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1,200 | Control loop In all cases, a control loop diagram is a very convenient and useful way of representing the control function and its interaction with plant. In practice at a process control level, the control loops are normally abbreviated using standard symbols in a Piping and instrumentation diagram, which shows all el... |
1,201 | Inclusive Democracy David Freeman argues that Fotopoulos' approach in that book "is not openly anarchism, yet anarchism seems the formal category within which he works, given his commitment to direct democracy, municipalism and abolition of state, money and market economy". Fotopoulos describes as "a new conception of ... |
1,202 | DC-to-DC converter Power transmission in a flyback circuit is limited by the amount of energy that can be stored in the core, while forward circuits are usually limited by the I/V characteristics of the switches. Although MOSFET switches can tolerate simultaneous full current and voltage (although thermal stress and el... |
1,203 | Breadboard For high-frequency development, a metal breadboard affords a desirable solderable ground plane, often an unetched piece of printed circuit board; integrated circuits are sometimes stuck upside down to the breadboard and soldered to directly, a technique sometimes called "dead bug" construction because of its... |
1,204 | Life expectancy was under 25 years in the early Colony of Virginia, and in seventeenth-century New England, about 40 percent died before reaching adulthood. During the Industrial Revolution, the life expectancy of children increased dramatically. The under-5 mortality rate in London decreased from 745 in 1730–1749 to 3... |
1,205 | Canton Viaduct In a letter to Canton's Board of Selectmen on February 27, 2002, former Police Chief Peter Bright noted that Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency training for worst-case situations highlights the destruction of the for its disruption of the national railroad system; the Federal Government also consi... |
1,206 | Regulation of hydraulic fracturing Countries using or considering to use hydraulic fracturing have implemented different regulations, including developing federal and regional legislation, and local zoning limitations. In 2011, after public pressure France became the first nation to ban hydraulic fracturing, based on t... |
1,207 | Authoritarian socialism Critical of the economy and government of socialist states, left communists such as the Italian Amadeo Bordiga argued that Marxism–Leninism was a form of political opportunism which preserved rather than destroyed capitalism because of the claim that the exchange of commodities would occur under... |
1,208 | Sustainable Archaeology Construction at the Western facility was completed in the fall of 2011. Renovations at the McMaster facility at McMaster Innovation Park were completed in 2012. operates under the following mission statement: "is dedicated to advancing a transformative practice of archaeology that integrates the... |
1,209 | WALL-E His answer was it was not; it was a way to answer the question of how would the Earth get to the state where one robot would be left to continue the cleanup by itself. Nevertheless, some critics have noted an incongruity between the perceived pro-environmental and anti-consumerist messaging of the film, and the ... |
1,210 | Natural law " Historian Jon Parkin likewise describes Cumberland's work as "one of the most important works of ethical and political theory of the seventeenth century." Parkin observes that much of Cumberland's material "is derived from Roman Stoicism, particularly from the work of Cicero, as "Cumberland deliberately c... |
1,211 | The One Club is an American non-profit organization that recognizes and promotes excellence in advertising. Founded in New York City as for Art & Copy, produces four annual award competitions: One Show, One Show Design, One Show Interactive and One Show Entertainment. The One Show Festival is held in accord with Creati... |
1,212 | Laurence Houlgate Despite having published nine peer-reviewed journal articles during the period 1962-1972, Houlgate was not offered a tenured position at UCSB (he later referred to this unfortunate outcome as a rare instance of "publish "and" perish"). Houlgate accepted a visiting professorship for one year at Reed Co... |
1,213 | List of Deltora Quest characters She does not seem to care that she is breaking her vow by entering the amethyst's territory, in spite of her commitment to the ideal of honor. Honora consequently has a heated argument with Jasmine, who accuses her of being hypocritical. Honora is a bit haughty and stingy. Honora return... |
1,214 | Gastroenteritis In children, the most accurate signs of moderate or severe dehydration are a prolonged capillary refill, poor skin turgor, and abnormal breathing. Other useful findings (when used in combination) include sunken eyes, decreased activity, a lack of tears, and a dry mouth. A normal urinary output and oral ... |
1,215 | Magnificence (history of ideas) Indeed, the Greeks drew on rhetorical terminology to describe and evaluate sculpture, painting and architecture. Magnificence is applied to works of art which express grandeur and other lofty features. According to Pliny the Elder, the grand style of magnificence can be appreciated in wo... |
1,216 | Everglades National Park An underground reservoir called the Floridan aquifer lies about below the surface of South Florida. The Everglades has an immense capacity for water storage, owing to the permeable limestone beneath the exposed land. Most of the water arrives in the form of rainfall, and a significant amount is... |
1,217 | Palnut A Palnut® Fastener is a variation of the lock nut device for bolts which are intended to fasten securely without welding or any other permanent fastening. The is a registered trademark of Tinnerman Engineered Products LLC. The device is screwed on the bolt on top of an underneath the nut, and has a series of pro... |
1,218 | Space Quest The first edition covers "SQ" EGA to "SQIV", and the second edition covers "SQI" remake to "SQV". The novel of SQ1 in the first edition is based on the original SQ1, and the version in the second edition is based on the remake of SQ1. Adventure Comics (a division of Malibu Comics) released three issues in 1... |
1,219 | Epoché The term was popularized in modern philosophy by Edmund Husserl. Husserl elaborates the notion of 'phenomenological epoché' or 'bracketing' in "Ideas I". Through the systematic procedure of 'phenomenological reduction', one is thought to be able to suspend judgment regarding the general or naive philosophical be... |
1,220 | Great Renunciation Buddhologist André Bareau (1921–1993) argued that the association that is made between the life of the Buddha and that of the "cakravartin" may have been inspired by the rapid growth of the Maurya Empire in 4th-century BCE India, though it could also be a pre-Buddhist tradition. Kapilavastu has been ... |
1,221 | Socrates Some modern scholarship holds that, with so much of his own thought obscured and possibly altered by Plato, it is impossible to gain a clear picture of amid all the contradictory evidence. That both Cynicism and Stoicism, which carried heavy influence from Socratic thought, were unlike or even contrary to Plat... |
1,222 | P. F. Strawson Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA (; 23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006), usually cited as P. F. Strawson, was an English philosopher. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) from 1968 to 1987. Before that, he was appointed as a college lec... |
1,223 | Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki This final scene in the Hachisuka scroll is about a scene from the Gosechi, an ancient dance performed by young beautiful girls in the 11th month to celebrate the harvest. The emaki text begins with a description of the appearance and clothing of two of the participating girls and ends with... |
1,224 | Veleda It is not clear whether merely prophesied the rebellion or actively incited it; given the Germans' adoration of her as a goddess, remote in her tower, the distinction may not have been clear at the time. Early in AD 70 the revolt was joined by Julius Classicus and Julius Tutor, leaders of the Treviri who like Ci... |
1,225 | Holocaust theology In our own times, the destruction of six million Jews that took place with such great and terrible cruelty—a tremendous desolation the likes of which never was (and never will be, may the Merciful One save us!) throughout all generations—cannot be considered a matter of punishment for transgressions,... |
1,226 | Anisian The contains six ammonite biozones: Examples of vertebrates from this age are: "Ananorites" "Arthaberites" "Beyrichites" "Bosnites" "Buddhaites" "Bukowskiites" "Caucasites" "Danubites" "Gangadharites" "Japonites" "Laboceras" "Longobarditoides" "Mesocladiscites" "Noetlingites" "Parapinacoceras" "Parasageceras" "... |
1,227 | Fountain Hero described and provided drawings of "A bird made to whistle by flowing water," "A Trumpet sounded by flowing water," and "Birds made to sing and be silent alternately by flowing water." In Hero's descriptions, water pushed air through musical instruments to make sounds. It is not known if Hero made working... |
1,228 | Broadcast calendar In the 21st century, 53-week broadcast calendar years are 2006, 2012, 2017, 2023, 2028, 2034, 2040, 2045, 2051, 2056, 2062, 2068, 2073, 2079, 2084, 2090, and 2096. The broadcast calendar often closely matches certain specialized financial calendars, such as the 4-4-5 calendar, but the length of a bro... |
1,229 | LGBT social movements Called "Sexual Inversion" it was first printed in German and then translated into English a year later. In the book, Ellis argued that same-sex relationships could not be characterized as a pathology or a crime and that its importance rose above the arbitrary restrictions imposed by society. He al... |
1,230 | Christmas Tree Promotion, Research, and Information Order Conservative commentators began to attack the proposal, particularly after a link to the Heritage Foundation piece was featured on the highly trafficked website Drudge Report. The moniker "Christmas tree tax" was applied in numerous media outlets. The "Wall Stre... |
1,231 | Debt: The First 5000 Years This status of the dollar (as with all money) is based on its capacity to extend its quantity through debts and deficits and, more importantly, by the unrestrained authority of the Federal Reserve to create money, which has enabled the USA to create a 21 trillon dollar debt by 2018. This may ... |
1,232 | Apollo program So Gilruth was given authority to grow his organization into a new NASA center, the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). A site was chosen in Houston, Texas, on land donated by Rice University, and Administrator Webb announced the conversion on September 19, 1961. It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its... |
1,233 | Structuralism Although the French theorist Louis Althusser is often associated with a brand of structural social analysis which helped give rise to "structural Marxism", such association was contested by Althusser himself in the Italian foreword to the second edition of "Reading Capital". In this foreword Althusser sta... |
1,234 | Constructive developmental framework Kegan (1982) described five stages of development, of which the latter four are progressively attained only in adulthood. Basseches (1984) showed that adults potentially transcend formal logical thinking by way of dialectical thinking, in four phases, measurable by a fluidity index.... |
1,235 | Pakistan Army Corps of Signals The (Urdu: ﺁرمى سگنل كور; "Army Signal Core", is an active combatant military administrative staff corps and a major intelligence, science and technology command of Pakistan Army. The corps core objectives includes research and development, tests, and management of the military communicat... |
1,236 | Gold Beach Ranger Station The was built at Gold Beach, Oregon in Siskiyou National Forest (now Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest) in 1936 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The ranger station comprises several structures that typify the U.S. Forest Service's design style of the time. The main structure is an ... |
1,237 | February Countercurrent The (), also known as the February Adverse Current, refers to the joint efforts by a group of conservative Communist Party veterans to oppose the ultra-leftist radicalism at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. The events refer mainly to a series of stormy meetings of the Politburo of the C... |
1,238 | Capital City Distribution In 1982, Capital City acquired the Berkeley, California-based Common Ground Distributors, which had been started by Robert Beerbohm in the late 1970s (and had been initially supplied by Big Rapids). Capital City's Wisconsin location was relatively near World Color Press's main printing plant i... |
1,239 | Firestone and Ford tire controversy The Wilderness AT was sold and installed on Ford trucks from 1996 to 2000 and had a temperature and heat resistance rating of "C" which is the lowest rating allowed by the NHTSA's Uniform Tire Quality Grading System. Many of the features of the ATX tires were identical to the Wildern... |
1,240 | Cyfraith Hywel Illegitimate sons were entitled to shares equal to those of legitimate sons, provided they had been acknowledged by the father. This provision differed the most from canon law; as the Iorwerth text puts it: "Dadannudd" is a son's claim to land which previously belonged to his father. A landowner's right ... |
1,241 | Nation state The state was formed by secession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830, whose neutrality and integrity was protected by the Treaty of London 1839; thus it served as a buffer state after the Napoleonic Wars between the European powers France, Prussia (after 1871 the German Empire) and the Unit... |
1,242 | Samaritan Pentateuch Samaritans employ the Samaritan alphabet which is derived from the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet used by the Israelite community prior to the Babylonian captivity. Afterwards, Jews adopted the Ashuri script, which is based on the Aramaic alphabet, and which developed into the modern Hebrew alphabet. Origin... |
1,243 | Criminaloid A criminaloid (from the word "criminal" and suffix "-oid", meaning "criminal-like") is a person who projects a respectable, upright facade, in an attempt to conceal a criminal personality. This type, first defined by Cesare Lombroso in the later editions of his 1876 work "the Criminal man". Unlike ordinary ... |
1,244 | Noam Chomsky Chomsky criticized postmodernism and French philosophy generally, arguing that the obscure language of postmodern, leftist philosophers gives little aid to the working classes. He has also debated analytic philosophers, including Tyler Burge, Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Saul Kripke, Thomas Nagel, Hil... |
1,245 | Authenticity (reenactment) that they are also wearing and using items common to that era and people. Authenticity can apply to other things. For example, a card game, song, or military tactic is authentic if known to be used during the period. The quest for authentic clothes and equipment often requires archaeological ... |
1,246 | United States Exploring Expedition The group included Agate, Eld, Colvocoresses, Brackenridge, Rich, Peale, Stearns, and Dana, and proceeded along an inland route to Fort Umpqua, Mount Shasta, the Sacramento River, John Sutter's New Helvetia, and then onwards to San Francisco Bay. They departed September 7, and arrived... |
1,247 | Kelvin–Varley divider The ratio of resistances from one decade to the next is, surprisingly, not critical — by using "R" resistances slightly higher than "R" / 5 and connecting a trimming resistor in parallel to the entire preceding decade in order to trim the effective resistance down to 2 × "R". In the above example,... |
1,248 | Wiring diagram A wiring diagram is a simplified conventional pictorial representation of an electrical circuit. It shows the components of the circuit as simplified shapes, and the power and signal connections between the devices. A wiring diagram usually gives information about the relative position and arrangement of... |
1,249 | Generic cell rate algorithm If the cell is conforming, and arrived before its TAT (equivalent to the bucket not being empty but being less than the limit value), then the next cell's "TAT" is simply "TAT" + "T". However, if a cell arrives after its "TAT", then the "TAT" for the next cell is calculated from this cell's ... |
1,250 | Cultural monument (Czech Republic) Under the current laws it is entrusted with a number of expert tasks related to the state heritage conservation. The institute manages all the state-owned monuments. As of 2019 there are over a hundred castles, chateaux and other monuments under the NPÚ management. It also maintains t... |
1,251 | Railroad Tycoon There are four types of stations: Signal Tower, Depot, Station and Terminal. The Signal Tower acts as a passing loop and may control movements. The rest service surrounding areas: the Depot serves its own square and the adjoining eight squares, the Station takes another ring, and the Terminal handles up... |
1,252 | Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style " () Chapters 34–94 Feature variations of grammatical and syntactic forms 'Chapters 94 – 206 Operate like a Thesaurus, although the organization is haphazard, not alphabetical Book II : Abundance of Subject Matter Not divided into chapters, but does address 11 separate methods o... |
1,253 | Primate experiments at Columbia University The next morning, it was noted that the animal could not sit up, that he was leaning over, and that he could not eat. That evening, the baboon was still slouched over and was offered food but couldn't chew. On September 21, 2001, the record shows that the baboon was 'awake, bu... |
1,254 | Justice of the peace They also serve as election, poll, and town meeting officials, and sit on the boards of civil authority and tax abatement within their municipalities. They have the authority to register voters and administer oaths, and have all the powers of a notary public within their county-wide jurisdiction. H... |
1,255 | American Political Science Association The (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903, it publishes four academic journals ("American Political Science Review", "Perspectives on Politics", "Journal of Political Science Education," "PS: Political... |
1,256 | Ollamh Érenn It was also ordained that a common estate should be set apart for the ollamhs where they could give public instruction after the manner of a University, such as Raith Cheannait and Masruidhe Mhuighe Sleacht, in Breithfne, where they gave free instruction in the sciences to the men of Ireland, as many as de... |
1,257 | General Chinese In Yunnan Mandarin, is pronounced as , so that the name of the province, "yunnom", is rather than as in Beijing. In Nanking, metathesizes to after alveolars, as in 天 for Beijing "tian" . The basic spelling is used for the even 平 tone(s). For the rising 上 tone(s), the nucleus is doubled (with the vowel →... |
1,258 | Watershed (broadcasting) In broadcasting, the watershed is the time of day after which programming aimed towards mature or adult audiences is permitted. In the same way that a geological watershed divides two drainage basins, a broadcasting watershed serves as a dividing line in a schedule between family-oriented progr... |
1,259 | Police officer safety and health Actual homicides of police are comparatively rare, but the reports of such incidents are typically reported in the press along with quotes by police officials or police officer family members stressing the notion that police officers 'put their lives on the line for the public' or 'risk... |
1,260 | Facultative lagoon Biological activity within a facultative lagoon varies directly with temperature. Warm weather will require large oxygen transfer rates, and waste accumulation during cold weather can cause short-term warm weather oxygen requirements to exceed long-term waste loading rates. Algae can provide surface ... |
1,261 | Chloromethyl methyl ether The amount of time required to destroy residual chloromethyl methyl ether using various standard aqueous quench solutions (ammonium chloride solution, water, and sodium carbonate solution) has been measured. In all cases, a solution of chloromethyl methyl ether in toluene/methyl acetate was de... |
1,262 | Creative participation It can breakdown barriers between participants (and agencies), and encourage creative problem-solving, and the building of positive relationships. In the political world "Creative Participation" presents the theory and practice of innovative forms of political participation, i.e. citizens coopera... |
1,263 | William Horton Farmhouse The is a single family home located at 1647 West Miller Road near Morrice, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is one of the finest rural Italianate farm homes in the area. In 1837, Alanson Horton moved from Connecticut to Perry, Michigan in Shiawasse... |
1,264 | Quantum field theory In 1947, Willis Lamb and Robert Retherford measured the minute difference in the "S" and "P" energy levels of the hydrogen atom, also called the Lamb shift. By ignoring the contribution of photons whose energy exceeds the electron mass, Hans Bethe successfully estimated the numerical value of the L... |
1,265 | Political theology Since the early 21st century, there has also been a growing discourse around Islamic political theology, especially within Western contexts that were previously dominated by Christianity. In the 1990s and early 2000s, political theology became an important theme within legal theory, especially in con... |
1,266 | Vedanta By associating with and understanding that Aksharbrahman guru, alternatively referred to as the Satpurush, Ekantik Bhakta or Ekantik Sant, spiritual seekers can transcend the influences of maya and attain spiritual perfection. Advaita (IAST ""; Sanskrit: अद्वैत वेदान्त) espouses non-dualism and monism. "Brahman... |
1,267 | Neoliberalism The "godfather" of this version of neoliberalism was the journalist Charles Peters, who in 1983 published "A Neoliberal's Manifesto". Elizabeth Shermer argued that the term gained popularity largely among left-leaning academics in the 1970s "to describe and decry a late twentieth-century effort by policy ... |
1,268 | Agricultural cooperative Cooperatives provide a method for farmers to join together in an 'association', through which a group of farmers can acquire a better outcome, typically financial, than by going alone. This approach is aligned to the concept of economies of scale and can also be related as a form of economic sy... |
1,269 | Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus (BUNV) is a negative-sense, single-stranded enveloped RNA virus. It is the type species of the "Orthobunyavirus" genus, in the "Bunyavirales" order. "Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus" can infect both humans and "Aedes aegypti" (yellow fever mosquito). It is named for Bunyamwera, a town in western U... |
1,270 | Anthropology of art Boas' "Primitive Art", Claude Lévi-Strauss' "The Way of the Masks" (1982) or Geertz's 'Art as Cultural System' (1983) are some examples in this trend to transform the anthropology of 'art' into an anthropology of culturally-specific 'aesthetics'. More recently, in his book "Art and Agency", Alfred G... |
1,271 | Modernism Modernist primitivism and pessimism were controversial, and the mainstream in the first decade of the 20th century was still inclined towards a faith in progress and liberal optimism. Abstract artists, taking as their examples the impressionists, as well as Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) and Edvard Munch (1863–1944... |
1,272 | Ehlers group In mathematical physics, the Ehlers group, named after Jürgen Ehlers, is a finite-dimensional transformation group of stationary vacuum spacetimes which maps solutions of Einstein's field equations to other solutions. It has since found a number of applications, from use as a tool in the discovery of previ... |
1,273 | Soldering (AmE: , BrE: ) is a process in which two or more items are joined together by melting and putting a filler metal (solder) into the joint, the filler metal having a lower melting point than the adjoining metal. Unlike welding, soldering does not involve melting the work pieces. In brazing, the work piece metal... |
1,274 | RL circuit If this were not the case, and the current were to reach steady-state immediately, extremely strong inductive electric fields would be generated by the sharp change in the magnetic field — this would lead to breakdown of the air in the circuit and electric arcing, probably damaging components (and users). Th... |
1,275 | Good behaviour bond The exception among the Australian states and territories was the Northern Territory, where sentences for “custody in a correctional institution” was most relied upon by the Magistrates’ and Children's Courts. The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) provided statistics regarding the imposition... |
1,276 | Cell signaling Complex multi-component signal transduction pathways provide opportunities for feedback, signal amplification, and interactions inside one cell between multiple signals and signaling pathways. Molecular signaling can occur between different organisms, whether unicellular or multicellular. The emitting or... |
1,277 | Rear militia It was noted that "the labor regime and political education in the parts of the rear militia should pursue the goal of making non-labor elements useful in all respects citizens of the Soviet Union". The People's Commissariat of Labor of the Soviet Union organized the recruitment and subsequent distribution... |
1,278 | Probability interpretations This law, which is a consequence of the axioms of probability, says that if (for example) a coin is tossed repeatedly many times, in such a way that its probability of landing heads is the same on each toss, and the outcomes are probabilistically independent, then the relative frequency of h... |
1,279 | Pseudoarchaeology A more specific example of religious pseudoarcheology is the claim of Ron Wyatt to have discovered Noah's ark, the graves of Noah and his wife, the location of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Tower of Babel, and numerous other important sites. However, he has not presented evidence sufficient to impress Bible... |
1,280 | Proteorhodopsin Marina was originally believed to be a heterotroph, however the proteorhodopsin may well partake in a functionally significant manner, as it was the most abundantly expressed nuclear gene and, furthermore, is dispersed unevenly in the organism, suggesting some organelle membrane function. Previously the... |
1,281 | Air conditioning A mini-split system typically supplies air conditioned and heated air to a single or a few rooms of a building. Multi-zone systems are a common application of ductless systems and allow up to 8 rooms (zones) to be conditioned from a single outdoor unit. Multi-zone systems typically offer a variety of i... |
1,282 | Point-biserial correlation coefficient If "X" can be assumed to be normally distributed, a better descriptive index is given by the biserial coefficient where "u" is the ordinate of the normal distribution with zero mean and unit variance at the point which divides the distribution into proportions "n"/"n" and "n"/"n".... |
1,283 | Vilnius Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology () or FTMC is the largest scientific research institution in Lithuania, which specialises in laser technologies, optoelectronics, nuclear physics, organic chemistry, bio and nano technologies, electrochemical material science, electronics, and other scientific fields.... |
1,284 | Case law If the court believes that developments or trends in legal reasoning render the precedent unhelpful, and wishes to evade it and help the law evolve, it may either hold that the precedent is inconsistent with subsequent authority, or that it should be "distinguished" by some material difference between the fact... |
1,285 | Lignin In contrast to fungi, most bacterial enzymes involved in lignin degradation are intracellular, including two classes of DyP and most bacterial laccases. Bacterial degradation of lignin is particularly relevant in aquatic systems such as lakes, rivers, and streams, where inputs of terrestrial material (e.g. leaf ... |
1,286 | Truth and reconciliation commission A truth commission or truth and reconciliation commission is a commission tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state actors also), in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. Truth commissions ar... |
1,287 | Invasion literature (also the invasion novel) is a literary genre that was popular in the period between 1871 and the First World War (1914–1918). The invasion novel first was recognized as a literary genre in the UK, with the novella "The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer" (1871), an account of a German ... |
1,288 | Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (Memling) The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (or Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara) is a c. 1480 oil-on-oak painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The panel shows an enthroned Virgin hol... |
1,289 | Oceania House The main two storey portion is almost square, with the elevations relieved by projecting corner bays; it is almost surrounded by a bullnosed verandah on chamfered timber posts (this replaced a former straight pitched verandah on iron pipe columns, presumably as part of the 1980–1981 renovations). External... |
1,290 | French Israelism (also called Franco-Israelism) is the belief that people of Frankish descent are also the direct lineal descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and it is often accompanied by the belief that the Merovingian dynasty is directly descended from the line of King David. One of the earliest scholars wh... |
1,291 | Les maîtres fous (; "The Mad Masters") is a 1955 short film directed by Jean Rouch, a well-known French film director and ethnologist. It is a docufiction, his first ethnofiction, a genre he is considered to have created. The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancin... |
1,292 | Menlo Park, California Among the Hispanic population, 4,303 were of Mexican ancestry. The Census reported that 31,181 people (97.4% of the population) lived in households, 599 (1.9%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 246 (0.8%) were institutionalized. There were 12,347 households, out of which 4,112 (3... |
1,293 | Piłsudski's Mound Any mentions of it were removed from official publications and the surrounding area was filled with trees to help obscure the view. Unofficially it was referred to as the ""Kopiec Sowiniec"" (Sowiniec Mound). However, the most damage to the monument was inflicted during the Stalinist era; in 1953 the ... |
1,294 | Beck Depression Inventory The development of the BDI was an important event in psychiatry and psychology; it represented a shift in health care professionals' view of depression from a Freudian, psychodynamic perspective, to one guided by the patient's own thoughts or "cognitions". It also established the principle tha... |
1,295 | Old Police Academy, Singapore The Singapore Police Academy functioned as the operation side of police training, while the staff functions came under the Police Training Department, before the two were formally merged as the Training Command (TRACOM) in 1997. The name "Police Academy", however, was retained mainly in re... |
1,296 | Karl Binding In 1869 his family moved to Freiburg, and Binding volunteered to fight in the Franco-Prussian War. Although his lack of military training meant he was unable to serve as a soldier, he was accepted as an orderly and posted to the front, serving in a field hospital. In 1872 he took on a post at the Reichs Un... |
1,297 | Indigo Era The 10 top-ranked countries were Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Ireland, and Japan. The United States was 18th overall. The report also included three key findings: Creativity and innovation was the biggest overall driver of high scores; this accentuated the ... |
1,298 | Subsidence is the sudden sinking or gradual downward settling of the ground's surface with little or no horizontal motion. The definition of subsidence is not restricted by the rate, magnitude, or area involved in the downward movement. It may be caused by natural processes or by human activities. The former include va... |
1,299 | Hindenburg disaster Eckener rejected the idea that hydrogen could have been ignited by an engine backfire, postulating that the hydrogen could not have been ignited by any exhaust because the temperature is too low to ignite the hydrogen. The ignition temperature for hydrogen is , but the sparks from the exhaust only r... |
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