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Bacteria come in three different shapes: (1) coccus
or sphere shaped; (2) bacillus or rod shaped; (3) spirillum or spiral,
corkscrew shape. Bacteria have a tough outer coating which gives
them a cell-like shape.
Viruses are non-living and cannot reproduce without using the
mechanisms of a host cell. Once a virus enters... | <urn:uuid:0854b52b-bc7f-4ba1-82af-4e6f735eda29> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/lc/humanbio/6/lchb6_5a.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889907 | 503 | 4.03125 | 4 |
90 Years Ago
Time and Again
Congress enacts daylight saving time on March 19, 1918. Backers herald benefits, from increased production of war materials to improved worker health and morals. But farmers cry foul, and with World War I's end, national DST is repealed in 1919. Implemented locally, DST makes scheduling—of b... | <urn:uuid:85d4d0dd-c7b4-484b-9b7d-5caf5558ed8a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/march-anniversaries-3-20195106/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918097 | 585 | 2.515625 | 3 |
There was an interesting piece in the New York Times last week in which Sara Reistad-Long delves into recent studies that indicate the forgetfulness plaguing me and many other writers of a certain age is actually an indication of higher brain function.
Here's a little bit fromOlder Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain:
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(Juan Martin de Boil)
Born at Villa de Valencia, Spain, about the middle of the fifteenth century; died in the odour of sanctity at Tlalmanalco, Mexico, 31 August, 1534. He entered the Franciscan Order at Mayorga in the Province of Santiago, built the monastery of Santa Maria del Berrogal, and was the thief founder of ... | <urn:uuid:3bbf0cf1-113d-42b8-a2f4-016c8cf78505> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=7644 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00168-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95716 | 646 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Let me begin this post by saying, "I agree."
I agree that students should have recess and play outside.
I agree that young children need to interact in a face-to-face setting.
I agree that it is developmentally critical to engage with paper, paint, blocks, crayons and even the dirt on the ground, because elementary stu... | <urn:uuid:5866edfc-b206-4ad3-8189-206a948824d7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.edutopia.org/blog/introducing-social-media-lower-elementary-beth-holland?page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969572 | 1,444 | 3.4375 | 3 |
“They knew that their skin did something weird, but they didn’t know what it was.”
People who reach out to Ariana Page Russell, an artist in Brooklyn, often see their own skin in hers. Many have epidermal reactions like Russell’s, furrowing into palpable welts at the provocation of even a light scratch of the neck or r... | <urn:uuid:df1cb324-b5f5-40d0-90b4-a3206dcd9e35> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/allergic-to-touch/360333/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975337 | 1,616 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Among the treasures of the National Archives is a little valentine showing the courtship of George Washington and Mistress Martha Custis in 1758. The catalog citation indicates that it was published as a vignette in "A Valentine. Col. Geo. Washington to Mistress Martha Custis. 1758," by Arthur Guiterman, Collier's week... | <urn:uuid:99d4d432-9e52-4ea7-8cb9-e027960933f9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://yourstoryiswaiting.blogspot.com/2011/02/founding-romance.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985382 | 652 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Definition of amanita
: any of a genus (Amanita) of white-spored basidiomycetous fungi that typically have a volva and an annulus about the stipe and include some deadly poisonous forms
Origin and Etymology of amanita
New Latin, genus name, from Greek amanitai, plural, a kind of fungus
First Known Use: 1899
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Molecular basis of gene expression
Transcription, copying genetic information into RNA, is the first step of gene expression. In all living organisms transcription is accomplished by conserved multi-subunit RNA polymerases, one of the most ancient enzymes on the planet. Understanding functions of RNA polymerase are ess... | <urn:uuid:64b6f596-464a-44a5-b58b-af8eabb6fc68> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cbcb/staff/profile/nikolay.zenkin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897512 | 1,287 | 2.75 | 3 |
The EBIPM Model
(To print or enlarge, click on the model to view the PDF)
What is EBIPM?
Over many decades, rangeland managers have focused weed management on controlling weeds with little regard to either the existing or the resulting plant community. The approach is simplistic in that only the symptoms (weeds) are tr... | <urn:uuid:9f3f0f93-8911-4198-92ba-c0949a4d3d43> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ebipm.org/the-ebipm-model | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915289 | 354 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Spores of the dreaded Bacillus anthracis have already been used as a bioweapon against the civilian population. Once inhaled, the anthrax pathogen almost always leads to death if the victims are not treated within 24 to 48 hours. Rapid and accurate diagnosis is thus vital. A team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Tec... | <urn:uuid:8205818f-d2e1-4e4e-90ce-df11ab1ca5f8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/jws-add081606.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959291 | 464 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Don't let the scientific term vegetative propagation
scare you—it just means growing new plants from established specimens rather than seed. It can be an easy and economical means of increasing your plant stock. "Propagation is a wonderful way to make more of your favorite varieties to fill in blank spots in your yard ... | <urn:uuid:a31a91e4-6d24-438a-8af6-9412b9408730> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20390485,00.html?xid=shine-110611pm-moreplants | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944836 | 241 | 3.046875 | 3 |
How to Brush and Floss
How to Brush and Floss Your Teeth Properly
How do I brush my teeth?
- Place your toothbrush at a 45-degree angle where the teeth and gums meet.
- Move the brush back and forth gently in short (tooth-wide) strokes.
- Brush the outer, inner and chewing surfaces of the teeth.
- Use the “toe” of the ... | <urn:uuid:9671995f-bb66-4cfd-be1c-ffee93301a4a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wda.org/your-oral-health/own-your-smile/brushing-and-flossing-basics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915947 | 617 | 3.484375 | 3 |
'Space Weather' Affects the Earth
The weather conditions that NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) reports won't change our plans about going to the beach. But the information it provides will help scientists understand how events on the Sun have the ability to disrupt Earth's communications, overload power grids... | <urn:uuid:3efd1097-b99a-4d36-b05c-bccf512fc29e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/f_ace.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918289 | 627 | 3.890625 | 4 |
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Power supplies are computer components that provide electricity to the system by converting AC (alternating current) from a wall outlet to DC (direct current) for the computer. They are located at the rear of the computer case and usually contain one or more cooling f... | <urn:uuid:5729c894-bcec-4eb1-8c8a-2beeac38ef2b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisegeek.org/what-are-power-supplies.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95581 | 821 | 3.9375 | 4 |
Educational administrator, professor, and author, Florence Bamberger devoted her life and career to developing and implementing her progressive views on teaching, teacher education, and scientific educational supervision. Her commitment to supervisory models of pedagogy continues to influence schools of education today... | <urn:uuid:4f5f612b-7115-47d5-8fe9-949c7b13993d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bamberger-florence | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93144 | 731 | 2.671875 | 3 |
I assume AESCrypt uses AES.
AEScrypt uses AES-256 in CBC mode. However, the program also uses SHA-256.
When a file is encrypted with AEScrypt, there is no limit to the length of the password.
The Linux implementation of AEScrypt limits password to 1024 characters. This means: it is practically unlimited, and you can us... | <urn:uuid:635edace-b5ad-4c7a-a275-fb5372695fb1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/12767/how-is-the-aescrypt-password-related-to-the-underlying-aes-key | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945327 | 485 | 2.921875 | 3 |
How we change what others think, feel, believe and do
Groups sometimes fall into a style of thinking where the maintenance of the group’s cohesion and togetherness becomes all-important and results in very bad decision-making.
Janis (1972) defines it as "a way of deliberating that group members use when their desire fo... | <urn:uuid:ffc1ed21-77ce-477a-9ac9-51bc84cc68ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/groupthink.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 | 0.933268 | 322 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Details about Geography: The World and Its People, Volume 1, Student Edition:
The National Geographic Society took an integral role in creating this exceptional program, which is unsurpassed in ensuring geographic literacy. The world-renowned organization'Â’s maps, charts, and graphs and stunning photography engage stu... | <urn:uuid:6952360b-a2cf-45c9-bd7c-e2ccca784f1e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/geography-the-world-and-its-people-volume-1-student-edition-1st-edition-9780078249402-0078249406?ii=19&trackid=1a13799e&omre_ir=1&omre_sp= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920876 | 156 | 2.515625 | 3 |
From the World Heritage inscription:
Schokland was a peninsula that by the 15th century had become an island. Occupied and then abandoned as the sea encroached, it had to be evacuated in 1859. But following the draining of the Zuider Zee, it has, since the 1940s, formed part of the land reclaimed from the sea. Schoklan... | <urn:uuid:e680e2ef-808e-4971-b8f3-4c68f7da20e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://everything-everywhere.com/2009/10/12/unesco-world-heritage-site-84-schokland-and-surroundings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968226 | 227 | 2.71875 | 3 |
In the parlance of the electric power industry, a "trip" means a piece
of machinery stops operating. A series of feedwater system pumps
supplying water to TMI-2's steam generators tripped on the morning of
March 28, 1979. The nuclear plant was operating at 97 percent power at
the time. The first pump trip occurred at 3... | <urn:uuid:56aa1e95-22f5-45b0-a467-fe9f4931ff01> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pddoc.com/tmi2/kemeny/wednesday_march_28_1979.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969957 | 9,189 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Why do dolphins help people?
There are many stories dating back into history of dolphins helping people. Why they should do this is a mystery, especially as man has killed countless dolphins over the years, and continues to do so. In some cases these are ongoing relationships. There are many instances where wild dolphi... | <urn:uuid:7f98b114-7e16-4f07-820d-dfc3315849d3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dolphin-way.com/dolphins-%E2%80%93-the-facts/dolphins-helping-humans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982086 | 1,481 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Chronic Fatigue and Sugar Addiction
Chronic stress activates the adrenal glands to produce stress hormones like cortisol and epinephrine. Overproduction of these hormones drops your blood sugar because stress hormones make you burn circulating blood sugar for energy instead of body fat. When blood sugar drops, your bra... | <urn:uuid:90b4b54b-6821-46db-aff1-ad6a859e2596> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/chronic-fatigue-and-sugar-addiction.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877807 | 271 | 2.796875 | 3 |
1. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
4. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
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Avoid Domestic Violence Over the Holidays
An expert warns that although the holidays are supposed to be a time for family bonding and merriment, for many women and children, they are instead a time of fear and violence.
David Schneider, M.D., chair of family and community medicine at Saint Louis University, remarks tha... | <urn:uuid:3a3a4954-ef64-49d7-aca1-37a007e93d24> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychcentral.com/news/2009/12/17/avoid-domestic-violence-over-the-holidays/10255.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942119 | 513 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
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24.251 Introduction to Philosophy of Language (MIT)
In this introductory course on the philosophy of language, we examine views on the nature of meaning, reference, truth, and their relationships. Other topics may include relationships between language and logic, language and knowledge, language and reality, language a... | <urn:uuid:7317d1ac-4268-4368-b6e8-7a50760c51a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.edumojo.com/elearning/free_open_course.php?name=24.251+Introduction+to+Philosophy+of+Language+(MIT) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902535 | 217 | 3.21875 | 3 |
If you are drinking 4 or more units a day on average then the first problem is that alcohol can cause high blood pressure, and high blood pressure is the major cause of strokes, the risk is not particularly high but when you look at the population as a whole it makes quite a big impact. The major health problem with dr... | <urn:uuid:f0f60c6c-8f4c-4285-a67e-a4bbbeef6dd2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.drinksafely.info/DrinkingAdvice/DrinkingTooMuch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971569 | 836 | 2.65625 | 3 |
This organization was formed in the late summer and early fall of 1863 from units which had served as independent volunteer companies in different parts of the State. These companies were commanded by Captains John C. Chambers, John W. Pearson, Samuel Hope, James Tucker, A.A. Stewart, J.C. DuPree, S.M.G. Garry, and Lie... | <urn:uuid:48cfc4b1-9678-442e-9308-65461b6aa765> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://battleofolustee.org/6th_fl_inf.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981471 | 1,142 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Located in Tanouan Ibi, a village within Mali's Dogon region, the school complex is made up of several blocks but the main teaching areas are located in one single-storey classroom building.
Levs Architecten positioned three identically sized classrooms in a row along the central axis of this building, then added a pai... | <urn:uuid:98c97e2a-20c8-4cf7-85b5-2937909fe83f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dezeen.com/2014/02/12/vaulted-brick-primary-school-mail-levs-architecten/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944083 | 1,063 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Wasps are mainly predatory carnivores. They hunt small insects for their own food, and to feed their young. You will see wasps visit flowers, however, for two reasons. They drink flower nectar for quick energy while they hunt, and they use flowers as a hunting ground for smaller insects that are also attracted there. I... | <urn:uuid:8d0bb787-2dbb-46e0-a6b4-df717ad8c0f9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.seeds.ca/pollination/pollinator-profiles/wasps | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973784 | 360 | 3.78125 | 4 |
"Sociologists have a different way of looking at how people respond to discrimination on a personal level and what it's like to live in a country where the media portrays your group in a certain way. Even policy-makers in the United States sometimes speak in code because ours is a racialized society," Hicken says.
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Genetic factors may render some women more vulnerable to the pressure to be thin, results of a study in twins showed.
When female twins, ages 12 to 22, were asked about their idealization of thinness, those who were identical (monozygotic) had closer levels of thin idealization than fraternal twins (dizygotic), suggest... | <urn:uuid:09b782fd-0ba1-4997-9691-755da8953ed8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medpagetoday.com/Genetics/GeneralGenetics/35099 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965379 | 819 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 honored revolutionary, completely unexpected observations of the inflation of our universe. The Award was divided: One half was awarded to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through o... | <urn:uuid:1d45596b-0a94-4ede-8343-61b13f80d445> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/henryk-frystacki-phd/physics-nobel-prize_b_1066823.html?ref=uk-space | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942031 | 985 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science (2001)
Perhaps the most startling thing we learn in this terrific book by Colin Beavan is that fingerprint identification was not originally developed in order to figure out who had committed crimes, but to help police figur... | <urn:uuid:1ec1ab19-b7f6-4539-b6c3-0ec91a841d75> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/521/Fingerprints.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938406 | 760 | 2.921875 | 3 |
2011 was a rough year, with all kinds of challenges, both political and economic (not to mention natural-disaster related). So it comes as no surprise that climate change is having some unpredicted effects, one of which is a dearth of mistletoe for holiday partygoers to kiss underneath.
Due to extremely dry weather thi... | <urn:uuid:0333935f-a072-4c4e-969b-92c40029637d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/blogs/global-warming-means-fewer-kisses-this-season | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95787 | 310 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Sports play a powerful part in molding the character of the nation -- especially the character of millions of our nation's youth who participate in organized sports programs. The following guidelines can help make youth sports programs (K-12) positive character-building endeavors. They are intended for coaches, as well... | <urn:uuid:8ea43375-391e-4e43-9e15-c3a7b39b57f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.edutopia.org/take-action-what-coaches-can-do?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958933 | 1,569 | 3.875 | 4 |
Aboard the Noble Bully 1, Gulf of Mexico—The Noble Bully 1, a new kind of drill ship developed by Royal Dutch Shellto help extract oil in once inaccessible regions of the deepest oceans, doesn’t look anything like a conventional vessel of its kind. Equipped with a new generation of digital technologies, the ship—a 30,2... | <urn:uuid:c3440177-4b94-4c6a-b67f-db92fb295a22> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/01/02/big-oils-big-data-push-changing-the-future-of-energy/?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95407 | 1,873 | 2.78125 | 3 |
When you hear the expression “It’s raining cats and dogs,” you don’t run to the window expecting to see animals falling from the sky! It’s just a figure of speech—common to our modern English language.
We use figurative speech all the time to help emphasize a point we’re trying to get across. We’d recognize a touch of ... | <urn:uuid:b55e2e3d-b4d9-485d-b2d5-ba289299e649> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://discovertheword.org/tag/new-testament/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93164 | 275 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Humphrey (1391-1447) (DNB00)
HUMPHREY, Duke of Gloucester, called the Good Duke Humphrey (1391–1447), youngest son of Henry, earl of Derby, afterwards Henry IV, by his first wife, Mary Bohun (d. 1394), was born in 1391, probably in January or February, during his father's absence in Prussia. He remained in England with... | <urn:uuid:e1970d3c-a441-4f50-a23c-56fc47143ca3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Humphrey_(1391-1447)_(DNB00) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9761 | 9,467 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Can dehydration cause kidney failure? I am afraid the answer is YES! Dehydration indeed can cause kidney problem which may finally progress to kidney failure.
What is dehydration?
Dehydration refers to an abnormal physical condition and means the body does not have as much fluid and water as it should. With dehydration... | <urn:uuid:86738c29-cc2c-47df-b88d-fe896487672f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kidneyfailureweb.com/causes-others/767.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00156-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954535 | 409 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Deserts Around the World
Dryness, heat, sand as far as the eye can see – there’s no mistaking a desert when you’re in one, and there are loads of deserts all over the world. A desert is a landscape that typically has very little precipitation (rain), high heat, and a distinct lack of plant life – desert plants like cac... | <urn:uuid:10784a3b-6bb6-4193-a308-311c4c66a9d3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kidzworld.com/article/28230-deserts-around-the-world | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954953 | 521 | 2.734375 | 3 |
|Location||Iran, Islamic Republic of, Khuzestan|
|Central coordinates||48o 25.00' East 31o 45.00' North|
|IBA criteria||A1, A4i, B1i, B2, B3|
|Altitude||30 - 90m|
|Year of IBA assessment||1994|
Site description A 55-km stretch of the Karkheh river and adjacent marshy plains (3,500 ha of wetlands), c.35-90 km north-nort... | <urn:uuid:cb2e63ba-27d0-4130-ac4e-f196efe51fa5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sitefactsheet.php?id=8120 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.719132 | 826 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Sickle Cell Association of the
Dr. Secka defined sickle cell disease as a hereditary blood disorder that affects people in ways that can be felt and seen, such as causing pain and swelling.
"It also affects people in less obvious ways such as slowing physical development, damage to internal organs such as the liver, ki... | <urn:uuid:193826ae-e0ec-470e-98f3-202f11487a14> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/sickle-cell-association-trains-members | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969887 | 306 | 3.453125 | 3 |
It's no secret the United States is trying to reduce its consumption of fossil fuels. A full half of them come from foreign countries, creating an undesirable dependency. Plus, they cause pollution. Lots of it. That's why American automakers and fuel companies are continually working on developing alternative fuels and... | <urn:uuid:9a682d49-1150-4556-a805-d6c7c0288ad4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-saving-devices/flex-fuel-vehicle.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965631 | 361 | 3.015625 | 3 |
This page has been archived on the Web
Information identified as archived is provided for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. It is not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards and has not been altered or updated since it was archived. Please contact us to request a format other than those available... | <urn:uuid:1381b336-3230-4f63-86e5-4526ef1381b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ec.gc.ca/lcpe-cepa/default.asp?lang=En&n=6DEE3880-1&offset=4&toc=show | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918905 | 5,577 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Between 1874 and 1875, the Russian tsarina Maria Aleksandrovna, wife of the tsar Alexander II, spent the winter season in San Remo and thus inaugurated the tradition of Russians traveling to the riviera for the winter. As a symbol of her gratitude, she gave the town the palm trees that can still be seen along the prome... | <urn:uuid:cc0a9944-ec65-4140-bb39-f103d35adc4d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sanremoguide.it/en/the-city-of-san-remo/art-and-culture/the-russian-church/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98143 | 1,276 | 2.625 | 3 |
Health Effects/Review of Pre-1996 Data
Author: Jefferson H. Dickey MD
Health Effects: Review of Pre-1996 Data
Pre-1996 Data / Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) / Health Effects
The major health concerns associated with exposure to high concentrations of SO2 include effects on breathing, respiratory illness, alterations in pulmonary... | <urn:uuid:96f273fc-e9d8-4ce2-be38-d3d5311d2a16> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.psr.org/chapters/boston/health-and-environment/health-effects-review.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914586 | 2,781 | 3.0625 | 3 |
WASHINGTON, DC — Space robots have been in the news a lot lately. We have the Curiosity rover on Mars doing science and other rovers, landers, and orbiters studying the planets in our solar system and beyond.
But there's also been a lot of talk about sending humans back to the Moon or even to Mars. So what's the future... | <urn:uuid:362ee0f5-8575-4dfc-9a5e-ef68710c97f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.businessinsider.com/are-humans-or-robots-the-future-of-space-travel-2013-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973425 | 812 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Gabriel Baubeau (bobo1001)
Father: Gabriel Baubeau
Mother: Catherine Rivault
b. 1651 in Saint Sauvant, France
dc. 1704 in Virginia
m. 1703 in St. Mark's Parish, King William County,
Virginia, Elizabeth Spencer widow of James
White, bc. 1682 in Hartford, Connecticut, d. after 1725 in Virginia. Daughter
of Thomas Spence... | <urn:uuid:bc52e315-6ca9-4203-babd-a4af9d13e308> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.vanderfordfamily.com/html/bobo1001.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.826891 | 485 | 2.671875 | 3 |
By: Rich DeMuro
Feb. 22, 2013
When it comes to studying the reaches of the galaxies, NASA takes the lead. Using some of the most powerful tools available, NASA scientist gain insights into the formation of stars in space. Now, they’re sharing a rare opportunity for teachers from across the country to be a part of their... | <urn:uuid:e70f05f7-ef30-4b48-aaaa-1bd37d32e33e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ktla.com/2013/02/22/onboard-nasas-flying-observatory-part-two/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949032 | 484 | 3.25 | 3 |
Rocky Inner Planets
|Home | Stars | Orbits | Habitability | Life ||
|| System Summary | Rocky Inner Planets | Main Asteroid Belt | Gas Giants | E-K Belt & Dust Disk | Oort Cloud ||
|| Sol | Mercury | Venus | Earth | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Dwarf Planets | Sol b? ||
NASA (from left: Mercury, Venus, ... | <urn:uuid:99fa08aa-da74-4a99-87b4-3334fa049dae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://solstation.com/stars/4planets.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947881 | 2,628 | 3.921875 | 4 |
That is, why is the potential energy with the orbitals overlapping less than with the Hydrogen atoms 'independent'. Similarly, why is a noble gas configuration stabler than if an electron were to be removed or added? Is this because pairs of electrons are more stable than single electrons? If so, why?
The pairs of elec... | <urn:uuid:bedcd246-1023-41b3-b597-757ccf58be50> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/35787/why-do-hydrogen-atoms-attract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932961 | 149 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Cumulative Watershed Effects
Cumulative effects are "those effects on the environment that result from the incremental effect of the action when added to past, present and reasonably foreseeable future actions regardless of what agency (federal or nonfederal) or person undertakes such other actions. Cumulative effects ... | <urn:uuid:76383606-ee8f-445e-bde5-a6c000a2c3b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.krisweb.com/watershd/impacts.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890091 | 2,995 | 3.171875 | 3 |
New regulations proposed for novel foods
Throughout history human beings have attempted to broaden their diet by seeking new things to eat. Can you imagine what European cuisine was like before the arrival of the humble potato? People have also employed different methods to preserve their food or make it more palatable... | <urn:uuid:115216e8-ac2f-417a-bb42-a3a3b0c68ddb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/news_events/news_novel-foods-regulations_en.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946745 | 515 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Andrew Jackson never met his father, the man for whom he was named. The elder Andrew, son of a prosperous linen weaver, had emigrated to America from Ireland in 1765. The family–consisting of his wife, Elizabeth Hutchinson, and two sons, Hugh and Robert–landed in Pennsylvania and moved southward, ending up in the Waxha... | <urn:uuid:1d5fce33-230b-453f-b89e-83a4a7f9db2e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/jackson/section1.rhtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989705 | 811 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Improving access to green spaces—like parks, community gardens, and greenways—builds the community and improves the health of residents.
Read about the:
Reaching our targets will require planting more trees on our streets and in our backyards and public spaces, as well as adding more green space to our existing neighbo... | <urn:uuid:a00fff02-27ac-4141-9635-a1d9f7612db2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/access-to-nature.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931674 | 811 | 3.125 | 3 |
Glencoe is a rural/residential locality four km north-west of Gowrie Junction and 13 km north-west of Toowoomba.
Before farm selections began in the late 1870s Glencoe was known as the Gowrie Scrub. The dense tree cover seems to have provoked an excess of clearing and ringbarking in later years. Several settlers were o... | <urn:uuid:62eb9b5e-d827-4bf4-b764-eabf295859fe> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://queenslandplaces.com.au/glencoe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978545 | 306 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Helga's mother is white, and her father is black — and absent. Ostracized throughout her lonely childhood for her dark skin, Helga spends her adult life seeking acceptance. Everywhere she goes — the American South, Harlem, even Denmark--she feels oppressed. Socially, economically, and psychologically, Helga struggles a... | <urn:uuid:a3db06e2-7cdf-442e-a3ce-8a8912e27159> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://store.doverpublications.com/0486451402.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898581 | 248 | 2.78125 | 3 |
- There will be over 200,000 family abductions this year and 58,000 non-family abductions this year.
- One out of five girls and one out of every ten boys will be sexually abused before they reach adulthood.
- Experts estimate that 60 million adults today were sexually abused when they were children.
- Over 800,000 chi... | <urn:uuid:2aabd5ca-9e2b-4a3c-aa14-567a57c22ca9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://safetynetkids.com/about-snk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934163 | 592 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Date: 07/10/98 at 00:13:51 From: David Chung Subject: Math Why is tan 90 undefined?
Date: 07/10/98 at 03:25:38 From: Doctor Floor Subject: Re: Math Hi David, Thank you for sending your question to Dr. Math! To see why tan 90 is undefined, we should look at the way the tangent is defined. In a triangle it is defined in ... | <urn:uuid:0553ce55-7f2f-479b-9fed-abb2e63c1db0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/54086.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00082-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.872703 | 374 | 3.09375 | 3 |
This chapter will deal with the state machine and explain it in detail. After reading trough it, you should have a complete understanding of how the State machine works. We will also go through a large set of examples on how states are dealt within the state machine itself. These should clarify everything in practice.
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Sylvia Plath's Poem ˜The Applicant', explores many issues, in particular it looks at the ideas of feminism and the role of women in a marriage. Through examining areas such as the concerns of the poet, the methods and the language used, ˜The Applicant's' true meanings and statements will become clear.
Plath's early poe... | <urn:uuid:eabb04e5-fae7-44f9-b377-f1a393ba549f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/18086.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964371 | 404 | 2.953125 | 3 |
The Signal Corps in the ETO to Mid-1944
The Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944 climaxed long months of planning and concentrated supply effort. The first build-up of men and equipment in England for a cross-Channel attack against the Continent had been drained away to North Africa in late 1942, and it had been ... | <urn:uuid:150fd539-2404-4a76-9b95-0fb4ae3c8722> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.history.army.mil/html/reference/normandy/TS/SC/SC3.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9691 | 20,307 | 3.171875 | 3 |
||Jim Solomon, curator of the herbarium, manages the storage, care and use of the Garden's collection. His research interests focus on the flora of the Bolivian Andes and studies of members of Vitaceae, the grape family, and Cactaceae, the cactus family.
Photo: Trent Foltz
Secret of the Specimen Shelves
Jim Solomon hol... | <urn:uuid:da4849bb-eb81-4fb7-8e05-e99ac8e2b34e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/unseengarden/knowledge4.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93629 | 375 | 3.265625 | 3 |
The swingometer is a rough guide to what happens when the vote shifts from one party to another at a general election.
There are three swingometers to measure the effect of a vote shift between any two of the three main parties, and they all work the same way.
To measure the effect of a given swing, select one of the d... | <urn:uuid:21da482d-f256-48ad-9eff-52671486bcd6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/vote2005/swingometer/html/labcon.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941597 | 496 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Games can entertain, occupy, and captivate. Games can also teach. Trevor Owens and Jim Safley at George Mason’s Center for History and New Media recognized the educational value of games and how games can “promote humanities learning,” and so they created the Playing History web site.
The site offers a database of 126 ... | <urn:uuid:c93be3cb-a5f1-4e86-a853-65ca6973a1c6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.historians.org/2010/06/history-is-all-fun-and-games/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946606 | 515 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The term Trunk Line in telecommunications refers to the high-speed connection between telephone central offices in the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Trunk lines are always digital. The wiring between central offices was originally just pairs of twisted copper wire (the twists in the wiring prevented things ... | <urn:uuid:1d6eb09b-36ee-4780-bd89-7173f5a7e23e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.inetdaemon.com/tutorials/telecom/pstn/outside_plant/trunk_lines.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947438 | 451 | 3.90625 | 4 |
But Pierre de Wiessant is a great figure in his own right, one of Rodin's finest in my view, and part of a piece of intense nobility, and powerful human drama -- and doesn't that hand just say so much?
The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais) is one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin, completed in 1... | <urn:uuid:3accce51-c027-480d-a753-11eaffe3d245> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pc.blogspot.co.nz/2007/03/pierre-de-wiessant-auguste-rodin.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00154-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959626 | 261 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Four kids and their sidekick, Petey the Parrot, run a lemonade stand whose patrons include all kinds of wacky neighbors—even a juggler. They create a bar graph to track the rise and fall of their lemonade sales. Author Stuart Murphy and illustrator Tricia Tusa make understanding bar graphs a breeze with lively art and ... | <urn:uuid:d460804a-25ab-4552-a7d6-10ea1fb025f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/lemonade-for-sale-1st-edition-9780064467155-0064467155 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926785 | 220 | 2.75 | 3 |
The Skidi lineage of the American Pawnee Indian tribe are known to have had a complex religion of which astronomy was a large part. Their obsession with the night sky went so far as to design their lodges and villages with astronomy in mind.
Scholars have often said that their Villages were laid out in the position of ... | <urn:uuid:71bb94a1-0e81-412b-9312-eac163a77dae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thehiddenrecords.com/pawnee.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985549 | 620 | 3.34375 | 3 |
A new report by the charity Oxfam has found millions of people in the Philippines are still surviving on emergency aid, one month on from Typhoon Haiyan.
The super typhoon killed more than 5,600 people and displaced millions more.
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BOULDER — Groundbreaking work by a group of Boulder scientists has been recognized this month with one of the world’s most prestigious awards for innovations related to water resources.
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Goats and girls education: a “baton” for life
Although we’ve been taught that there is no “silver bullet” to combating poverty, education may be an exception. The impact education can have in the lives of children—especially girls—is overwhelming.
One extra year of school boosts a girl’s future wages by 10-20 percent.
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Science at Yehudi Menuhin School
The aim of the science department at Yehudi Menuhin School is to encourage students to question the world around them and make judgments, based on scientific evidence.
For science studied at Key Stage 2 please look at the Junior overview.
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Brass vs Gold
Both gold and brass have long histories and are commonly used in many fields today. Although they have similar features, mainly due to the mutual yellowish colour, there are plenty of characteristic differences between the two from chemical, physical, and economic standpoints.
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Household Hazardous Waste
What is Household Hazardous Waste?
Household Hazardous Wastes are unused or unwanted products that can pose an environmental threat when disposed of improperly .
Read the label!
Reading the product label can help you identify the hazard. Look for these "signal words" on the label:.
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Issue 11 Flight Summer 2003
The Clean Room / Domesticating the Hiroshima Maidens
“The Clean Room” is a column by David Serlin on science and technology.
In September 1958, millions of tourists from around the world flocked to the World’s Fair in Brussels, Belgium, to climb inside the Atomium, an enormous and somewhat e... | <urn:uuid:665b361d-e880-48f5-ac61-f13c669eeb53> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/11/cleanRoom.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966994 | 3,945 | 2.75 | 3 |
With its spacious dimensions, pleasant views and various amenities, Lockefield Gardens in Indianapolis distinguished itself among housing projects erected in the 1930s under President Franklin Roosevelt’s Public Works Administration. After the complex closed in the 1970s, however, all but seven of the project’s origina... | <urn:uuid:0d988387-7ea3-4f7b-9176-7d91f268a4fe> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://indianapublicmedia.org/momentofindianahistory/evansville-african-american-museum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968483 | 363 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Maps of Panama 2,600 years old
Maps of Panama are not the easiest of things to find if you search bookstores or other likely places. Oh, there are plenty of small ones in the backs of tourist guides or as parts of brochures, and they are free. Finding one that is large, like those multi-fold things sold by North Americ... | <urn:uuid:4edcfd63-76d5-42a2-b3f1-f34e8f36e9e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.yourpanama.com/maps-of-panama.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968266 | 870 | 3.34375 | 3 |
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|Cycling Street Smarts, left-hand drive version|
This manual will teach you safe cycling on public roads and streets.
Most books about cycling begin with the selection of a bicycle and
accessories. This one is going to be different. We're going to start with cycl... | <urn:uuid:bae908e7-398e-4e51-a849-9df3fce38b26> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bikexprt.com/streetsmarts/lhd/intro.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942866 | 1,109 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Research at Colorado State University has revealed new links between tuberculosis and diabetes, providing evidence that TB becomes more deadly when it occurs with diabetes and showing for the first time that tuberculosis can actually trigger pre-diabetes.
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aerial vehicles" - no larger than a common house fly - are currently
being developed by the US military and could enter mass production later
could be used in spying missions, recording and transmitting audio-visual
information. An individual robot would serve as a literal "fly
on the wall" - equipped with miniature ca... | <urn:uuid:17447ed0-de54-41e4-aadb-228b0ab46317> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://futuretimeline.net/subject/military-war.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922 | 431 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Venetian painter, c.1476/8 - 1510
Vasari's knowledge of Giorgione's career and works was rudimentary; Giorgione painted largely for the Venetian aristocracy, to whose private collections the friend of Florentine and Roman nobles did not have access.
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1962, the infancy of X-ray astronomy....Sure, astrophysicists knew that X-rays are produced in the stupendous inferno deep inside the Sun, but they also knew that its X-ray output was miniscule when compared with the visible light that the Sun emits. In order to see X-rays from other stars that are hundreds of light ye... | <urn:uuid:7d7f4231-5e8f-4d3b-b56b-c5846d93216b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/sco/sco.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963646 | 2,171 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Population:14.5 millionLiteracy Rate:84%Religion: Roman Catholic (95%)
Salesian Missions in Ecuador are giving the poor valuable resources and support needed to overcome the country's extreme injustice and inequity. The gap between rich and poor is huge: the top 20% receive 50% of the nation's income, while the bottom ... | <urn:uuid:b3dc6e2b-a9e2-4bf4-af61-43b6be5ec373> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://salesianmissions.org/our-work/country/ecuador | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947348 | 621 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Washington's Science Olympiad puts students' ideas to the test
Interlake High School Science Olympiad participant George Sun prepares his demonstration as judges Norris Brown, Mark Haiar and Cameron Bennett observe.
A little over 50 years ago the Ideal Toy Company introduced a board game called Mouse Trap.
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We have been working on a unit about the 13 colonies. We are only studying the basics of who, what, where and whys of the founding of the colonies. We will be using Homeschool in the Woods Time Travelers The American Revolution after we complete this study so I needed to fill in the gap between our Explorers study and ... | <urn:uuid:50da93ae-2859-4643-b8fc-6518e83ea77a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://proverbs22-6academy.com/2008/02/thirteen-colonies-study/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939363 | 422 | 3.78125 | 4 |
This data set contains meteorological, radiation, soil, and snow data from several sites in three regions in Alaska: Ivotuk, Kougarok and Council.
The goal of the project is to improve the understanding of the role that soil moisture and surface temperature play in affecting the surface energy balance, sub-surface ther... | <urn:uuid:d49a3d4d-fdf1-45c7-9395-624dff24e603> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nsidc.org/data/ggd901 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.883216 | 198 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Hempstead was settled in 1643 by a band of Puritans who sailed across the Long Island Sound from Stamford, Connecticut in search
of a place where they could more freely express their particular brand of Protestantism. They were led by the Rev. Robert Fordham and John Carman, both disciples of the Rev. Richard Denton, t... | <urn:uuid:918c73af-7f55-440a-bb28-92d7eb7d6869> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://longislandgenealogy.com/hempstead.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975848 | 1,463 | 3 | 3 |
1. What are Clarissa’s views on marriage? Do they match those of the other characters? What defines the feminine sphere? What the masculine? How do the spheres overlap?
Clarissa has a very strict idea of marriage, which is part of the reason she is unable to bring herself to marry either Solmes or Lovelace. She believe... | <urn:uuid:6a73b18d-3849-4ce3-9e2f-ccab24804b70> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/clarissa/study.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965277 | 1,397 | 2.96875 | 3 |
The Boston Massacre became an important symbol for radicals who used the incident to build popular opposition to British rule. For thirteen years after the incident, Boston observed March 5, the anniversary of the incident, as a day of public mourning. Artists continued to redraw, repaint, and reinterpret the Boston Ma... | <urn:uuid:3917746d-6877-4f92-bee2-c85148c10b86> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6805/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971219 | 137 | 4.375 | 4 |
Most of the rainforest found in the "Australian" region lies on the world's second largest island, New Guinea.
Australia, the world's smallest continent, has small sections of forest on the Cape York peninsula in the extreme Northeastern part of the country. Australia once had more rainforest cover but thousands of yea... | <urn:uuid:9966111a-305d-476e-87bb-21d2be6bb188> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kids.mongabay.com/elementary/australia.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948013 | 356 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Pronunciation: (i-klips'), [key]
—n., v., e•clipsed, e•clips•ing.
a. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse).
b. a simil... | <urn:uuid:458a2a45-c021-43cf-8040-f9933b2766d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dictionary.infoplease.com/eclipse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.860096 | 232 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Definitions for embraceɛmˈbreɪs
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word embrace
embrace, embracing, embracement(noun)
the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)
the state of taking in or encircling
"an island in the embrace of the sea"
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The limequat is a fruit created by crossing two different fruits, the lime and the kumquat. Classified as a hybrid citrus tree belonging to the citrofortunella family, the fruit combines the sweetness of the kumquat's skin with the tartness of the lemon. Limequats can... | <urn:uuid:1ce5b263-fcc7-4821-b5a5-f6ba4fcec97f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-limequat.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947878 | 667 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
Different species of Bamboo abound in all tropical countries, and wherever they are found the natives apply them to a great variety of uses. Their strength, lightness, smoothness, straightness, roundness, and hollowness,--the facility and regularity with which they can be s... | <urn:uuid:4231f94f-1160-4a45-b9b0-217304923d6a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S027.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976845 | 3,224 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Gorilla Tourism's Downside
More than three decades ago, the Mountain Gorilla project started a tourism project to save the threatened gorilla population from poaching. The project hired poachers as park rangers and demonstrated that live gorillas were much more valuable as tourist attractions than dead ones. Since then... | <urn:uuid:ad0d6f26-995e-44a2-b625-ce7748f8cf05> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nhpr.org/post/gorilla-tourisms-downside | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00156-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928035 | 161 | 3.25 | 3 |
The findings of the survey, which was led by Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, also indicated improved knowledge and beliefs about mental health problems within the community due, in part, to educational campaigns about mental health.
Lead researcher Dr Nicola Reavl... | <urn:uuid:26dfd1ef-b37b-4a30-b9b9-8922d45a66c9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-03/uom-pmw030614.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972279 | 413 | 2.796875 | 3 |
August 26, 2011
The intentions may be honorable, but a new energy law promoting natural power sources may already have had the wind knocked out of its sails before it even becomes law.
The special measures bill on renewable energy, whose passage through the Diet was among the conditions Prime Minister Naoto Kan set for... | <urn:uuid:2e3fe14c-cae6-47ac-a9c3-e7c95581485d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2011/08/26/renewable-energy-law-may-lack-needed-teeth-via-asahi-japan-watch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00186-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949587 | 245 | 2.75 | 3 |
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