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Codex Manesse, fol. 292v, "The Schoolmaster of Eßlingen" (Der Schulmeister von Eßlingen)
A catechism (κατηχητικός in Greek) is a summary or exposition of doctrine, traditionally used in Christian religious teaching. Catechisms are doctrinal manuals often in the form of questions followed by answers to be memorized, a ... | web |
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In pigment dispersion syndrome, pigment is liberated from the iris pigment epithelium and is deposited throughout the anterior segment. The classic diagnostic triad consists of a Krukenberg spindle, slit-like, mid-peripheral, radial iris tra... | web |
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Do Video Games Cause Violent Behaviors?
Is there any truth to the claim that violent video games produce violent real life behaviors?
Violent Games
I’m not a gamer so I wanted to understand what level of violence we were talking about. Here's a sampling of some of the games I researched:
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Midway through the 45-day span of the Iliad, the 8th-century B.C. epic poem about the Trojan War, Homer describes the funeral games for Patroclus, the fallen comrade of the hero Achilles. Achilles, broken with grief, sets out prizes for those who will compete for glory -- a pause in the midst of the war for the sake o... | web |
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Earlier this year, Robert Putnam, the Harvard sociologist noted for his “Bowling Alone” thesis that community associations create “social capital” which improves their communities, issued a report titled “E Pluribus Unu... | web |
Sudoku in the Saloon?
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I was recently listening to two state troopers as they shared anecdotes about their time in police work. They were both longtimers, with more than 50 years of service between them. At one point, one asked the other: In all your years, did you ever get invo... | web |
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Spray Tans: A-OK or Stay Away?
Baking in the sun or on a tanning bed is bad news for your skin. Since exposure to UV rays leads to wrinkles and skin cancer, many people are turning to spray tans instead. This UV-free alternative is meant to give your skin that kissed-by-the-sun glow. Yo... | web |
What are bedbugs? Are they dangerous?
The blood-sucking insects are the bane of most city-dwellers, but one entomologist proudly keeps a colony at the American Museum of Natural History. Is there any way for the rest of us to steer clear of them?
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Slate Magazine says: Maybe. As much as companies like Monsanto and Syngenta might position themselves as the solution to the global food crisis, Slate claims that they would have to significantly change the way they operate first.
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Sharks Endangered
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Sharks Endangered and Conservation
Many types of sharks are at risk of becoming extinct which is why conservation efforts are in place.
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The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring Questions
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Quietly but surely, we are heading into a new computing era that will bring one of the most dramatic changes the IT industry has seen. Acceleration technologies will inject lots of horsepower into the CPU, increasing the performance capability of the microprocessor not just by 10 or 20%, but... | web |
During Putin's visit to President George W. Bush's Texas ranch two months later, the U.S. leader, speaking at a local high school, declared his Russian counterpart "a new style of leader, a reformer … a man who's going to make a huge difference in making the world more peaceful, by working closely with the United Sta... | web |
1 in 8 Chance of Catastrophic Solar Megastorm by 2020
1 in 8 Chance of Catastrophic Solar Megastorm by 2020
The Earth has a roughly 12 percent chance of experiencing an enormous megaflare erupting from the sun in the next decade. This event could potentially cause trillions of dollars’ worth of damage and take up to ... | web |
The 'Farm to Fork' Infographic Shows How Poison Gets in Our Food
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In order to raise awareness for unhealthy foods, non-profit organization Healthy Child released an infographic called 'Farm to Fork.' The chart details out how every level of the American food system is poison... | web |
A Systematic Approach To Song Writing
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There are many different methods that can be used when writing a song. Some people develop a hook and build the song around it, some may write lyrics then compose the music around it, other... | web |
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The Premises of the Breakdown of the Communist System
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Galactic Building Blocks
The current view of galactic formation is that galaxies form from a “bottom-up” method. In this picture, small dwarf galaxies, full of metal poor stars, were attracted by dark matter halos in the early universe which merged into larger galaxies. Many of those metal poor stars can still... | web |
M01.17 - A General Theory of Telepathy -
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The slight cool down in this week's weather forecast may give us a bit of relief from a recent stretch of near record-breaking heat.
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To be Manichean is to follow the philosophy of Manichaeism, which is an old religion that breaks everything down into good or evil. It also means “duality,” so if your thinking is Manichean, you see things in black and white.
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1. An analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics
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Noun: sally sa-lee
1. Witty remark
- wisecrack, crack, quip
2. (military) a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
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Leonard Lopate on Gospel Music
I combined Please Explain with our annual Good Friday gospel show in order to give some background on gospel music. Many people interested in learning about gospel music have been confused by some of its terminology, so I’ll try to clear up some of that.
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Amtrak Plan Heads to Congress
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By: Stan Torgerson
President Bush wants to restructure the nation's passenger railroad. The president's plan would have states assume a portion of the cost and eliminate Amtrak's unprofitable long-distance routes.
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Usage: N. Amer, Ireland
1. A teacher who fills a temporary position in a school on a short-term basis; often supplied by an agency
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Chapter 8. LVM Configuration
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Giant huntsman spider
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Heteropoda maxima
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Heteropoda
Species: H... | web |
Atrial flutter
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Atrial flutter with varying A-V conduction (3:1 and 4:1)
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Specialty Cardiology
ICD-10 I48
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DiseasesDB 1072
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A compter, sometimes referred to as a counter, was a type of small English prison controlled by a sheriff. The inmates were usually civil prisoners, for example dissenters and debtors. Examples of compters include London's Wood Street Counter, Poultry C... | web |
Constitution of India/Part I
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Article 1 {India and union of state}
1. India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.
2. The States and the territories thereof shall be as specified in the First Schedule.
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Tapping the Secret Power of Leadership
How can leaders powerfully drive home essential principles and values without seeming pedantic?
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[Haskell-cafe] Functional programmer's intuition for adjunctions?
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Data Compression/Models
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After Information Theory showed how to build a perfect code for any specific symbolic system, people found that it was relatively easy to come up with new coding conventions for new types of d... | web |
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Defining Primary Keys
A database table commonly has a column or group of columns that uniquely identifies each row in the table. This identifying column or group of columns is called the primary key.
When you identify a... | web |
Banded iron formation
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2.1 billion year old banded iron formation
Banded iron formations (or BIFs) are a distinctive type of rock often found in (Precambrian) sedimentary rocks.
They consist of repeated thin layers of iron oxides, either magnetite (Fe3... | web |
Our hands can do more than tap and poke, so why shouldn't our phones understand?
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Oh, innovation. You're not always commercially viable, but you're always exciting. I was reminded of that at last night's New York Tech Meetup, the city's largest demo e... | web |
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Eunectes murinus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Genus: Eunectes
The Anaconda or green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) is... | web |
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Paracetamol (or acetaminophen) is a common analgesic, a drug that is used to relieve pain. It can also be used to reduce fever, and some kinds of headache. This makes it an antipyretic, something that reduces fevers. It is used in many drugs that treat ... | web |
The Passionate Nonviolence of Youth
Young people are the keystones of any culture. Youthful energy is needed to get work done in society. We provide new ideas, physical labor, laughter, the human connection to the future and the world community, and the push for reform and change in society.
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The Central Limit Theorem
The applets in this section allow you to see how the Central Limit Theorem works. The Central Limit Theorem states that as the sample size, n, approaches infinity the distribution of the sample mean approaches normality.
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Nanoscopic scale
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A comparison of the scales of various biological and technological objects.
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Good moods are caused by four brain chemicals : endorphin, dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. It would be nice if they just flowed all the time. But they were NOT designed to do that. Your happy chemicals were meant to do a job. They turn off when the job is done, which makes them ready to turn on when you need them aga... | web |
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5.1 Fundamentals of total pressure measurement
Pressure is defined as force per unit of area: $p = F/A$ (Formula 1-3) where $F$ is the force and $A$ the area to which the force is applied. The SI unit of pressure is 1 N / m² = 1 Pa. Other frequently-used units of pressure are: 1 mbar = 1 hPa = 100 Pa ... | web |
Can scientists see either atoms or molecules?
1. Can scientists see either atoms or molecules?
If not, what is the smallest object/entity we can see?
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Classroom Birthday Celebrations: What Happened to the Fun?
Happy Birthday Wear 'Em BadgeGuess what? Today is my birthday! That probably doesn’t mean much to you, but it made me think about how birthdays are being celebrated in the classroom these days. Or are they being celebrated at all? When I was in elementary scho... | web |
We Can't Afford Even One E-Voting Morris Worm
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Over at CNet, Declan McCullagh has an interview with probably the most prominent computer scientist who supports paperless e-voting, Michael Shamos. In a wide-ranging discussion, Shamos acknowledges that e-voting isn't perfect but insist... | web |
Supporting Constructive Learning with a Feedback Planner
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Are you contributing to the “cradle to prison pipeline”?
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Alpine Tundra
Biotic and Abiotic Factors of Alpine Tundra:
• The biotic and abiotic factors work together to form the alpine tundra and keep the ecosystem working. When one of the factors in an ecosystem or biome changes, it impacts all of the system. Arctic and alpine tundra are areas where trees grow lightly beca... | web |
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At work, my iPhone gets only limited 3G signal. The "3G" indicator is there, but the signal strength is only 1 or 2 out of 5 bars. Is the download throughput less under these circumstances, compared with the full 5 bars?
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Developed in partnership with the National Academy of Public Administration and PETLab for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Budgetball is a game designed to engage college-age players on the issues of financial decision-making, debt-management, and fiscal re... | web |
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Our intrepid author attends his first rookie-league (read: five-year-olds) …
Many years ago, I used to referee high school basketball. I enjoyed it immensely, especially when I would get a rare varsity assignment. However, there were always what we zebras ref... | web |
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Geological Society says emitting more CO2 "likely to be unwise"
The Geological Society has prepared a position statement on climate change, focusing specifically on the geological evidence. As you would expect, it takes the long view. It considers:
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Choosing Diagnostic Services
Choosing Diagnostic Services
What should I Consider when Choosing Diagnostic/Evaluation Services?
There are a number of considerations when making this decision:
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By Phil Plait | October 10, 2012 7:00 am
Here’s a slice of weird: a photo taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station of three small cubes floating by:
What could they be? Balok’s warning buoy? Tiny little Borg ships? The ISS trying to roll a crit 18?
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Great Cipher, But Where Did You Get That Key?
Today, there are many strong cryptographic algorithms and protocols, standards for their use at every layer of the network, and interoperable implementations in many products and in open source. When used appropriately, they provide stro... | web |
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Neurons communicate electrochemically. That is, when a signal arrives to a neuron it fires a series of electrical signals, called action potentials. Action potentials are depolarization events that propagate along the neuronal membrane, down to the neu... | web |
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The "Brute Force" School of Design: Prototyping over Presentations
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A bail bond is designed and framed by the Criminal or Traffic Department. Once the bail is posted, the prisoner is released from jail richmond VA as the responsibility of the indemnitor. After the trial, the bail money is returned to the depositor, unless the Judge handling the case decides d... | web |
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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown])
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1. Dear is the monument, visited by scores of crowds, and dear the grave of martial memory; dear is the corpse, now spiritless, to which the swine gave lasting sepulture.
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Following a question on UX.Stackexchange about whether or not to use an analog or digital clock on a website from a user-interface perspective it occurs to me that there is probably a psychological difference between using one or the other.
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Table names – Singular or Plural
Earlier this morning I tweeted asking for a quick idea of whether to go with singular table names or plural table names. i.e. the difference between having a table called “Country” vs. “Countries”
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Intuitively, adding the option ON UPDATE CASCADE to a foreign key constraint will have the effect of updating all referencing columns with the updated value of the key. Would that really work?
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product_no integer PRIMARY KEY,
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I am currently making Poolish Ciabatta bread from the recipe in Bread Bakers Apprentice. Within the recipe, one of the methods used to shape and work the dough is the "Stretch and Fold" method. Essentially, you stretch the bread until it is a long rectangle and then you fold the two sides down... | web |
When a 1973 shortage of U.S. soybeans resulted in an export embargo, our Japanese soybean customers helped establish Brazil as an alternate supplier. Now after many years of bitter competition with Brazil, many in the U.S. soybean industry hope Brazil raises a good crop to help supply global needs and prevent buyers fr... | web |
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Simple Photo Tips: Square format images
A square format photograph can help draw viewers into the image, literally providing a "window" into the scene.
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Police power to stop vehicles for others
A police road check in action
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In 1939, world famous archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones was cornered by circumstances into an excavation deep into Iraq and Turkey leading to the Ark of the Covenant. Within the Ark of the Covenant lies the fountain of youth, the holy grail of power. It was said that; he who posses the power sha... | web |
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This is from the tabletop game Warhammer 40k rulebook:
The turn Marines arrive they may not assault.
I always assumed it means they are not allowed to assault. But the meaning "they may choose not to assault" (as opposed to "they must always assault") would be perfectly legitimate too, as fa... | web |
How to Write Essays on Fahrenheit 451
How to Write Essays on Fahrenheit 451
How to Write Essays on Fahrenheit 451
Essays on Fahrenheit 451 may be considered as small book reports on the work by Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451.
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The New York Times follows the official line on international elections
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Introduction to Super App development
Create a transformative mobile application experience on the BlackBerry platform.
Whether you develop in Java®, or HTML and JavaScript®, you can leverage the unique capabilities of the BlackBerry® Application Platform to create a Super App. When you design a mobile application, t... | web |
The history of western atheism-3: The first published atheist
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In his BBC4 TV series A Rough History of Atheism Jonathan Miller awards the honor of being the first published atheist to France’s Paul Henri Thiery, Baron D’Holbach (1723-1789). As the Encyclopedia Brittanica... | web |
Yuri Suzuki has been traveling the world, using a dictaphone to collect local sounds of different countries since 2009. With these audio field notes, he's turned a globe into a record that plays these sounds when it spins for a 30-minute audio tour of the world called "The Sound of the Earth."
The artist engraved each... | web |
How Do Computers Understand Speech?
More and more, we can get computers to do things for us by talking to them. A computer can call your mother when you tell it to, find you a pizza place when you ask for one, or write out an email that you dictate. Sometimes the computer gets it wrong, but a lot of the time it gets i... | web |
Retromodo: Microsoft Takes a Few Steps Back With "The Veda" Computing System
While The Veda concept is a fairly new idea out of Microsoft's R&D labs, the design itself looks as though it was picked out of a time capsule sealed in the mid '90's. Apparently, the Veda can be used as a phone when the screen is closed, as ... | web |
Radishes May Prove to Be Acne's Worst Nightmare
Confession: I positively hate acne. While my face only bears the most subtle of scars, in my mind the red pimply warzone that covered it back in high school is still fresh, clear and just begging to be popped.
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Reference checks are a useful way for employers to gather information that is not readily available from other sources, such as from the application or resume, or the job interview. However, employers are leery about providing references because they could be sued for giving a nega... | web |
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Lesson 4: Fonts
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Why You Should Still Worry About Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East
Mr. Lambers is the author of the book, Nuclear Weapons (2002) and a writer for the History News Service.
Saddam Hussein's regime is gone. An Iraqi nuclear weapons program is no longer to be feared. Libya has just relinquished its weapons of mass des... | web |
The rich and the poor. Reproduced in J.R.Green, A Short History of the English People (1900). University of Victoria Library.
Largely because of land enclosures, there was a large, shifting population of unemployed men and women throughout the country, especially in London.
"Masterless men" were seen as a serious thr... | web |
Scientists make "frankensquitos" to test vampire jumping spiders
Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between a science experiment and a scene in a splatter movie. To conduct some ghoulish tests on spiders, scientists constructed forests of "frankensquitos" — made from parts hacked off their mosquito compatriots.
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Naming Cars After Katabatic Winds
This churning seascape off the coast of Antarctica, not a place you’d think of as the hotbed of car culture, shows in fact an undercurrent of automotive nomenclature: the katabatic wind. Blowing from the Aleutian to the Adriatic, katabatic winds have inspired a wealth of car names ove... | web |
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comment What is the most common way of indicating qere/kethib in the biblical text?
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Make-up and the Silent film era…
(Originally blogged September 29, 2010)
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I always assumed that silent film actresses wore a lot of eye make-up and lip rouge to accentuate their expressions on film as well as pale powder to set off the contrast of their eyes and lips, but appa... | web |
Reflections on Eating (or not Eating) During the High Holidays
Rosh Hashanah 2008
Eating was generally far more modest and infrequent for our ancestors than it is for us. To begin with, food was far harder to come by. Drought and famine were far more common than they are for us, and they had greater difficulty adap... | web |
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As an Alabama native and civil rights activist, Johnnie Carr was an active participant in the Montgomery bus boycott. She recalled hearin... | web |
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