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19,900 | International adoption The following overview of legal provisions put into place by African countries reflects a diverse but not a comprehensive view on how the question of international adoption is dealt with on the African continent. The focus is on countries for which bibliographical resources were immediately acces... |
19,901 | Timeline of religion Religion or dharma has been a factor of the human experience throughout history, from pre-historic to modern times. The bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history. Written history (the age of formal writing) is only c. 5000 years old. A lack of written records results in most ... |
19,902 | Suspended animation The trials will be done on ten such severely wounded patients and compared with ten others in similar situation but who had no access to the above method. They currently refer to the procedure as Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation for Cardiac Arrest from trauma. The laboratory of Mark Roth at ... |
19,903 | Caleb Gattegno The role of teachers is not to try to transmit knowledge, but to engender acts of awareness in their students, for only awareness is educable. Gattegno created pedagogical materials designed to provoke awarenesses. The materials are intended to be used along with techniques aimed at leading students thro... |
19,904 | Mystery film Based on "The Thin Man" novel by Dashiell Hammett, these were witty, sophisticated romps that combined elements of the screwball comedy film within a complex murder mystery plot. In the middle of this series, RKO hired Powell and Jean Arthur for "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford" (1936), a breezy comedy-mystery that s... |
19,905 | Signalling theory If you knew nothing about two race horses or two amateur golfers except their handicaps, you could infer which is most likely to win: the horse with the bigger weight handicap, and the golfer with the smaller stroke handicap. By analogy, if peacock 'tails' (large tail covert feathers) act as a handica... |
19,906 | Code of Euric The work is written in good Latin; in his writing Roman lawyers must have had a significant share. Controversial is the proportion of Germanic and Roman legal concepts; It is undisputed that the proportion of Roman law dominates. In the first place, the legal texts derive from the law of the vulgar , whic... |
19,907 | PRO (linguistics) In generative linguistics, PRO (called "big PRO", distinct from "pro", "small pro" or "little pro") is a pronominal determiner phrase (DP) without phonological content. As such, it is part of the set of empty categories. The null pronoun PRO is postulated in the subject position of non-finite clauses.... |
19,908 | Barbarian Beckwith makes the extraordinary claim that the name "barbarian" should only be used for Greek historical contexts, and is inapplicable for all other "peoples to whom it has been applied either historically or in modern times." Beckwith notes that most specialists in East Asian history, including him, have tr... |
19,909 | Steam hammer He came up with his steam hammer design, making a sketch dated 24 November 1839, but the immediate need disappeared when the practicality of screw propellers was demonstrated and the "Great Britain" was converted to that design. Nasmyth showed his design to all visitors. Bourdon came up with the idea of wh... |
19,910 | Philosophy of artificial intelligence K's University of Cambridge designed a robot called Adam that they believe to be the first machine to independently come up with new scientific findings. Also in 2009, researchers at Cornell developed Eureqa, a computer program that extrapolates formulas to fit the data inputted, s... |
19,911 | Hindi–Urdu controversy Along with English, it became the first official language of British India in 1850. Hindi as a standardized literary register of the Delhi dialect arose later; the Braj dialect was the dominant literary language in the Devanagari script up until and through the nineteenth century. Efforts to prom... |
19,912 | Disposal of human corpses Elsewhere, a separate building for a tomb is usually reserved for the socially prominent and wealthy; grand, above-ground tombs are called mausoleums. The socially prominent sometimes had the privilege of having their corpses stored in church crypts. In more recent times, however, this has oft... |
19,913 | Twistlock A twistlock and corner casting together form a standardized rotating connector for securing shipping containers. The primary uses are for locking a container into place on a container ship, semi-trailer truck or railway container train, and for lifting of the containers by container cranes and sidelifters. Th... |
19,914 | Concurrent use registration " The mere fact that an applicant's use was geographically remote from a registrant or other opposer's use does not establish good faith, as "courts have generally held that the remote use defense... is unavailable where the junior user adopts a substantially identical mark in a remote geogr... |
19,915 | Commissioners in Lunacy The duty of the Commission was to carry out the provisions of the Act, reporting to the Poor Law Commissioners (in the case of workhouses) and to the Lord Chancellor. The first Secretary to the Commissioners was Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge, a barrister and uncle of Lewis Carroll. He had ... |
19,916 | Open energy system models Adding a ceiling price can shield consumers from extreme price shocks. Such price restrictions should not lead to an overshoot of emissions targets in the long-run. EMMA is the European Electricity Market Model. It is a techno-economic model covering the integrated Northwestern European power ... |
19,917 | Greek language question Kontos asserted that Korais' compromises were no longer necessary, as the language had "advanced" since his time (by which he meant it had become more archaic, as with the gradual restoration of the dative case), and he never used the term "katharevousa". In his eyes, if it was not up to Ancient... |
19,918 | Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District Several days before her scheduled testimony, the Discovery Institute publicly ridiculed her on their website. As a primary witness for the defense, Behe was asked to support the idea that intelligent design was legitimate science. Behe's critics have pointed to a number of key e... |
19,919 | Cohesion (geology) Cohesion is the component of shear strength of a rock or soil that is independent of interparticle friction. In soils, true cohesion is caused by following: There can also be apparent cohesion. This is caused by: |
19,920 | Retman He lived in a town called Equilibrium and was a Great Sorcerer Psychotherapist, who is a person who helps you when you suffer and teaches you how to be happy. The Great Sorcerer Psychotherapist practiced “Retmagic” (a rational-emotional therapeutic magic). This gift had been given to him by the Almighty Creator ... |
19,921 | ACF2 (Access Control Facility) is a commercial, discretionary access control software security system developed for the MVS (z/OS today), VSE (z/VSE today) and VM (z/VM today) IBM mainframe operating systems by SKK, Inc. Barry Schrager, Eberhard Klemens, and Scott Krueger combined to develop at London Life Insurance in... |
19,922 | Industrial catalysts The first mechanism that was proposed for the LTS reaction was a redox mechanism, but later evidence showed that the reaction can proceed via associated intermediates. The different intermediates that is suggested are: HOCO, HCO and HCOO. In 2009 there are in total three mechanisms that are propose... |
19,923 | Mutationism In 1923, the botanist John Christopher Willis proposed that species were formed by large mutations, not gradual evolution by natural selection, and that evolution was driven by orthogenesis, which he called "differentiation", rather than by natural selection. In his 1940 book "The Material Basis of Evolutio... |
19,924 | Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza It is clear what Anzaldúa is trying to portray the pain of Indigenous people, the mestiza being a crossbreed, and how one is culture-less. This chapter also speaks about the mestiza way and how we are people. She states that the dominant white culture is killing us slowly with t... |
19,925 | Jeremy Geidt He was also taught acting at Harvard University in 1998. Of his students in his 2000 American Repertory Theater acting workshop, Geidt stated, "I'm hoping they come away with their imaginations touched, enlarged and having experienced something that is, hopefully, joyful...with something they found within ... |
19,926 | Moral rights The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 grants authors of a "work of visual art" - e.g. photographs, paintings, sculptures, etc. - the non-transferable right to These rights are distinct from any rights of copyright and ownership of a copy of the work. Copyright holders have the right to control adaptations,... |
19,927 | Separation of powers in the United Kingdom The executive comprises all official and public authorities (including local authorities) that govern the UK, from initiating and implementing legislation to the running of local and national services, such as rubbish collections and the police. The civil service remains non-p... |
19,928 | Kaunas Fortress The Grande Armée managed to cross the Nemunas near Kaunas on its drive towards Moscow without major difficulties. An increasingly unified Germany troubled the Empire during the second half of the century. A fortress in Kaunas would present an obstacle to attacks from the west, preventing further incursi... |
19,929 | Individual psychology Classical Adlerian Psychology assumes a central personality dynamic reflecting the growth and forward movement of life, reflecting the influence on Adler of Vaihinger's concept of fictions. It is a future-oriented striving toward an ideal goal of significance, superiority, success or completion: w... |
19,930 | Computational sustainability is a broad field that attempts to optimize societal, economic, and environmental resources using methods from mathematics and computer science fields. Sustainability in this context is the ability to produce enough energy for the world to support its biological systems. Using the power of c... |
19,931 | EXAPT 2003 EXAPTpdo is available to optimize the process chains in production planning and production execution optimally regarding the increasing requirements of changing production conditions. 2004 are diverse system extensions made in EXAPTplus, EXAPTsolid, NC editor, EXAPTpdo for the complete machining on turning/ ... |
19,932 | Mysticism Sufism first came into contact with the Judeo-Christian world during the Moorish occupation of Spain. An interest in Sufism revived in non-Muslim countries during the modern era, led by such figures as Inayat Khan and Idries Shah (both in the UK), Rene Guenon (France) and Ivan Aguéli (Sweden). Sufism has also... |
19,933 | Collective intelligence Their interaction in abstract computational space creates multi-thread inference process which we perceive as collective intelligence. Thus, a non-Turing model of computation is used. This theory allows simple formal definition of collective intelligence as the property of social structure and s... |
19,934 | Pyrena or pyrene is the name for the stone within a drupe or drupelet. It consists of a seed surrounded by hard endocarp tissue. |
19,935 | Parbuckle salvage Eleven steel sponsons were installed on the port side of the hull: two long horizontal sponsons; two long vertical sponsons and seven short vertical sponsons. Two steel "blister" tanks were connected together at the hull's bow. They measured in length, in height each, and had a total breadth of about ... |
19,936 | Negative campaigning The material must be substantive enough to attract media interest, however, and if the truth is discovered it could severely damage a campaign. Other dirty tricks include trying to feed an opponent's team false information hoping they will use it and embarrass themselves. Often a campaign will use ... |
19,937 | Artificial intelligence systems integration The Constructionist design methodology (CDM, or 'Constructionist A.I.') is a formal methodology proposed in 2004, for use in the development of cognitive robotics, communicative humanoids and broad AI systems. The creation of such systems requires the integration of a large n... |
19,938 | Management of schizophrenia A 2010 Cochrane review concluded that many of the clinical trials that studied the effectiveness of family interventions were poorly designed, and may over estimate the effectiveness of the therapy. High-quality randomized controlled trials in this area are required. Aside from therapy, the ... |
19,939 | Occam's razor " The idea of parsimony or simplicity in deciding between theories, though not the intent of the original expression of Occam's razor, has been assimilated into our culture as the widespread layman's formulation that "the simplest explanation is usually the correct one." Prior to the 20th century, it was ... |
19,940 | Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium Each National Committee focuses on a specific scientific study. There are 24 committees. Members of these committees are doctors, professors and people working within a specific scientific field. The conditions for the foundation of a National Committee is the existen... |
19,941 | Gratis versus libre The English adjective free is commonly used in one of two meanings: "for free" ("gratis") and "with little or no restriction" ("libre"). This ambiguity of "free" can cause issues where the distinction is important, as it often is in dealing with laws concerning the use of information, such as copyri... |
19,942 | Tyranny of numbers Even a single bad component or solder joint could render the entire module inoperative. Even with properly working modules, the mass of wiring connecting them together was another source of construction and reliability problems. As computers grew in complexity, and the number of modules increased, th... |
19,943 | Mihail Kogălniceanu After 1863, relations between and his friend Vasile Alecsandri soured dramatically, as the latter declared himself disgusted with politics. Alecsandri withdrew to his estate in Mircești, where he wrote pieces critical of the political developments. "Domnitor" Cuza was ultimately ousted by a coalitio... |
19,944 | Enhanced avionics system The enhanced avionics system (or EASy) is an integrated modular avionics suite and cockpit display system used on Dassault Falcon business jets since Falcon 900EX, and later used in other newer Falcon aircraft such as Falcon 2000EX and Falcon 7X. EASy has been jointly developed by Dassault and ... |
19,945 | Economy of the Soviet Union Despite this, an estimated five million people died in the famine. Starting in 1928, the five-year plans began building a heavy industrial base at once in an underdeveloped economy without waiting years for capital to accumulate through the expansion of light industry, and without reliance o... |
19,946 | TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) Regional Qualifications Frameworks such as those in Southern Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean aim to significantly support the recognition of qualifications across borders. These efforts are further supported through the introduction of outcome-based learning... |
19,947 | Thom Hartmann In 1971 he was ordained as a Minister with Coptic Fellowship International. He has been a keynote speaker at many Coptic Conferences nationally. In 1973, Hartmann returned to Detroit to work as an engineer with RCA. He met his wife Louise in the late 1960s. They have been married for over 45 years and hav... |
19,948 | List of cosmological computation software CosmoMC is a Fortran 2003 Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) engine for exploring cosmological parameter space. The code does brute force (but accurate) theoretical matter power spectrum and Cl calculations using CAMB. CosmoMC uses a simple local Metropolis algorithm along with an... |
19,949 | Molecular oncology This is a method of cancer treatment that works on the cellular and molecular level. Some regulatory proteins, specifically immune checkpoint inhibitors, have been found to reduce the ability of T cells to multiply within the body. In order to optimize the efficacy of CAR-T gene therapy, these checkp... |
19,950 | Theodor W. Adorno At the end of his schooldays, Adorno not only benefited from the rich concert offerings of Frankfurt—where one could hear performances of works by Schoenberg, Schreker, Stravinsky, Bartók, Busoni, Delius and Hindemith—but also began studying music composition at the Hoch Conservatory while taking priv... |
19,951 | Peace and conflict studies Academics and students in the world's oldest universities have long been motivated by an interest in peace. American student interest in what we today think of as peace studies first appeared in the form of campus clubs at United States colleges in the years immediately following the American... |
19,952 | HFE H63D gene mutation A homozygous mutation of HFE gene H63D is an indication of an Iron Metabolism Disorder known as Hemochromatosis (Iron Overload) and may increase the risk to develop a fatty liver, cryptic (nonspecific) liver dysfunctions, metabolic syndrome and, in patients with a cirrhotic or a liver damaged due... |
19,953 | Weatherstripping This movement could allow water in the vehicle so the weatherstrip must compensate by filling the gap. Furthermore, this relative movement can cause noises such as squeaks, rattles, and creaks to be heard within the vehicle. Considering a standard four-door vehicle, the doors require 20 feet (6 meters)... |
19,954 | Genetics and the Origin of Species Bringing samples from each population back into the laboratory, Dobzhansky showed that he could vary environmental conditions so as to produce the same changes in frequency of inversion patterns that were observed with changing seasons in the field. Dobzhansky concluded that such seas... |
19,955 | Nutritional anthropology Much of tourism literature details marked increases in the commoditization of food subsequent to the introduction of tourism as a form of market based economic development. Dewey and Robbins also state that when food is primarily seen as a commodity by powerful interests, not only does such an ... |
19,956 | ODB++ This was a source of frustration not only for competitors but also for the Mentor user community. In 2012, Julian Coates, director of business development at Mentor's Valor division claimed that, so far, all partners, including competitors to Mentor, who have applied for assistance to build and maintain interface... |
19,957 | Declawing of crabs Crabs that survive the initial declawing face potential disadvantages in feeding, mating, and self-defense. The most immediate impact of declawing, however, is possible death. In an experiment using commercial techniques, 47% of Florida stone crabs that had both claws removed died after declawing, as... |
19,958 | CRISPR gene editing By negative selection dead or slow growing cells are efficiently detected. It can identify survival-essential genes, which can be further serve as candidates for molecularly targeted drugs. On the other hand, positive selection gives a collection of growth-advantage acquired populations by random mu... |
19,959 | The Cantos and William Carlos Williams wrote long poems that show this influence. Almost all of H.D.'s poetry from 1940 onwards takes the form of long sequences, and her "Helen in Egypt", written during the 1950s, covers much of the same Homeric ground as "The Cantos" (but from a feminist perspective), and the three se... |
19,960 | Marcus Aurelius than to have tasted it superficially, with the edge of the lips, as the saying is'. He disdained philosophy and philosophers, and looked down on Marcus' sessions with Apollonius of Chalcedon and others in this circle. Fronto put an uncharitable interpretation of Marcus' 'conversion to philosophy': 'In t... |
19,961 | Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Another interloper arrives, the neighbor's pretty niece Nina, an aspiring actress who provokes envy in Masha, lust in Spike, and sympathy in Vanya. Masha has returned home to attend a costume party at an influential neighbor's house and insists that her friends and family dress as ch... |
19,962 | Ayyubid dynasty Al-Mansur of Hama had fought alongside the Mamluks from the start of their conquest and because of this, Hama continued to be ruled by the Ayyubid descendants of al-Muzaffar Umar. After al-Ashraf Musa's death in 1262, the new Mamluk sultan, Baibars, annexed Homs. The next year, al-Mughith Umar was trick... |
19,963 | Dormancy It differs from hibernation in the metabolic processes involved. Reptiles generally begin brumation in late autumn (more specific times depend on the species). They often wake up to drink water and return to "sleep". They can go for months without food. Reptiles may eat more than usual before the brumation tim... |
19,964 | Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model The extension proposes a store for preexisting semantic associations; a contextual drift mechanism allowing for decontextualisation of knowledge, e.g. if you first learned a banana was a fruit because you put it in the same class as apple, you do not always have to think of apples to know... |
19,965 | Edward Holmes Baldock (dealer) Edward Holmes Baldock (1777-1845) was a prominent London furniture dealer to the Royal Family, father of Edward Holmes Baldock. He was first listed in the London trade directories in 1805. That listing had him operating out of No.7 Hanway Street in London, where he was described as sellin... |
19,966 | Atticism Represented at its height by rhetoricians such as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and grammarians such as Herodian and Phrynichus Arabius at Alexandria, this tendency prevailed from the 1st century BC onward, and with the force of an ecclesiastical dogma controlled all subsequent Greek culture, even so that the li... |
19,967 | Fornication The survey noted a divide between Anglicans who wanted to support sexually active unmarried couples in their churches and others who did not. A 2009 survey found that Anglicans (along with Baptists, Roman Catholics and Uniting Church members) had become a little more accepting of premarital sex compared to ... |
19,968 | Otis Boykin No one can be sure how he died, because he wouuld have been saved by doctors using his improved pacemaker if he was suffering from congestive heart faliure. |
19,969 | Antibody microarray Jaeger and colleagues measured nearly 600 circulatory proteins to discover biological pathways and networks affected in Alzheimer's and explored the positive and negative relationships of the levels of those individual proteins and networks with the cognitive performance of Alzheimer's patients. Cur... |
19,970 | Average Joe Considering these statistics one can conclude that the average American resides in his or her own home, pays roughly $1,000 per month in mortgage payments for a three or less bedroom house with no more than one occupant per room. US Census Bureau data from 2002 identified a series of housing characteristics... |
19,971 | Psychology There emerged a new field called "engineering psychology" which studied mental aspects of complex jobs (such as pilot and cosmonaut). Interdisciplinary studies became popular and scholars such as Georgy Shchedrovitsky developed systems theory approaches to human behavior. Twentieth-century Chinese psychology... |
19,972 | Lean construction LPS begins with collaborative scheduling/programming engaging the main project suppliers from the start. Risk analysis ensures that float is built in where it will best protect programme integrity and predictability. Where appropriate the process can be used for "programme compression" too. In this wa... |
19,973 | Utopia (marketplace) Utopia was a darknet market similar to The Silk Road that facilitated sale of illegal items such as narcotics, firearms, stolen bank account information and forged identity documents. Utopia was based on Black Market Reloaded and has ties to it. It was launched on 3 February 2014 only to be shut do... |
19,974 | Capitanian mass extinction event Among terrestrial vertebrates, the main victims were dinocephalian therapsids, which were one of the most common elements of tetrapod fauna of the Guadalupian; only one dinocephalian genus survived the Capitanian extinction event. The diversity of the anomodonts that lived during the la... |
19,975 | Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy It is thus not a correct description of existing law when the article in "Jyllands-Posten" states that it is incompatible with the right to freedom of expression to demand special consideration for religious feelings and that one has to be ready to put up with 'scorn, mocke... |
19,976 | Sir Degrevant is a Middle English romance from the early fifteenth century. Generally classified as a "composite romance," that is, a romance that does not fit easily into the standard classification of romances, it is praised for its realism and plot. The poem is preserved in two manuscripts along with a variety of se... |
19,977 | Cave survey Depth changes are 'apparent' because depth gauges are calibrated for sea water, and the hydrolevel is filled with fresh water. Therefore, a coefficient must be determined to convert apparent depth changes to true depth changes. Adding the readings for consecutive pairs of stations gives the total depth of t... |
19,978 | The Cantos The goddess in her various guises appears again, as does Awoi's "hennia", the spirit of jealousy from "Aoi No Ue", a Noh play translated by Pound. The canto closes with an invocation of Dionysus ("Zagreus"). After opening with a glimpse of Mount Ida, an important locus for the history of the Trojan War, Cant... |
19,979 | Liquid-crystal display Epson developed the 3LCD projection technology in the 1980s, and licensed it for use in projectors in 1988. Epson's VPJ-700, released in January 1989, was the world's first compact, full-color LCD projector. In 1990, under different titles, inventors conceived electro optical effects as alternati... |
19,980 | Tragedy Some later operatic composers have also shared Peri's aims: Richard Wagner's concept of "Gesamtkunstwerk" ("integrated work of art"), for example, was intended as a return to the ideal of Greek tragedy in which all the arts were blended in service of the drama. Nietzsche, in his "The Birth of Tragedy" (1872) wa... |
19,981 | Tauroctony Following several decades of increasingly convoluted theories, Mithraic scholarship is now generally disinclined to speculation. Whether as a painting or as carved monument, a depiction of the tauroctony scene belonged to the standard furniture of every mithraeum. At least one depiction would be mounted on t... |
19,982 | Satellite data unit Automated SATCOM transmissions suggested it flew about off its designated flight path having flown approximately south-southwest rather than the intended approximately north-northeast. |
19,983 | Sindel It is also revealed in her fight introductions (most notably with Kotal Kahn, her former bodyguard) that she was killed by Quan Chi, who made it look like she committed suicide. During production of "Mortal Kombat 3," was nicknamed "The Bride" and "Muchacha" by the developers before her official name was determi... |
19,984 | Solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX/EW) is a two-stage hydrometallurgical process that first extracts and upgrades copper ions from low-grade leach solutions into a solvent containing a chemical that selectively reacts with and binds the copper in the solvent. The copper is extracted from the solvent with strong ... |
19,985 | In-circuit emulation (ICE) is the use of a hardware device or in-circuit emulator used to debug the software of an embedded system. It operates by using a processor with the additional ability to support debugging operations, as well as to carry out the main function of the system. Particularly for older systems, with ... |
19,986 | Old age The young are "consistent in their negative attitude" toward the old. "Ageism" documents that Americans generally have "little tolerance for older persons and very few reservations about harboring negative attitudes" about them. Despite its prevalence, ageism is seldom the subject of public discourse. In 2014, ... |
19,987 | Trusted system For example, trusted systems include the use of "security envelopes" in national security and counterterrorism applications, "trusted computing" initiatives in technical systems security, and the use of credit or identity scoring systems in financial and anti-fraud applications; in general, they include ... |
19,988 | Paraphrasing (computational linguistics) Paraphrase or Paraphrasing in computational linguistics is the natural language processing task of detecting and generating paraphrases. Applications of paraphrasing are varied including information retrieval, question answering, text summarization, and plagiarism detection. Par... |
19,989 | Cobalt bomb As a result, the concept of "overkill"—the idea that one can simply estimate the destruction and fallout created by a thermonuclear weapon of the size postulated by Leo Szilard's "cobalt bomb" thought experiment by extrapolating from the effects of thermonuclear weapons of smaller yields—is fallacious. Assu... |
19,990 | High-speed camera Even higher speed imaging is possible using specialized electronic charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging systems, which can achieve speeds of over 25 million fps. These cameras, however, still use rotating mirrors, like their older film counterparts. Solid state cameras can achieve speeds of up to 10 mi... |
19,991 | Information Doesn't Want to Be Free Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free is a 2014 non-fiction book by science fiction writer and Internet activist Cory Doctorow. In the book, he advocates for less restrictions on intellectual property on the Internet. He states that "[i]nformation doesn’t want to be free...people do.” ... |
19,992 | Desi Namu Similarly when an amount is paid to or received from someone and their name is forgotten, the same in debited or credited to Shree Khate and when the name is remembered, the name of the person is inserted in the blank space. system uses months and year of Vikram Samvat which comprises the twelve-month period ... |
19,993 | Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction The Terminator film franchise (first introduced in 1984) depicts an artificial intelligence called Skynet becoming self-aware in 1997 and trying to exterminate humanity by instigating nuclear war between the United States and Russia, which results in the death of three billion p... |
19,994 | Confucianism Didier and David Pankenier relate the shapes of both the ancient Chinese characters for Di and Tian to the patterns of stars in the northern skies, either drawn, in Didier's theory by connecting the constellations bracketing the north celestial pole as a square, or in Pankenier's theory by connecting some ... |
19,995 | Pepper spray A study of five often-recommended treatments for skin pain (Maalox, 2% lidocaine gel, baby shampoo, milk, or water) concluded that: ...there was no significant difference in pain relief provided by five different treatment regimens. Time after exposure appeared to be the best predictor for decrease in pain... |
19,996 | War of the currents Ottó Bláthy also invented the first AC electricity meter. The reliability of this type of AC technology received impetus after the Ganz Works electrified Rome, a large metropolis, in 1886. In North America the inventor and entrepreneur George Westinghouse entered the electric lighting business in 18... |
19,997 | Gupta art The Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara continued a late phase through at least most of the Gupta period, having also been a formative influence. Very important rock-cut sites outside the Gupta Empire proper, to the south, are the Ajanta Caves and Elephanta Caves, both mostly created in the Gupta period, and the E... |
19,998 | Psalm 51 The Miserere was a frequently used text in Catholic liturgical music before the Second Vatican Council. Most of the settings, which are often used at Tenebrae, are in a simple falsobordone style. During the Renaissance many composers wrote settings. The earliest known polyphonic setting, probably dating from t... |
19,999 | Women's history It coordinated efforts across the South to tell the story of the women on the Confederate home front, while the male historians spent their time with battles and generals. The women emphasized female activism, initiative, and leadership. They reported that when all the men left for war, the women took c... |
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