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Civil War Ironclads
An Introduction
What were the ironclads?
Basically, an "ironclad" was a steam-propelled warship fitted with plates of iron armor. The idea of an armored warship was not new; the Vikings used to line the sides of their longships with their shields, several shipbuilders came up with the idea of a s... | web |
Minds, Machines and Gödel
First published in Philosophy, XXXVI, 1961, pp.(112)-(127); reprinted in The Modeling of Mind, Kenneth M.Sayre and Frederick J.Crosson, eds., Notre Dame Press, 1963, pp.[269]-[270]; and Minds and Machines, ed. Alan Ross Anderson, Prentice-Hall, 1954, pp.{43}-{59}.
Gödel's theorem seems to me... | web |
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Does Your Child Have Asperger's Syndrome? Find Out Here
Aspergers symptoms are caused by Asperger's syndrome, which is a developmental disorder which greatly hinders sufferers' ability to engage in social interactions.
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A new computational pipeline to discover SNPs based on CAP3 alignments
VERSION: beta 1.10, February 2009
AUTHORS: Danielle Gorbach, Zhi-Liang Hu, and Max Rothschild
This package is designed to predict the location of SNPs from clusters
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Why on earth would a teacher have 6 Twitter accounts for school. Social Media in the classroom.
Most people think Twitter is lame! Many use it to find out what celebrities ate for breakfast. But for educators it is a way to connect with like minded teacher across the world!
More importantly Twitter is a tool for estab... | web |
Ago - Meaning of Ago, What does Ago mean?
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[ 2 syll. a-go, ag-o ] The baby boy name Ago is pronounced as aa-GOW- †. Ago is primarily used in Dutch and it is of Germanic origin. The name Ago means sword.
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[ syll. an-kit, ank-it ] The baby boy name Ankit is pronounced as AENGKIHT †. The origin of Ankit is Sanskrit. The meaning of Ankit is damaged.... | web |
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The advantages of membrane bioreactor systems
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Antisemitic Violence and Discrimination in the Third Reich
SA men blockade the University of Vienna, to prevent Jews from entering.
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As soon as Hitler became chancellor of Germany, institutionalized antisemitic violence became a fact of life. Members of the SA... | web |
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is high school graduation season, a time parents and teachers can celebrate an ending and a new beginning. Unfortunately, not every student will be crossing the stage, many of them dropped out of school. Although the per... | web |
Babel-17 Summary
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Babel-17, Delany’s first novel to receive a Nebula Award, was also the first to address issues found in many of his later works. Part novel and part philosophical inquiry, Babel-17 explores the degree to which language shapes the perception of reality. Ba... | web |
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Author: Barnett, Marva A.
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics Washington DC.
Teaching Reading in a Foreign Language. ERIC Digest.
This "Digest" is based on the ERIC/CLL "Language in Education" series monograph entitled "More than Meets the Eye... | web |
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Expansion of British colonization Motive : economy. Facilitated by internal problems of the states. 1841 James Brooke took over Sarawak 1874 British...
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stock companies. These poverty-st... | web |
Supermassive black holes are cannibals, new research suggests
Astronomers have found black holes and supermassive black holes. But the discovery of a mid-size black hole could support the idea that supermassive black holes grow by eating others.
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The term "macro photography" confuses many people. It conjures images of large, grandiose photos. In reality, macro shots are closeups of small objects. They're ideal for photographing flowers, insects or collectibles.
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What is the safe amount of current (electricity) that can flow into the human body?
According to IEEE Std 1246™-2002;
Humans are highly sensitive to electrical current, primarily because their body nervous system is electrically stimulated. The magnitude of current that a body can tolerate depends on frequency, durat... | web |
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During protein metabolism, some protein is converted to glucose in a process called gluconeogenesis, the formation of glucose from non-carbohydrate sources.
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My first Shorin-Ryu sensei, Rodney Shimabukuro, always taught us to break down each movement into its basic parts. When you can do the basics correctly, advanced movements are easy.
Teachers should always br... | web |
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Small Is Beautiful--So Go Nuclear
January 19, 2012
By Robert Bryce
As environmentally friendly as they sound, biofuels and wind power squander land and other resources.
Nearly four decades ago, British economist E.F. Schumacher stated the essence of environmental protect... | web |
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The word ergonomics is used constantly in the office furniture industry. As a customer or lay person, it sounds important, but what does it really mean? Today my goal is to give you a quick “Ergonomics for Dummies” type lesson to help you make informed decisio... | web |
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Ketubot 32 - 38
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A Fate Worse Than Death
A punishment worse than death? Yes, says the Sage Rav. Chanania, Mishael and Azariah were the three Jewish heroes who defied the order of the Babylon... | web |
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Review plain language strategies and learn from others.
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Because pam_smbpass is derived from the Samba smbpasswd utility, recent
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What is people search?
A people search you perform confidentially lets you find someone’s contact information: whether it is a long lost love, a friend you want to reconnect with, or anyone else. You can find information gathered from social networks and public records, such as white pages, about a particular person. ... | web |
Oak - Phadia - Setting the Standard - Phadia.com
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Zheng - Chinese music instrument The Zheng (), commonly known as Guzheng, ( pronounced "Goo-Zheng") , is a plucked string instrument that is part of the zither family. It is one of the most ancient Chinese musical instruments accordi... | web |
Bibliotherapy in School Libraries: An Israeli Experiment
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The concept of bibliotherapy has been known since ancient times. Despite the concept's direct connection to books and libraries and despite its potential as a means of support and aid, it has not attained a clear status in library science. The t... | web |
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A Tribute to Excellence: What Makes an Olympic Athlete?
C. Alexander Simpkins Ph.D. & Annellen Simpkins Ph.D.
Now, with the twenty-eighth summer Olympics underway in Greece, we watch people from all over the world perfo... | web |
Don't overlook pets and stock in fire plan
LAST month's bushfires in Southern Tasmania demonstrated, once again, the immense value in rural residents having a good bushfire plan.
That bushfire plan should include pets and, for farmers and hobby farmers, livestock.
This planning needs to be done well before any fire ... | web |
Sci-Friday: How Fuel Cells Work – Tyler Dewitt
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Last week we looked at a TEDTalk where Tyler Dewitt discussed his experience as a science teacher and some of the changes that we (as a society) should adapt when teaching science. Today I want to share one of his personal videos with you.
Dewitt do... | web |
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
How Clear is the Deal?
Business can be unpredictable, even in the regular course of business. Most businesses have a clear understanding of their marginal rates of return, and know exactly what they need to most effectively conduct their operations. But every business owner knows that some... | web |
Pluto and Neptune
by Fraser Cain on December 9, 2008
Neptune from Voyager 2. Image credit: NASA/JPL
Neptune from Voyager 2. Image credit: NASA/JPL
The most distant planet in the Solar System is Neptune, orbiting at a distance of 4.5 billion km from the Sun. But there used to be 9 planets in the Solar System, inclu... | web |
Strokes and depression: The link
Your doctor and natural therapist can assist with both stroke and depressionDepression is a mood associated illness that inhibits normal daily activity and often follows a stroke. It has serious repercussions mentally, physically and emotionally and statistics show it affects as many a... | web |
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Pbs Film Dramatizes How Underpaid Migrant Workers Are Abused And Exploited In Our ...
Fields Of Shame
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You wouldn't eat sausages if you knew what went into getting them to the table. That's a joke. For different reasons, the same is true of fruits and vegetables, and that's n... | web |
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Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > All to break (Judges ix. 53).
All this for a Song!All waters (I am for).
All to break (Judges ix. 53).
“A certain woman cast a piece of millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull” does not mean for the sake of breaking his skull, but that she wholly smashed his skul... | web |
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Christmas Lights & Saudi Oil: Don't Twinkle for Terror
Fight Christmas Because it Wastes Energy and Keeps America Dependent
Christmas Lights & Saudi Oil: Fight Christmas Because it Wastes Energy and Keeps America Dependent
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Dumping out JKS private key
This post explains how you could programmatically access a java key store and dump its private key out.
To start with, let's create a key store with java keytool.
C:\>keytool -genkey -keystore wso2.jks -storepass wso2123 -keypass wso2123 -alias wso2
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A joystick for the original NES system?... | web |
Fake and counterfeit goods promote unethical behaviour
By Ed Yong | April 9, 2010 9:00 am
Francesca Gino from the University of North Carolina has shown that counterfeit products actually make people behave more dishonestly. They cheat more in tests and they judge others as unethical with greater abandon. Even worse... | web |
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By Joan Hiatt Harlow
Joshua's life has changed dramatically with the death of his father during the influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919. He now needs to help support the family, which means he must stop being a schoolboy and become a man with a job. Joshua adapts to the changes in his life,... | web |
I'd say lambda expressions have two major benefits over anonymous methods. First, they are syntactically more concise. Since the functions defined by lambdas or anonymous methods are most often needed in-line as part of a larger expression - it's important to have a good concise syntax. Otherwise, the code quickly b... | web |
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Here are some sentences for context. To me, leaving out the 地 preserves the meanings:
再一次地感谢大家 让我再一次地想你 微笑,再一次地让我们微笑
Is 再一次地 a set phrase/固定短语?
Here's one w/o the 地:
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Yes, it is completely fine not to use 地. I think 地 merely emphasizes 再一次. If I were to read out... | web |
On Demographics, Part 1: “China will turn grey before it escapes poverty”
“Demographics is Destiny” is a common phrase used by historians and geostrategic thinkers. It isn’t entirely true. But demographics does play a major role in the rise and fall of civilizations and world power.
The Telegraph has an article on Ja... | web |
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taşımak, bir yerden bir yere götürmek
He was carrying my bags .Transferring and transporting objects
bir yerden bir yere taşımak
The plane was carrying 30 passengers . Strong currents carried them out to sea... | web |
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WAR AIMS The Prime Minister [1] read to Cabinet a cable which had been received from the Dominions Office, indicating that the French Government desired the British Government to express its war aims.
[2] The Dominions Office wished to ascertain the views of the ... | web |
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Are all the postulates in General Relativity accepted or does there exist room for alternatives to General Relativity with different outcomes?
Accepted is not really the right word. Many different tests t... | web |
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This article is about a biological process related to reproduction. For the conceptual approach to development, see Capacity building.
Capacitation is the penultimate[1] step in the maturation of mammalian spermatozoa and is required to render them comp... | web |
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Aspersion (la. aspergere/aspersio), in a religious context, is the act of sprinkling with water, especially holy water. Aspersion is a method used in baptism as an alternative to immersion or affusion. The word is formed of the Latin aspergere, 'to spri... | web |
Dion of Syracuse
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Dion (/ˈdɒn, ən/; Greek: Δίων ὁ Συρακόσιος; 408–354 BC), tyrant of Syracuse in Sicily, was the son of Hipparinus, and brother-in-law of Dionysius I of Syracuse.
Dion was the son of the Syracusan statesman Hipparinus, who had assisted... | web |
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In a comment on this post, Daniel Kuehn explains what is going on with the new government tax receipt tool. It simply allocates Social Security taxes to OASDI and Medicare taxes to Medicare. What is left to allo... | web |
Heydon's Case
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Heydon's Case (1584) 76 ER 637, Pasch 26 Eliz, plea began 20 Eliz Rot 140, is a landmark case. The case is considered a landmark because it was the first case to use what would come to be called the mischief rule for the interpretation of... | web |
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There are many sports and other events that are contested, but why are some contests called matches, like tennis match, golf match, and soccer match, and some contests called a game, like baseball game and football game? It's not a baseball match, or a tennis game, so is there a rule of Englis... | web |
Why Duration Matters
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Duration measures the sensitivity of a bond’s price to changes in interest rates. The higher the duration, the higher the interest rate risk. To get a better sense of what this means lets use as an example a five year m... | web |
The Black Death and Religious Impact
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The machinedesign.com video, showing proportional control of position for pneumatics, is very similar to what's going on inside a hobby servo. The idea is to feed back an error signal, which is the difference ... | web |
Summary and Analysis Chapters 1 – 13
Everyone was divided into 5 different factions: Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). Beatrice, the protagonist, was born an Abnegation but on a special day when one must choose a faction they w... | web |
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Which food are the highest in carbohydrates? Which foods should I avoid on a low-carb diet?
Answer: Carbohydrates f... | web |
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The question: Sally has $N$ friends and likes to invite them over in small groups for dinner. She calculated that she can invite a different group of $3$ friends to dinner at her house every night for a year. What is the minimum number of friends Sally can have?
Use $365$ for days in a year; ... | web |
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I was googling "Hilbert space" and was reading the associated Wikipedia page when I found this statement confusing :
"Let $V$ be a closed subspace of an Hilbert space $H$. Then the inclusion mapping $i_V : V\rightarrow H$ is the adjoint of the orthogonal projection $P_V : H\rightarrow V$".
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Node Streams: How do they work?
Description of and notes on the node.js Stream API
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Why Streams?
node bills itself as JavaScript evented I/O. In a nutshell that means if you are trying to solve a problem that is I/O bound (the limiti... | web |
Haste and waste on neuronal pathways
by Peter Rüegg
To write this little piece of text, the brain sends commands to arms and fingers to tap on the keyboard. Neuronal cells with their cable-like extensions, such as axons, transfer this information as that trigger muscles to move. The axonal signal speed can be to up ... | web |
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If you've ever been in therapy, you have probably noticed that your therapist asked a lot of vague, open-ended questions. This is so characteristic of therapy, in fact, that it has become a source of humor in pop culture. Bob Newhart's famous question -- "How di... | web |
Thursday, December 01, 2005
...and I Only Got Six Right...Out if 15.
Apparently only a few people over 50 can make a perfect score on this one...but Anyone could Google the questions, so we're working on the honor code.
2. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on the, _________... | web |
Monday, June 27, 2011
ORMUS and Pyramids
ORMUS and Pyramids
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Pyramid Energy
According to Dr. Philip Callahan, rose granite -- which was used in the construction of the Kings Chamber of the Great Pyramid -- is one of the most paramagnetic substances he has measured. Limestone, which covered the G... | web |
Symptoms of Bee and Wasp Stings
Bee Stings
Bees and wasps are equipped with venomous stingers as a defense mechanism; wasps are often predatory and can sting to kill prey, while bees sting purely for defensive purposes because they feed on the nectar of plants. Bees and wasps both frequently sting humans that they se... | web |
Plutarch was a philosopher, historian, politician and priest, who lived in Chaeronea in Greece from roughly 46 AD to 120 AD. As a young man, Plutarch traveled all across the Mediterranean, taking notes on the cultures he visited, and lecturing on philosophy in Rome. When he returned to Chaeronea, he set up a school, ta... | web |
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Scientists use the term to describe the brain's ability to adapt and change as a result of training and experience over the course of a person's life. The studies covered in the Northwestern review offer a model of neuroplasticity, Kraus said. The research strongly suggests that the made during music... | web |
FAM Tasks
This chapter describes MzFAM's high-level interface, which, hopefully, will fulfil all you file monitoring needs (if that's not the case you can either bug me to improve the interface or roll your own using the low-level interface detailed in subsequent chapters).
We begin with some concrete usage examples ... | web |
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A word will fill the little heart
With pleasure and with pride;
It is a harsh, a cruel thing,
That such can be denied.
And yet how many weary hours
Those joyous creatures know;
How much of sorrow and restraint
They to their elders owe!
How much they suffer from our fa... | web |
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According to the national Cancer Institute, cancer is a term used for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and are able to... | web |
Visualising Structure in Topic Models
Topic models are a gross simplification of often extremely diverse texts. We make further sweeping simplifications by visualising these topics.
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Arrays can be used in the same kinds of expressions and operations as scalars. Intrinsic operations, assignments, or elemental procedures can be applied to one or more arrays.
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Visual Basic: Make a Master/Detail Formset in Visual Studio
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You may need to make a master/detail formset where the parent records are shown in the master form and the related child records are shown in the detail form. You need to have the forms ... | web |
A Star with a Napoleon Complex?
No, really, I can hang with the big boys!
(Muggsy Bogues is awesome.) Apparently, there are stars out there that have the same Napoleon Complex. According to this Press Release, a star only 1% as bright as the Sun just released a burst of energy as powerful as 1000 solar flares!
Now,... | web |
Shadow Government
'Eisenhower' doesn’t quite rhyme with 'Obama'
The Eisenhower-Obama similarities that Peter identifies in his first few paragraphs are intriguing. However, the parallels are not unique; for example, Peter's first two paragraphs could easily have described the Nixon administration's early years in of... | web |
Sunday, 3 March 2013
The papal conclave
The next Pope will be elected by the most exclusive club in the world, the Sacred College of Cardinals (on whom see more here).
A brief and somewhat tendentious historical overview of papal elections was given by José Calasanz Vives y Tutó in his Compendium iuris canonici (19... | web |
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My Windows PC is on two different networks, but I have programs that work better on a particular network. So for example, Outlook needs to use network A, but Chrome needs to use network B. I don't really want to have to add static routes every time I visit a new site, and there are some applic... | web |
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This morning one of our customer experienced a network failure for several of its workstations. I was surprised by the fact that connexions (and associated processes) were still alive for several minutes on the database server. Unfortunately, ou client application is not very well designed and... | web |
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My VPN connection does not have its own Network adapter as a result all DNS queries are sent down my Internet connection. My VPN connection works fine handling requests to a specific IP address range: 192.168.x.x.
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I want to specify my Server in my outlook account settings using... | web |
The Originalist Argument for Abortion Rights: Compulsory Childbearing During Antebellum Slavery and Its Relevance Today
On the 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade we can expect to hear the perennial criticism that the Court’s decision is insufficiently grounded in the text of the Constitution. Even among commentators who ... | web |
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I'm using Google Chart tools API, and I'm trying to make a line chart, of data coming from the database, which works fine so far.
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I'm implementing this example as I want to broadcast to multiple clients. While trying to use the socket to send another object(which has been serialised), I'm getting an error which says that socket(in the example) can't send the object via it. Can't a datagram socket send/receive objects als... | web |
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For some reason, the plain text character on the html side is being dsiplayed as –. The only thing I can think that would be attributed to this is the character encoding. My guess is that it's utf-8, but not sure how I am getting the weird characters. Is there an explanation?
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Four different volcanoes, four separate eruptions happening at the same time, unprecedented
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A team of Russian photographers were able capture an incredibly rare event as four volcanoes erupted simultaneously within about 100 miles of each other. The amazing display occur... | web |
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If there is only one piece of beauty advice you heed, let it be the nearly religious slathering on of sunscreen. Ask any mom (or scientist). The sun’s rays, even on a gray day, not only accelerate signs of aging, they also te... | web |
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Identifying Parts of a Flower
grade 3-6
Objective: The student will be able to identify, dissect, display and label parts of a flower.
Resources: Teacher: flowers (lilies are especially easy to distinguish stamen and pistils), tweezers, whit... | web |
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Chair: It gives me great pleasure to introduce Dr Jacques Le Houezec who is a Consultant in Public Health and Tobacco Dependence in Rennes in France. Jacques is going to be speaking about nicotine ... | web |
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Benign Tumor (mild or kind) A tumor with limited growth. It does not invade surrounding normal tissue nor does it spread (metastasize) to other tissues.
Biopsy The removal of tumor tissue for submission to a pathologist.
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