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Facts and Events
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), was a British soldier and statesman, a native of Ireland from the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. His importance in national history is such that he is often re... | <urn:uuid:7174f721-e943-4fa4-b29d-b5402db8bda8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Arthur_Wellesley_(4) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980727 | 554 | 3.3125 | 3 |
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The Australian zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata, weighs less than half an ounce, mates for life and, unlike most vocalizing animals, learns its songs from its elders. A new analysis of its genome, the first of a songbird, is providing tantalizing clues to the mechanisms and evolution of vocal communi... | <urn:uuid:ea5c1681-4ea8-4b80-bb4c-db5b147afdc3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/uoia-sgs032910.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935852 | 993 | 3.546875 | 4 |
HANNY LIGHTFOOT-KLEIN, MA
EVELYN SHAW, RN, MS
Special Needs of
Female circumcision is a custom that affects many women who live north of the equator in Africa. Health-care practitioners in the United States may not have access to the information necessary to ensure that these women obtain optimum heath care that is med... | <urn:uuid:5a25c599-b5c1-4f24-bf91-b859544aa863> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cirp.org/pages/female/lightfoot-klein1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956585 | 4,648 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Definition of euphonium
: a brass instrument smaller than but resembling a tuba and having a range from B flat below the bass staff upward for three octaves
Origin and Etymology of euphonium
Greek euphōnos + English -ium (as in harmonium)
First Known Use: 1865
Seen and Heard
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Exceptional Student Education
First Advisor's Name
First Advisor's Committee Title
Second Advisor's Name
Patricia M. Barbetta
Third Advisor's Name
Maureen C. Kenny
Fourth Advisor's Name
autism, inclusion, general education, instructional accommodations, curriculum modifications, middle school
Date of Defense
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AH: Boredom in dogs looks remarkably similar, in broad strokes, to what it looks like in humans: flagging energy, reduced activity, poor attention, sleeping too much. Dogs may pace (similar to zoo animals kept in too-small enclosures with nothing to engage them) or do repetitive actions, such as licking or chewing them... | <urn:uuid:375a0ae5-109b-4f6e-93bf-703491ba841c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thebark.com/content/alexandra-horowitz-canine-mindseeker?page=4&qt-recent_updates_qt=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981442 | 606 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Many goaltenders spend countless hours on the ice refining their skills, however, during the stress of competition, uncertainty and negative thoughts can undermine all of the confidence that has been attained over the previous days, weeks or months of practices and games. It is at these critical moments that negative s... | <urn:uuid:0aeb2b21-7cc4-41b2-acef-5515fe306766> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.omha.net/news_article/show/374495?referral=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955186 | 587 | 2.71875 | 3 |
A rare fish has been rediscovered in Brazil. The fish was originally found 50 years ago when the only known specimen was collected by experts. Since then it has not been seen. The fish lives deep under the ground and it is thought it has managed to survive whilst it’s relatives above ground went extinct. A group of res... | <urn:uuid:3d4bd997-9e2c-458a-90a3-0f30cd35993d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.karennutton.co.uk/CommentView,guid,3a339308-ff2a-4bfb-93bd-dec90c6abc9b.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978862 | 239 | 3.015625 | 3 |
The pygmy seahorses comprise several species of tiny seahorse in the syngnathid family or Syngnathidae (seahorses and pipefish). Family Syngnathidae is part of order Syngnathiformes, which contains fishes with fused jaws that suck food into tubular mouths. They are found in Southeast Asia around the Coral Triangle. The... | <urn:uuid:d4b359ad-8c15-4a4a-aa3f-19b935477255> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eol.org/data_objects/23103449 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931437 | 2,935 | 3.375 | 3 |
For The Answer
Most gardeners have gone to a great deal of trouble to make sure they’ve properly prepared the soil, added the correct fertilizer nutrients and constructed the planting rows exactly as directed by bulletins obtained from the local county Extension office.
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Visiting a Hindu temple, receiving the Shakti from the majestic Gods of our religion, can all together change the life of an individual. It alters the flow of the pranas or life currents within his body. Shakti coming from the great temples of our Gods can change the patterns of karma dating back many past lives, clear... | <urn:uuid:d7921284-7700-46c2-9e52-abcfac58df4d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gurmandir.com/fest/fest-pradosh.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959797 | 4,043 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Click the above link to view Word documents for all the handouts for this chapter.
Note-Taking Preview Exercise
We learn by making connections to what we already know from our personal experience. It is helpful for students to start with what they know so that they can relate to the material and can connect to it. For ... | <urn:uuid:c07dcc8a-da6e-4f59-ac75-1cb89b235af1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.collegesuccess1.com/NotesWritingSpM.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954313 | 2,011 | 4.09375 | 4 |
California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica)
Photo by Peter Knapp
Prepared by: Patrick J. Mock (Patrick_Mock@URSCorp.com)
URS Corporation, San Diego
Mock, P. 2004. California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica). In The Coastal Scrub and Chaparral Bird Conservation Plan: a strategy for protecting and managing coasta... | <urn:uuid:5dc3b4c4-b0d7-4de5-881d-8f3392193be8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.prbo.org/calpif/htmldocs/species/scrub/california_gnatcatcher.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.805355 | 7,582 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Instructional games: Scientific language use, concept understanding, and attitudinal development of middle school learners
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Developments in Washington indicate that the President will not be able to carry his $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill through Congress without amendment. The Senate Appropriations Committee provided, by a vote of 12 to 8, that the wages paid in the public works program should be "not less than the prevailing wage" of pr... | <urn:uuid:7e624a75-7339-40c7-9e1e-5ef1988eee82> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1935/2/9/house-control-pdevelopments-in-washington-indicate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972798 | 327 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Virtual Schools in Texas: Good for Kids or Merely Good for Profit?
The Underground School System
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dialysis types of hemodialysis Blood Dialysis/ Hemodialysis
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The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation
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jQuery UI has a series of ready-made, great-looking user interface widgets and a comprehensive set of core interaction helpers designed to be implemented in a consistent and developer-friendly way. With all this, the amount of code that you need to write personally to take a project from conception to completion is dra... | <urn:uuid:c65a23aa-53a0-49be-9c35-cd858c3b1045> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781847195128.do | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928209 | 348 | 2.546875 | 3 |
During the Second World War the British government built several Fortress islands in the North Sea to defend its coasts from German invaders. These forts were built illegally in international waters.
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Waco Surgical Vein Center
More than 1 in 3 Americans suffer from Vein Disease
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We welcome residents and visitors to our libraries and community centres during extreme heat to get out of the sun and into some cooling air conditioning.
Library Locations and Opening Hours
Community Centres and Opening Hours
Are you prepared for the heat?
Before a Heatwave occurs:
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(Boston) A recent study from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) shows a significant decrease in severe sepsis mortality rates over the past 20 years. Looking at data from patients with severe sepsis enrolled in clinical trials, researchers found that in-hospital mortality rates ... | <urn:uuid:0f1f9190-0c75-49e9-ba7e-e183bb94c85e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/BUSM-BMC-study-shows-decrease-in-sepsis-mortality-rates-120639-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948275 | 591 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Perennial sunflowers are very valuable for their late season bloom, as their bright yellow flowers combine well with goldenrods and fall asters in September. The genus is Greek for "sun flower."
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All about Easter: Observance of resurrection follows lunar calendar
Many Christians celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ during Good Friday and Easter. But why does the date of the colorful holiday change every year?
According to local religious leaders, it is timed according to the cycle of the moon.
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A NASA attempt to capture an asteroid is in the works this week, and the space experts apparently have their sights set on a very particular asteroid by the name of 2011 MD. Compared to the size of a “deliver truck” at roughly 20 feet long, this foreign rock is said to be of great value to NASA in the hopes of studying... | <urn:uuid:f47ba7ab-f11a-4aca-8c51-e8b336d8661b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.examiner.com/article/nasa-capture-asteroid-2011-md-asteroid-sight-delivery-truck-rock-to-moon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965557 | 637 | 2.890625 | 3 |
This perspective view of Marcia Crater on the giant asteroid Vesta shows the most spectacularly preserved example of "pitted terrain," an unexpected discovery in data returned by NASA's Dawn mission. Marcia is one of the youngest craters on Vesta, with a diameter of about 40 miles (70 kilometers). Scientists think low-... | <urn:uuid:dcc99b29-c9c8-4440-b7d1-d72488679fbb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.astronomy.com/sitefiles/resources/image.aspx?item=%7BA472C0F4-40B7-4699-A452-2E4F4D8A1214%7D | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937255 | 133 | 3.703125 | 4 |
By Ann Hohenhaus, DVM
To promote good oral healthcare for cats and dogs, February has been designated National Pet Dental Health Month. I want to be sure pet owners are aware of some of the veterinary resources available to help keep pet mouths healthy.
Your primary care veterinarian
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BERLIN -- Leaders in the worldwide home-schooling movement gathered in Germany to defend the right of parents to educate their children at home.
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Business Decision Mapping in 6 Steps
Mapping Out the Options: How Technology Helps with Decision-Making
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When the massive fan blades stop turning for the last time on September 30, 2004, the steel walls of the 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel will continue to reverberate with an incredible history of aeronautical research spanning over six decades.
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There was once no way for nurses like Gladys to know: is the vaccine still good?
For Nurse Gladys Wambu the days of guesswork are over
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Ichthyology (from ichthyo before a consonant and ichthy before a vowel, deriving from the Greek ixthu, combining form of ixthus, meaning "fish") is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish. This includes bony fish (class Osteichthyes, with over 26,000 species), cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes, about ... | <urn:uuid:08305102-ba49-4fd3-8a2c-5f93d827d51a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ichthyology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942256 | 2,376 | 3.625 | 4 |
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Clarkson University Research Team Photo Featured Inside Cover of Advanced Materials
Their article, "Superhydrophobic Surfaces Generated from Water-Borne Dispersions of Hierarchically Assembled Nanoparticles Coated with a Reversibly Switchable Shell," is also featured in the publication... | <urn:uuid:9dbb8298-6eb9-4591-80db-60c1fe24d4cc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.clarkson.edu/news/2008/news-release_2008-01-10-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929095 | 540 | 2.828125 | 3 |
If you're an avid coffee drinker like me, you probably need three to five cups in the morning to feel like a normally functioning human being. You can probably also have a cup at 9 p.m. and still be fast asleep by 10. Caffeine, the main stimulant found in coffee, works on a chemical level to give you a boost of energy.... | <urn:uuid:6cc88bb4-bea7-41ca-a8f6-8ae2aa68d900> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cnet.com/news/this-is-your-brain-on-caffeine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951468 | 359 | 3.25 | 3 |
The island of Palawan is an elongated stretch of thickly
forested landscape bordered by coves, beaches, lagoons and
limestone cliffs, stretching from southwest of Luzon towards
Malaysia. The island's Tubbataha Reef is extremely ecologically
important to the Philippines as a feeding ground and nursery for
marine life, a... | <urn:uuid:8a521a1a-6551-40c6-818f-9b94899b26b2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.justluxe.com/travel/attractions/746__Palawan.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937747 | 185 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The drought has already killing thousands.
Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian chief, said at the appeal's launch in Kenya, one of the worst hit nations: "Nowhere else on earth is so much at stake as in Africa. It is here where most lives are at stake."
Since late 2005, east Africans have been facing hunger and hardship, ... | <urn:uuid:5af09344-2430-402c-948f-f601dac1a0d6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2006/04/200849152723574696.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965419 | 735 | 2.65625 | 3 |
5 Steps To A Housing, Credit and Financial Crisis
2. Celebrate the success of weakened lending standards, as home ownership surges to historical high levels. The weakening of mortgage-lending standards did succeed in increasing home ownership (from 64% to 69%, see chart above). As home ownership rates increased there w... | <urn:uuid:40977884-ad0b-4b17-adaa-45c39fa08325> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/10/4-steps-to-housing-credit-and-financial.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970462 | 454 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Biotechnology & Genetics
Through professional development and workshops the institute provides a base of understanding and awareness about biotechnology among teachers and students.
Cracking the Code
The original PBS program available online along with resources for helping students understand the Human Genome Project.... | <urn:uuid:b959082a-befa-47a3-bf56-15f88ef99c92> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=113 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.842884 | 289 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Mindfulness Meditations for Teens, by Bodhipaksa (CD) Renee Jain, Psych Central: Growing up, I was a firecracker. I reacted quickly to situations and never hesitated to express my “passionate” opinions. This often led to hurt feelings. I remember once, after a heated discussion with my brother, he asked my parents to p... | <urn:uuid:4e5733cc-6a3d-47df-b93f-f97f8f73f31b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wildmind.org/tag/children/page/3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00145-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952072 | 1,361 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Urban Ecosystems and Social Dynamics
Urban Ecosystems and Processes
Urban Ecosystems and Social Dynamics
What is STRATUM?
STRATUM is a new street tree management and analysis tool for urban forest managers that uses tree inventory data to quantify the dollar value of annual environmental and aesthetic benefits: energy ... | <urn:uuid:ae3e6fb0-f22d-4389-8ccf-6ea838100e20> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/programs/uesd/uep/stratum.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914533 | 1,142 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Nina Mikhalevsky. Dear Daughters: A History of Mount Vernon Seminary and College. Washington: Mount Vernon Seminary and College Alumnae Association, 2001. 239 pp.
Reviewed by Mary A. Evins (Department of History, Geography, and Political Science and Department of Social Work and Sociology, Tennessee State University)
P... | <urn:uuid:0da1f0fd-2700-4ad3-b885-d2986c22c3a7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9626 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969002 | 3,000 | 2.578125 | 3 |
From Abracadabra to Zombies | View All
Craniometry is the measurement of cranial features in order to classify people according to race, criminal temperament, intelligence, etc. The underlying assumption of craniometry is that skull size and shape determine brain size which determines such things as intelligence and ca... | <urn:uuid:4161d09f-4837-4a5a-9a46-110dd42fff07> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://skepdic.com/cranial.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951352 | 626 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Are you eating nanofoods? While it might sound like the latest diet trend among anorexics, the term refers to the use of nanotechnology – particles as small as a billionth of a meter – in food. And there’s a chance that you’re already eating them.
Nanofoods fall into four categories. First, and most obviously, there’s ... | <urn:uuid:b9fa927a-1654-449c-b643-82b4502163b0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/11/meet-the-four-categories-of-nanofoods/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93608 | 1,112 | 2.828125 | 3 |
'Environmental detective'? This is an exercise in thinking about where different environments might occur on a tropical desert coast and how the evidence might become preserved in a sequence of rocks. After completing the activity pupils can use their imagination to visualise what may be going on seen and unseen in a c... | <urn:uuid:f6de9461-08e8-4b29-839e-533b39190622> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://earthlearningidea.blogspot.com/2011/09/be-environmental-detective.html?showComment=1316536168126 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945683 | 108 | 3.5 | 4 |
Short-term weather extremes cause melting of Greenland Ice Sheet
Roughly 80 per cent of Greenland's land surface is hidden under an ice sheet consisting of layers of compressed snow. It is accepted that approximately 100 billion tonnes of this ice are lost each year as the sheet progressively shrinks.
While most scient... | <urn:uuid:8518db93-d92d-434d-a094-de5db9e23c0a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.earthtimes.org/climate/short-term-weather-extremes-cause-melting-greenland-ice-sheet/163/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953769 | 605 | 4.15625 | 4 |
Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray. Voices without Votes: Women and Politics in Antebellum New England. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2010. x + 306 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58465-867-2; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-58465-868-9.
Reviewed by Debra R. Van Tuyll
Published on Jhistory (December, 2010)
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By Bodie & Brock Thoene
Authors, Why a Manger
(Excerpt from Why a Manger ) Ask anyone who celebrates Christmas where the Christ-child was
born, and most will name Bethlehem. Carols like "0 Little Town
of Bethlehem" memorialize its fame.
Many could also explain why dusty, insignificant Bethlehem was chosen
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Researchers in England have found that roughly 80 percent of children with peanut allergies who participated in an experimental treatment were able to build resistance to the allergy and can now safely consume up to five peanuts a day. The treatment? Very low doses of peanut flour administered at safe levels.
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Humans rely on the senses of hearing, sight, touch, smell and taste in order to perceive the world around them. It is that combination that allows for the detection of pain regardless of where it occurs in the human body and tooth sensitivity is part of the system.
Those who have ever experienced oral discomfort due to... | <urn:uuid:fc03098b-57a1-427a-b2bd-88aa0c753770> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.1800dentist.com/about-tooth-sensitivity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944796 | 334 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Scientists in China have discovered a large species of flying, “four-winged” dinosaur that might have relied on a long, feathery tail to prevent crash landings.
The new species, Changyuraptor was 4 feet long and weighed about 9 pounds — by far the largest of the flying non-avian dinosaurs that lived about 125 million y... | <urn:uuid:85b007e2-15cc-42a0-82f4-cc9ec2364d87> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2014/07/27/sci-briefs27-art-ge6tb0uk-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968844 | 369 | 3.71875 | 4 |
The night of March 1, 2010 changed everything in Bududa, a district in the Arabica coffee-growing heartland of eastern Uganda. That night it rained for seven hours. As the water kept coming down, huge chunks of earth started caving in. Then the land began to slip away, burying entire villages in a wave of mud and debri... | <urn:uuid:99932463-c1ee-46d9-98a2-5a90e1557048> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/strange_brew/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963656 | 1,301 | 2.90625 | 3 |
) is a common and
often deadly infectious disease
caused by mycobacteria
in humans. Tuberculosis usually attacks the
but can also affect other parts of the
body. It is spread through the air, when people who have the
disease cough, sneeze, or spit. Most infections in humans result in
, latent infection, and
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In order for robots to navigate the world, they will need to be able to make reasonable assumptions about their surroundings and what could happen during a sequence of events. One way that humans learn these things is through sound. For infants, some studies suggest that poking and prodding objects is actually how they... | <urn:uuid:592d7ab7-102d-4b31-bb99-3060788f40aa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.impactlab.net/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963298 | 594 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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passage 6 in the eighteenth century, japan's feudal [#permalink]
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The Second Battle of Ypres, 1915
The Second Battle of Ypres, as it is known in British military history, encompassed four battles in the northern sector of the Ypres Salient. The first of these began on 22nd April 1915 as a surprise attack by the German 4th Army on the French sector of the Allied Front Line.
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It was an act of Jerusalem serendipity that restored the city’s Montefiore windmill this summer. Built in 1855 by Moses Montefiore, the English banker and philanthropist who financed the establishment of Yemin Moshe — the first Jewish neighborhood built outside the walls of the Old City — the cupola-capped, English mil... | <urn:uuid:70becba0-7bb5-44eb-98fe-983c28b5f5b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://expeditions.daattravel.com/activities/montefiores-mill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975076 | 948 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Transient absorption spectroscopy
using two pulses (strong pump and weak probe)
and capable of achieving a high temporal resolution. A pump
the sample and triggers the process under investigation. A second delayed pulse,
monitors an optical property. By varying the time
delay between the pump and probe pulses, it is po... | <urn:uuid:33ed4aad-bd9c-4df7-b9fc-e44bf3b0a8e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://goldbook.iupac.org/P04952.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.826194 | 394 | 2.640625 | 3 |
A landmark on 75 Mile Beach in Fraser Island is the shipwreck of the S.S. Maheno.
Maheno was originally built in 1905 as a luxury passenger ship for trans-Tasman crossings. During the First World War the ship served as a hospital ship in the Mediterranean, Gallipoli and the English Channel, before returning to a luxury... | <urn:uuid:d8c76eb6-de16-43bb-ba70-cd6666b2ade3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redbubble.com/people/bluegumbill/works/5252873-beached-shipwreck?c=86199-transport&ref=work_carousel_work_collection_4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982176 | 173 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Image courtesy the Library of Congress.
The Double Corliss Engine was the big hit of America's Centennial Exposition, held in Philadelphia in 1876. It powered all the exhibits in Machinery Hall, where it stood on a platform 56 feet across. Its two cylinders spun a flywheel 30 feet in diameter and weighing 56 tons to pr... | <urn:uuid:b3e4ce60-6e89-4ccb-b9ca-c6ed5059bee3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/yankee/cymach1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927664 | 95 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Though an in-demand skill, most schools fall short when it comes to computer science
Would it surprise you to know that most schools don’t teach computer science — not even the basics? It should, especially given that there will be about 1 million more U.S. jobs in the tech sector in the next decade than computer scien... | <urn:uuid:9b768899-212e-49aa-9b17-805082792e70> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/04/08/schools-computer-science-295/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940365 | 798 | 3.15625 | 3 |
What eats crows?
What do crows eat?
The main predators, or natural enemies, of crows and ravens are hawks and owls. Hawks attack, kill and eat them during the day, and owls come after them at night when they are on their roosts.
But crows also attack hawks and owls—though not to eat them. Crows seem to hate their natur... | <urn:uuid:7e8846cb-fc60-4b51-988f-514bbd3c1767> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.whateats.com/what-eats-a-crow | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984944 | 180 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Earth Day is fast approaching and I love being able to share with my students ways in which they can help protect our planet. I thought I would share with you the activity we have been working with this week! This is a very simple activity/lesson to prepare for...especially if you are already a "recycler" like me! :)
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The European Environment Agency has finalised an agreement with an ESA-led consortium to provide unparalleled information on air pollution, which contributes to the premature deaths of hundreds of thousands of Europeans annually.
Under the agreement, the European Environment Agency (EEA) will use a service, which combi... | <urn:uuid:132fbb6f-c776-40d2-9036-2cc473a3b8fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Satellite-data-to-deliver-state-of-the-art-air-quality-information-11032-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910328 | 549 | 3.046875 | 3 |
What is the Role of and Cautions Concerning Illustrations and Applications in Expository Sermons?
I may do a little Q & A series on preaching. We will see how it goes. I thought it would be helpful since myself and another fellow brother at my church are discipling a few men on preaching. The first topic will be on ill... | <urn:uuid:4fb82c5a-6c25-44ab-92b0-e57f088028b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/category/preaching/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00168-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9569 | 1,084 | 2.75 | 3 |
Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings, both essential to our project of making the writings of Walter Benjamin available in English, have adapted a short introduction to Benjamin’s life and works from Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life. Read it now »
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LAMPS PLUS Blog Policies
Do dimmers really save on energy use?
Key to answering this question is understanding how dimmers really work.
Many consumers, and even a few electricians, think that dimmers work by converting unused electricity to heat at the dimmer switch.
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Before we get into any discussions on the techniques and equipment used in BASE jumping, we need to make something very clear: BASE jumping is extremely dangerous. There is no margin for error. A slight mistake, or a little bad luck, and death is the result. BASE jumpers generally have about 100 regular skydiving jumps... | <urn:uuid:c570f737-1a13-4df7-85c9-77efe65cb237> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/outdoor-activities/urban-sports/base-jumping1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950337 | 620 | 2.984375 | 3 |
In Brazil, when talking about Indigenous Lands ("Terras Indígenas" or TIs), one has to bear in mind, in the first place, the definition of it and a few juridical concepts established by the 1988 Federal Constitution, and also in specific legislation, especially in the Estatuto do Índio - Statute of the Indian - (Law 6,... | <urn:uuid:e0b96bb8-a982-447d-92f0-c4ac4a43e27f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pib.socioambiental.org/en/c/terras-indigenas/introducao/o-que-sao-terras-indigenas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958509 | 476 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Posted 06 January 2012
By Alexander Gaffney
The US Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) wants to regulate face, hand, and other body part transplants much like it does for other organ transplants, according to the Washington Post.
HRSA's proposal would also institute:
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Definitions of eyestone
n. - A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinidae, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye. It is put into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with it the subs... | <urn:uuid:9fdda860-32c4-4536-a3c5-1ebd832f616c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.morewords.com/word/eyestone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896136 | 182 | 2.875 | 3 |
Earthquake epicenters off the West Coast of the United States and Mexico as
observed through early 1927.
Image ID: cgs02172, NOAA's Historic Coast & Geodetic Survey (C&GS) Collection
Photo Date: 1927
Credit: Collected Papers of Captain Nicholas Heck, NOAA Central Library
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The public establishment of the Château, Museum and national estate of Versailles and Wikimédia France, association for the free sharing of knowledge, have today signed a partnership to allow a wider dissemination of the historical, architectural and artistic riches of the Château and estate of Versailles.
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The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, it's used to indicate time. There are different types - they can be classified by the type of time display: analog, digital, auditory. Analog clocks usually indicate time using angles, a circular scale of 12 hours, which can also serve as a scale of 60 minutes, and 60 se... | <urn:uuid:951277dc-2421-4b11-b79a-2440541cc344> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.coolwidgetsgadgets.com/flash-clock-widgets.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920474 | 179 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Can tigers and tourists coexist? The debate is rumbling through India, where the Supreme Court has temporarily banned tourism in core areas of the country's 41 tiger reserves. The unexpected and controversial ruling is aimed at protecting the last of India's 1,700 tigers.
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March 26, 2010
From the Stairway to Heaven to the Gates of Hell: Part 1
(This is the first of several installments describing the “Around the World in 127 Acres” tour series given by Arboretum Botanical Information Consultant Frank McDonough. Please check back as we will publish more tours in this series on the Arboret... | <urn:uuid:2b029f07-b03a-4ac8-af84-575fcf3f19d8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.arboretum.org/from-the-stairway-to-heaven-to-the-gates-of-hellnbsp-part-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00006-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918212 | 1,928 | 2.796875 | 3 |
The largest of Kenya s tribes, the Kikuyu tribe live in area around Mount Kenya where, at the dawn the colonial era, they came into violent conflict with the European settlers, to whom large tracts of Kikuyu homeland had been apportioned by the colonial government
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Session 24 - Star Formation in the Galaxy & the LMC.
Display session, Tuesday, June 10
South Main Hall,
The Milky Way Magnetic Field Mapping Mission, or M4, is a Small Explorer concept being proposed to NASA this summer. Its mission will be to map the magnetic field of the disk of the Mi... | <urn:uuid:d9f28501-4525-4405-9920-7a55fb255e9b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v29n2/aas190/abs/S024002.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898614 | 302 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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The adjective involved is usually used after a linking verb such as be or get.
If you are involved in an activity, you take part in it.
The people involved in something are the people affected by it or taking part in it.
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“Research on the Arctic is important for both Norway and India. Indian researchers have been working in Svalbard for a number of years, and India’s interest in the Arctic is likely to increase further now that it has gained observer status is the Arctic Council,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide.
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Here are the prices for 1st and 2nd class mail within the UK. You have an unlimited number of each of these stamps. Which stamps would you need to post a parcel weighing 825g?
The Scot, John Napier, invented these strips about 400 years ago to
help calculate multiplication and division. Can you work out how to
use Napi... | <urn:uuid:0ff8440c-2f4c-45b4-82cf-f14e280ba6cc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nrich.maths.org/thismonth/2and3/2002/09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899483 | 401 | 3.5 | 4 |
For those who speak a very widespread language, such as English, it is taken for granted that there are many different dialects, accents and pronunciations. It is obvious, for example, that someone living in New York will sound different from someone in London. Nonetheless, the Hebrew language is only spoken by a few m... | <urn:uuid:84c3607f-d4fd-464f-9d3a-7098f0a5df09> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hebrewtoday.com/content/hebrew-pronunciation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964865 | 461 | 3.859375 | 4 |
Definition of colour
n. - See Color.
The word "colour" uses 6 letters: C L O O R U.
No direct anagrams for colour found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after colour (in bold), or to clooru in any order:
i - couloir s - colours
Shorter words found within colour:
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Soon Monarch butterflies will be moving through Texas, commencing their multi-generation migration after roosting and resting for the winter in the mountains of Michoacan, Mexico. Texas is generally the first “rest-stop” on the journey north. Since milkweed is the Monarch butterfly host plant and the only place females... | <urn:uuid:3807488b-487d-4f71-89ee-679226ab3a89> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.mysanantonio.com/monikamaeckle/2011/02/monarch-butterflies-got-milkweed-boerne-npsot-program-to-address-milkweed-shortage-caused-by-brutal-winter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929294 | 693 | 2.625 | 3 |
Summer Memories Book Covers Activity
You have wonderful memories of your summer: the sensation of a soothingly cool dip in the pool on a hot day, the sweet taste of cotton candy at the county fair, the sight of fireworks on the Fourth of July, the smell of a bonfire complete with roasting hot dogs, marshmallows and the... | <urn:uuid:df36898c-ab2a-473b-851f-71ccf9400067> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.education.com/activity/article/Sense_ational_Book_Covers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915552 | 542 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Finding Number of Trailing Zeros in Factorials
Date: 01/27/2005 at 13:16:05 From: Martin Subject: counting trailing zeros of factorials in any base system I noticed a way to compute the number of trailing zeros of a factorial in base 10 or 6 at your site. But that method doesn't work for me in base 4, 8, 16, etc. I thi... | <urn:uuid:9bc95f39-ccff-470e-9bde-a72c53d4113e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/66749.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00169-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90085 | 838 | 2.96875 | 3 |
“The CNN 10,” a compilation of new inventions in technology and related fields with game-changing potential, has been announced by the cable news network. Some of the innovations are in the prototype stage, while others are now available on the market. Two of the 10 inventions originated at USC.
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Children Use Android as Young as 5, Study Shows
Parents buy smartphones for their toddlers when they are as young as 5 years old, boosting the risk that malware infections and SMS fraud will increasingly target users who are still only learning to read, according to a study by Bitdefender.
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A 30-mile watery ribbon that flows below Hoover Dam in Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada has been designated a "national water trail," the first in the Southwest.
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The Amount of Lye Required to Make Soap
Can you make soap without lye?
No, you can't.
Speaking simply, soapmaking is a chemical process. Lye converts fat to soap. Properly made
soap no longer contains lye. It's just soap, glycerin, a bit of excess fat, fragrance and
any additive you put into the soap mixture.
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So today, we will discuss MATERNAL DNA. In order to understands what this all means, we need to have a little science lesson, otherwise it won't be clear what we have learned and from what family is concerned. I will cover this in several blog posts as it is long (and maybe a little boring). This is from the 23 and Me ... | <urn:uuid:a4edbbf0-5567-4407-8fb9-3597e2ff0151> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://lifeofrileyancestry.blogspot.com/2011/01/dna-and-our-ancestors-part-i.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00149-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963448 | 345 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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Understanding Conflict and War Vol. 1: The Dynamic Psychological Field, by R.J. Rummel
Violence and any attempt to deal with it should be considered a field phenomenon. It is an aspect of the Gestalt comprising our biopsychological nature, our sociocultural existence, and our enviro... | <urn:uuid:c5a68c61-55ce-4f10-865b-970d84086f49> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-does-research-war-violence-suggest-about-how-425995 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943894 | 547 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Biologists working in Antarctica's dry valleys have been moving mummified seal corpses around, in an effort to try and better our understanding of the microbes that live there.
The extreme aridity of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, where katabatic winds mean that almost all moisture evaporates immediately, allows for the natu... | <urn:uuid:7200bab6-fcac-4550-95fc-c81aede7a8a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.microbeworld.org/component/jlibrary/?view=article&id=8302 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956087 | 242 | 4.09375 | 4 |
- Year Published: 1922
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: India
- Source: Babbitt, E.C. (Ed.). (1922). More Jataka Tales. New York, NY: D. Appleton-Century Company.
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 6.1
- Word Count: 287
Babbitt, E. (1922). “The Three Fishes”. More Jataka Tales (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved June 24, 2016, fr... | <urn:uuid:95d10255-3def-4a3d-81dc-22fe605426d0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/73/more-jataka-tales/4978/the-three-fishes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958819 | 562 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Friday, July 08, 2011
Matthew and I went to the Holocaust Museum at the Smithsonian, mainly because we'd been to the other museums before. We ended up spending quite a bit of time there on the tour. I most enjoyed the stories of the heroic individuals who risked their lives to save others, such as the White Rose group.... | <urn:uuid:fc84a794-0341-4309-bcab-b106ce59a99d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://natetanner.blogspot.com/2011/07/holocaust-museum.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98997 | 295 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Pulmonary fibrosis means scarring (thickening) of the tissue of the lung.
Scarring is part of the body's repair process and can help to heal injured areas. However, scar tissue that forms in the lungs can stop them working properly, making them less efficient at transporting oxygen into the blood and removing carbon di... | <urn:uuid:b1d1b54e-f829-49f2-a4bd-3d16ff206b14> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hse.ie/eng/health/az/P/Pulmonary-fibrosis-idiopathic-/Causes-of-idiopathic-pulmonary-fibrosis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945122 | 2,879 | 3.609375 | 4 |
The Oxford English Dictionary says that moon was not originally referring to month in honeymoon. They write that the word means:
The first month after marriage, when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure’ (Johnson); originally having no reference to the period of a month, but comparing the mutual affection of ne... | <urn:uuid:b36677f5-cd08-412e-996c-481e40d7f0f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19303/why-do-we-say-honeymoon-instead-of-honeymonth/19305 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962655 | 400 | 2.9375 | 3 |
You can decipher the meaning of totalitarian by the first part: "total." It refers to a government with total power, one that exercises complete, even oppressive control over the people and their activities. (You can also figure it’s not nice.)
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Marcellus Shale fracking wells use 5 million gallons of water apiece
Forget about residents. Forget about fish. The streams and rivers of Pennsylvania and West Virginia are being heavily tapped to quench the growing thirst of the fracking industry.
According to a new report, each of the thousands of fracking wells dril... | <urn:uuid:578bc510-7c5b-4140-86ab-775bde7c9172> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://grist.org/news/marcellus-shale-fracking-wells-use-5-million-gallons-of-water-apiece/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942727 | 592 | 3.09375 | 3 |
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