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Teaching The Old Man and the Sea
It's your way or the Hemingway.
The Old Man and the Sea may seem like a short swim, but this Sea is deep. You'll need to help your students learn to dive—figuratively—into the text. And that means close reading.
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A veteran's first holiday
Wilbur Smith and his World War I comrades were the first to be honored with a legal holiday, Veterans Day.
Published November 10, 2003
Wilbur Smith was a 19-year-old soda dispenser at a South Carolina drug store when the United States declared war on ... |
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P.E. Central Lesson Plan: Healthy Island
Purpose of Activity:
To integrate nutrition information (e.g. the Food Pyramid) with upper body strengthening physical activities
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"Has anybody here seen my old friend John,
"Can you tell me where he's gone?
"He freed a lotta people, but it seems the good die young,
"But I just looked around and he's gone. ..."
The lyrics are culled from the iconic song by Dion from 1968: "Abraham, Martin, John and Bobby."
Abraham Lincoln (killed in 1865), Dr... |
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
Ezekiel 41
In this chapter the divine and illustrious Person, the prophet's guide, brings him to the temple itself, and gives the dimensions of the posts and doors, both of the holy and the most holy place, Ezekiel 41:1, then of the wall of the house, its side chambers,... |
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Using video conferencing technology, the TeleStroke process is similar to communicating via a Web cam. The ER team can see the stroke team and the stroke team can see the patient and ER team. Both teams use one set of protocols to perform the evalua... |
Synonyms for gophersnake |
Synonyms for gophersnake
1. gopher snake (n.)
bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows
2. indigo snake (n.)
large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico |
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Evolutionary anthropologists say Stone-Age people, who buried their dead, were around for about 185,000 years, at a population between one and ten million. If these numbers are correct, they would have buried at least eight billion bodi... |
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Thermal Stir Welding Process
Jeff Ding
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama
The patented thermal stir welding process is a new solid-state (meaning the weld metal does not melt during welding) welding process invented at NASA’s Marshall Space F... |
Hiding Worker Injuries From OSHA
It’s painful enough to be injured on the job, but it adds insult to injury when your employer tries to keep it secret from safety authorities.
The failure of corporations to report work-related injuries is not a rare occurrence, says the Government Accountability Office—it is routine.... |
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Frankfurt, Germany-based CargoLifter AG is developing a new dimension in commercial transportation. The firm is building a prototype for a planned fleet of cargo-carrying airships that will operate worldwide. These airships would not r... |
The word green usually focuses on embodied carbon, while sustainability focuses on the service life of concrete and the release of both carbon compounds. At the London Olympic Park, reducing the embodied carbon footprint was the primary focus.
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I dread getting a prostate exam. Is it really necessary? Add to ...
The question: I’m a 44-year-old male and I’m nervous to see my doctor for fear of having the dreaded “finger test” to check my prostate. When is the right time to come in... |
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Mugshots were invented in Britain in the 1840s as a weapon against crime, but they were taken up most enthusiastically in the United States, where the compulsory police portrait is almost a rite of passage. Giacomo Papi presents villains, stars and victims who have faced the lens
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Key that could have saved the Titanic goes up for auction
An unremarkable old key could have saved the Titanic from its disastrous end, its auctioneers claim, because it belonged to the crow's nest locker housing binoculars.
When the Titanic set sail the key was not on board. The second officer, David Blair, had kept... |
Gas chips to replace semiconductors, predicts boffin
How it became necessary to destroy the silicon chip in order to save it
Forget solid-state computing devices -- fluid-state is the way of the future if work begun by a Berlin-based chemist is taken to its logical conclusion. According to today's New Scientist magaz... |
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The Neighborhood
Florida is a state rich in wildlife species, but even much smaller areas, like our own neighborhoods, are more richly populated than we usually imagine. Using a map of your school district as a base, divide the area up into sections. These should be neighborhood... |
At IKEA, Solar Joins Swedish Meatballs on the Menu
IKEA store, Schaumburg, IL
IKEA store, Schaumburg, IL
Something has to cancel out the environmental effects of those $399 sofas and $1.49 placemats, so IKEA is investing more and more in solar. The world’s most famous home furnishings retailer insists that it is taki... |
What is an intervening cause?
In order to hold someone legally liable for your injuries, you must prove that person’s actions were the cause of your injuries. Proving causation in personal injury lawsuits is typically a straightforward matter.
For example, John Smith was speeding and ran a red light. When he ran the ... |
100 Years After Triangle Fire, Horror Resonates
Associated Press - March 22, 2011
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NEW YORK -- It was a warm spring Saturday when dozens of immigrant girls and women leapt to their deaths -- some with their clothes on fire, some holding hands -- as horrified onlookers... |
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elenor Roosevelt
(1884 – 1962)
American Humanitarian Reformer, Diplomat and Writer
One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, Eleanor Roosevelt has left a lasting legacy through her humanitarian accomplishments as reformer, diplomat and writer. Her personal life also reflects a ... |
1st Century Christian Ebionites
The Original Christians?
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1. The Nazoreans
The very first followers of Jesus were called the Nazoreans. This was a general name for the Jewish followers of Christ, but it is unknown to what extent they were actually Christian. They must have known and understoo... |
Violet Gallery - Species Varieties
Beginning this year there are new classifications for the genus Saintpaulia (species). The AVSA has adopted a method of identifying the species by name, subspecies and clone. It reminds me of a scientific chart type designation. There are some stand-alone species with only a single p... |
Ancient Egyptian Art
Characteristics, History of Sculpture, Painting, Architecture.
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Tuthankamen's famous Burial Mask
(c.1323 BCE) Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Includes 11 kilograms of solid gold.
A wonderful piece of precious
metalwork from the New Kingdom.
For the chronology of Prehistoric art
including dates and... |
Vegetarians International Voice for Animals
Squirrel Fact Sheet
Grey squirrels
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While many people have great affection and respect for grey squirrels, they are hated by members of certain groups, most notably those with shooting or forestry interests, and some ‘conservationists’ who believe that the mas... |
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A Few Extra Pounds Won't Kill You—Really
Being substantially obese, based on measure called body mass index, or BMI, of 35 and higher, does raise the risk of death by 29%, researchers found.
A study says overweight people have lower-than-normal death risks. Above, a Maryland spin class. ... |
Distrusting Experts
I was reading one of the Telegraph blogs today, by some guy who was pointing out, quite reasonably, that people tend to pick evidence that supports or confirms their existing beliefs. He said he did it himself. Then he got onto climate science, and some new report that had come out, and people’s re... |
Computers for Beginners/The Basics
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What is a computer?[edit]
Simply put, a computer is a machine that performs mathematical and logical calculations.
Brief History[edit]
A large computer used in the 1940's.
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Not to be confused with Köçek.
Macedonian person dancing Cocek
Čoček (Albanian çyçek/qyqek, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian čoček/чочек, pronounced "cho'-chek"; compare Macedonian чочек, Bulgarian кючек (kyuchek or kyutchek)) is a musical genre and dance that ... |
Anevo Fortress
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Coordinates: 42°40′40″N 24°44′2″E / 42.67778°N 24.73389°E / 42.67778; 24.73389
Ruins of Anevo Fortress
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The Anevo Fortress (Bulgarian: Аневско кале, Anevsko kale) or Kopsis (Копсис) is a medieval castle in central Bulgar... |
Boar hunting
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A 14th-century depiction of boar hunting with hounds
Boar hunting is generally the practice of hunting wild boars, but can also extend to feral pigs and peccaries. A full-sized boar is a large, powerful animal, often having sharp tusks whi... |
Floyd–Warshall algorithm
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"Floyd's algorithm" redirects here. For cycle detection, see Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm. For computer graphics, see Floyd–Steinberg dithering.
Floyd–Warshall algorithm
Class All-pairs shortest path problem (for weighted gra... |
Hardknott Roman Fort
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Coordinates: 54°24′9.82″N 3°12′19.44″W / 54.4027278°N 3.2054000°W / 54.4027278; -3.2054000
Hardknott Roman Fort
Hardknott Roman Fort is an archeological site, the remains of the Roman fort Medio... |
History of Cyprus since 1878
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The history of Cyprus, an island in the Eastern Mediterranean, from 1878 to the present.
Cyprus was part of the British Empire, as a Military occupation from 1914–1925, and a Cr... |
Melanocytic nevus
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Melanocytic nevus
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Lentiginous melanocytic naevus
Classification and external resources
Specialty Dermatology
ICD-10 D22
ICD-9-CM 216
DiseasesDB 8333
eMedicine derm/289
MeSH D0... |
Sectarian violence among Christians
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Sectarian violence among Christians has been noted from the time of the first Christian schisms to the present day.
Late antiquity[edit]
Andrew Stephenson describes late antiquity as "one of the darkest periods in ... |
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A theorem of Pachner's states that if two triangulated PL-manifolds are PL-homeomorphic, the two triangulations are related via a finite sequence of moves, nowadays called "Pachner moves".
A Pachner move has a very simple picture. If $N$ is a triangulated $n$-manifold and $C \subset N$ is a c... |
Braille Monitor November 2011
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Using Pipe Cleaners and Clay, Classmate Helps Blind Student See Geometry Lessons
From the Editor: Because many people learn mathematics visually, blind students are often urged to study other disciplines, and, if t... |
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Aggressive behavior.
Action intentionally taken to hurt another, either physically or psychologically.
A strong, affectionate bond formed between a child and another individual (e.g., a parent); usually formed early in the child's life.
Authoritative parenting.
A parenting styl... |
The Shortage Isn't Food, It's Democracy
News broadcasts report a horrific “world food crisis.” But there is no food shortage. In fact, there’s more than enough food to make us all chubby—even counting only the “leftovers,” what remains after turning more than a third of the world’s grain and fish catch into feed.
The... |
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Architecture of a Highly Scalable NIO-Based Server
February 13, 2007
If you are asked to write a highly scalable Java-based server,
it won't take long to decide to use the Java NIO package. To get
your server running, you will probably spend a lot of time reading
blogs and tutorials to understa... |
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The Discipline
From the Greek endon, "in, inner, or within" and krinein, "to separate or put apart." A term contrived to describe those glands that "put apart" and secrete substances that are used within the bod... |
Cat Urine Solutions
Why is cat urine odor so strong and persistent?
Cat urine contains an odor producing protein that makes the smell super strong and difficult to eliminate, keep in mind spraying (marking territory, both male and females do it) has the same protein in higher concentrations. When cat urine dries it f... |
4 January 2012
Twin satellites buzz around man in the moon
THE man in the moon might have had an awfully big meal a few billion years ago. On 31 December and 1 January two satellites went into lunar orbit, and they could reveal whether our moon ate its sibling in the distant past.
The NASA probes, known as the Gravi... |
The Boston marathon is about a month away, and the streets are filled with runners getting in their miles. I have a neighbor whom I saw on the sidewalk preparing for his weekly 20 mile training run. He was squeezing the last of an energy gel called GU into his mouth. GU is sticky, gel-like substance made out of glucos... |
Academic journal article The Catholic Historical Review
Philosemitism under a Darkening Sky: Judaism in the French Catholic Revival (1900-45)
Academic journal article The Catholic Historical Review
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The work of Charles Péguy (1873-1914), Léon Bloy (1846-1917), and especially Raïssa Maritain (1883-19... |
Newspaper article The Christian Science Monitor
A Palace at the Top of the World ; the Incas May Be Gone, but Their Vistas Still Take Our Breath Away
Newspaper article The Christian Science Monitor
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In the mountains of Peru, entire cities have been lost since they were abandoned by the last Incas fi... |
Dictionary Results for obstruction
1. obstruction - noun
· any structure that makes progress difficult
Synonym(s): obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta
Hypernym(s): structure, construction
2. obstruction - noun
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Part I – from its origins in Alexandria to the Black Death
Chapter One
According to Zosimus of Panopolis, a fourth century alchemical apologist, the “sons of God” mentioned briefly in Genesis taught the alchemical arts to their human lovers in gratitude for having sex... |
Saturday, 24 August 2013
Why didn't the cardiac consultant make the connection between a slow heart and anorexia?
Yesterday, while we were being interviewed for BBC's "Inside Out" programme, it struck me again: why the hell didn't the heart consultant at the Leeds General Infirmary make the connection between a slow ... |
New implantable device for sleep apnea
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MAPLE GROVE, Minn. -- It's estimated one out of every 15 Americans has moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea.
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Letters: Are earthquake alerts worth it?
February 07, 2013
Re "Warning: It's a quake," Editorial, Feb. 3
One of the principal advocates for developing an early earthquake warning system, a geologist in California, once said: "Earthquakes don't kill people; buildings kill peo... |
Tech 101 – Adjusting tire pressure
May 17th, 2013 at 8am | 64 comments
Dial Gauge
A good dial-type pressure gauge can be purchased for under $50.
In the days before cars came equipped with a Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS), correct tire pressure was often the most widely ignored item on a car’s maintenanc... |
Digging Up Inspiration: History
in Tips and Tricks
This is going to be a short post, but hopefully an important one. I’m sure there are a good many of you in our audience who sat around every day in high school history wondering: “Man… why do I got to learn all this stuff, its just a bunch of boring dates and facts a... |
Exploring Bias
I have been watching the news here a lot lately, everything from Al Jazeera to the Colbert Report, and its made me reflect on the American agenda in the Middle East. Even before I came to Jordan, I could tell that our government's strategies were not working because we, as a country, haven't taken the t... |
Applying Science Discussion
Based on discussion originally under GodLanguage:
{Your view of the role of science is naive and, frankly, incorrect. You think the role of science and logic is 'discovery' of concepts - things that can be demonstrated. What science does is 'kill' models and concepts. Science is a rather n... |
Cosmic near misses hit the scientific bullseye
August 5, 1998
A NASA-sponsored asteroid tracking system has found two new large objects that cross Earth's orbital path, but show no signs of coming dangerously close to Earth within at least the next several decades, astronomers say.
The asteroids were found in obse... |
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The Facts on Menopause
Menopause is the time when a woman's menstrual periods stop and her ovaries stop releasing eggs. A woman is considered menopausal once she has gone a year without having a menstrual period. Ther... |
Simple Fox Coloring Pages
Fox Coloring pages making looking for animals fun. Foxes are related to dogs. Foxes are related to wolves but smaller. They are some of the prettier animal coloring pages because of their reddish fur. Studying foxes with these free printable coloring pages is fun. You can use the fancy fox co... |
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Sleep Tight, Slim Down
By Dr. Marisa Weiss on August 13th, 2014 Categories: Uncategorized
Sleep — most of us need much more of it. All the words that describe a bad sleeper apply to me: “light,” “sensitive,” “fitful,” “too much on my mind,” “insomniac.”
My excuses and reasons: hormonal therapy fo... |
One Step Closer to Earth's Twin
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Astronomers have found more than 150 planets orbiting distant stars, but they've all been so much bigger than Earth that they're totally inhospitable to life. But now, with a little help from Albert Einstein, they've spotted a world that is by far the smallest ... |
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Figure 34 shows a capacitive circuit. This circuit will generate an analog voltage when the applied voltage is a PWM signal.
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Table of Contents
Refuting Evolution 2, revised and expanded edition, 2011
Unit 1
Chapter 1
Argument: Creationism is religion, not science
Chapter 2
Argument: Evolution is compatible with Christian religion
Chapter 3
Unit 2
Chapter 4
Argument: Natural selection leads to speciation
Chapter 5
Argument: Som... |
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Assume I want to design a protocol (or data format or similar) including some cryptographic hash, and want it to be as future-proof as possible, i.e. I want to avoid that breakthroughs in cryptography make my old data insecure.
If I use only one hash algorithm, I can have bad luck to pick jus... |
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I am trying to find the maximum palindrome sub-sequence and after going through some tutorials, I came up with a memoized version.But I am not sure about the runtime.I want to know if the following algorithm will work.Could also someone explain what the runtime will be?
initialize longest [i]... |
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Expert Systems are a branch of Artificial Intelligence. These systems try to capture knowledge of Experts via set of rules. Most of the rules are stated in natural language. But they need to be interpreted by rule engine therefore they are statements in the form of classic if-then-else.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Gorgeous minimalist webdesign
In Jeet Kune Do, one does not accumulate, but eliminate.
It is not daily increase, but daily decrease.
The height of cultivation always tends to simplicity.
—Bruce Lee
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Net Neutrality
Many of us who care about freedom on the internet car... |
British Insects: the Families of Lepidoptera
L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz
Adults nocturnal; relatively very long-bodied; medium built (wingspan more than 8 and less than 15 times the thoracic width) to heavily built (wingspan less than 8 times the thoracic width). The abdomen conspicuously patterned to plain. Adul... |
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“Experience of the text”
The condition of literary texts—their mode of existence, to use a phrase from Wellek and Warren’s Theory of Literature—is treated by critics and theorists alike as a non-problem. Daniel Green, for example, dismisses the problem, relying upon his “experience of the tex... |
Denotation vs. Connotation
oxidation state
noun, Chemistry
the state of an element or ion in a compound with regard to the electrons gained or lost by the element or ion in the reaction that formed the compound, expressed as a positive or negative number indicating the ionic charge of the element or ion.
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Reading the Language of our Ancestors
Getting up to speed on medical genetics through the vision of Victor McKusick
By Jeff Wheelwright, Dan Winters, Gary Tanhauser|Friday, February 01, 2002
On the wall of Victor A. McKusick's office in Baltimore hangs a portrait of a sad-faced woman holding a six-fingered infant. T... |
Part III
Building Reports with Special Formatting
The chapters in this Part provide steps to build reports that include special formatting. The example reports show you how to wrap text data, add headers and footers, format headers with database values that change at runtime, renumber pages, include intermixed fields... |
Protothreads are extremely lightweight stackless threads designed for severely memory constrained systems such as deeply embedded systems or sensor network nodes. Protothreads provides linear code execution for event-driven systems implemented in C. Protothreads can be used with or without an underlying operating syste... |
Pensions: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty
by Henry McMillan
About the Author
A private pension plan is an organized program to provide retirement income for a firm’s workers. Some 56.7 percent of full-time, full-year wage and salary workers in the United States participate i... |
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Rangkaian Driver Led Dot Matrix 8 X 8
on a series of below you can find out how to drive an led matrix with 64 LEDs (8 rows by 8 columns - 8x8 display) or less eg 35 LEDs (7 rows by 5 columns - 5X7 dot matrix). Driving a 64 LED matrix display is quite simple and just requires
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I ♥ Rarotonga
Posted: May 16, 2007 Categories: Cook Islands, Pacific/Oceania, Polynesia, Travel
Any guilt I had about leaving Tahiti earlier than I planned melted away the moment Rarotonga appeared in the window of the plane.
Like all Pacific islands, Rarotonga was created via vulcanism. You can think of island... |
My eighth and ninth graders know how to use the associative and commutative properties of addition and multiplication, they just don't know what they're called. You know how to use them, too. Here, I'll show you:
If someone gives you a bunch of numbers to add, like
6 + 8 + 1 + 4 + 2 =
I bet you look for groups of t... |
The Accidental Scientist: Science of Cooking Exploratorium
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Egg Science
Egg proteins change when you heat them, beat them, or mix them with other ingredients. Understanding these changes can help you understand the roles that eggs play in cooking.
Proteins are made of long chai... |
The Beginning of World War II, 1939
London Goes to War, 1939
Blitzkrieg, 1940
Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940
France Surrenders, 1940
Hitler Tours Paris, 1940
France in Defeat, 1940
Battle of Britain, 1940
The London Blitz, 1940
The Siege of Leningrad
Attack At Pearl Harbor
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Here's What Leonardo da Vinci's To-Do List Looked Like in 1490
Even the brilliant mind of Leonardo da Vinci needed to jot things down in a notebook so he could remember what he needed to do. The only difference, of course, is that da Vinci's to-do list was much more complex than ours. I mean, who needs to calculate th... |
Cambodian Alphabet
Get to know about the Cambodian script and its origins as we cover the historical development of the Cambodian alphabet.
Khmer is the official language of Cambodia. It is a language that has sprung out from the Austro-Asiatic fountain head and is considered to be the second most widely spoken langu... |
plate tectonics : LUSENET : Introductory Geology, Oswego State : One Thread
Is there a major difference between a rift valley and a fault? are they created by the same thing? What makes them different and what causes each?
-- Willette Jenkins (, December 05, 2002
A rift valley is a special type of valley. It is bou... |
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The Protectionist Party of Australia was one of the three main federal parties at the time of federation and produced the country's first two Prime Ministers, but it was not long before their share of the vote was in decline. In the elections in 1901, 1903 and 1906, the party won 31, 26 and 16... |
The Bay of Pigs Fiasco After Fifty Years
Yoav J. Tenembaum is a lecturer at the graduate Diplomacy Studies Program, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He received his doctoral degree in Modern History from Oxford University.
Fifty years ago the Bay of Pigs fiasco marred the beginning of John Kennedy's presidency and led to... |
The IPCC, in the AR4 working group one, stated what could be called the central claim of global warming, the estimate of the net radiative forcing.
“The understanding of anthropogenic warming and cooling influences on climate has improved since the TAR, leading to very high confidence that the effect of human activitie... |
When did vampires begin? As with many legends, the exact date of origin is unknown; but evidence of the vampire tale can be found with the ancient Chaldeans in Mesopotamia, near the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, and with Assyrian writings on clay or stone tablets. The land of the Chaldeans is also called the "Ur of ... |
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Industrial Dust And The Human Body
Sometimes we get caught up in the mechanics, regulations, and safety of why an industrial dust collection system is needed. Other times we are concerned with combustible dust and it's dangers, but what about the effects of dust on the human body.
Whene... |
Nature — sometimes you can be a scary, scary place.
The sea slugs in question go by the name of Siphopteron quadrispinosum. Mating for these slugs is an incredibly violent affair. A hermaphroditic species, each slug has both male and female sexual organs. Because of this, sex is initiated when one slug uses a syrin... |
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(n.) According to, "an opaque fabric mounted to cover or expose a window."
Window shades come in many different sizes and shapes, and several different designs exist. During long, hot summers, window shades are a necessity for any inhabitable home. They provide safety, security, and cool air. Two types o... |
Your Insistence on Wearing High Heels Is Ruining Your Life
Are you one of those people who wears high heels so much that you put them on to walk to the bathroom in the middle of the night? Well then you might want to send a note of apology to your calves, because you could be fucking them up big time.
Besides the fac... |
Sky-High Vegetables: Vertical Farming Sprouts In Singapore
Nov 9, 2012
Singapore is taking local farming to the next level, literally, with the opening of its first commercial vertical farm.
Entrepreneur Jack Ng says he can produce five times as many vegetables as regular farming looking up instead of out. Half a to... |
Today in Legal History: Credit Mobilier Scandal
On February 18, 1873, the House of Representatives voted to find Oakes Ames (R-Mass.) guilty of bribery. Though the House contemplated ejecting him from office, Ames was instead censured. Too many other representatives had stock in Ames’ company, Credit Mobilier.
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Let $X$ be a random variable with a mean of $\mu$ and a variance of $\sigma^2$ and let $Y = aX +b$. Show for non-zero constants $a$ and $b$ that $\operatorname{Corr}(X; Y ) = +1$ or $-1$.
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I got a particular sequence defined by the following recursive function: $$T_n = T_{n-1} \times 2 - T_{n-10}$$
I need help converting it to a closed form so I can calculate very large values of n efficiently.
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Suppose I have given a Brownian Motion $W$, this is a Gaussian process, and I define:
for $0\le s\le t$. Clearly this random variable has expectation zero. For the covariance function I did this:
$$Cov(W_{t-s}-W_s,W_{t-r}-W_r) = (t-s)\wedge(t-r) - ((t-s)\wedge r)-((t-s)\wedge s) +(r\wedge s... |
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I'm trying to prove the following, and I've made some progress on (i) and am having a bit of trouble with (ii)
A polynomial $p(x)$ over a field $k$ is $monic$ if the highest power of $x$ has coefficient $1$. Let $p(x)$ be monic and let $r\in k$.
(i) Show that if $p(x)$ is divided by $x-r$, t... |
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Suppose that there are $n$ numbers that are in the following format: $a+bi$. Each number has different combination of $a$ and $b$. $a,b$ must be non-zero integers.
Suppose that we impose the following rule: $a^2-b^2 = k_1x$ and $2ab = k_2y$.
$k_1$ and $k_2$ are free non-zero integers - by fr... |
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