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This style of art is set in stone; literally. Architecture, statues, and other stone carvings make up this style. The Romans and Greeks idolized the human form and that is obviously the reason they have so many statues. Many of their statues were of their gods, characters from their myths, and important people in their... | <urn:uuid:c32451e1-a201-4fa6-92ab-290aa7b4756b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://library.thinkquest.org/C006468/mike/classicalart.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986826 | 314 | 3.921875 | 4 |
Activated 1 March 1942 at Salt Lake City AB, Utah. They trained there until the 2nd of March 1943. Then moved to Geiger Field, Washington on 11 June 1942 Intensive training at Muroc Lake AB, California from the 29t June to 20th August 1942. The ground unit went by train to at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The ground unit saile... | <urn:uuid:031b577e-e6e5-4526-ad1f-49344adb6e0d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.flightjacket.com/365-bs-305-bg-8-af.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978844 | 1,019 | 2.59375 | 3 |
texinfo-show-structure command produces too much
information. Perhaps you want to remind yourself of the overall structure
of a Texinfo file, and are overwhelmed by the detailed list produced by
texinfo-show-structure. In this case, you can use the
command directly. To do this, type:
and then, when prompted, type a reg... | <urn:uuid:85f4d535-bfc2-4020-b7ed-86be7b7490c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Using-occur.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.865556 | 341 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Most people want to help protect and preserve the environment. There are many views on how to best do this, and most focus on reducing use of natural materials and recycling what can be saved. While the idea is admirable, these actions can cause more harm than good. Recycling materials that were not designed to be recy... | <urn:uuid:d94763b1-2321-470c-a83f-70ac3d31c74b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://envirowriters.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/essay-2-book-review-revision-cradle-to-cradle-clean-creation-and-clean-destruction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952211 | 1,286 | 3.96875 | 4 |
Interview with Prof. Ken Donaldson
Professor of Respiratory Toxicology, ELEGI Colt Laboratory, Centre for Inflammation Research, Medical School, University of Edinburgh
ICON: What is the most important thing that readers should take away from your publication?
Ken Donaldson: The study places carbon nanotubes within the... | <urn:uuid:5d6cc96a-77d3-4c8b-a1c6-718e63ad6244> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://icon.rice.edu/resources.cfm?doc_id=12344 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953792 | 1,892 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Scylla (sĭlˈə) [key], in Greek mythology. 1 Sea monster. According to one legend Circe, jealous of the sea god Glaucus' love for Scylla, changed her from a beautiful nymph into a horrible doglike creature with six heads and twelve feet; according to another, Amphitrite, jealous of Poseidon's love for her, transformed h... | <urn:uuid:692aa1b9-7b57-4ed2-9d52-1de72091e2e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/entertainment/scylla.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924575 | 234 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Unlike mammals, fish are cold-blooded. This means that they do not maintain a constant internal body temperature; instead, their temperature is greatly influenced by their environment. True fish have a backbone and fins. Most also breathe with gills and have scales that cover their bodies. It is currently believed that... | <urn:uuid:62bb55b9-be9e-4629-8dec-111c0f817fc3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.merckmanuals.com/pethealth/print/exotic_pets/fish/description_and_physical_characteristics_of_fish.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959092 | 633 | 4.03125 | 4 |
How Christians went to war
Among the remarkable side effects of the conflict between the United States and Iraq has been the revival of the just war theory, the set of ethical reflections specifying the conditions under which a "just war" may be declared (jus ad bellum) and how it must be waged (jus in bello). Catholic... | <urn:uuid:66b1dcab-dba7-4989-9b7d-7fd3e75b96d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uscatholic.org/culture/war-and-peace/2008/07/how-christians-went-war | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952462 | 1,727 | 2.515625 | 3 |
So consider the case where there is a particle and a moving telescope:
If the particle is located at position 1, and the telescope is moving horizontally as shown, the EM radiation appears to be coming from position 2, from the telescopes perspective.
Let us now think of the object 1 as being an electron, producing a s... | <urn:uuid:cee96e84-c6d3-40de-89cd-a7573863ef8f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/52779/why-is-there-no-aberation-of-a-static-electric-field-but-there-is-aberation-for/52834 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944951 | 105 | 3.125 | 3 |
As important as it is to get your blood pressure checked, doing it at the doctor's office is not the best strategy, a new study out of the UK finds. The researchers compared the cost-effectiveness and accuracy of clinical (in-office) blood pressure tests against home blood pressure monitors, and mobile monitors that ar... | <urn:uuid:ae27f7b7-42cc-4706-8c63-6d7060f59876> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.4to40.com/health/index.asp?p=The_Hidden_Cost_of_Blood_Pressure_Tests&c=Womens_Health | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960187 | 928 | 2.59375 | 3 |
- Alcohol has been used as a medicine.
Alcohol was used for centuries as a medicine in childbirth, sedation,
- Alcohol is digested in the same way that food is digested.
Alcohol is unique because it requires no digestion. It can be absorbed
directly from the stomach, and even more rapidly from the small intestine.
- Mo... | <urn:uuid:befd823a-e557-435e-9ec8-35fb6e81b60b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.med.unc.edu/alcohol/prevention/quiz/quiz6.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906056 | 543 | 3.1875 | 3 |
new(name, utc_offset, tzinfo = nil)public
Create a new TimeZone object with the given name and offset. The offset is the number of seconds that this time zone is offset from UTC (GMT). Seconds were chosen as the offset unit because that is the unit that Ruby uses to represent time zone offsets (see Time#utc_offset).
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|Egyptian MiG-21 PFM|
|First flight||14 February 1955 (Ye-2)|
|Status||In active service (see list)|
|Primary users||Soviet Air Force
Indian Air Force
Romanian Air Force
Polish Air Force
|Produced||1959 (MiG-21F) to 1985 (MiG-21bis)|
(10,645 produced in the USSR, 657 in India, 194 in Czechoslovakia)
The Mikoyan-Gurevic... | <urn:uuid:0c0b20a1-4eb8-45c7-abae-a279ed5d1e2f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917774 | 13,978 | 2.859375 | 3 |
a hormone - treats Burns, Peripheral vascular disease / claudication, Infertility, Interstitial cystitis, Dental pain, Heart protection during coronary artery bypass grafting, Immunomodulator, Exercise performance, Migraine headache, Kidney disease or failure, Transplants, Senile dementia, Cyclosporine toxicity, Critic... | <urn:uuid:9159a578-3f13-430c-9ccc-edc397db1565> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.healthline.com/drugcompare?drug1=arginine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87503 | 786 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Courses in the Civil Rights subject area address the complex doctrinal and theoretical questions that implicate some of the most important legal and political issues being debated today. The area of civil rights law covers both statutory and constitutional law that protects individual civil and political rights. The La... | <urn:uuid:cfbeb3b0-1279-408a-848a-53167773a37e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.law.fordham.edu/registrar/4664.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93746 | 201 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Roger Williams chose this site in 1636 after he was exiled from Massachusetts. He secured title to the land from Narragansett chiefs and named the place in gratitude for "God's merciful providence." The settlement grew as a refuge for religious dissenters. Many of its buildings were burned in King Philip's War (1675-76... | <urn:uuid:f799c77d-24be-4545-8fed-42544d782c16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reference.com/browse/providence | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969194 | 1,152 | 2.875 | 3 |
If distracted drivers and icy sidewalks weren't enough, researchers at the University of Maryland have tracked a new danger for pedestrians: wearing headphones.
Closed off to the warning sounds around them, the number of walkers killed or badly injured in crashes in the US tripled from 16 in 2004 to 47 in 2011. It's a ... | <urn:uuid:72c93704-1c24-4754-b858-82b5ab443242> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.silentsports.net/blogs/137566848.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952315 | 157 | 2.65625 | 3 |
To shoot a simple sequence you need at least three shots -
- A master shot showing the person engaged in their activity
- A shot of the person's face
- A close up of the activity
CLOSE UP ON ACTIVITY
- If you are covering an activity that can be repeated, I'd suggest
your first shot is the "Master Shot". This is a good... | <urn:uuid:7e55a460-4847-46ef-bea6-913fb539d20b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.urbanfox.tv/creative/sequences.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925859 | 853 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The Center City District in Philadelphia has made physical improvements spawning safer streets and economic vitality.
In the 1980s, downtown Philadelphia was ridden with crime and economic decline. The Center City District Business Improvement District formed to promote a “clean, safe, attractive and well-managed publi... | <urn:uuid:4b5da0a8-0004-4ef7-a29c-ef21fbd19e43> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nycsr.org/global-lessons/philadelphia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917404 | 190 | 2.546875 | 3 |
A more extreme from of Magnifying and Minimizing is All-or-Nothing Thinking.
Consider this cheerleading scenario. Your cheerleading squad is at Nationals and you have come in 3rd in your division. You all know that your performance was excellent; you hit everything. What’s your reaction?
Do you smile with pleasure, kno... | <urn:uuid:8eb247c0-adb2-4f68-b274-48188b9751aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.confidentcheerleadingblog.com/tag/all-or-nothing-thinking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974383 | 280 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The Arctic is ground zero for the impacts of climate change . Defenders of Wildlife is actively involved in a number of policy initiatives that will help species like polar bears , wolverines and walruses adapt to the realities of a warming planet.
How We’re Helping
Defenders participates in regular planning workshop... | <urn:uuid:ec9c6b44-7fbf-4988-8665-7ad8de6c1bd2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.defenders.org/print/5162 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926284 | 195 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Ivory Coast, officially the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, is a country in West Africa. Ivory Coast borders Liberia and Guinea to the west, Mali and Burkina Faso to the north, Ghana to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.
Close ties to France since independence in 1960, the development of c... | <urn:uuid:fe34a788-c901-4629-8926-bc44d249362b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.international.ucla.edu/print.asp?parentid=96732 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940655 | 831 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Smarter Living: Shopping Wise
Meals of Mass Destruction: Shrimp
The Gulf oil spill made Americans think twice before tossing shrimp on the grill and that might not be such a bad thing. After seeing the horrifying pictures, many are about as interested in eating seafood that's been swimming in the Gulf as they are in di... | <urn:uuid:76ee9789-8d08-4246-977d-a823c4e6a502> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nrdc.org/living/shoppingwise/meals-mass-destruction-shrimp.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962377 | 1,707 | 2.75 | 3 |
POSEIDONAS CAVE that occupies the site known as "Myli" constitutes a monumental rock-cut tomb or sanctuary. This particular type was very common in the Eastern Aegean Sea. Certain traces suggest the existence of a wooden cover at the cave entrance. The cave was probably a sanctuary dedicated to Aphrodite, a very popula... | <urn:uuid:baa0b5ae-b1e6-4901-9f46-f6f08be4d02c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.visitgreece.gr/en/touring/caving/poseidonas_cave | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969512 | 143 | 2.609375 | 3 |
With most of the holidays behind us, it is a good time to reflect on friends, family, and more. If you have good friends, most likely your friends have great character. Many people are drawn to those with great character.
Caillou was a character that was created in 1990 by French author Christine L’Heureux and illustra... | <urn:uuid:476605e0-2eb7-4e60-9c31-570d4bbb2031> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.tystoybox.com/tag/character/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974815 | 263 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Manta rays spend their lives in the ocean, sweeping up microscopic animals. And yet scientists have found that their well-being depends on forests. Meadows in the northwestern United States are ecologically linked to salmon thousands of miles out at sea. Today, I’ve got a piece in Yale Environment 360 in which I explor... | <urn:uuid:3bd4290f-5998-4294-b316-afc6d19b8081> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5900 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934166 | 104 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Episcopal Diocese of Missouri
|Diocese of Missouri|
|Ecclesiastical province||Province VI|
|Cathedral||Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis|
|Bishop||George Wayne Smith|
Location of the Diocese of Missouri
The Episcopal Diocese of Missouri is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisd... | <urn:uuid:27757363-029f-49b0-89c4-5b83f9b24cd7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_Diocese_of_Missouri | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973362 | 864 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Women who are very thin as well as those who are substantially overweight may have fertility problems . Low body weight disrupts hormonal function and can cause:
- Anovulation—no ovulation
- Oligomenorrhea—few menstrual periods
- Amenorrhea —the absence of a menstrual period
Being overweight can also disrupt hormone le... | <urn:uuid:205359ae-84ff-4944-80a2-810da3b36a07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://memorialhospitaljax.com/your-health/?/2010814526/Lifestyle-Changes-to-Manage-Infertility-in-Women | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935944 | 590 | 2.859375 | 3 |
The "Around the Web" series highlights informative websites, and also targeted blog posts and news articles, relevant to the courses I teach. This semester I teach Anth 143: Biology of Human Behavior, an introductory-level course that covers the basics of evolution, behavioral biology, and the interaction of biology an... | <urn:uuid:119b20b9-e625-4f97-9ed4-d6b99fa0b210> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://professorkateclancy.blogspot.com/2010/12/around-web-stress-and-social.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944781 | 990 | 2.734375 | 3 |
* Realistic applications integrated throughout the text, including (but not limited to):
- Symmetries of artistic patterns
- Computer vision
- Computer graphics
- Stability of architectural structures
- Molecular biology
- Pattern recognition
* Historical notes included in many chapters
* Instructor's Manual with solut... | <urn:uuid:2f35d605-5d8b-4c3b-a062-392379ddb4ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780123694270 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939049 | 838 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Monday, September 24, 2007
Let's talk about peregrine falcons
Since my camera is going to be in the camera hospital for 2 or 3 weeks, I am going to have to pull posts
out of my a**, I guess.
I like doing species profiles, so let's start off with my favorite raptor, the Peregrine Falcon:
The peregrine falcon's scientifi... | <urn:uuid:34970b58-8b99-4482-ae07-0cb91ef9cc6f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://susankwilliams.blogspot.com/2007/09/lets-talk-about-peregrine-falcons.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96394 | 906 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Environment May Be Especially Key to Autism
Other research finds that certain antidepressants taken in pregnancy might influence risk.
MONDAY, July 4 (HealthDay News) — Contrary to current thinking, environmental factors may play a larger role than shared genes in the development of autism, a new study in twins suggest... | <urn:uuid:6ac759e7-47dc-42ba-8c6e-8a313c1c3726> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.everydayhealth.com/autism/0705/environment-may-be-especially-key-to-autism.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972025 | 1,224 | 3.015625 | 3 |
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY:
- Solar energy
- Air and water purification / decontamination
- Absorb energy over the entire solar spectrum
- Narrow band gap - 1.54 eV
- Stable after extensive use and storage
- Production method may expand optical absorption of other semiconductor nanostructures
Sam Mao and a team of scie... | <urn:uuid:e6c2f941-f772-470d-8fdc-b005da0b06a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lbl.gov/tt/techs/lbnl2686.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.879341 | 632 | 3.265625 | 3 |
You are reading a NORD Rare Disease Report Abstract. NORD’s full collection of reports on over 1200 rare diseases is available to subscribers (click here for details). We are now also offering two full rare disease reports per day to visitors on our Web site.
NORD is very grateful to Peter W. Stacpoole, PhD, MD, Profes... | <urn:uuid:79b15608-5aee-40ad-be56-273e5a1b615f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rarediseases.org/rare-disease-information/rare-diseases/byID/392/viewAbstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892764 | 705 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Zovirax cream is an antiviral medication that is used to treat cold sores, which are caused by herpes simplex viruses. The prescription medication helps the body fight the infection by preventing the virus from multiplying. Although Zovirax cream cannot prevent an outbreak, it can help cold sores to heal quicker when a... | <urn:uuid:32294d2e-b451-436b-aef7-99a5d1551e9c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://herpes.emedtv.com/zovirax-cream/zovirax-cream.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94785 | 331 | 2.578125 | 3 |
- Historic Sites
Salem At Peace
October 1992 | Volume 43, Issue 6
If witches and their meaning for the modern world pall, the other, brighter Salem inhabits many of the same streets walked by the bedeviled citizens of 1692. The red line leads to the waterfront and maritime Salem, whose motto, “To the farthest port of t... | <urn:uuid:bce32d72-86af-4580-b92f-e0812222a02b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.americanheritage.com/content/salem-peace?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973625 | 658 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Five Ingenious Ways Humans Move Water
Photo via R Stanek @ flickr
Sometimes it's not the lack of water that causes problems but the difficulties in reaching the nearest water source that can send societies scrounging. But for centuries, inventive city planners have found ways to work around that challenge, moving mass ... | <urn:uuid:2c58d87a-2d81-4bff-b66f-cdb2c6e2ebf4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/five-ingenious-ways-humans-move-water.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943168 | 615 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Energy is a scalar physical quantity and is often defined as the ability to do work. In physical terms, the conservation of energy describes the conversion from one (status, object) to another. In social terms, energy is converted to other 'products' such as heat, steam, electricity. Energy becomes less useful to socie... | <urn:uuid:ce98a8f0-465a-46ca-bf01-160339f766e3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gemmeronline.de/energy-cdm.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925262 | 700 | 3.28125 | 3 |
4.4 Summary, One- and Two-Sample Tests
Table IV, adapted from Siegel & Castellan (1988), attempts a summary, demonstrating an apparent wide world of non-parametric tests available for sample comparison; but is this really so? In deciding which test(s) are relevant, the following points should be noted; the decision may... | <urn:uuid:bde56d28-9f41-4208-8331-7e4faaa4d12e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Wall2/Wal4_4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933864 | 690 | 3 | 3 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A place where an extensive variety of woody plants are cultivated for scientific, educational, and ornamental purposes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A place in which trees and shrubs, especially rare ones, are cultivated for scientific... | <urn:uuid:6b6d75f5-b509-401a-8025-2d188e9013b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wordnik.com/words/arboretum | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933629 | 812 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Database Attach and Detach
There are often situations when an Analysis Services database administrator (dba) wants to take a database offline for a period, and then bring that database back online on the same server instance, or on a different one. These situations are often driven by business needs, such as moving the... | <urn:uuid:de1c10d7-9c6f-419f-99d8-2429a9a67074> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280583(v=sql.100).aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.869548 | 528 | 2.859375 | 3 |
|week 2 "prepare" artist chosen introduction|
he was an illustrator whose work lives on in the memories of generations of Americans who read and loved Little Golden Books. This particular book with its wonderful and funny pictures, Little Peewee or, Now Open The Box was written by Dorothy Kunhardt in 1934, but illustra... | <urn:uuid:633f153d-a6df-4119-b6c1-6045981d0719> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kaihuanggraphicdesign.blogspot.ca/2012/01/week-2-prepare-artist-chosen.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976825 | 470 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Injectable nanogel can monitor blood-sugar levels and secrete insulin when needed.
Ainissa G. Ramirez is passionate about shattering stereotypes of scientists as serious and dull. Ramirez wants to show kids what she knows firsthand: Science can be fun.
Ramirez, who has recently been named an MIT Martin Luther King Jr. ... | <urn:uuid:6bfc2ffb-081c-439d-af23-fc9fb650944b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/ramirez-0529.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947736 | 512 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Mystery of dolphin and penguin deaths
Scientists searching for the cause of the mass deaths of dolphins and pelicans off the coast of Peru think they know what killed the pelicans.
After weeks of study, investigators say they think they know why the 4450 pelicans have died: hotter than usual ocean temperatures have dri... | <urn:uuid:3ab643a9-34b9-442d-bd7e-4a8f4e286baf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/conservation/mystery-of-dolphin-and-penguin-deaths-20120509-1ycqu.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969792 | 888 | 2.96875 | 3 |
From: Tasheeva Drayton
Time: 1:22:08 AM
Remote Name: 188.8.131.52
How well did the African Americans cope with being slaves in America South? Did free blacks suffer as well as slaves?
Slaves in the South were used to the institution of slavery and they did try to cope with it by becoming spiritual. Their faith is all t... | <urn:uuid:d7197f89-e110-4eab-b60c-64182826aaa8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.historians.org/teaching/AAHE/h67cutler/_disc2/0000013d.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.996231 | 394 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Bates Fork Area Closure: May 9-11
The Bates Fork area will be closed to the public from 6 pm on Thurs, May 9, to 7 am on Sat., May 11. USDA resource management activities will be conducted day and night during this time period. Call 803-647-3960 for info.
History & Culture
The Early Past
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Oct. 29, 2012 Biologists from the University of Bonn have discovered that the cichlid fish Pelvicachromis taeniatus can see in the near infrared range; this was thought to be unlikely until now. Seeing in the infrared range is apparently helping fish to hunt in shallow African rivers.
The results will be published in t... | <urn:uuid:1be531b2-27ee-49e9-be69-09b1bf5ae5b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121029081354.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fzoology+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Plants+%26+Animals+News+--+Zoology%29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953922 | 859 | 3.78125 | 4 |
An estimated 80% of adult learning takes place outside of formal education (Cross 1981). For language learning, it is likely that out-of-class experiences play an equally important role (cf. de Bot 2007). It is therefore surprising that the role of informal language learning has received very little attention over the ... | <urn:uuid:588c256f-fa86-4452-ad4e-42e47fe303b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://innovationinteaching.org/books/beyond-the-classroom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95349 | 3,091 | 3.328125 | 3 |
The Kindergarten curriculum at Challenge Charter School is
structured to integrate Core Knowledge topics with state
standards and subject matter of local interest.
All aspects of the English language are covered in Language Arts. Learning to read and write on their own is our goal for all Kindergarteners. We supplement... | <urn:uuid:2a426ed4-e15b-4c70-a475-cce365cbce2c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.challengecharterschool.net/classes/kindergarten/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937296 | 301 | 3.75 | 4 |
Common Health Concerns
Understanding common health concerns and what can be done to prevent or treat them can go a long way towards reducing the stress you feel when it comes to your health and the health of those in your care.
Whether you have seen a health story on the news, your child has come home from school with ... | <urn:uuid:a7bc8e0c-b1b3-43f9-a920-de56d7d67725> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/commonhealthconcerns/?WT.svl=Footer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960079 | 456 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Hristo Bojinov wants you to forget your password. More precisely, he wants you to never really know it in the first place. Bojinov, a computer scientist at Stanford, and his colleagues have developed a computer program that can implant passwords in a person’s subconscious mind--and retrieve them subconsciously too. The... | <urn:uuid:d79ba1d7-3780-4618-a6ae-8ff6fd9241ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/why-only-secure-password-one-you-don%E2%80%99t-even-know-you-know | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955012 | 944 | 3.4375 | 3 |
What considerations should be made in order to develop accessible web-based distance learning courses?
AccessIT Article ID: 1173
Today, distance learning courses employ a wide array of electronic and information technologies. These include web pages, chat software, multimedia, and audio and video conferencing. To assur... | <urn:uuid:4a59ca85-76a2-4e3a-b1cb-a68c786367cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.washington.edu/doit/CUDE/articles?1173 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899503 | 1,343 | 3.765625 | 4 |
||Wind dispersal of alpine plant species: A comparison with lowland species|
||Oliver Tackenberg, Jürg Stöcklin|
||Journal of Vegetation Science 19: 109-118|
Question: The prominent role of wind dispersal in alpine habitats has been recognized early but has rarely been quantified. The aim of this study is to compare wi... | <urn:uuid:e4e8b097-379b-4376-ab69-2823e557ebcb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pages.unibas.ch/botschoen/abstracts/2008tackenberg_stoecklin.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880194 | 434 | 3.3125 | 3 |
By facilitating international trade, U.S. seaports play a significant role in shaping the country's economic health. All major U.S. ports are owned by public port authorities; many are also operated by public authorities. A 1990 report by the American Association of Port Authorities showed that 30 percent of the 66 por... | <urn:uuid:e375a531-2d34-4cad-8269-771454bdb23d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://reason.org/news/show/127650.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955086 | 356 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Studio equipment has evolved dramatically in the past few years. Consoles are now control surfaces. Audio is delivered primarily via computers. Air talent and their supporting casts depend heavily on access to the Internet for audio bits, news and other content. As their need for more computers and monitors grow in the... | <urn:uuid:d5efd4f0-5b9c-4c09-bae3-ba12b029b0f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://radiomagonline.com/infrastructure/facility_design/radio_built_solid/index1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.844213 | 1,294 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Lower Cholesterol Radically
From the revised version of Dr. Fuhrman's book Cholesterol Protection for Life, now available!
We know that populations worldwide with very low cholesterol simply do not have heart attacks. For example, in rural China where the average total cholesterol was found to be 127 and very little an... | <urn:uuid:68f4da4a-2b9f-4e6d-ab97-d928a63c9042> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/cardiovascular-disease-lower-cholesterol-radically-print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940879 | 1,039 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Bats are threatened worldwide, and their colonies and habitats are destroyed -- both intentionally and inadvertently -- because of myths, misinformation, and lack of scientific knowledge and understanding. Bat populations are declining almost everywhere in North America. Losing bats has far-reaching consequences for na... | <urn:uuid:8e0b1ad5-2e05-41ac-ae5c-8302a313996c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eptrail.com/entertainment/ci_21786023/bat-tales-oct-23-at-estes-valley-library | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931253 | 281 | 3.671875 | 4 |
In a earlier post, Green Queen introduced the Green Halloween movement. We simply love it! Here, 10 reasons why Green Halloween is the right choice for your body and for the planet. Or, 10 facts to spout to your friends and family when they ask why you are joining Green Halloween!
- 1) Processed candy is NOT friendly t... | <urn:uuid:14d77d8c-d18a-4044-aed9-ef41cd5aabca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greenqueen.com.hk/10-reasons-for-green-halloween/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916405 | 458 | 2.65625 | 3 |
What is WWSF?
WWSF, a humanitarian, secular, non-governmental and international, non-profit organization with United Nations consultative status (ECOSOC, UNFPA and DPI), works for a new development paradigm with and for women and children.
Created in Geneva on 8 March 1991 (International Women's Day), its principle obj... | <urn:uuid:1f2f9be6-c488-495b-b4d9-ad7c4e590e56> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.woman.ch/index.php?page=general_aboutWWSF&hl=de_DE | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951319 | 275 | 2.625 | 3 |
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Living Ethically in the Light of the Bible
Matthew 24:1-14; Romans 8:18-39; Psalm 67; Numbers 27-29
Our view of suffering and how we deal with it plays a major role in many ethical decisions. Many ethically controversial practices are justified by some because they relieve suffering. For som... | <urn:uuid:03ede381-0247-4fba-9680-300f5984dc26> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bioethicsireland.ie/bible/bibeth/march/mar17/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988379 | 657 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Quanah Parker was an important Comanche chief, a leader in the Native American Church, and the last leader of the powerful Quahadi band before they surrendered their battle of the Great Plains. With five wives and 25 children, Quanah had numerous descendants. Many people in Texas and Oklahoma claim him as an ancestor. ... | <urn:uuid:3e60f8da-aca2-489d-b32b-2b4e0aeabc67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.hmns.org/tag/palo-duro-canyon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966111 | 1,412 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Southern Pines has renamed a road to honor Felton Capel, one of its quiet champions of racial justice. It left me marveling, again, at how much heavy lifting has been done, collectively, by people whose efforts drew little attention outside their communities.
It also left me wondering how they feel about hearing the ci... | <urn:uuid:74dc1ceb-8af8-4c8b-bcfb-27616a73a786> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fayobserver.com/articles/2012/12/01/1220915?sac=fo.home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977613 | 822 | 2.734375 | 3 |
This map of Japan shows Japan's 47 prefectures from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south.
The present 47 prefectures date from the reorganization of the old feudal domains (han) which were finally rationalized in 1888.
Hokkaido is the biggest prefecture by area; Kagawa in Shikoku the smallest. In terms of popu... | <urn:uuid:fa65fc40-a077-49fe-bff9-20c2eb17fd1a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://japanvisitor.blogspot.com/2011/03/map-of-japans-prefectures.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.859774 | 143 | 2.75 | 3 |
Pythagoras was a well-known ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher. There are many legends about his life, and it is difficult to determine which are based on truth and which are not. All of the writers agree that Pythagoras was born on Samos, a Greek island off the coast of Asia Minor, around 580 B.C. Like Thales... | <urn:uuid:7c7f9c45-01c4-4ee5-80c7-86698c1e876f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mathlair.allfunandgames.ca/pythagoras.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986727 | 446 | 3.859375 | 4 |
When the history of the 21st century is written, the years 2010-2012 will almost certainly be
seen as a watershed. In two intergovernmental processes between now and 2012 - the
‘Rio+20’ Conference on Sustainable Development and the UNFCCC Conference of
Parties negotiations - the world’s governments will respond to the ... | <urn:uuid:5d7b645c-fad0-4447-a63e-1aa2688614c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://unfccc.int/press/news_room/newsletter/in_focus/items/5718.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957765 | 1,611 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Indigenous Australian Culture
- Browse all works influenced by/about Indigenous Australian Culture
- Browse all artists who have written works influenced by/about Indigenous Australian Culture
Indigenous influences in Australian composition
This short introduction discusses Indigenous influences in Australian compositi... | <urn:uuid:3f4135dc-ecef-4d3d-9a0b-749c2453dcdf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/subject/indigenous-australian-culture | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94409 | 830 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Pope Innocent III succeeded to the papacy in 1198, and the preaching of a new crusade became the goal of his pontificate. His call was largely ignored by the European monarchs: the Germans were struggling against Papal power, and England and France were still engaged in warfare against each other. However, due to the p... | <urn:uuid:0d8639cb-5992-4d0b-8bcc-368328f0c364> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reference.com/browse/fourth+crusade | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978636 | 4,897 | 3.40625 | 3 |
By: Kayla Falcinelli
When the Presidential election roles around every four years it is time to decide who gets your vote. Although this is true, many people say, “Why bother?” “It’s not like my vote means anything.” There are others who simply don't care.
Does your vote really make a difference? Looking at how many pe... | <urn:uuid:706c5202-4a1c-4037-9bc5-e7aab3093ee2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://danbury.patch.com/groups/wcsuvotes2012s-blog/p/bp--okay-but-my-vote-doesnt-make-a-difference | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974313 | 417 | 2.75 | 3 |
river 420 miles (676 kilometers) cen Idaho flowing into Snake River
Name that originally referred to the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and now also refers to six species of Pacific salmon (genus Oncorhynchus, family Salmonidae): chum, chinook, pink, and sockeye salmon; coho; and the cherry salmon (O. masu) of Japan. Ad... | <urn:uuid:e603707d-271b-45bc-9b2e-4ca67d28d678> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://east.merriamwebster.com/dictionary/salmon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.860908 | 130 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The UN designated Oct. 11 as the first International Day of the Girl Child, calling on countries to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face. It also expressed the hope that countries around the world would promote the day and celebrate it each year.
The UN said that paying increased attention to th... | <urn:uuid:ffa65e34-f14b-41f5-9e05-58913fe7e5a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2012/10/17/2003545375 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970414 | 680 | 2.625 | 3 |
When we frame the food crisis as a "system failure", it simultaneously obviates the guilt-tripping about what we eat and also points to near-term solutions we're gonna need to implement.
Something like a "fundamental rethink" of our food system, says Tim Lang of Britain's Food Council (via bbcnews).
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24521
- Can reservoir bottom sediments be used in the estimation of long-term catchment sediment budgets?
Rowan, J. S.;
Duck, R. W.;
Dyer, T. D.;
Franks, Stewart W.;
Wyatt, Adam M.
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Friday, October 4, evening service 6:15 pm
Saturday, October 5, morning service 7:10 am
Bodhidharma is known as the founder of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. Little is known about him historically, but there are versions of his biography that exemplify his influence on Buddhism in Asia and now the West. He is described as a mon... | <urn:uuid:0a7a36e6-83e9-40a8-ae8d-078cb9b9290b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sfzc.org/zc/display.asp?catid=2,69,201&pageid=3420&mode=c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985782 | 434 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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flow problem with a two diemsional water flow divider
A two-dimensional water flow divider is shown in the sketch. The flow in through opening A varies linearly from 3 to 6 m/s and is inclined with angle α=45 degrees to the opening itself. The area of the A opening is .4m2 per unit depth, that o... | <urn:uuid:93759927-9c6f-4b67-8982-462a55461ab6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=260819 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903339 | 417 | 2.734375 | 3 |
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This topic has general information about food allergies. If you would like more specific information about peanut allergy, see the topic Peanut Allergy.
What is a food allergy?
When you have a food allergy, your body thinks certain foods are trying to harm you. Your body fights back by setting of... | <urn:uuid:815686de-0591-4df7-998e-bf1e7581abe4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cancer.dartmouth.edu/pf/health_encyclopedia/te7016 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923348 | 6,662 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Feb 22, 2012
Drexel engineers develop cement with 97% smaller carbon dioxide and energy footprint
Drexel University engineers have found a way to improve upon ordinary Portland cement (OPC), the glue that's bonded much of the world's construction since the late 1800s. In research recently published in Cement and Concre... | <urn:uuid:266064a0-17d6-4a5f-b5e9-62cecc0cbefd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/yournews/48704 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95414 | 676 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Greeley County, Kansas
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Greeley is a county in Kansas. It was formed in 1873 (1889) from the following county/ies: unorganized . Greeley began keep... | <urn:uuid:df310dd1-4563-463f-861c-fc674951b841> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ancestry.com.au/wiki/index.php?title=Greeley_County,_Kansas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91193 | 174 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Published in Blood Weekly, April 8th, 1996
Three GBV viruses - GBV-A, GBV-B, and GBV-C - have recently been identified. In January 1996 hepatitis X, a long-awaited agent referred to informally for several months at scientific meetings, was designated hepatitis G or HGV (Linnen et al., Science, 1996;271:505-509).
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It is past time to have a discussion with you concerning the most undervalued plants growing on your property. These uncultivated, unappreciated, demonized plants are all grouped into a single category — weeds. A weed is defined as a plant growing where it is not wanted. It is understandable to object to chickweed stea... | <urn:uuid:813615db-5e80-4488-be30-13e4051c8717> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.telegram.com/article/20120923/COLUMN18/109239984/0/living15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943797 | 666 | 3.125 | 3 |
Birth: About 1639 in England
Death: 10 April 1695 in Massachusetts, America
Benedict (or Benedictus) was the first Pulsipher to arrive in America, and possibly the first “Pulsipher” in the world. While it is suspected that his father was Benjamin Pulsipher (born in about 1614 in Ireland), it is hard to trace the family... | <urn:uuid:b24b1a62-359c-433b-86bf-725ab65dbeb3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://beyondthehome.blogspot.com/2010/07/benedict-pulsipher.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986755 | 386 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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Cornwall, Devon and Pembrokeshire were pooled to represent the South/West (SW) and the area that could be considered the closest surrogate to the Ancient British. Kent, Norfolk and Lincolnshire were pooled to represent the East (E) and the area most directly infl... | <urn:uuid:c840d9a2-13c9-4560-8925-145ea2aae3ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2011/08/first-people-of-british-isles-paper.html?showComment=1313272905227 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949732 | 764 | 2.640625 | 3 |
14 Answers votes newest views recent 5Geometric Interpretations of Homotopy Theoretical Constructions 2Topology on extensions of topological groups 1LaTeX based document editors 2What is the proper initiation to the theory of motives for a new student of algebraic geometry? 5A Learning Roadmap request: From high-school... | <urn:uuid:304aaa83-b9fe-42ae-926f-5a63839d630d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mathoverflow.net/api/useranswers.html?userid=956&page=1&pagesize=30&sort=recent | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895279 | 183 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Aleksis Kivi was born at Nurmijärvi, Finland, in a tailor’s family. In 1846 he left for school in Helsinki, and in 1859 he was accepted to the University of Helsinki, where he studied literature and developed an interest in the theater. His first play was Kullervo, based on a tragic ta... | <urn:uuid:b0160864-8aab-4bfe-872c-6effabb896e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Aleksis_Kivi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981166 | 450 | 2.765625 | 3 |
8 September 2009. Eight universities, including the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid through its Facultad de Informática, are participating in the European DynaLearn Project, part of the Seventh Framework Programme for Information and Communications Technologies (FP7-ICT).
This project is to develop an interactive lea... | <urn:uuid:65d03fb8-0823-4f18-8e4d-1670ea75ca64> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fi.upm.es/?id=tablon&acciongt=consulta1&idet=289 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880226 | 738 | 3.375 | 3 |
Web server (Apache)
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Web server, Apache, is an Open Source server application and can be installed from the source or appropriate distro's package.
With Apache, by default, comes PHP interpreter, which has to be installed separately if installation is done from the source. If it's done with automatic pac... | <urn:uuid:9b7b5596-4d31-4469-ac03-57d68554ced7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oxxus.net/wiki/Web_server_(Apache) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.861375 | 1,071 | 3.34375 | 3 |
|Chapter 4: Claiming Land
Ole Rudd travels across the eastern segment of Washington Territory in search of good farm land. After surveying the land on a plateau above the Columbia River in North Central Washington, Rudd establishes a farm, and begins to raise his crops.
|Chapter 5: Hardships Strike
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The International Baccalaureate Organization aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. The learner profile consists of the learner outcomes for the program. They are a set of ideals to define the ty... | <urn:uuid:4adbc946-e433-4ff6-9eef-6fc6c825b4e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.qbs.edu.hk/learning-qbs/our-learner-profile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936511 | 456 | 3.15625 | 3 |
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
International Conference on Early Warning (EWC-II)
|Summary of the Second International Conference
on Early Warning (EWC II)
The impacts across the globe of extreme natural events such as floods and droughts and storms are enormous, and are a serious handicap to the advance... | <urn:uuid:6664e891-e5e5-48ef-bb93-fcca04cec979> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unisdr.org/2006/ppew/info-resources/ewc2-summary.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945757 | 704 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Killer Bobble-Headed Penguins!
Spheniscus penguins are your basic model. Collectively, the four living species are sometimes known as “tuxedo penguins” for their striking color patterns, which resemble a tuxedo motif just a bit more than those of other types of penguins. These four species are among the most warm-weath... | <urn:uuid:3f29aedd-8047-4038-a432-3a69f9cd3d26> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fossilpenguins.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/killer-bobble-headed-penguins/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933261 | 688 | 3.40625 | 3 |
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make computer chips even faster than those of today, many researchers have recently been investigating the possibility of optical computing. In an optical computer, information is encoded as photons rather than electrons, allowing large amounts of data to be processed simultaneously. Bu... | <urn:uuid:1e709029-6096-488e-907e-87e811428f7c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://phys.org/news/2011-11-light-controlling-artificial-diamond-optical.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927097 | 2,001 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Royal Niger CompanyFlag of the Royal Niger Company
Sir George Taubman Goldie conceived the idea of adding to the British empire the then little known regions of the lower and middle Niger River, and for over twenty years his efforts were devoted to the realization of this conception. The method by which he determined t... | <urn:uuid:202af074-c5b9-46e3-b890-84a42d2eaf1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wikipedia.atpedia.com/en/articles/r/o/y/Royal_Niger_Company_19a7.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971818 | 433 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Alan Turing broke the enigma code in World War Two, and devised machines that became programmable computers.
Turing's homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, when homosexual acts were still illegal in the United Kingdom.
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Workshop on karst conservation in Kien Luong district, Kien Giang province
On December 29, 2009, the Center of Biodiversity and Development (CBD) of the Institute of Tropical Biology (ITB) in HCMC, in cooperation with IUCN and Holcim Vietnam Ltd (HVL), the global cement company, and the Kien Giang Department of Agricul... | <urn:uuid:13fc25ae-3ae0-4abe-aa54-bd20017abe1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.iucn.org/es/noticias/noticias_por_fecha/2010_news_sp/febrero_news_2010/?4775/Workshop-on-karst-conservation-in-Kien-Luong-District-Kien-Giang-Province | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934761 | 539 | 2.515625 | 3 |
About the artwork
The view in this picture is from the Liverpool dock shore looking towards Birkenhead and Tranmere. St Mary's Church in Birkenhead can be clearly seen as can the, still extant, windmill on Bidston Hill and another above Tranmere. Although the architecture is a rather generalised mixture of chimneys and... | <urn:uuid:a84a2549-6944-408f-b873-28e78cb16466> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?venue=2&id=249 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981239 | 1,058 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Books Written By Margaret Mead
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization.
Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education
The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe
Kinship in the Admiralty Islands
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
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How Has Childbirth Changed in This Century?
Childbirth itself has not changed at all! Babies are still born today in the same way that that they have been born for generations. But many things associated with childbirth have changed, including:
- Women's expectations of childbirth
- Pain management options
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Here is my answer to the question: In what sense did the images provided by the early modern microscope explain anything?
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Democratic consultant Donna Brazile brought home America’s reluctance to talk openly about race in a New York Times article that preceded the Barack Obama speech that now has the whole nation buzzing. In essence, she said in her quote, any serious discussion about race has the effect of clearing a room.
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Transamazonian highwayArticle Free Pass
Transamazonian highway, Portuguese Rodovia Transamazônica, system of paved and unpaved roads in Brazil that is designed to facilitate settlement and exploitation of the vast underpopulated Amazon River Basin. The system consists of several major parts. A 3,400-mile (5,100-kilomet... | <urn:uuid:74df93e4-5e75-442d-bb6d-6e96bfecc8e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/602357/Transamazonian-highway | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930922 | 344 | 2.90625 | 3 |
The layer of cells that lines the heart, blood vessels, lymph vessels, and certain tissue-lined cavities throughout the body. Researchers are especially interested in the vascular (blood vessel) endothelium and its role in the development of such medical conditions as heart disease and diabetic retinopathy (eye disease... | <urn:uuid:bbf5c3e8-8303-4573-90eb-42fbce7d1c47> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/Articles/Diabetes-Definitions/endothelium/1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908557 | 459 | 3.546875 | 4 |