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701 | of the War in Heaven, it tells the story of Arcade, the guardian angel of Maurice d'Esparvieu. Bored because Bishop d'Esparvieu is sinless, Arcade begins reading the bishop's books on theology and becomes an atheist. He moves to Paris, meets a woman, falls in love, and loses his virginity causing his wings to fall off,... | "Anatole France" | [
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702 | according to France, is God's secret name and means "the child who wanders." He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. He died in 1924 and is buried in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris. On 31 May 1922, France's entire works were put on the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" (Prohibited Books Index) of the C... | "Anatole France" | [
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703 | relations with women were always turbulent, and in 1888 he began a relationship with Madame Arman de Caillavet, who conducted a celebrated literary salon of the Third Republic; the affair lasted until shortly before her death in 1910. After his divorce in 1893, he had many liaisons, notably with Mme Gagey, who committe... | "Anatole France" | [
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704 | three-quarters the average weight. After his death in 1924 France was the object of written attacks, including a particularly venomous one from the Nazi collaborator Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and detractors decided he was a vulgar and derivative writer. An admirer, the English writer George Orwell, defended him however... | "Anatole France" | [
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705 | André Gide André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. The author of "more than fifty books," ... | "André Gide" | [
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706 | Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straitlaced traducing of education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and ce... | "André Gide" | [
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707 | communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR. Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869, into a middle-class Protestant family. His father was a Paris University professor of law who died in 1880. His uncle was the political economist Charles Gide. His paternal family traced its roots back to Italy, with his ancestors,... | "André Gide" | [
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708 | "The Notebooks of André Walter" (French: "Les Cahiers d'André Walter"), in 1891, at the age of twenty-one. In 1893 and 1894, Gide travelled in Northern Africa, and it was there that he came to accept his attraction to boys. He befriended Oscar Wilde in Paris, and in 1895 Gide and Wilde met in Algiers. Wilde had the imp... | "André Gide" | [
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709 | Roque-Baignard, a commune in Normandy. In 1901, Gide rented the property Maderia in St. Brélade's Bay and lived there while residing in Jersey. This period, 1901–07, is commonly seen as a time of apathy and turmoil for him. In 1908, Gide helped found the literary magazine "Nouvelle Revue Française" ("The New French Rev... | "André Gide" | [
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710 | he and Gide became fast friends; Allégret was best man at Gide's wedding. Gide and Marc fled to London, in retribution for which his wife burned all his correspondence – "the best part of myself," he later commented. In 1918, he met Dorothy Bussy, who was his friend for over thirty years and translated many of his work... | "André Gide" | [
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711 | condemnation. He later considered this his most important work. In 1923, he sired a daughter, Catherine, by Elisabeth van Rysselberghe, a woman who was much younger than he. He had known her for a long time, as she was the daughter of his closest female friend, Maria Monnom, the wife of his friend the Belgian neo-impre... | "André Gide" | [
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712 | only descendant by blood. He liked to call Elisabeth "La Dame Blanche" ("The White Lady"). Elisabeth eventually left her husband to move to Paris and manage the practical aspects of Gide's life (they had adjoining apartments built for each on the rue Vavin). She worshiped him, but evidently they no longer had a sexual ... | "André Gide" | [
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713 | first French language editions of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and "Lord Jim". After 1925, he began to campaign for more humane conditions for convicted criminals. From July 1926 to May 1927, he travelled through the French Equatorial Africa colony with his lover Marc Allégret. Gide went successively to Middle C... | "André Gide" | [
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714 | published journal, he criticized the behavior of French business interests in the Congo and inspired reform. In particular, he strongly criticized the "Large Concessions" regime (French: "régime des Grandes Concessions"), "i.e.," a regime according to which part of the colony was conceded to French companies and where ... | "André Gide" | [
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715 | France and helped re-evaluate the impact of colonialism. During the 1930s, he briefly became a communist, or more precisely, a fellow traveler (he never formally joined any communist party). As a distinguished writer sympathizing with the cause of communism, he was invited to speak at Maxim Gorky's funeral and to tour ... | "André Gide" | [
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716 | Gide describes his early enthusiasm: In 1930 Gide published a book about the Blanche Monnier case called "La Séquestrée de Poitiers", changing little but the names of the protagonists. Monnier was a young woman who was kept captive by her own mother for more than 25 years. In 1939, Gide became the first living author t... | "André Gide" | [
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717 | which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". He devoted much of his last years to publishing his Journal. Gide died in Paris on 19 February 1951. The Roman Catholic Church placed his works on the "Index of Forbidden Books" in 1952. Gide's biograp... | "André Gide" | [
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718 | love was not confined to his friends: it spilled over into a concern for others less fortunate than himself." André Gide's writings spanned many genres – "As a master of prose narrative, occasional dramatist and translator, literary critic, letter writer, essayist, and diarist, André Gide provided twentieth-century Fre... | "André Gide" | [
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719 | Gide's curiosity, his youthfulness, at work: a refusal to mine only one seam, to repeat successful formulas...The fiction spans the early years of Symbolism, to the "comic, more inventive, even fantastic" pieces, to the later "serious, heavily autobiographical, first-person narratives"...In France Gide was considered a... | "André Gide" | [
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720 | journals. In "Les faux-monnayeurs", Edouard's journal provides an alternative voice to the narrator's." "In 1946, when Pierre Herbert asked Gide which of his books he would choose if only one were to survive," Gide replied, 'I think it would be my "Journal."'" Beginning at the age of eighteen or nineteen, Gide kept a j... | "André Gide" | [
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721 | in his "Cahiers de André Gide" essay, is what makes Gide's work 'essentially modern': the 'perpetual renewal of the values by which one lives.'" Gide wrote in his "Journal" in 1930: "The only drama that really interests me and that I should always be willing to depict anew, is the debate of the individual with whatever... | "André Gide" | [
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722 | and conventions inherited from 19th-century France. He sought to uncover the authentic self beneath its contradictory masks." In his journal, Gide distinguishes between adult-attracted "sodomites" and boy-loving "pederasts", categorizing himself as the latter. In the company of Oscar Wilde, he had several sexual encoun... | "André Gide" | [
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723 | Algorithms for calculating variance Algorithms for calculating variance play a major role in computational statistics. A key difficulty in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overfl... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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724 | is given by the following: This algorithm can easily be adapted to compute the variance of a finite population: simply divide by "N" instead of "n" − 1 on the last line. Because and can be very similar numbers, cancellation can lead to the precision of the result to be much less than the inherent precision of the float... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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725 | can be improved by adopting the method of the assumed mean. We can use a property of the variance to avoid the catastrophic cancellation in this formula, namely the variance is invariant with respect to changes in a location parameter with formula_4 any constant, which leads to the new formula the closer formula_4 is t... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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726 | they are large it necessarily means that the variance is large as well. In any case the second term in the formula is always smaller than the first one therefore no cancellation may occur. If we take just the first sample as formula_4 the algorithm can be written in Python programming language as this formula facilitat... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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727 | deviation. This is given by the following pseudocode: This algorithm is numerically stable if "n" is small. However, the results of both of these simple algorithms ("Naïve" and "Two-pass") can depend inordinately on the ordering of the data and can give poor results for very large data sets due to repeated roundoff err... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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728 | are being collected without enough storage to keep all the values, or when costs of memory access dominate those of computation. For such an online algorithm, a recurrence relation is required between quantities from which the required statistics can be calculated in a numerically stable fashion. The following formulas... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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729 | small number from a big number which scales with "n". A better quantity for updating is the sum of squares of differences from the current mean, formula_15, here denoted formula_16: This algorithm was found by Welford, and it has been thoroughly analyzed. It is also common to denote formula_20 and formula_21. An exampl... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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730 | can first compute and subtract an estimate of the mean, and then use this algorithm on the residuals. The parallel algorithm below illustrates how to merge multiple sets of statistics calculated online. The algorithm can be extended to handle unequal sample weights, replacing the simple counter "n" with the sum of weig... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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731 | may be assigned to discrete parts of the input. Chan's method for estimating the mean is numerically unstable when formula_28 and both are large, because the numerical error in formula_29 is not scaled down in the way that it is in the formula_30 case. In such cases, prefer formula_31. def parallel_variance(avg_a, coun... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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732 | naïve algorithm and two-pass algorithm compute these values correctly. Next consider the sample (, , , ), which gives rise to the same estimated variance as the first sample. The two-pass algorithm computes this variance estimate correctly, but the naïve algorithm returns 29.333333333333332 instead of 30. While this lo... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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733 | as −170.66666666666666. This is a serious problem with naïve algorithm and is due to catastrophic cancellation in the subtraction of two similar numbers at the final stage of the algorithm. Terriberry extends Chan's formulae to calculating the third and fourth central moments, needed for example when estimating skewnes... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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734 | of the online algorithm for kurtosis implemented as described is: Pébaÿ further extends these results to arbitrary-order central moments, for the incremental and the pairwise cases, and subsequently Pébaÿ et al. for weighted and compound moments. One can also find there similar formulas for covariance. Choi and Sweetma... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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735 | which effectively becomes a one-pass algorithm for higher moments. One benefit is that the statistical moment calculations can be carried out to arbitrary accuracy such that the computations can be tuned to the precision of, e.g., the data storage format or the original measurement hardware. A relative histogram of a r... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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736 | formula_47 represent the frequency and the relative frequency at bin formula_48 and formula_49 is the total area of the histogram. After this normalization, the formula_50 raw moments and central moments of formula_51 can be calculated from the relative histogram: where the superscript formula_54 indicates the moments ... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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737 | be used for parallel computation of statistical moments with subsequent combination of those moments, or for combination of statistical moments computed at sequential times. If formula_59 sets of statistical moments are known: formula_60 for formula_61, then each formula_62 can be expressed in terms of the equivalent f... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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738 | value of formula_59. where the subscript formula_72 represents the concatenated time-history or combined formula_68. These combined values of formula_68 can then be inversely transformed into raw moments representing the complete concatenated time-history Known relationships between the raw moments (formula_76) and the... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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739 | covariance of two random variables is also shift-invariant, so given any two constant values formula_80 and formula_81 it can be written: and again choosing a value inside the range of values will stabilize the formula against catastrophic cancellation as well as make it more robust against big sums. Taking the first v... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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740 | formula_87 "should" be zero, but the second pass compensates for any small error. A stable one-pass algorithm exists, similar to the online algorithm for computing the variance, that computes co-moment formula_88: The apparent asymmetry in that last equation is due to the fact that formula_90, so both update terms are ... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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741 | covariances of two sets that can be used to parallelize the computation: A version of the weighted online algorithm that does batched updated also exists : let formula_94 denote the weights, we can write The covariance can then be computed as Algorithms for calculating variance Algorithms for calculating variance play ... | "Algorithms for calculating variance" | [
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742 | Almond The almond ("Prunus dulcis", syn. "Prunus amygdalus") is a species of tree native to Mediterranean climate regions of the Middle East, from Syria and Turkey to India and Pakistan, although it has been introduced elsewhere. Almond is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree. Within the ... | Almond | [
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743 | is not a true nut, inside. Shelling almonds refers to removing the shell to reveal the seed. Almonds are sold shelled or unshelled. Blanched almonds are shelled almonds that have been treated with hot water to soften the seedcoat, which is then removed to reveal the white embryo. The almond is a deciduous tree, growing... | Almond | [
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744 | pale pink, diameter with five petals, produced singly or in pairs and appearing before the leaves in early spring. Almond grows best in Mediterranean climates with warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters. The optimal temperature for their growth is between and the tree buds have a chilling requirement of 300 to 600 hou... | Almond | [
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745 | not a nut but a drupe. The outer covering or exocarp, fleshy in other members of "Prunus" such as the plum and cherry, is instead a thick, leathery, grey-green coat (with a downy exterior), called the hull. Inside the hull is a reticulated, hard, woody shell (like the outside of a peach pit) called the endocarp. Inside... | Almond | [
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746 | that the fruit can fall from the tree. The almond is native to the Mediterranean climate region of the Middle East, from Syria and Turkey eastward to Pakistan and India. It was spread by humans in ancient times along the shores of the Mediterranean into northern Africa and southern Europe, and more recently transported... | Almond | [
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747 | which wild ancestor of the almond created the domesticated species. The species "Prunus fenzliana" may be the most likely wild ancestor of the almond in part because it is native of Armenia and western Azerbaijan where it was apparently domesticated. Wild almond species were grown by early farmers, "at first unintentio... | Almond | [
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748 | or from cuttings, it could have been domesticated even before the introduction of grafting". Domesticated almonds appear in the Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BC) such as the archaeological sites of Numeria (Jordan), or possibly earlier. Another well-known archaeological example of the almond is the fruit found in Tutankh... | Almond | [
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749 | Latin *"amandula", derived through a form "amygdala" from the Greek ἀμυγδάλη ("amygdálē") (cf. amygdala), an almond. The "al-" in English, for the "a-" used in other languages may be due a confusion with the Arabic article "al", the word having first dropped the "a-" as in the Italian form "mandorla"; the British pronu... | Almond | [
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750 | "amygdaloid" (literally "like an almond") is used to describe objects which are roughly almond-shaped, particularly a shape which is part way between a triangle and an ellipse. See, for example, the brain structure amygdala, which uses a direct borrowing of the Greek term "amygdalē". The pollination of California's alm... | Almond | [
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751 | for the event. This business has been heavily affected by colony collapse disorder, causing nationwide shortages of honey bees and increasing the price of insect pollination. To partially protect almond growers from the rising cost of insect pollination, researchers at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have devel... | Almond | [
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752 | shells and offers only 32% of edible kernel per nut, but having a thick shell has advantages. The Tuono's shell protects the nut from threatening pests such as the navel orangeworm. ARS researchers have managed to crossbreed the pest-resistant Tuono tree with the 'Nonpareil, resulting in hybridized cultivars of almond ... | Almond | [
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753 | 2016, world production of almonds was 3.2 million tonnes, with United States providing 63% of the total. As other leading producers, Spain, Iran, and Morocco combined contributed 14% of the world total (table). In the United States, production is concentrated in California where and six different almond varieties were ... | Almond | [
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754 | total US exports of shelled almonds in 2016 was $3.2 billion. Spain has diverse commercial cultivars of almonds grown in Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia, Andalusia, and Aragón regions, and the Balearic Islands. Production in 2016 declined 2% nationally compared to 2015 production data. Australia is the largest almond produ... | Almond | [
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755 | a single gene, the bitter flavor furthermore being recessive, both aspects making this trait easier to domesticate. The fruits from "Prunus dulcis" var. "amara" are always bitter, as are the kernels from other species of genus "Prunus", such as peach and cherry (although to a lesser extent). The bitter almond is slight... | Almond | [
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756 | of bitter almonds, which is nearly pure benzaldehyde, the chemical causing the bitter flavor. Bitter almonds may yield 4–9 mg of hydrogen cyanide per almond and contain 42 times higher amounts of cyanide than the trace levels found in sweet almonds. The origin of cyanide content in bitter almonds is via the enzymatic h... | Almond | [
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757 | weight (approximately 50 bitter almonds), whereas for children, consuming 5–10 bitter almonds may be fatal. All commercially grown almonds sold as food in the United States are sweet cultivars. The US Food and Drug Administration reported in 2010 that some fractions of imported sweet almonds were contaminated with bitt... | Almond | [
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758 | Almond pieces around 2–3 mm in size, called "nibs", are used for special purposes such as decoration. Almonds yield almond oil and can also be made into almond butter or almond milk. These products can be used in both sweet and savoury dishes. Along with other nuts, almonds can be sprinkled over breakfasts and desserts... | Almond | [
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759 | popular with peanut allergy sufferers and for its naturally sweeter taste. The young, developing fruit of the almond tree can be eaten whole (green almonds) when they are still green and fleshy on the outside and the inner shell has not yet hardened. The fruit is somewhat sour, but is a popular snack in parts of the Mi... | Almond | [
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760 | cookies, Chinese almond biscuits, and Italian "ricciarelli" are made with almonds. The 'Marcona' almond cultivar is recognizably different from other almonds and is marketed by name. The kernel is short, round, relatively sweet, and delicate in texture. Its origin is unknown and has been grown in Spain for a long time;... | Almond | [
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761 | such, requiring significant caution by consumers for how to prepare and eat these products. Almonds can be processed into a milk substitute called almond milk; the nut's soft texture, mild flavor, and light coloring (when skinned) make for an efficient analog to dairy, and a soy-free choice for lactose intolerant peopl... | Almond | [
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762 | marzipan is often used as a gluten-free alternative to wheat flour in cooking and baking. Almonds contain polyphenols in their skins consisting of flavonols, flavan-3-ols, hydroxybenzoic acids and flavanones analogous to those of certain fruits and vegetables. These phenolic compounds and almond skin prebiotic dietary ... | Almond | [
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763 | syrups generally are produced only from sweet almonds. Such syrup products do not contain significant levels of hydrocyanic acid, so are generally considered safe for human consumption. Almonds are 4% water, 22% carbohydrates, 21% protein, and 50% fat (table). In a 100 gram reference amount, almonds supply 579 calories... | Almond | [
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764 | vitamins thiamine, vitamin B, and folate, choline, and the essential mineral potassium. They also contain substantial dietary fiber, the monounsaturated fat, oleic acid, and the polyunsaturated fat, linoleic acid. Typical of nuts and seeds, almonds are a source of phytosterols such as beta-sitosterol, stigmasterol, cam... | Almond | [
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765 | oil, with 50% of kernel dry mass as fat (whole almond nutrition table). In relation to total dry mass of the kernel, almond oil contains 32% monounsaturated oleic acid (an omega-9 fatty acid), 13% linoleic acid (a polyunsaturated omega-6 essential fatty acid), and 10% saturated fatty acid (mainly as palmitic acid, USDA... | Almond | [
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766 | oil provides 884 calories, 8 grams of saturated fat (81% of which is palmitic acid), 70 grams of oleic acid, and 17 grams of linoleic acid (oil table). "Oleum amygdalae", the fixed oil, is prepared from either sweet or bitter almonds, and is a glyceryl oleate with a slight odour and a nutty taste. It is almost insolubl... | Almond | [
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767 | contamination may occur from soil, previously infested almonds, and almond pests such as navel-orange worm. High levels of mold growth typically appear as gray to black filament like growth. It is unsafe to eat mold infected tree nuts. Some countries have strict limits on allowable levels of aflatoxin contamination of ... | Almond | [
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768 | eliminate the aflatoxin or it must be destroyed. The USDA approved a proposal by the Almond Board of California to pasteurize almonds sold to the public, after tracing cases of salmonellosis to almonds. The almond pasteurization program became mandatory for California companies in 2007. Raw, untreated California almond... | Almond | [
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769 | sold for export outside of North America. The Almond Board of California states: “PPO residue dissipates after treatment.” The U.S. EPA has reported: “Propylene oxide has been detected in fumigated food products; consumption of contaminated food is another possible route of exposure.” PPO is classified as Group 2B ("po... | Almond | [
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770 | judge dismissed the lawsuit in the spring of 2009 on procedural grounds. In August 2010, a federal appeals court ruled that the farmers have a right to appeal the USDA regulation. In March 2013, the court vacated the suit on the basis that the objections should have been raised in 2007 when the regulation was first pro... | Almond | [
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771 | Bible the almond is mentioned ten times, beginning with Book of Genesis 43:11, where it is described as "among the best of fruits". In Numbers 17 Levi is chosen from the other tribes of Israel by Aaron's rod, which brought forth almond flowers. According to tradition, the rod of Aaron bore sweet almonds on one side and... | Almond | [
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772 | which stood in the Holy Temple, "Three cups, shaped like almond blossoms, were on one branch, with a knob and a flower; and three cups, shaped like almond blossoms, were on the other...on the candlestick itself were four cups, shaped like almond blossoms, with its knobs and flowers" (Exodus 25:33–34; 37:19–20). Similar... | Almond | [
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773 | from the Aramaic name for almond (Luz), and is translated as such in some Bible versions such as the NIV. The Arabic name for almond is لوز "lauz" or "lūz". In some parts of the Levant and North Africa it is pronounced "loz", which is very close to its Aramaic origin. La entrada de la flor is an event celebrated on 1 F... | Almond | [
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774 | Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda This article is about the demographic features of the population of Antigua and Barbuda, including population density, ethnicity, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. According to the 2011 census the estimated resident population of Antigua and Barbuda was 86,2... | "Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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775 | population). The remaining 1.6% of the population includes people from the Middle East (0.6%) and Chinese (0.2%). The 2001 census disclosed that 19,425, or 30 per cent of the total population of Antigua and Barbuda, reported their place of birth as a foreign country. Over 15,000 of these persons were from other Caribbe... | "Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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776 | Jamaica. The largest single group from a country outside the region came from the United States. Of the total of 1,715 persons, nine per cent of the foreign born, came from the United States while three per cent and one per cent came from the United Kingdom and Canada, respectively. Many of these are the children of An... | "Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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777 | Politics of Antigua and Barbuda The politics of Antigua and Barbuda takes place in a framework of a unitary parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, wherein the Sovereign of Antigua and Barbuda is the head of state, appointing a Governor-General to act as vice-regal representative in the nation. A Prime Minist... | "Politics of Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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778 | The bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (seventeen-member body appointed by the Governor General) and the House of Representatives (seventeen seats; members are elected by proportional representation to serve five-year terms). Antigua and Barbuda has a long history of free elections, three of which have resulte... | "Politics of Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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779 | control of the media, especially in the 1999 general election. The most recent elections to the House of Representatives were held on 12 June 2014. The Antigua Labour Party government was elected with fourteen seats. The United Progressive Party has three seats in the House of Representatives. Constitutional safeguards... | "Politics of Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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780 | by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet. Antigua and Barbuda elects on national level a legislature. Parliament has two chambers. The House of Representatives has 19 members, 17 members elected for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies, 2 ex-officio member (President ... | "Politics of Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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781 | may be called by the prime minister at any time. There are special legislative provisions to account for Barbuda's low population relative to that of Antigua. Barbuda is guaranteed one member of the House of Representatives and two members of the Senate. In addition, there is a Barbuda Council to govern the internal af... | "Politics of Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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782 | of the Supreme Court resides in Antigua and Barbuda, and presides over the High Court of Justice. The current High Court judges are Jennifer Remy and Keith Thom. Antigua is also a member of the Caribbean Court of Justice, although it has not yet acceded to Part III of the 2001 Agreement Establishing a Caribbean Court o... | "Politics of Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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783 | addition to the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Antigua and Barbuda has a Magistrates' Court, which deals with lesser civil and criminal cases. Antigua Trades and Labor Union or ATLU [William ROBINSON]; People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Hugh MARSHALL] ACP Countries, ALBA, Caricom, Caribbean Development Bank, CELAC,... | "Politics of Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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784 | Unions, WHO, WMO, WTrO Politics of Antigua and Barbuda The politics of Antigua and Barbuda takes place in a framework of a unitary parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, wherein the Sovereign of Antigua and Barbuda is the head of state, appointing a Governor-General to act as vice-regal representative in the... | "Politics of Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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785 | Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda This article is about communications systems in Antigua and Barbuda. Telephones – main lines in use: 37,500 (2006) Telephones – mobile cellular: 110,200 (2006) (APUA PCS, Cable & Wireless, Digicel) Telephone system: <br>"domestic:" good automatic telephone system <br>"internati... | "Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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786 | (APUA INET) Internet hosts: 2,215 (2008) Internet users: 60,000 (2007) Country codes: AG Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda This article is about communications systems in Antigua and Barbuda. Telephones – main lines in use: 37,500 (2006) Telephones – mobile cellular: 110,200 (2006) (APUA PCS, Cable & Wireless, ... | "Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda" | [
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787 | Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force The Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force is the armed forces of Antigua and Barbuda. The ABDF has responsibility for several different roles: internal security, prevention of drug smuggling, the protection and support of fishing rights, prevention of marine pollution, search and res... | "Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force" | [
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788 | as opposed to providing a deterrence against would-be aggressors or in defending the nation during a war. The ABDF consists of four major units: Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force The Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force is the armed forces of Antigua and Barbuda. The ABDF has responsibility for several different rol... | "Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force" | [
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789 | Antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is generally considered to be a form of racism. It has also been characterized as a political ideology which serves ... | Antisemitism | [
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790 | usage until the 19th century, it is now also applied to historic anti-Jewish incidents. Notable instances of persecution include the Rhineland massacres preceding the First Crusade in 1096, the Edict of Expulsion from England in 1290, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, t... | Antisemitism | [
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791 | Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries. The root word "" gives the false impression that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic people, "e.g.", including Arabs and Assyrians. The compound word "antisemite" was popularized in Germany in 1879 as a scientific-sounding term for "Judenhass" ("Jew-hatred"), and t... | Antisemitism | [
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792 | of the "Semites" as a race]." Avner Falk similarly writes: 'The German word "antisemitisch" was first used in 1860 by the Austrian Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider (1816–1907) in the phrase "antisemitische Vorurteile" (antisemitic prejudices). Steinschneider used this phrase to characterise the French philosopher E... | Antisemitism | [
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793 | our misfortune" which would later be widely used by Nazis. According to Avner Falk, Treitschke uses the term "Semitic" almost synonymously with "Jewish", in contrast to Renan's use of it to refer to a whole range of peoples, based generally on linguistic criteria. According to Jonathan M. Hess, the term was originally ... | Antisemitism | [
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794 | Jewish Spirit over the Germanic Spirit. Observed from a non-religious perspective") in which he used the word "Semitismus" interchangeably with the word "Judentum" to denote both "Jewry" (the Jews as a collective) and "jewishness" (the quality of being Jewish, or the Jewish spirit). This use of "" was followed by a coi... | Antisemitism | [
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795 | the Jewish Spirit", 1880), presents a development of Marr's ideas further and may present the first published use of the German word " Antisemitismus", "antisemitism". The pamphlet became very popular, and in the same year he founded the "Antisemiten-Liga" (League of Antisemites), apparently named to follow the "Anti-K... | Antisemitism | [
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796 | published "Zwanglose Antisemitische Hefte", and Wilhelm Scherer used the term "Antisemiten" in the January issue of "Neue Freie Presse". The Jewish Encyclopedia reports, "In February 1881, a correspondent of the "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums" speaks of 'Anti-Semitism' as a designation which recently came into use (... | Antisemitism | [
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797 | 'Semitic' designates a language group, not a race. In this sense, the term is a misnomer, since there are many speakers of Semitic languages (e.g. Arabs, Ethiopians, and Assyrians) who are not the objects of anti-Semitic prejudices, while there are many Jews who do not speak Hebrew, a Semitic language. Though 'antisemi... | Antisemitism | [
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798 | consider the words 'Semitism', 'Semite', 'Semitic' as meaningful" whereas "in antisemitic parlance, 'Semites' really stands for Jews, just that." For example, Emil Fackenheim supported the unhyphenated spelling, in order to "[dispel] the notion that there is an entity 'Semitism' which 'anti-Semitism' opposes." Others e... | Antisemitism | [
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799 | to Carroll, who first cites O'Hare and Bauer on "the existence of something called 'Semitism'", "the hyphenated word thus reflects the bipolarity that is at the heart of the problem of antisemitism". Objections to the usage of the term, such as the obsolete nature of the term Semitic as a racial term, have been raised ... | Antisemitism | [
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800 | University of New York professor Helen Fein defines it as "a persisting latent structure of hostile beliefs towards Jews as a collective manifested in individuals as attitudes, and in culture as myth, ideology, folklore and imagery, and in actions—social or legal discrimination, political mobilization against the Jews,... | Antisemitism | [
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