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Geometrical construction of the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da
The Vitruvian Man is a world-renowned drawing created by
Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1487 It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of Vitruvius. The drawing, which is in pen and
ink on paper, depicts a nude male figure in two superimposed
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English form of the name of the Christian evangelist, author of the first gospel in the New Testament. His name is a form of the Hebrew name Mattathia, meaning ‘gift of God’, which is fairly common in the Old Testament, being rendered in the Authorized Version in a number of different forms: Mattan(i)ah, Mattatha(h), M... | <urn:uuid:eb071300-b835-4475-b8a4-e6558fd33390> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://names.whitepages.com/Matthew/Natsis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931161 | 156 | 2.875 | 3 |
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Linking with our local industrial museum children will be taking part in workshops linked to the invention of the 'Makey Makey'. With some of the funding from National Science & Engingeering Week fund we are pur... | <urn:uuid:1a152209-a72b-4952-89c2-da65999f6057> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/print/11336 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892973 | 190 | 3 | 3 |
France and Afghanistan
Diplomatic relations between France and Afghanistan were established in 1922, with the creation, the same year, of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA). The foundations of Franco-Afghan cooperation lie, in addition to archeology, in the field of education: creation of the Fr... | <urn:uuid:83e11b1d-818e-4db7-8a36-eb3f6bb5bd85> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/afghanistan-498/france-and-afghanistan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948231 | 451 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Although it sounds so complicated, flatulence
is nothing but gas -- Something that all of us is familiar with. People usually produce about 1 to 3 pints of gas in a day and this gas is released around fourteen times a day. It's not really serious enough to be a threat to life but we all know that it's only threat invol... | <urn:uuid:844fd073-a6b7-41aa-a5ed-f529d1993363> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.medicalook.com/Digestive_system/Flatulence.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957672 | 1,255 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Voice Encryption for Radios
In this fact sheet find:
- Key Points About Voice Encryption for Radios
- Overview of Voice Encryption
- The Encryption Process
- Effective Encryption Management
Key Points About Voice Encryption for Radios
- Unencrypted public safety voice transmissions can be intercepted, abetting criminal... | <urn:uuid:99b6d3eb-792e-4b0e-9097-947dedef0391> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nij.gov/nij/topics/technology/communication/radios/voice-encryption.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898011 | 1,000 | 3.375 | 3 |
One of the most interesting evolutionary hypotheses about brain size is The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis. Back in the early 1990s, scientists were looking to explain how brain size evolves. Brains are exceedingly useful organs; more brain cells allows for more behavioral flexibility, better control of larger bodies, and... | <urn:uuid:dcdc3dc9-6983-4853-a812-527ba476f57f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/next_article?article=2184&category=&videos= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968767 | 450 | 3.609375 | 4 |
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is an irregular dwarf galaxy and a companion to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Unlike spiral and elliptical galaxies, irregular galaxies lack any appearance of organized structure. Like its neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the SMC appears as a huge and diffuse cloud in the southern ... | <urn:uuid:67041587-e6d4-4eaa-bcc6-b41ac60c871d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/multiwavelength_astronomy/multiwavelength_museum/smc.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93425 | 1,228 | 3.609375 | 4 |
For our first milestone in in our cure (integrated math and science) class, we made 3D models of medicine. I made zolpidem. It is used to treat insomina and is used in drugs like Ambien, Stilnox, and Sublinox. We did this to get a better understanding of how our medicine works by making a 3D version of it. We built our... | <urn:uuid:c0b8c1be-fcef-44f3-93ee-427dae1d84a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gcevoices.com/jh/2012/04/17/zolpidem/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923067 | 129 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexico on November 1st and 2nd. It's a time to remember deceased loved ones and honor them. Day of the Dead is a festive occasion, a time to celebrate, much like a family reunion. Making an altar can be a way for you to honor the life of someone who was important to you, or remember you... | <urn:uuid:7982f89f-03f5-4560-b805-362b9c51577d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gomexico.about.com/od/festivalsholidays/ht/make_altar.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937107 | 883 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Download This Lesson
Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4
Science Education Standards:
Earth and Space Science -- Content Standard D:
Changes in the Earth and Sky
- The surface of the Earth changes. Some changes are due to slow processes, such as erosion and weathering, and some changes are due to rapid proce... | <urn:uuid:3ceda444-02d5-48f2-a65c-24992054cf70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/educ/lesson-view.cfm?LS_ID=951 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902067 | 131 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Scripture Song of I Samuel 2:2-3
“There Is None Holy As The Lord”
Commentary on I Samuel 2:2-3
Our personal perspective
First Samuel relates the story of a woman named Hannah. She was married to a loving husband, but had no children – a fact with which her husband's other wife ceaselessly tormented her. Rather than las... | <urn:uuid:23865544-8fd9-4c64-8ca8-804834830e34> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.freescripturesongs.org/scripture-songs/there-is-none-holy-as-the-Lord | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957164 | 373 | 3.09375 | 3 |
You can connect to any database for which you have connection details, or install the sample schema used in the cue card examples and then establish a connection to it. If you installed the sample schema, you will be able to follow the steps in the cue cards exactly as written. If you work with your own database, you c... | <urn:uuid:edc1ab48-8bd4-440f-badf-f636d3fc0c5e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/ccset21-tellme2-1-098184.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.848033 | 274 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Thyroid nodules is the name for those lumps that appear on the thyroid gland. Not all thyroid nodules are cancer, so do not panic in case you see you have this problem. There are multiple for thyroid nodules and it is important to go to the doctor to see what health problem you have. Usually, thyroid nodules are locate... | <urn:uuid:c972c35b-e694-4249-bd17-fa944760a81c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thyroidnodules.net/thyroid-nodules-does-not-always-mean-cancer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971273 | 400 | 2.546875 | 3 |
With all the problems humans have caused whales and dolphins – capture, killing, ship noise, sonar, pollution – the latest idea of how to use them is perhaps the most chilling: a medical doctor theorizes that dolphin tissue may provide miraculous antibiotic and pain killing properties. Since he ‘doesn’t have access to ... | <urn:uuid:7ff10df7-7368-42d3-8189-8802cafc851a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.seattlepi.com/candacewhiting/2011/07/26/a-whole-new-way-to-use-dolphins-their-blubber-may-contain-natural-morphine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955522 | 707 | 3.546875 | 4 |
|a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.|
|a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.|
|1.||See also genetic code a system of letters or symbols, and rules for their association by means of which information can be represented or communicated for reasons of secrecy, brevity, etc: binary code; Morse code|
|2.||a message in code|
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Maundy Thursday marks the beginning of the three-day Easter celebration, and you may also hear it referred to as Holy Thursday, Sheer Thursday, or, intriguingly, Thursday of Mysteries.
The meaning is less of a mystery — it’s the Christian holy day that falls before the commemoration of Jesus’ passion, death and resurre... | <urn:uuid:fd60c5cd-074e-4ba9-8db3-33c0fbe30f01> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/05/a-beginners-guide-to-maundy-thursday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974884 | 380 | 3.390625 | 3 |
|4th of July 1917, Station Square costume dance|
Patriotism and tradition echo in Forest Hills. In recent times, on the weekend following Memorial Day, Forest Hills Gardens organizes a celebration known as Children’s Day at Flagpole Green, which features decorations, face painting, cotton candy, hot dogs, raffles, and ... | <urn:uuid:6af5d054-f827-483c-a073-95abb725a93e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://regoforestpreservation.blogspot.com/2012/07/4th-of-july-forest-hills-edition.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956389 | 1,639 | 2.53125 | 3 |
2008/9 Schools Wikipedia Selection. Related subjects: Biology
In cell biology, a mitochondrion (plural mitochondria) is a membrane-enclosed organelle found in most eukaryotic cells. These organelles range from 1–10 micrometers ( μm) in size. Mitochondria are sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because they g... | <urn:uuid:21ed2bfb-24ea-4df9-b550-2427e64521fb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/m/Mitochondrion.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923881 | 5,486 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Survivors remember 1918 global flu pandemic
Plague could teach lessons about how to prepare for future flu outbreak
Dec 17, 2006
CHEVY CHASE, Md. - At the height of the flu pandemic in 1918, William H. Sardo Jr. remembers the pine caskets stacked in the living room of his family’s house, a funeral home in Washington, D... | <urn:uuid:d04af5cd-291a-4b62-a821-fb9a34189614> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tvnewslies.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=6280&view=previous | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980492 | 287 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Buick's China Connection
How an unlikely pact with capitalism brought luxury cars to the People’s Republic and pumped life into a General Motors division on the brink of extinction
Paul A. Eisenstein
From the Print Edition:
Joe Mantegna, July/August 2011
(continued from page 1)
Detroit was the Silicon Valley of its day... | <urn:uuid:d754eaca-095e-4690-b39a-38b6120c381a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/16043/p/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966321 | 1,566 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Spinoza and philosophers today
Kritika & Kontext: To what extent is Spinoza's interpretation of scriptures and revealed religion relevant today?
Steven B. Smith: Spinoza's critique of Scripture is exceptionally relevant today. Not only have we seen the rise of religious fundamentalisms, but we have also witnessed the p... | <urn:uuid:92c65256-401d-4f94-a4a9-60a812ef4d53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-11-30-spinoza-en.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961436 | 9,084 | 2.578125 | 3 |
During his war service in the munitions factory in 1918, Head counteracted the tedium of his labours by working on settings of four poems by the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917). The first, The ships of Arcady
, was published in 1919, with the complete group following as a cycle the next year under the title Ove... | <urn:uuid:4bc8358e-688a-4ad0-ac54-acab96c93a74> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/tw.asp?w=W13892&t=GBAJY1189908&al=CDA67899 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958443 | 262 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Did Noah Recognize Different Frog Species?
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
"What if Noah got it wrong?" is a question recently posed in a ScienceDaily article. "What if he paired a male and a female animal thinking they were the same species, and then discovered they were not the same and could not produce offspring?"1
These w... | <urn:uuid:ad93123e-6257-402f-af8e-704e5499fa99> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.icr.org/article/7247/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954084 | 899 | 3.609375 | 4 |
We're taught to believe that some people are simply born lucky, when in reality, that's just a convenient excuse to lean back and take it easy, rather than try to exert some control over our destiny. After all, if you aren't one of the “chosen” fortunate ones, what can you possibly do about it? Well, actually, quite a ... | <urn:uuid:33be495a-8d44-4bc0-b942-9c695235007c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mybodyrestoration.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103:be-happy-how-to-make-your-own-luck&catid=55:finding-the-balance&Itemid=58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964043 | 1,759 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Blue-eared Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
The blue-eared pheasant is not named for blue ears. It has a bluish body and is a member of a group of pheasants called eared pheasants, named for the prominent feather tufts on their head. This species is adapted to living in the high altitudes of the mountainous regions of th... | <urn:uuid:a3e53d50-3076-44a2-ac43-f054a0ae3a7d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://beardsleyzoo.org/blueearnedpheasant-fk1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934763 | 331 | 2.9375 | 3 |
WebMD Medical News
Laura J. Martin, MD
Oct. 3, 2011 -- Smoking is considered one of the major risk factors for strokes. Now research shows that smokers tend to have strokes close to one full decade earlier than nonsmokers.
Smokers were age 58, on average, when they had a stroke, while nonsmokers were 67, on average, ac... | <urn:uuid:73682026-ada4-4c32-b42c-e12652556707> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.9wsyr.com/webmd/smoking/story/Smokers-May-Get-Strokes-10-Years-Before-Nonsmokers/Qizgxc2JYkCwK1_OUocv5Q.cspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97744 | 854 | 3.109375 | 3 |
A diamond larger than Earth?
Diamonds are forever ... an artist's rendition shows the interior of 55 Cancri e. Photo: Haven Giguere/Yale University
Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our own made largely out of diamond.
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The Daily Beast reports,
Most of my favorite factoids about obesity are historical ones, and they don’t make it into the new, four-part HBO documentary on the subject, The Weight of the Nation. Absent, for instance, is the fact that the very first childhood-obesity clinic in the United States was founded in the late 19... | <urn:uuid:96cc4050-763c-4927-a6df-c4fc596b950a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://americanvisionnews.com/3294/why-the-war-on-obesity-has-failed-for-over-80-years/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972552 | 491 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Truvada, the HIV prevention drug approved by US health regulators. The opinion of the Food and Drug Administration is that Truvada can be used by persons at high risk of disease and anyone who may hold in sexual activity with HIV-infected partners. There have been concerns the circulation of such a drug could engender ... | <urn:uuid:e967f3dc-c046-4dee-b4aa-2008fcf365cc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news-updations.blogspot.com/2012/07/us-approves-truvada-hiv-prevention.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966068 | 186 | 2.78125 | 3 |
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)
strptime — Parse a time/date generated with strftime()
strptime() returns an array with the
date parsed, or
FALSE on error.
Month and weekday names and other language dependent strings respect the
current locale set with setlocale() (
The string to parse (e.g. returned from strftime()).
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One month after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the New-York Historical Society committed its resources to a new initiative called, History Responds, with exhibitions, public events and educational initiatives. Since then, the Society has presented 17 special exhibitions relating to the attacks, 20 public ... | <urn:uuid:8ea741aa-a891-4520-8b61-e275067f3640> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://goingplacesnearandfar.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/new-york-historical-society-to-commemorate-10th-anniversary-of-septemer-11-attacks-with-free-exhibit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948617 | 1,010 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Dr. Balentine received his undergraduate degree from McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. He attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine graduating in1983. He completed his internship at St. Joseph's Hospital in Philadelphia and his Emergency Medicine residency at Lincoln Medical a... | <urn:uuid:24aa8e6f-4067-42b2-a744-90b11f21be9d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.emedicinehealth.com/lymphoma/article_em.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950398 | 954 | 2.640625 | 3 |
What can you do with just one mitten? Use your imagination! This bright, playful book celebrates a child's joyful discoveries of the many things she can do with a single mitten.
Once again, the creators of Book! show that even the simplest things can be a springboard to creativity and reveal the fun that's hidden in or... | <urn:uuid:e00a1a70-28ce-4775-ba84-8037e6e105d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kristinegeorge.com/one_mitten.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914962 | 697 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Joseph Conrad, christened Josef Teodor Konrad, Nalecz Korzeniowski, was born on December 3, 1857, in a part of Russia that had once belonged to Poland. His parents were members of the landed gentry, but as ardent Polish patriots, the suffered considerably...read more
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Scharf, Thomas J., History of Delaware, 1609-1888. Volume One- pp. 68-81.
WILLIAM PENN AND HIS GOVERNMENT.
AFTER the Restoration of the Stuarts the attention of the court as well as the people of England was directed in a much larger measure than formerly to the American colonies. Men who were weary of strife, disconte... | <urn:uuid:cf3fbbea-87dd-4df9-a898-1da3d71f8dca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ushistory.org/penn/scharf.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978886 | 15,369 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Reflecting on our experiential learning from Santiago
What a difference it makes when a country has the consistency of purpose (post Pinochet) over sustained periods of time across multiple presidents and political parties. While enormous challenges remain ahead, Chile, and in particular Santiago, has become a modern a... | <urn:uuid:2025bf7e-4aa2-4bbf-bbc4-59ba713001c4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://carlosbaradello.com/2013/01/17/academic-global-immersions-our-latin-american-journey-with-my-mba-students-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961559 | 1,083 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Choosing a Topic
This handout provides detailed information about how to write research papers including discussing research papers as a genre, choosing topics, and finding sources.
Contributors:Jack Raymond Baker, Allen Brizee
Last Edited: 2013-01-04 12:25:56
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If you’re reading this, my guess is that you like words. You like to think–to analyze. Western society urges prioritizing the musings of the mind over the feelings of the body. Indeed, thinking is incredibly useful to survive in a capitalist society. What happens though when a feeling comes up, like stress, hurt, sadne... | <urn:uuid:dbeab075-951a-471b-88d4-8511f24805a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thisdynamiclifeblog.com/tag/inward/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948208 | 736 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Weird Creatures From the Deep
A massive census of the oceans has turned up a trove of strange marine wildlife, from jellyfish to octopuses to anemones
- By Jess Righthand
- Smithsonian.com, August 06, 2010
The giant Caribbean anemone (Condylactis gigantean) is commonly found in the inner reefs and lagoons of the West I... | <urn:uuid:fb6efb54-c9f6-4ebf-b7c7-46a259946182> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Weird-Creatures-From-the-Deep.html?c=y&page=3&navigation=next | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924187 | 134 | 2.890625 | 3 |
- abandon (v.)
- late 14c., "to give up, surrender (oneself or something), give over utterly; to yield (oneself) utterly (to religion, fornication, etc.)," from Old French abandoner (12c.), from adverbial phrase à bandon "at will, at discretion," from à "at, to" (see ad-) + bandon "power, jurisdiction," from Latin bann... | <urn:uuid:7d11dca8-34e7-4992-bf9a-00a7ad9f654c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=abandon&allowed_in_frame=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903751 | 335 | 2.984375 | 3 |
A new publishing model is emerging that might strike fear in the hearts of librarians and booksellers everywhere. With barely any time to breathe after Wikipedia inspired insecurities took a seat at the table, I now hold before you the networked book. Possibly some of you are wondering, what exactly is a networked book... | <urn:uuid:dfa3b061-19ec-446d-b41e-074201a224f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mechanicrobotic.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/post-5-the-networked-book/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968645 | 1,230 | 2.65625 | 3 |
- Rhode Island is the ___ state in the United States. North to
south it measures 77km [48 miles], and east to west it measures 60km [37
- Rhode Island ___ an island. It has land borders with Connecticut
a. would never
b. is not actually
c. can't been
- The Rhode Island state flower is the violet. The Rhode Island
state... | <urn:uuid:18333e78-84a7-4d84-859a-4ea41878d730> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://a4esl.org/q/h/0101/sg-rhode_island.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928493 | 445 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Responsibilities of Participants
In study abroad, as in other settings, participants can have a major impact on their own health and safety through the decisions they make before and during their program and by their day-to-day choices and behaviors.
- Assume responsibility for all the elements necessary for their pers... | <urn:uuid:6efdd122-c63e-47f6-94b7-1cbbcbaed20b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arcadia.edu/abroad/default.aspx?id=5968 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948648 | 436 | 2.828125 | 3 |
The RMS Titanic - Rescue
AFTER THE SINKING OF THE Titanic, those lucky enough to get into a lifeboat were forced to listen to the wailing cries of those in the water. Eventually, the cries died down as, one by one, they perished. An unearthly silence prevailed, broken only by women looking for their husbands and father... | <urn:uuid:83eb3f86-9155-43ff-96c0-b27f6705ea07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://library.thinkquest.org/21583/to/rescue.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979139 | 849 | 3.109375 | 3 |
National Park Service via EPA
Boaters travel down the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park.
When voters in Arizona go to the polls next month, they will be asked to decide a landownership tug of war: Should the Grand Canyon belong to all Americans, or just the residents of Arizona?
A controversial ballot measur... | <urn:uuid:25e3ae6d-4add-429c-aea4-d4c82efb34a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/23/14643160-arizonans-to-vote-on-taking-grand-canyon-other-lands-from-federal-control | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955866 | 813 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Grades 7-9: Due Process Freedoms
Voir Dire Simulation
by Julie Van Camp
Voir dire is one of the most important aspects of any trial. Many attorneys feel that jury selection is the single most significant procedure in the entire trial process. The purpose of voir dire questioning is to obtain a fair and impartial jury. ... | <urn:uuid:5de91ca5-43ef-4633-a0da-862d2d932f28> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resources/resources_for_judges_lawyers/79_dueprocess_voir.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942073 | 1,029 | 3.796875 | 4 |
A Cricket Magazine Group magazine
Science for grades 5-9
Have a young reader who's interested in everything? MUSE® is for them, because it's about everything: past, present, and future; history, science, and the arts. Not just a collection of facts, MUSE is a guidebook for exploration with intelligent writing and amazi... | <urn:uuid:cde9cf2f-ff6f-4eb4-8b98-19fd1af3bca3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cobblestonepub.com/magazine/MUS.html?z=17.338053846359 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905187 | 182 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The problem with waste
The household waste that Devon's Councils have to deal with every year can fill up a football pitch 1000 metres high. Much of what we purchase ends up as waste and it's increasing - a growth of around 1.25% every year. Each person would probably produce 25 tonnes of waste in their lifetime, left ... | <urn:uuid:e3762e1a-174e-4971-b9c3-2cf33f9999de> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.devon.gov.uk/the_problem_with_waste?menuOpen=6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948356 | 677 | 3.34375 | 3 |
This week we’re up to Week 51 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens. This week’s topic is Oral History.
Oral History can be an invaluable asset in our suite of offline research resources. Again and again we read others say that they wish they’d listen... | <urn:uuid:34e85a31-aa7d-4ac7-adf5-d14a1586b215> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cassmob.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/beyond-the-internet-week-51-oral-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968323 | 1,141 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Imagine a high-speed rail line that could get you from San Francisco to LA in 2 hours and 40 minutes.
That dream appears to be coming true, thanks to work by the California High-Speed Rail Authority. After getting a green light by State environmental impact assessors, they’ve begun implementation of an 800-mile bullet-... | <urn:uuid:4e041091-740d-4634-af3e-de233b8334d6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pocketburgers.com/2008/05/california-building-220-mph-high-speed.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928212 | 330 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Lewis Bowman was a New York based architect prominent in the first quarter of the 20th Century. He worked across the country, and in a variety of historic European styles, but is most notable for his use of Jacobean and Tudor styles in Bronxville, NY. He spent a few years briefly after college in McKim, Mead, and White... | <urn:uuid:93414bdc-8d2e-4a1a-a4e7-671bae0d39fa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.remains.com/blog/2012/03/more-treasures-from-the-neighbors-cache/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976095 | 413 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The golden symbol of Laos
What we say:
No town in Laos is complete without a stupa or two and, as the capital city, it seems fitting that Vientiane has the biggest. Located about 2 km east of the Patuxai monument, golden That Luang is the national symbol of Laos.
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|Assessment & Evaluation in Elementary Education|
|ASSESS & EVAL|
|CLASS CODE:||ELED 401||CREDITS: 3|
|DIVISION:||EDUCATION & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT|
|GENERAL EDUCATION:||This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement.|
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Tin Pan Alley musicians of the 1940s who sang of their longing for an Indiana home were not necessarily Hoosiers.
Hanley had reason to long for his Indiana home: after college, he joined the army, fighting in World War I. After getting out of the service, he wrote “Back Home” while working as a vaudeville accompanist i... | <urn:uuid:49a248ba-6eec-4314-a005-50179f38ca70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://indianapublicmedia.org/momentofindianahistory/home-indiana/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97137 | 270 | 2.625 | 3 |
compared to 10% for those who are housed.
FYSB's Runaway and Homeless Youth Program works to get young women off the streets and into shelter.
are rejected by their family and put out of their homes after coming out.
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Citrus aurantifolia is a shrubby tree, to 5 m (16 ft), with many thorns. Dwarf varieties are popular with home growers and can be grown indoors during winter months and in colder climates. The trunk rarely grows straight, with many branches that often originate quite far down on the trunk. The leaves are ovate 2.5–9 cm... | <urn:uuid:73e21151-488c-4d31-b585-7b4fbb33572d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bitterrootrestoration.com/perennials-plants/citrus-aurantifolia.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938973 | 181 | 3.140625 | 3 |
English | 简体中文
Resistor Color Code Calculator
A resistor is an electrical component that limits or regulates the flow of electrical current in an electronic circuit. A resistor is perhaps the most common building block used in circuits. This tool is used to decode information for color banded axial lead resistors. Sele... | <urn:uuid:e585d636-23bf-43f7-9fc6-bf0782fa47e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.digikey.com/sg/en/mkt/4-band-resistors.html?WT.z_ref_page_id=sitemap_resistorcalculator | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894865 | 131 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Human embryonic stem cells hold great promise for studying and treating disease and for the practice of regenerative medicine. However, more must be learned to ensure the cells that may one day be transplanted into humans are safe.
In one of many safety-related studies going on worldwide, scientists at the UCLA Broad S... | <urn:uuid:f4ce6624-18d6-4ddc-ba23-42b019dd3574> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/uoc--cvf062410.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957822 | 1,118 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Protein Balance Key in Preventing Cancer
Fox Chase researchers find that two antagonistic proteins help keep leukemia at bay, pointing to new potential treatments
David L. Wiest, PhD
PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 27, 2013)—Two proteins that scientists once thought carried out the same functions are actually antagonists of... | <urn:uuid:f95d21d4-1a9b-46a8-b11d-74b8d16a1e2f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fccc.edu/information/news/press-releases/2013/2013-02-27-Protein-Balance-Key-In-Preventing-Cancer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957991 | 1,025 | 3.0625 | 3 |
This is the land of the free and the home of the brave, but it’s also the land of roughly two million dams including diversions, irrigation conduits, flood control and water storage projects, both private and federally-owned hydropower dams, and a growing number of uneconomic, unclaimed and unmaintained dams affecting ... | <urn:uuid:7dd58ac8-9629-4d30-bb60-ad34e64e7e58> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.patagonia.com/eu/enGB/patagonia.go?assetid=67051 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957599 | 2,194 | 3.25 | 3 |
Formula written for math success
Share with others:
Mastery of fractions and early division is a predictor of students' later success with algebra and other higher-level mathematics, based on a study done by a team of researchers led by a Carnegie Mellon University professor.
That means more effective teaching of the c... | <urn:uuid:b1e6cb42-ad49-4b08-83f9-716b86db7971> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/education/formula-written-for-math-success-640962/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978008 | 882 | 3.265625 | 3 |
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
Presidential Proclamation--National African American History Month
The great abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass once told us, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Progress in America has not come easily, but has resulted from the collective efforts of ge... | <urn:uuid:bda478ec-d512-4261-bc9f-9edefa18a44a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/02/01/presidential-proclamation-national-african-american-history-month | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933977 | 843 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Annotating Proteins in the Uncanny Valley
The Uncanny Valley
Every day, software appears to do more things that we thought were exclusively in the human realm. Like beating a grandmaster in chess, or carrying out a conversation. I say “appears” because there is obviously no self-aware intelligence involved, as this rat... | <urn:uuid:41507cd3-ce42-426c-98f2-4e601d4030ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2012/06/14/annotating-proteins-in-the-uncanny-valley/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954064 | 2,717 | 2.59375 | 3 |
It's Bottoms Up For Antarctic Ice Sheets
You can think of Antarctica as an amazing layer cake, made from millions of layers of snow that gradually turns to ice. But a new study finds that's not always the case. Some of the ice in Antarctica is actually forming from underneath the glaciers, instead of being piled on fro... | <urn:uuid:74f5eb40-4ccf-492e-ab1d-b25946817bcb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kunc.org/post/its-bottoms-antarctic-ice-sheets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973512 | 956 | 4.1875 | 4 |
cnSTM Jan 10, 2012
St John's Innovation centre
The CNSTM is a simple to use and highly affordable yet powerful ambient STM capable of obtaining atomic resolution yet able to image areas as large as 10 microns across.
The CNSTM is an ambient Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) capable of obtaining atomic resolution imag... | <urn:uuid:e4faf05d-65ca-4c07-954b-60c3d1e44aaa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nanotechweb.org/cws/product/P000026444 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926941 | 145 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Excerpt from: Autism Speaks (click for full article)
This is an important question. Mood disorders – including depression – do appear to be more common in those with developmental disabilities than in the general population.
However, diagnosing depression in those with autism represents a challenge that dates back to L... | <urn:uuid:26cf9c82-7791-4437-af5a-e667d1a3324d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pattidudek.typepad.com/pattis_blog/autism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961861 | 217 | 3.28125 | 3 |
The Dreyfus Affair
While anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe was open and well-defined, far less appreciated and understood was the anti-Semitism in Western Europe. At first its special blend of cultural, economic and social anti-Semitism was hard to identify.
Nevertheless, it proved to be every bit as, if not more dangero... | <urn:uuid:fe7a5a08-869c-4e08-98e4-645b57360cce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jewishhistory.org/the-dreyfus-affair/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989878 | 2,615 | 3.1875 | 3 |
|fountain Creek Railroad
The History of a Railroad
In 1856, a caravan of covered wagons from Kansas City made up of 100 or more trail worn settlers made their way to the foothills of the Rainbow Ridge Mountains, below what is now a small railroad town 100 miles west of Denver, Colorado that they called Fountain Creek.
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Memphis, city, seat (1819) of Shelby county, extreme southwestern Tennessee, U.S. It lies on the Chickasaw bluffs above the Mississippi River where the borders of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee meet. Memphis is Tennessee’s most populous city and is at the centre of the state’s second larg... | <urn:uuid:236902c0-4e71-4a9f-b028-806847bee4ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/374543/Memphis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952013 | 1,304 | 3.234375 | 3 |
A bladder infection is also called a urinary tract infection (UTI) by most medical people, so if you hear both names, don't get scared or confused. It is a bacterial infection that affects any part of the urinary tract. Although urine contains a variety of fluids. salts, and waste products, it normally does not have ba... | <urn:uuid:6522a0c9-c40d-41e2-81fa-d13e36d2d673> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.choosetobehealthy.com/bladder-infection-t-63.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947491 | 1,250 | 3.515625 | 4 |
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This article, from The Physics Teacher, explains how water puts out fires. It also contains a description of how firefighters determine the water pressure for their hoses--and this physics is taught in fire academies.
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Popular culture (commonly known as pop culture) is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstrea... | <urn:uuid:03bfc04e-f086-43bf-8225-8bd76034362f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eucantina.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22511 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956738 | 583 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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Dharma, justice, is the Hindu god of law and one of the sons of Brahma, but almost certainly derives from the dharmas or archetypal social patterns identified in the Rg Veda. According to tradition he is the consort of thirteen daughters of Daksa and the... | <urn:uuid:913e69d5-c610-4871-9ec4-b3d13f31abbb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.themystica.com/mythical-folk/articles/dharma.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955693 | 219 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Saturn is the only planet visible to the naked eye in the evening skies of July, 2011. Face south-southwest at dusk, and you’ll see Saturn near a star of similar brightness—Spica in Virgo. Saturn is a bit to the right of Spica as you face southwest. The ringed planet remains well placed for evening viewing, and remains... | <urn:uuid:18a1ab31-8b8d-4730-8675-01cb410a9787> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.hmns.org/2011/07/go-stargazing-july-edition-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955088 | 645 | 2.9375 | 3 |
In this map, created using NASA satellite data, you can see in lurid detail where lightning struck Earth the most between 1995-2002. This historical information can give scientists clues about where it's likely to strike again. And with tornado, monsoon, and hurricane seasons getting underway, you too might want to kno... | <urn:uuid:0af1ee61-a98c-44af-a7db-1c46137c6e53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://io9.com/5902218/maps-reveal-where-lightning-will-strike-next | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92587 | 378 | 3.3125 | 3 |
The internet is changing the way Americans engage with information, whether they are choosing a president or making health care decisions. Two major drivers for this change are broadband adoption and personal motivation.
First, an update: The Pew Internet Project estimates that between 75% and 80% of internet users hav... | <urn:uuid:a755c357-c237-493f-8c71-589f0b084951> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2008/The-Engaged-Epatient-Population/The-Engaged-E-patient-Population/People-turn-to-the-internet-for-health-information-when-the-stakes-are-high-and-the-connection-fast.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955842 | 1,346 | 2.515625 | 3 |
One of the methods often proposed to save endangered species is to breed the threatened animals in captivity and then release their offspring back into the wild at a later time. The theory is that by giving the animals a safe place to breed and rear their young, you're making it more likely that the species will be abl... | <urn:uuid:39e81b01-c793-4c62-98c1-c79d2c4b8b9d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/Suzuki/2007/09/26/4527858-ca.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960653 | 838 | 4.375 | 4 |
Water Savings Tips
Reduce your shower time. If you shorten your shower time from 10 minutes to 5 minutes or less while using a 9.5 litre per minute (lpm) showerhead, you can save up to 40 litres of water each time you shower. You can also save water by turning off the water while lathering in the shower.
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Impact of future land use and land cover changes on atmospheric chemistry‐climate interactions
To demonstrate potential future consequences of land cover and land use changes beyond those for physical climate and the carbon cycle, we present an analysis of large-scale impacts of land cover and land use changes on atmos... | <urn:uuid:2bfe4eef-5479-43a9-abf8-257b373cdf18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.planbureauvoordeleefomgeving.nl/en/publications/2010/Impact-of-future-land-use-and-land-cover-changes-on-atmospheric-chemistry-climate-interactions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.859033 | 438 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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The 4-H program is improving science technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in New Jersey. By combining non-formal education with hands-on inquiry-based learning in a yo... | <urn:uuid:1eb5bdad-6e24-4ba1-a3c8-f0378b6250e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://4hset.rutgers.edu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925505 | 573 | 3.15625 | 3 |
In the admixture of wilderness and elegant society that was 1826 Kentucky, Jeremiah Beaumont, a brilliant, imaginative lawyer, stood trial for murdering his benefactor and father figure, the politician Colonel Cassius Fort. Now all the documents are in hand to reconstruct Beaumont’s life story—his crime, his trial, his... | <urn:uuid:2412d860-8c2b-4f3b-a616-e7fbade65759> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lsupress.org/books/detail/world-enough-and-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975137 | 229 | 2.796875 | 3 |
(Phys.org) —University of Manchester historians have identified the first modern dog: a Pointer called 'Major'. A description of the animal, found by the team in a now obscure 1865 edition of a Victorian journal called "The Field", was the first attempt to define a dog breed standard based on physical form.
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Hormone produced by D-cells of the gastric antrum; acts to inhibit release of growth hormone - balances somatoliberin and has widespread actions in consequence.
peptide hormone secreted by many tissues that tends to suppress secretion of other hormones.
Hormone which helps to control the secretion of insulin by the pan... | <urn:uuid:2088eb92-7ade-4002-9b3b-bfdd792cac32> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.metaglossary.com/meanings/786910/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911018 | 686 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Fluorescent Bulbs Are Hazardous Waste
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules have been amended to include fluorescent bulbs as hazardous waste due to high levels of mercury. Therefore, used fluorescent bulbs must be managed in acco... | <urn:uuid:fac33dd8-6fc2-465d-93c5-f9d1af6bc8de> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.p12.nysed.gov/facplan/articles/FluorescentLampsAreHazardousWaste.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86552 | 184 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Jan. 12, 2012 As an embryo develops, different genes are turned on in different cells, to form muscles, neurons and other bodily parts. Inside each cell's nucleus, genetic sequences known as enhancers act like remote controls, switching genes on and off. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in... | <urn:uuid:5e451651-4329-4643-aed2-e5cc2d19ae57> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120109132602.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913574 | 473 | 3.125 | 3 |
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The Crisis of Mixed Marriages. 1a When these matters had been concluded, the leaders approached me with this report: “Neither the Israelite laymen nor the priests nor the Levites have kept themselves separate from the peopl... | <urn:uuid:f032ca91-72ad-4424-a74d-1405d816ef9f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usccb.org/bible/ezr/9:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963284 | 1,012 | 2.59375 | 3 |
In Pursuit of a Happiness Gene Tuesday, June 23, 2009
TAU researches twins to find a biological door to the bright side
The pursuit of happiness characterizes the human condition. But for those suffering from stress, money trouble or chronic illness, a positive outlook on life can be difficult to find. Now, a Tel Aviv ... | <urn:uuid:3c57825a-ba4a-4cad-a950-89b8f656fdb3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9893 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970356 | 619 | 2.515625 | 3 |
A global phenomenon will open up new areas for oil exploration, enable ships to take shortcuts, and provide easier access to world markets for iron ore and other minerals.
The phenomenon? Global warming.
Because of global warming, the polar ice sheet is shrinking. With this summer having been one of the warmest on reco... | <urn:uuid:87a968d1-ecca-4b29-907a-44b8933665fb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.econlife.com/tag/northeast-passage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922483 | 351 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Scientists have mapped part of the genome of the woolly mammoth, a huge mammal that's been extinct for about 10,000 years.
The breakthrough could lead to re-creating the creatures.
A team led by Hendrik Poinar at McMaster University unlocked secrets of the creature's nuclear DNA by working with a well-preserved 27,000-... | <urn:uuid:ef03f8df-f784-4ee8-a9d7-9a4179224815> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10533418/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/mammoth-dna-could-spark-resurrection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966707 | 663 | 4 | 4 |
Discussion of all aspects of cellular structure, physiology and communication.
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I have tried to understand this sentence but I just don't get it :
"Lipids and proteins are capable of lateral movement , but movement of either from one face of the bilayer to the other is prohibited. In the fluid mosa... | <urn:uuid:00190a97-5224-498a-baa0-1cb52332a3b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/post-102205.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950968 | 620 | 3.359375 | 3 |
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (MUP), 1983
Henry Alexis (Harry) Kauper (1888-1942), aviation and radio engineer and inventor, was born on 12 March 1888 at Hawthorn, Melbourne, son of Charles Henry Kauper, carpenter and later orchardist, and his wife Rosa Victoria, née Franci... | <urn:uuid:3a69d6a7-65b9-4f10-ad9d-87dc547544ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kauper-henry-alexis-harry-6898 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973004 | 1,220 | 2.875 | 3 |
By Rabbi Max Reichler
Who knows the cause of Israel’s survival? Why did the Jew survive the onslaughts of Time, when others, numerically and politically stronger, succumbed? Obedience to the Law of Life, declares the modern student of eugenics, was the saving quality which rendered the Jewish race immune from disease a... | <urn:uuid:f86792cd-ac6a-4552-9df2-cae6ae13de94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-mindcontrol-eugenics.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954375 | 4,200 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Nanoscribe, a spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, has developed a tabletop 3-D microprinter that can create complicated microstructures 100 times faster than is possible today. “If something took one hour to make, it now takes less than one minute,” says Michael Thiel, chief scientific offic... | <urn:uuid:c2ffd8ad-20f7-442d-ace3-39229a80da94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.technologyreview.com/news/511856/micro-3-d-printer-creates-tiny-structures-in-seconds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940403 | 657 | 3.015625 | 3 |
A goal of Health Services is to provide all patients with high quality health care in a manner that clearly recognizes individual needs and rights. To effectively accomplish this goal, it is necessary for patients and health care providers to work together. To that end, the following rights and responsibilities must be... | <urn:uuid:e17cf489-fb7b-4f15-895e-e2f23e8caead> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cnr.edu/StudentLife/PatientRightsandResponsibilities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919694 | 403 | 2.734375 | 3 |
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Re: "Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit Earth..."
> And - they had FEATHERS, which turned out to be
> remarkably good insulation against cold - think of
> birds huddling together in a burrow, and you get ... | <urn:uuid:bc36b7e7-ac69-4358-8634-2c54a6253274> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dml.cmnh.org/2004May/msg00489.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962094 | 175 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Biotechnology, sometimes called simply biotech, is used in a variety of spheres like production of food and medicines. It develops products by using living organisms and living systems and nowadays the term has expanded to include scientific spheres such as applied immunology, diagnostic tests, pharmaceutical therapies... | <urn:uuid:ecd37e62-da58-4a81-b14e-757f417a4259> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sackvillechamber.ca/member/15/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964767 | 525 | 3 | 3 |
The V-flash cartridge is completely self-contained and is recyclable via 3D Systems’ recycling center. Image courtesy of 3D Systems.
Many years ago, Kermit the Frog made a profound statement: “It’s not easy being green.” Little did he know that being green would become a catchphrase in the 20th and 21st centuries, a go... | <urn:uuid:04c6a32b-3e38-45be-82bf-831c2999fade> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaazmr.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939005 | 3,244 | 3.15625 | 3 |
|Exercise Management systems typically use a key or PIN to identify each user on a piece of equipment. This helps the user in two ways; firstly, they don’t have to program the machine (or even press QuickStart), and secondly, the exercise performed is recorded on the key and/or in the database. There is an time saving ... | <urn:uuid:4e6f59ad-fe1b-4ada-9dd2-2dd6aab1cd0a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ggfit.com/exercise-management-systems.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962627 | 216 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Nuclear Power Is the Future
Nuclear power alone is positioned to help meet the world's burgeoning energy demand and supply electricity to power-starved areas of the world.
Read a related essay in the Autumn 2006 issue, "Nuclear Is Not the Way" by Brice Smith and Arjun Makhijani.
In the early morning hours of March 28, ... | <urn:uuid:9fa94602-4bca-4bf2-b558-d48a71e2ff61> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wilsonquarterly.com/printarticle.cfm?aid=917 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952362 | 5,230 | 3.4375 | 3 |