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When he was sixteen years of age, Beowulf was challenged by one of his companions, Breca by name, to a swimming race in the sea. He accepted the challenge because he had been calle... |
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1. Caelum(noun)
a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Columba and Eridanus
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A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a chisel.
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The sgian dubh is one of the small details which give even more historical significance to the whole kilt outfit. Tucked into the top of the kilt hose, a sgian dubh is the small, single edged knife worn with the top of the hilt visible against your calf. Its origins are far from clear, and though it has become purely o... |
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Because of the low-voltage operation of twisted pair and coaxial cables, effective surge protection is critical to avoid problems with electrical communications equipment.
What do programmable logic controllers (PLCs), multiplexers (MUXs), highway unit bulbs (HUBS), remote terminal units (RTUs), supervisory control an... |
Shingo River
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Shingo river (blue) meeting the Dras river in Dalunang
The Shingo River is a tributary of the Suru River, and flows through the Ladakh region. The Shingo river enters India from Pakistan-administered Kashmir and meets the Dras River, comin... |
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Crash Course Chapter 6: What Is Money?
Before we begin our tour through the Economy, the Environment, and Energy, we need to share a common understanding of this thing called money.
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Château d'Arc-en-Barrois
Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois was an emergency evacuation hospital serving the French 3rd Army Corps during World War I.[1] It was organised and staffed by British volunteers and served... |
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Order: Odonata
Family: Coenagrionidae
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Thanks to a Canadian company and Russian members of the ISS crew, humans will soon be able to view a steady stream of near real-time images of Earth. In... |
Happy Birthday, Sliced Bread! The 'Greatest Thing' Turns 85 This Week
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FFT FOR DUMMIES, by Renato Romero
Many years have passed since a radioamateurs' s ability only was in his ear. The home computer diffusion and the very many software free distributions made possible for everyone the DSP function. That is Digital Signal Processing. Spectrogram, FFT and Frequency Resolution became fa... |
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This is the LiftPort Group's basic model for its proposed Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure, also known as LSEI or "Elsie." LiftPort says the system can be constructed within eight years using commercial technology.
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Solar-Powered Plane On Final Leg Of Historic Flight
The Solar Impulse flew out of Dulles International Airport a little before 5 a.m. en route to New York City. The flight plan for the revolutionary plane takes it past the Statue of Liberty before landing at New York’s JFK Airport early Sunday.
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For the first time in U.S. history, whites of European ancestry account for less than half of newborn children, marking a demographic tipping point that is already changing the nation's politics, economy and workforce.
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Hillary Clinton Explains Why America Needs Marriage Equality | Print |
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ON A hazy summer afternoon, before the giant thunder clouds have had chance to unleash their fury, one of the most breath-taking sights you can witness is the Painted Desert of northern Arizona looming iridescently out of the mist. Even after swooping among the spectacular outcrops, mesas and buttes of Sedona, or nosin... |
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Why Christmas Should be More Commercial
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Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as “materialistic”; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist inju... |
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During WWII, nearly 14,000 American civilians were interned by the Japanese military and about 1,500 died due to the harsh treatment during their captivity. The majority of them were kept in internment camps in the Philippines.
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This article is about the drawings of Palmer Cox. For the fictional beings, see Brownie (folklore). For junior Girl Guides, see Brownie (Girl Guides).
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Concussions: Why Woodpeckers Don’t Get Them
Microscopic scan of a woodpecker's cranial bone. Courtesy of Science Life.
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How chromosome ends influence cellular aging
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By studying processes that occur at the ends of chromosomes, a team of Heidelberg researchers has unravelled an important mechanism towards a better understanding of cellular aging. The scientists focused on the length ... |
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