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718,277 | 3.799238 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_unit | |This article does not cite any references or sources. (December 2009)|
A geological unit is a volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and relative age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize... | 2026-01-29T07:54:22.242844 |
957,530 | 3.574806 | http://www.icr.org/article/6765/ | Chewed Dinosaur Bones Fit Flood
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
A new cache of fossils found in Arlington, Texas, contains plenty of clues that are best explained by Noah's Flood.
More specifically, the circumstances surrounding these remains match a hypothesis proposed by creation scientist Michael Oard that describes how swa... | 2026-02-02T03:08:56.000378 |
1,106,123 | 3.76569 | http://www.historyofbridges.com/facts-about-bridges/types-of-bridges/ | History of Bridges
Types of Bridges
Bridges by Structure
– These bridges uses arch as a main structural component (arch is always located below the bridge, never above it). They are made with one or more hinges, depending of what kind of load and stress forces they must endure. Examples of arch bridge are “Old Bridge” ... | 2026-02-04T08:01:37.077999 |
1,019,104 | 3.970791 | http://www.rejinpaul.com/2011/06/ee2402-protection-switchgear-anna.html | ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
TWO MARKS QUESTION &ANSWERS1. What are the functions of protective relays
To detect the fault and initiate the operation of the circuit breaker to isolate
the defective element from the rest of the system, thereby protecting the system from
damages consequent to the fault.
2. Give... | 2026-02-02T23:52:59.176345 |
617,438 | 3.644647 | http://www.csustan.edu/cj/evidence/chap12sa.htm | 1. Explain the rationale for excluding evidence under the hearsay rule. What is the hearsay rule? Define the following terms as they are used in relation to the admission of hearsay evidence: statement, declarant, hearsay, statements that are not hearsay. Give some examples of statements that are not hearsay. (§§12.1, ... | 2026-01-27T20:07:10.454693 |
118,050 | 3.831988 | http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/jigsaws/why.html | Why Use Jigsaws
Effectiveness of cooperative learning techniques in generalIn cooperative learning, students work with their peers to accomplish a shared or common goal, and jigsaw is one type of cooperative learning structure. Research over the past several decades shows overwhelmingly that well-structured cooperative... | 2026-01-20T01:49:35.081754 |
736,118 | 4.0654 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalieri's_principle | - 2-dimensional case: Suppose two regions in a plane are included between two parallel lines in that plane. If every line parallel to these two lines intersects both regions in line segments of equal length, then the two regions have equal areas.
- 3-dimensional case: Suppose two regions in three-space (solids) are inc... | 2026-01-29T14:44:09.430745 |
1,061,360 | 3.518094 | http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/thinking-tech/scientists-eavesdrop-on-the-thoughts-of-humans-and-ferrets/10123 | Scientists can decode our thoughts and translate them into computer language so that a person can move inanimate objects, like a robotic arm, by just thinking about moving it. Now it looks like they are moving on to perform similar magic in the speech area of the brain. The hope is that neuroscientists may be able to h... | 2026-02-03T15:13:38.114978 |
985,452 | 3.841398 | http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/cm/v12/n2/oil | Many people today, including scientists, have the idea that oil and natural gas must take a long time to form, even millions of years. Such is the strong mental bias that has been generated by the prevailing evolutionary mindset of the scientific community.
However, laboratory research has shown that petroleum hydrocar... | 2026-02-02T12:20:26.224429 |
1,107,932 | 4.05804 | http://www.lessonplanet.com/lesson-plans/dictionary | Dictionary Teacher Resources
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Searching for an incredibly thorough Latin app? Look no further! Latin learners will be quite satisfied with the collection of texts, three dictionaries, cust... | 2026-02-04T08:44:29.757697 |
419,006 | 3.710492 | http://www.eoearth.org/article/Lorentz,_Hendrik_Antoon | Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928), a Dutch physicist and pioneer in formulating the relations between electricity, magnetism, and light. He explained the Zeeman effect—a change in spectrum lines in a magnetic field—for which he shared with Pieter Zeeman the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1878, he published an essay o... | 2026-01-24T16:39:45.760884 |
184,894 | 3.80288 | http://www.wou.edu/~yehnerc/254.2.htm | English 254 Class #2 Wed, Jan 9
Chopin, “The Storm” (1611), “The Story of an Hour” (handout)
*The structure of plot: conflict, crisis, resolution
*Plot structure relies on cause and effect: not what happens, but why.
*Two main characters: protagonist and antagonist.
* In general, the protagonist is the character who ch... | 2026-01-21T02:18:58.855502 |
508,003 | 3.601989 | http://www.mcgill.ca/ehs/laboratory/radiation/manual/5 | Monitoring is an essential component of any radiation safety program. It involves the regular and routine measurement and/or assessment of factors relevant to radiation safety and takes the following forms:
- Monitoring of radiation dose or dose rate.
- Area monitoring, i.e. measurement of radiation dose rate at variou... | 2026-01-26T04:50:39.860478 |
678,831 | 3.725109 | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100107083909.htm | Jan. 11, 2010 The grooming behaviour displayed by primates is due to less rational behaviour than often thought. According to a computer model developed by scientists at the University of Groningen, one basic rule explains all possible grooming patterns: individuals will groom others if they're afraid they'll lose from... | 2026-01-28T17:36:05.444662 |
969,327 | 4.059621 | http://www.mesoamerica-travel.com/english/ecotourism/ethnics/chortis/ | The Chorti are assumed to be direct descendants of the Maya, according to the linguistic investigations done by Larde and Larin. The Mayan people constructed some 1500 years ago cities like Copan and Quirigua. The scientists have compared the different Mayan languages and proved that the language of the Chorti belongs ... | 2026-02-02T07:02:14.381891 |
631,616 | 3.679793 | http://www.gcrg.org/bqr/16-4/dams.html | If you ever get a chance to camp
at Toroweap Overlook, go stand on the edge of the Esplanade and look down
at Lava Falls Rapid and all those lava flows and dams that remain frozen
to the canyon walls (Figure 1). If you stare hard and long enough, you’ll
expect to see the lava flow just west of Vulcan’s Throne start mov... | 2026-01-28T00:57:40.623838 |
325,067 | 3.626881 | http://albertan1956.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html | Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Water flowed on the Red Planet only 2 million years ago, suggests new images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
In the Tuesday study in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, orbiter images reveal melting tundra patterns preserved on Mars, leftovers of an ancient thawing.
“These o... | 2026-01-23T04:43:56.821045 |
822,619 | 3.66053 | http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16021633.600-innocent-bystanders.html | LOW-LEVEL radiation causes more widespread changes in human cells than previously thought, new research suggests. Scientists in Boston have found that cells that suffer a direct hit from radiation alter the level of gene activity in neighbouring cells. The phenomenon, known as the bystander effect, might either be an a... | 2026-01-31T00:52:03.355976 |
1,056,760 | 3.625062 | http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scenario/labman3/polarize.htm | L-9A POLARIZATION (Elementary)
To investigate some phenomena of polarized light.
Classical electromagnetic theory provides a model of light which is adequate to describe many phenomena of polarization. This model pictures light as an electromagnetic wave in which the electric and magnetic fields have oscillatory variat... | 2026-02-03T13:31:30.674294 |
567,649 | 4.281043 | http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/07/14/some-volcanoes-scream-at-ever-higher-pitches-until-they-blow-their-tops/ | It is not unusual for swarms of small earthquakes to precede a volcanic eruption. They can reach a point of such rapid succession that they create a signal called harmonic tremor that resembles sound made by various types of musical instruments, though at frequencies much lower than humans can hear.
A new analysis of a... | 2026-01-27T03:31:32.971824 |
1,156,111 | 4.030536 | http://brown.edu/Research/Breuer-Lab/research/batflight.html | Kenny Breuer, School of Engineering
Sharon Swartz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Although the natural world has countless examples of creatures with extraordinary flight capabilities, bats have evolved with truly extraordinary aerodynamic capabilities that enable them to fly in dense swarms, to avoid obstacles, and ... | 2026-02-05T04:13:30.920223 |
46,855 | 3.830454 | http://stardate.org/print/5163 | An obscure cat pads through the northern sky at this time of year. It's known as Lynx, and it stands high in the northeast in early to mid evening. It's about halfway between the outer stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper and the bright "twins" of Gemini.
German astronomer Johannes Hevelius named the constellation about... | 2026-01-19T01:18:26.920647 |
1,024,339 | 3.743182 | http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/bb451/winter12/lectures/highlightsmembtrans.html | Highlights of Membrane Transport
1. Proteins that move more than one chemical in the same direction across a membrane are called symports (synports). Those that move them in opposite directions are called antiports. If a net charge difference arises as a result of the movemet, the system is referred to as electrogenic.... | 2026-02-03T01:49:17.644305 |
768,329 | 3.516195 | http://ecmweb.com/basics/understanding-basics-wye-transformer-calculations | Find more articles on: Transformers
Last month's Code Calculations article covered transformer calculation definitions and some specifics of delta transformer calculations. This month we turn our attention to the differences between delta and wye transformers and to wye transformer calculations. We'll close by looking ... | 2026-01-30T03:27:34.216718 |
362,151 | 3.618764 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Music-Math-191540.html | These two matters first seem to be completely different from each other, standing on the opposite sides of human activities – purely logical and exact science (math) “a queen of all sciences” and the beautiful, seeming to be far from most of the logical laws - music. Most may say that these two fields of studies are ac... | 2026-01-23T18:39:08.024160 |
929,214 | 3.957109 | http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star | It radiates heat and light, and every other part of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as radio waves, micro-waves, X-rays, gamma-rays and ultra-violet radiation. The proportions vary according to the mass and age of the star.
The energy of stars comes from nuclear fusion. This is a process that turns a light chemical ... | 2026-02-01T17:58:50.677032 |
150,686 | 3.947995 | http://newpapyrusmagazine.blogspot.com/ | During the 82nd annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists on April 2 of 2013, an international group of scientist presented strong evidence that the 7 million year old North African fossil hominoid (humans and apes), Sahelanthropus tchadensis, possessed numerous cranial features in it's bra... | 2026-01-20T13:44:28.840917 |
247,965 | 3.848625 | http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/passover/faq/origin-meaning-of-the-name-passover.html | What is the origin of the name Passover as the name for the festival ?
In 1530, the English bible translator William Tyndale translated the first five books of the Septuagint (known as either the Torah or Pentateuch), the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament to Christians, into English. Up until that tim... | 2026-01-22T00:30:58.970469 |
521,955 | 3.643424 | http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Statistics/Distributions/NegativeBinomial | Negative Binomial Distribution
Just as the Bernoulli and the Binomial distribution are related in counting the number of successes in 1 or more trials, the Geometric and the Negative Binomial distribution are related in the number of trials needed to get 1 or more successes.
The Negative Binomial distribution refers t... | 2026-01-26T10:34:43.179552 |
1,046,592 | 3.558874 | http://www.reference.com/browse/Spotbill | This duck is resident in the southern part of its range from Pakistan and India to southern Japan, but the northern subspecies, the Chinese Spotbill (A. p. zonorhyncha), is migratory, wintering in southeast Asia. It is quite gregarious outside the breeding season and forms small flocks. The northernmost populations hav... | 2026-02-03T09:49:52.706990 |
816,386 | 3.776867 | http://insects.about.com/od/antsbeeswasps/tp/10-native-pollen-bees.htm | Though honeybees get all the credit, native pollen bees do the bulk of the pollination chores in many gardens, parks, and forests. Pollen bees are also called solitary bees; unlike the highly social honeybees, nearly all pollen bees live solitary lives.
Native pollen bees work more efficiently than honeybees at pollina... | 2026-01-30T22:21:19.017765 |
306,751 | 3.546586 | http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/02/wildlife_officials_weigh_an_et.html | The draft document lists a range of alternatives that differ in terms of the number of barred owls to be removed and the locations, duration and estimated cost of the experiment.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will accept comments on the plan for 90 days. Officials acknowledge the ethical dilemma of killing one speci... | 2026-01-22T21:53:00.786191 |
941,728 | 3.5962 | http://www.iub.edu/~iuam/online_modules/islamic_book_arts/exhibit/modern_revivals/index.html | Traditional Arts in Turkey
Traditional arts in Turkey suffered greatly in 1928 when the new Turkish Republic changed the alphabet. The official script was changed from the Arabic script to the Latin alphabet. Consequently, the Ottoman past and its arts were somewhat left behind as Turkish culture began to align itself ... | 2026-02-01T22:01:13.299658 |
143,695 | 3.727473 | http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/assessments/assess_97/hurricane.html | The North Atlantic hurricane season runs from June through November, with peak activity between August to October primarily linked to systems developing from African easterly wave disturbances. Overall, 9-10 tropical storms are observed over the North Atlantic in an average season, with 5-6 becoming hurricanes and 2-3 ... | 2026-01-20T11:08:55.043147 |
454,749 | 3.602351 | http://nichcy.org/disability/specific/tbi | In This Publication:
- Susan’s story
- What is traumatic brain injury?
- How is TBI defined?
- How common is TBI?
- What are the signs?
- Is there help available?
- What about school?
- Tips for parents
- Tips for teachers
- Resources of more information
Susan was 7 years old when she was hit by a car while riding her ... | 2026-01-25T06:42:56.063442 |
582,831 | 3.600231 | http://www.teachwithme.com/blogs/getting-to-the-core?start=84 | 1-2-3 Come Study Johnny Appleseed With Me!
I've had several requests for some activities about Johnny Appleseed, so I designed this 10-page packet, which will help your students develop their writing skills.
Click on the link to view/download the Johnny Appleseed packet.
To help learn some basic facts, and include sing... | 2026-01-27T08:38:04.112952 |
31,421 | 3.707193 | http://scripture4all.org/ISA2_help/DatabaseInfo/HOT_intro.html | HEBREW OLD TESTAMENT
The ISA program uses as its
Hebrew text the WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex, which
reproduces the Leningrad Codex B 19a (L), considered the oldest dated manuscript
of the complete Hebrew Bible.
Much of the Old Testament is in Hebrew, but
a few passages (Ezra 4:8 - 6:18, 7:12-26, Jeremiah 10:11, and... | 2026-01-18T19:58:19.495642 |
532,571 | 3.619654 | http://www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/conditions/stroke/index.html | During a stroke, a blood vessel in the brain becomes blocked or bursts. Stroke is rare in children and management of the disease requires the expertise of many specialists, as well as the most advanced diagnostic and treatment approaches.
Pediatric strokes are divided into two categories: neonatal strokes, or those occ... | 2026-01-26T14:57:18.272591 |
837,201 | 3.92249 | http://www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov/adaptation-planning.php | Climate change is already here. It is clear from current trends and future projections that we are now committed to a certain amount of changes and impacts, making climate adaptation planning a critical part of responding to this complex challenge. Coordinated adaptation planning can help limit the damage caused by cli... | 2026-01-31T06:55:20.888210 |
843,120 | 3.720453 | http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/how-fast-is-falling-rain/ | How Fast Is Falling Rain?
Twitter person David Cox (@dcox21) asks:
Read a random fact yesterday that said the “average rain drop falls at 17mph.” Is that reasonable?
Let the physics begin. You might think: hey, wont’ the speed depend on how high the water started? Well, it would if air resistance on the water drop were... | 2026-01-31T09:23:24.984114 |
645,759 | 3.776731 | http://www.globalissues.org/article/761/democracy | Author and Page information
Democracy (“rule by the people” when translated from its Greek meaning) is seen as one of the ultimate ideals that modern civilizations strive to create, or preserve. Democracy as a system of governance is supposed to allow extensive representation and inclusiveness of as many people and vie... | 2026-01-28T05:50:01.743691 |
309,126 | 3.79482 | http://bmisurgery.org/_live/index.php?ID=getthefacts | Get the Facts — Obesity & Your
You Are Not Alone
If you are overweight, you are not alone. The
facts are startling and disturbing:
Why is it called "Morbid"?
Morbid obesity is typically defined as
being 100 lbs. or more over ideal body weight or having a Body Mass Index of 40 or higher.
"Clinically severe obesity"
is a... | 2026-01-22T22:47:34.308675 |
606,753 | 4.055791 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomited | |This article needs additional citations for verification. (March 2013)|
A 1681 painting depicting a person vomiting
Vomiting (known medically as emesis and informally as throwing up and numerous other terms) is the forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose. Vomiting c... | 2026-01-27T16:35:05.954757 |
212,822 | 3.5254 | http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/topics/development/2427-residential-segregation | Thanks to the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, talk this month is about segregation in the schools.
Our education administrators could easily brush off the fact that city schools remain separate and unequal by blaming residential segregation - and with some justification.... | 2026-01-21T12:21:42.375147 |
91,084 | 3.535414 | http://scienceofdoom.com/2011/01/18/the-cool-skin-of-the-ocean/ | In the ensuing discussion on Does Back Radiation “Heat” the Ocean? – Part Four, the subject of the cool skin of the ocean surface came up a number of times.
It’s not a simple subject, but it’s an interesting one so I’m going to plough on with it anyway.
The ocean surface is typically something like 0.1°C – 0.6°C cooler... | 2026-01-19T16:29:09.225256 |
64,585 | 3.575935 | http://sunrisehospital.com/your-health/condition_detail.dot?id=29008&lang=English&db=hlt&ebscoType=healthlibrary&widgetTitle=EBSCO%20-%20Condition%20Detail%20v2%20(good) | (Atrial Septal Defect; Atrioventricular Canal Defect; Atrioventricular Septal Defect; Endocardial Cushion Defect; Ventricular Septal Defect)
- Atrial septal defect (ASD)—a hole in the wall between the two upper chambers (atrium) of the heart
- Ventricular septal defect (VSD)—a hole in the wall between the two lower cha... | 2026-01-19T07:28:40.295697 |
203,505 | 3.517672 | http://www4.uwm.edu/soe/centers/cmser/publications/videos.cfm | The CMSER has published numerous videotapes designed to enhance teachers' understanding of different strategies for understanding Mathematics.
These videos are available to purchase through the CMSER. Please send check for the cost of video, plus $5.00 for shipping and handling, with your order. Make the check payable ... | 2026-01-21T09:09:41.635242 |
172,727 | 3.592221 | http://www.bowsite.com/bowsite/features/armchair_biologist/moon/index.cfm | For years, hunters have tried to accurately predict the best days
to hunt and which ones would better be spent in bed. Could there be
a scientific method to assure the good days from bad ones? Well, the
answer is yes and it’s called the Deer Activity Index (DAI). What exactly
is a DAI? A DAI is a tool that uses various... | 2026-01-20T21:51:08.036793 |
463,526 | 4.374528 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise | Sunrise or sun up is the instant at which the upper edge of the Sun appears over the eastern horizon in the morning. The term can also refer to the entire process of the Sun crossing the horizon and its accompanying atmospheric effects.
Although the Sun appears to "rise" from the horizon, it is actually the Earth's mot... | 2026-01-25T10:15:04.070223 |
695,138 | 4.228963 | http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/amistad/slavetrade.htm | An estimated 12 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic to the Western Hemisphere from 1450 to 1850. Of this number, about five percent were brought to British North America and, later, to the United States, most of them arriving between 1680 and 1810. A small number of Africans went first to the British ... | 2026-01-28T23:30:31.483442 |
1,052,660 | 3.910065 | http://physics.aps.org/articles/v5/25 | Water is one of the most abundant molecules in “icy” planets and moons in our solar system and probably in extrasolar planets, such as icy “super Earths” with masses from to times the mass of Earth, and “hot Neptunes” with masses comparable to or smaller that than the mass of Neptune, which is times the mass of Earth. ... | 2026-02-03T12:01:45.421292 |
669,280 | 3.732995 | http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GFDL:Microkernel | A microkernel is a minimal form of computer operating system kernel providing a set of primitives, or system calls, to implement basic operating system services such as address space management, thread management, and inter-process communication. All other services, those normally provided by the kernel such as network... | 2026-01-28T14:12:33.278154 |
979,214 | 3.796178 | http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec670/Cardboard/Card/C/C.rummy.html | Linda is currently employed as a software engineer for
SofTech, Inc. She has been in the EdTec program for longer
than she cares to admit, and hopes to graduate next year.
For more advanced learners, the following additional objectives would be:
This card game would be used by the students after some basic C language s... | 2026-02-02T10:15:32.465462 |
57,776 | 3.947661 | http://structuralarchaeology.blogspot.com/2012/01/hadrians-first-wall-part-2-of-3.html | The Vallum is a unique linear earthwork to the south of Hadrian’s Wall. When it was constructed, it ran in an unbroken line, following close to the course of the Wall, from Newcastle to Bowness-on-Solway, a distance of about 112km.
Where possible, the Vallum lies close to the rear of the Wall. However, unlike some sect... | 2026-01-19T05:08:31.004458 |
992,634 | 3.970706 | http://gwhs-sfusd-ca.schoolloop.com/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1296917473557 | Huckleberry Finn Webquest
Huckleberry Finn is an American Classic revolving around the adventures of a boy named Huck and a runaway slave named Jim, who travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. A study of the character of Huck Finn will provide insight into understanding American literature as well as American soci... | 2026-02-02T14:46:06.450059 |
437,280 | 3.634141 | http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/3d/rotationMatrices.html | Rotations in Three Dimensions: 3D Rotation MatricesOkay, so I assume going into this tutorial that you know how to perform matrix multiplication. I don't care to explain it, and it's available all over the Internet. However, once you know how to perform that operation, you should be good to go for this tutorial.
The wa... | 2026-01-24T23:51:04.008138 |
319,741 | 3.661594 | http://www.native-languages.org/quiche.htm | Native American Indian cultures
What's new on our site today!
Quiche Indian Language
Quiche is a Mayan
language spoken by more than a million people in Guatemala.
There are many dialects of Quiche, and some linguists consider some of them to be separate
languages. The Quiche languages are agglutinative and display fair... | 2026-01-23T02:47:27.384350 |
894,958 | 4.015826 | http://www.autismlearningfelt.com/2010/11/a-new-method-for-teaching-autistic-kids.html | Anyone who has an autistic child knows that one of the most difficult hurdles to overcome is communication. Without the ability to communicate effectively with a child, teaching them (in order that they might one day function at a high enough level to live their own lives) can be an extremely difficult and frustrating ... | 2026-02-01T06:46:11.965786 |
521,383 | 3.675586 | http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/parks/peco/index.cfm | National Historical Park
The most well-known of mining operations in the upper Pecos River watershed was the Tererro Mine located on a 19 acre site adjacent to the Pecos River, approximately 14 miles north of Pecos National Historical Park.
In 1881, a prospector named J.J. Case discovered an ore body containing relativ... | 2026-01-26T10:20:43.235790 |
388,014 | 3.898822 | http://www.history.com/topics/committees-of-correspondence | More to Explore
People and Groups
This Day in History
On this day in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor as a symbol of Franco-American friendship. Nine years late, the 300-foot statue was…
(1745-1829), member of the Continental Congress, diplomat, and first chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
One of ... | 2026-01-24T04:26:39.813056 |
767,772 | 3.866572 | http://www.education.com/study-help/article/pretest10/ | Introductory Writing Practice Quiz
Introductory Writing Practice Quiz
This quiz contains 30 questions that will test your knowledge writing. The test should take about 30 minutes to complete. It will provide you with an accurate sense of your existing knowledge of grammar and writing, and serve as a guide to which area... | 2026-01-30T03:14:42.031632 |
25,261 | 3.732643 | http://samhaskell.co.uk/blogs/sam?page=5 | Our cells generate most of the energy they need in tiny structures inside them called mitochondria, which can be thought of as the cells' powerhouses. Mitochondria have their own DNA, independent of the cell's nuclear genome, which is compelling similar to the DNA of bacterial genomes. What this suggests is that many t... | 2026-01-18T17:53:32.873343 |
37,908 | 3.602807 | http://www.drdobbs.com/a-per-thread-singleton-class/184401516 | A Singleton class is used when there must be exactly one instance of a class, and it must be accessible to all users from a well-known access point. To ensure that exactly one instance of a class is created, the class itself is made responsible for keeping track of its sole instance. Most Singleton classes ensure this ... | 2026-01-18T22:15:08.070741 |
911,667 | 3.974869 | http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/science-stories/2012/08/01/museum-researchers-name-new-ancient-camels-from-panama-canal-excavation/ | By Danielle Torrent
When it comes to camels, it’s difficult not to think of the Old World depicted through Arabian Nights – Bedouin travelers crossing vast, radiant deserts by day, through dark, star-spotted Arabian nights. But according to the fossil record, the ancestors of modern camels were creatures of the New Wor... | 2026-02-01T12:16:59.059181 |
792,494 | 4.09237 | http://www.mtv.com/artists/redshift-00/ | This article is about the astronomical phenomenon. For other uses, see Redshift (disambiguation).
Part of a series on
Age of the universe,
Chronology of the universe,
Cosmic microwave background,
Metric expansion of space,
Shape of the universe,
Large quasar group,
Future of universe
Ultimate fate of the universe,
Futu... | 2026-01-30T12:53:35.092765 |
1,134,427 | 3.776889 | http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/DPFSERA/td778-sec3.htm | Programme > WWW > ERA > Procedures > TD 778
|Emergency Response Activity (ERA)
Aim of an atmospheric transport model in connection with numerical weather prediction (NWP) model (scientific information)
3.1 The portion of the atmosphere where the earth's surface (land or water) has a direct influence is called the Atmos... | 2026-02-04T19:33:20.385610 |
201,321 | 3.934299 | http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Wave_mechanics | Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
The wave equation is an important partial differential equation which generally describes all kinds of waves, such as sound waves, light waves and water waves. It arises in many different fields, such as acoustics, electromagnetics, and fluid dynamics. Variations of the wave equation a... | 2026-01-21T08:23:31.573158 |
1,154,701 | 3.529805 | http://perlmaven.com/multi-dimensional-arrays-in-perl | Technically speaking there are no multi-dimensional arrays in Perl, but you can use arrays in Perl to act as if they had more than one dimension.
In Perl each element of an array can be a reference to another array, but syntactically they would look like a two-dimensional array.
Creating a matrix in Perl
Let's see the ... | 2026-02-05T03:38:13.316625 |
1,008,250 | 3.54806 | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Cognitivism_(psychology) | Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
In psychology, cognitivism is a theoretical approach to understanding the mind, which argues that mental function can be understood by quantitative, positivist and scientific methods, and that s... | 2026-02-02T20:07:52.049462 |
70,449 | 3.572013 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_cell | Clara cells are dome-shaped cells with short microvilli found in the small airways (bronchioles) of the lungs. Clara cells are found in the ciliated simple epithelium. These cells may secrete glycosaminoglycans to protect the bronchiole lining. Bronchiolar cells gradually increase in number as the number of goblet cell... | 2026-01-19T09:28:33.226355 |
920,229 | 3.646961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibulocerebellum | Anatomy of the cerebellum
Drawing of the human brain, showing cerebellum and pons
Vertical cross-section of the human cerebellum, showing folding pattern of the cortex, and interior structures
|SCA, AICA, PICA|
The anatomy of the cerebellum can be viewed at three levels. At the level of large-scale anatomy, the cerebel... | 2026-02-01T15:03:15.853509 |
193,493 | 3.764491 | http://www.drpeterjdadamo.com/wiki/wiki.pl/Mitochondria | In cell biology, a mitochondrion (plural mitochondria) (from Greek mitos thread + khondrion granule) is an organelle, variants of which are found in most Eukaryotic cells. Mitochondria are sometimes described as "cellular power plants," because their primary function is to convert organic materials into energy in the f... | 2026-01-21T05:38:56.066156 |
575,789 | 3.600607 | http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2009/september-09/graphing-literacy-in-the-psychology-major.html | Florence Nightingale and the Creation of a Beautiful Display of Data
Figure 1. Florence Nightingale’s Polar Area (often referred to as the cox comb) graph depicted “The Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East” in the years 1854-55. The twelve sections represent the months in a year. The size of the section represen... | 2026-01-27T06:16:07.621883 |
937,161 | 3.644149 | http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/101 | Statistics on women’s work in the early 20th century were invariably misleading: most women worked but only a minority were formally in the wage labor force. Nowhere was the discrepancy between the domestic ideal and the reality of women’s work lives wider than in rural America. In 1913 the U. S. Department of Agricult... | 2026-02-01T20:33:31.087634 |
622,065 | 3.614034 | http://www.pal-item.com/usatoday/article/3324251 | Tourists swim in the Pacific Ocean at sunset on Easter Island in 2010. Scientists say that parts of the Pacific are warming at a rate 15 times faster than ever before. / Martin Bernetti, AFP/Getty Images
Although the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere may have hit the "pause" button recently - with little global war... | 2026-01-27T21:42:04.121974 |
808,862 | 4.071455 | http://www.chemistryexplained.com/elements/A-C/Carbon.html | Carbon is an extraordinary element. It occurs in more different forms than any other element in the periodic table. The periodic table is a chart that shows how chemical elements are related to each other. More than ten million compounds of carbon are known. No other element, except for hydrogen, occurs in even a fract... | 2026-01-30T19:19:53.887263 |
446,372 | 3.698313 | http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/bookhub/reader/3798?e=campbell_1.0-ch01_s01 | Click the Study Aids tab at the bottom of the book to access your Study Aids (usually practice quizzes and flash cards).
Study Pass is our latest digital product that lets you take notes, highlight important sections of the text using different colors, create "tags" or labels to filter your notes and highlights, and pr... | 2026-01-25T03:25:20.680466 |
646,230 | 3.562835 | http://www.cornellcollege.edu/politics/courses/allin/371/20129/syllabus.shtml | Department of Politics
AUGUST 30, 2012
When Europeans first arrived in North America, they viewed it as a continental wilderness populated by wild men (Native Americans) and wild beasts. By the late 19th century the continent had been tamed, and Americans were increasingly interested in preserving vestiges of their wil... | 2026-01-28T05:59:52.696333 |
895,017 | 4.079771 | http://www.developerfusion.com/article/145371/an-internal-application-message-bus-in-vbnet/ | Modern programming languages and multi-core CPUs offer very efficient multi-threading. Using multithreading can improve performance and responsiveness of an application, but working with threads is quite difficult as they can make things much more complicated. One way to organise threads so that they co-operate without... | 2026-02-01T06:47:46.234980 |
938,401 | 3.73235 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_origin_of_religions | Evolutionary origin of religions
- 1 Nonhuman religious behaviour
- 2 Setting the stage for human religion
- 3 Evolutionary psychology of religion
- 4 Prehistoric evidence of religion
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Nonhuman religious behaviour
Humanity’s closest living relatives are common chimpanzees a... | 2026-02-01T20:56:45.618487 |
189,055 | 3.990512 | http://physics.aps.org/story/v22/st2 | Sound waves in a solid with wavelengths not much longer than the distance between atoms can potentially probe material properties almost on atomic scales. But detecting such vibrations is no easy feat. Reporting in the 4 and 11 July issues of Physical Review Letters, two research teams offer new ways to detect these vi... | 2026-01-21T03:55:13.483154 |
533,016 | 3.639553 | http://www.dailyenergyreport.com/solid-waste-to-energy-is-it-rd-or-market-ready/ | Waste-to-Energy is a multifaceted concept; it means different things to different people, is underestimated in complexity and questionable in terms of profitability and carbon neutrality. Waste can be solid or liquid; gaseous waste products are referred to as emissions. Energy can be a stream of electrons injected into... | 2026-01-26T15:08:30.124788 |
831,643 | 3.601581 | http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028185.700-autopiloted-glider-knows-where-to-fly-for-a-free-ride.html | HAWKS and albatrosses soar for hours or even days without having to land. Soon robotic gliders could go one better, soaring on winds and thermals indefinitely. Cheap remote sensing for search and rescue would be possible with this technology, or it could be used to draw up detailed maps of a battlefield.
Glider pilots ... | 2026-01-31T04:34:14.105302 |
1,160,333 | 3.570796 | http://www.entcolumbia.org/stape.html | Otosclerosis is a disease of ear bone degeneration that most commonly develops during the teen or early adult years. In otosclerosis, the consistency of the sound-conducting bones of the ear changes from hard, mineralized bone to spongy, immature bone tissue. This can result in a buildup of inappropriate bone around th... | 2026-02-05T05:58:11.414352 |
1,040,328 | 3.70929 | http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178/applets/convolution.html | Applet: Katie Dektar
Text: Marc Levoy
Technical assistance: Andrew Adams
Convolution is an operation on two functions f and g, which produces a third
function that can be interpreted as a modified ("filtered") version of f. In
this interpretation we call g the filter. If f is defined on a
spatial variable like x rather... | 2026-02-03T07:34:55.283366 |
55,457 | 3.638267 | http://harunyahya.com/en/books/4160/The_Collapse_Of_The_Theory_Of_Evolution_In_50_Themes/chapter/4837/Item_01_10 | 1- The Theory of Evolution Regards Chance as a Creative Deity
The theory of evolution claims that unconscious, unreasoning, inanimate atoms such as phosphorus and carbon assembled themselves together by chance. As a result of such natural phenomena as lightning, volcanic eruptions, ultraviolet rays and radiation, these... | 2026-01-19T04:19:44.672282 |
1,033,797 | 3.544199 | http://webstylemag.com/2010/09 | If you wanted to preserve important bits of our civilization for future centuries, you could do worse than a bundle of paper sealed in resin. It’s remarkably cheap and effective; you can make one over a weekend. In this article we’ll build a ½ scale model of a time capsule that contains the complete Linux 0.1 source co... | 2026-02-03T05:12:56.232788 |
275,019 | 3.954566 | http://www.mathreference.com/ca-int,aaf.html | 2 - 2cos(u)cos(v) - 2sin(u)sin(v)
Draw a segment from the origin to p. This is the segment that defines the angle u. Draw another segment from q, perpendicular to this segment. Let these perpendicular segments meet at the point s. Now spq forms another right triangle, with pq as hypotenuse. The altitude of this triangl... | 2026-01-22T10:07:21.170277 |
564,978 | 3.769044 | http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/iu-researchs-yorks-eternal-flame-49697/ | Scientists have typically viewed natural gas as a non-renewable energy source. But that might not always be the case, according to new research from Indiana University scientists.
Behind a waterfall in New York state, there’s a so-called “eternal flame” that burns naturally and does not go out. It stays lit because of ... | 2026-01-27T02:37:15.591753 |
582,970 | 3.71321 | http://theconversation.com/welcome-to-the-plastisphere-ocean-going-microbes-on-vessels-of-plastic-16102 | The amount of plastic debris accumulating in the open ocean has doubled in 40 years. This has been is a topic of increasing public concern and scientific interest since it was first reported in the 1970s.
It conjures up images of islands of garbage, the proverbial “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” twice the size of France,... | 2026-01-27T08:40:55.612129 |
717,372 | 3.883094 | http://www.reference.com/browse/Unami+Delaware | The Delaware languages, also known as the Lenape languages, are Munsee and Unami, two closely related languages of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family. Munsee and Unami were spoken aboriginally by the Lenape people in the vicinity of the modern New York City area in the United States, incl... | 2026-01-29T07:35:14.118945 |
939,393 | 3.60631 | http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19205-01/819-5257/blaqi/index.html | A breakpoint is a location where an action occurs, at which point the program stops executing. The following are event specifications for breakpoint events.
The function has been entered, and the first line is about to be executed. The first executable code after the prolog is used as the actual breakpoint location. Th... | 2026-02-01T21:15:47.366718 |
403,890 | 3.593185 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-image-processing-algorithms.htm | Learn something new every day More Info... by email
Image processing algorithms make use of computer algorithms to manipulate hardware and software to produce greater control over image processing than was ever possible with analog image processing. They are written in several languages and make use of different algori... | 2026-01-24T10:46:37.793663 |
447,843 | 4.005704 | http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6940729/ns/technology_and_science-science/ | Add ants to the list of animals that can fly. Worker ants, the wingless kind.
Scientists call it gliding, or directed aerial descent. But just as one might say that flying squirrels fly, so do a type of ants called Cephalotes astratus. They live in rain forest treetops, and their newly discovered ability is a lifesaver... | 2026-01-25T04:01:37.302724 |
1,060,273 | 4.197219 | http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/few/679 | What research and best practice show about teaching grammar and spelling.
The teaching of formal grammar has a negligible or, because it usually displaces some instruction and practice in actual composition, even a harmful effect on the improvement of writing.
— Braddock, Lloyd-Jones, and Schoer, 1963, quoted in Hilloc... | 2026-02-03T14:49:50.637892 |
1,008,241 | 4.154587 | http://kiddyhouse.com/Themes/frogs/frteach.html | TEACHERS : FROG LESSON PLANS AND ACTIVITIES
Grow a Frog : Teacher's Manual
Printable pdf copy
How Far Can a Frog Jump?
A math activity for 4th grade. Introducing the metric system.
Five Little Frogs
Grade Level/Subjects: K through 2 Math and Music Lesson Plan. You can use this lesson plan together with the
5-Little Spe... | 2026-02-02T20:07:38.170612 |
261,960 | 3.697637 | http://nature.nps.gov/geology/parks/noat/ | As one of North America's largest mountain-ringed river basins with an intact, unaltered ecosystem, the Noatak River environs feature some of the Arctic's finest arrays of plants and animals. The river offers equally superlative wilderness float-trip opportunities-from deep in the Brooks Range to tidewater of the Chukc... | 2026-01-22T05:26:29.843147 |
1,114,206 | 3.515473 | http://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-11-number-6/different-kind-enlightenment | It is now common to argue that the roots of many of the features of modern culture—secularism, utilitarianism, and materialism, to name a few—are found in the ideas of the Enlightenment, a European-wide, eighteenth-century movement described by Immanuel Kant as “man's release from his self-incurred tutelage.”
Kant sugg... | 2026-02-04T11:21:27.530552 |
641,675 | 3.53833 | http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/writing/good-writing.html | Characteristics of Good Writing
The following is a guide to successful writing both in the English department and other departments at Calvin College. The first portion of the document describes the characteristics of good writing while the second portion addresses moving from the fundamentals of writing to writing for... | 2026-01-28T04:22:47.550107 |
77,866 | 3.53737 | http://clio.missouristate.edu/bwalker/tallhisban.html | Tall Hisban is a farming town in the Madaba Plains in central Jordan, a highland plateau bordering on steppe lands. Located in the wheat basket of the Middle East, the Tell, one of many in the area, is across the Dead Sea from Jerusalem. Tell Hisban is the oldest continually excavated site in Jordan and has been the su... | 2026-01-19T12:04:54.886842 |
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