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The United States Congress designated the Holy Cross Wilderness (map
) in 1980 and it now has a total of 122,446 acres
All of this wilderness is located in Colorado
and is managed by the Forest Service.
The Holy Cross Wilderness is characterized by rugged ridgelines and glacier-carved valleys complete with spruce-fir f... | 31,808 |
The slaughter of the First World War spurred many soldiers to mutiny and join the revolution. Kronstadt sailors played a leading role—and that was no accident.
Kronstadt, base of the Baltic Fleet, was at the centre of the Tsar’s attempt to build a modern navy. That meant more and more skilled recruits were needed.
More... | 43,128 |
Advancing the Smart Grid
UL is participating in a pioneering smart grid research project, Pecan Street Demonstration, compiling the industry's most extensive database of consumer electricity consumption practices.
WHY ADVANCING THE SMART GRID MATTERS
With investment in grid modernization, waste in the electrical system... | 19,948 |
A Genomics-enabled Microbial Observatory in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Monterey Bay, California
In the Monterey Bay, a typical milliliter of surface water contains on the order of a million microbial cells (in open ocean waters this drops to around one hundred thousand cells per milliliter). These small... | 32,459 |
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. — For decades, tourists visiting this popular Adirondack village could gape at the skeletons of soldiers from nearby French and Indian War sites. Then in 1993, a somber reburial ceremony was held to finally put the remains to rest.
Only that never happened.
Almost all of the 18th-century skeletons wer... | 7,635 |
Large and/or multiple mining operations generate opportunities for and challenges to the communities in which they operate—influencing the lives of workers, workers’ families, mining communities, rural communities, Indigenous communities and the wider region. Change can occur on many levels—economic, social, environmen... | 17,649 |
The world’s largest land mammal that lived on earth about 23 million years ago was a rhinoceros known as the Baluchitherium — so named because fossils (preserved remains of ancient animals) of this gigantic extinct animal were first found in the Bugti area of Balochistan in 1910 by English paleontologist, Sir Clive For... | 27,243 |
This is a about a 3-week (or so) unit for 8th grade based on the Common Core Standards for Verbals. It includes three or more worksheets, a quiz, and a writing exercise for each of the following: participles, gerunds, and infinitives.
Includes answer keys!! YAY!
The worksheets include definitions and examples of the co... | 6,948 |
late 14c., marcien "of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the planet Mars" (originally in reference to astrological influence), from Latin Martius "sacred to (the god) Mars; pertaining to (the planet) Mars," from Mars (genitive Martis; see Mars). From mid-15c. as "of or pertaining to the god Mars, warlike;" also some... | 2,328 |
PHAC 4001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cyp3A4, Alcohol Dehydrogenase, Alcohol Dependence
Phac 4001 lecture 14 february 12, 2021 alcohol i. Canadian centre on substance use and addiction 2017. In canada, there were around 77,000 hospitalizations entirely caused by alcohol in 2015 2016, compared to 75,000 hospitalizations... | 7,290 |
Take some time exploring the audio and video making tools that you have learnt about in this course.
- Take one tool and use it with your learners either by creating a resource to use with them, or for them to use the tool themselves.
- Reflect on the process and the learning that took place.
- What worked well, what w... | 26,647 |
Why you should add almonds
Like all nuts, almonds are one of nature’s superfoods. If you eat them regularly, they may lower your risk of heart attack and type 2 diabetes, and they can even make it easier for you to maintain a healthy weight.
- Eating 70 grams of almonds daily can reduce bad LDL cholesterol by almost 10... | 62,146 |
Western and Central Africa
Eastern and Southern Africa
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Available in English, French and Spanish. This technical paper focuses on the effect of climate change on global coffee production, with particular reference to small coffee producers in developing and least developed countries. It h... | 34,973 |
king of Scotland (died in 1057)
The Tragedy of Macbeth is among the most famous of William Shakespeare's plays, as well as his shortest tragedy. It is frequently performed at professional and community theatres around the world.
Macbeth (also known as The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a 1971 film directed by Roman Polanski, b... | 33,190 |
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Present to your audienceStart remote presentation
- Invited audience members will follow you as you navigate and present
- People invited to a presentation do not need a Prezi account
- This link expires 10 minutes after you close the presentation
- A maximum of 30 users can foll... | 14,146 |
You probably never think about your eyes, accept for those times when they are dry or watery and become irritated. The human eye is a very complex biological structure. The science behind sight is truly fascinating and worth the time to investigate and understand. If reading articles about the eye are not stimulating e... | 21,771 |
This summer, I worked at the University of Florida learning how to design and construct robots. A robot is an autonomous machine that detects and responds to external stimuli in a way that simulates intelligent behaviors. The development process goes through several stages before the machine is complete. First is the c... | 57,090 |
Clean quantum and classical communication protocols
By how much must the communication complexity of a function increase if we demand that the parties not only correctly compute the function but also return all registers (other than the one containing the answer) to their initial states at the end of the communication ... | 58,934 |
Any video clip you watch on your smartphone, computer, TV or tablet has a specific type of file format. If you want your videos to perform well on any platform, you must understand how each video format works. For example, a video format for web development will be different from the format you use for your social medi... | 2,528 |
This is the first ever LADA Awareness Week, organized by Diabetes Hands Foundation and dLife. LADA stands for Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults. I think of it as type 1 diabetes that starts in adulthood, although there are some differences from typical juvenile-onset type 1 diabetes.
Seven-and-a-half to 10% of appar... | 27,047 |
COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
Theories & Practice
- The History of CALL. A PDF file of an introduction to the development of the Computer-Assisted Language Learning.
- Hot Potatoes. An excellent free Web authoring tool for language teachers.
- Cloze Generator. You can make blanks for every n-th word automatically... | 58,152 |
Whale Sharks' Shared Feast Sets Record
Aerial photo of whale sharks taken in the summer of 2009.
CREDIT: Proyecto Domino
The whale sharks spied in one group off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico two years ago numbered up to 420 — the largest gathering of the mysterious behemoths ever recorded, scientists said Wednesday (... | 11,404 |
IN a very elaborate and interesting book, published in the year 1867, the title of which, at length, is the following: Life and Work at the Great Pyramid, by C. Piazzi Smyth, Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh, and Astronomer Royal for Scotland. Edinburgh, 1867: the conclusions (though a mi... | 29,017 |
For the first few years of life, boys and girls are mostly equal. They develop mentally at about the same rate, are disciplined similarly, and are equally likely to start school, a new UNICEF study says.
But the study suggests that gender differences begin to grow as the children do — particularly when girls become big... | 1,879 |
According to Vox Science and Health, we all have a special system for feeling emotional, social touch.
There are two touch systems. The first one gives us the 'facts' - the location, movement, and strength of a touch - and we call that discriminative touch."
The second is the emotional touch system. It's mediated by sp... | 34,212 |
The Arbatel de magia veterum (Arbatel: Of the Magic of the Ancients) is a Renaissance-period grimoire – a textbook of magic – and one of the most influential works of its kind. Unlike some other occult manuscripts that contain dark magic and malicious spells, the Arbatel contains spiritual advice and guidance on how to... | 57,049 |
Getting Blood Pressure Under Control
Many missed opportunities to prevent heart disease and stroke
High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, both of which are leading causes of death in the US. Nearly one-third of all American adults have high blood pressure and more than half of them don... | 50,092 |
Tropaeolum, commonly known as Nasturtium, literally “nose-twister” or “nose-tweaker”, contains roughly 80 species. They are native to south and central America.
These fit neatly into three categories of a permaculture guild: herbaceous, rhizosphere and vines/vertical. Most organic gardeners know that nasturtiums are an... | 48,752 |
Possum Boxes at your Home
Create a home for an endangered species.
Possum boxes are routinely installed in native trees to create additional nesting options for the western ringtail possum, and provide greater protection from predation from cats, dogs, owls and crows at times when their natural habitat is removed or se... | 50,221 |
Monday 11th May
LO: Can I use my research skills to find out what the Romans invented?
This week in English we are going to be having a big debate! "Were the Romans the greatest inventors?"
Today, I would like you to use your research skills to find out what the Romans invented. Use the internet to research this. Then,... | 53,219 |
Irritating U.S. export -- fire ants
Fire ants came to the South as an unwanted gift from Argentina more than half a century ago. But now, the United States has managed to export the ant around the globe, according to a team of researchers tracking the migration.
"It's just exploded in the last 10 years," said one of th... | 21,926 |
In any Ashtanga class, you've probably heard a teacher shout "hold mula bandha!" to a struggling student. So what the heck does that even mean?
An overview of the three bandhas:
In our yoga practice there are three things that hold the posture together. Without these three things, yoga would just be stretching and noth... | 61,316 |
Folk-lore of the Holy Land, Moslem, Christian and Jewish, by J. E. Hanauer , at sacred-texts.com
IN the early part of the eighteenth century the learned Rabbinnical writer Kolonimos was head of the small, and greatly oppressed Jewish community at Jerusalem.
One Sabbath day, the Rabbi was at his devotions at the Jews’ W... | 3,502 |
Why Did My Plant Die?
Why Did My Plant Die?
Let’s start this post off with the truth: sometimes we can’t figure out why a plant has died. And often, a plant dies not just from one cause, but from a combination of “this, then that, and the other thing.” That said, here is how to problem solve if you’ve got a plant that ... | 13,744 |
The Beginnings of San Francisco
In the Vioget survey of 1839 the streets were, as has been stated, very narrow. Vioget ran no east line for Montgomery street and consequently that street, being completed later, was the widest in the village and was made sixty-two and a half feet wide. Kearny street was made forty-five ... | 47,031 |
What is Depression?
Depression is a term commonly applied to a wide variety of emotional states ranging from feeling down for a few hours on a given day to severe clinical depression that may last for several months.
Being diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder can lead to depression. After becoming sick and not knowing... | 1,866 |
In this blog we try to give you an idea of what a bot is made of i.e. the components used in making a bot. Obviously the exact components required for a given bot will depend on the type of bot you are building, but this will give you some idea of the components available.
Every bot must be capable of connecting to and... | 60,958 |
All you need to realize about clinical article: its function, way and structure of composing
The manuscript for the article must have the total name associated with work, the surname and mane for the writer, the annotation ( for a split page), record of used literary works.
Few words regarding the framework of medical ... | 61,049 |
Guest Author - Barbara Swiech
Who is a hero? Sometimes it seems that a hero can be only a person whose actions are known to others. Good people are known to make good things. But what if somebody seems not to take any actions but in fact helps many people in secret? Unfortunately nowadays heroism is defined by intensit... | 51,842 |
By Devoney Looser, Arizona State University
While Austen’s collateral descendants influenced her writing, she also galvanized generations of Austen family relatives who were themselves writers, publishers, and public figures. Jane’s closest sibling relationship was with her sister, Cassandra, who played an important ro... | 50,447 |
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a type of surgery that improves blood flow to the heart. It's used for people who have severe coronary heart disease (CHD), also called coronary artery disease.
CHD is a condition in which a substance called plaque (plak) builds up inside the coronary arteries. These arteries s... | 48,381 |
If you are being bullied...
- Reach Out
Tell an adult. Sometimes you may have to tell more than one trusted adult.
Ask your friends to help you. There is safety in numbers.
Practice what to say the next time you're bullied with your parents, teachers or friends.
- Be Cool in the Moment
Stay calm and confident. Don't sh... | 14,041 |
This test executes a new proposed standard benchmark method for MPI startup that is intended to provide a realistic assessment of both launch and wireup requirements. Accordingly, it exercises both the launch system of the environment and the interconnect subsystem in a specified pattern.
Specifically, the test consist... | 56,120 |
The product of two of Oklahoma's foremost authorities on the history of the 46th state, Oklahoma: A History is the first comprehensive narrative to bring the story of the Sooner State to the threshold of its centennial. From the tectonic formation of Oklahoma's varied landscape to the recovery and renewal following the... | 39,513 |
Nobody wants to lose their independence as they age. But when it comes to driving, safety should always outweigh the desire to remain independent by getting behind the wheel. Talking to your parent about hanging up the keys is not an easy conversation to have, but at some point, it may be a necessary one.
According to ... | 59,548 |
Note to Reader:
Funded by Metro Vancouver and a federal-provincial program for climate change adaptation, the Water Balance Model Express for Landowners helps landowners quantify how well their properties slow, sink and spread rainwater runoff and do their share to meet pre-set watershed targets for volume, infiltratio... | 15,190 |
The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park are now believed to have shortened the duration of the Second World War by up to two years. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed impossible. This extraordinary book, originally published as Action... | 10,508 |
Growing Organic to Feed the World: Environmental Justice is Social Justice
There are significant benefits to the environment and economic profitability when considering more organic farming practices. Organic farming will decrease threats to biodiversity and decrease greenhouse emissions. At the same time, organic farm... | 9,613 |
The British Miners and the Coal Industry between the Wars
The problems of the interwar mining industry, which led to a General Strike in 1926, writes W.H. Chaloner, epitomized the struggle between capital and labour in twentieth-century Britain.
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries an expanding coal indus... | 49,155 |
I saw a photo of a paper soccer ball on flicker made like this.
From what I found, this was made by Phillip Chapman-Bell. If this is incorrect please let me know.
The soccer ball shape is made from pentagons and hexagons.
This uses two different colors for the two different shapes, and a unique Yin Yang looking connect... | 44,919 |
Google and China may not be fighting over science, but their feud could have unintended negative consequences for researchers in the country.
A Nature News survey of Chinese scientists found that 84 percent of them thought losing access to Google would "somewhat or significantly" hurt their work process. Like their Ame... | 18,197 |
The health of your teeth and mouth is very important to the well-being of your entire body. While routine brushing and flossing at home is necessary, visiting your dentist for a comprehensive exam and cleaning is essential. You visit your dentist every six months to ensure your teeth stay healthy and your smile stays b... | 20,679 |
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