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Literature: "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
This site provides biographical information about Laurie Halse Anderson, a “Chains” book discussion guide, and articles about lives of slaves and indentured servants. Included are eThemes resources on slavery slave trade and the Revolutionary War.
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The marine transportation infrastructure revolves around ports ? typically found at the edge of an ocean, sea, river, or lake ? which receive ships and transport cargo. Most passenger sea travel occurs on ferries and cruise ships, although recreational marine vehicles are also increasing in popularity. Ferries can also... | <urn:uuid:8a12e040-c76a-4a8b-8f2f-f65031a80a6f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/1356.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941225 | 949 | 3.890625 | 4 |
The finer points of mob rule.
Two heads are better than one? Not always!
This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science
And on the finer points of mob rule.
Many animals, like schools of fish, make instant group decisions.
To find out, researchers at the University of Sydney, Australia built a couple of realisti... | <urn:uuid:e38c7a70-a7c3-4b92-b7e1-faba7d858f6c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scpr.org/programs/loh-down-on-science/2008/09/23/24179/mob-rules/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911011 | 243 | 2.65625 | 3 |
INVENTION and DISCOVERY:
Printed Books from Fifteenth-Century Europe
An Exhibition at Bridwell Library, February 1 – May 3, 2010
|PRINTING IN ITALY||
35. [MISSAL, for Carmelite Use]. Brescia: Boninus Boninis de Ragusia, 14 August 1490.
Printed specifically for use in
Carmelite monasteries, this Missal survives in only ... | <urn:uuid:11a00ba9-a5cb-40e1-9d21-03799735b5fa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://smu.edu/bridwell_tools/specialcollections/I&D.Italy11.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887096 | 308 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Web edition: January 28, 2011
Print edition: February 12, 2011; Vol.179 #4 (p. 31)
Many creatures — birds, bees and butterflies, for example — use the planet's magnetic field to navigate, but humans are the only ones to do so with instruments rather than an innate sense. In her first book, Turner, a geophysicist, looks... | <urn:uuid:f5cdf96b-bbbf-4352-9514-a5dca85b96b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/69254/description/Book_Review_North_Pole_South_Pole_The_Epic_Quest_to_Solve_the_Great_Mystery_of_Earths_Magnetism_by_Gillian_Turner | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96004 | 335 | 3.765625 | 4 |
Younger Kids Likelier to Gain Weight After Tonsillectomy
WEDNESDAY Sept. 12, 2012 -- Weight gain following a tonsillectomy is linked to children's age, not the underlying diagnosis, according to a new study.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins found that weight gain following tonsillectomy occurs most often in children 6 ye... | <urn:uuid:ac22df63-37e1-4a0d-84ae-9c7c9486ca06> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.drugs.com/news/younger-kids-likelier-gain-weight-after-tonsillectomy-40307.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968085 | 683 | 3 | 3 |
Encyclopédie: The Triumph of Reason in an Unreasonable Age
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Redirected from Encyclopédie: The triumph of reason in an unreasonable age)
Encyclopédie: The Triumph of Reason in an Unreasonable Age (2004) is a book by Philipp Blom
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Montana State Bird
Adoption of the Montana State Bird
The meadowlark was chosen as the State bird of Montana in 1930 by a vote of the school children of the state. By an act of the Montana Legislature, the western meadow lark was adopted as the official state bird on March 14, 1931. The act read, in part:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 13, 2011
SCHUMER INTRODUCES BILL TO AWARD FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN MARINES IN U.S. HISTORY WITH CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL; MONTFORD POINT MARINES INCLUDE NYC MAYOR DAVID DINKINS
Schumer Bill Would Honor Montford Point Marines, the First African American to Serve in the United States Marine... | <urn:uuid:a0ee053d-6255-446d-af82-2277360906a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.schumer.senate.gov/Newsroom/record.cfm?id=334033&year=2011 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95452 | 774 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Energy Efficient Data Centers: A Growing Trend
Data centers—the modern digital warehouses—use massive amounts of energy to both power and cool servers. As hardware costs continue to fall and energy costs continue to rise, it seems only natural that data center operators are focusing their attention on becoming more ene... | <urn:uuid:c50b5eb7-335d-4067-8dd5-2c1d00216ecf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.siebenenergy.com/ENERGYINSIGHTS/BLOG/tabid/71/entryid/28/Default.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935759 | 260 | 2.71875 | 3 |
run into each other/out o order/out of service/slammed the door/banged the door/
Would you be kind enough to tell me whether I am right with my interpretation of the expressions in bold in the following sentences?
I looked at the indicator above his head and the floors were racing by so fast that the numbers ran into e... | <urn:uuid:1247f9c2-ced8-4d7c-a084-656c19143d42> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/102203-run-into-each-other-out-o-order-out-service-slammed-door-banged-door-print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953812 | 471 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Christmas, literally meaning, "Christ's Mass," hasn't always been celebrated at the end of the year.
In fact, no one knows for sure just when Jesus was born.
Scholars believe the confusion began in part because Christmas wasn't an early feast day in the church. And there was much disagreement over whether it should eve... | <urn:uuid:b8347614-9412-4205-95c1-de0674043b98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.41nbc.com/41-days-of-christmas/17070-the-day-christ-was-born-was-it-really-the-25th | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970035 | 225 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Melasma. The forehead is a common place for melasma to appear.
Melasma (muh-LAZ-muh) is a common skin problem. It causes brown to gray-brown patches on the face. Most people get it on their cheeks, bridge of their nose, forehead, chin, and above their upper lip. It also can appear on other parts of the body that get lo... | <urn:uuid:789e2b5b-42b7-4acb-84b8-b01d77180df9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aad.org/dermatology-a-to-z/diseases-and-treatments/m---p/melasma | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946693 | 224 | 2.828125 | 3 |
video by whitehouse
Today, December 1st, is the 24th annual World AIDS Day. Each World AIDS Day has a theme and 2010's is "Universal Access and Human Rights." For Americans, this should serve as a reminder that although AIDS related deaths have declined in the United States, AIDS is global health issue. About 33 millio... | <urn:uuid:1fe38a45-08a3-4159-8ee9-b470c283e009> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencefriday.com/blogs/12/01/2010/world-aids-day-2010.html?series=&interest=&audience=&author=120 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966597 | 359 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Augering and test pitting have (like the excavation trenches) concentrated on The Common and the associated hills of the Grand Monceau. The main aims of the work are to:
1) identify the depth, thickness and extent of any buried land surfaces and palaeosols beneath the sand dune system, and
2) identify the nature of pre... | <urn:uuid:159b7193-71dc-4a7e-8678-f81467deec57> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dur.ac.uk/herm.project/geoarchaeology-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963075 | 749 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Perciformes
(Perch-likes) > Cichlidae
(Cichlids) > Pseudocrenilabrinae
Etymology: Melanochromis: Greek, melas, melanos = black + Greek, chromis = a fish, perhaps a perch (Ref. 45335).
Environment / Climate / Range
Freshwater; demersal; pH range: 7.0 - 8.5; dH range: 10 - 15. Tropica... | <urn:uuid:0c2a653b-f902-49cd-8aec-ce6ee1056b28> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fishbase.org/summary/2343 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.70384 | 618 | 3.078125 | 3 |
kick the can
A classic children’s game, Kick the Can has elements of hide and seek, tag, and capture the flag in its game play. The rules of the game are simple and can be played outdoors in a variety of settings, including back yards, streets, or open spaces that allow for hiding places for children.
Rather than using... | <urn:uuid:7935888b-f0c5-4216-b016-ec6a87c70cde> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pgpedia.com/k/kick-can | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968459 | 677 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Economic history of the United Kingdom
Britain led the industrial revolution and dominated the European and world economy during the 19th century. It was the major innovator in machinery such as steam engines (for pumps, factories, railway locomotives and steamships), textile equipment, and tool-making. It invented the... | <urn:uuid:11fa3b50-471a-4cb3-9bcd-c940a69f2a87> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_United_Kingdom | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958388 | 16,337 | 3.90625 | 4 |
A concrete example will help:
Lets suppose we have a volume group called VG1, this volume group has a physical extent size of 4MB. Into this volume group we introduce 2 hard disk partitions, /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1. These partitions will become physical volumes PV1 and PV2 (more meaningful names can be given at the adm... | <urn:uuid:6b6a5d5f-5f1d-4ebf-8c6c-b2b1de29db17> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/tyingittogether.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899424 | 207 | 2.875 | 3 |
|Documentation: Pointers to architecture-specific documentation|
Also known as i386 or x86, the most common ISA on desktop machines for historical reasons. Recent implementations have many sophisticated features such as deep pipelines with out of order execution and good branch prediction.
The SPARC is a reduced instru... | <urn:uuid:e79a700a-c119-48ee-a31f-3e12de9f9ada> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cons.org/cmucl/doc/arch-print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953557 | 113 | 2.9375 | 3 |
As it quickly became clear that there was a certain demographic skew among the people stranded in New Orleans, journalists began intoning that Hurricane Katrina had stripped bare the continuing racial inequity in America.
The extent to which this was hidden is unclear, actually. An awareness that a tragic disproportion... | <urn:uuid:da61bd96-46c4-49d0-89f0-834e1587a1d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/miarticle.htm?id=2930 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980839 | 1,361 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Brain games STOP depression before it STARTS?
Totally not necessary.
[via New Scientist] Brain-training games stop depression before it starts
It may be possible to stave off depression before it even appears using brain-scanning software so simplistic in its design that even the psychologist testing it once bet it wou... | <urn:uuid:ea636b12-e2ad-43a5-9a65-a51e1cbc1116> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://anguishedrepose.com/tag/negative-emotional-stimuli/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947583 | 1,353 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Recommendation 7: Congress, federal agencies, and the federal climate change research program should work with other relevant partners (including universities, state and local governments, the international research community, the business community, and other nongovernmental organizations) to expand and engage the hum... | <urn:uuid:f0682e84-7e64-4cca-bd9e-a9ac61542846> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12782&page=180 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938712 | 311 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Today in Church History
J. Gresham Machen, Orthodox Presbyterian Church: formation
On June 11, 1936, at the meeting of the Presbyterian Constitutional Covenant Union in the New Century Club in Philadelphia, the Presbyterian Church of America was formed. (In 1939, its name was changed to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church... | <urn:uuid:e35839ec-3e50-4ff1-93c1-ca7f8d424ad6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.opc.org/today.html?history_id=24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960964 | 367 | 3.0625 | 3 |
From The Sun, New York, NY, Sunday, February 20, 1898, Section 2, p. 6:
THE PEDIGREE OF THE CROATANS.
Identified as Descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Roanoke Colony.
From the Philadelphia Record.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 13. – Former United States Senator Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi has always been classed as a negro.... | <urn:uuid:86062505-1c1b-4584-b9b6-a37bb8ee0477> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gminternal.wordpress.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983941 | 1,699 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Tectonics on Titan
May 21, 2008
A set of three parallel ridges was seen by the Cassini spacecraft's radar instrument during the latest Titan flyby on May 12, 2008. This combination is unlikely to be a coincidence -- the best explanation for these features is that they are tilted or separated blocks of broken or faulted... | <urn:uuid:aa2232fb-96b4-4605-88c7-d8c376e1f963> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/imagedetails/index.cfm?imageId=3082 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951995 | 665 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Aero-Terms are designed to be a daily reminder of the terms,
names, acronyms and explanations of the unique language that
populates the aviation world. Aerospace, sport aviation, fixed
wing, helo, you name it... it's all fair game.
Aero-Terms should serve as a quick but intriguing reminder of
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The term alignment is never applied to any animal but man. This points out how artificial such a concept is when considering living form. The notion seems to have developed during the machine age – post-industrial revolution – when the tendency was to attempt to define all structures with simple mechanical concepts. Co... | <urn:uuid:3a868fb8-40d8-471a-a8d2-5bb9e2ab6468> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alexandertechnique-running.com/the-myth-of-alignment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946493 | 1,240 | 3.765625 | 4 |
The weather in the Lake District can change very quickly, particularly on the fells where clear morning skies can rapidly give way to rain, sleet or even snow on the summits, so you'd better be prepared! Appropriate clothing can make all the difference and four items are basic essentials for a day on the fells; boots, ... | <urn:uuid:b01f63d6-9c15-4919-b91d-fcd17d440482> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.golakes.co.uk/adventure-capital/climbing-practical-advice.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940984 | 663 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The math being used to solve the electricity grid’s most complex power flow equations today is, well, kind of fuzzy.
Gridquant, a startup created by Spanish software development firm Grupo AIA, says its new math for power flow modeling can make those grid calculations far more accurate. While the company was only recen... | <urn:uuid:018b2e24-bfed-49b2-a499-3de4df153a2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/gridquant-new-math-for-the-smart-grid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953494 | 1,583 | 2.625 | 3 |
Global temperature records are crucial to scientific assessment of climate change, so many steps are taken to ensure that the records are reliable and that any factors which could cause biases are accounted for.
One example is "urban heat islands" – the phenomenon of temperatures in cities being higher than those in ru... | <urn:uuid:b4f609e9-ea91-46e0-8d37-9754f8d624a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/02/temperature-record-climate-change-warming?newsfeed=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93453 | 550 | 4.28125 | 4 |
Sending and receiving mail used to be a very public affair. Senders had to take their letters in person to a receiver at a Receiving House or to a Turnpike House where their mail waited to be picked up by the Royal Mail coach. Receiving a letter was the same procedure in reverse. Who was posting or receiving mail was p... | <urn:uuid:de279257-cb9b-4752-8fa0-ae0516bec605> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.josepicardo.com/2011/12/a-short-history-of-the-pillar-box/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970519 | 294 | 3.0625 | 3 |
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Reproduction by special tissues without fertilization. Examples include parthenogenesis in animals (in which a new individual develops from an unfertilized egg) and apogamy in plants (in which the generating tissue may be either the gametophyte or the spor... | <urn:uuid:8181c552-c33e-4d0f-8267-4ac77055add8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.merriam-webster.com/concise/apomixis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.838525 | 136 | 3.46875 | 3 |
July 24, 2007 An eight-month voyage through the Arctic Ocean, without ship or travel route: the North Pole drifting station NP-35 represents an unusual project of the International Polar Year.
At the end of August the expedition, under Russian leadership, will leave for the Arctic Ocean. One of the participants is Jürg... | <urn:uuid:dfb1367a-f0ee-44ce-875e-db0f6461cc26> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070720095943.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907527 | 1,482 | 3.140625 | 3 |
American culture venerates choice, but choice may not be the key to happiness and health, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
"Americans live in a political, social, and historical context that advances personal freedom, choice, and self-determination above all else," write authors Hazel Rose ... | <urn:uuid:d255d2b8-3d88-470c-bde9-bebc9720f295> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://phys.org/news183125915.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937793 | 479 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Calculi - urinary
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Calculus obtained from spontaneous passage or surgical intervention
Commonly a series of spot tests are performed on pulverised, dissolved calculus. The mineral composition is then deduced from the relative amounts ... | <urn:uuid:72b7b6e3-3d55-4f5c-85f8-507d9a988613> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rcpamanual.edu.au/index.php?option=com_pttests&task=show_test&id=426&Itemid=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.710269 | 260 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Have you ever had surgery and wondered if the surgeon forgot any of the surgical instruments inside you? Maybe you never even thought to worry about it, but a New York Times article shared that every year, an estimated 4,000 cases of retained surgical items are reported in the United States.
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Should the concept of an autism "spectrum" of disorders be abandoned?
The DSM III originally included strict criteria for Kanner's infantile autism. These strict criteria were relaxed in the DSM III-R which "broadened the concept of autism to include children who, although socially impaired, are not pervasively unrespo... | <urn:uuid:676099ab-c73d-430c-9327-e24d5ad1f3d6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://autisminnb.blogspot.com/2009/09/redefining-autism-should-autism.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963817 | 1,374 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The Next Prime
March 26, 2010
In two previous exercises, we had to iterate through the prime numbers. In one case, we generated a large number of primes using the Sieve of Eratosthenes, but without knowing in advance how large the sieve needed to be, and in the other case we iterated through the odd integers, checking ... | <urn:uuid:495d5274-a8f0-4816-bd92-dd1494f3b537> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://programmingpraxis.com/2010/03/26/the-next-prime/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=fb311db3f8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920807 | 410 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Your 30 human rights-the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In 1948, in the wake of World War II, a short document was placed before the United Nations affirming the inalienable rights of people and attempting to document the lessons learned from decades of unimaginable violence and destruction. The document contain... | <urn:uuid:6065d891-fef5-40eb-92c9-63a4718115ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cchrpartnership.org/Learn/Our30HumanRights/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920924 | 177 | 3.890625 | 4 |
According to the age-old tradition of the Byzantine Churches, both Catholic and Orthodox, the home is a kind of church, because it houses an assembly of believers. When people occupy a new house, the priest performs a consecration, anointing the four walls with holy oil and sanctifying the house with holy water and inc... | <urn:uuid:7235a308-8f5a-4b0a-af5c-720ab32d7655> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.royaldoors.net/category/christian-life/domestic-church/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951613 | 1,573 | 2.703125 | 3 |
A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
Of all the colorful characters to have populated the human family tree, Homo erectus was by far the most peripatetic and long-lived. Represented by the fossilized remains of some 200 individuals scattered over three continents and living from more than 1.7 millio... | <urn:uuid:8b04b7ca-9197-45ba-9c9e-a38fecfabc00> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archive.archaeology.org/0405/reviews/hominid.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961257 | 611 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Cooper, John Milton.
Adult Nonfiction 921 W69 2009
Summary: The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars. A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformativ... | <urn:uuid:afb7e4cb-fcd1-462d-8bc7-071d10cf0828> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hclib.org/pub/bookspace/discuss/?bib=4373391&theTab=Summary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942472 | 441 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Like Machu Picchu, Petra was unknown to the Western world until it was rediscovered in 1812. The word petra means stone in Greek. Apropos is it not for a city literally carved out of the cliff face?
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Modern Art from 1930: Surrealism and Neo-Romanticism - National Museum Cardiff
Surrealist art was concerned with dream imagery and the subconscious world. The artists experimented with various techniques to unleash the unknown strangeness of the mind.
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Image above: The International Space Station's length and width is about the size of a football field. Credit: NASA
The International Space Station marks its 10th anniversary of continuous human occupation on Nov. 2, 2010. Since Expedition 1, which launched Oct. 31, 2000, and docked Nov. 2, the space station has been v... | <urn:uuid:a1b46007-8ae8-4cfb-896e-830e9c881bc8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/onthestation/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888492 | 1,076 | 3.3125 | 3 |
It's that time of year again: Yes, we're facing the return of the Western tent caterpillars. Their unsightly nests clutter trees and shrubs, providing them protection from predators, as they happily munch away. The creatures, also known as Malacosoma californicum, hatch in the spring when new buds are forming and spin ... | <urn:uuid:97bae8de-dabd-4bce-a8d6-c691fced3c18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/caterpillars.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948774 | 732 | 3.375 | 3 |
Arya Samaj Marriage rituals are not as elaborate as the traditional Hindu rituals. The wedding rituals are few in number, but there significance is quite understandable. The Vedic mantras are recited during the wedding procession ceremony and are explained to both the bride and the groom so that the significance of the... | <urn:uuid:f94934dd-5d5b-4335-ae0e-97f6bd1c2544> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://relationship.ezinemark.com/arya-samaj-marriage-traditions-and-their-significance-7d34f6c9e326.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944809 | 657 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Starting in April, PBS will present a five-part television series that shows how Native peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture -- from the Wampanoags of New England in the 1600s who used their alliance with the English to weaken rival tribes, to the bold new lea... | <urn:uuid:b2e58bc5-4acd-44ad-93ed-ebea512bfda3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.asset.asu.edu/new/newsletter/7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91642 | 1,061 | 2.9375 | 3 |
(Health.com) -- Parents who believe that playing video games is less harmful to their kids' attention spans than watching TV may want to reconsider -- and unplug the Xbox. Video games can sap a child's attention just as much as the tube, a new study suggests.
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Assistive Technology Assessment: Are Our Assessment Strategies Providing the Needed Information?By Korsten, Jane; Closing the Gap, Vol. 26, No. 4
Closing the Gap, Inc.
Publication Date: October/November 2007
Article offers a historical perspective on assistive-technology assessment, from being an expert-conducted, prod... | <urn:uuid:b32c146a-2e20-487e-82be-2363f1b7d426> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://abledata.com/abledata.cfm?pageid=160377&ksectionid=160164&atlitid=187222 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920405 | 319 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Richmond Animal League Celebrates Earth Day all Month Long | Community Spirit
Carbon footprint. Green communities. And adopting a shelter pet? With Earth Day coming up on April 22nd, Richmond Animal League wants to help raise awareness of their “100% recycled, earth-friendly” pets, and how you can help make your pets e... | <urn:uuid:82297a61-8ccf-4c40-aabb-b128ff5b8415> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://easternhenrico.nbc12.com/news/community-spirit/77157-richmond-animal-league-celebrates-earth-day-all-month-long | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957654 | 859 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Turning the tables on Isaac Newton
As we age, we begin to see gravity as our enemy. Always dragging us down, Isaac Newton's discovery uses our own bodies against us compressing our spines and causing pain just because we're upright. Walking, running, or any other high-impact exercise makes the compression and pain wors... | <urn:uuid:ab11528c-f36e-40af-9a5c-9b62a021ad16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.inversiontables.com/inversion-tables/inversiontherapypainreliefarticle.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927119 | 320 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The Slide Rule
The slide rule is a tool that has long since been outdated by computers. It performed simple multiplication and division problems, as well as trigonometrical equations and logarithms. The rule below is a working Java applet; to use it, simply slide the center piece or the glass to the left or right to po... | <urn:uuid:ef3449eb-1be0-4e17-9dc1-4d7e90dec8ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.syssrc.com/html/museum/html/sims/javaslide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942241 | 100 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Highlight: In 1913, New York City’s rebuilt Grand Central Terminal officially opened to the public at one minute past midnight.
In 1536, present-day Buenos Aires, Argentina, was founded by Pedro de Mendoza of Spain.
In 1653, New Amsterdam — now New York City — was incorporated.
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The British Library holds one of the most important collections of Hebrew manuscripts. The core of the Library’s collection is in the foundation collections, and the holdings gradually expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Of the approximately 3000 manuscripts around 300 have some type of decoration. ... | <urn:uuid:3a75013a-dd51-4a08-9ae3-471377934601> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.british-library.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/HebrewMss.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913273 | 1,722 | 2.9375 | 3 |
PROTEINS AS ENZYMES
This page is an introduction to how proteins can work as enzymes - biological catalysts. You should realise that this is written to cover the needs of a number of UK-based chemistry syllabuses for 16 - 18 year olds. If you want detailed knowledge about enzymes for a biology or biochemistry course, y... | <urn:uuid:838d1578-3d79-4bc6-9894-884e5a5e6935> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/aminoacids/enzymes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958968 | 4,103 | 3.96875 | 4 |
Other Historic Sites
These sites served various purposes and are important by virtue of their historic, architectural, traditional, artistic, aesthetic, scientific or archaeological value.
- 1 King Street - formerly the Manse of the Burchell Baptist Church.
- Admiralty Houses - part of the Old Naval Dockyard in Port Ro... | <urn:uuid:5bcf8fb8-a61a-4082-aece-2dfd39e7b59c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jnht.com/other_historic_sites.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932642 | 903 | 2.5625 | 3 |
WHO Calls For Targets on Noncommunicable Diseases
WHO News Release
WHO Calls For Setting Targets And Indicators To Intensify Efforts Against Noncommunicable Diseases
HANOI, 26 September 2012—The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for the Western Pacific today reviewed the progress so far on noncommunica... | <urn:uuid:2f9a1bd8-05c6-45a6-8b9a-ea7bec4f923d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1209/S00190/who-calls-for-targets-on-noncommunicable-diseases.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90739 | 550 | 2.5625 | 3 |
You will be forgiven if your eyes glaze over at the title of this post. (For pronunciation try 'fytoffthora'). However, potentially this disease, also called Sudden Oak Death, could be a major threat to heathland habitats. Fera ( The Food and Environment Research Agency) provides more information about the disease and ... | <urn:uuid:289b67bf-55eb-4558-bffb-f84bdf4ee8e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://heathertrust.blogspot.com/2010/04/phytophthora-ramorum-kernoviae.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968817 | 286 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Class Precedence List:
complex, number, t
The type complex includes all mathematical complex numbers other than those included in the type rational. Complexes are expressed in Cartesian form with a real part and an imaginary part, each of which is a real. The real part and imaginary part are either both rational or bot... | <urn:uuid:36bde8b4-c5f7-4a57-8b24-a309a7960b25> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lispurl.com/documentation/clhs/HyperSpec/Body/t_comple.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.866042 | 372 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Gender and Climate Change in India
Six Villages, Andhra Pradesh, India
The focus of the study are six villages with high indicators of poverty and livelihoods reliant on rainfed agriculture in the drought-prone districts of Anantapur and Mahabubnagar.
Two hundred and one farmers (106 women and 95 men) participated in t... | <urn:uuid:d5eaf9b9-a6d5-4241-a6b1-9228b8a479cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fao.org/climatechange/54840/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919446 | 192 | 2.953125 | 3 |
The agricultural history of the overview area represents an interweaving of economic, technological and sociological factors within the contect of natural features such as climate, soils, topography, and water. The relative importance of crops changed in response to political forces such as wars and immigration policie... | <urn:uuid:619e3797-4a41-4472-a07f-e14fa4cd4407> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mchsmuseum.com/agoverview.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980519 | 4,151 | 4.125 | 4 |
Henry H. "Hap" Arnold was one of the truly great men in American airpower. He was a pioneer Airman who was taught to fly by the Wright Brothers, and commander of Army Air Forces in victory over Germany and Japan in World War II. He was also the first and only General of the Air Force, a five-star rank bestowed by an ac... | <urn:uuid:3a52fda3-d343-49df-a40e-83b725f633f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.af.mil/information/heritage/person.asp?dec=Early_Years&pid=123006476 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985841 | 1,278 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Our page banner is a detail from the Surrealist painting 'Time Transfixed', (1938) by René Magritte.
Art History Timelines
Art History Timelines
- Our art history timelines are a shortcut to understanding the progress of art over many centuries.
- They track the emergence of art movements and offer a simple explanation... | <urn:uuid:d096ddd0-4b4f-44c9-be71-e03c70a9069a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/timelines/art_history_timelines.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.758471 | 587 | 3.375 | 3 |
Glossary for C
A term of dating that means the Common Era. Used by scientists, scholars, and Pagans as a more appropriate alternative to the religious A.D., Latin for “Year of our Lord.”
Cabala...is a system of mysticism with its origins in Judaism, stemming in part from the "chariot" visions of first-century mystics, ... | <urn:uuid:35dba0cb-5fbe-49f8-9e4a-93eb3c3995ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/glossary.php?alphabet=C | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945538 | 24,504 | 3 | 3 |
Green Springs National Historic Landmark District is a 14,000 acre agricultural landscape. The rich soils of the Green Springs basin have sustained farming for over 270 years; human activity has been in relative harmony with the land, enhancing rather than detracting from it.
Thirty-five homes and buildings are listed ... | <urn:uuid:59015fd9-9614-434d-b134-5585bceac7ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.virginia.org/Listings/OutdoorsAndSports/GreenSpringsNationalHistoricLandmarkDistrict/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934553 | 174 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Summary and Analytical Review of main themes of Douglass' Narrative
One of the most influential and well known abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass was always one to point out the evils of slavery. Being a former slave himself made his accounts of cruelty and malice all the more believable an... | <urn:uuid:790b874c-29dd-42d5-a7ec-a323dee23c16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://everything2.com/title/narrative+of+the+life+of+frederick+douglass | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989202 | 2,012 | 3.921875 | 4 |
William Hart, American. (1823-1894).
William Hart was an important painter and an influential teacher of the Hudson River School.
His family included fellow artists James, and Julie Hart Beers. Hart immigrated to America
from Scotland in 1851 and settled in Albany, NY. He was self-taught as an artist and was
painting p... | <urn:uuid:1de9ca5a-29c6-4801-9014-6757b05ebbd6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.blueheronfa.com/hart.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975544 | 316 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Wikipedia 10K Redux by Reagle from Starling archive. Bugs abound!!!
A form of fiction that developed in the 20th century and deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. The term is more generally used to refer to any literary fantasy that includes a scientific factor as ... | <urn:uuid:27d8bf26-1357-4bb0-9c3d-5ac03ab7fa2e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/~reagle/wp-redux/ScienceFiction/983017404.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954498 | 970 | 2.890625 | 3 |
||Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. Can be erased while still on the circuit board. See EPROM.
||When referring to software, a program that performs some kind of intricate data manipulation. i.e. a search engine
||Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. A type of ROM chip that can be programmed, then... | <urn:uuid:8282bcb1-3d6d-4b43-9e8e-8c45d7e1b4ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.data.net/dict.cfm?Letter=E | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888244 | 224 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Dental rinses can help fight plaque, gingivitis, and bad breath when combined with daily brushing and flossing. Ask your dentist to recommend a rinse based upon your dental history. He or she will tell you when and how often it should be used, and during future visits will check for positive or negative effects on your... | <urn:uuid:d6b17042-7b4b-4441-857b-23111218efc6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kmtr.com/guides/beauty/dental/story/Dental-rinses/LlAFCvTvN06iwrIX_AQ7Ag.cspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94045 | 317 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Sam Low presents: Polynesian Starpaths: Ancient Polynesian Voyaging and Navigation
Thor Heyerdahl believed South American people settled Polynesia after drifting aboard primitive rafts into the Pacific with prevailing winds and currents. Writer, filmmaker, and Vineyard resident Sam Low believes the opposite is true. Po... | <urn:uuid:c072e562-fc44-4997-9372-a718bc383758> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ticketsmv.com/event.php?id=23540 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928545 | 204 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Hearing Loss is one of the major illness that affect older Adults. At Present, approximately seventeen percent American Adults says that they have some degree of hearing loss. Those people with hearing loss, they get difficulty in conversation with friends and family.
Moreover, the people with hearing loss, they also g... | <urn:uuid:c88796df-6ce5-4909-8e4f-cb725dd256ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wiredfire.org/hearing-loss-effects-older-adults/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960575 | 316 | 3.6875 | 4 |
- "Orc is not an English word. It occurs in one or two places [in The Hobbit] but is usually translated goblin (or hobgoblin for the larger kinds)"
- —J.R.R. Tolkien, Preface to The Hobbit
Orcs were the most commonplace villains serving the Dark Powers in all of Tolkien's Mythology, a race of sentient beings bred by th... | <urn:uuid:2cd126a5-35a4-41ef-beff-1c022fdafc3f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Orcs?file=Orcs_-_Two_Towers.png | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976935 | 5,247 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Born at Rome about 1210; died at Rome, 3 April, 1287. He belonged to the rich and influential family of the Savelli and was a grandnephew of Honorius III. Very little is known of his life before he ascended the papal throne. He studied at the University of Paris, during which time he held a prebend and a canonry at the... | <urn:uuid:8866da01-1e32-47bb-8205-0c2004c9cdf8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newadvent.org/cathen/07459a.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975907 | 2,958 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Boosting levels of a protein in the brain could be a way of treating diseases such as epilepsy and schizophrenia, scientists suggest.
In seizures, electrical surges cause message scrambling in the brain
Researchers at the University of Bristol say the SUMO protein acts to damp down the amount of information transmitted... | <urn:uuid:00334e93-251c-4465-84d3-ab51e7958c1a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6623695.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954608 | 587 | 3.5 | 4 |
- Build a scale model of our solar system.
- Explain the forces at work when the Mercury orbits the sun. What keeps it in place? Is it moving further away?
- Study pictures.
- What are the features of this planet? Could they support some kind of life? Why or why not?
Link Resources to Complete the Science Fair Project
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Chukote Coastal Tundra
About the Area
Only about 50 miles (80 km) of ocean separate the Chukote Peninsula from Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Five million years ago a land bridge existed where there is currently ocean, allowing species to migrate between what are now Asia and North America.
The result of such a movement ca... | <urn:uuid:8bed8a8e-f430-49cf-965b-51d08fb22821> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/chukote_coastal_tundra.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.84074 | 393 | 3.53125 | 4 |
If you think you know what is actually in the food you are buying, you could be wrong. You may not want to always rely on the label. Several key products are prime targets for food fraud.
"About 10 percent of the food you buy in the grocery shelf is probably adulterated," said Shaun Kennedy with the National Center for... | <urn:uuid:929d486e-f058-4854-8f4c-cd53958292d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.click2houston.com/news/Key-products-that-are-prime-targets-for-food-fraud/-/1735978/18251518/-/10gb6w2/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965841 | 344 | 2.765625 | 3 |
PORTLAND, Ore. — Want to know when that baby elephant will be arriving? Join the herd.
As Asian elephant Rose-Tu heads into her 21st month of pregnancy, anticipation is building at the Oregon Zoo. Some staffers have organized informal office pools to guess the date of the calf’s arrival.
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Definition of de Lange syndrome
de Lange syndrome: Is a rare genetic disorder with multiple malformations and mental retardation of unknown origin.
de Lange syndrome is recognized by the presence of:
The great majority of children with de Lange syndrome have no known family history of the disorder. There are, however, ... | <urn:uuid:9e011952-6508-48a8-8f38-0e85ca5ad41e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=13301 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965878 | 506 | 3.125 | 3 |
This publication aims to assist anyone caring for children, in home day care situations or within child care organisations, and healthcare professionals in controlling the spread of childhood infections. It is a useful resource for Child Care Accreditation courses in Australia.
Infections with or without illness are co... | <urn:uuid:35e48e04-e4cd-4a88-b33c-86c1b87c0c99> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines/publications/ch43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933588 | 184 | 3 | 3 |
Feed the Future is the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative. When the global food crisis hit in 2007-2008, the government responded by investing $1.5 billion of foreign aid in food and other immediate humanitarian needs. At the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy in July 2009, leaders from around the w... | <urn:uuid:6816e89a-0b2e-455d-8780-3bf84e1f3c67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://harvestchoice.org/regions/USAID%20Feed%20the%20Future | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915909 | 245 | 2.625 | 3 |
Mesa Verde Cliff Palace (top) and The Castle at HovenweepExcept for the distant cry of a raven, there were only the soft sounds of my children, a friend and I peeling and munching on orange slices. It was noontime and we were squatting under the cottonwoods in a ravine beneath The Castle, an exquisitely constructed sil... | <urn:uuid:9269702c-34b7-4199-9289-0864b815ef51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kikoshouse.blogspot.com/2008/04/enduring-mystery-of-anasazi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966255 | 887 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Definition of division :
1. A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
2. A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.
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Children born in the United States are known as “natural born citizens.” Under the 14th Amendment, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States…are citizens of the United States.” Natural born citizens of the United States receive a birth certificate upon their birth, which provides proof of citizenship. Copie... | <urn:uuid:f92fb738-0e45-48e1-9509-2c628c3a838c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hooyou.com/citizenship/bybirth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958159 | 1,639 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Bandits and Loopholes
The Bush administration credits its tax bill for spurring economic recovery, though if you include the debt these big spenders have racked up, the net cost of government to the American taxpayer has vastly increased during the Bush presidency. And like all previous cases of GOP tax reductions, the... | <urn:uuid:6ada8f67-2932-414a-b9b4-b6355b5a87b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mises.org/daily/1422/Bandits-and-Loopholes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965672 | 1,608 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The killer whale (Orcinus orca), commonly referred to as the orca, and less commonly as the blackfish, is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family. Killer whales are found in all oceans, from the frigid Arctic and Antarctic regions to tropical seas. Killer whales as a species have a diverse diet, althoug... | <urn:uuid:ec4ef97d-df14-4a61-942b-14170113c721> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eol.org/data_objects/13307184 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880855 | 17,100 | 3.671875 | 4 |
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A newly published study by researchers at Oregon State University has found that farmers’ fields that are seasonally inundated with floodwaters play a role not only in creating a sanctuary for fish during high-velocity water, but in providing access to high-energy foods and even places for breeding.
E... | <urn:uuid:148a73b0-12f3-4a4c-9eef-46fb1234cded> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2009/nov/osu-study-finds-farm-fields-play-key-role-health-native-fish-species | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963525 | 1,209 | 3.46875 | 3 |
The business organisation outlined a set of principles on how offsets from the land-use sector could bring down emissions and mitigation costs. Including credits in the international carbon market for emission reduction and sequestration activities in the sector could in the long-term "substantially reduce the societal... | <urn:uuid:72171518-6ff6-433f-8fb0-f1e28cfab6c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.euractiv.com/climate-change/carbon-traders-call-land-use-off-news-221825 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954956 | 454 | 3.125 | 3 |
By Daniel Hubbard | October 16, 2011
By all accounts, Kurt was a strange man, insane eventually. He was paranoid and his life came to an end when he starved himself, fearing that he would be poisoned.
Kurt was also brilliant. Not many people took their evening stroll from work at The Institute of Advanced Study with Al... | <urn:uuid:bf7c70d9-7c4a-425f-ab43-1475ba9dbc09> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thepersonalpast.com/2011/10/16/down-the-rabbit-hole/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97829 | 1,300 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Poorva Karma (Preparatory Techniques)
After doing a detailed examination of the patient through the different diagnostic methods, a physician decides whether patient should undergo a samana (pacifying) therapy of sodhana (purificatory) therapy. Before starting Panchakarma one has to undergo two types of preparatory tre... | <urn:uuid:07bbc9c6-5c6a-4ca8-8f66-8d6d761bef16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sarada-ayurveda.com/poorva-karma.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933553 | 1,923 | 2.90625 | 3 |
For Release: June 25, 2012
The National Zoo's senior male gray seal, Gunnar, died June 22. Keeper and veterinary staff had been managing his declining health for several months. A final pathology report will provide more information. He was 38 years old. The lifespan of a wild gray seal is usually 25 or 30 years. Typic... | <urn:uuid:02019896-1c35-49a6-a85e-e0cf0a57ebdc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nationalzoo.si.edu/publications/pressmaterials/pressreleases/press-release.cfm?id=82 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972505 | 408 | 3.5 | 4 |
Planting large trees near power lines can cause years of conflict between homeowners and Utility Service providers over issues such as maintaining power supply, aesthetics, safety and tree health. For safety reasons and to minimize power supply disruptions, Utility providers are obligated to keep power lines clear of g... | <urn:uuid:e1adf1c1-3a5a-46ff-9bfd-a495cc7ffc42> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://redbuttegarden.org/tree_selection_near_powerlines?mini=calendar%2F2013-02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956076 | 425 | 2.765625 | 3 |
GSA's Rocky Mountain Region's Historic Preservation Office is committed to providing customers with excellent service relating to all aspects of preservation. This includes changes to historic properties, that due to federal historic preservation laws, mandate federal consultation with Native American tribal government... | <urn:uuid:9d67be4f-f31d-4799-86c0-4fbfc8a084d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/102170 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.879323 | 199 | 2.515625 | 3 |
To the Teacher:
This activity engages the students with the T.I.P.S. service of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, first over the telephone and then on-line. You might choose to do one or both.
The Tax Information Phone Service (T.I.P.S) provided by CCRA gives information on a wide variety of tax related topics. Ho... | <urn:uuid:5a1bf0a5-2e02-48f3-ad3a-af99e6d7812c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/incomtax/p48.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937259 | 346 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Canvey Island (area 18.45 km²; pop. 37,479) is a reclaimed island in the Thames estuary separated from the mainland of south Essex by a network of creeks. Lying below sea level it is prone to flooding at exceptional tides, but has nevertheless been inhabited since the Roman invasion of Britain. The island was mainly ag... | <urn:uuid:85abc2d1-aaa6-4b0a-989d-664720ecc976> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reference.com/browse/Canvey+Island+FC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965277 | 4,033 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are essential to summarize evidence relating to efficacy and safety of health care interventions accurately and reliably. The clarity and transparency of these reports, however, is not optimal. Poor reporting of systematic reviews diminishes their value to clinicians, policy makers,... | <urn:uuid:aab63a4b-45f9-40c6-9431-ebb7062f4bed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=744698 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920237 | 312 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Fifty-four years ago this week, the famed Bell X-1E rocket-powered flight research aircraft flew for the twenty-sixth and final time. The flight marked the close of the highly productive twelve-year flight test history of the first series of X-aircraft.
In the years immediately following World War II, the United States... | <urn:uuid:a55eca3f-e6cb-4b5b-a12e-5b71eb2f441b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.seattlepi.com/americanaerospace/2012/11/05/end-of-an-era/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949 | 1,100 | 3.03125 | 3 |