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That first sip may also strike you as uncommonly sharp and bitter, which is not surprising, since Fernet is a type of spirit called an amaro—Italian for “bitter.” (Other well-known amari, although less throat-catching than Fernet, include Ramazzotti, Averna, and Campari.) ... |
On a damp, still day, we took a path through woodland on the edge of the town of Wellington and came upon a sheet of water with ducks, terns and a stately pair of Canada geese almost motionless on the surface. We were in a nature reserve with marshy areas, waterways, ponds and hedges providing protected habitat for var... |
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Mali relies on aid for about 50% of its public expenditure. Perhaps it's time to look at how to end this dependence
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Norton and Margot, in the ’30s, made ballroom dance a black thing.
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Ever wanted to greet a Dane with their own language? Or perhaps you are going to Denmark, and you wish to communicate in their native tongue. Or, you just want to impress your friends! Here are the basic Danish greetings just for you.
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A number of verse forms use chain rhyme as an integral part of their structures. One example is terza rima, which is written in tercets with a rhyming pattern a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c. Another is the virelai ancien, which rhymes a-a-b-a-a-b, b-... |
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Shall and will
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Shall and will are two of the English modal verbs. They have various uses, including the expression of propositions about the future, in what is usually referred to as the future tense of English.
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Witt, M.D. and H.D. Knudsen. 1993. Milkweed cultivation for floss production. p. 428-431. In: J. Janick and J.E. Simon (eds.), New crops. Wiley, New York.
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A radiograph was made, non-grid, using 400 mA, 0.05 second exposure, and 75 kV at 40'' SID using a 400 speed system. Which of the following exposure times would be required to maintain radiographic density at a 36-inch SID using the 500-mA station, and with an increase to 87 kVp?
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Were they developed anew or a heritage from fish?
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Pangolin scales are certainly not retained from fish. Pangolins are within the clade Pholidota (Tree of Life page for Eutheria) and their nearest relatives are anteaters, sloths, and armadillos.
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Blue starfish
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Blue starfish
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As far as I can tell most one-way hashes apply some iterated encryption algorithm to the input data.
What would be the issues with a one-way hash based on some fixed large prime p and a generator g with h(x) = g^x mod p? Is it just that the methods used for modern hashes are even harder than ... |
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I understand the meaning of "if nothing else" in sentence A, but couldn't understand the meaning in sentence B.
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I need some clarification on a couple of things - the title says stin, I edited that part out.
If I say
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Autism does not have genetic causes
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Consider the gun… propellent (fuel), projectile, a cylinder, and an ignition device to set it all off. Then imagine hooking a connecting rod and crankshaft to that projectile and you’ve got an internal combustion engine. The same progression of technology occurred in the manufacturing process, as the skills learned and... |
The Pig War
Standing on the Oak Bay waterfront, the last thing you think of is war. Before you is an expanse of sea and sky, with the San Juan Islands off in the distance. Small boats bob in the water, and the occasional freighter glides by. It is a scene of peace and tranquility, far removed from the conflicts of the... |
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It is a common bacterial skin infection that can affect anyone of any age, race, or gender but is most commonly found in children between the ages of two and six years of age. It is also known as school sores and Impetigo. There are two types of infantigo, which are:
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Using compc, the component compiler
You use the component compiler to generate a SWC file from component source files and other asset files such as images and style sheets.
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colorful frogs
There are lots of species of poison dart frogs and they come in lots of colors and patterns, even within the same species. Their colors are advertisements to predators: don’t eat me! you’ll be sorry!
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Reykjavík Mayor Seeks New Citizenship
Reykjavík Mayor Seeks New Citizenship
Reykjavík Mayor Jón Gnarr announced on Facebook earlier today that he is searching for citizenship of another country.
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What's the difference between the usage and meaning of そもそも and もともと?
They both seem to mean something like "from the start/to begin with/originally" in dictionaries, but I believe their usage differs. I've seen numerous explanations by searching:
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‘The edge of understanding’
Chances are you have heard of CERN’s LHC experiment, or maybe not. It probably is the most ambitious science experiment ever done (“One of the LHC’s detectors - Atlas - weighs as much as 100 Boeing 747s. Looking like a cross between some improbably big communications satellite and the lar... |
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Head Stabilization by Vestibulocollic Reflexes During Quadrupedal Locomotion in Monkey
Yongqing Xiang, Sergei B. Yakushin, Mikhail Kunin, Theodore Raphan, Bernard Cohen
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+ Names of places .--These may be divided into two general classes--descriptive and historical. The former are such as mark some peculiarity of the locality, usually a natural one, e.g. Sharon, "plain" Gibeah, "hill;" Pisgah. "height." Of the second class of local names, some were given in honor of individual men, e.g.... |
Researchers invent 'acoustic-assisted' magnetic information storage
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Magnetic storage of data is one of the most inexpensive and widespread technologies known, found in everything from to the magnetic strip on a credit card. It's permanent, dependable and cheap. However, long-term reliability of st... |
There are several techniques for joining plastic parts. Equipment cost and labor for each method vary considerably. Most techniques have limits on the sizes and types of plastic that can be joined.
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16A1. Definition. Psychrometry (sy-krometry) means literally, the measurement of cold, from the Greek psychros, cold. It is the special name that has been given to the modern science that deals with air and water vapor mixtures. The amount of water vapor in the air has a great influence on human comfort. Such atmosphe... |
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The Mars Pathfinder spacecraft continues to perform nearly flawlessly on its 203 million kilometer (126 million mile) flight path to Mars. Currently the spacecraft is 1.8 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Earth, traveling at a speed of 3.2 kilometers per... |
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While reading many sources and watching many video's about nature and physics I wonder if the golden ratio is really that often occurring in nature and physics ? If I look on the Wikipedia pages I see both arguments for it in sea shells and similarly it seems debunked on other pages. I believe... |
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Briefly, have the following problem: \begin{equation} \sum_{i = 0}^n a_i \ (max [ F_i( \bar x ), 0 ] )^2 \rightarrow min, \\\\ s.t.\\\\ A \bar x \leq b \end{equation} where $ F( \bar x ) $ is a linear function, $a_i \gt 0$, $n$ is huge comparing to the size of $x$.
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A polymatroid is a finite set $X$ and a rank function $d : P(X) \to {\mathbb N}$ such that
1) $d(\varnothing)=0$,
2) $A \subset B$ implies $d(A) \leq d(B)$, and
3) $d(A \cap B) + d(A \cup B) \leq d(A) + d(B)$ for all $A,B \in P(X)$.
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I was searching for introductions to current mathematics related to gauge theories.
Can someone suggest some good references?
Topics in Physical Mathematics by K. Marathe
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A patent gives you, the inventor, rights to your invention. Patents are usually good for 20 years from the application date. According to the United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO), a patent allows the inventor the “right to exclude others from making, using, offering... |
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Aquatic insects are incredibly fascinating little creatures that spend at least a part of their life cycle in streams and then sometimes move onto land or take to the air as adults. They include bugs that you may be familiar with such as stoneflies, mayflies, dragonflies, and caddisflies. We provide here several illust... |
The Financial Aspects of Long-Term Care Insurance
With longer average life expectancies, the cost of long-term care is a major financial risk. The term “long-term care” refers to a wide range of services including assistance at home with daily activities to care in a nursing home. The risk of long-term care can be dea... |
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International Space Station Expedition 34 commander Kevin Ford (right) presents Skylab astronauts Owen Garriott (left) and Gerald Carr with space-flown flags to mark the 40th anniversary of their missions on board America's first space station on Mond... |
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I want to read a int from stdin but I want to validate if the user exceeds the int max value. How can I do it?
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