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1616 Dirk Hartog
Welcome to the 'Land of the Eendracht' website
This website commemorates the 400th anniversary of the first recorded European landing on the west Australian coast.
It provides a background to this historic occasion, and explores the impact and motivations of Europe’s at first tentative and then conflic... | <urn:uuid:7aca76a1-255b-4335-a554-8e7e7091e443> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/dirk-hartog | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939362 | 1,918 | 3.375 | 3 |
Learn something new every day
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Pleaching is a process that involves weaving tree branches together for ornamental purposes. The most common modern day purpose for pleaching is to create lattice, archways, or screens to enhance gardens and landscaping.
Pleaching dates back to the Roman Empire, where... | <urn:uuid:6249e26c-2bab-4486-8be5-0cc74b1c85f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-pleaching.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964299 | 575 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Larry Sagers, Larry Sagers
From the woody Rose of Sharon we discussed last week, we move to another mallow family member. This is among the showiest flowers that grow in Utah.
If you are lucky enough to have some, count your blessings. If not, you have a wonderful treat to add to your landscape.
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Besides a smaller, more efficient engine, today's hybrids use many other tricks to increase fuel efficiency. Some of those tricks will help any type of car get better mileage, and some only apply to a hybrid. To squeeze every last mile out of a gallon of gasoline, a hybrid car can:
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What Are Loans?
Direct federal loans are a form of financial aid available to assist undergraduate students attending college at least half-time. Students may use the funds to pay for tuition, books, and living expenses. Loans must be repaid at a low fixed-rate.
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To a Mouse Man and the Natural World Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie! (1-2)
The speaker opens the poem by addressing the mouse, but he doesn't name the mouse right away. Instead, he opens with a list of adjectives to describe the mouse. An... | <urn:uuid:68efa353-0380-4e02-9d5c-705ff7c970e6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/to-a-mouse/man-natural-world-quotes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960822 | 584 | 2.84375 | 3 |
A recent article from Web MD suggests that adhering to a Paleo diet may help post menopausal women lose weight, as well as reduce their risk of diabetes and heart disease.
Researchers claim that these benefits can be experienced without calorie restriction due to the nature of the Paleo diet.
What is Paleo?
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Hundreds of years ago it was the barber who treated teeth. Then the body of knowledge grew to create the dental profession. Today, you usually think of the dentist as the doctor who handles teeth and gums. But so much recent evidence is pouring in - to not only increase our knowledge but to change the way we think in h... | <urn:uuid:8a3980d8-2429-4589-866d-ea980d03569e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thewaynedalenews.com/heath/9389-dentists-aid-in-treating-other-diseases.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961805 | 341 | 3.125 | 3 |
Aquarium Fish: Deep Water Reef Fish Communities: Part I: A Survey of Deep Reef Fishes
You plunge into the crystal clear water and begin to descent down to the top of the reef. Curtains of plankton feeding fishes rise and fall in the water column as predators approach and then swim past. The light is bright here and pro... | <urn:uuid:69cd939a-5aed-40ad-9c16-4e4dcdb35fa1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2005/8/fish | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945239 | 3,950 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Kid Power! Empowering children to create positive change in their communities
Editor's Note: This post was written by Diana Fernholz (@Diana_Fernholz), who works with Ashoka.
What worries you?
This is the question that Ashoka Fellow Dina Buchbinder of Mexico begins all of her sessions with, regardless of whether her au... | <urn:uuid:85fc3e1a-0f98-4e1d-8a20-acf0d2513560> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.ashoka.org/story/kid-power-empowering-children-create-positive-change-their-communities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968967 | 586 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Ativan is one of the medications listed under benzodiazepine. It is mostly used to treat health problems like anxiety, nervousness and other neurological disorders. However, the medication is used on a temporary basis. It is known to be a potentially addictive drug, and that is why it is administered under careful moni... | <urn:uuid:cb80593f-baa1-4f86-8d6b-804f973740a4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rocketswag.com/health/drugs/a/ativan/Can-Ativan-Cause-Heart-Palpitations-And-Tremors.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952605 | 329 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Metabolic diseases (human)
Human metabolic diseases are primarily caused by single gene alleles that code for enzymes important in metabolic pathways. In many of the metabolic diseases, the chemical substrate of the missing or defective enzyme builds up and is excreted out of the body, often by the kidneys and so into ... | <urn:uuid:f998fda5-cf0b-45c4-aeae-3730f75db12d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Metabolic_diseases_(human) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00084-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966538 | 775 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Also, in the past, to confirm carbon monoxide, arterial or venous blood had to be drawn and sent to the lab, costing valuable time and delaying therapy. Worse, the standard noninvasive test of blood oxygenation, the pulse oximeter, can't distinguish between oxygenated hemoglobin and CO-hemoglobin -- sometimes fooling d... | <urn:uuid:e8634494-fd85-4404-935f-cec4650702e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogborygmi.blogspot.com/2005/03/vital-signs.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 | 0.921984 | 583 | 2.875 | 3 |
Located 100 feet beneath the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm, Sweden, an Internet service provider's data center appears like a set created for a science fiction film.
The space, known as Pionen White Mountain, was an underground nuclear fallout shelter and command center during the Cold War before bei... | <urn:uuid:2b998e92-ee57-4995-b424-c975eab76127> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/05/cold-war-meets-sci-fi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91682 | 202 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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Planet's signals are tricks created by starry noise
The Sun, imaged through calcium K (blue) and hydrogen alpha (red) filters. Prominences are shown inverted for visibility. The calcium line is commonly used as a proxy for stellar activi... | <urn:uuid:e653cd54-619c-4518-bc44-ab85c05315d1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2014-07/aaft-psa062714.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961821 | 575 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Long Meadow Ranch to Raise Endangered Red Wattle Pigs
June 22, 2006, Rutherford, CA
Long Meadow Ranch has agreed to house a pair of rare heirloom Red Wattle hogs for breeding purposes to help diversify the risk of maintaining the breed. Red Wattles, an endangered species along with numerous other farm animal breeds, ar... | <urn:uuid:7e3af1d4-113f-4237-9345-24fa700e9d63> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.longmeadowranch.com/News---Press/Press-Releases--Archive/LMR-To-Raise-Endangered-Red-Wattle-Pigs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942786 | 1,393 | 2.515625 | 3 |
To be clear, creation of charter schools is a right given to states. The federal government has NO say over charter law in each state.
The enactment of State charter school laws is solely a State prerogative, and the definition of a “charter school” under State law is a matter of State policy.
However the feds give out... | <urn:uuid:0c76cdb7-66b5-4e2c-92ea-4a4de4330e99> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2011/11/charter-schools-and-federal-law-fourth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958086 | 628 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Sporozoa(redirected from Sporozoans)
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Sporozoa(spôr'əzō`ə), phylum of unicellular heterotrophic organisms of the kingdom ProtistaProtista
, in the five-kingdom system of classification, a kingdom comprising a variety of unicellular and some simple multinuclear an... | <urn:uuid:99eb06e9-db05-426b-8843-2d3267ff6473> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Sporozoans | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887043 | 941 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Bone marrow cells can be used to repair a heart damaged by a heart attack, US researchers said today.
The cells, genetically engineered to make them stronger and more likely to survive, restored the heart's pumping capacity by 80 per cent to 90 per cent in animal models in rats, the team at Brigham and Women's Hospital... | <urn:uuid:b22c0171-b89e-488b-a5ad-9093cd16e906> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/11/1060454119602.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946728 | 387 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Chocolate flavour chemistry
What is flavour?
Flavour is essentially caused by the combined effects of aroma, plus tastes (tastes being: bitter, acidic, sweet, salty, and umami).
Scientists have so far identified more than 600 volatile chemicals in cocoa and chocolate , which collectively make up the classic aroma of ch... | <urn:uuid:25f979b7-09bb-488b-ae66-5061af2da9f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chocolatereview.com.au/cocoa_chemistry/chocolate_flavour_origins | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938619 | 4,324 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
The predictive power of a scientific theory refers to its ability to generate testable predictions. Theories with strong predictive power are highly valued, because the predictions can often encourage the falsification ... | <urn:uuid:c7df85a9-bb55-4ebe-95ec-31de19b471f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Predictive_power | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957768 | 1,252 | 3.59375 | 4 |
aliasing and anti-aliasing
Aliasing is a Web design term used to describe the undesirable distortion of visual elements on a computer screen. These peculiarities take many forms, such as the appearance of jagged or stair-stepped edges along what is supposed to be a smooth, curvy surface (like an O or S) or diagonal lin... | <urn:uuid:b448b61f-99cc-4cb8-8557-1231077207e8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.netlingo.com/word/aliasing-and-anti-aliasing.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940518 | 122 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Editor's Note: For good or for ill, governments have to deal with social media. In Cairo and London and Washington, the way people organize themselves is changing -- and governments are struggling to adapt, adopt, co-opt, or disable the technologies that enable these changes. Here, O'Reilly Media's Government 2.0 corre... | <urn:uuid:1179a724-03d6-475a-9eb5-4cef0c2046c0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/how-governments-deal-with-social-media/243288/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948596 | 1,624 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The North Pole is supposed to be icy. It's where Santa and polar bears live, after all.
But, right now, there's a small lake at the North Pole. Here's an image from the wide-angle camera trained on a weather buoy maintained by the North Pole Environmental Observatory.
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The largest flower
Posted on 27 February, 2005 - 4:46am.
The world's largest flower, now blooming at Sibalom Natural Park in Antique
by Art Fuentes
To see the world’s largest flower for the first time is to encounter a life form so strange, it makes you wonder if you’re in the presence of something from a different pla... | <urn:uuid:81e43a4a-f5f6-4f70-b971-a54c6f5a126f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://rafflesiaspp.blogspot.com/2008/03/world-largest-flower-now-blooming-at.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949109 | 1,212 | 3.0625 | 3 |
But she was too tired when she got home,
to realize the worth of the deed she had done.
-- Marjorie Barstow Greenbie
Putnam County, New York 1777
On a cold and cloudless winter night, Sybil Ludington blew out the candle in her brother's bedroom and fearfully tightened her grip on her rifle's stock. She leaned forward a... | <urn:uuid:5abced5f-4e18-4bf8-b30e-8dcf424ded3d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://books.simonandschuster.com/Glory-Passion-and-Principle/Melissa-Lukeman-Bohrer/9780743453318 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987146 | 7,812 | 2.75 | 3 |
Dec. 5 2008
Washington, D.C. — The government of Colombia took historic action this week to protect the health and lives of its citizens by implementing a sweeping smoke-free decree that applies to all indoor workplaces and public places. The decree was first introduced in May of 2008 and went into effect this week. It... | <urn:uuid:702eba43-2812-4926-9cb4-aad0dcf04745> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/press_releases/post/id_1289 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942597 | 551 | 3.03125 | 3 |
The Legacy of R. L. Moore
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|Educational Advancement Foundation|
|The Legacy of R.L. Moore Project promotes the study of inquiry-based learning (IBL) and teaching methods that Moore propagated while teaching topology at The University of Texas. The ... | <urn:uuid:0b2f4aba-23fc-4f24-b909-dc910fec4260> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathforum.org/library/view/74865.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.825758 | 258 | 3 | 3 |
HOLOCLIP is a European Science Foundation /European Polar Board PolarCLIMATE initiative
The PolarCLIMATE programme has contributed to the development of a strategic common vision for Polar Climate research and is the first step towards joint implementation
of programmes and fully utilising research stations and climate... | <urn:uuid:673673a3-efc7-4736-90a9-72b38df5b4bc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.holoclip.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895955 | 270 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The UK’s Health Research Forum, a pressure group opposing the blanket ban on sunbathing that other organisations are attempting to implement, has just published its second report – Sunlight, Vitamin D, & Health (Edited by Oliver Gillie).
The report covers a conference held at the House of Commons in November 2005 and e... | <urn:uuid:b5f68b97-3c26-402d-bf02-c7eb38f80f68> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/how-to-sunbathe-safely.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953529 | 876 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Contrary to popular perception, the Aztec (Mexica) Empire was not the only major political entity in Central Mexico at the time the Spanish arrived. Northwest of the Mexica's territory lay the lands occupied by their chief rivals, a powerful society who called themselves Purépecha but whom the Spanish dubbed the Tarasc... | <urn:uuid:84937e43-89aa-4df3-99a7-4d04fcb30b7c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cookjmex.blogspot.com/2012/12/purepecha-fiesta-at-ajijic-plaza.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965558 | 1,846 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Burro Schmidt and His Tunnel
High atop the El Paso Mountains, above Last Chance Canyon, exists today a monument to one man's determination and perseverance. William Henry Schmidt, better known as "Burro" Schmidt, spent 38 years accomplishing the task of hand-drilling a tunnel nearly a half-mile long. Over those 38 year... | <urn:uuid:e571cbf4-97c1-4a35-8d58-87fc056bdcbf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bickelcamp.org/BurroSchmidt.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986442 | 1,357 | 2.734375 | 3 |
On Thursday, the fast-moving crisis in Ukraine took another surprising turn as the de facto authorities of Crimea, the semi-autonomous Ukrainian republic that is currently occupied by Russian forces, voted to become part of Russia. Members of the Crimean parliament announced that a public referendum to ratify the decis... | <urn:uuid:137da4fe-50c2-46ed-b1fc-da31cf2d27c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/06/3368881/natural-resources-ukraine-conflict/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00067-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96122 | 1,466 | 2.953125 | 3 |
|Publication number||US5437975 A|
|Application number||US 07/661,591|
|Publication date||1 Aug 1995|
|Filing date||25 Feb 1991|
|Priority date||25 Feb 1991|
|Also published as||WO1992014844A1|
|Publication number||07661591, 661591, US 5437975 A, US 5437975A, US-A-5437975, US5437975 A, US5437975A|
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- roof (n.)
- Old English hrof "roof, ceiling, top, summit; heaven, sky," also figuratively, "highest point of something," from Proto-Germanic *khrofam (source also of Old Frisian rhoof "roof," Middle Dutch roof, rouf "cover, roof," Dutch roef "deckhouse, cabin, coffin-lid," Middle High German rof "penthouse," Old Nors... | <urn:uuid:a2cc05dd-9909-4d18-a127-71f563d277d2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=roof&allowed_in_frame=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921959 | 203 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Silent Bully: What Every Parent and Child Should Know
We are all familiar with the term "bully." It is a term used for instances
when someone pushes another around in various ways. For example, a child may
take another child's lunch money or other things by threatening them. Or it
could be someone calling another names... | <urn:uuid:b756736d-6e6d-40ee-84cd-9d07c1531bf3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.yurtopic.com/family/parenting/silent-bully.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959571 | 1,607 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer, is the subject of Tuesday's animated Google doodle. Copernicus's work helped popularise the idea that Earth revolves around the Sun, instead of the other way round, as was commonly believed at the time.
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Breaking Baseball’s Color Line
In August 1945, Brooklyn Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey first approached Jackie Robinson, an outstanding athlete then playing baseball in the Negro leagues, to participate in the "great experiment" of integrating the major leagues. After a season in the minors, Robinson officially... | <urn:uuid:80b5e3e2-7eb4-488e-97f5-f06efc7d982d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.historynet.com/pod0410.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919333 | 139 | 3.5625 | 4 |
CSI Lesson Plans Can Turn Students Into Learning Detectives
Children learn to use the methods of good detection for solving a crime, and even analyzing literature.
By Kristen Kindoll
Crime Scene Investigations (CSI) is the new hot term for old school detection. Students can learn how to become detectives to solve myste... | <urn:uuid:9cbe2fa4-c6c0-4b8e-ab29-921f7c694d26> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lessonplanet.com/article/homeschooling/csi-lesson-plans-can-turn-students-into-learning-detectives | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92865 | 701 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Stomach cancer is the fourth most common form of cancer death in Australia and the second most common in parts of South Asia including Japan and Korea. Until now, little was known about what caused this disease, which is difficult to treat and usually incurable.
The team's discovery, a collaborative effort largely betw... | <urn:uuid:0441122d-a946-42b1-ab4d-a3b9e9f56faf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-2/New-insights-into-cause-of-stomach-cancer-6768-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951465 | 325 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Upon completion of the Social Work Program, social work students should be able to:
- Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with diverse constituencies.
- Think critically and apply analytic skills in understanding current issues and in providing effective services to diverse clientele.
- Use current tec... | <urn:uuid:595037a6-ba0d-4539-a095-a7230deff019> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.longwood.edu/socialworkcsds/9227.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904755 | 568 | 2.8125 | 3 |
October 2 is not forgotten
Upsurge and Massacre in Mexico 1968
Part 3: Echoes in the 90s
Revolutionary Worker #977, October 11, 1998
This is the final part of a three-part series. Part 1 described the rising movement of the students and others in the days before the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. Part 2 was an acco... | <urn:uuid:01b75c72-e8be-409a-a160-e9c78e2869df> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.revcom.us/a/v20/970-79/977/mex3.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961955 | 3,477 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Links specifically related to the syllabus
- ESL Glossary Glossary of terms relevent to the ESL profession. Includes terms related to English, ESL, EFL, grammar, TESOL, TEFL, pedagogy, and jobs.
- Language Learning and Technology:
- A very short Intro to Hot Potatoes
- Capstone Technology Day
- Final Projects
General L... | <urn:uuid:ff0437b7-fe43-4c2d-87b1-36eb78e411b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/531/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.783309 | 3,744 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Pinus strobus Pinaceae
Eastern White Pine PI-nus STRO-bus
- Conifer, evergreen tree, 30-60 ft (9-18 m), in youth a symmetrical
pyramid, open, soft, pleasant appearance; with age, is composed
of several horizontal and ascending branches. Needles in bundles
of five, slender, soft, bluish-green, 5-13 cm long, white stomat... | <urn:uuid:78b473e0-b884-4496-9139-8da0ec87f4b5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/pist.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874686 | 337 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Did the Common-Core Math Writers Accidentally Drop a Standard?
This week, I wrote a story about reported problems with the high school common-core math standards. Some of the most ardent supporters of the Common Core State Standards, including people who helped write them, have said the high school standards are weaker... | <urn:uuid:423628bd-ec7f-4b39-be13-2fad7ad5382b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2015/02/did_the_common-core_math_write.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979066 | 729 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Do you have numbness and/or tingling in your feet? You may be suffering from peripheral neuropathy. Other phrases or terms describing this are, neuropathy of the foot, numb foot, peripheral neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, idiopathic neuropathy, insensitivity, the neuropathic foot, or extremity neuropathy, loss of prot... | <urn:uuid:c9930eba-f7c6-49c1-befa-22db5baab08c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.comfortshoe.com/foot-conditions/diabetes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919801 | 1,290 | 2.578125 | 3 |
HTML Working Group D. Connolly INTERNET-DRAFT MIT/W3C draft-ietf-html-charset-harmful-00.txt May 2, 1995 Expires November, 1995
This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also dist... | <urn:uuid:78f6306f-be4c-4efe-9b73-dee20fbf65d7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/charset-harmful | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900578 | 2,176 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Book: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Artist: Matthew Lord
Artist’s Statement: John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men has been challenged for a variety of reasons. These include profanity, use of racial slurs, insensitivity to the mentally handicapped, and promoting euthanasia. The book is required reading for many high sc... | <urn:uuid:c12796ff-d856-4eb2-b907-11c8cab494fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2012/09/banned-books/of-mice-and-men/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946718 | 156 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Recently, Oxford University launched a new initiative called Climate.Basics. This Internet site provides a nice explanation and simple illustrations on what is meant by ‘climate’ and how the climate system works. The Climate.Basics site is a collaboration with the climateprediction.net project, which is the world’s lar... | <urn:uuid:a8c26e86-1f0c-4d0d-a199-c9b929cf0c1d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/11/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938994 | 900 | 2.875 | 3 |
Breathing coal ash dust can trigger asthma attacks, lead to cancer and lung disease and other serious health problems according to a new report released today by Physicians for Social Responsibility and Earthjustice.
“Ash in Lungs: How Breathing Coal Ash is Hazardous to Your Health,” details yet another danger of unreg... | <urn:uuid:17ee8f30-b875-4983-aa9b-58ef4ea1a3b8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2014/ash-in-lungs-how-breathing-coal-ash-is-hazardous-to-your-health | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932886 | 1,209 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Astronomers have spotted signs of a possible exoplanet in a nearby system of twin failed stars. If confirmed, the alien world would be one of the closest to our sun ever found.
Scientists only discovered the pair of failed stars, known as brown dwarfs, last year. At just 6.6 light-years from Earth, the pair is the thir... | <urn:uuid:d4182488-c7fb-44b0-b2fb-e844f53cb146> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.space.com/23985-alien-planet-nearby-brown-dwarfs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959092 | 748 | 3.375 | 3 |
Big Friends, Little Friends
By pairing younger students with older ones, the "Little Friend" gains a sense of belonging to the school environment, and the "Big Friend" gains self confidence by being a mentor.
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5
Each student in my kindergarten class is assigned to one or two students in an upper... | <urn:uuid:17c807a4-dcb1-4ba0-89ed-dd697e9828c5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/big-friends-little-friends | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940652 | 271 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Thirty people have been arrested in Kent County, New Brunswick this summer for resisting shale gas exploration in the region. After a week of civil disobedience trainings, there's likely to be dozens, if not hundreds more.
On Tuesday, over 50 people (including me) gathered at the Elsipogtog Fisheries Centre in Kent Cou... | <urn:uuid:3dfc95aa-8819-42bb-9080-d493958d565c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/blog/hillary/18294 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971377 | 994 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The Use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Forest Management: an Example from India
Lucy Rist, ETH Zurich
R. Uma Shaanker, University of Agricultural Sciences; Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
E. J. Milner-Gulland, Imperial College London
Jaboury Ghazoul, ETH Zurich
Full Text: HTML
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The Agency Law Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause
Robert G. Natelson
The Independence Institute
Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 55, p. 243, 2004
The U.S. Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause was based on provisions very common in Founding-Era documents that empowered agents and other fiduciaries. Th... | <urn:uuid:6473f10a-77ba-45d5-84e3-31afa92aa900> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1979007 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.863205 | 206 | 2.96875 | 3 |
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the ear is like a micro map of the entire body; various regions and organs of the body are treated via ear acupuncture to get immediate results. Ear acupuncture (auriculotherapy) is a favorite modality used by Francesca Ferrari to quickly relieve pain, to quickly eliminate inflammation,... | <urn:uuid:fd6784d3-8308-4e4e-a73a-98168aaf774f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.francescaferrari.com/ear-acupuncture.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942869 | 390 | 2.625 | 3 |
(Medical Xpress)—Wow, today's top supercomputers have formidable speed and computational power to rival humans. On the other hand, wow, the human brain is more powerful than today's supercomputers, which with all their calculations, cannot surpass the complex wonder called the human brain. Scientists note that the brai... | <urn:uuid:56521ce4-ac7e-461c-bc3e-3c8f55e2745b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-unleashed-largest-neuronal-network-simulation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930812 | 631 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Fri, 10 May 2013
Cloud computing is a way for businesses to place all or some of their IT infrastructure and operations in the hands of a third party, who will then use lots of servers in order to deal with the demands of all their clients.
Cloud computing can therefore be described as the delivery of hosted services o... | <urn:uuid:f589b294-6e6b-40b0-951d-6a49db497094> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.connetu.com/blog/articles/infographic-what-is-cloud-computing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00104-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926448 | 398 | 3.484375 | 3 |
It's no secret: Tiffin has a growing problem with hypodermic needles littering public areas. It seems discarded syringes are found almost daily in our community, often along streets or near schools.
It is time to discuss ways to eliminate or reduce this problem. Yes, efforts to halt heroin use are crucial. But until th... | <urn:uuid:1757f0ce-d731-4234-b03b-b0998da66389> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.advertiser-tribune.com/page/content.detail/id/566448/Discuss-solutions-to-issue-of-used-syringes.html?nav=5006 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940629 | 467 | 2.671875 | 3 |
After the Revolution Jones was sent to Europe to collect the prize money due the United States. In 1788 he was asked by Catherine the Great to join the Russian navy; he accepted on the condition that he become a rear admiral. His command against the Turks in the Black Sea was successful, but political intrigue prevente... | <urn:uuid:645dea15-3580-4985-a695-975a5498dc57> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/people/jones-john-paul-later-life.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985348 | 222 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Nature at risk
Australia is one of 17 recognised megadiverse countries, which together hold the majority of earth’s biodiversity. Our Southwest Ecoregion is one of only 34 recognised global biodiversity hotspots, with nearly 3000 species of native plants found nowhere else. Yet 7% of our unique native mammals are alrea... | <urn:uuid:4645fada-b4de-45dc-ab3d-647678ddb924> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wwf.org.au/our_work/people_and_the_environment/global_warming_and_climate_change/impacts/nature_at_risk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913795 | 636 | 4.0625 | 4 |
Factors that may increase the risk of developing bipolar disorder or act as a trigger for the first episode include:
- Having a first-degree relative, such as a parent or sibling, with bipolar disorder
- Periods of high stress
- Drug or alcohol abuse
- Major life changes, such as the death of a loved one or other traum... | <urn:uuid:3bcd66ac-3e33-4831-b891-4b7f3b9bf00d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bipolar-disorder/basics/risk-factors/con-20027544?footprints=mine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00048-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.830125 | 1,124 | 2.953125 | 3 |
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates
Despite widespread research and treatment options, cancer remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Cancer is still considered a largely preventable disease with estimates of 90-95% of the risk rooted in environmental and lifestyle factors (Cancer Mana... | <urn:uuid:26d2e4cb-8287-4248-a042-139a6b99171c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mindthesciencegap.org/2012/10/23/eat-green-wear-pink/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00084-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941616 | 1,048 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Sonars resolve targets in range and bearing. A sonar records the arrival time and bearing of the echo from a target. When an echo is detected at time
measured relative to the time of pulse transmission, the range to the target is
is the speed of sound in water. The detection of an echo implies that there is a target in... | <urn:uuid:6ff8cd38-9d46-41e9-a230-7772b9439737> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BayesianRangeWeightingForSonar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926754 | 979 | 4.25 | 4 |
A locally regular aggregation of molecules resembling a crystal in certain properties (such as that of diffraction) but not having a consistent spatial periodicity.
- She was cited for ‘pioneering work on the surface structures, stabilities and other properties of metal films and quasicrystals, and elucidation of surfa... | <urn:uuid:96b5575c-bd51-438c-87b1-3d63c583ba5b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/quasicrystal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897247 | 306 | 3.234375 | 3 |
ABBOTT, JOB, civil engineer and entrepreneur; b. 23 Aug. 1845 in Andover, Mass., son of Nathan B. Abbott, farmer, and Elizabeth L. Noyes; d. there 18 Aug. 1896.
Job Abbott attended local schools and Phillips Academy before studying engineering at Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University, from which he graduated i... | <urn:uuid:48a4cbf9-d75c-47a0-b03d-f7155b9c1cc8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/abbott_job_12E.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976603 | 1,748 | 2.671875 | 3 |
OverviewCavalier Computer, later "Cavalier Computer Corporation", was founded approximately 1981 in San Diego, California, by high school classmates James Nitchals and Barry Printz. Under their leadership, and with contributions by other programmers, they published several well-selling games over the next few years for... | <urn:uuid:84b33a7b-aa5c-4a18-90ef-b2abb73a44d6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mobygames.com/company/cavalier-computer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95983 | 174 | 2.53125 | 3 |
1923 – Agatha Barbara was born on the 11th of March in zabbar, Malta.
She was educated at the grammar school in Valletta.
1940-1947 – Worked as a school teacher.
– Barbara became the first woman elected to the Maltese parliament.
1955-1958 – Served as education minister of Malta in the Labour Party government of Dom Mi... | <urn:uuid:a80c838a-420e-4134-b708-7c3be3be1df9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.s9.com/Biography/Barbara-Agatha | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984539 | 187 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Protecting rare snow leopards from climate change in the Himalayas
16 July 2012
A new WWF study shows that climate change is an increasing threat for already-endangered snow leopards in the eastern Himalayas - making it harder for them to live, breed and hunt. The science shows that if greenhouse gas emissions keep ris... | <urn:uuid:bdbead61-fdea-4963-8e03-3d6137cad92d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/making_the_links/?6122/Protecting-rare-snow-leopards-from-climate-change-in-the-Himalayas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89664 | 615 | 3.796875 | 4 |
In nature, we can observe various wonderful complicated shapes such as coastlines, lightnings, clouds and plants. To measure those complicated shapes, a mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot introduced a new concept called "fractal" in 1975.
In mathematical nature, fractal shapes had been studied but their stages are mainly... | <urn:uuid:8d605ae7-2eba-46b4-8958-0e3b03ebdfb0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fractal3d.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945998 | 228 | 3.046875 | 3 |
“Boom, Chicka, Boom!”
Beginning to Read
This lesson teaches children about the long vowel correspondence oo = /U/. In order to be able to read, children must learn to recognize the spellings that map word pronunciations. In this lesson children will learn to recognize, spell, and read words containing the spelling oo. ... | <urn:uuid:eff484c0-7c9a-4ac7-b4ee-629851616144> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/awakenings/iveyjbr.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91054 | 1,445 | 4.375 | 4 |
Simply put, Baptism is the application of water to a person in the name of the Holy Trinity—the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Plain water is truly used in this Sacrament, but it is not plain water alone.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, following His death and resurrection and just before His ascension, gave the Church... | <urn:uuid:af494a6b-6e9b-454f-9c85-1ea041c0daac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lutheranism101.com/?p=134 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939544 | 280 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Propulsion System Components
Advanced Propulsion Concepts
Solar Thermal Propulsion
The Air Force and NASA chose rhenium for their solar thermal propulsion systems because of its high melting point and excellent ductility. In these systems, sunlight is focused into a rhenium blackbody heat exchanger, and the solar energ... | <urn:uuid:22f59218-d10f-44aa-ae83-5618fb1ee213> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ultramet.com/propulsionsystem_components_advanced.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00023-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897034 | 338 | 3.6875 | 4 |
- Journey into the Mani: Trip to southern Greece leads to exploration of an
- Less than a mile away is the town of Areopolis, named for the god of war because this town is where Petrobey Mavromichalis raised the flag of freedom and, with the call “Victory or death,” united the feuding clans and began the Greek War of I... | <urn:uuid:d51ed61b-7fa3-40b3-b0a7-80f39a7f1b8b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.realmagick.com/petrobey-mavromichalis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948144 | 236 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Technological Studies Series: Grades 6-8
The International Technology Education Association's (ITEA) Technology for All Americans Project is currently developing Technological Studies Series: Grades 6-8. Funded by the Technical Foundation of America, this publication will provide a tangible means to help middle schools... | <urn:uuid:8a7a5ca2-0f0f-4598-b8b5-317e1e83af59> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/TAA/Funding-outdated.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00075-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927804 | 277 | 3.203125 | 3 |
- The Baobab – Africa's Giant Upsidedown Tree
There are eight kinds of Adansonia tree, but only a baobab tree (Adansonia digitata of), native to the African continent. Six of their relatives living in Madagascar, one in Australia. This is a tiny - and very unique family. Baobab tree itself, but small. This is the monst... | <urn:uuid:d018c919-4b86-4b7b-a9e8-4c6b1b57c7b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bestbuilgings.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-baobab-africas-giant-upsidedown.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951485 | 773 | 3.21875 | 3 |
“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years,” as the quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln goes. Although we humans have never been satisfied with the biblical allotment of threescore and ten, neither do we want to extend our life span only to pass the time in a decrepit state.... | <urn:uuid:d49b40b5-c421-434a-8a01-d35a31fd97e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-of-staying-young/?mobileFormat=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941235 | 628 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Common Questions about HIV/STDs
Who is at risk for STDs?
Anyone who is sexually active is at risk for STDs. If you have sex (vaginal, anal, or oral) with someone who is infected, the STD could be passed to you regardless of age, race, gender, or sexual orientation.
How many people have STDs?
An estimated 55 million peo... | <urn:uuid:aadd5016-afa0-4d65-9bb6-d20e9488e733> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chathamcouncil.org/en/qaa.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00092-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952438 | 2,056 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, perspective, and bias. [...] »
I have used this activity with Native Americans and slavery with great success. I have worked over the years to collect a variety of old textbooks from different time periods.
Explore documents that helped to shape the hi... | <urn:uuid:1fbc3f7e-6e8e-4650-8a20-ceef8af6f7dd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.teachinghistory.org/quick-links-middle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899928 | 272 | 3.671875 | 4 |
After the War, Britain and the Soviet Union dumped up to 65,000 tons of unused German chemical weapons and chemical-weapons agents into the Baltic, with many of them falling into the Gotland Deep, where depths reach 820 feet.
"Our research has shown that in the Gotland Deep there are about 8,000 shells and missiles tha... | <urn:uuid:14c1204e-7c09-41dd-9a74-44ef6020fe3d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/10304648/Baltic-Sea-under-threat-from-Second-World-War-chemical-weapons.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974567 | 329 | 3.390625 | 3 |
As the wide open spaces of the West continue to shrink, people increasingly seek access to public lands for all types of commercial and recreational uses. Wildlife species, such as the sage-grouse, depend on these undeveloped spaces too. This puts the BLM at the center of a precarious balancing act, as managers must de... | <urn:uuid:ff8a83ab-9f54-4597-9e8f-08fb294ced5b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/fish__wildlife_and/sage-grouse-conservation/energy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91784 | 1,917 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Energy efficiency within reach
- Published: December 13, 2012
When Pat Murphy came to Yellow Springs in 2003, he said he could build a house that operated with 50 percent less fossil fuels than a conventional home, but his partner, Faith Morgan, didn’t believe him. Now, 10 years later, the couple is wrapping up a new f... | <urn:uuid:aa8af958-1b45-4ea1-be16-f2727065dcf8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ysnews.com/news/2012/12/energy-efficiency-within-reach | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962535 | 1,381 | 2.828125 | 3 |
One Little School House And How It Grew
Before the turn of the century the one-room schools werea vital part of the Pembina community. These schools, which were the forerunnersof the present school system, have an intriguing, but vanishing history.Back in the days when the Chippewa Indians and fur traders were the chie... | <urn:uuid:820b75d7-a849-4601-9e72-4e46aa4d6bf5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnrrvn/Essay-One-Little-School.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977558 | 1,896 | 2.890625 | 3 |
|Global annual mean temperature anomalies as measured by surface data (black bars) and the MSU satellite unit (gray bars) using the MSU-2R technique. Temperatures on the vertical axis are times 100 degrees C. (Illustration from Hurrell and Trenberth, "Satellite versus surface estimates of air temperature since 1979," J... | <urn:uuid:1a1c0800-9f7c-4695-af8e-ae27534a9919> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ucar.edu/communications/quarterly/spring97/discrepancy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937734 | 1,393 | 3.359375 | 3 |
A form of arch defined by a moving point that remains equidistant from a fixed point inside the arch and a moving point along a line. This shape when inverted into an arch structure results in a form that allows equal vertical loading along its length.
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Therefore, it will be difficult to implement them on a widespread basis without various incentives.
Nonetheless, based on the discussion of the positive outcomes, it is also clear that the team building is an essential concept for school principals. Considering the complexity and the diversity of their tasks, principal... | <urn:uuid:70f404c0-76d0-4d8d-b2c3-8c69878be2a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.collegetermpapers.com/viewpaper/1304278504.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952211 | 399 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The concept of bispecific antibodies – monoclonal antibodies able to recognise and engage two different antigens – has been explored for over twenty years. Development of therapies based on the approach has, however, been hampered by difficulties in their construction, poor efficacy and undesirable side-effects.
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Newcastle University -- Newcastle University scientists have identified a new gene which will allow rapid diagnosis and earlier treatment of a debilitating neuromuscular condition.
The gene, GFPT1, is crucial in causing a variation of Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome (CMS) which gained media attention recently with the p... | <urn:uuid:beb2f246-f611-4af3-9772-26369001328d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biospace.com/News/discovery-of-new-gene-test-for-inherited/210538 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914069 | 371 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Against the rich men of Virginia struggling whites rebelled.
With shock and apprehension men of property beheld
events, and schemed to turn poor whites against the treachery
of England, saying "let us all unite for liberty."
Late sixteen-hundreds, on the burgeoning frontier,
Nathaniel Bacon, joined by struggling whites... | <urn:uuid:0969297f-bb3f-46d6-afd6-bd61902d6795> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://rappinghistory.org/chapters/People004.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937196 | 343 | 3.234375 | 3 |
1868–1898 The Origins of the University of California and Affiiated Colleges
Growth of the Affiliated Collegesdeveloped curriculum that gradually reduced the number of didactic lectures and stressed direct clinical experience. Laboratory instruction expanded as wet preparations and vivisection were added to the physiol... | <urn:uuid:d99d4073-9161-4490-8e95-85e467cb4a6f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://history.library.ucsf.edu/1868_colleges.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961377 | 1,243 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Date of this Version
Library Philosophy and Practice 2012
E-resources in collaboration with Internet have become a sign of modern age being an invaluable tool for teaching, learning, and research. The library and information landscape has transformed with the onset of the digital era and today traditional libraries hav... | <urn:uuid:c6afe885-3824-4a55-8b88-d6f819eb454c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/681/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950956 | 1,290 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Lake Tanganyika in east Africa is the second deepest lake in the world. Most of the lake’s massive volume of water sits in its dark depths, where a lack of oxygen makes it impossible for fish and other animals to live.
But swimming near the well-lit shoreline is one of the most diverse freshwater fish communities in th... | <urn:uuid:569e600e-a362-4dcd-bf58-48e22ce1738a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsroom/2011/01/05/wright-state-ecologist-probes-mystery-of-nutrient-poor-fish-rich-african-lake-5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932659 | 989 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
(July 2010) (PDF)
Fact Sheet #52 -- The Employment of Youth in the Health Care Industry
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires covered employers to pay employees at least the applicable federal minimum wage for all hours worked and overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a work week.... | <urn:uuid:3b209c60-b396-415f-9e46-a6edcf5501df> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs52.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944721 | 2,413 | 2.625 | 3 |
The credit crisis that hit the world economy in August teaches us many lessons about the workings of integrated financial markets. It also teaches us a lesson about the responsibilities of central banks.1
Until the eruption of the credit crisis, the consensus view was that central banks should target inflation, and tha... | <urn:uuid:f321ff96-cd51-4fe7-adea-dffe99fff354> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.voxeu.org/article/subprime-crisis-time-inflation-targeting-rethink | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962782 | 1,369 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Henry Gray (18251861). Anatomy of the Human Body. 1918.
shoulder-joint, and is inserted into the highest of the three impressions on the greater tubercle of the humerus; the tendon is intimately adherent to the capsule of the shoulder-joint.
Infraspinatous Fascia (fascia infraspinata).The infraspinatous fascia is a den... | <urn:uuid:d5db8e78-2222-443b-8964-0ce0bb530f2e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bartleby.com/107/pages/page441.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900136 | 502 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Set theory grew out of mathematical analysis through Georg Cantor’s work on sets of uniqueness of trigonometric series in the late 19th century and was soon established as the foundation of all of mathematics. Over the last century it has developed into a vibrant and important subject of its own. On the one hand it dea... | <urn:uuid:1271a6b9-a2d0-41bd-b5ab-6d29d971cab4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=5749 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956723 | 807 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The castle and chateau Orlík towered high on the rock above the bend of the Vltava river (on its left bank) for many centuries. Its name means the "Small Eagle", because the castle's position looked like the eagle's nest. After completion of the Orlík Dam the valley below the castle was flooded and now water reaches th... | <urn:uuid:94317a99-2483-4225-b935-202209efbe16> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jiznicechy.org/en/zam/orlik.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970052 | 438 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Although social networking is not always acknowledged by teachers as an effective tool to help enhance and develop classroom practice, very few people are really against the idea of sharing. The intentions are always good-yes, we should share-but the reality can be very different.
Many colleagues do not share what they... | <urn:uuid:75d8364f-9872-4da5-9191-4143ba47698a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://isabellejones.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/social-network-lets-connect-and-share.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964644 | 566 | 2.59375 | 3 |
M.Env.E. 5 Year Program
The Environmental Engineering Profession
Environmental engineering is focused on the prevention and remediation of air, water, and soil contamination problems to reduce the risks to human health, water resources, and ecosystems. Environmental engineering is a discipline that evolved from civil e... | <urn:uuid:e1cfc72a-9f20-4e94-b92e-30c710a7f724> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ceweb/grad/MEnvE/index.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943903 | 1,183 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Racial disparity in breast cancer outcome linked to aggressive tumors
Malignancies of the breast can be more aggressive and associated with poorer outcome in African-Americans than other races, according to a new study. Published in the December 1, 2006 issue of CANCER (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom... | <urn:uuid:f11da805-cf7f-43e4-95b4-c7d4b6dafd8a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-10/jws-rdi101806.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95118 | 599 | 2.75 | 3 |
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