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Camp is the idea that if you take some piece of art to the extreme, making it extra lively, theatrical, and exaggerated, right up past the point where it can't be taken seriously, then it becomes funny and appealing in a weird, ironic sort of way. Think of musicians like Liberace or Elton John - very talented performer... | what is camp? | <P> Camp courses. <P> in the camp. <P> personnel from the camp. |
The CO2 atmosphere is the least of your worries. Temperature on Venus is hot enough to melt lead, one day is 243 earth days, clouds made of sulphuric acid and a pressure 90 times greater than that on earth's surface. It would be hard to conceive of a single celled organism that could survive the conditions on Venus, le... | since venus' atmosphere is mostly co_2, making it too hot for human life, what is preventing us from introducing high tolerance plant life to convert the co_2 into oxygen, to make it inhabitable? | <P> carbon dioxide would trap incoming solar radiation. Because the raised temperature would add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, the two processes would augment each other. Carbon dioxide alone would not suffice to sustain a temperature above the freezing point of water, so a mixture of specialized greenhouse molec... |
To understand Dasein, you have to understand the whole text it's featured in; Being and Time. When I was studying philosophy I used a website from time to time to help me understand things better, or to just get a laugh from time to time. That website is . Although you have to deal with broditude throughout, it does si... | martin heidegger's "dasein" concept | <P> which each of us is himself…we shall denote by the term “Dasein”" (Heidegger, trans. 1927/1962, p.27).
"[Dasein is] that entity which in its Being has this very Being as an issue…" (Heidegger, trans. 1927/1962, p.68).
Heidegger sought to use the concept of Dasein to uncover the primal nature of "Being" (Sein), agre... |
It's not that big of a deal. Eight different committees from reputable research institutions have examined all the emails and none found any fraud or scientific misconduct. The people who hacked the emails selectively picked phrases from them to make them sound bad. For example, the sentence "The fact is that we can’t ... | climategate | <P> and that they "will look into it in detail". He later clarified that the IPCC would review the incident to identify lessons to be learned and rejected suggestions that the IPCC itself should carry out an investigation.
In a series of emails sent through a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) listserv, apparently forw... |
Here's an answer in the style of Vicky Pollard... Archaic Greek heavy infantry could well be described as "heavy skirmishers". Warriors are often shown carrying two spears, which must either both be javelins or include one javelin and one thrusting spear. In addition, even heavily armoured warriors are sometimes shown ... | in the ancient world, were heavy "skirmishers" ever used as a viable counter to light infantry? | <P> obsolescence of such heavy troops, all infantry has become indistinguishable from skirmishers, and the term has effectively lost its original military meaning as a distinct class of soldier, although skirmishing as a combat role is commonplace. Ancient and Post-classical history In ancient warfare, skirmishers typi... |
This is pure conjecture, but perhaps it is a relic of past times when the value of a coin was tied to the value of the metal used to make it. Gold is the most valuable, so you could have a $5, $10, $20, etc coin, with the value determined by how much gold is in it. Silver is less valuable, and in the US, quarters were ... | why are the united states' coins and canada's coins basically the same size, shape, and color? what happened that the two countries decided this would be a good idea? | <P> equal to those of U.S. coins, though this was not always the case. They have a different metallic composition and most of them are thinner, and thus weigh slightly less, than the analogous U.S. coins. The U.S. penny settled on its current size in 1857, whereas the Canadian penny was much larger (25.4 mm (1.00 in)) ... |
Anonymity is a very powerful promoter of bad behavior, but it is not the only one. Two things that help promote good behavior is consequences and our natural empathy. On facebook there are somewhat limited consequences, especially when interacting with strangers. Tom Jones from Hawaii may be able to see that you are Ci... | why do people tend to behave more poorly on facebook despite a complete lack of anonymity? | <P> not realize that restricting access to their data does not sufficiently address the risks resulting from the amount, quality and persistence of data they provide. Facebook users in our study report familiarity and use of privacy settings, they are still accepting people as "friends" that they have only heard of thr... |
Very frequently it is completely marketing, with little to no research backing up the claims. "Superfood" is not a regulated term, so anyone can slap it on their product, and anyone can write a blog post claiming that anything is a superfood. That said, dietary research *is* an active science, and new discoveries are f... | who decides what the next "superfood" is? how did we not already know something is good for us? is it just a marketing ploy to get rid of old stock? | <P> Superfood Superfood is a marketing term for food assumed to confer health benefits resulting from an exceptional nutrient density. The term is not commonly used by experts, dietitians and nutrition scientists, many of whom dispute that particular foods have the health benefits claimed by their advocates. Even witho... |
Before I write stuff for this, can you maybe give a bit of background on how much you know about atomic orbitals themselves? | orbital molecular theory | <P> compounds, so-called four-center two-electron bonds also have been postulated. Quantum mechanical description After the development of quantum mechanics, two basic theories were proposed to provide a quantum description of chemical bonding: valence bond (VB) theory and molecular orbital (MO) theory. A more recent q... |
Rutherford was influenced by Prout's hypothesis that all atoms were made up of groups of hydrogen atoms, with the hydrogen atom being the fundamental particle. The logic was that the atomic weights known at the time were almost exactly integer multiples of the mass of hydrogen. If there were smaller particles, there wo... | how did ernest rutherford know that the the positively charged particles in a nucleus were equal in magnitude of charge to electrons? | <P> not be identified with a single particle, unlike the negative electrons discovered by J. J. Thomson. Wilhelm Wien in 1898 identified the hydrogen ion as particle with highest charge-to-mass ratio in ionized gases.
Following the discovery of the atomic nucleus by Ernest Rutherford in 1911, Antonius van den Broek pro... |
Bismarck led the creation of a welfare state for a few main reasons: * Reduce social unrest, and prevent an uprising like the Paris Commune of 1871. Bismarck wanted to reduce worker support for the socialists, and also make sure that the working classes supported the German empire project (which realistically could hav... | what was otto von bismarck's motivation(s) for creating a welfare state in germany during the 1880s? | <P> success.... No other statesman of his standing had ever before shown the same great moderation and sound political sense of the possible and desirable.... Bismarck at least deserves full credit for having steered European politics through this dangerous transitional period without serious conflict between the great... |
“Point blank” comes from the French “point blanc” or the “white point”, and represents a range where you don’t have to adjust your aim for gravity or other factors like wind and can just aim directly at the white center of a target to hit bullseye. | when the distance between the gun and the target is very small, why is it called 'point blank' range? | <P> point shooting. It is described in the following excerpt from US Army Field Manual FM 23-9:
Aimed. When presented with a target, the soldier brings the rifle up to his shoulder and quickly fires a single shot. His firing eye looks through or just over the rear sight aperture. He uses the front sight post to aim at ... |
Well, I'll tell you my experience. I graduated with a ChemE degree 3 years ago, and I am currently working with lithium ion battery technology. I spent 2 1/2 years in reasearch and development, which was much more chemistry focused than engineering, and have moved to a more process engineering position this year, which... | the job of a chemical engineer | <P> established.
In 1924 the Institution of Chemical Engineers adopted the following definition: "A chemical engineer is a professional man experienced in the design, construction and operation of plant and works in which matter undergoes a change of state and composition."
As can be seen from the later definition, the... |
It is possible, but it‘s not that easy like reforesting somewhere in Europe or Northern America. The problem with the soil in rainforests is, that it can‘t hold minerals and nutrients very well. They are easily washed away if there are no plants that can hold them. Even worse if the ground was used for massive agricult... | can the amazonian rainforest be “re-forested”? g7 want to give money for reforestation plan | <P> the World Bank. The National Environmental Fund (Fundo Nacional do Meio Ambiente—FNMA), in addition to budgetary funds, received US$20 million from the Inter-American Development Bank to finance the environmental activities of NGOs and small municipal governments. The Pilot Program for the Conservation of the Brazi... |
(Written for a 7 year old) A joke is a little bit of talk or writing that makes people laugh in a specific way. They aren’t laughing at the person who tells/wrote it, because she sounds weird or is making a silly face. With a joke, it’s the words themselves that make people laugh. Why do they laugh? This is a tricky qu... | what is a joke, how do you classify a “joke”? | <P> Joke A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is not meant to be taken seriously. It takes the form of a story, usually with dialogue, and ends in a punch line. It is in the punch line that the audience becomes aware that t... |
Because Portugal did not have the capacity nor the inclination to fight Japan. The Portuguese East Timor garrison consisted of an understrength colonial battalion of one colonial company, a very small militia force and a mounted border police unit, a grand total of 282 men with 4 light and 6 heavy machine guns and no a... | why did portugal not declare war on japan when japan invaded portuguese east timor in the 2nd world war | <P> Indonesian invasion of East Timor Background East Timor owes its territorial distinctiveness from the rest of Timor, and the Indonesian archipelago as a whole, to being colonised by the Portuguese, rather than the Dutch; an agreement dividing the island between the two powers was signed in 1915. Colonial rule was r... |
Well from what I can recall from my old high school religion teacher, Leviticus is basically 'the rule book' of the Old Testaments. It sets out the guidelines and the practices that all good Jews/Christians should follow in the belief that adherence to these principles will allow harmony to exist with God. They're hars... | leviticus in the bible | <P> are instructions for peace offerings (5-8), food aid for poor people and foreigners (9-10), and various instructions relating to ethical treatment of others (11-18) and agricultural practices (19). The chapter penalises adulterous relations between a free man and a married female slave (20-22), and restricts the us... |
Hi there, I was interested by your question so I did a little superficial research for you. First, yes the Allied forces did advance into the area where your ancestor's mill was located in April 1945. Check out this map and you can see in the Northeast, near Uelzen, was the limit of the Allied advance by April 19 1945.... | question about the advance of allied troops in western germany during ww2 | <P> Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine Background German forces had been routed during the Allied break-out from Normandy. The Allies advanced rapidly against an enemy that put up little resistance. But after the liberation of Paris in late August 1944, the Allies paused to re-group and organise before continuing t... |
Until almost 200 years ago, Greece was part of the Ottoman empire. Before that, Greece was part of the byzantine empire, which was the last remnant of the Roman Empire. Before the Romans, Greece was part of the hellenic world, which was the territory of the successors of Alexander the great. Before that, western Turkey... | the cultural history and overlap of greek and middle eastern foods. | <P> oil: modern recipes from Kavala to Kastoria and Kozani offer lamb with quince, pork with celery or leeks.
The arrival of Greek refugees from Asia Minor and Constantinople in the early 20th century brought also Anatolian and Constantinopolitan elements in the cuisine of the region.
Some current specialties are trah... |
Over the past 20 years Venezuela socialized their industry and began running the government very poorly. One instance is that they started setting rules on how much stores could charge for food so that everyone could afford it. The stores couldn't afford to sell anymore so they restricted how much the farmers could cha... | why is the u.s. sanctioning venezuela? | <P> huge real exchange rate and other relative price misalignments, to maintain expensive fuel subsidies while monetizing a double-digit budget deficit, and to persecute the private sector for responding to relative price signals all contributed to making Venezuelans’ lives miserable under Maduro.”
He has also said tha... |
You assume right. The (whole) island of Timor was first conquered and administered by Portuguese colonialists, from the 16th century onwards. They set up both commercial outposts and catholic missions. From the 17th century onwards, the Dutch came over and conquered nearly all of Indonesia, including Western Timor. How... | how did east timor come to exist? | <P> Indonesian invasion of East Timor Background East Timor owes its territorial distinctiveness from the rest of Timor, and the Indonesian archipelago as a whole, to being colonised by the Portuguese, rather than the Dutch; an agreement dividing the island between the two powers was signed in 1915. Colonial rule was r... |
There stated goal is to stop the killing of unarmed black men in cities and the suburbs. Black lives matter thinks that there have been years of systematic oppression of black people by the police causing them to be unfairly arrested, profiled, and killed. They want to make sure that people stop dying and that police o... | what does the black lives matter movement actually want? what is it they want to accomplish? | <P> convening local and national groups to create a United Front". This year long process ultimately resulted in the establishment of an organizational platform that articulates the goals, demands, and policies which the Movement for Black Lives supports in order to achieve the "liberation" of black communities across ... |
A few minutes of googling show me that the governor and legislature cannot agree on a budget. The governor vetoed the budget passed by the legislature. Schools get money from the state and if the state does not allocate money then they have none to spend. That is all that is comes down to. In this case you have a Democ... | why did pennsylvania public schools lose funding and how would this impact the schools? | <P> goal of the state providing 50% of district funding.
In December 2014, the Pennsylvania Education Funding Reform Commission conducted a hearing. Testimony was given regarding state funding at the fastest growing districts and those with the greatest decline in enrollment since 1996. The commission developed a new b... |
* Hong Kong used to be a British colony * Part of the agreement handing it back to China was universal suffrage - one-person, one-vote for city leader * China has said you can have this ... but we will pick the candidates. So it's not really democracy at all * The people trying to get signatures are actually pro-Beijin... | universal suffrage in hong kong | <P> for universal suffrage Since the handover of Hong Kong, constitutional reform remained the dominant political agenda and goal of the liberals. The Hong Kong Basic Law Article 45 promised that "the ultimate aim is the election of the Chief Executive (CE) by universal suffrage" while Article 68 stipulated that "the u... |
There was great article in WIRED a few months ago about it. I'm just learning about it myself and I found it very interesting: Found a 2nd article while looking for the original one online. Enjoy! Sorry I don't know much more that can help you. :) | america's cup sailing | <P> American Challenge: A Sailing Simulation Gameplay The game, portrayed through wireframe 3D graphics, sees the player race against the computer or another player via modem on eight courses. The player controls the sail, rudder and centerboard, while the screen equipment monitor the wind speed and direction. The boat... |
He is the former Prime Minister of Italy, one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and certainly in Italy. | who is silvio berlusconi, and why is his expulsion from the italian senate a big deal? | <P> 2026. The resignation also came at a difficult time for Berlusconi, as he was involved in numerous trials for corruption, fraud and sex offences. He was often found guilty in lower courts but is alleged to have used loopholes in Italy's legal system to evade incarceration.
Berlusconi had also failed to meet some of... |
"Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could," wrote Abigail Adams in 1776. Thirty-five years later, she might well have added "and they're not shy about trying." Scholars today generally agree that the (recognized then as) unconstitutional theft of voting rights in 1807 was essentially a strategy in white male-le... | new jersey granted women and racial minorities the right to vote in it's 1776 constitution. the state took away this rights in 1807. how and why did this occur? | <P> male citizens who paid taxes. This was largely a result of the Democratic-Republican Party's attempt to unify its factions for the 1808 presidential election. A faction within the party wanted to deny the vote to aliens and the non-tax-paying poor. The liberal faction within the party gave way on this, but also too... |
You're generalizing from a very small sample, and an anecdotal one at that. I've had three plug-in units in the past dozen years and they've all worked fine. So my three more than offsets your two, right? And your tech guy just wanted to sell you a new one. | why are carbon monoxide alarms so unreliable? | <P> will sound within a few minutes. This concentration-time function is intended to mimic the uptake of carbon monoxide in the body while also preventing false alarms due to relatively common sources of carbon monoxide such as cigarette smoke.
There are four types of sensors available and they vary in cost, accuracy ... |
the NFL referees are in a union. their contract is up, and it is time to renegotiate. the referees want a retirement plan. the NFL executives said no. furthermore, the NFL executives said 'until you agree to OUR terms, we will use replacement referees. so you better do as we say." the replacement referees are not train... | the referee problem in the nfl. | <P> forces them to behave significantly different than how they were taught to play the game. Another concern is the league's instructions to game officials to err on the side of caution, since questionable calls late in close games significantly affect their outcome. However, the medical community has supported the mo... |
Yes. In the decade before the turn of the 20th century, there were six Australian colonies - NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia (Western Australia had only become a self-administering colony in 1890). In this period, Britain was encouraging its dominions to amalgamate for more ef... | when australia was being organized into a political entity, was any serious consideration given to having western australia or tasmania be separate political entities (like nz and png)? | <P> Secessionism in Tasmania Secessionism in Tasmania has been proposed several times throughout Tasmania's history. Pre-federation Before Federation, there was a lot of support for Tasmania joining the Commonwealth, though there was some opposition. The opposition argued that Federation would cause financial devastati... |
The nature of infinity is such that adding to it doesn't make it larger. Subtracting from it doesn't make it smaller. So (2 * *denumerable* infinity)= *denumerable* infinity, and *denumerable* infinity+ *denumerable* infinity= *denumerable* infinity. I think the problem is that you are imagining a fluid situation that ... | infinite hotel paradox. is this a good explanation of infinity or does it violate the thought of infinity? | <P> Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel The paradox Consider a hypothetical hotel with a countably infinite number of rooms, all of which are occupied. One might be tempted to think that the hotel would not be able to accommodate any newly arriving guests, as would be the case with a finite number of rooms, where the ... |
Voronoi diagram Given a set of chosen points in a plane (marked in the picture), for each chosen point the Voronoi polygon is the part of the plane that is closer to that point than to any other chosen point. For example, every part of the blue polygon in the upper left corner is closer to the marked point in that poly... | delaunay triangulation/voronoi diagram algorithms | <P> to higher dimension (as proved by Edelsbrunner and Shah), the runtime can be exponential in the dimension even if the final Delaunay triangulation is small.
The Bowyer–Watson algorithm provides another approach for incremental construction. It gives an alternative to edge flipping for computing the Delaunay triang... |
Taiwan is not officially recognised as independent by most countries. China claims Taiwan is part of China, and they will refuse to have diplomatic relations with any country which recognises Taiwan. Since China is the bigger and more powerful of the two, most countries choose them over Taiwan. It's further complicated... | why is taiwan compelled to use "chinese taipei" as their national sporting team name? | <P> which, in effect, labels it the "Chinese Team", in the sense of a "team that is of Chinese ethnicity" as opposed to a "team from China".
Starting around the time of the 2004 Summer Olympics, there has been a movement in Taiwan to change all media references to the team to the "Taiwanese Team", and the mainstream Ta... |
It creates pressure which then provides the force to move something. Exactly how it works depends upon what type of pump you are talking about and whether it is water air or something else that is being pumped. | how does a pump work? | <P> volume, and injection volume (i.e., throttling) is controlled by rotating the cylinders against a cut-off port that aligns with a helical slot in the cylinder. When all the cylinders are rotated at once, they simultaneously vary their injection volume to produce more or less power from the engine. Inline pumps stil... |
There are plenty of algorithms that are suited for computers related to pi, but which are tractable with pen and paper? Can finding the n'th digit be done on paper reasonably? | happy pi day everyone! | <P> Pi Day History In 1988, the earliest known official or large-scale celebration of Pi Day was organized by Larry Shaw at the San Francisco Exploratorium, where Shaw worked as a physicist, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces, then consuming fruit pies. The Exploratorium continues to hold ... |
Yes. The early Soviet Union adopted laws protecting private property due to its desire to attract foreign investment. International protection of property rights were seen as a foreign policy issue and subordinate to foreign policy. The first such decree on intellectual property was made in 1917 and monopolized all pat... | did the soviet union have intellectual property laws? if yes, how did it differ from capitalist countries? | <P> Copyright law of the Soviet Union Revolutionary Copyright The old Tsarist Copyright law of 1911 was not immediately invalidated after the October Revolution. The old law, with its copyright term of 50 years after the author's death and its possibility of transferring copyrights in their entirety from an author to a... |
Actually we do have a surprising amount of information for the life of an illiterate steppe-dweller. There was no tradition of history or literature beyond the oral in Mongolia pre-Genghis, but because they quickly saw the benefits of the written word when it came to ruling a huge, multiethnic empire they adopted writi... | how much of mongol can be considered an accurate portrayal of the early life of temudjin? | <P> modern culture There have been several films, novels and other adaptation works on the Mongolian ruler. Name and title There are many theories about the origins of Temüjin's title. Since people of the Mongol nation later associated the name with ching (Mongolian for strength), such confusion is obvious, though it d... |
No they didn't have sex for money, they did exactly as it's written on the jar, extremely sophisticated societal company for tea ceremonies and the like. The idea of them being prostitutes came post WW2 when Japanese prostitutez were dolling them selves up as Geisha in order to get clients without being actual Geisha | were "geishas" just high class prostitutes? | <P> refer to the genre of manga and anime in which pre-pubescent or pubescent male characters are depicted in a suggestive or erotic manner. Geisha A frequent focus of misconceptions in regard to Japanese sexuality is the institution of the geisha. Rather than a prostitute, a geisha was a woman trained in arts such as ... |
I'll try to outline some progression between hairstyles of Roman portraiture to ultimately argue that while styles changed, there wasn't really a decline in complexity or artistic skill in these portraits. Some important points to note though in examining stone portraiture would be the types of women being depicted. Ob... | what caused the flavian hairstyle for roman women to be so different from previous and future styles? | <P> to juxtapose Roman modesty against Cleopatra and her flamboyance. Flavian and Antonine hairstyles Flavian and Antonine hairstyles differed greatly between men and women in real life and in the physical appearance of hair for male and female sculptures. In ancient Rome hair was a major determinant of a woman's physi... |
No, it wasn't about training dogs specifically, it was about conditioned behaviors. It was a completely new branch of psychology that was sparked by these observations. | why was the "pavlov's dogs" experiment significant enough to warrant a nobel prize? hadn't people been training dogs and other animals for thousands of years before? | <P> he eventually won the Nobel prize mentioned above. Pavlov investigated the gastric function of dogs, and later, children, by externalizing a salivary gland so he could collect, measure, and analyze the saliva and what response it had to food under different conditions. He noticed that the dogs tended to salivate be... |
Both are extremes; the reality in most cases lies between them. In general, an population of organisms will fairly quickly (in geological timescales) reach a point where it is as adapted to its environment as it can be, and it will settle into a niche. At that point, large scale changes aren't likely to happen, but the... | which model of evolution is more accepted by the scientific community: gradualism or punctuated equilibrium? | <P> and a descendant species, unless splitting occurs. Punctuated gradualism Punctuated gradualism is a microevolutionary hypothesis that refers to a species that has "relative stasis over a considerable part of its total duration [and] underwent periodic, relatively rapid, morphologic change that did not lead to linea... |
I think this question is flawed because it's not the case that the Church of England ever embraced arminianism en masse. Some parts of it have been calvinist in orientation since the Reformation. While the CofE didn't embrace the kind of calvinism that dominated scotland, it never embraced arminianism per se either. | why (and how/when) did the church of england come to reject calvinism in favour of arminianism? | <P> was crushed. In the same period English Arminianism existed (if at all) almost unavowed on paper, and since anti-Calvinist literature was censored, had no clear form until 1624 and a definite controversy. Footholds for Arminian views Certain churchmen are now labelled by historians as "proto-Arminian". These includ... |
The answer is both complex and interesting. For starters we need to understand one key concept: the Malthusian trap. The Malthusian trap is the concept that for most of human history, we have been subsistence farmers and the standard of living never rose for most humans above subsistence farming levels. We also know th... | if living conditions were so horrible in victorian cities, why so many millions of people moved from the country side to the cities? | <P> population density. Almost all pre-regulation terraced housing has been demolished through successive waves of slum clearance. History Between 1801 and 1901 the population increased fourfold, and during this period there was a migration from the land into towns (urbanisation), as the nature of work changed with the... |
So there are a lot factors let's start with the memory models. Encoding: Store information into our brain. Storage: Retain the information we encode. Retrieval: Store information out at a later time. Alright so first off you will have an external event occur. Such as a yellow bus passing and then a cat scratching you. ... | memory recall | <P> memory." <P> glaring inability to incorporate free recall into the model. Free recall requires an individual to freely remember some list of items. Although the very act of asking to recall may act as a cue that can then elicit cued recall techniques, it is unlikely that the cue is unique enough to reach a summed s... |
A combination of spoilers, engine reverse thrusters and brakes on the wheels. The spoilers are upper surface flaps that deploy and disturb the airflow on the wing. They kill the lift on the wing to prevent the aircraft from getting enough lift to come up again, and create a lot of drag to help the plane slow down. Engi... | how does aircraft brake to reduce speed when landed | <P> the rear of the craft, forcing the rear wheels harder against the ground, which aids the wheel brakes by helping to prevent skidding. The pilot will usually continue to hold back on the stick even after the elevators lose their authority, and the nose wheel drops, to keep added pressure on the rear wheels.
Aerodyna... |
In the 50's switchblades became associated with criminals due their portrayal in films and television. Greasers, mobsters and other thugs were commonly seen carrying them and it led to a public scare and the subsequent passing of the USA Switchblade Act of 1958. | why are switchblades illegal? | <P> requires permission from the prefectural public safety commission in order to possess. Lithuania According to Lithuanian law it is illegal to carry or possess a switchblade if it meets one of the following criteria: the blade is longer than 8.5 cm; the width in the middle of the blade is less than 14% of its total ... |
It would help if you explained why you want to know. In other words, at what level do you want to know how it works? Basically a bus is a wire (or set of wires) between two (or more) points. When you "put data on the bus" all you are doing is changing the voltage on the wire(s) to a certain level. The "read data from t... | how the pci bus works | <P> Proprietary local buses (q.v. Compaq) and then the VESA Local Bus Standard, were late 1980s expansion buses that were tied but not exclusive to the 80386 and 80486 CPU bus. The PC/104 bus is an embedded bus that copies the ISA bus.
Intel launched their PCI bus chipsets along with the P5-based Pentium CPUs in 1993. ... |
> Sometimes a fight would take place in a tunnel - 4 feet x 3 feet - and in the dark you didn't know who you were fighting. The only thing was to put your hand over quick to feel if the man had any epaulettes; the Germans used to have epaulettes on the shoulder and we could tell that way. The knuckle knife was very goo... | who were the tunnelers in ww1 and why were they so respected? | <P> 252nd Tunnelling Co attached to search dugouts and roads for booby-traps and mines, clear broken bridges wit explosives, and it also reconnoitred village wells that had been damaged by the retreating Germans. <P> 258th Tunnelling Company Background By January 1915 it had become evident to the British Expeditionary ... |
On January 30, 1968, the day of "Tet" (the Vietnamese New Year), the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army launched a major military campaign that would spell the end of Johnson's presidency. The Johnson administration had, up to that point, guaranteed the American public that the United States was on the verge of wi... | why wasn't lyndon johnson, the incumbent, selected to to the democratic nominee in the 1968 presidential election? | <P> the Democratic convention could choose a candidate based on their personal preference. Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., and others have argued that Kennedy's broad appeal and charisma would have been sufficiently convincing at the 1968 Democratic National Convention to give him the nomination. Historian Michael... |
Egypt contrary to what the media would have told you shortly after Mubarek was taken out, was frail. They were already hurting from lack of basic supplies, gas, food, money...and when the revolution ended and Morsi stepped up to plate they expected real change. The people had thought they had forced the hand of the gov... | why was elected egyptian president mohammed morsi ousted so quickly? | <P> the Army is in support of them. However, the statement was interpreted by Morsi supporters as a warning to Morsi opponents that el-Sisi would not allow an overthrow of the government. He remained in office under the new government formed after the deposition of Morsi, and led by Hazem al-Beblawi. He was also appoin... |
Wikipedia gives a decent explanation. Terrence Malick isnt one to "spoon feed" people the concepts. Personally, I think his movies are a bit ahead of his time but he's still one of my favorite directors. | the tree of life (movie) | <P> related to the tree of life. <P> of Time. The Hollywood Reporter described it as "a celebration of the Earth, displaying the whole of time, from the birth of the universe to its final collapse." The film is the culmination of a project that Malick has been working on for over forty years, and has been described by ... |
The "low" numbers are counting people who were immediate and direct casualties from the disaster. So there were people who were exposed to enough radiation that they died in a few weeks, and some people who died in the immediate hours of the accident itself. The "high" numbers are extrapolations based on the amount of ... | the death toll for chernobyl ranges wildly, from a few hundred to tens of thousands. which numbers are the most believable and why? furthermore, why is it so hard to establish a concrete number for the disaster? | <P> lowering levels, like at the central district of Okuma town, to 9 mSv/year, one-fifth the level of five years ago. Chernobyl disaster As of 2013 the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine was and remains the world's worst nuclear power plant disaster. Estimates of its death toll are controversial and range from 62 ... |
The_Donald has a *huge* amount of active users, more than r/TIL, r/pics, r/funny and other default subreddits. There's simply a lot of people browsing it. The second reason is the culture of that subreddit is very, well, "upvote happy". Or 'high energy' as they would call it. In essence, they enjoy covering the frontpa... | why /r/the_donald posts are consistently dominating /r/all? | <P> a direct violation of site-wide policies regarding spam. In response, Huffman rolled out a change to the r/all algorithm; he noted that r/The_Donald was among several Reddit communities over the years that "attempt to dominate the conversation on Reddit at the expense of everyone else." Ongoing problems with member... |
is a great source for the science of fabrics. Polyester hadn't been invented yet, so the basis plant, animal fibers were used, but in very, very creative ways. cotton - Levis, seersucker; rayon, wool, silk, felt, jersey, velvet, and of course, the horribly flammable flannel. If you watch the old baseball film of the ba... | what type of fabric | <P> employed to make shirts and colonial uniforms in Tropical areas due to its incredible breathability. The fabric employed is cotton, and the weave is an English gauze in which two warp yarns are twisted around the weave and around the weft. The weight is between 150 and 250 gr/m2, but the open gauze weave makes it a... |
/u/killfile has previously answered Why was being Aryan such a big deal for the Germans? as a follow-up to a question about the swastika. /u/jan_van_bergen has previously written about the Nazi attachment to the word 'Aryan' | what is the origin of white supremacist obsession with nordic peoples? | <P> races: Nordic, Alpine, and Mediterranean, as well as their physical and mental characteristics. This part of the book ties together strands of thinking regarding Aryan migration theory, ethnology, anthropology, and history into a broad survey of the historical rise and fall, and expansion and retraction, of the Eur... |
If it follows male primogeniture, then it goes first to the King's son, then his daughter, then her son. If the rule is simple primogeniture (with no regard to sex), then it would go to the eldest child first, the daughter, then *her* son, then her younger brother. | in traditional primogeniture, what happens with grandchildren? | <P> grandchildren. <P> "regular order of primogeniture and representation: earlier line shall precede older; within the same line, closer degree shall precede more distant; within the same degree, male shall precede female; and within the same sex, older shall precede the younger". What this means in practice, is that ... |
In contemporary European terms the Venetian Jewish population was certainly significant (as you said, many other European nations and cities had completely expelled them) which is why the Ghetto was set up in 1516. Interestingly, the buildings in the Ghetto weren't allowed to rise any higher than the homes of the Chris... | during the 15th-17th centuries was venice a particularly "jewish" city? | <P> the Venetian Ashkenazi community. Today, there are also other populations of Ashkenazic Jews in Venice, mainly Lubavitchers who operate a kosher food store, a yeshiva, and a Chabad synagogue.
Languages historically spoken in the confines of the Ghetto include Venetian, Italian, Judeo-Spanish, French, and German. In... |
All three are models of the wave-particle duality of electrons in an atom, and are essentially related to one another. Atomic orbital theory is used to describe the energetic nature of electrons in a single atom; molecular orbital theory (related to VB theory) qualifies these wave interactions between multiple atoms in... | atomic orbital theory, molecular orbital theory, valence bond theory. | <P> by performing a linear combination of contributing structures (resonance) if there are several of them. In contrast, for molecular orbital theory a linear combination of atomic orbitals is performed first, followed by filling of the resulting molecular orbitals with electrons.
The two approaches are regarded as com... |
Oak tree colonies are known for mast seeding. This means that every tree will produce seed at the same time, and then wait an interval of time (usually many years), before mast seeding again. The point of mast seeding is to saturate seed predators with food during that year. Seed predators can only eat/hide so much foo... | why do the oak trees near me in new england produce, en masse, zero acorns every few years? | <P> the attractive aesthetic of this species.
Typically, leaves are five to ten centimeters (2–4 inches) long and are roundly and deeply lobed. The leaf width is approximately one half its length. Each leaf is matte green with an underneath pale green appearance; moreover, the leaf is covered with abundant soft fuzz, y... |
**Edit:** As /u/joekercom points out, the 2005 date is not arbitrary. In 2005 NOAA began collecting climate data from a new network of weather stations due to criticisms about the validity of the existing weather station network. The data since 2005, from both the new and the old networks, does not show a significant w... | family members are posting on facebook that there has been no warming in the us since 2005 based on a recent noaa report, is this accurate? if so, is there some other nuance that this data is not accounting for? | <P> hampered by data set version changes, and inherent data uncertainties. These factors substantially limit the ability to draw robust and consistent inferences from such studies about the true long-term trends or the value of different data products". Evaluation The U.S. National Weather Service Cooperative Observer ... |
Hi there! Unfortunately, alternative history and 'what if' questions are not allowed in this subreddit. We would recommend that you edit question 2 and question 4 out of your post, thank you. | questions regarding the asian theater during the later part of world war 2(1945). | <P> Pacific Theater during World War II. <P> occupation forces after the surrender of Japan. <P> 1942", "Pacific 1942–45", and "New Guinea 1942". |
Prior to that time coins got their value from the content of precious metals in them. They had that specific value (at the time of minting) of gold, silver, nickel or copper alloyed with other metals to make the coin. | why were us quarters, dimes, half dollars, and dollar coins that preceded 1965 made of 90% silver? | <P> to be continued after the revival of silver coinage". Breen deemed the decision to eliminate the silver three-cent piece and the half dime, which might have directly competed with the two copper-nickel coins, a favor to industrialist Joseph Wharton, whose mines produced much of the nickel ore used in coinage. Accor... |
Time is a human measurement of the environment that we live through. We measure it by an arbitrary scale that we invented/derived. Basically though time is a measurement of change. Time as we think of it has existed from the big bang/creating of the universe. Time does not "run" at the same speed everywhere as far as w... | time | <P> time. <P> time. <P> the time. |
They are breaking the law, and a motion has already been filed to have a federal court find a county judge in Mobile, Alabama in contempt, to fine him, and to order law enforcement to open the marriage license office. Source | how are county judges in alabama refusing to grant marriage licences to gay couples when a federal court struck down the ban? are these judges breaking the law? could they be arrested/forcibly removed from their positions? | <P> on the recognition of same-sex marriages unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the United States Constitution. The court heard arguments on December 4. The state argued that there was "nothing unusual" in enforcing policies that encourage "responsible procreation" and the "optimal m... |
Countries owe debt to things other than countries. Like people (most retirement plans in the US are based somewhat on owning US debt). Currency used depends on the country. Debt is useful for a lot of reasons, it lets you do things right now instead of waiting until later, which is useful. | external debt | <P> figure rises as long as the US maintains an imbalance in trade, when the value of imports substantially outweighs the value of exports. This external debt does not result mostly from loans to Americans or the American government, nor is it consumer debt owed to non-US creditors. It is an accounting entry that large... |
If what you mean is being able to look at a given sequence predict "by eye" whether it will form a helix or sheet, you're going to have a difficult time. There's just too many variables at play to be able to come up with any solid, simple rules. However there are quite a bit of software methods that have been written t... | how do i determine if a peptide will be a-helical or a b-sheet just by looking at the primary structure? | <P> amino acids. Secondary structure Secondary structure refers to highly regular local sub-structures on the actual polypeptide backbone chain. Two main types of secondary structure, the α-helix and the β-strand or β-sheets, were suggested in 1951 by Linus Pauling et al. These secondary structures are defined by patte... |
It is better because it uses a superior system of measurement that takes more data into account. When your prescription is taken for standard LASIK/LASEK/PRK they are basically taking an average measurement for your entire eye. But of course your eye is not a perfect shape with a smooth surface. It's composed of organi... | how wavefront/custom lasik is different from older versions of lasik/lasek/prk, and why it is (or isn't) better. | <P> in patients with keratoconus.
No good data can be found that compare the percentage of LASIK procedures that employ wavefront guidance versus the percentage that do not, nor the percentage of refractive surgeons who have a preference one way or the other. Wavefront technology continues to be positioned as an "advan... |
You're asking two different questions. Antibodies don't interact with antigens by chemotaxis. Chemotaxis is when an organism moves in response to a chemical stimulus in the environment (like how you might move away from an area if you smelled a skunk, or if you moved towards an area if you smelled fresh baked cookies).... | how does chemotaxis work? | <P> Chemotaxis History of chemotaxis research Although migration of cells was detected from the early days of the development of microscopy by Leeuwenhoek, a Caltech lecture regarding chemotaxis propounds that 'erudite description of chemotaxis was only first made by T. W. Engelmann (1881) and W. F. Pfeffer (1884) in b... |
There's a big gap between how TV, movies, and books portray the CIA (where it's handy to have a super-competent, mysterious enemy for the protagonists to struggle against) and the historical realities. The CIA was only founded in 1947, with direct antecedents only going back another few years. It was still very young i... | why did the us fail to kill castro so many times? wouldn't it have been relatively easy for the cia to pull such an assassination off? | <P> the 1960s. From the seventies onwards, the attempts were most often made by Cuban exiles who had been trained by the CIA shortly after Castro took power in 1959.
The film also contains extensive material shot with Antonio Veciana, the Cuban exile who came close to killing Castro on three occasions over 17 years. H... |
I'm moving, so I just packed away most of my books, but Ill try to answer your question as best as I can! To answer your question in brief, yes and no. In this case of Lesotho, the state's geographic position meant that it was surrounded by South Africa, and thus very vulnerable to South African strong arming. Moreover... | did the apartheid regime in south africa consider lesotho and swaziland models for what it wanted the "bantustans" to be? | <P> grant independence to any more Bantustans.
With the demise of the apartheid regime in South Africa in 1994, the Bantustans were dismantled and their territory reincorporated into the Republic of South Africa. The drive to achieve this was spearheaded by the African National Congress (ANC) as a central element of it... |
Try /r/askanthropology as this is a more general situation than just that group in that city. | why did so many polish immigrants go to chicago rather than anywhere else? | <P> There are approximately 70,000 Bosnian Americans in Chicago. 40,000 of them came as refugees during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Other prevalent European ethnic groups include the Czechs, and Ukrainians. At the turn of the 20th century, Chicago was the third-largest Czech city in the world, after Prague and Vienna. T... |
Almost no carbon emissions. Carbon emissions lead to climate change, and climate change is the most serious environmental threat facing us today. | what makes nuclear power so green compared to other energy sources? | <P> from nuclear plants.” Nuclear energy produces far less carbon dioxide than coal, 9 grams per kilowatt hour compared with 790–1017 grams per kilowatt hour for coal. Also, nuclear energy produces the same amount if not less greenhouse gasses than renewable resources.
Like all energy sources, various life cycle anal... |
So contrary to Rothammer (as discussed in u/Dondville) Marquet et al argue that the Chinchorros lead a less hierarchical lifestyle and that mummification isn't tied to status. Mummification first started because of the pure heat of the environment. Natural mummification formed when bodies were left in dehydrated enviro... | the chinchorro culture of ancient chile began purposefully mummifying their dead thousands of years before the ancient egyptians did, and did so in a highly idiosyncratic manner. what led to the development of such practices, and what ended up happening to the chinchorro people? | <P> of fisherfolk existed, tucked away in the arid river valleys of the Andes, but the Chinchorro made themselves unique by their dedicated preservation of the dead. Chinchorro mummification While many cultures throughout the world have sought to focus on preserving the dead elite, the Chinchorro tradition performed mu... |
Art movements are hard to pin down because they borrow heavily from each other, but I'll try. Abstract expressionism came from that growing school of thought that art should be more spontaneous, so that it could appeal more emotionally. They felt that art that simply tried to copy what things look like was not very goo... | abstract expressionism | <P> romantic abstractions worked in a loose gestural style. These "lyrical abstractionists" sought to expand the boundaries of abstract painting, and to revive and reinvigorate a painterly 'tradition' in American art. At the same time, these artists sought to reinstate the primacy of line and color as formal elements i... |
The romanticism of the East Coast/West Coast feud makes lots of people want to point at Biggie as responsible, but most of the evidence seems to point to the man 2Pac and Suge jumped in the hotel lobby, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson was responsible. His uncle, Keffe D, said as much in an [interview with police] (). Acco... | twenty years ago today, tupac shakur was shot and fatally wounded. at the time, it was implicated that the notorious b.i.g. was involved in his death. what evidence do we have now? was biggie to blame? | <P> criminals.
Before they died, rival rap music artist The Notorious B.I.G. (also known as Biggie Smalls, who was killed on March 9, 1997) and Anderson denied a role in the murder. In support of this, Biggie's family produced computerized invoices showing that he was working in a New York recording studio the night of... |
I am not a dentist, but I work in the dental field. Your teeth have layers. The outermost layer is called enamel which is a hard material that protects other layers from tooth sensitivity and decay. Generally speaking, teeth whitening is a process that removes a very thin layer of stained enamel, regardless of the meth... | how non-dentist teeth whitening methods such as gels and led lights work and are they safe? | <P> in the literature in 1995. A short history of LED curing in dentistry was published in 2013. This light uses a gallium nitride-based semiconductor for blue light emission.
A 2004 article in the American Dental Association's journal explained, "In LED’s, a voltage is applied across the junctions of two doped semi- c... |
Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution enumerates specific powers of the US Congress. The first power listed is the following: > The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all... | what are the constitutional mechanisms that give congress its spending authority, and is there legal precedent around the looming clash between the presidency and congress on this topic? | <P> the 302(b) allocation. Article One of the United States Constitution, section 9, clause 7, states that "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law..." This is what gives Congress the power to make these appropriations. The President, however, still has the power to v... |
The students were studying to be teachers at a rural school that is known for protesting the corrupt actions of the local politicians. The mayor's wife was scheduled to give a speech on her accomplishments on September 26th and the mayor was advised that the students were on their way to protest the event. They were pr... | what exactly is going on in mexico right now in terms of the missing/murdered students? and why were they killed? what for? | <P> their college. The remaining 43 were still unaccounted for. Student activists accused authorities of illegally holding the missing students, but Guerrero authorities said that none of the students were in custody. Believing that the missing students had fled through the hills during the shootings, authorities deplo... |
Some time between 25 August 1928, when she departed NY, and 26 November 1928, when she arrived in New Zealand: Apologies if you had that date range in mind already. | admiral byrd's first antarctic expedition 1928 - 1929 | <P> day when he was flying his normal air mail route from Hadley Field to Cleveland, he caught something out of the corner of his eye that looked like a skyscraper. He pulled back on the control stick to quickly gain altitude and just missed hitting the U.S. Navy airship USS Los Angeles that was in his direct path. It... |
Oil and gas exists in deposits underground. It's most often under the ocean floor because oil is made of decomposed and compressed organic matter, a process that doesn't occur as easily on the surface of dry land. It can, but usually it's prevented by such things as weather conditions, animal consumption of the organic... | how natural gas and oil are extracted from the earth | <P> (17,700 barrels per day) of shale oil. Australia, the US, and Canada have tested shale oil extraction techniques via demonstration projects and are planning commercial implementation; Morocco and Jordan have announced their intent to do the same. Only four processes are in commercial use: Kiviter, Galoter, Fushu... |
/u/400-rabbits has answered a version of this question with punny horticultural flair before. EDIT: /u/Snapshot52 has an answer about a North American "cradle of civilization" with links galore. | if ancient humans migrated into the americas via a land bring across the bering sea then spread from north to south, why are the oldest settlements in the americas located in central america and south america, with relatively younger and less evidence of ancient peoples in north america? | <P> History of North America The beginning of North America The specifics of Paleo-Indians' migration to and throughout the Americas, including the exact dates and routes traveled, are subject to ongoing research and discussion. For years, the traditional theory has been that these early migrants moved into the Beringi... |
Yes, it definitely exists. It is defined as "the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity." It does seem to be able to make people perform better, and practice can help to induce i... | what is the state of flow? is it real? does it really allow you to perform better while doing something? and how does someone induce it? | <P> towards a goal. The rewards are tangible and beneficial. Disadvantages Motivation will only last as long as the external rewards are satisfying. The individual won't care about the outcome, rather just complete the task for the reward. Leads to diminishing returns. Flow theory Flow theory refers to desirable subje... |
Not sure about today, but a year ago SPIEGEL reported he was living off of a stipendium. He also probably makes some money with interviews, writing articles and stuff. So that should cover his expenses just fine I think. Source (german): | edward snowden is living in exile in moscow. how does he make a living and cover his basic living, health, and travel expenses? | <P> The Guardian published a nearly 10,000-word edited transcript of their Snowden interview. A year after arriving in Moscow, Snowden said he is still learning Russian. He keeps late and solitary hours, effectively living on U.S. time. He does not drink, cooks for himself but doesn't eat much. "I don't live in absolut... |
The Ottoman invasion and conquest of the Balkans, for example, resulted in Ottoman control of these regions. However, very few of the Ottomans were ethnically Turkish, so the Ottomans who remained in Europe were the same kind of ethnic mixture as obtained in Anatolia. The original Ottoman conquest of Anatolia was made ... | after the collapse of the ottoman empire's incursion into eastern and central europe during the great turkish war, what happened to the turkish civilians? did they move back to anatolia, or are their native europeans today that are ethnically turkish? | <P> the Armenian (and for some time also the Syriac) Christians, and later the Chief Rabbi for the affairs of the Jews.
The everyday life of the Christians, particularly the Greeks and Armenians, living in Istanbul changed significantly following the bitter conflicts between these ethnic groups and the Turks during the... |
Here are some comments I posted in the original thread: Another difference is at the end, there is only one answer. No runners up. You don't care if your choice gets second, third, etc. You only care about who gets first. Say there are 3 choices and the one you agree with is farthest away. If you really disagree with t... | swarm intelligence "unu" | <P> each time a network change occurs to create an optimum use of spare capacity. For more information the reader is encouraged to read [9]. Swarm Intelligence System This method is based on an intelligent system that is found in nature. It is a distributed method that relies on agents working independently, yet commun... |
It's a really difficult topic to assess due to the limitations on data (a common issue in obstetrical research). Generally, studies agree that home birth leads to fewer medical interventions (c-sections, operative vaginal deliveries, episiotomies, etc). There are some variations in terms of outcomes - for example, this... | how does the safety of homebirth with a midwife compare to birth in a hospital? | <P> it.
The State of the World’s Midwifery report supports the profession, urging governments to recognize it as vital to maternal and newborn health services. It also urges governments to consider establishing a scope of practice, specified credentials for entering the profession and educational standards.
Those who a... |
I feel like no-one has really answered your question so far, especially in regards to the Revolver part of the question. I'll try my best as a former Beatles fanatic. As you alluded to, Revolver was quite an experimental pop record, and it was the first album where the Beatles REALLY decided to use the studio as an ins... | why is the beatles’ sergeant peppers considered such a turning point in the history of rock and roll, especially when revolver sounds more experimental and came earlier? | <P> was one of the cultural revisions established by the Britpop phenomenon in the 1990s. Writing on the BBC's website in August 2016, Greg Kot identified the "More popular than Christ" controversy and the attention subsequently afforded the release of Sgt. Pepper in 1967 as the two factors that had contributed to Revo... |
> What strategical defence ideas did the Wehrmacht adopt against the red army aside from the designated fortress ideas? The reference is being made to the 'elastic' strategic defense being conducted by Manstein between the space of time between the defeat at Stalingrad and the defeat at Kursk. The principle of Elastic ... | what consisted of the wehrmacht "mobile defence" on the eastern front in world war 2? | <P> World War II, the Germans had unleashed a new type of warfare, characterized by highly mobile forces and the use of massed aircraft. The German strategy concentrated upon the devotion of the Wehrmacht, or German army, to the use of tank groups, called panzer divisions, and groups of mobile infantry, in concert with... |
When a man porcupine loves a woman porcupine very much and is willing to be very careful... | how do porcupines mate with each other? | <P> some parts of the Great Basin, cougars have greatly decreased numbers of porcupines in mountainous forests through predation. However, in some cases porcupine quills have indeed killed cougars, although usually this is after the cougar has already consumed the porcupine. Reproduction Female porcupines are solitary ... |
Nobody knows for sure, the details of the contract dispute are only known to Amazon and Hachette. The public comments both sides have made are most likely fairly biased towards their own side. However, Hachette is not some small publisher that Amazon is trampling over. They are owned by Lagardère Group, a company with ... | amazon vs hachette | <P> prices offered on their websites, rather than on the full recommended retail price (RRP).
Also in 2008, Amazon UK drew criticism in the British publishing community following their withdrawal from sale of key titles published by Hachette Livre UK. The withdrawal was possibly intended to put pressure on Hachette to ... |
You don't hear much about it because they have so few people living there (there are more ethnic Mongolians living in China than the population of Mongolia). They have a few large metropolitan areas but other than that most of the country is very empty. | mongolia. | <P> Central Asia. <P> Tibet. <P> Inner Mongolia. Ulanhu was a founding general and Vice President of the People's Republic of China. |
Lots of them. Groups like memorial have been involved in locating and excavating mass graves all over the former USSR. | have any of the people who disappeared under the stalin regime ever been found? | <P> official visit to Soviet Union, Tito handed Khruschev a list of 113 Yugoslav communists who had disappeared during the Great Purge, and asked about their fate. Khrushchev promised he would answer in two days, when he found out. Two days later, Khrushchev informed Tito that exactly one hundred of the persons on the ... |
The citric acid cycle requires thiamine to generate ATP. Lack of thiamine causes a deficiency of the enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase, since this enzyme uses thiamine as a cofactor; this leads to high levels of pyruvate, since, without pyruvate dehydrogenase, glucose cannot be broken down by the citric acid cycle. Lacking... | why does thiamine deficiency cause beriberi? | <P> Thiamine Thiamine deficiency Thiamine is used to treat thiamine deficiency which when severe can prove fatal. In less severe cases, non-specific signs include malaise, weight loss, irritability and confusion. Well-known disorders caused by thiamine deficiency include beriberi, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, optic neu... |
Timing. He attacked Rome in the immediate aftermath of the Social Wars and roughly coinciding with Marius and Sulla's Civil War. Sulla certainly proved himself capable of smashing Mithridates' armies, but viewed the situation in Rome as more deserving of his attention, and so after driving Mithridates back he was conte... | what made mithridates iv of pontus so successful against rome? | <P> his brother, he allied himself with the neighboring tribes, most notably with the Siraces under Zorsines and he was able to raise an army and push out the king of the Dandaridae and established himself in his former dominions and declared a 3-day war against his brother and the Roman cohorts under Aquila.
When Coty... |
As with most things American Jewish history related, the origin of it is in the late 18th and early 19th century. It was a time of massive change in the American Jewish community. The population, which was composed mostly of Sefardi (Spanish) and German Jews, expanded massively with immigrants from Eastern Europe, trig... | how did jewish-americans become associated with progressive liberal politics? | <P> American Jewish community—native-born and immigrant, Reform, Orthodox, secular, and socialist—coalesced to form what eventually became known as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. All told, American Jews raised $63 million in relief funds during the war years and became more immersed in European Jewis... |
**Background**: The Common Law Rule seeks to make sure that things get used. Why would you want a perfectly good car being held by a dead person? We have property laws to make the world more efficient not less efficient Here enters the Common Law Rules Against Perpetuities. This is a rule, not written down in a law, bu... | how does ''rule against perpetuities'' actually work? | <P> rule against perpetuities, an imaginative lawyer will argue (and a court must accept under the common law rule itself) that A could have a child in her 86th year and then in her 87th year all of A's other children could die, then in her 88th year A herself could die. Because the interest will not vest until her ne... |
There's always room for discussion, but perhaps this previous question will answer your inquiry. * How did the Day of the Dead celebrations evolve? by /u/drylaw | why did latin america develop diá de los muertos, opposed to spain who hasn't developed a similar holiday? what are the origins of "the day of the dead" and why did it emerge in latin america uniquely? | <P> Souls Weekend activities choose to wear calavera-style makeup and objects, familiar to many in Tucson due to the city's location 50 miles from the US-Mexico border. After the Spanish conquest of middle America, ancient Mesoamerican rituals merged with Roman Catholic tradition along with modern cultural interests in... |
Here is a very nice review article discussing just what you're asking. Proposed mechanisms for autoimmune disorders typically say that certain molecular patterns that belong to a specific pathogen could potentially be similar enough to one of your own proteins to activate circulating autoreactive B or T cells by "molec... | we all know that vaccines do not cause autism: are there any peer-reviewed studies showing that vaccine refusers have the same rate of neurological/immune disorders as vaccine acceptors? | <P> Vaccines and autism The idea of a link between vaccines and autism has been extensively investigated and shown to be false, despite many cases suggesting otherwise. The scientific consensus is that there is no relationship, causal or otherwise, between vaccines and incidence of autism, and vaccine ingredients do no... |
Where are you getting the idea Scotland had a change of legal system in the seventeenth century? I'm not saying its wrong as I'm not an expert on legal systems by any means but I've researched seventeenth century Scotland quite a lot. Though there certainly were a lot of changes, what with the Union of Crowns, Covenant... | law in scotland in the seventeenth century | <P> punishments for the mobile unemployed and beggars. The patriarchal nature of society meant that women were directed to be subservient to their husbands and families. They remained an important part of the workforce and some were economically independent, while others lived a marginal existence. At the beginning of ... |
I guess since this is up, I'll just answer. The number was calculated by historians over the years, as well as by the United Nations, which put together refugee camps that tallied the numbers. Numbers have ranged from 520,000 (Israeli estimate) to over a million (Arab estimate), but the total number is usually agreed o... | is 700,000 palestinians fleeing in 1948 an accurate number? | <P> Population displacements in Israel after 1948 Population shifts in Israel after 1948 refers to the movement of Jewish and Arab populations in the wake of Israeli independence and the outbreak of the 1948 War. Arab villagers who resettled in other locations in Israel after 1948 are often referred to as internally di... |
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