist pretends to possess his estranged wife by having her pose as his model. This poem al... | <urn:uuid:942abb32-de22-422f-9c08-609f23bc57f7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/byecroft7.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978078 | 564 | 2.84375 | 3 |
by Rebecca Pope-Ruark
For the last five years, I have been researching and adapting Agile management philosophies and one specific framework, Scrum, to (1) better teach students to collaborate and manage their project work and (2) visually manage my own research projects studying student collaboration.
Agile is an umbr... | <urn:uuid:6eec16e7-6aba-4a8b-ac8a-976cfb03fa66> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.elon.edu/cel/applying-scrum-project-management-to-sotl-research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952947 | 1,254 | 3.09375 | 3 |
República de Bolivia
Republic of Bolivia
Fast links: Geography of Bolivia, Map of Bolivia, Flag of Bolivia, Music of Bolivia, Cities of Bolivia, Bolivia bug, Photography of Bolivia
National name: República de Bolivia
President: Juan Evo Morales Ayma (as of Jan. 22, 2006)
Area: 424,162 sq mi (1,098,580 sq km)
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Background informationCapital: Dakar
Official language: French
Area: 196,192 km2
Population (2007): 12,400,000 (Population Reference Bureau)
Population density: 63 inhabitants per km2
Population growth (2005): +2.4% (UNFPA)
Labour force participation rate (2005): 70.9% (Senegal, ANSD) to 75.1% (UNFPA)
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|Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church*|
|UNESCO World Heritage Site|
|State Party||United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|
|Criteria||i, ii, iv|
|Region**||Europe and North America|
|Inscription||1987 (11th Session)|
|* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List.
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A waveform is a representation of how alternating current (AC) varies with time. The most familiar AC waveform is the sine wave, which derives its name from the fact that the current or voltage varies with the sine of the elapsed time. Other common AC waveforms are the square wave, the ramp, the sawtooth wave, and the ... | <urn:uuid:40bdc069-2008-483f-9014-02c1c443fd54> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/waveform | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949419 | 238 | 4.09375 | 4 |
This rodent from South America is the largest in the world.
A capybara can get close to 80 kg (175 pounds) but as intimidating as it might look, they are mostly shy and tame creatures.
Capybaras are also known as water hogs. As the name suggests, they are usually found near swamps and water holes. The water provides a ... | <urn:uuid:289e6acd-f076-4c17-8edd-7bde9448b3b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://capybarafacts.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973275 | 311 | 3.1875 | 3 |
There are different ways to do it.
Cartesian method (y = f(x))
You will need two functions because of the limitations of the cartesian coordinate system, obtained by rearranging the circle equation in terms of x:
This one is simple.. , since the radius of a circle is constant.
Use the trigonometric functions and .
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Ferdows Naficy and her two daughters, Mahnaz and Farah became independent women in America. When Ferdows decided to emigrate to the U.S., she opened the door for her daughters to later join her in California. Both would later return to Iran as adults, where they would be torn apart by Iranian politics during the reign ... | <urn:uuid:07f1b1b2-9976-4180-a67f-99fbd6fdc677> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/ps_ctn_02.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97704 | 948 | 2.5625 | 3 |
A parathyroid hormone (PTH) blood test measures the level of parathyroid hormone in the blood. This test is used to help identify hyperparathyroidism, to find the cause of abnormal calcium levels, or to check the status of chronic kidney disease. PTH controls calcium and phosphorus levels in the blood.
PTH is made by t... | <urn:uuid:f12abe5f-5790-4663-acfb-4ee306b65f31> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/parathyroid-hormone | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00084-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87959 | 517 | 3.796875 | 4 |
Giving 'fiqh' to the world
Published 7:28 pm, Friday, July 25, 2014
I opened my email and a video popped up of a young man wearing traditional religious dress who claimed to be speaking about Islam. What he had to say shocked me.
"It is permissible to kill all disbelievers, even if they are women and children," he said... | <urn:uuid:a3233554-00cb-4fa3-aa64-97c32041b9ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Giving-fiqh-to-the-world-5647819.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960515 | 637 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Action for Animals
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What's Wrong with Leather?
Animals whose skins are turned into leather are killed either directly for their hides or for their hides, flesh, and other parts. While taking a sentient animal’s life is in itself wrong, the abuses and cruelties the an... | <urn:uuid:084443a6-d7a2-46aa-b9ce-a99636375b71> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-wrong-leather-wool-down-silk.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949454 | 2,094 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Places, whether communities, cities, counties, countries, or virtual spaces in which people interact, are both complex and intertwined. The ways in which places impact population health are equally complex, reaching far beyond the ZIP code as a determinant of health. We live in a world in which technology, from communi... | <urn:uuid:025e5450-ad0d-443b-b0a9-2be46fbe12ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://the2x2project.org/popplaces/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933592 | 236 | 3 | 3 |
In his Convention address in 1861, the Bishop of Mississippi thus sets forth his conception of the relationship between Churchmen North and South, and the brotherly spirit which they would preserve, even amid civil and political dissensions: "But whilst the State is thus passing through the fires of a painful revolutio... | <urn:uuid:9b559258-380c-4dbf-94de-daf7a57899f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/jbcheshire/confederate1912/06.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983869 | 10,940 | 2.53125 | 3 |
von Hofmann, August Wilhelm (1818–1892)
In 1845, Hofmann was persuaded to leave his native Germany and organize teaching and research at the newly established Royal College of Chemistry in London. It was partly because of Liebig's example that a group of distinguished men including Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victo... | <urn:uuid:c6511bc6-9950-4a99-8730-416dc5bfb618> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/V/von_Hofmann.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952408 | 212 | 3.25 | 3 |
Will People Go to Canada to Die?
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously found a “right to die” in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the Canadian Bill of Rights). Under the ruling, the Canadian government now has 12 months to create a legal regime that allows patients suffering from grievous and irremediab... | <urn:uuid:3c61824e-32a1-41c8-9a8e-c6d8a29e2dc4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/15/will-people-go-to-canada-to-die.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963852 | 1,451 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
In medicine, tertiary healthcare is specialized consultative care, usually on referral from primary or secondary medical care personnel, by specialists working in a center that has personnel and... | <urn:uuid:f0e2099b-1751-4483-8253-9637182b31fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Tertiary_care | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895127 | 131 | 2.734375 | 3 |
A digital library is a special library with a focused collection of digital objects that
can include text, visual material, audio material, video material, stored as ...
Digital libraries, once project based and largely autonomous efforts, are ma-
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The Correct spelling is: position
Common misspellings of the word position are:
How do you spell position?. It is not possition or even postion for that matter!
tr.v., -tioned, -tion·ing, -tions.
- A place or location.
- The right or appropriate place: The bands are in position for the parade's start.
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Despite what pro-oil sands (also called tar sands) supporters have said, the problem of higher than usual carcinogen levels is what many scientists already suspected following a Canadian study. In addition, the carcinogen levels are more widely disbursed than previously suspected.
To the surprise of no one, some oil sa... | <urn:uuid:a92fcdd6-f91b-446b-b360-d750973bd597> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://americablog.com/2013/01/carcinogens-lakes-canadian-oil-sands.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97354 | 520 | 2.65625 | 3 |
THE SIKH TIMES
Noteworthy News and Analysis from Around the World
In-Depth Coverage of Issues Concerning the Global Sikh Community Including Self-Determination, Democracy, Human Rights, Civil Liberties, Antiracism, Religion, and South Asian Geopolitics
Home | News Analysis Archive | Biographies | Book Reviews | Events ... | <urn:uuid:63edac8e-a801-491f-959f-e12d571ff4a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sikhtimes.com/news_030925a.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961016 | 1,118 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Managing Stress: How to Cope With Change
Whenever we experience change in our lives, we experience physical and psychological responses that we know collectively as stress. Sometimes the changes we experience affect our physical lives. Other changes may be primarily psychological and require a paradigm shift.
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Today marks the anniversary of an event little remembered but well worth noting.
On 15 November 1806, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike paused on the high plains in what is now Colorado, peered through his spyglass, and saw the mountain that would later bear his name, Pikes Peak.
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Malnutrition, so common in third world countries, may be more common than suspected in modern countries. The two classic forms include kwashiorkor and marasmus. The term protein-energy malnutrition is now generally used.
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Monarch Migration Update: May 3, 2000
Today's Report Includes:
Highlights From the Migration Trail
No sooner had we made this week's migration map, than this exciting news arrived:
How Far North Do Mexican Monarchs Travel?
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Do we become our name or does our name become us? Dissecting names to discover hidden meanings.
Ancient religions believe that we choose our own names, which would explain why they have an immense affect on our lives. This is illustrated in the Bible when one of the first things God did was to change Sarai’s name to Sa... | <urn:uuid:5e624c38-baf2-4146-a9bb-b7154564fbe8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.yourtango.com/experts/sharon-lynn-wyeth/how-our-names-shape-us | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967693 | 748 | 2.828125 | 3 |
The exhibit has closed, but many of the resources have been archived on this site. Visit the writers page to learn more.
Curator Teresa Miller concludes the Oklahoma Writers: A Literary Tableau with the following paragraphs: In the musical Oklahoma! (1943) Rodgers and Hammerstein idealize the state, depicting it as a l... | <urn:uuid:aa34e033-65c4-4811-86ee-51ddcf2d1cac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.okhistory.org/writers/exhibit.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00023-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948028 | 225 | 3.34375 | 3 |
A new study confirms the less than elusive phenomena that men stare at women’s breasts in ways that are best described as an “ogle” or objectifying gaze as a way of evaluating the person before them. What this means is that upon encountering a woman for the first time, men tend to look first at her body and spend less ... | <urn:uuid:383dfcfa-3e43-41ac-ae53-a2b8cbc56782> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://guardianlv.com/2013/10/study-confirms-that-men-stare-at-womens-breasts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979402 | 1,116 | 2.671875 | 3 |
This new report from MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy provides a demographic profile of students in grades 6-12 who are English Language Learners (ELLs). Authors Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix, and Julie Murray also focus on how adolescent ELL students are faring on standardized tests at the national... | <urn:uuid:06c1f802-34a4-41c2-8cc1-1849fdf9fd08> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://secure.migrationpolicy.org/t/7537/shop/item.jsp?storefront_KEY=219&t=&store_item_KEY=887 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907076 | 173 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Green-News: Thursday 9.4.08
- Dr. Fuhrman suggests limiting fish, but The Chicago Tribune has just uncovered that pregnant mothers on the east coast eat so much fish that they risk passing deadly mercury onto their babies.
- Back in June a raft made out of recycled garbage affectionately named “Junk” left California an... | <urn:uuid:4b023778-7024-4390-ae34-ab8e7e2b6aa1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/green-living-greennews-thursday-9408-print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00186-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923555 | 331 | 2.578125 | 3 |
THE MONEY MULTIPLIERS
The simple money multiplier, m, assumes that only one asset serves as
a perfectly liquid medium of exchange: DD's. Our definition of the money
supply, Ms, is correspondingly simple:
Our formula for the simple multiplier is as follows:
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Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson (September 3, 1905 – January 11, 1991) was an American physicist. He is best known for his discovery of the positron in 1932, an achievement for which he received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics, and of the muon in 1936.
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The Great Famine is an event seared into Irish national memory. Although the victims of the Great Hunger are rightfully remembered and commemorated, as is the physical fact that vast numbers of people were forced to leave, Ireland today largely leaves the memory of these emigrants at the dock, as they boarded ships to ... | <urn:uuid:886fea8a-98b5-43a8-ae6a-f423bfe8b83a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://irishamericancivilwar.com/2012/09/08/irelands-forgotten-famine-generation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975125 | 1,219 | 3.890625 | 4 |
BU Researchers Suggest Answer to Universal Question: Why Aren’t There More Stars?
Embargo expired: 20-Aug-2012 9:00 AM EDT
Source Newsroom: Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
Newswise — Boston—Boston University undergraduate researcher Rob Marchwinski and his colleagues in BU’s Astronomy Department may have... | <urn:uuid:07abf081-e6b1-4786-b52b-1520a1c1a2fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newswise.com/articles/bu-researchers-suggest-answer-to-universal-question-why-aren-t-there-more-stars | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939383 | 675 | 3.515625 | 4 |
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Would you still watch your favorite television program if you had to cycle for an hour before you could view it?
A computer-generated image of Club Watt, Rotterdam's human-powered club.
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When we're sick, we need to feel that others care and are ready to give of their time to us. Bikur cholim, visiting the sick, is the mitzvah that requires we do this.
It is considered such an important mitzvah that the rabbis say that through doing it we are imitating God, who came to visit Abraham when he was recoveri... | <urn:uuid:4b19771d-1c77-4e0f-a1ef-90586e8a39d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thejc.com/print/67474 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976134 | 236 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Three Useful Literary Terms
Hyperbole, apostrophe, ambiguous are explored here.
Grade Levels: 6 - 12
Help with Printables
More than 200 reproducible activities designed to help students read different kinds of text, build their vocabulary, use comprehension strategies, and more.
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How warm is that bologna sandwich and yogurt you pack for your preschooler every morning?
More than 90 percent of foods packed in lunches for children ages 3 to 5 years probably are kept at unsafe temperatures and pose serious health risks, according to a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers lo... | <urn:uuid:d8640f65-cf49-4e72-b8b6-35457b19377b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/07/29/health/keep-your-kids-bologna-cool.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955957 | 611 | 2.953125 | 3 |
LINGUIST List 24.3294|
Fri Aug 16 2013
Review: Phonetics; Phonology: Zsiga (2013)
Editor for this issue: Rajiv Rao
From: Avizia Long <aylongindiana.edu>
Subject: The Sounds of Language
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Restoration in progress at Kinmont Buck Barrow. Cumbria Wildlife Trust
Cumbria Wildlife Trust is helping landowners protect wetlands on farms across Cumbria, demonstrating new restoration techniques and building partnerships to start to protect Cumbria's peatlands. The project is working on a wide range of important we... | <urn:uuid:de5339d7-f5d5-4b4c-9572-6c964bcecf8f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/what-we-do/conservation-projects/upland-wetland-restoration | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00122-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891344 | 796 | 3.859375 | 4 |
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The shoulder refers both to the joint that connects the arm to the upper body, but also to the whole area of the body, front and back, between the neck and the upper arm. When referring to “the shoulders,” the area from shoulder to shoulder across the back may be incl... | <urn:uuid:d5b08a71-a44c-4946-a766-b7e454802996> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-most-common-causes-of-shoulder-pain.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95333 | 664 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Confucianism and Its Rivals, by Herbert A. Giles, , at sacred-texts.com
The eleventh century was not favourable to the growth either of Buddhism or of Taoism. In 1033 the Emperor, who at the age of twenty had just taken over the reins of government, gave orders to stop building or repairing any more temples; and from t... | <urn:uuid:c408e240-0c00-49a9-ae72-1a138e297429> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sacred-texts.com/cfu/cair/cair10.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980807 | 11,976 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Introduction to the Fair Use Checklist
The fair use checklist is a tool to assist you in making a reasoned and balanced application of the four fair use factors in determining whether a given use of a work is a fair use. The checklist outlines various factual circumstances that are important to the evaluation of a cont... | <urn:uuid:7667fc42-add9-4033-b547-743fd7ecf9f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.usg.edu/copyright/introduction_to_the_fair_use_checklist | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911229 | 550 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Following the crucifixion of Peter, Linus, who had served as an assistant to the apostle, continued the leadership of the Church, for once the Christian faith had been firmly established in Rome, Peter and Paul had commended Linus to this responsibility.
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Nature: Black Mamba
Wednesday, June 26 at 8:00 p.m.
The black mamba is one of Africa’s most dangerous and feared snakes, known for being aggressive when disturbed.
Rearing up with its head four feet above the ground, it strikes with deadly precision, delivering venom that is packed with three different kinds of toxins ... | <urn:uuid:77ebce62-14de-459f-b04c-554b947b9870> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wgte.org/wgte/watch/item.asp?item_id=9619 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948562 | 194 | 3.3125 | 3 |
What Parents Can Do Right Now
You’ve just learned your child is deaf or hard of hearing. You’re overwhelmed, you have a thousand questions, and maybe you don’t even know what to ask. There’s a lot to learn, but take a deep breath and remember that you’re already taking the first step. Know that there are knowledgeable,... | <urn:uuid:abea666f-d76a-406b-8d35-565a044e6795> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.clarkeschools.org/parents-and-families/what-parents-can-do-right-now | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962796 | 686 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Chocolate Science and Technology
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October 31, 2012
Survey Offers Up Data From 100 Galaxies In Local Universe
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online
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|Singapore's Buddha Tooth-Relic Temple|
The Chinese Lunar Calendar is more that two thousand five hundred years older than our Roman Calendar. It never begins on January 1st, nor does it begin on the same date each year. It can begin any time between January 21st and February 18th, depending on the date of the New Moon... | <urn:uuid:ff9694d1-d52d-46b2-9d46-b4ecabebf01a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lawstude.net/2012/01/gong-xi-fa-cai.html?showComment=1327763641041 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.841723 | 318 | 2.5625 | 3 |
(plural fibres) (UK, Canada, New Zealand)
- (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
- The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
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Earth's oldest object on display
The 4.4 billion-year-old zircon crystal, barely two human hairs wide, was brought out at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Saturday.
The day's festivities also featured the Rock Concert, which was to include jazz from a band using rocks as percussion.
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