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900 | Apeiron This language was more suitable for a society which could see gods everywhere; therefore the first glimmerings of laws of nature were themselves derived from divine laws. The Greeks believed that the universal principles could also be applied to human societies. The word "nomos" (law) may originally have meant ... |
901 | Saint Seiya The story is situated 7 years before the events at the beginning of the original "Saint Seiya" manga, and 6 years after the death of the Gold Saint Sagittarius Aiolos, making Leo Aiolia the main character. During the series, Titans are brought back to life with the mission of recovering their realm, and the... |
902 | History of scientific method After the accession of Pope Clement IV in 1265, the Pope granted Bacon a special commission to write to him on scientific matters. In eighteen months he completed three large treatises, the "Opus Majus", "Opus Minus", and "Opus Tertium" which he sent to the Pope. William Whewell has called ... |
903 | Scientology and the Internet In the 1990s Scientology was distributing a [[Content-control software|special software package]] for its members to [[Internet censorship|'protect']] them from "unapproved" material about the church. The software is designed to completely block out the newsgroup "alt.religion.scientology",... |
904 | Oresteia Aeschylus was able to use the curse in his play as an ideal formulation of tragedy in his writing. Some scholars believe that the trilogy is influenced by contemporary political developments in Athens. A few years previously, legislation sponsored by the democratic reformer Ephialtes had stripped the court of ... |
905 | List of characters in the Jean le Flambeur series Raymonde is a musician who was the lover of Paul Sernine (the pseudonym assumed by Jean le Flambeur when he was a citizen of the Oubliette). When Jean comes to look for her in the events of "The Quantum Thief", she is composing an opera about the Revolution. Raymonde be... |
906 | Breath of Life (language restoration workshops) In Breath of Life workshops, linguists help members of Native American communities access and use archival material documenting their ancestral languages in the interest of language restoration and revitalization. This is particularly important for the many communities th... |
907 | Vietnamese language The has several mutually intelligible regional varieties (or dialects). The five main dialects are as follows: Vietnamese has traditionally been divided into three dialect regions: North, Central, and South. However, Michel Ferlus and Nguyễn Tài Cẩn offer evidence for considering a North-Central reg... |
908 | Hyperkalemia Physicians taking a medical history may focus on kidney disease and medication use (e.g. potassium-sparing diuretics), both of which are known causes of hyperkalemia. Normal serum potassium levels are generally considered to be between 3.5 and 5.3 mmol/L. Levels above 5.5mmol/L generally indicate hyperkale... |
909 | George Kistiakowsky In 1938, he became the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry. Foreseeing an expanded role for science in World War II, which the United States had not yet joined, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) on June 27, 1940, with Vannevar Bush as... |
910 | Amplified Ribosomal DNA Restriction Analysis Commercial software is also available for the analysis of these patterns, most used are the packages GelCompar II and BioNumerics. |
911 | Batasuna Another well-known Herri leader and newly elected Spanish MP, Josu Muguruza, was assassinated by right-wing extremists in November 1989 in Madrid. GAL claimed responsibility for Muguruza's assassination. Suspicions also centered on Spanish neo-Nazi group Bases Autónomas. Amid the first talk of the Spanish gove... |
912 | Auguste and Louis Lumière Louis Le Prince's "Roundhay Garden Scene" (1888) and other films are now widely regarded as the first examples of proper cinematography, but Le Prince disappeared without a trace before he managed to present his work or publish about it. Ottomar Anschütz's Electrotachyscope projected very shor... |
913 | Sedentism The development of sedentism led to the rise of population aggregation and formation of villages, cities, and other community types. In North America, evidence for sedentism emerges around 4500 BC. Forced sedentism or sedentarization occurs when a dominant group restricts the movements of a nomadic group. Nom... |
914 | Decalegrón was a Uruguayan television comedy programme which aired on Saeta TV Channel 10 from 1977 till 2002. Notable for its refined sense of humour, the programme won several awards. |
915 | Ministry of Petroleum (Iran) After Islamic Revolution of Iran, the editing and approval of new laws were also on the agenda of Islamic Consultative Assembly with the necessity of following some principles and with regard to departure of foreign experts. Hence, new oil law was approved on October 9, 1987. Following the ... |
916 | Shango The Oyo Empire declined in the 19th century, which led to the enslavement of its people by the Fulani and the Fon. Among them were many followers of Ṣàngó, and worship of the deity thrives in the New World as a result. Strong devotion to Ṣàngó led to Yoruba religions in Trinidad and Recife, Brazil being named af... |
917 | Ethics Associated with the pragmatists, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and especially John Dewey, pragmatic ethics holds that moral correctness evolves similarly to scientific knowledge: socially over the course of many lifetimes. Thus, we should prioritize social reform over attempts to account for consequence... |
918 | Robert de Ho (c. 1140-1210) was a twelfth century writer of Anglo-Norman literature known for "Enseignements Trebor". Trebor is Robert spelled backward and was for his son. |
919 | Naturalistic pantheism In 1705 the Irish writer John Toland endorsed a form of pantheism in which the God-soul is identical with the material universe. German naturalist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) proposed a monistic pantheism in which the idea of God is identical with that of nature or substance. The World Pantheist Mo... |
920 | Zero stroke or cipher stroke was an alleged mental disorder, reportedly diagnosed by physicians in Germany during the hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic (1921–24). The disorder was primarily characterized by the desire of patients to write endless rows of zeros, which are also referred to as ciphers. After the Treat... |
921 | Theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas In the 20th century, adherents have included Cyrus H. Gordon, John Philip Cohane, Ross T. Christensen, Barry Fell and Mark McMenamin. In 1996, McMenamin proposed that Phoenician sailors discovered the New World c. 350 BC. The Phoenician state of Carthage minted gold stater... |
922 | Shepherd's Bush Palladium The (alternatively Shepherds Bush Palladium) is a former cinema in Shepherd's Bush, London, originally built in 1910 as the Shepherd's Bush Cinematograph Theatre. The building has had a number of owners over the years and finally stopped showing films in 1981. After standing empty for some tim... |
923 | LeMoyne–Owen College Price, college president during 1943-1970. The college sponsors athletic teams that participate in the Division II level, in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) conference of the NCAA. The Department of Athletics sponsors men's intercollegiate baseball, basketball, cross country... |
924 | Bible translations into Mongolian In 1994 Living Stream Ministry reprinted this, using the Cyrillic script instead of the classical Mongolian, but changing nothing else. All of these works retain the Buddhist word "Burhan" for "God". In 2009 the "ABPPM foundation" published a revision of the Bible as "The Classical Mon... |
925 | Drosophila hybrid sterility It is now known that "Drosophila" has 6 chromosomes—an X/Y pair and four autosomal chromosomes. The genome comprises about 139.5 million base pairs. There are about 15,000 genes. Gender is determined in "Drosophila" not by the presence or absence of the Y chromosome as in mammals, but by the... |
926 | Metal–organic framework Ethylenediamine (ED) has been shown to be grafted on the Cr metal sites and can be further modified to encapsulate noble metals such as Pd. The entraped Pd has similar catalytic activity as Pd/C in the Heck reaction. Ruthenium nanoparticles have catalytic activity in a number of reactions when e... |
927 | Difference feminism holds that there are differences between men and women but that no value judgment can be placed upon them and both genders have equal moral status as persons. The term "difference feminism" developed during the "equality-versus-difference debate" in American feminism in the 1980s and 1990s, but subs... |
928 | Histone octamer This “wave” of DNA, spontaneously breaking and remaking the hydrogen bonds as it goes, then propagates down the nucleosomal DNA until it reaches the last binding site with the histone octamer. Once the wave reaches the end of the histone octamer the excess that was once at the edge is extended into the ... |
929 | Mary Shelley In her own lifetime, was taken seriously as a writer, though reviewers often missed her writings' political edge. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of "Frankenstein". In fact, in the introduction to her letters published in 1945, edit... |
930 | EPANET The input file can include data describing network topology, water consumption, and control rules, and is supported by many free and commercial modeling packages. While is used as the computational engine for most water distribution system models, most models are developed and maintained in hydraulic modeling pa... |
931 | Bluebook The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, a style guide, prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States. "The Bluebook" is compiled by the "Harvard Law Review" Association, the "Columbia Law Review", the "University of Pennsylvania Law Review", and the "Yale Law Journal". Currentl... |
932 | Galli A gallus (pl. galli) was a eunuch priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele and her consort Attis, whose worship was incorporated into the state religious practices of ancient Rome. The earliest references to the galli come from the "Anthologia Palatina" (a compilation of the 10th century), although they do not expli... |
933 | James O. Fraser Christianity is thriving in the Salween River valley, where the Lisu live nearly 70 years after the death of Fraser. Of the 18,000 Lisu who lived in Fugong in 1950, 3,400 professed faith in Christ. As of 2007, there are estimated to be 80–90 percent of the 70,000 making the same profession. In Yunnan it... |
934 | Satprem The following year, he and Sujata decided to withdraw completely from public life to devote themselves exclusively to Sri Aurobindo's and The Mother's work of the transformation of the cellular consciousness of the body and realisation of the new evolution, and the search for the "great passage" in the evolutio... |
935 | Fructose In fructolysis, the enzyme fructokinase initially produces fructose 1-phosphate, which is split by aldolase B to produce the trioses dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) and glyceraldehyde . Unlike glycolysis, in fructolysis the triose glyceraldehyde lacks a phosphate group. A third enzyme, triokinase, is therefo... |
936 | Polynomial texture mapping A 'dome' supporting twenty-four lights has been used to image paintings in the National Gallery and produce polynomial texture maps, providing information on condition phenomena for conservation purposes. Studies of the technique at the National Gallery and Tate concluded that it is an effect... |
937 | Adyghe grammar Imperative mood of second person in singular has no additional affixes: штэ "take", кӏо "go", тхы "write"; in plural the affix -шъу is added in front of the verbs: шъу-къакӏу "you (plural) go", шъу-тхы "you (plural) write", шъу-штэ "you (plural) take". Conditional mood is expressed with suffix -мэ: сы-кӏ... |
938 | Swiss Heritage Society The (SHS) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of Switzerland’s architectural heritage. Its focus is on the preservation of important landmarks, the development of the structural environment, and the promotion of good architectural design. The was founded in 1905, has about 1... |
939 | Word gap It is thought that during children's vocabulary development the productive vocabulary mirrors their underlying receptive vocabulary growth. The authors and subsequent researchers have posited that the word gap—or certainly the differing rates of vocabulary acquisition—partially explains the achievement gap in ... |
940 | Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography (UOT) is a form of tomography involving ultrasound. It is used in imaging of biological soft tissues and has potential applications for early cancer detection. Like optical techniques, this method provides high contrast, and the use of ultrasound also provides high resolution. Wa... |
941 | Cass Sunstein Among these rights are a right to an education, a right to a home, a right to health care, and a right to protection against monopolies; Sunstein argues that the Second Bill of Rights has had a large international impact and should be revived in the United States. His 2001 book, "Republic.com", argued tha... |
942 | John McDowell She has the right concepts and the correct grasp of concepts to think about situations in which she finds herself by coming to moral beliefs. Secondly, for such a person such moral beliefs are automatically over-riding over other reasons she may have and in a particular way: they "silence" other reasons, ... |
943 | IPsec In the forwarded email from 2010, Theo de Raadt did not at first express an official position on the validity of the claims, apart from the implicit endorsement from forwarding the email. Jason Wright's response to the allegations: "Every urban legend is made more real by the inclusion of real names, dates, and t... |
944 | Generalized distributive law Similarly each vertex has a state which is defined as a table containing the values from the function formula_141, Just like how messages initialize to 1 identically, state of formula_103 is defined to be local kernel formula_143, but whenever formula_144 gets updated, it follows the follow... |
945 | Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory Furthermore, there were difficulties retaining good intelligence officers and trained linguists; most did not remain on the job for the extended periods necessary to become truly professional. For career reasons, nearly all wanted to return to more standard assignments. ... |
946 | MRNA display For ribosome display, selection stringency is limited to keep ribosome-mRNA-polypeptide in a complex because of the noncovalent ribosome-mRNA-polypeptide complexes. This may cause difficulties in reducing background binding during the selection cycle. Also, the polypeptides under selection in a ribosome di... |
947 | List of genres Historical fiction stories include historical details and includes characters that fit into the time period of the setting, whether or not they are real historical people. A horror story is told to deliberately scare or frighten the audience, through suspense, violence or shock. H. P. Lovecraft distingui... |
948 | Amos Fries Amos Alfred Fries was a general in the United States Army and 1898 graduate of the United States Military Academy. Fries was the second chief of the army's Chemical Warfare Service, established during World War I. Fries served under John J. Pershing in the Philippines and oversaw the construction of the road... |
949 | Newborn screening Samples are transported daily to the laboratory responsible for testing. In the United States and Canada, newborn screening is mandatory, with an option for parents to opt out of the screening in writing if they desire. In many regions, NBS is mandatory, with an option for parents to opt out in writin... |
950 | Heliocentrism This issue was also resolved in the geocentric Tychonic system; the latter, however, while eliminating the major epicycles, retained as a physical reality the irregular back-and-forth motion of the planets, which Kepler characterized as a "pretzel". Copernicus cited Aristarchus in an early (unpublished) m... |
951 | American Legion Building (Spartanburg, South Carolina) The American Legion Building in Spartanburg, South Carolina is a Colonial Revival building that was designed by architects Lockwood, Greene and Company and was built in 1937. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2003. |
952 | Benjamin Franklin " Franklin left his apprenticeship without his brother's permission, and in so doing became a fugitive. At age 17, Franklin ran away to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, seeking a new start in a new city. When he first arrived, he worked in several printer shops around town, but he was not satisfied by the ... |
953 | Iron metallurgy in Africa Cline's compilation of eye-witness records of bloomery iron smelting over the past 250 years in Africa is invaluable, and has been supplemented by more recent ethnoarchaeological and archaeological studies. Furnaces used in the 19th and 20th centuries ranges from small bowl furnaces, dug down ... |
954 | Russian Far East Russia, meanwhile, saw war as a means of distracting its populace from government repression and of rallying patriotism in the aftermath of several general strikes. Japan issued a declaration of war on 8 February 1904. However, three hours before Japan's declaration of war was received by the Russian G... |
955 | Islamic glass While the various functions of have been touched upon during the previous discussion (mosque lamps from the Middle Islamic Period, wine bottles from Safavid Persia, "nargileh" bases from Mughal India), glass filled a multitude of roles throughout the history of the Islamic world. A variety of vessel forms... |
956 | Tonjon language Tonjon is an extinct Mande language once spoken by blacksmiths among the Djimini Senoufo of Ivory Coast. It was closely related to Ligbi, another blacksmith language. |
957 | Hazy Sighted Link State Routing Protocol The Hazy-Sighted Link State Routing Protocol (HSLS) is a wireless mesh network routing protocol being developed by the CUWiN Foundation. This is an algorithm allowing computers communicating via digital radio in a mesh network to forward messages to computers that are out of rea... |
958 | Clear channel assessment attack A clear channel assessment attack or Queensland attack is physical layer DoS attack against Wi-Fi networks. The attack focuses the need of a wireless network to receive the "clear channel assessment"; which is a function within CSMA/CA to determine whether the wireless medium is ready an... |
959 | Geoffrey G. Eichholz Additional studies involved neutron activation analysis to determine the oxygen content in steel and the use of radiotracers in explosives and the steel industry. In 1963, Eichholz was recruited by the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) for the position of professor in the newly establi... |
960 | Vadakkan Pattukal Thacholi Meppayil Kunjhu Othenan or Mepayil Tacholi Manikoth Kovilakathu Kunji Othena Kurup (Udayana Kurup of Thacholi Manikoth House) or more popularly Thacholi Othenan was a legendary hero who is believed to have lived during 16th century in North Malabar region of Kerala, India. He is praised in th... |
961 | Gwenhwyfach Melville Richards and Bromwich previously suggested that the alternate spelling of her name in medieval Welsh sources, Gwenhwywach, could have been understood as "Gwenhwy-fach", or "Gwenhwy the Lesser", a back-formation based on a false etymology of her sister's name as "Gwenhwy-fawr", meaning "Gwenhwy the ... |
962 | Yetholm-type shield With the exception of the specimen found at South Cadbury (by archaeologist Josh Williams), all were found in wet contexts. They formed part of a widespread practice of placing valuable objects in wet places. Presumably, this practice was motivated by religious beliefs, the details of which are unkn... |
963 | Narcissistic parent This may lead to a child feeling empty, insecure in loving relationships, developing imagined fears, mistrusting others, experiencing identity conflict, and suffering an inability to develop a distinct existence from that of the parent. Sensitive, guilt-ridden children in the family may learn to mee... |
964 | Garden Battery The area was eventually excavated and the battery was rediscovered in 2005, so the gun emplacements can be seen once again. When development of the area is complete, the battery is to form part of a heritage route. |
965 | Market economy A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand. The major characteristic of a market economy is the existence of factor markets that play a dominant role in the allo... |
966 | Plant collecting This has led in some cases to a collector voluntarily taking part, helping scientists, in some research areas, provided he can store the "collectible". In fact, historically, many species have initially been found within a collection of a collector. Usually, a plant can be identified in nature, since t... |
967 | William Scott-Elliot Leadbeater and Scott-Elliot provided much more detail than Blavatsky on the lives of the supposed Atlantean and Lemurian root races. Scott-Elliot located Lemuria in the Pacific ocean, claiming that it was a gigantic landmass that eventually sank, leaving only small islands. The Lemurians were aroun... |
968 | Computer graphics In the early 1980s, metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) very-large-scale integration (VLSI) technology led to the availability of 16-bit central processing unit (CPU) microprocessors and the first graphics processing unit (GPU) chips, which began to revolutionize computer graphics, enabling high-resolutio... |
969 | Archibald Cox " The trustees sought out Cox to argue the case in the Supreme Court, Cox who had already prepared a brief on the issue in the "DeFunis" case, agreed to take the case on the condition that other lawyers take primary responsibility for preparing the brief, something highly unusual for Cox who normally care... |
970 | Adhesion By providing the otherwise brittle interfacial bonds with some flexibility, the molecules that are stringing across the gap can stop the crack from propagating. Another way to understand this phenomenon is by comparing it to the stress concentration at the point of failure mentioned earlier. Since the stress i... |
971 | History of artificial life The idea of human artifacts being given life has fascinated humankind for as long as people have been recording their myths and stories. Whether Pygmalion or Frankenstein, humanity has been fascinated with the idea of artificial life. Automatons were quite a novelty. In the days before comput... |
972 | Perceptual paradox When pupils are widened for fight/flight response, the size of the central "Airy" disk decreases to a diameter of about 1.5 photoreceptors. The so-called "blur" is decreased in anticipation of large movements. No published neuroanatomical model predicts that discrimination improves when pupils are na... |
973 | Electric gates An electric gate is an entrance gate which can be opened and closed via an electric powered mechanism. Driveway gate openers can be the rollback (sliding) type that retracks a gate along the fence or wall on wheels or bearing, or the swing type that draws the gate open or closed on hinges. The most popul... |
974 | Lua (programming language) The compilation process is typically invisible to the user and is performed during run-time, but it can be done offline in order to increase loading performance or reduce the memory footprint of the host environment by leaving out the compiler. Lua bytecode can also be produced and executed f... |
975 | Hypatia transracialism controversy Jenner became one of "Glamour" magazine's Women of the Year and appeared on the cover of "Vanity Fair", while Dolezal lost her position as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter in Spokane, Washington, and became, in her view, unemployable.... |
976 | The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences (1831) by Sir John Barrow is considered the classic account of the mutiny on the "Bounty". It includes a description of the island of Tahiti, and a... |
977 | Freshwater environmental quality parameters In recent decades as the need to understand ground water dynamics has increased, an increasing number or monitoring bore-holes have been drilled into aquifers "see also Limnology" Lakes and ponds can be very large and support a complex eco-system in which environmental parame... |
978 | Murder of Seth Rich " Also in March 2018, Aaron Rich filed a lawsuit against Butowsky, Couch, America First Media, and "The Washington Times" for suggesting he had played a role in the purported theft of emails from the DNC. On October 1, 2018, as part of a settlement they had reached with Aaron Rich, "The Washington T... |
979 | Aquatic toxicology databases Toxicological databases are large compilations of data derived from aquatic and environmental toxicity studies. Data is aggregated from a large number of individual studies in which toxic effects upon aquatic and terrestrial organisms have been determined for different chemicals. These data... |
980 | Post-industrial society As economic activities shift from primarily primary and secondary sector-based to tertiary, and later quaternary, sector-based, cities in which this shift occurs become more open to exchanges of information. This is necessitated by the demands of a tertiary and quaternary sector: in order to bet... |
981 | Anger Anger, also known as wrath or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and hostile response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat. A person experiencing anger will often experience physical effects, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and increased levels of adr... |
982 | Ophel ostracon The or KAI 190, is an ostracon discovered in Jerusalem in 1924 by R. A. Stewart Macalister and John Garrow Duncan, in the area of Wadi Hilweh (known as the City of David). The ostracon measures 4 inches by 3 inches. The inscription is thought to have originally been eight lines, of which five are deciphe... |
983 | Nitrogen The presence of hydrogen bonding has very significant effects on ammonia, conferring on it its high melting (−78 °C) and boiling (−33 °C) points. As a liquid, it is a very good solvent with a high heat of vaporisation (enabling it to be used in vacuum flasks), that also has a low viscosity and electrical condu... |
984 | Internet protocol suite Microcontroller firmware in the network adapter typically handles link issues, supported by driver software in the operating system. Non-programmable analog and digital electronics are normally in charge of the physical components below the link layer, typically using an application-specific int... |
985 | Polarity symbols are a notation found on electrical devices that use direct current (DC) power, when this is or may be provided from an alternating current (AC) source via an AC adapter. The adapter typically supplies power to the device through a thin electrical cord which terminates in a coaxial power connector often... |
986 | Limited government Here, Jefferson outlined three basic statements widely adhered to by the people of the American colonies. Supporters of the Declaration believed that these statements were not sufficiently adhered to by or through the English monarchy. In order to prevent this travesty the framers of the constitution... |
987 | Maxwell bridge The frequency dependence of inductance values gives rise to other constraints on this type of bridge: the calibration frequency must be well below the lesser of the self-resonance frequency of the inductor and the self-resonance frequency of the capacitor, Fr < min(L,C)/10. Before those limits are approa... |
988 | Argument from nonbelief The philosophers Michael Bergmann and Michael Rea described the philosopher William Rowe's justification for the second premise of the argument from evil, which is equally applicable to a perception of hiddenness:Some evidential arguments ... rely on a “noseeum” inference of the following sort: ... |
989 | Perception This involves exploratory procedures, such as moving the fingers over the outer surface of the object or holding the entire object in the hand. Haptic perception relies on the forces experienced during touch. Gibson defined the haptic system as "the sensibility of the individual to the world adjacent to his ... |
990 | Interpol notice He was arrested on arrival in Thailand with his wife for a honeymoon in November 2018 by Thai police on the basis of the red notice, despite the red notice being withdrawn a few days later on the basis of illegality, and is awaiting trial to fight extradition to Bahrain, as at 9 February 2019. There has... |
991 | Thallium poisoning case of Zhu Ling Zhu Ling (, born 1973) is best known as the victim of an unsolved 1995 thallium poisoning case in Beijing, China. Her symptoms were posted to the Internet via a Usenet newsgroup by her friend from Peking University, Bei Zhicheng, and were subsequently proven to be caused by thallium ... |
992 | Centennial Park Reservoir Circa 1930, the Tennis Pavilion, designed by architect Howard Jouriand, was relocated to Lane Cove National Park and it remained there until . In 1974, defects in the walls led to the lowering of the FSL (Full Storage Level) by one metre until, in 1990 - 1992, part of the battered earth side w... |
993 | Civil–military relations This period was concerned with the supposed lessons of the Vietnam War, how the volunteer force changed the nature of the armed forces, and whether those changes led to wider gaps between military and civilian societies. The third period, beginning with the end of the Cold War and continuing to... |
994 | Farewell speech A farewell speech or farewell address is a speech given by an individual leaving a position or place. They are often used by public figures such as politicians as a to the preceding career, or as statements delivered by persons relating to reasons for their leaving. The term is often used as a euphemism... |
995 | Ragnar Nurkse's balanced growth theory The various economic agents are temporarily unemployed and once the inducement to invest starts operating, the slump will be overcome. However, for an underdeveloped economy, where such resources are absent, this principle doesn't fit. Another contention was Nurkse's approval of S... |
996 | Fluorescence in situ hybridization Fluorescence "in situ" hybridization (FISH) is a molecular cytogenetic technique that uses fluorescent probes that bind to only those parts of a nucleic acid sequence with a high degree of sequence complementarity. It was developed by biomedical researchers in the early 1980s to detec... |
997 | William Augustus Edmond Ussher (8 July 1849 – 19 March 1920) was a British geologist. Ussher, born in County Galway, was the youngest of six children in an Irish Protestant family that could trace its ancestry back to Archbishop James Ussher. In April 1868 William Ussher joined the Geological Survey after passing a civ... |
998 | The Abominable Bride The episode ends with Victorian Holmes describing his visions of aeroplanes and mobile telephones to a cynical Watson, before looking out the window onto Baker Street in the present day. Filmed: Tuesday 6 January until 10 February 2015. Filming took place at Tyntesfield House, a National Trust prop... |
999 | Aluminium price-fixing conspiracy The aluminium price-fixing conspiracy was an alleged effort by Goldman Sachs Group Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Glencore Xstrata and their warehouse companies to inflate the price of aluminium by creating artificial supply shortages at their warehouses between 2010 and 2013. On July 20, 2... |
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