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Uses of Streamflow Information
Streamflow information provided by the U.S. Geological Survey is used in many ways and often the information from any give streamgage is used for not just one of the following but for many of the following purposes:
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Fri Dec 7, 2012, 02:56 AM
octoberlib (6,021 posts)
World’s oldest trees dying due to climate change: study
Scientists Friday warned of an alarming increase in the death rates of the largest living organisms on the planet, the giant, old trees that harbour and sustain countless birds and wildlife.
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versión On-line ISSN 2071-0771
MAROYI, Alfred. The casual, naturalised and invasive alien flora of Zimbabwe based on herbarium and literature records. Koedoe [online]. 2012, vol.54, n.1, pp. 30-36. ISSN 2071-0771.
Zimbabwe's casual, naturalised and invasive alien plant species were analysed with regard to their habit, ... | <urn:uuid:54b1440b-c9ac-4fbc-80e8-7b8d497277ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0075-64582012000100011&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913885 | 437 | 2.65625 | 3 |
As the world of Islam plunges deeper into sectarian conflict, the identity of a corpse stolen by terrorists in Syria is creating a new theme for schismatic clashes between Sunnis and Shiites.
The corpse is supposedly that of Hajar bin Udai, a companion of Prophet Muhammad regarded as the first Shiite martyr. Before the... | <urn:uuid:692e39c2-5ee4-413f-8fc1-0b8c61f3088e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nypost.com/2013/05/11/attack-of-the-body-snatchers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956532 | 852 | 2.6875 | 3 |
BS in Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department
As our nation strives towards a departure from widespread use of fossil fuels, we must focus on a plan for what is to be the substitute for Internal Combustion Engine vehicles as well as the infrastructure to support this. The most popular alternative to th... | <urn:uuid:ecddfffc-9987-4469-addf-057560d72166> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/eesp/136/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927272 | 404 | 3.109375 | 3 |
What is in this article?:
Food for thought
- The United States is losing soil 10 times faster -- and China and India are losing soil 30 to 40 times faster -- than the natural replenishment rate.
- As a result of erosion over the past 40 years, 30% of the world's arable land has become unproductive.
- Farmland is shrink... | <urn:uuid:94a6a415-e6fd-4ace-81b9-01b3a0ab2123> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/conservation/rethink-soil-value-why-not-reflect-true-cost-soil-erosion-economic-value-land?page=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943962 | 89 | 2.8125 | 3 |
If you're a High School Science teacher, you'll want to review the amazing resources found on Harvard University's Life Science Outreach Program website. The site contains actual teacher-created resources covering Physiology, Microbiology, Regenerative Biology, Evolution, Neurobiology, Immunology, and the Biology of Ca... | <urn:uuid:67148c8e-4724-4fb1-b3d7-0d31b216a448> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/2010/05/smartboard-and-teachercreated-high-school-biology-resources.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945914 | 250 | 2.9375 | 3 |
The budget compromise passed by Congress and signed by the president as part of the fiscal-cliff negotiations is one of the most contractionary fiscal actions taken by the federal government in decades.
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Kraft Foods, the second largest food producer in the world, recently announced the results of a survey measuring its climate impacts, land and water use. The study was intended to provide a more thorough picture of the company’s complete environmental footprint, going beyond direct use and emissions to look at the enti... | <urn:uuid:37f1f4ae-e352-4218-9c1b-22e19c289aab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/12/kraft-supply-chain-sustainability/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944383 | 738 | 3.375 | 3 |
New Gel May Prevent HIV Infection in Women
A study financed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has found that a virus-stopping gel applied to the vaginas of monkeys appears to stop transmission of SIV, the monkey version of the AIDS virus. Researchers hope the gel will be effective in humans, ... | <urn:uuid:9983a645-3336-46d5-95f4-046031d8fad5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=3897 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934915 | 187 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Topic IndexLibrary Index
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What is dermatomyositis?
Dermatomyositis is a rare disease that causes muscle inflammation and s... | <urn:uuid:f9f67048-f9ae-486d-8718-a9c93a1242f7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/DiseasesConditions/Pediatric/134,119 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924794 | 1,517 | 2.859375 | 3 |
(from left) Arthur Lerner-Lam, G. Michael Purdy and Dimitris Gemellos, Director of Press & Information Office, Greek Mission to the United Nations
Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, together with Greek, Turkish and Italian research collaborators, is organizing a major scientific investigation in the Northern ... | <urn:uuid:c3975592-4877-4b81-9e11-4c41195cdea2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/07/Piraeus_earthquake.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925761 | 989 | 3.046875 | 3 |
1882- At 9 a.m during a thick snowstorm, the schooner A .F. Ames of Rockland, Maine, was bound from Perth Amboy to Boston with a crew of seven persons. She stranded during a thick snowstorm five hundred yards east of Race Point and one mile and three-quarters west of Station No. 6, Second District. The vessel was disco... | <urn:uuid:70164d9f-e116-4161-8467-c76093a73795> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.marinelink.com/news/article/this-day-in-coast-guard-history-jan-11/332980.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987338 | 436 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Criteria for informed Consent and Assent
The following information must be communicated in writing to all research subjects or respondents before they agree to participate in a project that qualifies for IRB Clearance. The information must be incorporated into a cover letter or information sheet to be distributed with ... | <urn:uuid:c20a6df0-619d-442c-8153-cf30db614987> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.deltastate.edu/academics/faculty-development-research/faculty-research/institutional-review-board/appendix-a/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910076 | 445 | 2.75 | 3 |
OUR HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
The forests currently owned by Shasta Forests Timberlands, LLC were part of the lands acquired by Thomas Barlow Walker and John E. Andrus, owners of the Red River Lumber Company beginning in 1894. The company eventually acquired over 900,000 acres of timberland in northeastern California. The... | <urn:uuid:67654177-622d-43d5-914e-67a2fbee1fe3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://shastaforests.com/history_philosophy.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964213 | 1,076 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Freemasons and the Scottish Rite System
The Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite is an appendant body of Freemasonry and is considered entirely optional for Masons to join. The Scottish Rite is technically a concordant body because some of its degrees continue the story of the building of Solomon’s Temple that's started in t... | <urn:uuid:4a8b092e-689d-4168-9151-3c64b03f0c5f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/freemasons-and-the-scottish-rite-system.navId-323316.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954481 | 732 | 2.71875 | 3 |
New technologies and business
The human presence in space is a key factor in enabling new technologies to be tested in microgravity. The International Space Station will become an advanced test-bed for technology development, and future human space exploration will drive technological research and development in many f... | <urn:uuid:6e49fd6c-d07d-419e-822f-c436bc94b3c3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/European_ISS_Business_Club/New_technologies_and_business | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899083 | 247 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Exhibition about the languages that have been used by Jews throughout their history
from March 22nd to September 30th 2013
Call de Girona
The exhibition starts with the oldest times of the people of Israel, presenting the Hebrew as the language of the Bible and ends in the present time, where Hebrew is the official lan... | <urn:uuid:622f1fd6-79d1-4037-9d05-43affddb796d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.girona.cat/call/eng/agenda_fitxa.php?idReg=2959 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948392 | 298 | 3.28125 | 3 |
AIDS and rural
• Access to information
and health services is poorer in rural areas than in cities. Rural people
are less likely to know how to protect themselves against HIV. If they
fall ill, they are also less likely to receive adequate care.
• Rural communities
bear especially heavy burdens, as many HIV-infected ur... | <urn:uuid:472f1d3c-9789-4354-b5a0-c1918f9b023c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.un.org/ga/aids/ungassfactsheets/html/fsfood_en.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942245 | 981 | 3.5 | 4 |
Why Does Lead Flashing Need Repairing?
The main reason for repairing lead flahing, splits and cracks in lead and failure in lead flashing is because of its high coefficient of linear expansion. What on earth does that mean I hear you cry ! Simple. Lead expands a huge amount in the heat, shrinks a lot in the cold, and w... | <urn:uuid:68d89cf7-c548-481a-a236-52062bd4ddab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/repairingleadflashing.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966275 | 1,091 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site ~ http://www.nps.gov/mava
The promise of the American Revolution, the turmoil of antebellum politics and the tragedy of the Civil War frame Martin Van Burenís life. Van Buren was born in Kinderhook in 1782, the last year of the American Revolution. He lived until July 1862, sixte... | <urn:uuid:082b21c7-446d-46a5-af32-bf18056caf0e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pbase.com/ambadale/image/71291610&gcmd=add_comment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974657 | 273 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Breaking it down:
The white wires all joined together are the "neutrals". In an AC circuit, the neutral is the "undriven" side of a circuit, which does not have a voltage potential when the circuit is disconnected. You can kind of think of it as the "return path" for current, but as the current changes directions 60 ti... | <urn:uuid:84b91cdc-e006-486a-8c00-9ceb5e91f062> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/10600/how-do-i-upgrade-a-conventional-switch-to-a-dimmer/10612 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934499 | 1,537 | 2.9375 | 3 |
A Cladonia thallus develops initially as a squamulose growth form (referred to as the primary thallus) and the primary thalli later produce upright stems, the podetia, as fruticose secondary thalli. The podetia may be simple stalks with apical apothecia or they may be much branched, depending on species and, again depe... | <urn:uuid:ee544aae-f88c-42bb-a442-04bf7a8ede94> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://anbg.gov.au/lichen/case-studies/cladonia-furcata.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964631 | 965 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Jesus in the First Three Gospels by Millar Burrows
Millar Burrows was for many years Professor of Biblical Theology at Yale University Divinity School. He received his M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, New York, and a PhD. in biblical languages, literature and history from Yale University. He is widely known as t... | <urn:uuid:49b637e5-17b4-44ac-87ae-dc14b5e03d04> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=1622&C=1550 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974766 | 7,488 | 3.140625 | 3 |
1. Did the Russek family achieve the American dream? How?
2. How were Diane and Howard inclined toward art? Who encouraged this?
3. From her schooling at the Ethical Culture School, what were the philosophies that Diane was raised on?
This section contains 3,132 words
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Cuimnidh ar Luimneach agus ar Feall na Sasanach!
HISTORY OF The
Honourable Society of the Irish Brigade
Na Géanna Fiáine (The Wild Geese)
The Celtic Race have a history of serving as mercenaries, of fighting others wars. With King Darius they invaded Greece, they served the Pharaohs, and carved their names on tombs in ... | <urn:uuid:0aa05bf3-feb7-453e-9443-a1f04e17ad75> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://home.earthlink.net/~rggsibiba/html/sib/sib2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980457 | 5,336 | 3.265625 | 3 |
On Saturday, lab technician Gordon Holmes, 55, from Shipley, Yorkshire claims to have taken video of the mythological sea creature, the Loch Ness Monster. He says it moved about 6 miles per hour and kept a fairly straight course as he filmed. While most proof of the legendary monster is usually rebuked by skeptics, Hol... | <urn:uuid:cdbdc292-e979-491c-8c28-9660ca1f8c95> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bloggernews.net/17353 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00042-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958525 | 669 | 3 | 3 |
Cubans lead May Day resurgence
From South News, May Day 1998
Havana: A million people took part in the main parade at Havana's Revolution Square. Cuban President Fidel Castro watched from a reviewing stand as workers paraded through the square sacred to revolutionaries.
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Doctors use β-blocker drugs to treat many conditions, including high blood pressure, chest pain (angina), heart attacks, and migraine headaches. There are several types of β-blockers. Cardioselective β-blockers (β-1–blockers) act mainly on the heart. They slow heart rate, decrease blood pressure, and reduce the heart's... | <urn:uuid:2b0c1476-e22f-4f44-b486-a2287a6ce936> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=715790 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904018 | 109 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Houston Needs a Mountain by Lysle Oliveros, recipient of a Rice Design Alliance Initiatives for Houston Grant
This project was Lysle Oliveros’s 2009 Masters Thesis project. The concept originated as a point of humor during a dinner party. “I asked my neighbor if he recently mulched the yard (due to a pungent odor), and... | <urn:uuid:8ea01d2c-1e9f-4a8b-b699-e79a1f7d8d96> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.chron.com/offcite/2009/10/houston-needs-a-mountain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947941 | 760 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Downscaling Planetary Boundaries: One Nation’s Attempt
|The term “planetary boundaries” has been thrown about a lot these past few years, since its debut in Nature in 2009. But what exactly are planetary boundaries?||Tweet|
|Resilience and Its Roots|
|More Businesses Pursue Triple Bottom Line for a Sustainable Economy|... | <urn:uuid:94c691aa-07ac-41ef-be3e-25ed727f7ffc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://worldwatch.org/node/13186 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95292 | 900 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Early bloomers have always been around. However, there is a noticeable trend of girls as young as 7-years-old who are already hitting puberty.
When teens need to be careful about getting enough vitamins and minerals to stay healthy during puberty, they often start skipping meals and eating junk food.
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Many people claim Greek ancestry as part of their family tree, since the Greeks are one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Throughout Greece's history, various groups have occupied the country. The Bronze Age saw the success of the Mycenean and Minoan civilizations in Greece until around 1000 B.C. Later, Athens ... | <urn:uuid:a2bf0ffc-e323-4f02-8207-c61b9184b1fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.archives.com/genealogy/family-heritage-greek.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970627 | 985 | 3.546875 | 4 |
World Teachers' Day 2012: Take a stand for teachers!
“Take a stand for teachers!” is the slogan of World Teachers’ Day 2012 (5 October) which UNESCO is celebrating along with its partners, the International Labour Organization, UNDP, UNICEF and Education International (EI).
Taking a stand for the teaching profession me... | <urn:uuid:3645e634-48da-4c40-a301-b377256aed48> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/international-days/world-teachersday | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947765 | 373 | 2.671875 | 3 |
“In vain do I try to soar in fancy and imagination above the dull reality around me but beyond the roof of the factory I cannot rise.”
-- Anonymous Lowell Mill worker, 1826
What had the potential to become a relatively agreeable system for all involved was predictably exploited for mill owners' gain. The young workers ... | <urn:uuid:7821e585-43cf-4d6d-a1be-35e1dd6b9a54> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/MickeyZ0905.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968166 | 444 | 3.375 | 3 |
Not all accounting reports are equal, evidenced by different accounting methods used within the United States. Accounting for a business represents a recording of the financial transactions of a business. The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, is the required method of accounting for public companies. T... | <urn:uuid:a15a55c7-c7ed-499c-a130-fb7c01c75f04> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://smallbusiness.chron.com/differences-gaap-tax-accounting-4067.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00149-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934377 | 626 | 3.515625 | 4 |
GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION about chalk from Lägerdorf
Schleswig Holstein is a young land which was formed by the period and the post-glacial periods. Together with a large part of Northern Germany and almost the whole of Denmark it would have been sea bed, if the periods of Cenozoic had not considerably increased its struc... | <urn:uuid:51022a7d-a12d-4261-9a9b-1da744856e4f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dammann.de/en/Company/History/L%C3%A4gerdorf-chalk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952841 | 1,000 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Personal hygiene also referred to as personal care is one of the most important aspect in maintaining good health. It usually includes but not limited to bathing, showering, skin care, hair care, nail care, foot care, genital care and dental care. Generally, personal care is keeping the body clean to prevent the spread... | <urn:uuid:ea53a852-b499-4378-9cb2-cb677cd85b87> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://discreetmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/08/guide-and-resources-on-mens-personal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971265 | 128 | 2.515625 | 3 |
From: The National Geographic Magazine, vol.40, no.2, p.202, [August 1921]
Photograph by George Shiras, 3rd
THE BANKS ON THE LEFT, COVERED WITH
SECOND-GROWTH TREES, IS AN ANCIENT
BEAVER DAM 1,500 FEET LONG, PROBABLY 400 YEARS OLD, AND
FORMING THE LAKE ORIGINALLY.
The picture [above] shows the western end of
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In the United States, electrification of households began around 1905. By 1930, 70 percent of all U.S. homes located in cities had electricity. The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 provided for the distribution of power to rural farms and homes, and by 1940, nearly 35 percent of rural America was equipped with electri... | <urn:uuid:b9e111f3-7256-4d98-b678-baff8b22b2e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.norwall.com/blog/news-and-updates/generators-necessary-household-appliance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958385 | 838 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Fifty years ago today, a small satellite -- the world's first built and launched by humans -- rocketed into orbit, beaming down a series of beeps that heralded the coming Space Age to anyone listening on Earth.
“It is the kind of the kind of thing that does not belong to just one country,” said veteran cosmonaut Yuri M... | <urn:uuid:86142bbf-ba01-4dfe-a078-92f79a4d0b36> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.space.com/4427-50-years-spaceflight-astronauts-ponder-state-exploration.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944745 | 824 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Dinosaur and prehistoric animal themed arts, learning dinosaur board games, dinosaur crafts for kids, and science kits, including replica fossils and fossil excavation kits. A range of educational and fun dinosaur themed crafts, dino board games, dino puzzles and science kits all tested and approved by the qualified te... | <urn:uuid:6c6a165a-1f9d-4317-b139-7bc0921910f4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.everythingdinosaur.com/learning.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899206 | 396 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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The Arctic Woodland Ringlet is often found on damp grasslands, but it also occurs on dry grasslands and in waste places, often where there is shelter from birches, or juniper bushes. Unlike the other ringlets in Lapland, the Arctic Ringlet (Erebia disa) and the Lapland Ringlet (Erebia embla... | <urn:uuid:bd462ad7-a92b-4499-a8ae-3755e86f927a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eol.org/pages/137313/overview | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.844161 | 160 | 3.15625 | 3 |
This story is part of The Post-Standard's 2005 observance of Black History Month. The series, "Stops on the Road to Freedom," tells a story a day about sites and people in Central New York that played a significant role in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. This is the final installment. It was com... | <urn:uuid:a8dc03c2-f08c-4264-b5df-173cd6901640> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2005/02/gerrit_smith_estate.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985258 | 1,035 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Watching artists work, whether spray painting walls or making sketches on paper, many people wonder about talent: Where does it come from? Researchers of a new study published in NeuroImage discovered fine artists have structurally different brains compared to non-artists, suggesting they may simply be born with the gi... | <urn:uuid:a4e2fa7f-6bfa-4ed4-a41b-a64dd8ba2bfa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medicaldaily.com/are-artists-born-way-or-do-they-become-different-choice-brain-scans-reveal-truth-277324 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952223 | 596 | 3.65625 | 4 |
For the last 31 years, Point Reyes National Seashore’s southern tip has provided a safe haven for a burgeoning northern elephant seal population. Early this year, observers with the National Park Service counted over 1,600 of the large pinnipeds, including roughly 800 pups.
Despite those healthy numbers, seashore scien... | <urn:uuid:79537d75-3a70-4b43-8815-02375068818a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ptreyeslight.com/article/seals-thriving-face-change | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945157 | 1,054 | 3.375 | 3 |
Keystone XL pipeline: Why is it so disputed?
- 6 November 2015
- From the section US & Canada
US President Barack Obama has announced he is rejecting an application to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Why is the issue so hotly disputed.
What is the Keystone XL?
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ICRISAT Examines Climate Adaptation for Agriculture in Asia
18 March 2014: A paper by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), a member of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), reports key findings on the adoption of climate change adaptation pract... | <urn:uuid:fa9adfb0-e09d-450b-be7f-e4ee62293169> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/icrisat-examines-climate-adaptation-for-agriculture-in-asia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00023-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.853093 | 298 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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Significance and Use
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The early medieval castle site was fortified with a moat and a rampart
of clay and stones. The first walled building was the Church of Our Lady.
Other churches, dedicated to St. George and St. Vitus, were founded in
the first half of the 10th century.
From the 10th century Prague Castle was not only the seat of the hea... | <urn:uuid:d9b72c6a-93d1-41d9-b23c-cdb99935542e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bestcitiestravel.com/prague/itineraries.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950489 | 3,484 | 3.171875 | 3 |
When talking about wireless, the four primary networking protocols are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee and cellular. It's important to remember that each of these was originally created to meet the needs of varying applications.
Wi-Fi was created to replace the Ethernet cable, so that high data throughput was a priority at th... | <urn:uuid:d9f4d3d8-a25d-45a0-b6d0-b1bb0e1ec84c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1279887&page_number=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946917 | 527 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Let’s ponder the really big picture for a moment.
Writing at aeon, Ross Anderson has a fascinating piece that attempts to peer into the distant future of humanity and touches on many issues, including threats to our existence and our long-term survival.
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Using a similar analytical approach to a study in China, this paper analyzes the impact of agricultural research on urban poverty reduction in India. State level data from 1970 to 1995 were used in the empirical analysis. It is found that in addition to its large impact on rural poverty reduction, agricultural research... | <urn:uuid:0148ee7d-e19b-41de-a97f-940cf0849301> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ifpri.org/publication/agricultural-research-and-urban-poverty-india | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962355 | 222 | 3.203125 | 3 |
When Mother Nature strikes, she shows no mercy regardless how high-tech new equipment can be. While disaster preparedness is taught to many, natural disasters like tornadoes can wreck havoc on whatever comes along their path and fatalities often occur. The United States alone experiences several tornadoes in a year. Ju... | <urn:uuid:73193d2e-6070-479c-bced-02d8f3e5bead> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.therichest.com/expensive-lifestyle/location/top-10-deadliest-tornadoes-in-world-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96656 | 1,286 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there lived a princess who did her part in adding a bit of culture to the Polish court. Princess Bona Maria Sforza was born in Vigevano near Milan in 1494 to her proud parents; Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan and Isabella of Naples – and if she needed to further cement her rank in socie... | <urn:uuid:38ce9baa-dab2-4417-a186-8a4c9e0c73f9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oysterfoodandculture.com/2009/05/princess-bona-maria-sforza/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953928 | 1,558 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Foods that fight cancer
By Maria Cendejas
Many foods help fight cancer and boost immunity, according to Natural News.
Cruciferous vegetables including broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower and kale are the most powerful cancer fighting foods. They are high in fiber, vitamins and minerals, and also they have ... | <urn:uuid:b062436a-107d-45f3-9c9a-eef1c5ef36c1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Nutrition/Food/foods_that_fight_cancer_0523120610.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877391 | 537 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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About This Project
- A census is a count and description of the population. Censuses have been taken by the colonial, provincial, and national governments of Canada for a variety of reasons, including taxation and levying for militia service. Census records can provide informatio... | <urn:uuid:9f434d5b-87b9-4476-8462-339a06a8008e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://indexing.familysearch.org/projects/Canada_Quebec1911_Census/ProjectHelp1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893046 | 331 | 3.40625 | 3 |
A keylogger, sometimes called a keystroke logger, key logger, or system monitor, is a hardware device or small program that monitors each keystroke a user types on a specific computer's keyboard. As a hardware device, a keylogger is a small battery-sized plug that serves as a connector between the user's keyboard and c... | <urn:uuid:30ab5543-7e06-4a33-9b64-3a3cb627fc08> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://searchmidmarketsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/keylogger | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936249 | 464 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Food for bone density. There are some foods that are helpful for you if you have Osteopenia or Osteoporosis. One of these is the common onion. Onions? Yes, onions.
Onions. Several studies since 2005 that show Onions slow the resorption of bone. (That is the break down and removal of bone by our Osteoclasts.)
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Along North Platte's North River road, water is running in the ditches. It sounds a lot like a bathtub overflowing. From time to time, trucks navigate through the water that crosses the road near Dolores Stellman's house. Stellman, who's 89, has lived in this area most of her life.
Photo by Fred Knapp
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Using a conventional diagnostic ultrasound device and a position sensing device the possibility of creating threedimensional ultrasound images has been established. The 2-D ultrasound images of a Simens Sonoline SI400 are fit together with a Silicon Graphics Graphik Workstation to build a 3-D volume dataset. The positi... | <urn:uuid:917bfdc1-9259-4e5d-816c-2a489f9a4948> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://iregt1.iai.fzk.de/MRICTUS/html/usound3D.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897646 | 246 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Best known for its fingerprint and facial recognition software, NEC’s new invention could revolutionize the global produce industry. With a simple digital picture, NEC’s Fruit Identification System will be able to tell you the original date the fruit was picked and shipped, as well as it’s type, like a delicious Honeyc... | <urn:uuid:f97bac90-4f4f-4799-982e-9901d0275712> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/03/pictures-decode-produce-age-increase-food-safety/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00092-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954594 | 365 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Strength and Skill Quotes in Ender's Game
How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
[…] everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands. (7.289)
Here’s a curious thing: Ender is a super smart and super skilled kid but most of this book details how he destroys things. (And by “things” we mean ... | <urn:uuid:a8206615-b511-40eb-aa8b-b88038884bdb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/enders-game/strength-skill-quotes-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970716 | 495 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The month of February is nearly over and having Black History Month condensed into such a short amount of time is a criminal offense that should be punished with the swift justice of Black Run America's (BRA) judicial system (thankfully, Black farmers have just received $1.25 billion for their collective discrimination... | <urn:uuid:8fa5760e-6c6a-4075-9657-295df756da5e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2010/02/black-history-month-heroes-dr-ed-braz.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960688 | 2,296 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Anyone who either owns or is planning to buy property in Spain needs to know about the Catastral value of the property.
Unlike the Land Registry, which records legal ownership and with which it is often confused, the Catastral is not a legal record of ownership, but is an estimate of the capital value of the property, ... | <urn:uuid:38fcca44-4388-4bee-9f43-79821be54808> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tumbit.com/how-to-guides/articles/202-the-catastral-the-tax-value-of-a-property-in-spain.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956163 | 1,137 | 2.75 | 3 |
The History of Prom
It's a warm spring night. The moon is glowing, the stars are twinkling, and a 12-passenger stretch limousine has just pulled up to the high school parking lot. Out of the limousine step teenagers in full regalia, wearing tailcoats, top hats, slinky dresses, and fragrant corsages. As they enter the h... | <urn:uuid:aa95be80-9747-4d54-9357-f2050c268fde> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://sites.google.com/a/vscsd.org/post-prom/history-of-prom | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974463 | 984 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. historian. He is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and author of numerous books on American history, including, most recently, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.
As tens of thousands gather in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 50th annivers... | <urn:uuid:c4648cbc-06cc-43c6-9ec6-55b312ce09c8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/11/gateway_to_freedom_historian_eric_foner | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97316 | 6,094 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have established the safety and dosing of a new drug for treating blood cancers. The findings are published online July 27 in The Lancet Haematology.
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European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500–1750: Maps from the Collection of O.J. Sopranos
Explores How Maps Changed the Way We See the World
In conjunction with the city-wide Festival of Maps
November 2, 2007–March 16, 2008
An important collection of early printed maps, atlases, and sea charts that trace the c... | <urn:uuid:afb2e182-ecea-43a1-afb4-637288cb6128> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum-exhibits/special-exhibits/european-cartographers-and-ottoman-world-1500%E2%80%931750-maps-collection | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948382 | 1,015 | 3.125 | 3 |
Do you speak Spanish?
Did you know that we have books and other materials in Spanish?
We also have bilingual books — with the words in both English and Spanish. This is helpful to English speakers learning Spanish, as well as for Spanish speakers learning English. One such book, Vamos A Viajar! (Let’s go!) can be found... | <urn:uuid:4b5413f7-77f4-4d34-addd-b445e9d0919e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/habla-usted-espanol/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00166-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945643 | 234 | 3.171875 | 3 |
So far we have been concerned with immediate inference only, and this is not strictly speaking deduction. Deduction involves applying the information contained in a proposition to a particular circumstance or set of circumstances, and drawing a conclusion different from the original proposition: that is, in the course ... | <urn:uuid:1bb85176-01ab-4ec9-8930-31352c60de5a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/jepsonrw/chap82.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954028 | 3,657 | 2.796875 | 3 |
In 1896, immigration had long been contentious in presidential politics. Before the Civil War, some native-born Americans feared Irish Catholic immigration would undermine democracy and Protestantism, and such fears still lurked (for example, some whites joined the American Protective Association in the 1890s). New anx... | <urn:uuid:c4f0aa76-a03b-434f-a3ba-a93841c8c962> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/immigration.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951383 | 1,436 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Step4: Now cut the mortise and once again there are two methods the first involves a mallet and chisel. If you use the first method you need to put some timber in a vice to rest your timber against and then you clamp the two bits of timber together to hold them steady.
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DIY water filter kits allow just about anyone to create potable water from natural, fresh water sources such as ponds and streams. Simple, off-grid water systems using these kits can negate the expense and effort of packing in water and having lots of plastic bottles to recycle or dispose of.
A leaky pond can be frustr... | <urn:uuid:b9550368-16e4-447a-8e81-e261303e31ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.motherearthnews.com/search.aspx?tags=+water+quality | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901823 | 928 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is undefined.
Returns the temperature of the motherboard if the computer is currently on fire. If the computer isn't on fire, the function returns some other value.
printf("[%d] = is_computer_on()\n", is_computer_on());
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Turkey’s economy is one of the most booming of the Middle East, with a growth rate, despite the ongoing economic recession over the past decade, of an average 5.5 percent since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Adalet ve Kalk?nma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, or AKP) party came to power in 2002.
But the A... | <urn:uuid:5aecd37c-459f-4f8b-aac3-5fc1dbdd9213> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Yet-Another-Attack-on-Turkish-Pipelines.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943114 | 1,094 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Some stars, known as contact binaries, are so close together that they actually touch and exchange the gas in their outer layers. Although the two stars may be quite different, as in this illustration of the system known as W Ursae Majoris, this exchange gives both stars the same surface temperature and appearance. Eve... | <urn:uuid:eff300c8-f7b9-44f4-9c60-b7ace967e2fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://stardate.org/radio/program/contact-binaries | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965446 | 409 | 3.859375 | 4 |
Madeira Laurel Pigeon Columba trocaz is endemic to the island of Madeira (Portugal). It is currently classified as Near Threatened under criteria B and C on the IUCN Red List, because when last assessed it was considered to have a small declining population in a very small range (<500 km2), albeit not severely fragment... | <urn:uuid:f2b80325-9fe4-4742-92bf-1811b2174a59> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.birdlife.org/globally-threatened-bird-forums/2010/12/madeira-laurel-pigeon-columba-trocaz-downlist-to-least-concern/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915049 | 480 | 3.109375 | 3 |
When researching acid rain, evolution, and climate change – cast a critical eye on source material
(Millbrook, NY) Wikipedia reigns. It’s the world’s most popular online encyclopedia, the sixth most visited website in America, and a research source most U.S. students rely on. But, according to a paper published today i... | <urn:uuid:d7357be1-7f60-4809-85a2-fb701bd0bd85> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom/wikipedia-politically-controversial-science-topics-are-vulnerable-information-sabotage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919472 | 869 | 2.828125 | 3 |
a farmer has 60m of fencing with which to construct three sides of a rectangular yard connected to an existing fence.
a. if the width of the paddock is x m and teh area inside the yard, A m^2, write down teh rule connecting A and x
b. determine teh maximum area that can be formed for the yard.
( the side of existing fe... | <urn:uuid:c7061193-e81d-488b-bf30-12e9d4fccc69> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathhelpforum.com/algebra/23174-quadratic-algebra-print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00038-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9383 | 97 | 3.625 | 4 |
Earlier this year, a team led by North Carolina State University’s Dr. Yong Zhu reported success in creating elastic conductors made from carbon nanotubes. Such conductors could be used in stretchable electronics, which could in turn find use in things like bendable displays, smart fabrics, or even touch-sensitive robo... | <urn:uuid:a366a91e-b24c-43a7-ad45-d4d3761a39b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gizmag.com/silver-nanowires-elastic-conductors/23313/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936423 | 531 | 3.640625 | 4 |
What Was the First Animal to Taste Like Chicken?
“Peking Raptor” (Credit: Erik S. Peterson)
One would like to believe that many things in this world do not taste like chicken, but, in fact, many things do. Jackson Landers at Slate took the time to investigate the evolutionary history of the modern chicken flavor, and, ... | <urn:uuid:dc931562-41a1-44cd-ae87-ad1b51c6e4e6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bonappetit.com/trends/article/what-was-the-first-animal-to-taste-like-chicken | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948137 | 236 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Tomatoes are usually considered one of the easier things in the garden to grow. Just as long as they have enough water and sun, most times they stay rather bug and disease free. But are they really being the best plant they can be? Click through the jump
to find out what 18 essential nutrients your tomato plant needs t... | <urn:uuid:ce08b652-2926-401b-b931-a8ca42cf418a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/organic-fertilizer-for-your-to-54711 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968403 | 378 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The Importance of The Pot
Garden geeks focus primarily on plants, and with good reason. The plant is where the action is…where growth and life exists. We’re willing to acknowledge, however, that the environment where that plant grows is equally important. The soil, moisture, and all the intertwined biology and wildlife... | <urn:uuid:a4505612-0547-4942-afdd-e3c06357684c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wholelifegardening.com/blog/2012/12/06/the-importance-of-the-pot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92873 | 395 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Vertical integration describes when a company purchases or starts a company that it either buys from or sells to and integrates this new business into its own. Forward integration means it is integrating businesses toward the end customer; backward integration means it is integrating in the direction away from the cust... | <urn:uuid:1a2efb4a-65d6-4ee0-92e7-667f5befdb92> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://smallbusiness.chron.com/examples-backward-vertical-integration-strategies-14703.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967186 | 627 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Getting to the heart of the Mayan matter isn’t as easy as it seems, what with the media hype.
Some people seem genuinely excited at the prospect of annihilation, and those are probably the same people (aka The History Channel) who are telling you that the Mayans actually predicted imminent doom.
What do astrologers hav... | <urn:uuid:b529f26f-e2d3-4da3-a3e5-8f4056a0575f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/12/the-agony-or-the-ecstasy-hows-your-apocalypse-going-annie-sha/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00082-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963938 | 1,164 | 2.65625 | 3 |
A democratic society stands and falls by the participation of its citizens. Democracy is rule by the people; therefore the participation of the people is paramount to its success.
But what prepares us for democratic participation? How do we learn what to do, how to do it and whom to do it with?
Democracy is not just ab... | <urn:uuid:bef4974f-658c-486d-8458-c460001cf86f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2011/nov/01/parliament-week-citizenship-education?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954131 | 1,089 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Experts Foresee Bumpy Transition from Fossil Fuels, Even with Promising Energy Alternatives
Fossil fuels provide about 80% of the world’s energy and, despite dire predictions since the early 20th century, supplies will not run out any time soon, according to speakers at a AAAS discussion on meeting global energy demand... | <urn:uuid:99143d2d-0d3e-46fa-8d0c-48494b03e4fe> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aaas.org/print/3366 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959883 | 2,310 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Matters of Life and Death: Perspectives on Public Health, Molecular Biology, Cancer and the Prospects for the Human Race. John Cairns. 257 pp. Princeton University Press, 1997. $29.95.
John Cairns's thoughtful and informative book covers a topic of universal interest: public health and mortality. It consists of indepen... | <urn:uuid:c9d21340-4f44-47ad-96d8-49190b6066a1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/id.2463,content.true,css.print/bookshelf.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962291 | 650 | 2.75 | 3 |
Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
World History Traveler
UNIT 17 RESOURCES
Sue Peabody speaks about the history of feminist thought as a "hidden history" within the history of ideas.
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© Ann... | <urn:uuid:91bac997-f56a-4808-84c5-03ffa2934a44> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://learner.org/courses/worldhistory/unit_perspectives_17.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.798315 | 75 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Blended Learning in K-12/Types of Blended Learning/Course Management Systems
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The use of a Course Management System (CMS) can assist a teacher when they are creating a blended learning... | <urn:uuid:aee147e6-5950-464c-9a96-73a53d1ff131> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blended_Learning_in_K-12/Types_of_Blended_Learning/Course_Management_Systems | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941563 | 2,018 | 3.5 | 4 |
Origin and Etymology of coromandel
Coromandel coast region, India
First Known Use: 1843
Definition of Coromandel
coast region SE India on Bay of Bengal S of mouths of the Krishna
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What made you want to look up coromandel? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible). | <urn:uuid:708df4e6-495b-4a99-ac73-f93200530f65> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coromandel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.822345 | 79 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Thousands of Japanese are dead and many more missing, following the earthquake and tsunami on March 11. Hundreds of thousands more are homeless or in temporary shelters, and millions in Japan and around the world are desperate to make contact with loved ones.
Mobile phones and the web are proving their worth, becoming ... | <urn:uuid:7c236d79-931f-44a0-8bd3-b45c78fd553c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.voanews.com/digital-frontiers/2011/03/16/the-web-reacts-to-a-tsunami-pt-ii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944938 | 614 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Research published today in the journal Nature documents, for the first time, the intricate three-dimensional structure of the backbone in the earliest four-legged animals (tetrapods). The international team of scientists, led by Dr Stephanie Pierce from the University’s Zoology Department and the Royal Veterinary Coll... | <urn:uuid:2ebf203c-f1fc-4e9d-8328-fb013aa64efa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/45464/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95682 | 881 | 3.78125 | 4 |
Abstract: This article offers a critical examination of theories that emphasize the importance of governmental provision of self-esteem to citizens. Self-esteem is the feeling that one’s abilities and achievements are positively appraised by the surrounding society, and in some cases the legal system. Such theories are... | <urn:uuid:ceb9ff4a-8f7f-4d87-a4fa-47d6d248fe9d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://libertarianpapers.org/article/2-perez-internal-contradictions-of-recognition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948273 | 279 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Sir Julian’s Three Elements
What is sea control? As the Royal Navy puts it, it is “the condition in which one has freedom of action to use the sea for one’s own purposes in specified areas and for specified periods of time and, where necessary, to deny or limit its use to the enemy. Sea control includes the airspace ab... | <urn:uuid:e1c1e6f7-0c84-40bb-9c58-bf6ca7daec49> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2015-07/deadly-future-littoral-sea-control | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00104-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935508 | 5,042 | 3.234375 | 3 |
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|Designer Estrogen Could Be Next MS Drug|
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UCLA scientists discovered that a specific form of estrogen can protect the brain from degeneration yet not increase the risk for hormone-induced cancers of the breast and uterus.
The study took place in mice infected with the animal e... | <urn:uuid:0b647edf-2dd8-4f5c-887a-66a1b71874dc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.musclemagfitness.com/anti-aging-women/anti-aging-articles-women/designer-estrogen-could-be-next-ms-drug.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92007 | 481 | 3.078125 | 3 |
1367.5 - Western Australian Statistical Indicators, Sep 2008
Previous ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 08/10/2008
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Fires and storms still WA's most common emergencies: ABS
Bushfires, cyclones, storms and flooding are Western Australia's most common major emergencies, accor... | <urn:uuid:feec9f3c-eb2c-4424-9128-618635299245> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mediareleasesbyTopic/2DF9A8D1CD88D9BECA2574DB000E7DCA?OpenDocument | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97537 | 428 | 2.796875 | 3 |
articles tagged with: accessibility
Negotiators of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have just this month agreed on the first EU-wide rules to make the websites and mobile apps of public sector bodies more accessible.
In the world of web, these adjustments are about introducing steps to make a web... | <urn:uuid:2f55a41c-5d17-460e-83b3-0176abd17a53> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thisisfocus.co.uk/blog-articles/accessibility/tags?mode=text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948974 | 6,204 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Design Guidelines for Large Satellite IF Distribution Systems
As a starting point, assume a level of -35 dBm per transponder out of the LNB. This will of course vary with satellite footprint EIRP antenna size and LNB gain.
A simplified calulation to determine LNB output level is shown below.
In clear sky conditions: LN... | <urn:uuid:3cecb627-6e82-402e-b096-531400b012e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.starkelectronic.com/cmsyslg.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888484 | 3,194 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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