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700 | Syntex filed for a patent for the synthesis of the double-bond isomer 13 of norethindrone called noretynodrel. Noretynodrel is converted into norethisterone under acidic conditions, such as those in the human stomach, and the new patent did not infringe on the patent. Searle obtained approval to market noretynodrel bef... |
701 | Location hypotheses of Atlantis It is located about 25 kilometers from the continental shelf and about 60 km off the coast of Asturias, and Lastres between Ribadesella. Its top is now 425 meters below the sea. It is 50 kilometers from east to west and 18 km from north to south. Ribero-Meneses hypothesized that is part ... |
702 | Goodwin Liu On May 19, 2011, the Senate rejected cloture in a mostly party-line vote of 52–43, with all but one Democrat (Ben Nelson) voting in favor of cloture and all but one Republican (Lisa Murkowski) voting against. He became the first Obama judicial nominee to be successfully filibustered in the Senate. With the ... |
703 | Volute (pump) A volute is a curved funnel that increases in area as it approaches the discharge port. The volute of a centrifugal pump is the casing that receives the fluid being pumped by the impeller, maintaining the velocity of the fluid through to the diffuser. As liquid exits the impeller it has high kinetic energ... |
704 | DNA condensation can be induced "in vitro" either by applying external force to bring the double helices together, or by inducing attractive interactions between the DNA segments. The former can be achieved e.g. with the help of the osmotic pressure exerted by crowding neutral polymers in the presence of monovalent sal... |
705 | Haptic communication It turns out that the rhesus monkeys spent most of their time with the terry cloth mother, over the wire surrogate with a bottle of food, which indicates that they preferred touch, warmth, and comfort over sustenance. Touch can come in many different forms, some can promote physical and psychologic... |
706 | Multi-screen video In the fields of broadcasting and content delivery, multiscreen video describes video content that is transformed into multiple formats, bit rates and resolutions for display on devices such as televisions, mobile phones, tablets and computers. Additional devices may include video game consoles such ... |
707 | Foreign policy The organization Foreign Policy Interrupted recognized the gender disparity in foreign policy expert representation and is amplifying the number of female voices in foreign policy media coverage. Government officials involved in making foreign policy often perceive risk in giving away information about t... |
708 | Criticism of The Walt Disney Company " Meanwhile, Kelly McBride of the nonprofit journalism organization the Poynter Institute in an interview with "The Washington Post" said “You’re turning the journalist into a salesperson and asking them to upsell the product. That’s not the relationship you want the journalist to h... |
709 | Religious views of Charles Darwin In particular the Unitarians and free religionists, proud of his Dissenting upbringing, supported his naturalistic views. The Unitarian William Carpenter carried a resolution praising Darwin's unravelling of "the immutable laws of the Divine Government", shedding light on "the progress... |
710 | Dead Sea Scrolls 0% of the scrolls), and sheets of bronze composed of about 99.0% copper and 1.0% tin (approximately 1.5% of the scrolls). For those scrolls written on animal hides, scholars with the Israeli Antiquities Authority, by use of DNA testing for assembly purposes, believe that there may be a hierarchy in the... |
711 | The Best Man Holiday When Lance visits Harper and Robyn at their house in New York City, Harper gets a phone call from Q wherein Q announces his anticipated marriage but immediately warns Harper that he better not have had slept with his bride. In October 2011, it was announced that a sequel to the 1999 film "The Best ... |
712 | Global Zero (campaign) Global Zero Commissioners Senator Chuck Hagel and Ambassador Richard Burt met with President Medvedev in Moscow and discussed the agenda. On April 1, 2009 the two presidents met in London and issued a historic joint statement committing their "two countries to achieving a nuclear free world" and ... |
713 | Mercury(I) chloride Eder (hence the name Eder reaction) in 1880 and reinvestigated by W. E. Rosevaere in 1929. Mercury(I) bromide, HgBr, is light yellow, whereas mercury(I) iodide, HgI, is greenish in colour. Both are poorly soluble. Mercury(I) fluoride is unstable in the absence of a strong acid. Mercurous chloride is... |
714 | Electron hole Since force = mass × acceleration, a negative-effective-mass electron near the top of the valence band would move the opposite direction as a positive-effective-mass electron near the bottom of the conduction band, in response to a given electric or magnetic force. Therefore, a hole moves this way as well... |
715 | Archaeoastronomy The lack of artifacts caused concern for some archaeologists and the petrofabric analysis was inconclusive, but further research at Maes Howe and on the Bush Barrow Lozenge led MacKie to conclude that while the term 'science' may be anachronistic, Thom was broadly correct upon the subject of high-accur... |
716 | Depolymerization (or depolymerisation) is the process of converting a polymer into a monomer or a mixture of monomers. This process is driven by an increase in entropy. The tendency of polymers to depolymerize is indicated by their ceiling temperature. At this temperature, the enthalpy of polymerization matches the ent... |
717 | Distributed-element model The most common approach is to roll up all the distributed capacitance into one lumped element in parallel with the inductance and resistance of the coil. This lumped model works successfully at low frequencies but falls apart at high frequencies where the usual practice is to simply measure (... |
718 | Cumene process This latter cumene converts into cumene radical and feeds back into subsequent chain formations of cumene hydroperoxides. A pressure of 5 atm is used to ensure that the unstable peroxide is kept in liquid state. Cumene hydroperoxide is then hydrolysed in an acidic medium (the Hock rearrangement) to give ... |
719 | Shr-Hwa International Tower The () is a skyscraper located in West District, Taichung, Taiwan. It is the sixth tallest building in Taiwan and the tallest in central Taiwan. This building has a peculiar shape of a bamboo. The building is accessible North West from Taichung TRA station of the Taiwan Railway Administratio... |
720 | Host (biology) For example, sludge worms are sometimes considered "intermediate hosts" for salmonid whirling disease, even though the myxosporean parasite reproduces sexually inside them. In trichinosis, a disease caused by roundworms, the host has reproductive adults in its digestive tract and immature juveniles in it... |
721 | Self-driving car Numbers from the National Safety Council on killed and injured people on US roads multiplied by the average costs of a single incident reveal that an estimated US$500 billion loss may be imminent for the US healthcare industry when autonomous vehicles are dominating the roads. It is likely the anticipa... |
722 | Deferred tax Temporary differences are usually calculated on the differences between the carrying amount of an asset or liability recognized in the statements of financial position and the amount attributed to that asset or liability for tax at the beginning and end of the year. The differences in the charges to the pr... |
723 | Origin of the Albanians This theory was developed by the Austrian linguist Johann Georg von Hahn in his work "Albanesische Studien" in 1854. According to Hahn, the Pelasgians were the original proto-Albanians and the language spoken by the Pelasgians, Illyrians, Epirotes and ancient Macedonians were closely related. Th... |
724 | Franco Andrea Bonelli In the same year, he discovered Bonelli's eagle ("Hieraaetus fasciatus") that was likewise named by Vieillot in 1822. The successor of Bonelli at the Turin Museum was Carlo Giuseppe Gené. Bonelli is most notable for his work on birds and on the beetle family Carabidae. Since he was an early worker... |
725 | Reformed epistemology Plantinga seeks to defend this view of proper function against alternative views of proper function proposed by other philosophers which he groups together as "naturalistic", including the "functional generalization" view of John Pollock, the evolutionary/etiological account provided by Ruth Milli... |
726 | EXAPT ("EXtended Subset of APT") is a production oriented programming language to generate NC programs with control information for machining tools and enables to consider production-related issues of various machining processes. has developed historically regarding industrial requirements. Through the years software s... |
727 | Johnson's Building, The Rocks Johnson's Building is a heritage-listed former retail stores and now stock exchange offices, bar and restaurant located at 233-235 George Street in the inner city Sydney suburb of The Rocks in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Walter... |
728 | Tuscarora language Onomatopoeia, from Tuscarora or other languages, is less common than other words from other languages or verbal descriptions that turned to nominals. In many cases a pronominal prefix has dropped off, so that only the minimal stem remains. Ownership is divided into alienable and inalienable possessio... |
729 | Elizabethan era On balance, it can be said that Elizabeth provided the country with a long period of general if not total peace and generally increased prosperity due in large part to stealing from Spanish treasure ships, raiding settlements with low defenses, and selling African slaves. Having inherited a virtually ba... |
730 | Philosophy of business The philosophy of business considers the fundamental principles that underlie the formation and operation of a business enterprise; the nature and purpose of a business, and the moral obligations that pertain to it. Philipp Blom summarises the development and impact of business-centric ideas in s... |
731 | Theodor W. Adorno Adorno's own recently published "Minima Moralia" was not only well received in the press, but also met with great admiration from Thomas Mann, who wrote to Adorno from America in 1952: Yet Adorno was no less moved by other public events: protesting the publication of Heinrich Mann's novel "Professor U... |
732 | Sutton Hoo helmet " The helmets from Ultuna, Vendel 14 and Valsgärde 5 all used iron strips as neck protection; five strips hung from the rear of the Vendel 14 and Valsgärde 5 brow bands, and though only two strips survive from the Ultuna helmet, others would have hung alongside them. Camail was used on the remaining h... |
733 | Yttrium phosphide is an inorganic compound of yttrium and phosphorus with the chemical formula YP. The compound may be also classified as yttrium(III) phosphide. Heating (500–1000 °C) of pure substances in a vacuum: Y + P → YP forms cubic crystals. Ytttium phosphide is a semiconductor used in laser diodes, and in high ... |
734 | Hoosac Tunnel Haupt had excavated , or about a fifth of the distance, at that point. He left and became a Union Army railroad engineer and general in the American Civil War. In 1862, the Troy and Greenfield Railroad defaulted on its loan from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which foreclosed on the mortgage and took ... |
735 | International Council of Design In 1999 the position was officially changed to “Director” Thierry van Kerm held this during the period the Secretariat was based in Brussels from 1999–2005. In Montréal, Brenda Sanderson took over this role until 2012, followed by Marilena Farruggia until 2013 and Jovana Milović until 20... |
736 | Irish language The English administrator and traveller Fynes Moryson, writing in the last years of the 16th century, said that "the English Irish and the very citizens (excepting those of Dublin where the lord deputy resides) though they could speak English as well as we, yet commonly speak Irish among themselves, and ... |
737 | Muraqqa Akbar had an album, now dispersed, consisting entirely of portraits of figures at his enormous court which had a practical purpose; according to chroniclers he used to consult it when discussing appointments and the like with his advisors, apparently to jog his memory of who the people being discussed were. Man... |
738 | Cast iron Cast-iron beam bridges were used widely by the early railways, such as the Water Street Bridge in 1830 at the Manchester terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, but problems with its use became all too apparent when a new bridge carrying the Chester and Holyhead Railway across the River Dee in Chest... |
739 | Jurin's law Jurin's law, or capillary rise, is the simplest analysis of capillary action—the induced motion of liquids in small channels—and states that the maximum height of a liquid in a capillary tube is inversely proportional to the tube's diameter. Capillary action is one of the most common fluid mechanical effect... |
740 | Teletype Corporation The other two buildings were demolished. The had its roots in the Morkrum Company. In 1902, electrical engineer Frank Pearne approached Joy Morton, head of Morton Salt, seeking a sponsor for Pearne's research into the practicalities of developing a printing telegraph system. Joy Morton needed to de... |
741 | Kitana Besides Mileena and Jade in "Mortal Kombat II" and Khameleon in "Mortal Kombat Trilogy", another character, Tanya, who was introduced in "Mortal Kombat 4", also began as a recolored version of with altered moves. Another character derived from is the crimson code-colored female ninja Skarlet, who was first rumor... |
742 | Dictionary of American Regional English These resources included historical and contemporary newspapers, diaries, letters, histories, biographies, novels, and government documents. A number of important unpublished collections of dialect materials were also donated to "DARE" for use in documenting the "Dictionary" entr... |
743 | Consignee It is helpful to give and take the information about to be paid and received. It helps to settle dispute as it includes the detail about the goods and terms of trade and payment. It informs the selling price to the consignee. It helps to know the quality , the quantity, the price and the discount to the impor... |
744 | Haptic memory This means that areas close on the body surface receive nervous signals from areas that are close together on the brain surface. Several distinct areas of the parietal lobe are responsible for contributing to different aspects of haptic memory. Memory for the properties of stimuli such as roughness, spati... |
745 | Phaistos Disc According to a report in "The Times" the date of manufacture has never been established by thermoluminescence. In his 2008 review, Robinson does not endorse the forgery arguments, but argues that "a thermoluminescence test for the is imperative. It will either confirm that new finds are worth hunting for,... |
746 | Admittance parameters For port "n", the associated Y-parameter definition is in terms of the port voltage and port current, formula_1 and formula_2 respectively. For all ports the currents may be defined in terms of the Y-parameter matrix and the voltages by the following matrix equation: where Y is an "N" × "N" matrix... |
747 | Steam power during the Industrial Revolution The steam once admitted into the cylinder was first condensed by an external cold water spray, thus creating a partial vacuum which drew water up through a pipe from a lower level; then valves were opened and closed and a fresh charge of steam applied directly on to the surf... |
748 | Nuclear magnetic resonance Thus, a nucleus with a long "T" relaxation time gives rise to a very sharp NMR peak in the FT-NMR spectrum for a very homogeneous ("well-shimmed") static magnetic field, whereas nuclei with shorter "T" values give rise to broad FT-NMR peaks even when the magnet is shimmed well. Both "T" and "... |
749 | Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor Here acetylcholine is again used as a neurotransmitter, and "muscarinic" receptors form the principal receptors on the innervated tissue. Very few parts of the sympathetic system use cholinergic receptors. In sweat glands the receptors are of the "muscarinic" type. The sympathetic nerv... |
750 | The Conversation (Mad About You) Jamie and Paul Buchman put their infant daughter Mabel to bed, and wait outside the bedroom door to see if she will go to sleep on her own. Jamie sets a timer for intervals that allow them to check on Mabel, but they can only comfort her verbally. Paul is unhappy with the method, as he ... |
751 | Liverpool Cenotaph stands on St George's Plateau, to the east of St George's Hall in Liverpool, England. It was erected as a memorial to those who had fallen in the First World War. The dates of the Second World War were subsequently added. The cenotaph consists of a rectangular block of stone on a stone platform, with... |
752 | Infradian rhythm In chronobiology, an infradian rhythm is a rhythm with a period longer than the period of a circadian rhythm, i.e., with a frequency less than one cycle in 24 hours, such as menstruation, breeding, tidal or seasonal rhythms. In contrast, ultradian rhythms have periods shorter than the period of a circa... |
753 | Alisporivir (INN), or Debio 025, DEB025, (or UNIL-025) is a cyclophilin inhibitor. Its structure is reminiscent of, and synthesized from ciclosporin. It inhibits cyclophilin A. is not immunosuppressive. It is being researched for potential use in the treatment of hepatitis C. It has also been investigated for Duchenne ... |
754 | Multiculturalism English was established as the medium of instruction in schools during the 1960s and 1970s and is the language of trade and government while the other three languages are taught as second languages ("mother tongues"). Besides being a multilingual country, Singapore also acknowledges festivals celebrate... |
755 | Digital leisure studies The digital turn signifies a new period in leisure scholarship and demands a conceptual change, one in which leisure scholars turn to new resources and ways of capturing what digitization means for our lives and leisure Redheadnoted, leisure scholars “need to produce sustained theorizing of the ... |
756 | Elizabethan era The is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia (a female personification of Great Britain) was first used in 1572, and often thereafter, to mark the... |
757 | Towpath A towpath is a road or trail on the bank of a river, canal, or other inland waterway. The purpose of a towpath is to allow a land vehicle, beasts of burden, or a team of human pullers to tow a boat, often a barge. This mode of transport was common where sailing was impractical due to tunnels and bridges, unfavo... |
758 | Khanty language The demonstrative pronouns and adjectives are: Basic interrogative pronouns are: Khanty numerals, compared with Hungarian and Finnish, are: The formation of multiples of ten shows Slavic influence in Khanty, whereas Hungarian uses the collective derivative suffix "-van (-ven)" closely related to the suf... |
759 | Problem of evil Gottfried Leibniz introduced the term theodicy in his 1710 work "Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal" ("Theodicic Essays on the Benevolence of God, the Free will of man, and the Origin of Evil") which was directed mainly against Bayle. He argued that this ... |
760 | Woody plant Winter buds are formed when the dormant season begins. Depending on the plant, these buds contain either new leaf growth, new flowers, or both. Terminal buds have a stronger dominance on conifers than broadleaf plants, thus conifers will normally grow a single straight trunk without forking or large side or... |
761 | Ancient Egyptian pottery From that point of view it was less about social stratification than about a stratification of the value which people attach to things. It would therefore be wrong to say that Egyptian potters were despised. There was a strong sense that the process was a creative one. Thus, the word for 'potte... |
762 | Test suite An executable test suite works on a sufficiently detailed level to correctly communicate with the SUT and a test harness is usually present to interface the executable test suite with the SUT. A test suite for a primality testing subroutine might consist of a list of numbers and their primality (prime or com... |
763 | Photolithography This water repellent layer prevents the aqueous developer from penetrating between the photoresist layer and the wafer's surface, thus preventing so-called lifting of small photoresist structures in the (developing) pattern. In order to ensure the development of the image, it is best covered and placed... |
764 | Jand (Transoxania) Jand (also Jend), was a medieval town on the right bank of the lower Jaxartes river in Transoxiana. It was the winter capital of Seljuk power before their migration to Khurasan, and was ruined by the Mongols, and is now a decayed village. |
765 | Philosophy of mind Physicalistic monism asserts that the only existing substance is physical, in some sense of that term to be clarified by our best science. However, a variety of formulations (see below) are possible. Another form of monism, idealism, states that the only existing substance is mental. Although pure id... |
766 | Rothko case On September 16, 1968, Rothko executed a two-page will, drafted by and its execution supervised by his friend Bernard Reis, an unlicensed law-school graduate and Certified Public Accountant, leaving all of his residual estate to the non-profit Rothko Foundation which Rothko organized shortly before his deat... |
767 | Seismic noise ) but these sources are generally not used to characterize structures. The branch that studies the modal properties of systems under ambient vibrations is called Operational modal analysis (OMA) or Output-only modal analysis and provides many useful methods for civil engineering. The observed vibration pr... |
768 | Fullerene Crystallization of from benzene solution below 30 °C (when solubility is maximum) yields a [[triclinic]] solid [[solvate]] ·4. Above 30 °C one obtains solvate-free [[face-centered cubic|fcc]] . In 1999, researchers from the [[University of Vienna]] demonstrated that [[wave-particle duality]] applied to molecu... |
769 | Autonomous robot Some of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of flying their entire mission without any human interaction at all except possibly for the landing where a person intervenes using radio remote control. Some drones are capable of safe, automatic landings, however. An autonomous ship was announ... |
770 | Cooling load temperature difference calculation method Depending on the properties of the building envelope, a delay is present when observing the amount of heat being transferred inside from the outdoors. The CLF is the cooling load at a given time compared to the heat gain from earlier in the day. The SC, or shading ... |
771 | Eflornithine The drug was registered for the treatment of gambiense sleeping sickness on November 28, 1990. However, in 1995 Aventis (now Sanofi-Aventis) stopped producing the drug, whose main market was African countries, because it did not make a profit. In 2001, Aventis and the WHO formed a five-year partnership, du... |
772 | Separate spheres NOW stressed the importance of focusing on structurally altering the family sphere in order to then create gender equality in the education and workplace spheres. The family sphere is acting as a catalyst seeing that without a change in it, women would simply lack access to the opportunities that men a... |
773 | Fire protection engineering and the University of Cincinnati offers an associate degree in Fire Science and a bachelor's degree in Fire and Safety Engineering Technology as distance learning options, the only university in the U.S. and Canada to hold this distinction. Other institutions, such as the University of Kansa... |
774 | Vertical farming Bruce Bugbee claimed that the power demands of vertical farming would be uncompetitive with traditional farms using only natural light. Environmental writer George Monbiot calculated that the cost of providing enough supplementary light to grow the grain for a single loaf would be about $15. An article... |
775 | Social rule system theory Rules are key concepts in the new institutionalism, in several variants of socio-cultural evolutionary theory, and in work in semiotics, linguistics, and philosophy on “language games”. Among the many other researchers developing and applying rule concepts in the social sciences. In general, m... |
776 | Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son (1901) is a satirical novel by Samuel Butler, forming a belated sequel to his "Erewhon" (1872). "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature" judges that it "has less of the free imaginative play of its pred... |
777 | Love After Love (poem) "Love After Love" is a poem by Derek Walcott, included in his "Collected Poems, 1948–1984" (1986). |
778 | Racetrack problem A racetrack problem is a specific instance of a type of race condition. A racetrack problem is a flaw in a system or process whereby the output and/or result of the process is unexpectedly and critically dependent on the sequence or timing of other events that run in a circular pattern. This problem i... |
779 | List of EastEnders two-hander episodes He had let Den triumph before, because he thought he wanted a father, but even though Den had put up a good fight, he wasn't going to let him win this time. Den became enraged and asserted that his and Sharon's affair was over. He ordered Dennis to leave, but Dennis replied repeat... |
780 | Loghain Mac Tir Loghain was the first character to be created during the development cycle for "Origins". In an interview with "PC Gamer", "Origins" lead writer Gaider describes Loghain's characterization as part of the general shift toward a more morally ambiguous form of RPG. He explained that “a lot of "Dragon Age" ... |
781 | Hydroxybenzoic acid may refer to several related chemical compounds: |
782 | The False Friend; or, the Fate of Disobedience Heavey writes that Pix "recognised the dramatic and pathetic potential of a comparison between Medea and a scorned woman". |
783 | Industrial fan Radial blade – The flat blades of this type are arranged in a radial pattern. These rugged fans offer high pressure capability with average efficiency. They are often fitted with erosion-resistant liners to extend rotor life. The housing design is compact to minimize the floor space requirement. Radial t... |
784 | Privacy " Some experts assert that in fact the right to privacy "should not be defined as a separate legal right" at all. By their reasoning, existing laws relating to privacy in general should be sufficient. It has therefore proposed a working definition for a "right to privacy": "The right to privacy is our right to ... |
785 | Mozi His conversations with other renowned philosophers of that era are also recorded. From them, we can distinguish Mohism from other schools of thought more clearly. Mohism was suppressed under the Qin and died out completely under the Han, which made Confucianism the official doctrine. However, many of its ideas wer... |
786 | Hockey Night in Canada However, due to their decline in popularity, outdoor games are no longer shown on CBC or branded "HNIC" unless a Canadian team is involved. CBC also provides extensive Stanley Cup playoff coverage every spring with a focus on Canadian teams. They also have exclusive English-language rights to the... |
787 | Imaginary audience Examples of imaginary audience: A teen that is affected by imaginary audience might be self-conscious and may worry about what other people think of them. They may change their clothes constantly before leaving the house to make sure they are presentable for everybody that is watching them. They may ... |
788 | Modern Greek grammar Its use is either as a canonical adjective, or as a part of a second, alternative perfect periphrasis with transitive verbs. Finally, there is another invariant form, formed from the present tense and typically ending in "-ontas", which is variably called either a participle or a gerund by modern a... |
789 | Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship The is given annually by the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association. The award is given for the best psychoanalytic book published within the past two years and is juried by a peer review process and ... |
790 | Rocco Buttiglione The People's Party had presented itself along with "Patto Segni" in the centrist alliance Pact for Italy, in which it came third after Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Pole of Freedoms/Pole of Good Government and the centre-left Alliance of Progressives. Buttiglione eventually joined forces with Berlu... |
791 | Sell your cloak and buy a sword is an instruction, by Jesus to his disciples during the Last Supper, which has been interpreted in several ways. Christian anarchist Jacques Ellul and Christian pacifist John Howard Yoder do not believe Luke 22:36 overturns the many times Jesus urged his followers to turn the other cheek... |
792 | Game theory Hurwicz introduced and formalized the concept of incentive compatibility. In 2012, Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design". In 2014, the Nobel went to game theorist Jean Tirole. A game is "cooperati... |
793 | Mistress of Mellyn was the first Gothic romance novel written by Eleanor Hibbert under the pen name "Victoria Holt". A young woman, Martha Leigh, is hired as a governess by Connan TreMellyn, a widower, for his daughter, Alvean. Martha travels to Cornwall and becomes fascinated by her employer and his dead wife. While s... |
794 | Basil Mott Sir Basil Mott, 1st Baronet FRS (16 September 1859 – 7 September 1938) was one of the most notable English civil engineers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was responsible for some of the most innovative work on tunnels and bridges in the United Kingdom in the 40-year period centred on World War... |
795 | Gudmundur S. (Bo) Bodvarsson Gudmundur Svavar (Bo) Bodvarsson (November 11, 1952 – November 29, 2006) was an Icelandic hydrogeologist who is known for his work with the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. From 1980 until his death, he was affiliated with the Berkeley Lab, serving as the director of its earth scien... |
796 | Libido Erectile dysfunction may happen to the penis because of lack of sexual desire, but these two should not be confused. For example, large recreational doses of amphetamine or methamphetamine can simultaneously cause erectile dysfunction and significantly increase libido. However, men can also experience a decrease... |
797 | National Schism The anathemas such as these reflected the very intense feelings that divided Greece by 1916. On the other side, feelings were just as intense. Lambros Koromilas, the Greek ambassador in Rome sent a public letter to the King stating: "The obscure and ambiguous policy which Your Governments have pursued f... |
798 | Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) The solution of such ordinary differential equation as a function of time represents the displacement response of the system (given appropriate initial conditions). In the above system resonance happens when is approximately formula_1, i.e. formula_2 is the natural (resonant) frequency of t... |
799 | Quadruplex telegraph The other half of the current is sent down the wire to the remote relay and its termination load. Since the current flowing into this Y-shaped junction between the solenoids flows in opposite directions in the two local solenoids they sum to no net magnetic field and the local relay is not activate... |
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