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Light and Matter Interactions (An 8-page activity originally by Concord MW team, modified by Ed O'Sullivan, Parkland College)
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The First People had little desire to explore America:
They however led the way for the Coureurs de bois and Metis
They were fully aware of the four seas to the north/south, east/west,
they believed their own location w... | 18,222 | 4,555 | 2.8014 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9278 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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discovery of Sāsānian murals
...These motifs often figure both on surviving textiles and on those recorded in the paintings. The murals at Varakhs... | 656 | 164 | 2.4531 | 2 | Basic | 0.8518 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Like most of Southeast Asia's countries, Myanmar's people and history is a glorious mishmash of settlers and invaders from all fronts. The Mon and the Pyu are thought to have come from India, while the now dominant Bamar (Burmese) migrated through Tibet and, by 849, had founded a powerful kingdom centered on Bagan. For... | 1,275 | 318 | 3.3461 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9085 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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Hitler's early years
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, near the Austro-German border. Adolf's father, Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border. His mother, Klara, had previously given birth to two other children b... | 15,701 | 3,925 | 1.8375 | 2 | Basic | 0.7798 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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Between the First World War and the 1930s, the United States experienced an internal population shift unprecedented in its history. More than 1 million rural blacks left their sharecropper... | 7,176 | 1,794 | 3.2237 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9344 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
|Quarter of Berlin|
|Quarter subdivisions||13 zones|
|Area||10.7 km2 (4.1 sq mi)|
|Elevation||52 m (171 ft)|
|Population||79,582 (30 June 2009)|
|- Density||7,438 /km2 (19,263 /sq mi)|
|Time zone||CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)|
|Postal codes||(nr. 0101) 10115, 10117, 10119, 10178, 10179|
Mitte (German for "middle, centre", commo... | 2,770 | 692 | 2.7684 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8842 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Evergreen, Shrubs, Trees
Conifers ranging from rock garden shrublets to timber trees. Sometimes mistaken for arborvitae (Thuja), but arborvitae’s leaves are entirely green, while false cypresses have white lines on leaf undersides. Most have two distinct types of foliage: juvenile and mature. Juvenile leaves are short,... | 1,836 | 459 | 1.8686 | 2 | Basic | 0.7332 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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More informationWhat keeps you awake at night? Money worries? Your conscience? Traffic? Dogs barking? Or the shrill sound of a stressed robin forced to sing at night to find a mate?
This composed feature by Nina Perry explores the problem of sleeplessness and the crucial relationship between sound and ... | 1,751 | 437 | 3.2462 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8764 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
This book is written with the intention of exposing the traditional knowledge, skills and livelihood adaptation strategies employed by the Pastoralists and Agro-pastoralist Communities to curve the climate variability situations in Jigjiga District Somali Regional State, Ethiopia. Moreover, in this volume some key issu... | 1,165 | 291 | 5 | 5 | Expert | 0.6402 | false | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Phage T4 is a large DNA virus that infects and multiplies in the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) and certain other bacteria that normally inhabit the mammalian gut. Relatives of T4 are widely distributed in nature and propagate in a variety of bacterial species in marine and terrestrial environments. The genomes o... | 1,099 | 274 | 3.0807 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9665 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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The word “mission” comes from the Latin mittere or “to send”.
In Marguerite’s time, to go on mission meant, for a Sister of the Congregation, to be sent to work outside the Mother House in Montreal. By extension, all these other houses came to be called “missions”. At first, the co... | 1,773 | 443 | 2.0744 | 2 | Basic | 0.7826 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
There are several
topologies suitable for the access network: tree, ring, or bus. A PON can also
be deployed in redundant configuration as double ring or doubletree; or redundancy
may be added only to a part of the PON, say the trunk of the tree. For the rest
of this article, we will focus our attention on the tree top... | 3,690 | 922 | 3.2467 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9107 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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Question: What is the easiest, best way to keep from getting sick from food?
Answer: It’s so simple it might surprise you! The answer is handwashing.
Hans B. Kleen has... | 2,841 | 710 | 1.827 | 2 | Basic | 0.7495 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
The Integral Trees
|The Integral Trees|
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
|Genre(s)||Science fiction novel|
|Media type||Print (Hardback & Paperback)|
|Dewey Decimal||813/.54 19|
|LC Classification||PS3564.I9 I54 1984|
|Preceded by||A World Out of Time|
|Followed by||The Smoke Ring|
The Integral Trees is a 1984 scienc... | 6,246 | 1,561 | 2.6379 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8948 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
As Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks are increasingly deployed, packet-based applications such as voice over IP (VoIP), IP video, video telephony (VT), integrated voice and email, and instant messaging (IM), have emerged. The ability to integrate these services over the same network has become more important as cus... | 34,097 | 8,524 | 3.0669 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9496 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Fascinating facts, figures, and foibles of the forty-two U.S. presidents and their first ladies.
Do you know . . .
- Which president could simultaneously write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other?
- As a young law student, what president broke into the dean's office at Duke University Law School?
- Which... | 1,524 | 381 | 2.5509 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8684 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
A paradigm shift in the development sector – from income poverty to human poverty – has been paralleled in the disaster management sector by a shift from seeing disasters as extreme events created by natural forces, to viewing them as manifestations of unresolved development problems. This has led to increased emphasis... | 2,474 | 618 | 3.1889 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9316 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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Before using this activity in class (or at home with your kids), go through the activity once to make sure it works correctly on your computer(s). This activity is recommended for broadband internet access - expect load times between 15 seconds and 1... | 6,605 | 1,651 | 1.7874 | 2 | Basic | 0.7449 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Aphrodisias of Cilicia
Aphrodisias is situated on Cape Tisan near the town of Yeşilovacık in the rural area of Silifke district which itself is a part of Mersin Province. The ancient name of this region was Cilicia Trachea ("rugged Cilicia") So it is customary to call the ruins Aphrodisias of Cilicia to distinguish it ... | 1,411 | 352 | 2.9071 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9402 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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In spaceflight, a launch vehicle or carrier rocket is a rocket used to carry a payload from the Earth's surface into outer space. A launch system includes the launch vehicle, the launch pad and other infrastructure. Usually the payload is an art... | 10,553 | 2,638 | 2.242 | 2 | Basic | 0.8278 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
The history of corruption in post-Independence India starts with the Jeep scandal in 1948. VK Krishna Menon, the then High Commissioner for India in London signed a deal with a foreign firm worth Rs 80 lakh for jeeps for the Indian Army in Kashmir without observing normal procedure.
The then Government announced on Sep... | 803 | 200 | 3.1586 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9532 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
About the Exhibition
This exhibition chronicles America's past through the decorative and useful arts of our ancestors. The exhibition covers five themes using the depth and richness of Winterthur's unrivalled collection of decorative and fine arts made or used in America between 1640 and 1860: the early settlement per... | 882 | 220 | 3.4756 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8993 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
LaosOn March 6, 1970, I gave the first comprehensive accounting of our activities in Laos that has ever been made to the American people. I traced the pattern of subversion and then invasion by North Vietnam. I reviewed US efforts under previous administrations to help the legitimate government. When we took office the... | 2,744 | 686 | 3.124 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9591 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
TENS of thousands of Australians could have undiscovered heart disease because the key method used by doctors to assess patients is outdated and grossly underestimates risk, a leading hypertension specialist says.
The International Society of Hypertension hosted its annual conference in Sydney this week and its preside... | 2,834 | 708 | 4.2496 | 4 | Complex | 0.7677 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Mosquito control in effect for the City of Newnan
The Public Works Department will begin a mosquito management program in June and continue through September, fogging Tuesdays and Fridays from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., weather conditions permitting.
The department uses a truck mounted ULV (ultra low volume) aerosol fogger for... | 3,017 | 754 | 3.2241 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9409 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Helping Children Adjust to Divorce: A Guide for Teachers
Human Development State Extension Specialist
Human Development Specialist, Pike County
Approximately one of every two divorces in Missouri (51 percent) involves children. Although children whose parents divorce are at greater risk for problems such as aggression,... | 13,478 | 3,369 | 3.5481 | 4 | Complex | 0.8686 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Informative Image Overview
Types of informative images include:
- Pictures and other bitmapped graphics
- Charts, examples include:
- Bar Charts
- Pie Charts
- Organizational Charts
- Flow charts
- Scatter plots
- Mathematical Equations
The type of text equivalent needed for an informative image depends on the purpose ... | 3,738 | 934 | 3.183 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8999 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Kevin Bowen was drafted into the army and served in Vietnam 1968-69. He is the Director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Its Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts—Boston. He has returned to Vietnam several times and his first book, Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong, was named “... | 1,216 | 304 | 1.1605 | 1 | Simple | 0.6306 | false | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Crowns are a cosmetic restoration used to improve your tooth's shape or to strengthen a tooth. Crowns are most often used for teeth that are broken, worn, or have portions destroyed by tooth decay.
Crowns are "caps" cemented onto an existing tooth which fully cover the portion of your tooth above the gum line. In effec... | 982 | 245 | 3.1427 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9559 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Every U.S. agency that regulates radiation exposure agrees that there is no safe dose no matter how small. There are only "allowable" doses or "legally permitted doses." Today radiobiologists all agree that “one can no longer speak of a ‘safe’ dose level.” (Ian Fairlie & Marvin Resnikoff, “No dose too low,” The Bulleti... | 2,302 | 575 | 2.6474 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.866 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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Could some common online activities actually improve reading comprehension? Understanding RSS feeds requires inferential thinking, as students use the summary to dra... | 772 | 193 | 2.1401 | 2 | Basic | 0.7692 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Annie Besant was born in London to Irish parents. In 1893, she left for India having been influenced by the Indian culture and civilization. She was famous as a social worker, educationalist and journalist. She became a staunch supporter of Indian Independence Movement and her contribution to India's freedom struggle w... | 796 | 199 | 1.4034 | 1 | Simple | 0.691 | false | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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George R. Brown Convention Center, Exhibit Hall E
Recent increases in the cost of fertilizer nitrogen have prompted producers to assess the potential to vary inputs in space and time to produce the highest marketable yield of potatoes. A study was conducted from 2005 to 2007 near Brandon, Manito... | 1,201 | 300 | 3.5276 | 4 | Complex | 0.8905 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
The traditional internal combustion engine is only about 25%-30% efficient at the flywheel. After going through the rest of the drivetrain and reaching the wheels, you are looking at another 10% loss. While much of this cannot be helped, one company based in Sweden thinks that removing the camshaft may help free up som... | 1,418 | 354 | 2.1419 | 2 | Basic | 0.8238 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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Homeopathic treatment for Lyme disease
Lyme disease is an inflammatory disease that is often misdiagnosed and mistreated. Lyme disease was first discovered in Old Lyme CT from the bite of a deer tick. Most people that are diagnosed are in the Northeast, Midwest and Pacific coast, but people ar... | 4,007 | 1,001 | 2.1502 | 2 | Basic | 0.8198 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Sikorsky H-5, HO3S-1 helicopter
The Sikorsky H-5/HO3S was a four-seat, utility helicopter used by the US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps during the Korean War. An XR-5 prototype first flew on 18 August 1943, and the S-51 first flew on February 1946. The US Air Force acquired several dozen S-51s with the designation H... | 1,106 | 276 | 1.8428 | 2 | Basic | 0.769 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
This is a suggested teaching schedule for a 10 day class study of Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Our Town. Lesson plans and handouts can be downloaded individually by clicking on the name of the file in the schedule below. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view these files.
Audio Guide CDs are avail... | 1,360 | 340 | 2.3149 | 2 | Basic | 0.8201 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
It all started with a fossil.
“We have this polar bear jawbone from the Svalbard archipelago in the North Atlantic,” says Charlotte Lindqvist, a professor at SUNY Buffalo and lead author of a landmark new study into the history of polar bears.
Lindqvist, along with researchers from over two dozen institutions, assemble... | 3,689 | 922 | 3.5914 | 4 | Complex | 0.8656 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
The word lesbian dates back at least to 1732 and lesbianism appears in the 1870 Oxford English Dictionary meaning sexual orientation rather than a reference to Sappho and inhabitants of Lesbos. Lesbian as an adjective is in the 1890 Oxford English Dictionary and as a noun by 1925. Until the early twentieth century lesb... | 11,917 | 2,979 | 3.6048 | 4 | Complex | 0.8596 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Theory has suggested that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be inherently unstable. Recent observations lend weight to this hypothesis. We reassess the potential contribution to eustatic and regional sea level from a rapid collapse of the ice sheet and find that previous assessments have substantially overestimated its ... | 1,584 | 396 | 2.4356 | 2 | Basic | 0.8401 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
No matter whether they are writing novels, nonfiction books, articles or whatever, all writers rely to some degree at least on carrying out research, which they then use as the foundation for the written work that they produce. Typically they use numerous sources of information, so that they can check and cross-check t... | 1,353 | 338 | 1.9925 | 2 | Basic | 0.7831 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
A residential area is a land use in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family residential, or mobile homes. Zoning for residential use may permit some services or wo... | 2,177 | 544 | 2.343 | 2 | Basic | 0.832 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Florida Southern's Frank Lloyd Wright-designed campus named National Historic Landmark
The organic design that graces the campus of Florida Southern College is the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, hailed by the American institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time." As the largest collection of Wr... | 2,041 | 510 | 2.2709 | 2 | Basic | 0.8562 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
College Preparedness Statistics
With the ever-increasing importance of college entrance and aptitude tests in today's educational setting, we believe it's important to share our most recent PLAN, ACT, and SAT test results.
The PLAN Test Results
The PLAN test is best described as a "pre-ACT" test. PLAN is a series of 14... | 3,531 | 882 | 2.6935 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9024 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
THE TRADE OF LITERATURE
DEMOCRACY not only infuses a taste for letters among the trading classes, but introduces a trading spirit into literature.
In aristocracies readers are fastidious and few in number; in democracies they are far more numerous and far less difficult to please. The consequence is that among aristocr... | 1,198 | 299 | 2.306 | 2 | Basic | 0.8622 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Geography of Hungary
With a land area of 93,033 square km, Hungary is a country in Central Europe. It measures about 250 km from north to south and 524 km from east to west. It has 2,258 km of boundaries, shared with Austria to the west, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia to the south and southwest, Romania to the southeast,... | 12,127 | 3,031 | 2.5591 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8613 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Mastering color in painting is often a matter of combining a
willingness to experiment with mixing colors as well as understanding the color
wheel and color theory. Most artists develop their own color mixing chart—or
several—and work on recognizing color relationships (primary, secondary,
tertiary; complementary color... | 483 | 120 | 2.5835 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8691 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Design a control system to manipulate the position of a spring driven cart.
A solid aluminum cart is driven by a rack and pinion mechanism using a 6V DC motor, ensuring consistent and continuous traction. The cart slides along a stainless steel shaft using linear bearings. The cart position is measured using a sensor c... | 1,020 | 255 | 2.2127 | 2 | Basic | 0.8021 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Lisa Alcalay Klug
Deep in the heart of Barcelona’s Old City, street signs with Catalan names such as Carrer de Montjuic, Jewish Mountain Street, speak of a Jewish presence. Certain walls contain barely decipherable Hebrew inscriptions from eroded Jewish tombstones. And an elegant stone tablet displays beautiful Hebrew ... | 5,052 | 1,263 | 3.0857 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9277 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
There is a bright side to the plunge in solar panel prices that has brought down some U.S. and German manufacturers which relied too heavily on subsidies for green energy - solar power costs have fallen faster than anyone thought possible. Solar is now nearly as cheap as conventional sources in Germany's electricity gr... | 6,432 | 1,608 | 4.1401 | 4 | Complex | 0.7676 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
March 2005: Part I of III. A camp in Darfur, Sudan. By early 2005, 1.6 million Darfur residents remain displaced, having fled their villages following attacks that included killings, abductions, gang rapes, looting and burning. UNICEF, working with the authorities and other relief groups, provides shelter, education, s... | 1,619 | 404 | 2.0748 | 2 | Basic | 0.7702 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
white blood cell Component of the blood that functions in the immune system. Also known as a leukocyte.
wood The inner layer of the stems of woody plants; composed of xylem.
X-chromosome One of the sex chromosomes.
xerophytic leaves The leaves of plants that grow under arid conditions with low levels of soil and water.... | 2,120 | 530 | 3.7399 | 4 | Complex | 0.7773 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
See the librarian for a monthly reading log and get started today.
Purpose: To encourage the reading of fiction and nonfiction books to enhance reading enjoyment and comprehension. Fiction Component: Choose from 10 Virginia Readers' Choice nominated books. These 10 books have been nominated for the 2011-2012 Virginia R... | 807 | 201 | 1.8941 | 2 | Basic | 0.7283 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Nearly three quarters (72%) of adults are quite attached to following local news and information, and local newspapers are by far the source they rely on for much of the local information they need. In fact, local news enthusiasts are substantially more wedded to their local newspapers than others. They are much more l... | 5,933 | 1,483 | 4.1153 | 4 | Complex | 0.7789 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Quapaw (kwôˈpô) [key], Native North Americans, also called the Arkansas, whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). The Quapaw were essentially of the Plains culture, but they had other distinctive traits; they built temple and burial mounds and liv... | 1,017 | 254 | 1.4419 | 1 | Simple | 0.6492 | false | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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What is the actual difference between a NAT and Proxy. Please help in this context......
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What is the actual difference between a NAT and Proxy.
Please help in this context...
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What may be the world's toughest job - good parenting - may have become just a tiny bit easier as of last week.
It's not that anyone discovered a simple way to enforce bedtimes or to get kids to like broccoli. But parents and other caregivers did gain access to powerful new tools that can help them keep children safe o... | 2,770 | 692 | 2.5486 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8869 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
During the summer of 1944, while British and American troops stormed through France toward the German border, Soviet armies swept just as rapidly toward Germany from the east. Between June and August their 600-mile front advanced more than 300 miles, destroying more than seventeen German divisions and inflicting more t... | 5,951 | 1,487 | 2.8211 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9409 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Union General Irvin McDowell
Army of the Potomac
Born 1818 Died 1885
After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy, McDowell served with the 1st Artillery and then returned to the academy as the adjutant. During the Mexican War he was brevetted a captain for gallant and meritorious conduct. From then until the outbre... | 5,180 | 1,295 | 2.9969 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9673 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
WASHINGTON, DC — More than half of Americans say they are trying to lose weight, and a majority of them say they are trying to improve the healthfulness of their diet and increase their level of physical activity. However, nine out of 10 Americans do not know how many calories they should consume in a day.
The conflict... | 891 | 222 | 3.7057 | 4 | Complex | 0.8245 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Alabama Beach Mouse
ALABAMA BEACH MOUSE
Photo Credit: Nick R. Holler
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Peromyscus polionotus ammobates (Bowen)
DESCRIPTION: Smallest (adults, total length =122-153 mm [4.8-6.0 in.]; weights =10.0-17.0 g [0.35-0.60 oz.]; pregnant females reaching 22-25 g [0.78-0.88 oz.]) species of Peromyscus in North Ame... | 7,072 | 1,768 | 2.7606 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8912 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Five-Year, $3.5 Million Study Aims to Promote the Health of People With Disabilities
02/24/05 Portland, Ore.
The grant from the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research was given to the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Health & Wellness in the OHSU Chi... | 2,685 | 671 | 2.4829 | 2 | Basic | 0.8651 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Companion planting means arranging the plants in a garden in such a way that they enhance the growth and quality of nearby crops, provide maximum ground cover, and, if possible, improve the soil.
Companion plants are also a way of controlling insect populations. Fragrant flowers and herbs drive away pest insects. For e... | 1,867 | 466 | 3.6853 | 4 | Complex | 0.8436 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Educational programs empower patients with lung diseases
(BPT) - Complications associated with lung diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cystic fibrosis (CF) account for millions of emergency room visits each year. Many of these complications occur because the diseases are not bein... | 3,564 | 891 | 4.1391 | 4 | Complex | 0.7626 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Growers in the South Valley are now spraying pesticides to fight a citrus pest.
The spraying is mandatory for some homeowners and growers because of the Asian citrus psyllid, which has been discovered in the Strathmore-Lindsay area.
The Asian citrus psyllid is an aphid-like insect that feeds on the leaves and stems of ... | 914 | 228 | 3.2 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9317 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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Tue January 8, 2013
New Michigan law widens uses for treated sewage product
A new law in Michigan will make it easier for sewage treatment plants to sell or give away their leftovers.
All the water we use in our houses and businesses goes down a municipal ... | 2,941 | 735 | 2.0602 | 2 | Basic | 0.816 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
In general relativity Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates are named for Arthur Stanley Eddington and David Finkelstein, even though neither ever wrote down these coordinates or the metric in these coordinates. They seem to have been given this name by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler in their book Gravitation. They are a pair... | 5,650 | 1,412 | 3.0563 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9588 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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Environmental engineers design and supervise systems to prevent and control pollution in water, in the air, on land, and in ground water. Pollution can occur in the chemical processing of goods or with the disposal of waste material as a result of the processing and its use. Industrial was... | 1,253 | 313 | 3.051 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9447 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
The undersides or plastrons of false map turtles are cream to yellowish in color. The juveniles have an intricate pattern, whereas in the adults this pattem is absent. They mate in the spring and lay a clutch of 6-13 eggs.
These turtles are extremely rare in North Dakota, and t... | 672 | 168 | 2.5087 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8678 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, 20 lasers were used in a
nightly light show in which people from around the world controlled the beams
through public Internet access.
mirror—which was made of
aluminized Mylar and spanned
90 feet across. In the main hall,
visitors could see their reflections hanging upsid... | 4,061 | 1,015 | 2.8355 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.933 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Robot technology is on the brink of yet another major advancement. The goal is increased cooperation between robotic and human workers. Find out what this will mean for robot technology and robot users.
Reasons for Heading in the Direction of Collaboration:
Robots and humans bring different strengths to the table. Indu... | 2,323 | 580 | 2.2078 | 2 | Basic | 0.8304 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
(This post is part of the series on postsecondary education.)
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Yesterday and this morning I dug into the Catechism and two other Catholic documents: Ga... | 15,126 | 3,781 | 2.1986 | 2 | Basic | 0.8102 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
A brief history of Milwaukee and City Hall
The City of Milwaukee arose from a collection of scattered settlements on a site familiar to the Native American tribes in what is now eastern Wisconsin.
Local historians attribute the name to a word derived from the Potawatomi Tribe. The Potawatomis pronounced it Mahn-ah-wauk... | 7,542 | 1,885 | 1.9839 | 2 | Basic | 0.7997 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Notes and Communications: Faith and Truth
John A. Tvedtnes
One of the clearest and most precise definitions of faith is the one given in the Book of Mormon by Alma: "If ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true" (Alma 32:21). Faith and truth are often listed together in the scriptures (e.g. Mo... | 6,398 | 1,599 | 1.6553 | 2 | Basic | 0.7246 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Throughout Medieval Europe, people didn't drink water unless they had no other option - there was too great a chance of it being polluted. Instead, they drank beer, wine, or mead with every meal. That's because the fermentation process kills off all harmful bacteria. And in at least one part of Europe, that practice st... | 2,569 | 642 | 2.684 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8912 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Experimentalists have shown that carbon nanotubes are among the most electrically conductive materials known. It also has been shown that individual carbon nanotube molecules can be used to make electrical switches and wires. Building upon these discoveries, this presentation first will display and discuss explicit nov... | 1,576 | 394 | 2.1755 | 2 | Basic | 0.8142 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
|© UN Photo|
|Eleanor Roosevelt holds a copy of the Declaration in 1948.|
By David Koch
NEW YORK, USA, 10 December 2008 – Six decades ago the United Nations brought the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to life. Today, the rights enshrined in the Declaration are considered, simply, universal values. In 1948, howeve... | 2,312 | 578 | 2.2361 | 2 | Basic | 0.8189 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Reconstructive Skin Cancer Surgery
What is Reconstructive Skin Cancer Surgery?
While cancer is a disease that can unfortunately affect any organ in the body, skin cancer is the most common type of cancer. The three most prevalent types of skin cancers are basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma, and... | 1,544 | 386 | 2.6863 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.9058 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Leonidas is located in the center of Leonidas township. The soil of this locality was very fertile and the prairie land with the heavier timbered parts made it ideal. Large maple sugar camps were located in the northern parts. It abounded in large "white-wood" trees which were used in all old buildings where large timb... | 3,110 | 777 | 2.5277 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8703 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
One of President Obama’s first actions has been to announce his intentions to build a ‘smart grid’ for the US energy infrastructure. WorldChanging explains the concepts behind the buzzphrase, and I’ll paraphrase their five broad categories here:
- End-user smart metering to use energy more efficiently
- Systems to inte... | 1,262 | 315 | 2.914 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.946 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Document for February 2nd:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United Sta... | 431 | 107 | 2.5353 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8503 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Many high school and college seniors are beginning to count the days until they hear those final sounds of Pomp and Circumstance.
Many parents are thinking about graduation parties and who they will invite and what they will serve. Many educators are beginning to look at the roster of potential graduates and discern wh... | 4,938 | 1,234 | 2.0605 | 2 | Basic | 0.769 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Countries in Africa should promote maternal, infant and child health and report on progress, in order to curb high death rates on the continent, according to the African Union. There are continents where women give birth and it is a pleasant experience because they are bringing life, said AU Commissioner for Social Aff... | 3,648 | 912 | 3.7239 | 4 | Complex | 0.8513 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Aloha from Maui!
The landfill on Maui is a great example of kuleana (responsibility). Though we can proclaim that it is a digusting eyesore, all of us have contributed to its ever growing destruction. Taking responsibility for the trash you create by consuming a product, should be made of the utmost priority. Everyone ... | 5,606 | 1,401 | 2.3689 | 2 | Basic | 0.8366 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
The DNS record that Google had you add "to prevent spam" is a type of
TXT record called an
SPF (for "Sender Policy Framework"). However, it has nothing to do with email that you receive, only email that you send. The SPF basically tells other email servers that only certain locations are authorized to send email on you... | 1,394 | 348 | 2.4036 | 2 | Basic | 0.8699 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
WebMD Medical News
Louise Chang, MD
Jan. 14, 2010 -- Cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) spreads readily
and quickly among partners in new sexual relationships, new research
Scientists at McGill University, reporting in the journal
Epidemiology, say they detected the virus in 64% of couples who reported
engaging ... | 3,989 | 997 | 3.6347 | 4 | Complex | 0.8482 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Democracy in Tea Party America
project-syndicate.org — When the French politician and moral philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville published the first volume of his Democracy in America in 1835, he did so because he thought that France was in big trouble and could learn much from America. So one can only wonder what he woul... | 845 | 211 | 3.7186 | 4 | Complex | 0.8575 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
A.C. or A.C.N.
From Latin Ante Christum or Ante Christum Natum, meaning "Before Christ" or "Before Christ (was) Born." B.C. and B.C.E. are equivalents.
From Latin Anno Domini, meaning "in the year of the Lord." C.E. is equivalent.
From also known as.
From Latin Ante Meridiem, meaning "before midday."
From as soon as po... | 1,565 | 391 | 1 | 1 | Simple | 0.5508 | false | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
ALGEBRA 2Lesson 39 of 95
Students learn to solve a system of linear equations by graphing. The first step is to graph each of the given equations, then find the point of intersection of the two lines, which is the solution to the system of equations. If the two lines are parallel, then the solution to the system more..... | 439 | 109 | 1.6853 | 2 | Basic | 0.6981 | false | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
"I never saw more simplicity," recorded the famous evangelist George Whitefield in 1740, after preaching at Skippack in southeastern Pennsylvania. Had he ridden fifteen miles back through the woods to Germantown, and viewed the Mennonite meetinghouse there, he would doubtless have mused further. For even the successor ... | 5,283 | 1,320 | 1.872 | 2 | Basic | 0.7545 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Variations in how the Earth is tilted and its orbit around the sun make for a pattern of planetary warming phases followed by cooling phases across the millennia.
The team's research shows the Earth's overall temperature curve dipping down over about the past 4,000 years, but the downward plod comes to an abrupt halt i... | 1,668 | 417 | 1.9046 | 2 | Basic | 0.7857 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Developing Computer Science in KS2 Computational thinking and programming with Logo & Scratch
Providing basic skills to enable the use of Scratch. This is a simple programming language that can be used as a tool in the classroom for developing and exploring ideas.
Course code: IT084
Provided by Hampshire Teaching and L... | 1,147 | 286 | 2.2465 | 2 | Basic | 0.7891 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
On January 3, 2008, more than a hundred thousand people gathered at the Sri Durga Malleswara temple in southern India, setting the stage for disaster. When the crowd surged forward to garland a statue of the goddess Durga, six were trampled and killed.
Disasters like this kill hundreds of people a year and have typical... | 2,661 | 665 | 2.1744 | 2 | Basic | 0.8141 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
- Published on Dec 07, 1995
- Contact Bernie DeGroat
ANN ARBOR—A new University of Michigan study lends further credence to the belief that rear-seat passengers are better off than their front-seat counterparts in car crashes.
In an analysis of frontal collision data from 1980-91, researchers Donald Huelke and Charles ... | 3,606 | 901 | 3.0488 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.959 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Hydrogen Sulfide Testing With Black and White Film
Following is a procedure for Hydrogen Sulfide testing using Ilford Multigrade IV RC Deluxe MGD.1M B&W Paper which has been borrowed from the procedure published in Evaluation of a Novel Passive sampling Technique for Monitoring Volcanic Hydrogen Sulfide by Horwell, All... | 2,332 | 583 | 3.2389 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.8791 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
Understanding How Neurons Learn
John’s Hopkins researchers have shown that interactions between the PICK1 protein and another group of proteins known as AMPA receptors are important for allowing certain nerve cells to learn.
These nerve cells, called Purkinje cells, become desensitized in response to signals from neigh... | 959 | 239 | 3.5906 | 4 | Complex | 0.8468 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
psalmos: a striking (of musical strings), a psalmOriginal Word: ψαλμός, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Phonetic Spelling: (psal-mos')
Short Definition: a psalm
Definition: a psalm, song of praise, the Hebrew book of Psalms.
From psallo; a set piece of music, i.e. A sacred ode (accompanied with the voice, harp or... | 443 | 110 | 1.5318 | 2 | Basic | 0.6165 | false | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
(A) Hazardous waste munitions and hazardous waste explosives storage units must be designed and operated with containment systems, controls, and monitoring, that:
(1) Minimize the potential for detonation or other means of release of hazardous waste, hazardous constituents, hazardous decomposition products, or contamin... | 3,491 | 872 | 2.983 | 3 | Mid-Complexity | 0.936 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
The commonest problems we see affecting horse eyelids are listed at right. Entropion is commonly seen in foals and is a leading cause of corneal ulceration. Eyelid lacerations seem to result from horse's propensity to get tangled up in anything which could be a hazard in a stall or on a fence.
Abnormal eyelid cilia (ha... | 1,038 | 259 | 2.4267 | 2 | Basic | 0.8827 | true | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu / sample-10BT |
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