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Lessons from Byzantium
George Ostrogorsky in his magisterial History of the Byzantine State shows how the people of Byzantium rose time and again to create wealth, cultivate their intellectual capital, and achieve military success. Ultimately, though, they could not overcome the bad policy decisions that, made over t... |
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South Africa: Legislation: 1910-2015
Part 1: Official Languages (1910-1994)
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Some projects, such as working on your aluminum gutters, will require you to connect two pieces of thin metal. An effective method is the use of a pop rivet gun. Most pop rivet tools come with an assortment of pop rivets and some 1/8" drill bits.
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Einstein extended his Special Relativity theory to include gravitation and non-uniform motion. Einstein was intrigued by the fact that the two ways of measuring mass come up with the same value. In Newton's second law of motion, an ... |
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The Shaft to David Evans gold mine near Noxon. David Evans and Frank Berray batched together and built bridges for early Sander County, Montana. Courtesy Edna Evans Cummings collection.
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The initial stage has a transparent cell layer, a light-sensitive cell layer, and a dark pigmented bottom cell layer.
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The motion of a piston in an auto engineis simple harmonic. If the piston travels back and forth over adistance of 10 cm, and the pistonhas a mass of 1.5 kg, what is themaximum speed of the piston and the maximum force acting on thepiston when the engine is running at 4200 rpm?
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A pair of oppositely charged, parallel plates are separated by5.29 mm. A potential difference of 600 Vexists between the plates.
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Two very large metal parallel plates are 25 cm apart, orientedperpendicular to a sheet of paper, are connected across theterminals of a 50.0 V battery. (a) Draw to scale(yes, use a ruler) the lines where the equipotential surfaces dueto these plates intersect the paper. Limit your drawing to theregion only between the ... |
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The Attacks on Climate Science Education Are Picking Up Steam
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The first setting to consider when working with a Nikon D7100 is the exposure mode, which you select via the Mode dial. To rotate the dial, you must press and hold its center button, labeled in the figure as the “Mode dial unlock button.”
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No matter where you store fat, you can rev up your burning furnace with activity. Consistent activity — especially weight-bearing, resistance exercises during which you build and tone muscle — can help offset the 5–10 percent in muscle mass decline per decade of life. That’s one of the reasons your metabolism slows as ... |
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Outdoor activities are popular with Americans nationwide. The fresh air and exercise revives the spirit and the mind. Hiking, camping, and boating are good activities for active people and families, and in some parts of the country you can enjoy the outdoors for 2 or 3 seasons. In many cases, these activities last all ... |
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To Improve Student Performance, Start Thinking Like a Coach
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Akinori Itu, CEO of the Japanese company Blest, has created a machine that converts plastic back into oil. Akinori admits that when he was a child, he didn’t care about the environment. Since then, the places where he used to play as a child have disappeared, due in part to... |
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A few days later, on the south shore of Frobisher Bay, the English visited an abandoned Inuit camp where they found a few items of European clothing. Although this camp was more than 200 kilometres from where the five sailors had disappeared the previous summer, they assumed that ... |
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Theodosia Goodman grew up interested in theater. In 1905 she dropped out of college, died her blond hair black and looked for theater work. In 1908 Bara received a role in a play, The Devil, in New York City. In 1915 she was an extra in her first motion... |
The idea behind this experiment was to explore rope braided out of bed sheets and see if it would be an effective means of escape.
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The National Cancer Institute has identified formal training on the effects of ionizing radiation at the cellular/molecular, tissue, and organismal level as a national priority. This ... |
Rabbi Heschel and the Sabbath
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Rabbi Heschel and the Sabbath
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a profound and thought provoking thinker who was one of the most influential rabbis of the 20th Century. A man of great moral convictions, he was probably as well known for his marching with Rev.... |
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Engineering Students Take Top Honors at International Contest With “Bicycle Boiler”
Four undergraduate engineering students from the University of Nevada, Reno's American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) chapter captured first place in the 2007 ASME Student Design Competition finals in Seattle, Wash.
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Bone, an engineering masterpieceApr 29 2009
Bone is a springy and salty wonder that is proving much more functional within the human body than originally thought.
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Cutting back on 4 white foods can help with weight loss
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Nuclear industry plans rescue wagon for disasters
ATLANTA (AP) - If disaster strikes a nuclear power plant in the U.S., the utility industry wants the ability to fly in heavy-duty equipment that could avert a meltdown.
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British and French Clash
While the British had been filling the Atlantic coastal area with snug farms, broad plantations, and busy towns, the French had been planting a different kind of dominion in the St. Lawrence Valley in eastern Canada. They had sent over fewer settlers, but more explorers, missionaries, and fur ... |
Understanding CSS Background Properties
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Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World, George Z. Szpiro, 2003, 304 pp, illustrations, $24.95, cloth, ISBN-0-471-08601-0 John Wiley and sons, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774
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Ginkgo biloba has been used medicinally for thousands of years. Today, it is one of the top-selling herbs in the United States.
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A few years ago, I encountered an Englishman named Cory Luxmoore who was in Philadelphia with a remarkable mission. Luxmoore is a direct descendant of James Logan, William Penn’s secretary and the most powerful man in Pennsylvania during the early 18th century, and he decided that ... |
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The reason you dry certain plastics is to get the moisture out. But why does the moisture have to be taken out before processing?
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What is buoyancy and how does it relate to balloons?
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How far are we from realizing practical benefits from nanotechnology?
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Excessive sweating can cause staining of clothes and cause embarrassment as well as discomfort. More than that sweating underarms and feet produces foul odor which is annoying and troublesome. Women can suffer from excessive sweating through a bra and th... |
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Hackers all over the world come up with new ways everyday to take control over your computer. One of the worst type of malware programs out there would have to be the rootkit. The purpose of rootkit software is to allow a hacker to have subvert controls over your whole operations system. Many... |
Free Software Foundation celebrates 30th birthday
Free software guru Richard Stallman has been looking into his navel as part of the Free Software Foundation’s 30th birthday.
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Full moon can cause restless nights
The full moon can cause people to have a restless night's sleep, according to research.
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