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Mr. Guwam Leklam and his family used to suffer every time it rained when they lived in their mud and wattle house in the background.
Mr. Guwam Leklam celebrates at the dedication of his new house. “I have already advised my friends to apply fo... |
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Cold War foreign policy doctrine of President Richard M. Nixon, formally enunciated in an address to the nation on 3 November 1969. The Nixon Doctrine called for the United States to continue to meet all its current treaty commitments and to... |
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Angels are celestial beings, who are not visible to ordinary mortals and thus belong to the category of ''unseen beings'', covered by the term 'ghaib'. Belief in angels in one of the cardinal art... |
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Overview of Feline Leukemia Virus and Related Diseases
Despite the widespread use of vaccines, feline leukemia virus (FeLV) remains one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in cats. It causes a variety of malignancies, but persistent infection can also cause severe immunosuppression ... |
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The Thai Labour Museum - A History of Strife, Sweat and Toil
By Eric Lim
The Thai Labour Museum is housed in a modest single story red building by the railway line near the Makkasan railway station. The building used to be the railway police station, then the ra... |
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Cracking the Gene Frontier
In a first of its kind, a group of Indian scientists from across the country have decoded the entire genetic makeup of a bacterium without the help of any foreign scientists. What makes this project even more notable is that it might help create a strong tuberculo... |
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Old English
Old English was the language used by Anglo-Saxtons from around 450 to 1150 that used many German words, was formal and was very different from modern English.
The language that the book Beowulf is written in is an example of Old English.
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Historically, stocks have produced greater returns than bonds, yet many investors have consistently shied away from stocks. In the long term, looking beyond the current recession, such prudence seems counterintuitive: average annual returns on S&P 500 stocks approached 12.5 percent between 1950 and 2008. During the sam... |
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Whales Alive! - Vol. X No. 2 - April 2001
Four Case Studies: Issues, Struggles, And Solutions
By William Rossiter, CSI President
What do four diverse species of cetaceans thousands of miles apart have in common? All are threatened by human impacts. The following articles outline issue... |
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Introduction to How Lethal Injection Works
For thousands of years, many governments have punished people convicted of certain crimes by putting them to death, using various means to accomplish this. The d... |
Siemens Natural Gas Plant Sets New Efficiency Record
Siemens announced this week that it has completed testing of a combined-cycle, natural gas generating plant near Ingolstadt, in Bavaria. Rated at 340 MW in gas-only mode, the test run was so successful, the plant now is expected to achieve a rated output of 370 MW, ... |
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IP address location data can include information such as country, region, city, postal/zip code,3 latitude, longitude and timezone.4 Deeper data sets can determine other parameters such as domain name, connection speed, ISP, language, proxies, company name, US DMA/MSA, NAICS codes, and ... |
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An illusion called 'greater Tibet area'
In the hall of the so-called "Tibetan government in exile" in Dharamsala, India, there is a large map of the supposed "greater Tibet area".
The area covers the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province, one-fifth of the Xinjiang Uy... |
Proper Blood Clean Up
Exposure to potentially hazardous blood is a very real concern for anyone working in a youth-focused or community-based organization. When a child gets a bloody nose or someone stubs their toe on the diving board you might be asked to clean it up. After all, we don’t want the general public to be... |
Inventor’s Day at RCK
Creative students in Nancy Kane's fifth-grade classroom at Ruth C. Kinney Elementary celebrated "Inventor's Day" on March 8 as a culmination of a three-part project.
Each student first read a biography about an inventor and completed a research paper about the inventor's life.
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Tail - Structure of the Sperm
The tail or flagellum is the longest part of the sperm. By its movement it causes the sperm to swim with the head forward. It consists of a thin layer of cytoplasm surrounded by plasmalemma. The axial filament is the main part of the tail or flagell... |
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Everything is in a name: this northern port of modern-day Poland began as 'Gyddanyzc', continued as Gdansk, converted to Danzig, and then reverted back to Gdansk. In that litany lies the story.
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Big Cats
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Pound was always a really big fan of the big cats: tigers, panthers, lynxes—you name it. And one of the reasons he likes big cats so much is because they're traditionally associated with Dionysius, t... |
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Nasa is exploring ways to use tractor beams in future robotic probe missions. The agency has recently awarded a team of engineers $100,000 (£62,500) to study three experimental techniques for trapping small particles with lasers.
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Old World monkeys are found in Africa, Central to southern Asia, Japan, and India; New World monkeys are found in Mexico and Central and South America; Marmosets and tamarins are found in Central and South America
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Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited was a bestseller in England and the U.S. in the 1940s and a huge success as a BBC and PBS series in the 1980s. In her compelling and insightful biography, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead, Paula Byrne shows how personal the book was for Waugh. He wrote the ... |
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Dur Sharrukin is an ancient city of Assyria, now Khorsabad in Iraq.
The ruins of king Sargon II's city and palace were excavated there in the 1840s by the French consul at Mossul, Pierre-Émile Botta. Reliefs from the palace c... |
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Wakasa History and Folklore Museum, Fukui, Japan
Early humans were cooking fish 12,000 years ago in pots like this reconstructed early vessel from Torihama, Japan.
"It is the oldest example of cooking in pottery," Oliver Craig, a senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of York, told NBC News... |
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The erroneous claim in the study was that the temperature anomaly in 2020 would be 2.4ºC above pre-industrial. This is obviously very different from the IPCC projections:
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It lies, of course, in the combination of the strictest realism of detail with a fairy-tale unrealism of general atmosphere.
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The iPod Generation: going deaf?
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Scientists are claiming that the increased use of headphones amongst those trend-lovin' young hipsters is damaging their hearing. Robert Novak, director of clinical education in audi... |
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It’s no secret that members of the Armed Forces have to follow a strict set of guidelines about how they present themselves. This includes facial hair, although the rules have changed over time, and they differ around the world. The ability to grow a beard is often c... |
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For other uses and a list of blue holes, see Blue hole (disambiguation).
The Great Blue Hole, located near Ambergris Caye, Belize
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This article is about the concept of expectation as a thought or belief. For expectation in the context of probability theory and statistics, see expected value.
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Sakamoto Ryoma is often portrayed in the Japanese media for his role in attempting to overthrow the shogunate during the Bakumatsu period. Since he was assassinated when he was still very young, the Japanese media are very sympathetic to his cause. I wonder how much of a role did he actually p... |
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To bee or not to bee?Sep 22 2014
Sometimes, bees don't want to be domesticated. The rules of nature, laid down in genetic code and behavioral norms over hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, are difficult to bend. John Knight discovered this while exploring beekeeping as a new h... |
Republic of the Sudan
Area: 2.5 million sq. km. (967,500 sq. mi.); the largest country in Africa and almost the size of continental U.S. east of the Mississippi River.
Cities: Capital--Khartoum (pop. 1.4 million). Other cities--Omdurman (2.1 million), Port Sudan (pop. 450,000), Kassala, Kosti, Juba (capital of sout... |
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magic-moneyThere’s been a certain amount of hyperventilating over a recent explanation paper from the Bank of England showing that banks simply create money every time they sign someone up for a new loan. Here’s an example of such breathlessness from David Graeber, the anthropologist and political activist.
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The protected, bucolic forests of the Hoh, Quinault, Queets and Bogachiel river valleys respresent the most beautiful of what remains of the temperate rain forests that once stretched from southeast Alaska to southern Oregon.
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Oligarch, budgetnik, lokh: Russian slang for the rich and the poor
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One newly popular word in Russian colloquial speech is oligarch. Previously, its use was confined to history books; now it is part of everyday Russian vocabulary. Its meaning has also changed: One n... |
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1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
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During the Civil War the average soldier was more likely to die from diseases contracted in camp than from wounds received in battle. In order to combat camp diseases the United States Sanitary Commission called for less crowding ... |
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Today is Thursday, June 19, the 170th day of 2014. There are 195 days left in the year.
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On June 19, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved by the U.S. Senate, 73-27, after surviving a lengthy filibuster. Hours late... |
Better Tests Needed to Control Tuberculosis
A disease that seems like it should belong to some past century is doing just fine in this one, as the World Health Organization reports a slowdown in progress against tuberculosis.
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What Does Medicaid Cover ?
Medicaid is a largest health-related service provider for people with limited income and certain other eligible individuals, in the United States.
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Free-Range Chicken Gardens: Choosing Your Flock
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To celebrate the publication of Free-Range Chicken Gardens, we’re giving away a chicken garden start-up kit — including a coop plan, seeds for chicken-friendly plants, chicken feed, and more (including... |
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
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How to write a formula $A(x, y)$ which represents the relation $(y=f(x))$ in True Arithmetic? The formula for $A(x, y)$ can use a formula $B(c, d, i, y)$ that represents the graph of Godel $β$ function $(y=β(c, d, i))$
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Obesity stigma prevalent in online news coverage
Obese individuals shown in online news images are frequently portrayed in a negative and stigmatizing way, according to a study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. The study is published online in the Journal of Health Communication.
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Many punctuation marks have different uses—think of the comma—but only a few leap off the page to a reader’s eye—as you can tell from this sentence.
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Young athletes dealing with more repetitive-use injuries
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With school starting back up, it's no surprise doctors are starting to see some high school kids with football injuries.
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napping toddlerUp to 70% of children under age five have sleep problems. Sleep issues are complicated and have many causes. They're hard to deal with because when children aren't sleeping, parents aren't sleeping, and that lack of sleep affects every minute of eve... |
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A range of factors influence a seemingly simple transaction.
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To the contrary, it changes across time and space, in response to the movements it opposes.
Public universities across the country are engaged in an all-out war for out-of-state students.
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An arm MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan is a imaging method that uses powerful magnets and radio waves to create pictures of the the upper and lower arm, including the elbow, wrist, hands, fingers, and the surrounding muscles and other tissues.It does not use radiation (x-rays).S... |
Study: Looking at Own Facebook Profile Bad for Brain
After spending five minutes looking at their own profiles, students did significantly worse on a simple math test.
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The Psychology of Stereotypes
In a world of survival of the fittest, it makes sense that animals are hard-wired with a basic instinct that has them making snap judgments about their predators.
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Israeli archaeologist discovers secrets of Sobibor death camp
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When Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi decided to investigate his family's unknown Holocaust history, he turned to the skill he knew best: He began to dig.
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Get ready to play some wicked air harp
Who needs a tactile interface when you can wave your hands in the air to make music? Air String makes that possible and surprisingly it does so without the use of a Kinect sensor.
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D-Day preparation and the invasion of Normandy
A large number of American troops flooded into Britain as part of Operation Bolero. The initial invasion plans drafted during the 1943 Operation Round-up were criticised as too narrow by the newly appointed Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Gener... |
Worldwide SETI Effort Revisits Stellar Neighbors
Today astronomers are kicking off a worldwide marathon to look for messages from any alien civilizations that might inhabit nearby stars.
Astronomers are aiming radio and optical telescopes at selected targets in the chance a "Hello, how are you?" message comes our wa... |
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Newton's laws mean game, set, match
Andy Roddick at the 2006 Australian Open
Andy Roddick has the world's fastest serve at 240 kilometres an hour but the sky's the limit. Researchers say physics doesn't set an upper limit for service speed (Image: Reuters/Adrees Latif)
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The Characters (Masterpieces of American Fiction)
Annie Dillard develops the first half of the book by focusing on the individual sagas of single characters, family groups, or thematically linked pairs of characters. Each subsequent section also moves forward in time in terms of the waves of set... |
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The Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental policy-oriented discussion group of about 325 distinguished citizens from North America, the European Union, and Japan which seeks to foster mutual issues for which these principal democratic... |
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powerkidBody language can shape who you are. What kind of piper do you want to be? It might just start with how you stand and how you present yourself to your audience.
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The jawbreaker is a type of hard, round candy that is ideally so difficult to bite down on that it must be sucked. Jawbreakers range from the size of a hazel nut to the size of a golf ball, and come in many flavors and colors. They are popular with children, and often sold in vending machines. Though originally a trade... |
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The object is better backup
New object-based backup may forever change the way backup is done. It drastically reduces volumes by backing up only the data that has changed.
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This goblet could have been made in either Venice or in the Low countries by an immigrant glassblower. X-ray fluorescence testing (using the Brucker X-ray fluorescence spectrometer) on this 16th century goblet revealed significant impurities, suggesting the glass is not... |
Fig. 5. Illustration of the complexities of bird migration, when information on connectivity of areas is considered, even within a single species. Here, U.S. Bird Banding Laboratory data on banding and recovery events in breeding and winter seasons of Greater White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons) are plotted on a map o... |
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