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Goodyear welt is a shoe construction technique used in the manufacturing of footwear with stitched soles. This construction method uses a narrow strip of leather called welt which is first sewn to the upper and inner sole of the shoe, then stitched to the outsole creating a stronger bond between the parts. Goodyear wel... | <urn:uuid:44141b9e-3ec5-46c5-b8b6-b341932b03d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.outletbuy.com/discount-size-13-goodyear-welt-mens-work-boots.htm | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949081 | 154 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The genuinely modern does not chase after the new; it makes the old new again.
Robert Pogue Harrison, The Dominion of the Dead
If stones had tongues, the din on Monte Serra, at the eastern end of the island of Elba, would be unbearable. So much human activity has come and gone over the years; surely the stones must hav... | <urn:uuid:e935d263-fde4-4ce7-b3de-b65d0d089e41> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pacifichorticulture.org/articles/a-garden-on-a-mountain-on-an-island-in-the-sea/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937495 | 3,407 | 3.078125 | 3 |
A multi-authored Encyclopedia on the history of life on Earth
Welcome to Palaeos.org!
We're just getting settled in at the moment, so for now please go to Palaeos.com for content, or if you want, sign up and help build what is hoped will be the web's most comprehensive project on the history and evolution of life throu... | <urn:uuid:d9576ff5-d649-4585-9d84-9490c4512339> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.palaeos.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=8471 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880071 | 1,105 | 2.625 | 3 |
Educators: Subject areas include high school science, design/architecture, and social studies.
GREEN YOUR SCHOOL PROJECT
This project could be started as a competition between the different science classes in one grade to find the winning proposal and action plan. Once the proposal is presented/accepted, the entire sch... | <urn:uuid:ba23e373-62bc-4ff2-829e-d4adefbea2cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pbs.org/e2/teachers/teacher_green_your_school_project.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902391 | 806 | 3.515625 | 4 |
- By Smith
- Published 29/05/2013
- ISBN 9781442545915
- Format Book
Basic Plumbing Services Skills: Roof Plumbing provides students with the fundamental skills and basic knowledge required for roof plumbing.
This resource is divided into two parts:
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Many conditions during pregnancy or labor can make a C-section necessary, including:
Prolonged or ineffective labor
Placenta issues if the placenta is positioned abnormally low in the cervix (placenta previa), it can block the birth canal.
The placenta can also suddenly separate from the uterus (placenta abruptia), cau... | <urn:uuid:78507a5a-ee15-4d6b-ad54-97268b6b77ec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pelvichealthsolutions.com/print/133 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.867079 | 279 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Hives (urticaria) and a swollen face (angioedema) are typical hypersensitivity (or allergic) reactions to drugs, chemicals, something eaten, or even sunlight.
What are the symptoms of hives and angioedema?
In hives, small bumps occur within the skin. Often, the hair will stand up over these swellings. Sometimes, they i... | <urn:uuid:4cd2532d-9502-4c6a-a1f6-65f2e7173b93> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=1+2117&aid=152 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91837 | 645 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Just the right amount of sun
Should all kids avoid the sun, all the time? As the days grow longer and warmer and as summer approaches, it's a question parents wonder about.
Just the right amount of sun
Gary Emmett, M.D.
Not every kid or teen needs the same “prescription” when it comes to sun exposure.
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Almost all we know about the universe is derived from the observation of
photons. As astronomers have developed instruments to exploit new
regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays,
fascinating new objects have been revealed. At very high energies,
however, the universe itself becomes opaq... | <urn:uuid:f1c80725-1b6e-46b2-b7d1-de486875ce11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.physics.queensu.ca/Talks/profile.php?id=992 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902882 | 232 | 3.421875 | 3 |
A large Cold War supply of helium-3 has begun to rapidly run out, due to heavy demand from U.S. scientists who need the gas for neutron detectors and cryogenic experiments. Almost 60,000 liters of helium-3 were used in 2007 and 2008, compared to just 10,000 liters used annually about 10 years ago. A House subcommittee ... | <urn:uuid:ac778eef-bd3c-4d30-b530-7bd572865f89> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.popsci.com/category/tags/nuclear-security | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957227 | 142 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Portland, OR 97203
The Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant is part of a collection and treatment system that serves nearly 600,000 residential and commercial customers. The plant operates every day around the clock to manage, monitor and adjust the treatment process. Sewage pump stations and pipes convey wast... | <urn:uuid:82f8cd27-6c65-4698-b0f2-a579269f4326> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/article/40645 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920693 | 1,467 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Quilt, Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, various makers and places of manufacture, Australia / United States of America, 1989-1994
The Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, of which this eight-panel quilt forms a part, is an evocative record of those who were lost to HIV, many of them in their 20s and 30s. The visual diversity... | <urn:uuid:254419c2-1685-4694-a990-3331f24a39cc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=383146&img=229935 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97231 | 994 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Alan Turing, who conceived of the modern computer decades before it came into existence, earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1938. His dissertation, titled "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals," made important contributions to both computer science and mathematics.
Video stills courtesy of Zach Donnell
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Action Team Approach: Each school’s Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) is made up of parents, teachers, administrators and community members. This team meets monthly at each school to develop a One-Year Action Plan for School & Family Partnerships, ensures the activities in the plan happen, and evaluates the activities... | <urn:uuid:9375c497-56ed-4938-bd75-01996369a9c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.psd1.org/domain/431 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937504 | 360 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair (AAA Repair)
Why is the doctor performing this surgery?
To repair a weakened portion of the aorta located in the abdomen. The aorta is the largest artery in the body. It carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body, including the abdomen. The weakened aorta can ballo... | <urn:uuid:3c1e4d9b-a7cb-4e2c-93fe-c2c7d129b3f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.qualityoflife.org/memorialcms/index.cfm/heart/procedures/surgery/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-repair-aaa-repair/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92994 | 287 | 3.140625 | 3 |
It seems as normal as the world dress boys in blue and girls pink. In fact, we would not at all strange if a girl you put a blue outfit but what if a child what to wear pink? It seems unthinkable, right?
Well, I discovered that in the nineteenth century wore backwards, ie, girls and boys blue rose, though more common t... | <urn:uuid:a3ad07e5-8180-411e-8283-839877ea7f9c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.raisingthefawn.com/390/pink-for-girls-and-blue-for-boys-why.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967454 | 419 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Pop-Eye A very obvious swelling and/or cloudiness of the eyes, or around the eye. This is most often caused by a couple of things, either poor water quality or physical damage or abrasion to the eye of which a secondary infections can take advantage of, causing the obvious signs. Also in if the fish isn't decompressed ... | <urn:uuid:730cd3a2-f6b9-49c1-b43e-49f34da71c5d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reefs.com/forum/pests/99509-pop-eye.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96659 | 192 | 2.875 | 3 |
The Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) is a small American sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. This species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Anas albeola.
The Bufflehead ranges from 32-40 cm long (12.5-16 inches) and 270-550 g (.6-1.2 lbs), with the drakes larger than the femal... | <urn:uuid:ddbf4681-dc4d-44ad-8f99-637272fee0d4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reference.com/browse/bufflehead | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920753 | 798 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Kolam (Tamil: கோலம் ) is a form of sandpainting that is drawn using rice powder by female members of the family in front of their home. It is widely practised by Hindus in South India. A Kolam is a sort of painted prayer — a line drawing composed of curved loops, drawn around a grid pattern of dots.
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No legal vacuum in cyber space
|Publisher||International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)|
|Publication Date||16 August 2011|
|Cite as||International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), No legal vacuum in cyber space, 16 August 2011, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4e5341102.html [accessed 21 May 2013]|
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Heating and insulation
Over 50% of the heat loss from an average home is through the roof and walls.
And in the UK, over 25% of all carbon dioxide emissions come from the energy we use to heat and light our homes and power our household appliances.
Energy efficiency is about using energy in your home in a way to make s... | <urn:uuid:1353919a-0b6f-4ab2-a47f-6352e6f6213a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.richmond.gov.uk/gu/home/housing/heating_and_insulation.htm | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942911 | 159 | 2.65625 | 3 |
William T. Nicholson (1834-1893) was the founder of the Nicholson File Company of Providence, the originator of machine-made files in America, the largest company of its kind in the world, and one of Providence’s “five industrial wonders” of the nineteenth century.
Nicholson was born on March 22, 1834 in the village of... | <urn:uuid:515e10e4-9e42-4f62-98a9-594bc8b72f99> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.riheritagehalloffame.org/inductees_detail.cfm?crit=det&iid=488 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930289 | 508 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Like all liberal arts, dance teaches life skills that will benefit the student later in life, regardless of the vocation selected. Dance teaches self-discipline, respect, dedication and determination. Plato once wrote, "to sing and dance well is to be well educated." He considered the uneducated man achoreutos or dance... | <urn:uuid:a78f494d-402c-4aa2-824c-eb025a117901> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rollins.edu/theatredance/courses-of-study/dance.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.869648 | 937 | 2.75 | 3 |
Image Collection: Medical Anatomy and Illustrations
- All (557)
- Allergic Skin Disorders (31)
- Viral Skin Diseases (26)
- Bacterial Skin Diseases (29)
- Fungal Skin Diseases (17)
- Bites and Infestations (27)
- Noncancerous, Precancerous and Cancerous Tumors (56)
- Diseases of Pigment (26)
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Many European countries have passed anti-smoking legislation which bans smoking from restaurants, bars and public buildings. After implementation of such a smoking ban on 1 January 2008 in the metropolitan area of Bremen in northwest Germany (800,000 inhabitants) a 16% decline in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STE... | <urn:uuid:bc4e323b-8962-4c19-a3b0-8fbd9fc82d46> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.salutedomani.com/il_weblog_di_antonio/2012/08/non-smokers-benefit-most-from-smoking-ban-esc-2012.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942105 | 681 | 2.671875 | 3 |
This paper was presented at the Twenty-second Annual National Conference of the Society of Aeronautical Weight Engineers at St. Louis, Missouri, April 29-May 1, 1963. The decision by Douglas Aircraft Company to rely chiefly on electronic rather than mechanical systems for its overall research and development (R & D) mi... | <urn:uuid:d337d38a-1de4-410d-b12f-a8b7f124e053> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sawe.org/papers/0368 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964948 | 576 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Listen & Read: Social Studies
11 short nonfiction stories that your early readers can hear and see as they read along.
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2
Transport your young students back in time to a Pilgrim village, behind the scenes with firefighters, and all around the world to celebrate Earth Day with bite-sized educational a... | <urn:uuid:9eef7d25-a4ee-4f97-a56c-1f31c969d710> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/collection/listen-read-social-studies | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90569 | 129 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Print version ISSN 1020-4989
HO, Gloria Y. F. et al. Cancer disparities between mainland and island Puerto Ricans. Rev Panam Salud Publica [online]. 2009, vol.25, n.5, pp. 394-400. ISSN 1020-4989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1020-49892009000500003.
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A park ranger could...
|Spot a forest fire and help put it out.||Transport injured animals to wildlife clinics for treatment.|
|Enforce federal laws and park regulations in a park.||Give a guided tour of a national park.|
Key Facts & Information
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Nov. 26, 2009 A recently devised method of imaging the chemical communication and warfare between microorganisms could lead to new antibiotics, antifungal, antiviral and anti-cancer drugs, said a Texas AgriLife Research scientist.
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Mar. 11, 2010 Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander Kashlinsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., tracks this collective motion -- dubbed the "dark flow"... | <urn:uuid:10aa2468-ee8c-46e2-9623-27fa8711cfee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100310162829.htm | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917958 | 1,022 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Apr. 18, 2011 It's one of the world's two best-loved flavours, and demand for it is increasing all the time. But now its future in the global food industry could be more secure, thanks to research at The University of Nottingham's Malaysia campus.
Vanillin is a compound that comes from the vanilla bean, the 'fruit' of ... | <urn:uuid:ada1fb68-2713-4cec-bc2e-2a6745ea1ea8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110415083336.htm | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93143 | 777 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Jan. 27, 2012 Dr. Susan Mallery, a professor in the College of Dentistry at The Ohio State University and Oral Pathology Consultant at the Ohio State University and James Cancer hospitals, has dedicated her nearly 30-year career to studying new strategies to preventing oral cancer. Oral cancer is currently responsible ... | <urn:uuid:c493798f-ca6d-4e7a-afef-731adb3af644> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120127135715.htm | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944725 | 938 | 2.75 | 3 |
Apr. 15, 2012 In the world’s largest brain study to date, a team of more than 200 scientists from 100 institutions worldwide collaborated to map the human genes that boost or sabotage the brain’s resistance to a variety of mental illnesses and Alzheimer’s disease. Published April 15 in the advance online edition of Nat... | <urn:uuid:b416075f-708c-4948-9fde-2299cff03905> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120415150123.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916893 | 1,139 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Some of school going kids uses Electricity and Magnetism related science projects Experiments in there school’s science fair. children’s always trying to know that what is a magnet or something about electricity.
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Across two decades and thousands of pages of reports, the world's most authoritative voice on climate science has consistently understated the rate and intensity of climate change and the danger those impacts represent, say a growing number of studies on the topic.
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The journal Science published a paper this week about the increase and spread of Dead Zones in the world oceans. These Dead Zones are created when large amounts of nutrients decompose and use up all of the oxygen in the water causing mass deaths (literally suffocation) of marine species. There are various causes for th... | <urn:uuid:d8135aa8-d8ac-4e98-a942-9c4571a50e14> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sealevelrise.blogspot.com/2008_02_24_archive.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950194 | 483 | 3.03125 | 3 |
This species of dinoflagellate is a rare visitor to the Rhode River area. The salinity of the mid-Chesapeake Bay is usually too low to support D. accuminata. It has been known to cause toxic shellfish poisoning. The cells average 48u in length and 16u wide with an average total volume of 3.2x103 cubic microns. During l... | <urn:uuid:15de15c2-f85e-48b8-af07-9d2985160476> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.serc.si.edu/labs/phytoplankton/guide/dinoflagellates/dinoaccum.aspx | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944069 | 130 | 2.59375 | 3 |
• Dandelion roots can be roasted as a coffee-substitute, or boiled and stir-fried as a cooked vegetable.
• Dandelion flowers can be made into a wine.
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The summer is not the only time you are at risk for damage from the sun. Find out how to protect yourself no matter what the season.
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Best known for its unmistakable flavor, cinnamon is a spice that is derived from the bark of several trees in the genus Cinnamomum. Cinnamon trees were first cultivated in Sri Lanka; today, they are native throughout Southeast Asia. The trees thrive in tropical countries, such as Mexico. Cinnamon trees, which can grow ... | <urn:uuid:bc7450f3-c5b1-4f71-b930-4959146aa893> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.skinstore.com/cinnamon.aspx?ft=Cinnamon&avnr=Price%7C20%7C24.99%7C%3C%3D++%3C%3D&as=Natural+(Descending) | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956251 | 911 | 3.109375 | 3 |
The New New World Order
To most of the world, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 symbolized freedom, democracy, the end of tyranny. To a small band of cognoscenti in Washington, New York, and a few university towns, the fall of the Berlin Wall also symbolized unprecedented professional opportunity. From the moment it ... | <urn:uuid:d81b4d7b-819a-40e1-9ff3-fdd5195f4194> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2001/10/the_new_new_world_order.single.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963959 | 1,643 | 2.734375 | 3 |
When you exercise exhaustively, lactic acid builds up within your muscles and pours out into the bloodstream. It refers to the lack of available oxygen which is necessary for exercising and this can cause the pain associated with exercising which can sometimes be rather intense.
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By Jesse Berst
If you have friends at San Diego Gas & Electric, then you've heard of the difficulties rooftop solar can cause. With one of the nation's highest penetrations of solar PV, SDG&E is racing around to find ways to control the massive swings up and down. They're even considering grid scale storage.
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Air Pollution as Seen From the Skies
From Mt. Etna to China to the Sahara, these striking satellite images of air pollution are from both natural and man-made causes
- By Sarah Zielinski
- Smithsonian.com, April 20, 2010
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Do Fruit Trees Like Acidic Soil?
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Fighting the "venereal menace"
An unspeakable problem
The Oregon Social Hygiene Society
Just after war was declared, the society took steps to reach all of the Oregon National Guard units as they were mobilized. The men were provided circulars on the subject and received lectures on the wisdom of avoiding infection.
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Gavin started coughing, just occasionally, one cough here, one cough there.
We thought our childhood vaccinations had us covered.
Whooping cough is highly contagious
You could pass pertussis to your baby.
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Spanish phrases sorted into useful everyday topics.
Spanish vocabulary divided into themed vocabulary lists.
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The beginner golfer spends their limited time, money, and formative hours learning “fundamentals” that are not remotely standard among the game’s best players. This means that they are not fundamental at all. We believe the game of golf is fundamentally misinterpreted.
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During the old time, one or two months before Norooz people were going to Bazaar and buying their Norooz clothes. Those clothes were bought which had red or yellow color and were bright. They believed if they be sewing their clothes on Monday or Friday its better than Thursday. Because on Thursday the time is heavy! An... | <urn:uuid:a4bde372-3902-4b37-8e29-89665fb2bc1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Norooz-Celebration-70770.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946247 | 576 | 2.796875 | 3 |
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Christianity in Japan
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In Class Workshop: The Process of Writing
EngC1011 University Writing and Critical Reading
Kevin L. Callahan
EngC1011 Writing Instructor
The purpose of this class is to discuss the process of writing and to do a diagnostic paragraph and a focused freewriting exercise.
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Academic standards correlations on Teachers' Domain use the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) database of state and national standards, provided to NSDL projects courtesy of JES & Co.
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Analysis of Different Routing Techniques for Opportunistic Data Transfer
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It's been unfairly maligned as sexist, but women and men alike would benefit from bringing it back.
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Faulty gene causes foetal abnormalities, find experts
Researchers from University of Leeds, England together with colleagues in Paris, Rome, and San Diego established that a defective gene TMEM216 is the cause of various foetal deformities in infants.
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The machine was described as having a wooden centerpiece, fifteen feet long, covered with a thin piece of brass. From the centerpiece there extended spikes of wood three feet long, over which were placed wooden rings six feet in diameter. Over the rings were drawn rubber and canvas sails. In the front there was a rubbe... | <urn:uuid:26a1e504-7bc1-4842-a408-ad287843a911> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theufochronicles.com/2005/03/airships-beginning-1896.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984856 | 918 | 2.90625 | 3 |
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Dessau-Roßlau is situated at an altitude of 61 m at the confluence of the rivers Elbe and Mulde. The town was formed by merger of the towns Dessau and Roßlau (Elbe) on 1 July 2007. Dessau-Roßlau is the third town of ... | <urn:uuid:e66ddaaa-53b8-4ff9-a489-ebf59b022c27> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thomasgraz.net/glass/gl-2468.htm | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968592 | 953 | 2.640625 | 3 |
YomTov, Vol. I, # 37
The Shofar: A Wake-Up Call
By: Rabbi Yehudah Prero
We find that when the Torah speaks of Rosh HaShana, it tells us "Yom Teru'ah
yih'yeh lachem", "a day of teru'ah (sounding the horn) should be to you".
Although the verses do not elaborate on what type of horn or instrument is
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Susan Solomon: Service to America Medalist
On September 15, 2010, in recognition of her pioneering work that altered the course of atmospheric research, NOAA senior scientist Susan Solomon was awarded the Career Achievement Service to America medal.
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A study published in The Lancet has found that aciclovir, a drug frequently used to treat genital herpes, could “help people with HIV infection stay healthy for longer,” according to Dr. Jairam Lingappa, leader of the research team out of the University of Washington in Seattle. —KA
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Common flame retardant linked to social, behavioral and learning deficits
Study highlights the interaction between epigenetics and genetics and exposure to a flame retardant in mice
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Friday, June 29, 2012
As part of a trivia series on polio, Aufderheide cites several studies showing that the widespread use of chemical pesticides such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, and heptachlor following World War II, actual exacerbated viral disease outbreaks across the United States.
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|© UNICEF/MLIA2009-00256/Giacomo Pirozzi|
|An adolescent boy behind bars in the detention centre for minors in the town of Mopti, central Mali. UNICEF support partners to help children in prison, while advocating that prisons should only be used as a last resort.|
Children encounter the justice system as victims, witne... | <urn:uuid:a4b1f1c1-d825-41ce-87ab-1cb650870c80> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_57999.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944387 | 560 | 3.125 | 3 |
MDG 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
"Those who suffer or who benefit least deserve help from those who benefit most"
The widening gap between rich and poor worldwide is a major threat to global security and economic integration. Poverty is a vicious circle, being both the cause and effect of the lack of opportu... | <urn:uuid:6b7fdf4f-0340-4cd7-afce-07f90e899786> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unido.org/what-we-do/mdgs/mdg1.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936229 | 576 | 2.71875 | 3 |
-Michael A. Healy was born on 22 September 1839 in Georgia. His father, Michael Morris Healy, was a white planter and his mother, Eliza Clark, was variously reported as a slave or a former slave.
-His father sent him and his nine siblings north to be educated and escape slavery.
-Michael A. Healy ran repeatedly ran awa... | <urn:uuid:16e2ca79-d461-444d-a764-6858ec837e18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uscg.mil/history/people/Healy_Bio.asp | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982624 | 706 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Historic Cemetery Alliance
Dorado House Cemetery
Resources Preservation Commission
on Pacheco Cemetery public title.
BILLS introduced in the State Legislature
Dorado County HISTORIC CEMETERIES
(check here for information on the historic cemeteries)
Mile House (aka Camino) Cemetery
OF EL DORADO
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The Sweetwater Union High School District reinvented English classes at its middle and high schools to better prepare graduates for college and life.
Old: Literature-heavy reading lists included novels, nonfiction, poetry and short stories.
New: Reading materials now include newspaper editorials, speeches, advertisemen... | <urn:uuid:78f8ec08-692b-4682-b4ef-1aa4867b133d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/23/literary-classics-shelved-in-retooled-english/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959817 | 689 | 2.625 | 3 |
Vanderbilt researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. Researchers made the discovery using a new technique for decoding data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). T... | <urn:uuid:e432e855-bb37-4741-9aec-7b108f530b76> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vanderbilt.edu/magazines/vanderbilt-magazine/2009/08/%E2%80%98hidden%E2%80%99-echoes-play-role-in-memory/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955762 | 730 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Inscription(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsylvania. Union Gen. George G. Meade, who replaced Gen. Joseph H... | <urn:uuid:96134a14-b6d5-4504-8575-0f80c38da86b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.virginia.org/Listings/HistoricSites/BattleofAldieTheFightBegins/?device=mobile | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941391 | 144 | 3.25 | 3 |
Biologist at Amyris Biotechnologies are using E. coli bacteria to turn sugar into carbon-neutral gasoline.
By adding enzyme genes to the bacteria, carbon-absorbing crops like sugarcane can be turned into hydrocarbons.
As Amanda Schaffer says in the article “Breeding the Oil Bug” at popsci.com:
Amyris is [...] betting t... | <urn:uuid:af77c4bb-b251-4ba7-b8b2-78a4e245457e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vnl.in/tag/gasoline/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.867115 | 378 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Robert Del TrediciCV Aiken County, South Carolina. August 6, 1983, de la série At Work in the Fields of the Bomb, 1983, épreuve à la gélatine argentique, dimensions indéterminées.
DuPont Administration Building, Savannah River Plant
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Keeping up with the demands of small children is hard enough for parents, but it can be especially difficult when you have kids with special needs.
Five-year-old Maxwell was diagnosed with Asburger Syndrome, a form of autism, a couple of years ago. He spends an hour each week with an occupational therapist working on m... | <urn:uuid:48f2956b-4c68-44b4-8e8c-5531d7066516> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wbko.com/home/headlines/1306962.html?site=mobile | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973593 | 414 | 2.578125 | 3 |
What to ask your doctor about heart disease
Keep these questions in mind during your next appointment
During your next visit to the doctor, consider asking these questions to learn if you could be at risk for heart disease:
1. What is my risk for heart disease?
2. What is my blood pressure? What does it mean for me, an... | <urn:uuid:2a593ecf-eb9a-44bd-853e-093ef00e4231> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wcti12.com/lifestyle/healthy-heart/What-to-ask-your-doctor-about-heart-disease/-/16091866/7220886/-/view/print/-/a3e49z/-/index.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952766 | 343 | 2.5625 | 3 |
- North America
- United States of America
- District of Columbia
- Delaware (2)
- Maryland (2)
- Virginia (2)
- West Virginia (2)
- Maine (1)
- Massachusetts (1)
- New Hampshire (1)
- New Jersey (1)
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- Rhode Island (1)
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- Architectural drawings (1)
- Atlantic Coast (North America) (1)
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What is panic disorder?
Panic disorder is a mental
condition in which you have repeated, unexpected panic attacks and constantly
worry about having another attack. A panic attack is a sudden feeling of
extreme anxiety along with intense and frightening, but not life-threatening,
physical symptoms. An attack usually las... | <urn:uuid:78391ebe-1592-4aad-9ca8-6fef295decfa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/should-i-take-medications-to-treat-panic-disorder | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918468 | 953 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Short for Liquid Crystal on Silicon, it is micro-display technology related to LCD, where liquid crystal material has a twisted-nematic structure but is sealed directly to the surface of a silicon chip. * The electronic drivers controlling the crystals' alignment are etched into the silicon. Using these, several millio... | <urn:uuid:9625b4c1-8434-487e-9a08-01a2a5a2892d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/LCoS.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927895 | 336 | 2.796875 | 3 |
(b. 1697, Venezia, d. 1768, Venezia)
Imaginary View of Venice1740-42
Etching, 295 x 425 mm
British Museum, London
In the early 1740s Canaletto made an important journey outside of Venice along the Brenta canal with Bellotto towards Padua, and executed a number of drawings that were to form the basis of etchings and pai... | <urn:uuid:5916c0dc-fd47-42d8-b2bc-2f7b9ff0ac32> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wga.hu/html/c/canalett/g2/canalg14.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978395 | 249 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Chagas test kit evaluations
Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi causing Chagas disease is mainly endemic in South and Latin America. Nevertheless, other parts of the world such as the USA and parts of Europe are considering testing all blood donations for T. cruzi due to migration of people from endemic areas and changing... | <urn:uuid:d639ec30-5247-485c-b49f-4202faed0ed5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.who.int/diagnostics_laboratory/evaluations/chagas/en/index.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.805048 | 383 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Health statistics and health information systems
The goal of WHO's work in health statistics is to improve country, regional and global health information. This information is vital for public health decision making, health sector reviews, planning and resource allocation and programme monitoring and evaluation. WHO co... | <urn:uuid:a1d98822-1d2f-40f6-96b2-4fcdc739bb34> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.who.int/healthinfo/en/index.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915323 | 394 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Wildmind Meditation News
Aug 16, 2010
Outdoors and out of reach, studying the brain
Five neuroscientists go on a rafting adventure to see how the brain reacts when in a natural environment.
Todd Braver emerges from a tent nestled against the canyon wall. He has a slight tan, except for a slim pale band around his wrist... | <urn:uuid:50f0c952-eaba-439f-baa0-e74699842d54> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/news/outdoors-and-out-of-reach-studying-the-brain | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949204 | 676 | 3 | 3 |
Understanding Microelectronics: A Top-Down Approach
December 2011, ©2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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For today’s students, the most beneficial approach to learning is this top-down method that demonstrates a global view of electronics b... | <urn:uuid:7f620be6-e083-431f-bfa2-b1d32b644ef1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047074555X,descCd-description.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902084 | 389 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Microcalorimetry of Macromolecules: The Physical Basis of Biological Structures
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Cindy Chapman grabs some pea pods at a farmers market Tuesday, June 24, 2008, in West Allis, Wis. The floods that damaged farms in southern Wisconsin earlier this month are likely to result in fewer fruits and vegetables at farmers markets this summer and help boost already high prices for organic eggs and meat in the ... | <urn:uuid:a2c1f110-1793-4591-84d5-ced46390b3ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wilx.com/green/headlines/39315312.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9538 | 339 | 2.59375 | 3 |
1999--A Year in Review...
News story originally written on January 6, 2000
It was another exciting and frustrating year for the space science program. It seemed that every step forward led to one backwards. Either way, NASA led the way to a great century of discovery.
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Once again, daily events remind us of the importance of Earth and space science. At the time of this writing, Hurricane Sandy is expected to cause billions of dollars of damage, and will undoubtedly cost many lives as well. This massive storm that formed in late October and headed up the East coast of the U.S., impacte... | <urn:uuid:ae8defc6-d942-48c5-945f-dc417f4e7cab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.windows2universe.org/newsletters/11_2012.html&dev=1 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939523 | 8,256 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The getcontext() function accesses a different Context
object for each thread. Having separate thread contexts means that threads
may make changes (such as
getcontext.prec=10) without interfering with
Likewise, the setcontext() function automatically assigns its target to the current thread.
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A century of comet data suggests a dark, Jupiter-sized
object is lurking at the solar system's outer edge and hurling
chunks of ice and dust toward Earth.
"We've accumulated 10 years' more data, double the comets we
viewed to test this hypothesis," said planetary scientist John Matese of the University of Louisiana.
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The BBC news articles below address privacy concerns
over states' and corporations' use of personal data.
I think you will find the links useful.
The basic summary is the following:
1. States collect personal info by various methods
(eg:CCTV/closed-circuit TV in roadways).
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of a class of yellow to red pigments, including the carotenes and the xanthophylls.
- adj. Of or relating to such a pigment.
- n. organic chemistry Any of a class of yellow to red plant pigments including the carotenes and xanthophylls.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A method of painting with opaque watercolors mixed with a preparation of gum.
- n. An opaque pigment used when painting in this way.
- n. A painting executed in this manner.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Tobacco: an Indian name said to be still in use in some parts of Canada.
“Then taking out a short wooden pipe, he filled it with the coarse and bitter tobacco of Brazil, of which the leaves belong to that old _ "petun" _ introduced into France by Nicot, to whom we owe the populari... | <urn:uuid:24c7e104-9a30-4aff-943d-1d1c2be16587> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wordnik.com/words/petun | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945304 | 460 | 3.03125 | 3 |
- v. To find something again.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To find again; to get or experience again.
- From re- + find. (Wiktionary)
“Apparently that humour is way to classic for a man of your refind tastes.”
“He has to refind the middle ground that made him so effective and such a valuable on-court presence earlier this s... | <urn:uuid:26ee9753-71dd-4e45-bbd4-951aeea76b1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wordnik.com/words/refind | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961585 | 406 | 2.6875 | 3 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not common; not usual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; extraordinary; strange.
- Synonyms Scarce, unusual, unwonted, unique, singular, queer. See common.
- Exceedingly; very: as, uncommon cheap.
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This week's theme: words about words.
lipogram (LIP-uh-gram) noun
A piece of writing that avoids one or more letters of the alphabet.
[From Greek lipo- (lacking) + gram (something written).]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus.
In spite of what it sounds like, a lip... | <urn:uuid:fd4d8dd0-2158-496b-82a5-16d390d5299a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wordsmith.org/words/lipogram.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953638 | 691 | 3.3125 | 3 |