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This video drum lesson will teach you how to read and interpret rests within all the sub-divisions we've covered in the drum theory videos. This way, you will be able to tell the difference between rests within quarter notes, eighth notes, eighth note triplets, sixteenth notes, sixteenth note triplets, and thirty-secon... | <urn:uuid:4a8ba750-13ad-48c3-8aad-d0721f47721a> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://www.freedrumlessons.com/drum-lessons/counting-rests.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141184870.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20201125213038-20201126003038-00544.warc.gz | en | 0.959934 | 627 | 4.0625 | 4 |
The concept of establishing a camp for Polish children appeared as early as in the summer of 1941. Its originator was the head of the National Youth Office (German: Landesjugendamt) in Katowice, Alvin Brockmann. The chief inspector of German concentration camps, Oswald Pohl, became interested in the project, and on Nov... | <urn:uuid:d421e3a7-31c1-4cd9-bb94-44e175e8bfe9> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.poloniainstitute.net/polands-history/wwii/a-german-nazi-camp-for-polish-children-in-lodz/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046155529.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20210805095314-20210805125314-00456.warc.gz | en | 0.985397 | 1,121 | 4.125 | 4 |
The Michelson-Morley experiment was an important physics experiment performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley. The experiment attempted to measure the motion of the earth through the aether and failed to do so. This unexpected failure threw physics into chaos, and lead to the Theory of relativity.
The exp... | <urn:uuid:ecebaf39-5d66-4651-94ce-d94ff035151f> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Michelson-Morley_experiment&oldid=145417 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986653876.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20191014150930-20191014174430-00061.warc.gz | en | 0.963875 | 802 | 4.3125 | 4 |
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 gave the President of the United States the power to trade unsettled land to the Indians for land they inhabited in the same state. Andrew Jackson signed this act into law on May 28, 1830. It led to the famous "Trail of Tears" for the Cherokee nation, which led to the death of 4000 Indian... | <urn:uuid:9dfc346c-4c06-490c-bd0c-4d6f2e85abba> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.reference.com/history/did-indian-removal-act-1830-ac02fa4e8d955ea | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496667767.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20191114002636-20191114030636-00225.warc.gz | en | 0.981595 | 244 | 4.75 | 5 |
The Earth is not
the fixed, solid mass that we usually envision. It is actually a sphere of
solids and molten rock fluids that are gradually but continuously moving and
changing. For example, South America is drifting away from Africa at about the
speed your fingernails grow. Earthquakes and volcanoes are reminders of ... | <urn:uuid:304901ee-9650-4af6-84eb-eee3deb53845> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | http://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208162445/http:/www.abheritage.ca/abresources/inventory/resources_hydrocarbons.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655896932.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20200708093606-20200708123606-00522.warc.gz | en | 0.925897 | 625 | 4.0625 | 4 |
Energy is released from ATP by the breaking of the phosphate bond, states the University of Illinois at Chicago. Adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, consists of a sugar called ribose, the molecule adenine and three phosphate groups. During the hydrolysis of ATP, the last phosphate group is transferred to another molecule, ... | <urn:uuid:80fbf5f0-6adc-406e-a931-544f6f20a94d> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.reference.com/science/energy-released-atp-278b104c768de241 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039741294.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20181113062240-20181113084240-00416.warc.gz | en | 0.931804 | 293 | 4 | 4 |
A balanced diet provides all of the essential nutrients for a child’s growth, development and overall health. A balanced diet is one that includes a variety of foods from each of the food groups, and offers different tastes and textures.
The food groups are:
- breads, cereals, rice, pasta, noodles and other grains
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Math is a cumulative subject taught to children from the time they are very young. Because math is cumulative, each component builds upon others. Students must master each component before they are able to completely master the next. The main components, or elements, of math are: addition, subtraction, multiplication a... | <urn:uuid:a5b4efc5-5ada-4359-b5ad-1969c5805f43> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://sciencing.com/basic-components-math-7859470.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257553.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524064354-20190524090354-00505.warc.gz | en | 0.967903 | 475 | 4.34375 | 4 |
The Christmas Truce occurred on and around Christmas Day 1914, when the sounds of rifles firing and shells exploding faded in a number of places along the Western Front during World War I in favor of holiday celebrations. During the unofficial ceasefire, soldiers on both sides of the conflict emerged from the trenches ... | <urn:uuid:124280bc-eda5-4793-8ff2-4f60fa94eb4a> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/christmas-truce-of-1914 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107905777.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20201029184716-20201029214716-00032.warc.gz | en | 0.954576 | 477 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine/Print version
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Everybody has seen the tongue map – that little diagram of the tongue with different sections neatly cordoned off for different taste receptors. Sweet in the front, salty and sour on the sides and bitter at the back.
It’s possibly the most recognizable symbol in the study of taste, but it’s wrong. In fact, it was debun... | <urn:uuid:52c99785-f1d6-415d-8f22-c9f1fb3c7705> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | http://cst.ufl.edu/that-neat-and-tidy-map-of-tastes-on-the-tongue-you-learned-in-school-is-all-wrong.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439740423.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20200815005453-20200815035453-00518.warc.gz | en | 0.959101 | 1,120 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the document would open the way to tyranny by the strong central government. They demanded a “bill of rights” that would specify the rights of individual citizens.
In September 1789, the First Con... | <urn:uuid:afb33e96-af36-481e-be4f-21fff3452a08> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.archivesfoundation.org/documents/bill-of-rights/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481994.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190217132048-20190217154048-00323.warc.gz | en | 0.938543 | 618 | 4.0625 | 4 |
XOR gate is a logic gate that performs the operation, verbally defined as "either A or B, but not both" (formally named exclusive OR). Exclusive OR (XOR) gates are less common than OR or AND gates, but they are important in circuits that compare values for equality, compute checksums or do some arithmetics.
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Twelfth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionAmendment XII
(the Twelfth Amendment
) of the United States Constitution
, which details a new system for presidential elections, was motivated by the Presidential election of 1800
. Prior to ratification of the Twelfth Amendment, votes for President and Vice President... | <urn:uuid:bdfb53f0-5505-492a-ba22-b610c5e93333> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.fact-index.com/t/tw/twelfth_amendment_to_the_united_states_constitution.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163040130/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131720-00014-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98032 | 210 | 4.0625 | 4 |
According to a new study, a giant relative of the kangaroo ambled around the Australian outback 100,000 years ago.
This creature – Sthenurines, would have been so large and heavy that it would not hace been able to hop around like its modern cousin. Instead, it is presumed that it walked upright on two feet, just like ... | <urn:uuid:9a651579-f0c1-417a-88f9-b3a327c18315> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://sin.ie/2014/10/22/study-giant-prehistoric-kangaroos-looked-like-rabbits-walked-like-humans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510734.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001005750-20231001035750-00648.warc.gz | en | 0.976359 | 397 | 4.0625 | 4 |
The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War.
In 1846, David Wilmot a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso. He attached the proviso to an appropriations ... | <urn:uuid:98839a09-8185-4100-85bf-95a7d7b70a0a> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/index.php?title=Wilmot_Proviso&oldid=29620 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589932.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717222930-20180718002930-00250.warc.gz | en | 0.971061 | 399 | 4.4375 | 4 |
This worksheet is designed to be used during a money unit for kindergarten, first or second grades (or remediation/intervention in higher grades). Students should have already been introduced to pennies, nickels, and dimes (front & back) as well as their values. Students are given three groups of coins (the coins are u... | <urn:uuid:f1b90581-4cff-4e2b-9963-917ef1d3e976> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Find-Value-of-a-Group-of-Coins-Unordered-2865172 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218203515.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322213003-00406-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947346 | 148 | 4.15625 | 4 |
Plate tectonics acts like a planetary thermostat, cycling greenhouse gasses from the deep Earth to the atmosphere. The results appear in the January 22, 2016 issue of the journal Science. All these conditions were fulfilled sometime in early Earth history, but were never met for other planets of the Solar System. As th... | <urn:uuid:ab2a2332-e41d-48d2-bebb-bc2b94cf67be> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://sci360.org/a-new-study-can-be-found-at-the-journal-lithosophere/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039503725.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20210421004512-20210421034512-00579.warc.gz | en | 0.941519 | 930 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Uranium vs Plutonium
Uranium and plutonium are radioactive elements in the actinide series.
The symbol of uranium is U, and it is the 92nd element in the periodic table. So it has 92 electrons and 92 protons. Electron configuration of uranium can be written as [Rn] 5f3 6d1 7s2. It has six valence electrons, which are i... | <urn:uuid:1de77a42-404c-433e-9caa-bc1293a86220> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-uranium-and-vs-plutonium/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945082.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20180421071203-20180421091203-00559.warc.gz | en | 0.927728 | 798 | 4.28125 | 4 |
Job, the beleaguered man of impeccable moral character in the book that bears his name, is most often depicted by artists as half-naked atop a garbage heap, covered with sores, surrounded by three friends and his wife. In some works, Job patiently endures his pain, but in others he screams at God. Job’s wife and friend... | <urn:uuid:588e952f-1e59-4ea9-9a4a-86b1b2c3450e> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.bibleodyssey.org/people/related-articles/reception-of-job-in-visual-art.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131300031.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172140-00201-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964398 | 798 | 4.0625 | 4 |
Definition - What does Zinc (Zn) mean?
Zinc is one of the chemical elements on the periodic table with the symbol Zn and the atomic number 30. It is the 24th most abundant element on Earth’s crust and has five stable isotopes.
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What is Inflation?
Intro Guide: What Causes Inflation?
In economics, inflation is a measure of rising prices of goods and services in an economy, which often leads to a decline in the purchasing power of the economy's local currency.
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The Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera. From the holdings of Andover–Harvard Theological Library—Harvard Divinity School.
First appearing in Europe and North America beginning in 1831–1832 and presumed to have come from India, epidemic cholera returned and traveled around the world many times through the end ... | <urn:uuid:5dfbce9b-f57b-4485-b197-59fc89a5b4b9> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.researchhistory.org/2011/04/13/cholera-epidemics-in-the-19th-century/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1412037663036.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20140930004103-00013-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972356 | 1,065 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Technological advances can lead to the emergence of new types of diseases. We tend to think of this as a modern phenomenon, but recent studies of bodies excavated from graves in the Middle East reveal that humans have inadvertently been a cause of their own illnesses for thousands of years.
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You've seen for yourself, or in videos, planes flying, rockets hurdling towards space, boats racing through the water and submarines exploring the depths of the ocean. Have you ever stopped and thought about the aerodynamics and hydrodynamics involved in their operation? There is a lot of interesting science that goes ... | <urn:uuid:8205bcad-5539-44fa-9006-ab97c141b841> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/science-projects/aerodynamics-hydrodynamics/tenth-grade | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999273.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190620210153-20190620232153-00429.warc.gz | en | 0.927722 | 559 | 4.1875 | 4 |
When Lazarus talks of a “golden door” in this poem, she is trying to tell us that the door will allow people to gain access to things that are very valuable. Gold is, of course, a very precious metal. If the door to a place is made of gold, it is likely that what is behind the door is very valuable.
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The SQ5R study method is one system for active reading. Actively processing information improves comprehension and retention of the material.
SURVEY Before reading a chapter or passage, read the introduction and summary. Skim topic headings, bold-faced words, pictures, charts, and graphs to get an idea of the general s... | <urn:uuid:3edaf7a0-e50b-468d-9fb9-8159c052d1fc> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://www.etown.edu/offices/learning/SQ5R_Method.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398450762.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205410-00340-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928375 | 409 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony were two distinct Puritan commonwealths. Because this fact is not widely known, it is useful to understand some of the distinctions.
The Plymouth Colony was founded by the Pilgrims, who arrived in Massachusetts on the Mayflower in 1620 and celebrated the first Thanksgivi... | <urn:uuid:c32ddc4b-a464-4f16-9425-46f9b84208c5> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.counter-currents.com/2012/11/two-puritan-commonwealths-in-massachusetts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189495.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00225-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964514 | 2,670 | 4.15625 | 4 |
Alternatively, people with SAD may have trouble regulating their levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that influences mood.
Finally, research has suggested that people with SAD also may produce less Vitamin D in response to sunlight; vitamin D is believed to play a role in serotonin activity.
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The lithosphere (from the Greek for "rocky" sphere) is the solid outermost shell of a rocky planet. On the Earth, the lithosphere includes the crust and the uppermost mantle which is joined to the crust across the Mohorovičić discontinuity. Lithosphere is underlain by asthenosphere, the weaker, hotter, and deeper part ... | <urn:uuid:60a24e60-6feb-4217-9475-5e2116daf17d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://geology.wikia.com/wiki/Lithosphere | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323908.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629103036-20170629123036-00256.warc.gz | en | 0.939348 | 1,006 | 4.5625 | 5 |
This illustration shows three possible scenarios for the evolution of asteroid belts. In the top panel, a Jupiter-size planet migrates through the asteroid belt, scattering material and inhibiting the formation of life on planets. The second scenario shows our solar-system model: a Jupiter-size planet that moves slight... | <urn:uuid:53d52b70-4b7b-43c7-9edb-8a37536f3a06> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.latinospost.com/articles/6428/20121104/asteroids-equal-life-jupiter-important-existence.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422121478981.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124174438-00183-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944133 | 597 | 4.21875 | 4 |
One of the earliest known maps engraved in colonial New Spain (Mexico) was that drawn by Antonio Ysarti in 1682. It shows the Franciscan Province of San Diego of Mexico, with its 14 friaries, from Oaxaca in the southeast to Aguascalientes in the northwest. It covers the archdiocese of Mexico City, as well as the dioces... | <urn:uuid:294d582e-13f0-4016-8f9f-1f1599a71c01> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://geo-mexico.com/?p=3014 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499946.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20230201144459-20230201174459-00753.warc.gz | en | 0.939962 | 382 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Geodes are the mysterious treasure-boxes of the geological world. Undistinguished plain rock from the outside, they often reveal crystal-lined interiors when cut or broken open. The crystals are most often clear quartz, although they are sometimes amethyst or calcite. Rarely, crystals of pyrite, sphalerite, and other m... | <urn:uuid:784e444a-d133-4c69-ac2a-4a30ce5b943e> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://www.mamasminerals.com/Formation-of-Geodes_ep_117.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398460519.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205420-00196-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941244 | 509 | 4.34375 | 4 |
Lesson: Cause and Effect - Analyze Details
Objective: Students will be able to identify a chain of events within the story and be able to explain how one event will lead to another and continue a cycle of causes and effects.
Standard/Code/Name: Cause and Effect (Chain of Events)
Opening (5-10 minutes):
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The Influence of Weather
Weathering and erosion slowly chisel, polish, and buff Earth's rock into ever evolving works of art—and then wash the remains into the sea.
The processes are definitively independent, but not exclusive. Weathering is the mechanical and chemical hammer that breaks down and sculpts the rocks. Ero... | <urn:uuid:e9372e6e-07fb-4c87-b19d-962721ef0d32> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/the-dynamic-earth/weathering-erosion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125944682.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20180420194306-20180420214306-00204.warc.gz | en | 0.935851 | 623 | 4.25 | 4 |
Before the Rise of Civilization: The Paleolithic Era
The first humans evolved in Africa during the Paleolithic Era, or Stone Age, which spans the period of history from 2.5 million to about 10,000 BCE. During this time, humans lived in small groups as hunter-gatherers, with clear gender divisions for labor. The men hun... | <urn:uuid:def14b0e-1efd-4cff-a1c9-76afa68cdf3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://library.achievingthedream.org/fscjearlyhumanities/chapter/before-the-rise-of-civilization-the-paleolithic-era/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652663011588.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220528000300-20220528030300-00723.warc.gz | en | 0.970059 | 1,083 | 4.15625 | 4 |
New insight on the hippocampus, which creates memories, could help patients dealing with neurological diseases.
The hippocampus is part of the brain that is most known for its role in forming and retaining personal memories. But beyond allowing people to remember what they did yesterday, the hippocampus also helps peop... | <urn:uuid:75e5ad8a-7864-43d0-8b32-88ada93d41e0> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://vista.info.yorku.ca/2019/02/video-shayna-rosenbaum-remapping-a-damaged-mind/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370510846.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20200403092656-20200403122656-00419.warc.gz | en | 0.95804 | 145 | 4.03125 | 4 |
The mosquito goes through four separate and distinct stages of its life cycle: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
- Laid in standing water, moist soil, sides of containers.
- Laid singly by some species and others lay eggs together to form rafts.
- Float on the water’s surface until they hatch.
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Euclid's Elements: Book I: Proposition 2
Proposition 2: To place at a given point (as an extremity) a straight line equal to a given straight line.
Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line.
Thus it is required to place at the point A (as an extremity)
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Identification & Biology: Sea urchins are members of a large group of marine invertebrates in the phylum Echinodermata (spiny skinned animals) that also include starfish, sea cucumbers, sea lilies, and brittle stars. All sea urchins have a hard calcareous shell called a test, which is covered with a thin epithelium and... | <urn:uuid:074694fc-7643-45bf-91b6-76aea959072a> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.inlandseafood.com/seapedia/sea-urchins | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256314.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521082340-20190521104340-00333.warc.gz | en | 0.940878 | 880 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Scientists now know that unicorns were real, that they lived alongside modern humans and they have a good idea of why they died out.
New tests on a complete skull of a Siberian unicorn show that they still roamed the land that is now Russia as recently as 35,000 years ago. Previously, it was thought they became extinct... | <urn:uuid:d97474c6-4b27-42a6-b1b3-4c1fabfa89e9> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://www.kidsnews.com.au/animals/real-unicorns-walked-and-grazed-alongside-modern-humans-who-were-not-responsible-for-the-species-extinction/news-story/7c903954006103df9be0adceadc5ffa5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578530253.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190421060341-20190421082341-00140.warc.gz | en | 0.948325 | 1,035 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Access to the Interior
Until the construction of the Erie Canal, New Orleans had nearly exclusive access to trade with the rich interior of North America because of its location on the Mississippi River. Beginning in the seventeenth century during French, Dutch, and then British competition for the fur trade in North A... | <urn:uuid:8120d1b5-e4d9-45e5-bbf3-6fa9894c1152> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://dp.la/exhibitions/erie-canal/why-new-york/?item=2212 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875144637.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20200220035657-20200220065657-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.952863 | 232 | 4.21875 | 4 |
Brandt's bat (Myotis brandtii) was first discovered in Europe in 1958 (2), but was only separated from the very similar species, the whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) in 1970 (5). Both species have shaggy fur (5), which is light brown in colour with a golden sheen (2). The belly is a paler grey with yellowish tinges (2... | <urn:uuid:ac0faf07-d7fa-4d52-91cf-126f1963db7b> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://www.arkive.org/brandts-bat/myotis-brandtii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257832399.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071032-00281-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944368 | 1,081 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Here are some important threads that connect the concepts in this unit
to those in other units of the course. It will be important to stress
these connections as they arise and foreshadow what is to come, so
students can better understand how each unit relates to one another and
the big picture of statistics.
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The Bronze Age is known for the development and collapse of many civilizations. Some of them have made an outstanding contribution to the flourish of many contemporary cultures. The basic difference between these civilizations is that some of them continued exciting after the Bronze Age and some of them vanished to the... | <urn:uuid:56700308-23eb-4245-b146-22f49f21e9dd> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://www.proessay.com/urban-civilizations-in-the-bronze-age/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891807660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180217185905-20180217205905-00457.warc.gz | en | 0.967364 | 880 | 4.0625 | 4 |
Repeating an experiment and getting the same results. The skeptical scientist, on hearing a new, exciting, finding will ask, "has it been replicated yet?" If it hasn't, the scientist will withhold judgement regarding the finding's validity.
Studies that are properly designed and conducted can be repeated and produce th... | <urn:uuid:d56b78f9-c68f-423f-8d4e-3347ee26ae7b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.metaglossary.com/meanings/729776/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707440693/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123040-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921769 | 297 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Language & Literature
Grade Level (K-1)
- The students will learn words in The Monsters' Party by Joy Cowley.
- The students will understand the text well enough to create a book of
- The Monsters' Party by Joy Cowley (enough for each student in
- Worksheets to be used during center time
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animal reproductive systemArticle Free Pass
- Reproductive systems of invertebrates
- Gonads, associated structures, and products
- Mechanisms that aid in the union of gametes
- Provisions for the developing embryo
- Reproductive systems of vertebrates
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Notionally, the paschal full moon refers to the first ecclesiastical full moon of the northern spring used in the determination of the date of Easter. The name "paschal" is derived from "Pascha" which is a transliteration of the Greek word, which is itself a transliteration of the Hebrew pesach, both words meaning Pass... | <urn:uuid:56c2f6a5-3988-4cf7-9c07-24aff269fb90> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/Paschal_Full_Moon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701162035.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193922-00332-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942445 | 620 | 4 | 4 |
Have you discovered the joys of wordless picture books? Books such as Chalk by Bill Thomson and The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney are just two examples from this wonderful world that is just right for encouraging oral language, understanding of story structure, and the development of critical/creative thinking. A... | <urn:uuid:f076151b-211a-466b-a180-696cd901957f> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.maggiesbighome.com/2016/09/using-wordless-picture-books.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218187519.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212947-00143-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934037 | 391 | 4.40625 | 4 |
Antarctica is not just a solid block of ice. It's a living, moving area, where floes slide against each other. But just how they move has, until now, been a mystery shrouded in the cold air of the South Pole. Scientists have now mapped currents of the Antarctica's ice, showing that it ebbs and flows a lot like water. A... | <urn:uuid:75eb3f28-f7b5-4087-b44c-7a615bf1d650> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.fastcompany.com/1774708/antarctica-floe-chart-worthy-your-icy-stares | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802764752.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075244-00109-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961699 | 314 | 4.34375 | 4 |
Just in time for back-to-school: New distance learning resources are available on Wide Open School.
With support from teachers and parents, BeSeen has a lot of potential to teach high schoolers how to navigate tricky social media situations. The Web Wise Kids website includes many thoughtful resources for teachers and ... | <urn:uuid:6d43c2cf-091a-4665-93c7-55e4cf93d305> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/beseen | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738892.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20200812112531-20200812142531-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.930353 | 599 | 4.0625 | 4 |
Charles Darwin is best known as an evolutionary biologist but he also had significant success as a geologist. His first three scientific books after his account of the voyage of the Beagle explored the geology of coral reefs, volcanic islands and South America: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842); Geol... | <urn:uuid:c461c6d2-4b71-4ad7-adce-ff2ed5a377be> | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/science-news/tags/tectonic_plate?fromGateway=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738660992.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173740-00051-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976467 | 520 | 4.125 | 4 |
We should all be looking for ways to create more meaningful conversations with our preschoolers. Open-ended questions are a wonderful way to keep the conversation going by stretching children’s curiosity, reasoning ability, creativity, language development and independence. Asking open-ended questions gives you an oppo... | <urn:uuid:b58e3f52-7c2b-4f34-bead-82c79ab9bc83> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://familylicious.com/open-ended-questions-a-guide-to-more-meaningful-conversations-with-preschoolers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189680.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00396-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952547 | 1,635 | 4.125 | 4 |
Reactions of the double bond are the main feature of the chemistry of the alkenes, and these make their chemistry rather different from that of the alkanes. The presence of the double bond has two main effects on the chemistry of the alkenes.
- It means that alkenes exhibit cis–trans isomerism. There is no rotation aro... | <urn:uuid:0f71e6ae-441f-45b7-933f-967f5ac1e1c0> | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | https://chemlaba.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/reactions-of-the-alkenes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738660996.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173740-00148-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92582 | 1,609 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Contrary to prevailing thought, new research shows that early humans in Australia lived alongside giant reptiles, marsupials, and birds for thousands of years before these megafauna went extinct.
Researchers had assumed that these enormous animals went extinct soon after the arrival of the first Australians 50,000 year... | <urn:uuid:7bee4068-9366-4799-88b9-64dba9d2ea1e> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://all-that-is-interesting.com/aboriginal-megafauna-australia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123048.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00432-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964893 | 468 | 4.03125 | 4 |
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope recently captured these images of the star Vega, located 25 light years away in the constellation Lyra. Spitzer was able to detect the heat radiation from the cloud of dust around the star and found that the debris disc is much larger than pr... | <urn:uuid:8febd58d-e578-4f7c-8731-b720a695c94c> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | https://www.curriki.org/oer/Tiny-Particles-So-Far-Away-641348 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986647517.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20191013195541-20191013222541-00539.warc.gz | en | 0.937241 | 331 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Learning to Read Music Notation
Learning to Read Music - How to read music notation
This section contains information on how to read and interpret music notation, which may be useful to beginners. This is information which may help if you are learning the piano or keyboard or indeed any other musical instrument. It is ... | <urn:uuid:0fab8e70-222c-471e-a72a-25be87e3a5f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.shanemcdonald.org/music/learn-to-read-music.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164653483/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204134413-00006-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928881 | 553 | 4.21875 | 4 |
Milestones and mileposts are stones or short pillars set up at the roadside indicating the distance in miles from that point to a particular place or places. The first milestones in England were erected by the Romans, who constructed good metalled roads to enable them to move soldiers and supplies quickly across the co... | <urn:uuid:93771c72-b609-4171-b760-debebe01554d> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://discovernorthsomerset.co.uk/milestones-and-mileposts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945552.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422080558-20180422100558-00507.warc.gz | en | 0.983431 | 452 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Indian Polity is the backbone of the country's democratic system, governing its political, administrative, and legal institutions. Rooted in the Constitution of India, the polity reflects the principles of democracy, federalism, and social justice. In this article, we will explore the key features, institutions, and pr... | <urn:uuid:e2dafabf-5831-4af4-84a2-b7572702013a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://gkschools.com/gkquiz/indian_polity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510520.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929154432-20230929184432-00608.warc.gz | en | 0.943301 | 620 | 4.53125 | 5 |
The Gothic style began with the architecture of the 12th century, at the height of the Middle Ages, when Europe was putting the memory of the ``Dark Ages'' behind it and moving into a radiant new era of prosperity and confidence. At the same time, Christianity was entering a new and triumphant phase of its history, and... | <urn:uuid:e5cdca52-9751-4130-968e-3dfd6486285a> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/gothic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541864.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00043-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97488 | 266 | 4.0625 | 4 |
Tests performed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) suggest bacteria can extract valuable minerals from rocks, opening a path to space-mining and human colonization of other worlds.
Getting heavy materials out of the Earth's gravity is exceptionally expensive. Advances in spaceflight may help som... | <urn:uuid:f03d7636-ca56-47e8-b04b-ebf311706a06> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://www.iflscience.com/bacteria-can-extract-minerals-from-rocks-in-micro-gravity-making-space-mining-easier-57743 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649302.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603165228-20230603195228-00363.warc.gz | en | 0.958279 | 619 | 4.53125 | 5 |
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that impacts areas such as behavior, communication, daily living skills, and social skills. Many children with autism also engage in repetitive and/or restrictive behavior. They may repeat certain words or phrases, have sensitivities to certain sensory stimuli ... | <urn:uuid:fd9c1eb2-7b59-48b4-aac6-ec39529e4223> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://harkla.co/blogs/special-needs/social-skills-and-autism | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703548716.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20210124111006-20210124141006-00212.warc.gz | en | 0.95882 | 1,902 | 4.125 | 4 |
On this day in 1942, the Jewish community of Casablanca, Morocco, celebrated the liberation of that country from the control of Vichy France.
France’s colonies in North Africa – Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria – had come under indirect German control, via the Vichy regime after the occupation of France in 1940. Hence, Op... | <urn:uuid:280926a7-400b-4a17-8b0a-11133d45f912> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/1942-the-jews-of-casablanca-celebrate-vichy-overthrow-1.476640 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275645.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00164-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964397 | 682 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Trail of Tears
The Ohlone—the original peoples of this bay—were known to ritually and demonstratively grieve sorrows. When suffering a great sadness, they would singe their hair short and smear handfuls of ashes, earth and ground stone on their heads, faces and bodies. Women were known to draw blood from their cheeks a... | <urn:uuid:bdd9e6bc-4319-4e95-bb9f-04c8757d5abc> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://eltecolote.org/content/en/warriors-in-the-cove-of-weepers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643388.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20230527223515-20230528013515-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.964251 | 5,034 | 4.28125 | 4 |
In 1984, bacteria started showing up in patients’ blood at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinic. Bacteria do not belong in the blood and such infections can quickly escalate into septic shock, a life threatening condition. Ultimately, blood samples revealed the culprit: A microbe that normally lives in the g... | <urn:uuid:b18ac8cd-c18c-4e76-b09a-27df8bc95cbf> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/04/11/how-a-good-gut-bacteria-became-a-vicious-pathogen/?utm_source=dscfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dscfb&fbclid=IwAR0qMSIDPwoWlb0zAhX8t7j2JlDhFnbeUL6TcmKec9lY3CaxpOh8gjJnU4c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027317359.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822194105-20190822220105-00187.warc.gz | en | 0.937941 | 596 | 4 | 4 |
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) allows researchers to amplify DNA in a test tube. This process uses an enzyme derived from heat-resistant bacteria. The steps of PCR are driven by changes in temperature.
Duration: 1 minutes, 27 seconds
Transcript: Polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, uses repeated cycles of heating and co... | <urn:uuid:2923bf36-dd6a-4789-ad24-c4fa0f211a5e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.dnalc.org/resources/3d/19-polymerase-chain-reaction.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280239.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00511-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924025 | 251 | 4.46875 | 4 |
Advances in electronics—especially integrated circuits—often arise from new manufacturing techniques. Making conventional integrated circuits requires steps that include high-energy or high-vacuum processes, not to mention pristine conditions. A relatively new approach to electronics relies on much simpler production t... | <urn:uuid:f3681adb-23ad-4692-8a3e-5943e39ed137> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/1998/11/printing-plastic-transistors | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394011094911/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305091814-00090-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932878 | 860 | 4.09375 | 4 |
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The History of Jamestown, Virginia
Jamestown, VA was the first permanent English settlement in America. On April 26, 1607, three ships stopped at Cape Henry, at the southern entrance to Chesapeake Bay, after more than four months at sea. Captain Christopher Newport commanded this fleet, whi... | <urn:uuid:916ab319-8048-4a5a-87f1-4edc3f50ccdf> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://carrfamilyhistoryalbum.blogspot.com/2009/08/history-of-jamestown-virginia.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805049.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118210145-20171118230145-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.969827 | 1,379 | 4 | 4 |
Echinoderms are a diverse group of marine organisms with radial symmetry that first appeared in the Cambrian Period. Most people are familiar with starfish but several other groups are important in the fossil record and are prized by collectors. The most abundant group of echinoderms found in Ordovician through Pennsyl... | <urn:uuid:e0495877-2cc7-42f6-918c-e97731d421be> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/index.php?title=Echinoderm_Fossils&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823360.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019175016-20171019195016-00289.warc.gz | en | 0.946571 | 448 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Fossils are any evidence of past life preserved in rocks. They may be actual remains of body parts (rare), impressions of soft body parts, casts and molds of body parts (more common), body parts replaced by mineral (common) or evidence of animal behavior such as footprints and burrows. The body parts of living organism... | <urn:uuid:2c191384-7348-42ad-8ce3-c47dfc562659> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://geo.libretexts.org/Courses/Gettysburg_College/Book%3A_An_Introduction_to_Geology_(Johnson_Affolter_Inkenbrandt_and_Mosher)/14%3A_Geologic_Time/14.03%3A_Fossils_and_Evolution | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662587158.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220525120449-20220525150449-00388.warc.gz | en | 0.936507 | 1,345 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Grammar studies the way in which words/morphemes join to form meaningful sentences. Grammar is a set of constraints on the possible sequences of symbols expressed as rules or principles. Syntax is the basic ingredient of grammar. Grammar tells us the difference between sets of sentences.
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HEAT AND THERMODYNAMICS
Content : Thermal Equilibrium and Temperature (Zeroth law of Thermodynamics) , Macroscope & Microscopic Descriptions
In analyzing physical situation we usually focus our attention on some portion of matter which we separate, in our minds, from the environment external to it. We call such a porti... | <urn:uuid:613059c8-76b8-417b-beb5-bee6e4375fab> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://www.quantumstudy.com/category/science-plus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038878326.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210419045820-20210419075820-00482.warc.gz | en | 0.94482 | 1,309 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Upside-down “rivers” of warm ocean water may be one of the causes of Antarctica’s ice shelves breaking up, leading to a rise in sea levels. But a new study suggests an increase in sea ice may lead to a much more devastating change in the Earth’s climate — another ice age.
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In traditional Knowledge-Oriented paradigms of education, teachers ask questions whose answers they already know. Their purpose is to find out if the learners know those answers. And when learners ask questions, they assume that the teacher knows the answer. In the absence of a teacher, they consult a documented source... | <urn:uuid:3daf982b-5176-4bd7-b94c-a0fd8202cbc0> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://www.thinq.education/inquiry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945282.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20230324113500-20230324143500-00195.warc.gz | en | 0.958526 | 471 | 4.21875 | 4 |
Entangled pairs of particles, in which measuring the state of one simultaneously determines the state of the other, are a central part of proposed schemes for quantum cryptography and teleportation. One potential source of such particles is the stream of conjoined electrons that exist in superconductors, but no one has... | <urn:uuid:a22f9310-2b7d-4eff-8df6-d92d487b13f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://physics.aps.org/story/v9/st33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163051684/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131731-00014-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931026 | 667 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Factorials, Permutations and Combinations
A factorial is represented by the sign (!). When we encounter n! (known as 'n factorial') we say that a factorial is the product of all the whole numbers between 1 and n, where n must always be positive.
0! is a special case factorial.
This is special because there are no posit... | <urn:uuid:e25e18d9-1d85-4d71-b099-0a403e9b8ae1> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | https://www.wyzant.com/resources/lessons/math/precalculus/factorials_permutations_and_combinations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095273.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00064-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927225 | 1,423 | 4.625 | 5 |
Body-derived minerals, dietary minerals, are inorganic compounds needed for living things and included in micronutrients, or nutrients needed in small amounts for various normal body functions. The role of minerals, among others, is for the formation of bones and teeth, the components of enzymes, and neural activity.
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Counting is one of the basic mathematically related tasks we encounter on a day to day basis. The main question here is the following. If we need to count something, can we do anything better than just counting all objects one by one? Do we need to create a list of all phone numbers to ensure that there are enough phon... | <urn:uuid:87b7a5fd-840a-4b2c-ad89-d85bd1d57005> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://ko.coursera.org/lecture/combinatorics/review-V9pnr | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585348.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20211020183354-20211020213354-00660.warc.gz | en | 0.940113 | 366 | 4.40625 | 4 |
Oral tradition offers the advantages of inducing open communication and verifiable first-hand knowledge of events from a historical reference point. This practice allows languages to persist and permits practitioners of specialized traditions to show off their skills. Passing along lessons and ideas orally creates owne... | <urn:uuid:f3bb0c54-2503-49da-a401-7221ab94f6dc> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://www.reference.com/world-view/advantages-oral-tradition-e585d2a8485297c1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267861980.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619060647-20180619080647-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.927304 | 247 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Life History and Biology
DESCRIPTION: The Indiana is a small bat about the size of a mouse. They are a dull grayish chestnut color.
Bats mate in fall before entering caves for hibernation. Females store sperm through winter and become pregnant in spring after hibernation, then migrate to summer areas, where they roost ... | <urn:uuid:7e906d27-0fff-4f4a-a249-a80490d24398> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.fws.gov/northeast/pafo/indiana_bat.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131309986.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172149-00012-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929162 | 420 | 4.03125 | 4 |
- Our art curriculum provides all pupils with the opportunities to develop and extend skills and an opportunity to express their individual interests, thought and ideas.
- We cover the National Curriculum and the progression of Art skills.
- It engages, inspires, and challenges pupils, equipping them with the knowledge... | <urn:uuid:74218fbf-939b-4c05-83d1-15763ddc40dc> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.spellbrook.herts.sch.uk/page/?title=Art&pid=385 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474715.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228112121-20240228142121-00402.warc.gz | en | 0.940604 | 1,199 | 4.15625 | 4 |
Create an account
A form of government in which those in power hold absolute and unchangeable authority over the people; all dictatorships are authoritarian.
the smaller state or local governments have the majority of the power, NOT the central government. Individual states hold more power than the Central government.
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For five years now, NASA's Curiosity rover has trawled the Gale Crater on Mars, searching for signs of life. But Gale Crater was not always a dried out pit. The ancient Gale Lake existed for about 700 million years, between 3.8 and 3.1 billion years ago. Curiosity has been able to use the mountain in the center of the ... | <urn:uuid:c946ab35-d44c-4c40-a638-9003cd823964> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a26968/curiosity-mars-lake/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585186.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20211018000838-20211018030838-00375.warc.gz | en | 0.963249 | 167 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Climate change disproportionately impacts the Arctic, where rising global temperatures wrought by the burning of fossil fuels have brought rapid, fundamental changes to places like Alaska. In a new study published in Global Change Biology, researchers conclude that 67,000 square miles of land in Alaska, 13 percent of t... | <urn:uuid:6d521fcf-c617-4e26-9b41-86e0999e2a60> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://inhabitat.com/climate-change-has-transformed-much-of-alaska-over-the-past-three-decades/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496671053.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20191121231600-20191122015600-00197.warc.gz | en | 0.947361 | 455 | 4.09375 | 4 |
As well as being Queen of Scots and Queen Consort of France, Mary Stuart had a claim on the English throne. This presented a possibility that a catholic empire could be created across the three nations. But Elizabeth I was to become Queen of England instead. The reason for this is explained in terms of nationality, fam... | <urn:uuid:ba24bf7f-21ff-4e4f-9e15-381e1e64e17a> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z6ns34j | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141740670.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20201204162500-20201204192500-00719.warc.gz | en | 0.958849 | 203 | 4.21875 | 4 |
Contrary to popular belief, hydroelectric power can seriously damage the climate. Proposed changes to the way countries’ climate budgets are calculated aim to take greenhouse gas emissions from hydropower reservoirs into account, but some experts worry that they will not go far enough.
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As an early childhood teacher, you understand it’s important to get your class ready for kindergarten.
Can your children count to 10? Or 20? Can they sing the alphabet and name the sounds of each letter? Knowing this information will help you, parents, and future teachers recognize the strengths and weaknesses of each ... | <urn:uuid:f51178a0-ab15-4f10-bc28-ab221a6ad5cf> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.pyramidmodel.org/learning-animals-3-books-building-social-skills-classroom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948594665.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20171217074303-20171217100303-00374.warc.gz | en | 0.949882 | 705 | 4.15625 | 4 |
Microaggressions in the classroom and setting ground rules in how learning works: seven research-based principles for smart teaching john wiley. Unfortunately, many teachers struggle with having regular, productive it is important to involve the students when discussing the ground rules for good. Understanding diverse ... | <urn:uuid:7d8d9a00-050c-48d8-8d43-9aec210f3fab> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://vtessayheek.jayfindlingjfinnindustries.us/teaching-ground-rules.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039746847.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20181120231755-20181121013755-00192.warc.gz | en | 0.962819 | 578 | 4.0625 | 4 |
What Color Are Animal Cells?
Animal cells range in size from one to 100 microns and play an essential role in all living systems, maintaining organs and tissues. Due to their small size, animal cells cannot be seen with the naked eye; thus they must be studied under microscopes for detailed study.
Eukaryotic cells diff... | <urn:uuid:a41eb3bc-ed2a-442b-9de3-4e991c782cff> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://mangotips.com/what-color-are-animal-cells/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224645089.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530032334-20230530062334-00757.warc.gz | en | 0.920535 | 588 | 4.1875 | 4 |
New research is in hot pursuit of life’s first energy-producing reactions.
What’s life worth if one can’t enjoy a good meal, right? Or, failing that, any meal at all? Not very much, since our bodies need to turn that food into fuel to keep going — and they have very sophisticated mechanisms on hand to do just that.
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The University of Rochester reports that a newly designed betavoltaic battery (based on the energy from radioactive decay) can run for ten years and is already ten times more powerful than any other previously designed betavoltaic battery:
The technology is geared toward applications where power is needed in inaccessib... | <urn:uuid:93157089-824f-48d6-a3b4-1690ab171ecb> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://www.medgadget.com/2005/05/new_nuclear_bat.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221215523.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20180820023141-20180820043141-00085.warc.gz | en | 0.95546 | 594 | 4.03125 | 4 |
How Ocean Storms Form, Get Names and May React to Climate Change
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This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. And I'm Steve Ember. Powerful storms are called hurricanes when they form over the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific. They ... | <urn:uuid:ba363123-f80a-48d8-b249-4a89383b05ad> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.manythings.org/voa/0/12251.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535922087.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20140909043517-00119-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949344 | 1,652 | 4.09375 | 4 |
The larynx is a short passageway shaped like a triangle that is just below the pharynx in the neck. The pharynx is a hollow tube about five inches long that starts behind the nose and goes down to the neck to become part of the esophagus. Food passes through the pharynx on the way to the esophagus. Air passes through t... | <urn:uuid:d424905f-b519-4b72-8b5c-164b1a177060> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://news.cancerconnect.com/types-of-cancer/head-and-neck-cancers/larynx-cancer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891816178.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20180225070925-20180225090925-00024.warc.gz | en | 0.929084 | 1,806 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Technique for the surface mining of coal by removing the soil and rock overburden above a seam and extracting the exposed mineral. The method is used to best advantage where the coal seam is thin and not deeply buried. (Thicker and deeper seams would be extracted by open-pit or underground mining.) Strip mining is most... | <urn:uuid:08be747a-cded-47de-84a9-06ce8343b4fd> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.reference.com/browse/strip%20mining | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422121961657.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175241-00074-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933576 | 180 | 4.0625 | 4 |
From Russia With Leaves
For the most part, the plants in the study had come from northwestern Russia, the DNA analysis revealed.
"You can imagine, in the spring, when the big Russian rivers cause a lot of erosion along the rivers, plant material can get into the drift ice and by that get moved up to Svalbard," Alsos sa... | <urn:uuid:37168440-7f57-44bd-b4f7-81d99c7c9e7f> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070614-plants-travel_2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084889677.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20180120162254-20180120182254-00305.warc.gz | en | 0.949834 | 664 | 4.3125 | 4 |
Resources: Assessing knowledge – How much do you know about alcohol?
It is recommended that before you start teaching about alcohol, that you assess how much your pupils know. It is suggested that you begin with some icebreaker activities such as Musical Chairs followed by The decision on whether to drink activity (see... | <urn:uuid:67a23861-a6a2-404f-b9cb-bcb7c6126e77> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://alcoholeducationtrust.org/teacher-area/assessing-knowledge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710933.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20221203143925-20221203173925-00172.warc.gz | en | 0.938158 | 437 | 4.25 | 4 |
At 12:30 am, on August 26, 1977, the operators at the Shippingport Atomic Power Station began lifting the central modules of the experimental breeder reactor core into the blanket section. At 04:38 am, the reactor reached criticality. During the next five years, the core produced more than 10 billion kilowatt-hours of ... | <urn:uuid:2322f456-0acf-4e22-be16-06a67db62fd7> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://atomicinsights.com/light-water-breeder-reactor-adapting-proven-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875143805.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20200218180919-20200218210919-00504.warc.gz | en | 0.954645 | 1,175 | 4 | 4 |
The moon looks larger when newly risen than when it rides high in the sky. This is a well-known illusion, whose explanation has been given a new twist. With the Moon near the horizon, our visual system "assumes" it is at the same distance as trees or other horizon features. Therefore the system makes the Moon seem as l... | <urn:uuid:5c6df708-2bd2-4485-a48f-0a88138a2c26> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0305/030537.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221209856.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815024253-20180815044253-00364.warc.gz | en | 0.965764 | 597 | 4.03125 | 4 |
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Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. This means that already in the early history of the Universe, there was potential for planet formation and life. The research results have bee... | <urn:uuid:8ef8bcbb-7af9-42a4-a17c-dadc81d23cfd> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://physicsinventions.com/baby-galaxies-grew-up-quickly/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256494.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521162634-20190521184634-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966172 | 901 | 4.21875 | 4 |
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