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E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Girondists (g soft).
French, Girondins, moderate republicans in the first French Revolution. So called from the department of Gironde, which chose for the Legislative Assembly five men who greatly distinguished themselves for their oratory, and formed a p... |
Find and Replace Basics
Bluefish offers a wide range of find and replace methods in the Edit menu, also available through the contextual menu within a document. Here we will explore the most basic ones. For advanced find and replace methods, see Section 5, “Find and Replace”.
10.1. Searching for a word within a whole d... |
What's the Latest Development?
While the U.S. sorely lacks a national space agenda, China has recognized the development of space-based solar energy as essential to the betterment of its place in the world. According to the China Academy of Space Technology (C.A.S.T.), "the state has decided that power from outside the... |
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Over range of ADHD behavior, genes major force on reading achievement, environment on math
First study of its kind reveals complex interaction
Humans are not born as blank slates for nature to write on. Neither are they behaving on genes alone.
Research by Lee A. Thompson, chair of Case Western Reserve University’s Psy... |
How Much Does the Ocean Weigh?
Water does weigh something; about 8.3 pounds per gallon. In research published this week, scientists from the National Oceanography Center and Newcastle University have proposed an idea that will assess the mass of the world ocean by weighing it at a single point. But there is a catch. Gl... |
Throughout the history of the United States, equality for all people has been fought for and won time and time again. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence ”that all men are created equal,” and over time equal rights have been gradually extended to different groups of people. However, equality has n... |
I learned a bit ago that two of my classes-- African-American Literature and Russian Literature-- are somewhat connected, in the form of the founder of modern Russian literature, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин).
Pushkin's father descended from one of the Russian gentry's oldest families wh... |
Donna Lund's Aug. 22 First Person essay"Girls, Girls, Girls"may appear to be a cute story about the so-called differences between boys and girls, but it is actually a telling example of how gender stereotypes continue to be accepted in American society. Ms. Lund writes fondly about her granddaughters' frilly dresses an... |
Sole, Lemon – UK
Lemon Sole is a medium sized flatfish found along the northern European coast on coarse gravelly and rocky bottoms at depths ranging from 40 to 200 m. They mature relatively quickly and live up to nine years.
Lemon Sole appear to be at medium levels of abundance, although information about population s... |
The Godavari River is a major waterway in India, next to the Ganges and Indus rivers. It rises at Trimbakeshwar, near Nasik and Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in Maharashtra around 380 km distant from the Arabian Sea, but flows southeast across south-central India into Andhra Pradesh, and empties into the Bay of Bengal
The r... |
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-Marie Gouze was born into a petit bourgeois family in 1748 in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, in southwestern France. Her father was a butcher and her mother was the daughter of a cloth merchant. She believed, however, that she was the illegitimate daughter of Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan and his rejection o... |
The Little Bigfoot Phenomenon
We’ve all heard about the antics of Bigfoot, but what about Littlefoot? Certainly, it’s an undeniable fact that many reports emanating from Britain tell of encounters with not just large and lumbering, hairy entities, but with distinctly smaller critters, too. Centuries-old Welsh folklore,... |
Student athletes everywhere can chalk up another point in the win column as the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has successfully issued a guidance measure that addresses the rights of children with disabilities to participate in school athletics and other extracurricular activities. In an addendu... |
Consuming sports and energy drinks is comparable to ‘bathing your teeth with acid’ according to scientists who have unleashed their findings on how these beverages may be destroying the health of your teeth. In their research, the study team members revealed that serious damage occurs to tooth enamel when exposed to sp... |
Honoring and Respecting the Lives and
Accomplishments of our Founding Fathers
Once again we have just completed our twelfth tour of important American History sites on the East Coast. Our group was made up of 31 high school juniors and seniors and ten adults. The week-long tour included Monticello, Williamsburg, Mount ... |
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A hernia occurs when a section of intestine protrudes through a weakness in the abdominal wall. A soft bulge is seen underneath the skin where the hernia has occurred. An inguinal hernia occurs in the groin area, when a section of intestine pushes through a weak spot in the inguinal canal--a triangle-shaped opening bet... |
On 1 May, 2003, voters will go to the polls to elect the members who will form the second Scottish Parliament session of the modern era.
Pressure to cut the number of MSPs (Members of the Scottish Parliament) in line with a scheduled reduction in those sent to Westminster has been resisted.
There will be 129 MSPs who w... |
Much as a hybrid bicycle is a cross between two bikes--a road bike frame with mountain bike handlebars, for instance--this hybrid compound is a cross between two molecules. One is a traditional anticancer drug, a small molecule that targets cancer tumors. The other is a type of antibody, which is a protein produced in ... |
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True, it cuts down on your gas bill and reduces your carbon footprint, but the most obvious reason for leaving your car in the garage tomorrow for Bike to Work day is right under your nose—or at least several inches below your nose: your heart
. Aerobic exercise strengthens the heart muscle at the same time that it hel... |
UN Pushes False Himalayan Glacier Scare to Set the Stage for Rio+20 Conference
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has issued a press release this morning trumpeting the fact that its film Himalayan Meltdown just won the top prize in the Worldfest International Film Festival. The one-hour film, according to t... |
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"Basically what has happened by introducing the toads is it has created really strong evolutionary pressure both on the toads themselves and on animals that interact on the toads," Shine said.
For example, Shine and his colleague Benjamin Phillips previously showed that two native Australian snake species have evolved ... |
Dr. Harry Demos and Dr. Del Schutte, both Associate Professor of Orthopedics at MUSC, and specialists in joint reconstruction recently joined Dr. Marcy Bolster to record a podcast to address concerns regarding metal-on-metal joint replacement devices. Below, please read a summary of their thoughts on device implants an... |
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Field and modelling studies to assess the risk to UK groundwater from earth-based stores for livestock manure
Gooddy, D.C.; Hughes, A.G.; Williams, A.T.; Armstrong, A.C.; Nicholson, R.J.; Williams, J.R.. 2001 Field and modelling studies to assess the risk to UK groundwater from earth-based stores for livestock manure. ... |
Step by step data modeling with Cassandra:
When working with a relational database, the first thing you do is modeling your data. A well defined database model allows you to query its data through SQL queries. Unfortunately, a fully normalized model degrades your performance when joins need to be executed on tables tha... |
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A Comparison of Gray's Reef and Savannah Scarp
September 10, 2001
Reed Bohne, Manager
Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary
Dr. Jack McGovern
Associate Marine Scientist
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
View a video of one of the sea's most fascinating creatures, the octopus. (5.6 MB, QuickTime required).
... |
What are managed lanes?
Highway facilities or a set of lanes where operational strategies are proactively implemented and managed in response to changing conditions.
Transportation agencies are faced with growing challenges of congestion and a limited ability to expand freeway capacity due to construction costs, right-... |
A Kontakion (also kondakion, kondak, and kontak; plural kontakia, kondakia) is a type of thematic hymn in the Orthodox Church and other Eastern Christian churches. Originally, the kontakion was an extended homily in verse consisting of one or two proemia (preliminary stanzas) followed by several strophes, usually betwe... |
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the third surviving son of a rector whose violent alcoholism blighted the family home. Tennyson went to Cambridge where he met Arthur Henry Hallam whose early death was to prompt Tennyson to write his great elegy of mourning, In Memoriam. Tennyson had begu... |
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Brock student launches interactive children’s book for iPad
Published on February 05 2013
A Brock PhD student’s idea for an interactive children’s book has grown into reality.
Danielle Beckett, a certified classroom teacher who now studies learning and cognition in the Faculty of Education at the University, created Th... |
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The Facts About the Proposed ODEC Power Plant
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) has proposed building a 1,500 megawatt, coal-fired power plant—the Cypress Creek Power Station—in Dendron in Surry County, Va., or on an alternative site in neighboring Sussex County, Virginia. If built, the plant would be the larges... |
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6A LITERATURE INFORMATION
SSR Book: Students are required to have an SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) book with them at all times in every class. This book can be any book chosen by the student, and does not have to be from the 6th grade book list. Students need to have this book with then at all times in case students h... |
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September 14th, 2011 | Caixin China’s Bohai Sea Drowns in Discharged Waste
Oil from a recent spill blended with 30 years of waste dumped by cities and factories ringing the once-beautiful sea
A recent offshore oil spill has given China reason to pause for a close look at the filth floating in the Bohai Sea which, after... |
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But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises. ~ ...
Specifically as used by the Reformed theological tradition, what is meant by the term "covenant"? How is this different... |
The little girl who suggested Abraham Lincoln grow a beard lived her adult life in north-central Kansas.
Grace Bedell was just 11 years old when she wrote a letter on Oct. 14, 1860, to the man who was then just the Republican nominee for president of the United States.
In her letter, Bedell told Lincoln that her father... |
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Average student loan debt for the class of 2011 was $26,600, according to the Project on Student Debt at the Institute for College Access & Success. You may also have credit card balances and an automobile loan that all affect your credit record. How you use credit and how much debt you carry will affect many aspects o... |
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Christianity's first contact with the Indian subcontinent is attributed to the Apostle Thomas, who is said to have preached in southern India. Although Jesuit priests were active at the Mughal courts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the first Roman Catholic settlements in what b... |
by Dr. Ellen R. Jordan
Texas A&M Extension
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The use of waste milk to feed calves is a common practice on many dairy farms, but it comes with risk. Along with the milk, calves may ingest pathogens that cause disease (mycoplasma, salmonella and Johne’s Disease, etc.).
To minimize the risk, pasteur... |
5.8 magnitude earthquake. There was a lot of chatter generated by it, probably disproportionate to the magnitude of the event. There were a few news items that might be of interest to some of you. First, contrary to initial reports, there was some building damage in Virginia and the DC area, including the collapse of f... |
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Word Origin & History
O.E. cocc, O.Fr. coq, O.N. kokkr, all of echoic origin. O.E. cocc was a nickname for "one who strutted like a cock," thus a common term in the Middle Ages for a pert boy, used of scullions, apprentices, servants, etc. A common personal name till c.1500, it was affixed to Christian names as a pet d... |
adjective, un·ru·li·er, un·ru·li·est.
not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless: an unruly class; an unruly wilderness.
Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English unruely, Related forms
equivalent to un- un-1
+ ruly, ruely
governable, controllable; see rule
disobedient, unma... |
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Date: February 1940
Creator: Holbrook, Helen S. (Helen Shepard), b. 1882.
Description: A guide to planning a laundry center at home. Describes various types of equipment and machinery available for washing, drying, and ironing. Describes the products used for laundering and the recommended laundering methods for specif... |
Date: August 2007
Creator: Sarasti, Israel A.
Description: Reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring is a reading comprehension instructional procedure that combines four instructional strategies: predicting, summarizing, questioning, and clarifying to enhance students' comprehension of text. The procedure is a dial... |
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Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the... |
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According to ex-New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, "Colombia has probably the best cocaine, the best heroin, and the best marijuana in the world. And the best coffee".
Typically, coca thrives ... |
In 1996, the Forest Service described the 1.8 million acre Rio Grande National Forest, which rings the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado, as "large … and … essentially undeveloped."
The agency expected things to stay that way, at least as far as petroleum extraction was concerned. An analysis of the management plan ... |
(CNN) -- One year before the day of his death, an ailing Sen. Ted Kennedy electrified a crowd of thousands at the Democratic National Convention.
Sen. Ted Kennedy was an early supporter of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
"There is a new wave of change all around us, and if we set our compass true, we will reach o... |
Do Schools Begin Too Early?
The effect of start times on student achievement
What time should the school day begin? School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others after 9:00 a.m. Districts often stagger the st... |
Set aside what may have been portrayed about bullying on family-hour television. Data being collected about the longstanding behavior indicates it is not a conflict. It’s victimization.
“Make no mistake. Bullying is out there (in Surry County),” said Kimberly Spencer, a behavioral health counselor for Northern Pediatri... |
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The purpose of screening is early diagnosis and treatment. Screening tests are usually administered to people without current symptoms, but who may be at high risk for certain diseases or conditions.
Your doctor may give you a test, such as the Berlin Questionnaire or the Epworth sleepiness scale, to gain information a... |
Constitution of Malta
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Politics and government of
The current Constitution of Malta was adopted as a legal order on September 21, 1964, and is the self-declared supreme law of the land. Therefore, any law or action in violation of the Constitution is null and void. Being a rigid cons... |
A New York Times story on Iceland provides a good opportunity to discuss the asymmetry in reporting on government budget deficits and national current account deficits. While news of the budget deficit routinely appears prominently on the front pages (in addition to occupying considerable space on editorial and op-ed p... |
Nahum (pron.: // or //; Hebrew: נַחוּם Naḥūm) was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Hebrew Bible. His book comes in chronological order between Micah and Habakkuk in the Bible. He wrote about the end of the Assyrian Empire, and its capital city, Nineveh, in a vivid poetic style.
Little is known about Na... |
Robert Fisk: The forgotten holocaust
The killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during the First World War remains one of the bloodiest and most contentious episodes of the 20th century. Robert Fisk visits Yerevan, and unearths hitherto unpublished images of the first modern genocide
The photographs, nev... |
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In 1779, Ludd is supposed to have broken two stocking frames in a fit of rage. After this incident, attacks on the frames were jokingly blamed on Ludd. When the "Luddites" emerged in the 1810s, his identity was appropriated to become the folkloric character of Captain Ludd, also known as King Ludd or General Ludd, the ... |
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See also: Conjoint analysis (in marketing)
Why conjoint in heathcare market research?Edit
Pharmaceutical manufacturers need deeper and deeper market information they can rely on to make the righ... |
Violence Against Women Act
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law (Title IV, sec. 40001-40703 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, H.R. 3355) signed as Pub.L. 103–322 by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994. The Act provides $1.6 billion toward inve... |
The Year Of The Rabbit
Today marks the first day of the Chinese New Year. It is the year of the golden rabbit, and the celebration lasts for 15 days.
The Chinese New Year starts with the new moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The entire Chinese calendar is based around solar ... |
The Westerlies, anti-trades, or Prevailing Westerlies, are prevailing winds in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude, blowing from the high pressure area in the horse latitudes towards the poles. These prevailing winds blow from the west to the east and steer extratropical cyclones in this general man... |
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To keep droppings from piling up on the ground we thought of a little vacuum that sucks the droppings into a net. Once each day when the astronauts check on the cage they will empty out the net and throw it into the garbage. It will only take a minute or two to do this simple job.
To... |
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Agricultural co-operation has long been recognised as an important institution in the development of Western Australia’s agricultural sector. Charles Harper (1842 – 1912) has long been considered the founding father of agricultural co-operation in Western Australia. Harper was instrumental in founding the Western Austr... |
"If this business was easy, it would be a sin."
-Hayao Miyazaki, Animerica Magazine. 1993
Animation is the youngest medium of art that mankind has created. Spanning barely over one hundred years, its history is as rich and dramatic as any other. Starting as the simple idea of an illusion of moving art by a couple cleve... |
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Part 1 –
View an installed PBO station and download position data.
Part 2 –
Learn what the numbers in the spreadsheet mean.
Part 3 –
In a spreadsheet program, make graphs of GPS positions over time.
Part 4 –
Add a linear trendline to the graph and use its equation to find the average daily motion of a GPS station.
Part... |
Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Friar
[From Lat. frater, through O. Fr. fredre, frere, M. E. frere; It. frate (as prefix fra); Sp. fraile (as prefix fray); Port. fret; unlike the other Romance languages French has but the one word frère for friar and brother].
A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders.
USE OF THE... |
Despite the development of the formidable T-34, the idea of a new mass-produced tank emerged inside the Soviet military circles. So two Soviet factories in Leningrad (Kirovsky factory and Voroshilovsky factory No.174) were ordered to develop a new 14-ton tank armed with 45 mm gun and protected by medium armor, similar ... |
Windows NT is a series of Microsoft's Windows operating systems written in the C and C++ programming languages. They were the first to use their new 'NT' (New Technology) core. That meant it had a brand new core to do more things than the MS-DOS-based one that they used in older versions of Windows. Also, it was more s... |
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Mantled howler monkeys are found in southern Mexico (the states of Veracruz, Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Tabasco), from Honduras in Central America to Colombia and western Ecuador in South America, and possibly in southern Guatemala where some unconfirmed sightings have been reported (Rei... |
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What’s abnormal in this image?
Here’s a hint. Here is an example of normal.
When evaluating for possible elevation in intracranial pressure, it has been shown that optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) measurements correlate with elevated intracranial pressures.(1,2) The optic nerve attaches to the globe posteriorly and i... |
Brussels, 1 December 2010
REACH system for safer use of chemicals – frequently asked questions
What is REACH?
REACH, which stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals, is a system for ensuring the safe use of chemicals within the EU. The system was set up by EU legislation which came... |
To be clear, dandruff, true dandruff, is not a disease, nor is it a symptom of disease. It is part of the natural human condition to shed the outermost layer of skin. Dandruff is an indication that new skin is rising from underneath. That old skin has to go somewhere, of course, which generally happens when we sleep, a... |
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En*force"ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. enforcement.]
The act of enforcing; compulsion.
He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement
You got it from her.
A giving force to; a putting in execution.
Enforcement of strict military... |
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Mission Type: Flyby
Launch Vehicle: Titan IIIE-Centaur (TC-7 / Titan no. 23E-7 / Centaur D-1T)
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, USA, Launch Complex 41
NASA Center: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Spacecraft Mass: 2,080 kg (822 kg mission module)
Spacecraft Instruments: 1) imaging system; 2) ultraviolet spectrometer; 3) infrared ... |
First, we should clarify what "evolution
" means. Like so many other words, it has more than one meaning
. Its strict biological definition
is "a change in allele frequencies over time." By that definition, evolution is an indisputable fact. Most people seem to associate the word "evolution" mainly with common descent,... |
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