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The Tenor Banjo
Banjos originally were of the 5-string type (actually 3 strings and a drone played flailing style, made of gourd, skin wood and gut - see Beginnings). The Tenor Banjo did not emerge until some time after the 5-string banjo had been introduced to America and came into being a process of evolution.
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Definition of Enthalpy
Enthalpy is a thermodynamic measure of the thermal energy change in a reaction. An endothermic reaction is one with a positive enthalpy change, where heat is taken in to the system as the reaction takes place. An important example of an endothermic reaction is ice melting to form water. An exoth... |
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Writers think carefully not only about the words they use but also about the kind of sentences they write. Will they be long or short? Full of description or... |
The Challenges in Specialty Fires
The February Firehouse magazine TI training article discussed some of the challenges users can face onboard aircraft or ship fires. Online, we'll examine in more detail the advantages of a TI in these environments, as well as two more challenges specific to these fires.
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Since I last wrote about the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) outbreak in the U.S. last October, there has been a lot of stuff going on. Pigs, veterinarians, farmers, and the USDA have all been very busy. Here’s the latest.
The virus that causes PED is part of the swine enteric coronavirus diseases (SECD). Whil... |
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The History Of Frog Pigment
A frog is green not by design,
but by his own volition,
it started all with Father Rhine
where Grandpa did his fishing.
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Freud compared himself to an archaeologist digging away layers of the human mind, and identified three separate areas of the mind.
Freud (1915) described conscious mind, which consists of all the mental processes of which we are aware. For example, you may be feeling thirsty... |
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thromboplastin a substance found in animal tissue, esp. blood platelets, that assists in blood clotting by converting prothrombin to thrombin.
thrombosis an abnormal clotting of blood in the circulatory system.
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Nobo Borsho and Pahela Baishakh: The Past and the Present
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Mongol Shobha jatra on Pahela Baishakh. Photos: Anisur Rahman
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Loosen Up! How to Stretch Your Way to Flexibility
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Phase 1: Your muscles are tight. Tight-person anatomy lesson 101.
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Iowa Copes with Nitrate Surge in Drinking Water
Wed, 06/05/2013 - 10:31am
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For much of last year, Iowa's most pressing agricultural problem was a drought that baked farm fields and parched crops, turning them brown and crumbly. Then the skies finally opened up, prov... |
Are Fungi The Earth's Natural Internet?
Are Fungi The Earth's Natural Internet?
"I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react to change, and collectively have the long-term health of ... |
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Shivi (शिवी)[1] Shibi (शिबि)[2] Sibi (सिबी) Sibia (सिबिया) [3][4]Shibia (शिबिया)[5] is a gotra of Jats. Sibia is found in Punjab and Shivi in Uttar Pradesh. [6] Dilip Singh Ahlawat has mentioned it as one of the ruling Jat clans in Central Asia. [7]
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Operating systems
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PLAZA: A Comparative Genomics Resource to Study Gene and Genome Evolution in Plants[W]
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Patriot’s Day
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Listen, my children, and give a pause for the midnight ride of William Dawes. All right, so Longfellow knew he could get a better rhyme out of “hear” and “Revere,” but the result of his famous poem from “Tales of a Wayside Inn” is that Paul Revere’s fellow rider, Will... |
Despite being out shined by its rowdy neighbor to the south, Canada has its own plans of conquering the lunar frontier.
In an attempt to easily navigate upon the cratered surface of the Moon, a Canadian university is developing wheels for their upcoming rover that could enable to country to literally drive almost anyw... |
Juggling notation
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Juggling notation is the written depiction of concepts and practices in juggling.[1][2] Toss juggling patterns have a reputation for being "easier done than said" – while it might be easy to learn a given maneuver and demonstrate it f... |
Around five years ago I stumbled upon a small store in Regina, Canada named “One Thousand Villages.” The store sold small objects from earrings to miniature animals. All the objects in the store were made by locals from countries all over the world. An ivory elephant caught my eye. The elephant reminded me of one I had... |
The Dead Matador
Officially it’s the dog days of summer, and the National Gallery of Art a haven of experiences that are welcome in more ways than one.
Edouard Manet can easily be confused with Monet, last week’s subject, because the time of their painting, their names and styles are so close. Impressionism is asso... |
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This article is about the physical malady. For the mental disorder, see general paresis.
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Sinking Of The Cheonan And
The North Korea Problem
By Terrell E. Arnold
On July 21 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced new sanctions against North Korea. They were aimed ostensibly at nudging North Korea to abandon its effort to become a full-fledged nuclear power. However, the sanctions flow from the North... |
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Homeowners have long been aware that adding insulation makes sense. Actually, it makes "dollars and cents" -- in the form of energy savings.
Extra insulation means less fuel to buy, but there are incentives beyond fighting escalating energy bills. Homeowners can also get various tax benefits and do that much-discussed... |
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If cancer is fundamentally a genetic disease, how might an environmental factor such as smoking cause cancer?
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Executive order
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Interminority racism in the United States of America
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The known unknowns – the outstanding 49 questions in Earth sciences (Part I)
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Ball-and-stick image of hypothetical metallic crystal cells composed of one lithium, or Li, atom and six hydrogen, or H, atoms. The lithium-hydrogen compound is predicted to form under approximately 1 million atmospheres, which is one-fourth the amount of pressure required to metalize pure hydrogen. The ... |
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Although it's widely known that cancers use glucose, a simple sugar, to fuel their growth, this is the first time a link has been shown between and cancer proliferation, said Dr. Anthony Heaney, an associate professor of medicine and neurosurgery, a Jonsson Cancer Center researcher and senior author of... |
What about beans, lentils and soya?
If I had to run a poll asking people whether they thought beans and lentils were good for your health, I believe most people would respond, “Yes, they are”. I used to think so too, but after delving into the science and literature I have changed my opinion. I am going to try to expl... |
Are All Scars Equal?
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Are All Scars Equal?
We usually do not take the time to think about scars. We may admire a distinctive one from time-to-time or try to cover up ones on our faces. We see that they are different shapes and sizes but do not al... |
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CORRECTS TO WARSAW UPRISING - In this photo taken Tuesday, July 8, 2014, Kazimierz Mikos, 84, shows buildings in Sienna street in Warsaw, Poland, where in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising he had his insurgent lodgings. As a 14-year-old boy Mikos was a guard and messenger in Warsaw?s struggle against the ... |
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
How a tiny cluster of genes and proteins gave rise to zombie and vampire mythology.
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What is Social Budgeting?
While there is no single definition, the term social budgeting is the process by which society’s goals and priorities, as well as the rights of the entire population—inclu... |
Flowers in the Midwest
High temperatures and humidity can typically stop a bloom in its tracks, but not the heat-tolerant bloomers listed here. Flowers that thrive and prosper in the Midwest have the qualities of withstanding extreme heat and humidity without dropping a single bloom. With long humid summers, these tou... |
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Definition of 'Privately Owned'
A company that is not publicly traded on a securities exchange. The majority of companies are privately owned, usually by either one individual or by a small group of individuals. Although offering securities for sale to the public can be a good way to obtain large amou... |
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Communicating With Your Child's School
relationship-with-teacher-mother-on-phone If you have a child who is receiving special education services, you're more than likely to be very involved with your child's school and teacher—including planning, reviewing, and assessing your child's educational program. Over... |
Definición de extract en inglés:
Saltos de línea: ex|tract
Pronunciación: /ɪkˈstrakt
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[with object]
1Remove or take out, especially by effort or force: the fossils are extracted from the chalk
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Nephthys, Sister of Isis, Mistress of the House
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The Egyptian name of this goddess was Nebt-het (Neb-hut, Neb-hwt, Nebt-hut, Nebthet) which means "Mistress of the House": The goddess Nephthys on the Coffin... |
Different Types of Beer
Beer is one of the world’s oldest prepared beverages. Most historians think that the first fermented beverages came about around the time people started farming grain, roughly 12,000 years ago. Archaeologists studying the Sumerians in the Mesopotamia area have found evidence of beer production ... |
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Mars is a perennial topic of the spaceflight community. Our closest sister planet, Venus, is a hellish world whose surface we would be incapable of surviving on. The Red Planet, by contrast, is a relative... |
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brass (often pl.) a wind instrument usu. made of brass, such as a trumpet or horn. [3/6 definitions]
brass band a musical group or band composed mostly of brass instruments.
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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ is one of the most arguably books about politics. Machiavelli, once as an assistant Secretary to the State of the Republic of Florence, witnesses some tricks played by politicians or rulers, which are satirically written in this book. The political b... |
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The word technologist is sometimes used instead of engineers synonymously as it derives from the prefix Techno- and (from the Classical Greek word for "word") the suffix -logist, hence, someone who studies technology. However,... |
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Name of Activity Introduction to Motors
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Keywords motor, wire, batter, pulley, connection, electricity, axle, band, primary colors
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I was just wondering if it was possible to have a variable case using the keyboard? So the cases can be any choice from a to z and its completely variable eg: only choices a),b) and c) appear in one condition bur in another a),b),c),d) and e) might appear. Assume they all call the same functio... |
OLED power! New screens are solar panels, too
We sure enjoy the OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screens, since their impressive efficiency means they consume less power than other types of displays, not to mention their potential to make the screens flexible. They work on the principle of electroluminescence — the... |
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'Lost world' discovered in Australian rain-forest
Scientists have discovered a mini eco-system full of strange creatures in a remote territory of Australia. The 'lost world', as scientists are calling it, is believed to have remained undisturbed for millions of years.
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Quota sampling
Quota sampling is a type of non-probability sampling technique. Non-probability sampling focuses on sampling techniques that are based on the judgement of the researcher [see our article Non-probability sampling to learn more about non-probability sampling]. This article explains (a) what quota sampling... |
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Edible Fire Safety Tutorial for Kids and Scouts
With the recent drought and wildfires in this country, teaching kids fire safety is even more important than ever.
Edible fire safety lesson for Scouts
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【Fujitsu】 FACOMα (Alpha)
This was a computer from Fujitsu specifically designed for high-speed processing of the Lisp language. In the early 1980s, there was active research and development on artificial intelligence throughout the world. The α (Alpha) computer -- designed specifically for high-speed processing of the... |
The Eight Golden Rules of Dialog Design
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Respiratory Shock
Trauma to the respiratory tract (trachea, lungs) that causes a reduction of oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange. Body cells cannot receive enough oxygen.
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The directions on the magnetic compass.
The 4 main points are North, South, East and West (going clockwise they are NESW).
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A fast day associated with the new moon.
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Withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization: the kingdom of Belgium seceded from the Netherlands in 1830
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Clean energy technology isn't perfect, but it's still doing fine, despite what critics say.
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The Problem of Emptiness
Premise 1: Our genes seek to reproduce themselves.
Premise 2: Our emotions and desires are part of our biology, which is a manifestation of our genes.
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Friday, 31 August 2012
CNC drilling machine - testing everything
This is one of the most exciting blog posts for a while. After working on the CNC drilling machine as part of the BuildBrighton £50 CNC challenge for a few weeks, we're actually at the point of putting software, hardware, nc drill parsing and motor cont... |
Language isolate
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Human skin has been shown to contain a specific olfactory receptor that is activated by the odor of sandalwood and produces a chain of reactions that promotes the healing of wounds. Dr. Hanns Hatt... |
We are so excited to announce our new Hawaiian Language Course. What an interesting native language.
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Love Is Not The Opposite Of Hate; Law Is
Law is essential to Judaism, establishing an external set of moral guidelines.
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Caltech engineers developing MEMS robots to position electrodes in the brain
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Apple's first hit, the Apple II, takes off in large part due to the spreadsheet program VisiCalc. In the 1980s, thousands of programs such as Aldus' Pagemaker, for desktop publishing, make the Mac a hit.
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AMERICANS may no longer fret about being showered with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, but the idea that an atom bomb might enter their country in a shipping container or on the back of a lorry is still one that keeps the security services awake at night. They may sleep more easily, though, if an idea being develope... |
German warplanes cross the sky. Explosions flash. Shell-shocked villagers stagger out of their damaged homes and begin to grieve. “Before,” says Ernest Hemingway in his flat Midwestern accent, “death came when you were old or sick. But now it comes to all this village. High in the sky and shining silver, it comes to ... |
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As the City of Palo Alto grew during the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s, it began to annex the land to its south. The hotel area along old Highway 101 (now El Camino Real) and the neighborhoods south of Oregon Avenue became new Palo Alto acquisitions. But cou... |
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D-Day, 70 years later
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in an attempt to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation.
"D-Day", as this invasion was known, was one of the most decisive and innovative battles not only of World War II, but of western civilization.
Those in... |
Church Hill Tunnel
east tunnel portal
inside the tunnel
railroad track
the wall, with Random for scale
A lone brick fell from the arched ceiling, crashing onto one of the ten railroad flatcars stopped in the tunnel below.
"Watch out, she's a-comin' in!" shouted the fireman in the locomotive.
At that moment in ... |
May 8, 2012 7:54 PM by Andy Koen
Local start up aims to harness wave energy
Atargis Energy Corporation was founded in 2010 by Air Force Academy aeronautics professor Dr. Stefan Siegel, Ph.D. The company is currently building a 1/10th scale prototype in their facility on Janitell Road for testing at tested at the Hyd... |
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