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Barrier Island Migration
Harvested from Google Earth, this image speaks volumes on the issue of barrier island migration. The principle is that during periods of sea-level rise, barrier islands will “migrate” inland via erosion and long-shore transport of sediment followed by its deposition elsewhere. All this is fa... |
Growing Butter Bibb Lettuce
"Bibb" lettuce is known for its dark outer leaves, light yellow center and sweet flavor.
"Bibb" lettuce, a cultivar of butterhead lettuce, is known for its small head and smooth, dark green leaves with dark red edges. Butterhead lettuces form in loose heads with crumpled leaves that feel ... |
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Hump Day!
This morning in math we reviewed the difference between AM and PM and learned about a new anchor activity. The anchor activity is a board game that helps the students practice calculating elapsed time. While the students worked independently on elapsed time activities, Mrs. Arul work... |
In addition to p53 itself, the p53 tumor suppressor family is also made up of tumor protein 63 and tumor protein p73. Like p53, p63 functions as a transcription factor to regulate the cell cycle. Mutant TP63 is also related to many cancers. In contrast, mutant p73 or a lack p73 altogether apparently does not affect tu... |
Monday, 18 May 2015
Kehinde Wiley: Masterpieces With a Black Cast
"I know how young black men are seen."
Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley, "one of the most celebrated painters of his generation", is known for painting young larger-than-life men and women enacting a scene from an old-master painting. The contemporary clot... |
Friday, August 21, 2009
The pre-modern Korean popular music first appeared in the 1930s, heavily influenced by Japanese popular songs, Since Japan required the colonial administration in Korea to restrict all forms of artistic expression, Koreans had little opportunity to create their own modern genre. In the 1950s ... |
Friday, March 25, 2011
Nukes, Japan, Talk Radio, and Reality
The situation regarding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants is extremely serious if you're Japanese. Efforts to get the damage caused by the recent Tsunami under control is not succeeding, and at least one worst case scenario is realistically possibl... |
The “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” quite likely a modern forgery
Admittedly, “Jesus had a wife” is a more sensational headline than “Media outlets fooled by modern forgery.” But it seems the latter headline is more likely to be correct. My PhD supervisor, Professor Francis Watson, an expert in early Christian texts, makes a ... |
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This Synthetic Iris Could Repair Damaged Eyes and Advance Microrobotics
The eye is among the most fragile body parts in the human body. Until the last few decades, there wasn't much that doctors could do to improve damaged eyes or lost vision. Recently, a team of scientists at Finland's Tampere Un... |
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A felvételt készítette és szerkesztette Galambos László.
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What kind of corn make the largest ears?
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While I could not find which corn makes the largest ears, I would have to assume it is dent corn. The dent corn plant is the largest type, reaching 8 to 15 feet in height. Dent corn is the principal type grown in the United States and is widely used for fee... |
IDisposable, Done Right
IDisposable is a standard interface in the .NET framework that facilitates the deterministic release of unmanaged resources. Since the Common Language Runtime (CLR) uses Garbage Collection (GC) to manage the lifecycle of objects created on the heap, it is not possible to control the release and... |
Rational theology, an initial assumption
Either you think a proof for the existence of God is a necessary basis for a description of what he is like, or you don’t. Most Scholastic philosophy believes the first- not just it’s Aristotelian camp but also the Anselmian one. Most Analytic philosophy is in the second camp, ... |
What is pulmonary atresia?
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My daughter was born with pulmonary atresia. At the time I was clueless about it. I still find that most people have never heard of it - please can you explain what it is?
Senior cardiac nurse Christopher Allen says:
Pulmonary atresia is a type of congenital heart disea... |
Here's a special word to anyone who takes medication for diabetes that can cause low blood sugar. With a significant diet change, your medication may suddenly be too strong. This is true, even in people who have never had low blood sugar before.
Know how to recognize low blood sugar! It's common with a "low" to get a... |
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The Framers, at least those of who made significant contributions to our founding documents, were staunch advocates of republicanism
and individualism. First, I should say, the message of the Tea Party is by no means a sufficient representation of the Framer¶s views. The party lays claim as a ³grassroots´ movement [a ... |
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Christianity (Latin: Christianitas, from Greek, Khristos, the anointed one) is the monotheistic religion of those following the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, the purported messiah foretold by the people of Judaea. His life and works, depicted in the New Testament of the Bible, are the basis for the d... |
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Podcast: Will Airplanes Ever Fly Themselves?
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"Self-flying aircraft are even further off than self-driving cars."
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Penetrating the theory of space and time already exist in Islam and it will happen #IStandwithAhmed
When viewed in the dictionary, then we will find the term "buraq" which is defined as "the Beast vehicle Prophet Muhammad", he shaped left-right winged horse. In general use "buraq" means bird of paradise that the dicti... |
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History of Tau Foo Faa
Tau Foo Fah is a Chinese snack made with very soft tofu. It is also referred to as tofu pudding and soybean pudding. Tau Foo Faa is also known as other names in different countries across Asia. In China, Tau Foo Faa is known as Douhua, which is the short form of doufuhua. Tau foo faa or doufu is... |
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Nose Bleeding
Causes of Nose Bleeding most commonly are, trauma to the nose. Trauma to the outside of the nose, such as a blow to the face, or trauma inside the nose, such as nose picking or repeated irritation from a cold, can cause a nosebleed.
Less commonly, an underlying disease process,... |
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A simulation analysis to optimize orbits for a tropical GPS radio occultation mission
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Space-based Radio Occultation (RO) measurements using a GPS receiver on a low Earth orbiter (LE... |
Using decorators with python
Decorators are quite often used in python code. It makes stuff lot more easier. Consider this awesome decorator in django.
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login_required is said to be a decorator, and some_view is said to be the decorated function. This decorator ensures that... |
I was working on a praxctice program and wanted some numbers fixed dollar amounts to 2 decimal places while others to be displayed as plain old ints. I used this code, but noticed that now ALL numbers are set as fixed 2 place decimals. Is this how fixed and setprecisioun are supposed to work, or is it only supposed to ... |
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Why is this line of reasoning wrong?
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A line of charge λ is located on the z-axis. Determine the electric flux for a rectangular surface with corners at coordinates: (0, R, 0), (w, R, 0), (0, R, L), and (w, R, L).
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Network is to connect two or more computers together with the ability to communicate with each other. Networking is to link two or more computing devices together for the purpose of sharing data.
It provides design, programming, development and operational support for LANs, WANs and other networks. A local area networ... |
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An exhaust pipe must be carefully designed to carry toxic and/or noxious gases away from the users of the machine. Indoor generators and furnaces can quickly fill an enclosed space with carbon monoxide or other poisonous exhaust gases if they are not properly vented to the outdoors. Also, the ga... |
Technology Insight Report: Carbon Nanotubes in Energy Storage Devices
Carbon Nanotubes with their extraordinary properties in terms of strength, thermal and electrical properties are poised to have a big impact on the future of material sciences, electronics and nanotechnology. Owing to their specialized structures an... |
Friday, February 14, 2014
Cantigas de Amigo
The cantigas de amigo, or "songs of a lover," are a genre of lyric poetry written in Galaic-Portuguese (a language ancestral to modern Portuguese and Galician) during the 12th and 13th centuries in the northwestern Iberian, reaching its zenith during the reign of Alfonso X ... |
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Star Trek Lives!
The search for Spock is over. The famous Vulcan turned out to be a 42-year-old Canadian man. The science journal, New Scientist, says that during surgery, dark-green blood was discovered flowing through the man's arteries. Normally, healthy human blood is dark-red because of th... |
Monday, 25 April 2011
The Return Of the Veil
Young American Muslim women have come to view the hijab as a symbol of liberation rather than repression.
Published in the Wall Street Journal on April 25th 2011, Copyright, All Rights Reserved.
Newspapers are full of stories about European governments debating whether t... |
Packaging Toys Appropriately When Placing In Storage
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If you have several old toys that your child does not play with any longer, and you wish to keep them in a storage unit in case you have another baby in the future, you will want to package the items appropriately so they do not suff... |
Monday, 1 June 2015
Negative Hallucinations & Selective Attention
Human Perception
What is a negative hallucination?
A negative hallucination is a common psychological phenomenon which most of us experience several times throughout our lives. Negative hallucinations happen when we find ourselves spending a significa... |
Resources for Children, Adults and Pregnant Women
Recommendations on how to use vaccines to stop dangerous diseases in the United States are made by a group of medical and public health professionals called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The ACIP makes different recommendations for vaccines d... |
This Molecular Leaf Uses The Sun To Turn CO2 Into A Fuel
This Molecular Leaf Uses The Sun To Turn CO2 Into A Fuel
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“If you can create an efficient enough molecule for this reaction, it will produce energy that is free and storable in the form of fuels,” says study leader Liang-shi Li, as... |
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Monday, December 27, 2010
Aboriginal Living Standards Still too Low
On 27th May 1967, a referendum was held to change the constitution. It wasn't about giving Aboriginal people the vote - they already had that - it meant Aborigines would be counted in the census and to empower the federal government ... |
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This week’s task is to focus on an object in your environment, preferably an object from the natural world, to really examine it, to try and see it with utmost clarity, and to wait for the word, that first word or phrase that seems to capture, for you, the essence, in language, of that object. Then use that word... |
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(I.E: Michael Hallock) Digression' (parekbasis in Greek, egressio, digressio and excursion in Latin) is a section of a composition or speech that marks a temporary shift of subject; the digression ends when the writer or speaker returns to the main topi... |
Two NAS Reports on Geoengineering Techniques for the Removal of Greenhouse Gases
National Academy Press
Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration
Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth
[Dot Earth] The panels’ overarching bottom line is straightforward:
There is no su... |
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The Tallest Buildings in the World
From earliest times, human beings have sought to challenge themselves, searching for the unattainable and the unreachable. Reaching upwards towards the unknown is a physical manifestation of our constant desire to free ourselves of our earthly bonds and launch ou... |
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Sachsen- Anhalt, capital Magdeburg is the largest city in the state. It is the 8th largest state of Germany in respect to size and 10th largest in population.
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Classroom Technology: Who are the State Leaders?
Mar 31 2011
Technology in the Classroom
The more technology is developing in our country, the more parents, teachers, and administrators are concerned about making sure that students understand how to use it. Schools are now integrating technol... |
Cluster of Civilizations
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How They Get Along in the Modern World
Vladimir Khoros - Doctor of History, is Head of the Center for Development and Modernization Problems of the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russia.
Resume: Our oikumene will have to be recognized as multi-c... |
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Movements of the Moon - Part III
If you haven't already, read Part I and Part II of this series first.
Today's post will explain the difference between the Moon's synodic month and sidereal month. The synodic ("with the Sun") month, as already discussed, is the cycle of lunar phases (a lunat... |
The Importance Of Electrolytes
April 13th, 2011
I wanted to share an interesting article that I found recently as we will soon be in the heat of summer and sweating quite a bit. Losing electrolytes will have a negative impact on our health if it goes unchecked and therefore will impact the condition of our skin negat... |
Friday, January 21, 2011
Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day!
Because we should always appreciate our small, furry friends.
*There are 365 species of squirrel. Maybe we should start a "Squirrel Species Appreciation Day" with a new species every day. It would make an awesome desk calendar.
*Once a female squirrel breeds... |
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2. The Framebuffer
Image displays using cathode ray tubes (CRT) or the more modern flat panel displays (LCD) work by repeatedly reading out "frames" from digital memory - the framebuffer - using a controller. This is required since the display technology itself cannot store a picture a sufficie... |
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Theory of Ethos: Scale Contstruction
"That's why we learn this 'theory' stuff. It's kind of useless by itself, but as a way of describing sounds and identifying sounds it starts to become really helpful." Guthrie Govan
Let's talk about rules and language. There's a narrative that plays o... |
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Natural gas burns cleaner than conventional gasoline or diesel due to its lowercarbon content. When used as a vehicle fuel, it can offer life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions benefits over conventional fuels, depending on vehicle type, drive cycle, and engine calibration. In addition, ... |
Students Learn and Grow with a Roof-Top Garden
By: Suzanne B. Bopp | March/April 2010
One parent’s inspiration to get kids to grow their lunch.
At St. Philip’s Academy, a private K-8 school in Newark, New Jersey, the gym roof boasts a 4,500-square-foot garden, thanks to Frank Mentesana. A former food stylist and co-... |
How to Stop Migraine Numbness
Numbness in the hand, arm, face or tongue is a common sign of an imminent migraine attack. Once you experience an early warning sign, the migraine process is well underway, so it is important to know how to avoid your migraine triggers. Avoiding these triggers is the only way to prevent ... |
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Botnet : What Is It?
This article is designed to explain botnets, give an example of usage, and provide some good examples.
A botnet is a group of computers or servers all compromised with the same backdoor. The interesting thing about botnets is... |
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Music is a vital part of our tradition of worship and allows us, as individuals and as a congregation, to raise our voices in song to the Glory of God, to worship our Savior, Jesus Christ and to feel the presense of the Holy Spirit.
The Episcopal Church cu... |
Introduction: Electric Eraser
In this Instructable, I will show you how to make a Electric Eraser out of a motor,a small box,and a 1.5 volt battery.This can be very useful to eraser mistakes fast!!
Step 1: Objects You Need
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It's often said that the greatest thrill in science is to be first to observe a new phenomenon of nature. For nuclear physicists that means being present at the creation of an element, glimpsing for an instant a new kind of matter.
But science's most painful experience is having to withdraw a claim of discovery -- bec... |
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Kinetic sculptures are examples of kinetic art in the form of sculpture or three dimensions. In common with other types of kinetic art, kinetic sculptures have parts that move or that are in motion. Sound sculpture can also, in some cases, be considered kinetic sculpture. The motion of the work ca... |
Representations of mental disorders
In media
In modern day Britain, mental health is represented in
In our film, our character is shown to be suffering from some mental illness as well as sadness or depression. He is depicted in suicidal and self destructive states, one example of this is the shots of him hangin... |
Our Town
The book Our Town is a play written by Thorton Wilder in 1938. The play uses very little props and makes the audience use their imagination. People all are very different but they all experience the same things.
The daily life is mostly the same for all people across the world. In the play Ms. Gibbs wakes up ... |
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itwbennett writes "A new data center being built in Helsinki, scheduled to go live at the end of January, will generate energy and deliver hot water for the city. The data center is located in an old bomb shelter and is connected to t... |
Gone are the days when all a woman must do is stay caged within the four walls of her house. This is a new era, her era. Women have broken the shackles of the society and left their mark on all walks of life. In the last decade women have made huge leaps from not having the right to vote and get education to contesting... |
With the start of suffrage at Seneca Falls in the mid-19th century, feminism has continued to be a main topic in society. Feminism is the belief that men and should have equal rights (Merriam-Webster). Thanks to the women who worked hard and spoke out when it wasn’t the thing to do, women have the right to vote, have t... |
Wind power 'cheapest NI renewable option'
The Northern Ireland (NI) Government believes that renewable sources may eventually be able to provide up to 42 per cent of electricity generation, with wind power being the cheapest option.
In a statement published on eGov Monitor, NI Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Inves... |
Kids in Court
Kids in Court
The teenage mind is often a place of confusion, stress, growth and developing maturity. As people grow, their minds develop at different rates. They learn what is morally right and wrong, self control, mature thinking and how to handle difficult situations. The longer people live the mor... |
The Creation Report in Genesis 1 - Creation and Evolution
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P.Rüst (2011), a short review of some important aspects for the interpretation of the creation report in Genesis 1:1-2:4 and the difference betwee... |
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Thinking Schools Tigrai, Ethiopia
By Dagim Melese & Atsede Teshayou
We conducted an interview at Hitsets Primary School with the mathematics teacher Zeray Kidane.
hitsets math teacher 2Here were the interview questions and their responses:
Q: what do you think are the powerful uses of Thinking Maps?
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Rockwool is a special type of wool that is used for decorating. It has many advantages over normal wool, First, one piece of dye can dye 8 pieces of Rockwool so you don't need as much dye when you use Rockwool. Secondly, Rockwool can be redyed to any other color, whereas normal wool has to be bleached before it can be ... |
Symptoms Of Age Related Hearing Loss And How To Treat In Different Methods
As humans, as age increases there are changes in body systems and functions. Usually, the capacity of body parts drops as age goes up especially 60 years upward. Hearing loss is one of those diseases that is age related. Some people experience ... |
It is said that ` Hemingway’s heroes learn from the pain and suffering they undergo. Explain it in the case of Santiago?
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A capitalist is running a magazine. Magazine is a ‘commodity’. The public buys that magazine and pays its value. The exchange that takes place between the magazine and the money that the buyer pays is ‘simple exchange’. The journalists (including the editor) working in this magaz... |
Parc du Château
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It’s hard to miss Parc du Château, the 92-meter high rock. This was Nice’s first settled spot. The extravagant castle Colline du Château once adorned the top, but was destroyed by Louis XIV in the 18th century.
Other medieval ruins are visible, such as a pedestria... |
First Aid for Foreign Object in the Skin
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When foreign objects enter the skin, they may pierce through it superficially or embed themselves deep inside the skin. This condition can be dealt with self-treatment, however, if unexpected or ... |
Mesothelioma Asbestos Exposure
Mesothelioma Asbestos Exposure
Mesothelioma Asbestos ExposureOne of the most common materials that were put to use for industrial purposes in the twentieth century was Asbestos. Unfortunately, Asbestos has also proven to be one of the most deadly industrial materials, because inhaling t... |
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The British man who developed and deployed solid fuel military rockets, the “rockets red glare” referenced in our American national anthem, was born today in 1772. Now WE know em
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet was born May 20, 1772 in Kent, England.
He grew up to be educated in law at Trinity College, Cambridge, ... |
Let’s face it, we all feel a little bit icky when we think about toilet water generally.
If we are asked to think about transforming wastewater into drinking water, our stomachs are likely to respond with an indignant flip of protest. As much as the brain may try to reason, our natural impulses are stubborn, so while ... |
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It’s nuclear physics 101: Radioactivity proceeds at its own pace. Each type of radioactive isotope, be it plutonium-238 or carbon-14, changes into another isotope or element at a specific, universal, immutable rate. This much has been known for more than a century, since... |
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Geography of Turkey and Cyprus Term Paper
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In the recent years, aid from Turkey has touched over $400 million per annum. ("Cyprus: CIA -- the World Factbook," n. d.)
In 1878, political conflicts started between the two communities when the Turkish Cypriots rejected the Greek Cypriots' desire... |
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A mass hangs from the ceiling of a box by an ideal spring. With the box held fixed, the mass is given an initial
velocity and oscillates with purely vertical motion. When the mass reache... |
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Suppose there was a king who loved a humble maiden. The king was like no other king. Every statesmen trembled before his power. No one dared breathe a word against him, for he had the strength to crush all his opponents. And yet this mighty king was melted by love for a humble maiden.
How could he ... |
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Today's engines monitor virtually every function to ensure your vehicle runs strongly and efficiently every day. One of the most important systems to monitor is the cooling system, which include... |
Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל, Yisrā'el), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, Medīnat Yisrā'el), is a parliamentary democracy in the Middle East, on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, Egypt in the southwes... |
Monday, April 28, 2008
Peppered Moths Pose a Problem for People who Posit Evolution as Probable
If you noticed the title, yes, I did have fun trying to see how many words I could come up with that started with 'P'. A few months ago, I talked about how the peppered moth story, which had been under fire, was being test... |
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A popular mood known as “Young America” emerged in the 1840s. Its adherents brashly promoted territorial and economic expansion and development of the United States, but displayed little concern or awareness of the practical consequences of such actions. OSullivan was pe... |
Detroit: "lowest population level since the 1910 census"
Detroit's Population Crashes
The flight of middle-class African-Americans to the suburbs fueled an exodus that cut Detroit's population 25% in the past decade to 713,777, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. That's the city's lowest population lev... |
Monday, March 3, 2014
Mokèlé-Mbèmbé, A Living Dinosaur? Part One: 1776 to 1939
Mokele-Mbembe according to Roy P. Mackal
Mokèlé-mbèmbé is a legendary water-dwelling creature of Congo River basin folklore, claimed to be a living sauropod by creationists and many cryptozoologists. In addition to a sauropod some claim t... |
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Yosef, Yishmael, and Esav
Recently, in the daf (Sanhedrin 12) we were offered a look into the concept of Moshiach ben Yosef, which is discussed in the Maharsha. The gemara itself speaks of a 'news brief' that was given to Rava. Due to the sensitive nature of the briefing, it was said to hi... |
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A Product Ahead of Its Time
In the years between 1920 and 1950, medical researchers began to identify and document the importance of nutrition to good health, identifying certain conditions as being caused solely by dietary deficiencies of a single nutritional component, vitamins. As a result the science o... |
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Mandela's Way
Pp 121-122
(The brutal head of the prison in which Mandela spent so many years was being transferred.)
“Badenhorst said to me something like, ‘I just want to wish you people g... |
Women Fight Back
Women Fight Back CoverWelcome to the study and discussion guide for Women Fight Back: The Centuries-Long Struggle for Liberation. Below you will find a list of questions for consideration and dialogue as you read through this new PSL publication (which can be purchased here).
These questions are mean... |
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One Misty Morning in Njabini, Kenya
Marlene taking photographs at the Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site
Woman clearing debris off matoke plant
A woman tends to her matooke farm
in Mbarara, west Uganda.
Words and photos by Marlene C. Francia
In Uganda, banana is everything.
It is the staple crop. It is the... |
Purpose, possibility and choice are values which can often be perceived as being absent amongst young people, yet they have so much to contribute, if only they felt confident enough to draw upon the basic human values, such as compassion, that we all share and through this knowledge find the inner courage to speak out ... |
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Photographs and Illustrations by Philip Dominguez Mercurio unless otherwised noted.
Edition 3. Copyright 2005, 2006, 2007. All rights reserved.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Extent of Kulintang Music
Chapter 3: The Make-up o... |
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