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With its green leaves and bright red and pink flowers, the eastern redbud tree (Cercis canadensis) is a visual delight. The eastern redbud's early blooms of bright color herald the commencement of spring. But the sight of withering leaves and dying branches can cause a gardener's heart to clench because these are the s... | <urn:uuid:ebaae93b-a1c4-47ab-a992-437b6b10d280> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/80537-treat-cankers-eastern-redbud-tree.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920381 | 617 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Yale scientists are breaking ground on the effects of pressure on the crystalline structure of the Earth’s mantle.
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Hi, my question is;
Which of the following is/are assumptions underlying the test for the equality of two variances?
1) The samples are independent
2) Both populations are normally distributed
3) Both populations have the same mean
4) 1 and 2
5) 1 and 3
6) 1,2 and 3
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Zsigmondy, Richard Adolf, 1865–1929, Austrian-German chemist, Ph.D. Univ. of Munich, 1889. Zsigmondy was a lecturer at the Univ. of Munich (1887–1893) and at the Univ. of Graz (1893–97), then worked as an industrial chemist at the Schott Glass Manufacturing Company (1897–1900) and as a private lecturer (1900–1907). Zsi... | <urn:uuid:33e4d51e-17e4-4a3f-9959-1420c38354dd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/people/zsigmondy-richard-adolf.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923573 | 226 | 2.921875 | 3 |
What is the Environmental Health Association of Alberta (EHA-AB)?
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Social interfaces are the way a system facilitates social behaviour between users.
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An explosive fire at an Ohio fracking well was likely the cause of a chemical leak into a stream that contributed to the death of fish as far as five miles away from the the fire’s site, Ohio officials said Monday.
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History of the Investiture Dispute
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UPDATE (January 25, 2012): I've posted the interview with John Kappenman below. He puts the magnitude of this storm in perspective.
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April 18, 1864
Ladies and Gentlemen—Calling to mind that we are in Baltimore, we can not fail to note that the world moves. Looking upon these many people, assembled here, to serve, as they best may, the soldiers of the Union, it occurs at once that three years ago, the same soldiers could not so much as pass through B... | <urn:uuid:3e94dcbe-e026-45fb-a188-4677ae90e33d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/address-at-a-sanitary-fair/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97697 | 1,112 | 2.625 | 3 |
Minneapolis tap water creates less waste
Everyone who lives in Minneapolis gets clean, safe water right from their own faucets. However, residents may not realize that choosing tap water has significant environmental benefits.
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Snap! goes the crocodile. Pop! go these knobbed soft blocks as they connect to build a colorful block chain . . . and one cute croc! The perfect size and shape for babies and toddlers learning to build and count, this "snappy" play set includes a crocodile head and tai... | <urn:uuid:579404f8-5c63-4971-af3f-5bd3919b4573> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.melissaanddoug.com/crocodile-pop-blocs-baby-toddler-learning-toy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885264 | 755 | 3.1875 | 3 |
The brains of two rats on different continents have been wired together via the internet giving them telepathic-style powers.
In the first demonstration of a direct brain-to-brain connection, the animals were able to collaborate on simple tasks despite being 4,600 miles apart. In one test, when one rat moved to press a... | <urn:uuid:145ff396-dc7d-4efa-a865-92850990702b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/biology/article3702461.ece | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951839 | 126 | 3.203125 | 3 |
A Duke University study that reconstructs thousands of years of fire history in the southern Appalachians supports the use of prescribed fire, or controlled burns, as a tool to reduce the risk of wildfires, restore and maintain forest health and protect rare ecological communities in the region's forests.
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Each year, 30 typhoons and tropical storms batter the Philippines. The damage costs between $17 and $19 million per year, nearly 10 percent of the nation’s GDP. The Japanese Meteorological Agency developed a storm tracking system that measures date, time, location, wind speed, barometric pressure, and storm type every ... | <urn:uuid:02085c1b-296c-4ed2-ac94-a51930f0da4d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cpsblog.isr.umich.edu/?p=180 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938849 | 413 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Some Like It Hot
2 August 2010
Come on a journey through the extraordinary 'boom' and 'bust' cycles that characterise inland Australia with Professor Chris Dickman at the Sydney Science Forum - Some Like It Hot on Thursday 12 August 2010.
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The oral contraceptive pill, also known as the birth control pill, is currently being used by over 10 million women in the U.S. 1. A number of physicians and researchers have noted that the oral contraceptive pill (OCP) is actually an abortifacient (ie, an agent that causes an early abortion; specifically, any agent th... | <urn:uuid:e8f95353-932c-46c8-8468-9c5088c94330> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/kah/kah_03howpillworks1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946372 | 2,675 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Aug. 6, 2014
Grad student aims to improve particle accelerators
Particle accelerators, like the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), are involved in fields ranging from cancer research to archaeology, art and chemistry. New interdisciplinary research on a part of the accelerator called the photocathode by physics grad... | <urn:uuid:a48463ea-dbed-4588-9fd9-467d6c39c288> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/08/grad-student-aims-improve-particle-accelerators | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00038-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931007 | 974 | 3.515625 | 4 |
In zones 4 to 9 Lindera (spicebush) can grow up to 18 feet tall but can be pruned to a smaller size. It smells like spicy aftershave if the leaves or bark are crushed, and it grows in swamps and moist woodlands from Maine to Michigan and south to Florida and Texas.
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Alcohol poisoning, like other drug overdoses, can occur after the ingestion of a large amount of any alcoholic beverage (this includes beer, wine, and distilled spirits). But inexperienced drinkers, or those more sensitive to alcohol, may become acutely intoxicated and suffer serious consequences after drinking smaller... | <urn:uuid:c3a9e976-c549-4832-83cf-e2db767c2d66> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.laspositascollege.edu/healthcenter/CCCSMHP/index.php?p=alcohol | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94623 | 1,087 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Water Purification Tips Everyone Needs to Know
Water purification is important whether you’re planning a family camping trip or your municipal water supply to your house has been tainted. Understanding how to properly and safely purify drinking water is an essential life skill. Tainted drinking water can carry bacteria... | <urn:uuid:0372f9fe-3efa-4020-89a1-67a655011fc2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2016/01/water-purification-tips-everyone-needs-know.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941297 | 782 | 2.65625 | 3 |
“And Man grew a thumb for that he
had need of it,
And developed capacities for prey.
For the fastest men caught the most animals,
And the fastest animals got away from the most men.
Whereby all the slow animals were eaten,
And all the slow men starved to death.”
HOW THE SOIL IS MADE
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A few months back I referred to a project that used video to present information about accessibility needs in the classroom. That article was about how difficult it is to create markup for embedded video that is universally accessible and valid HTML. Late last month the larger project that used that work was released. ... | <urn:uuid:cb7bd1b3-e926-4d17-9dc5-e4d55c247dde> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dltj.org/article/fame/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903602 | 900 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The Splenius Capitus muscle is located along the back of the neck, under the muscles that are most visible. The Splenius Capitis muscle helps to support the head. When injured, it can cause severe pain.
Abnormal posture, accidents, and emotional distress are among the causes of Splenius Capitis Muscle Syndrome. The sym... | <urn:uuid:2f687e32-d32d-47d4-a465-a549fecbded2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://delawareperio.com/oral-spleniuscapitusmusclesyndrome.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93266 | 217 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Please note! As of May 24, 2000,
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Computer Science 124:
Introduction to Programming Using Java
Second Edition, Fall 1998
David J. Eck
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a paper towel
a glass or ceramic bowl (Not the good china!)
matches or a lighter
Warning! This experiment uses fire. Be sure that you have permission and that there is an adult present to help. Most of all, be sure to be careful, be safe and use common sense.
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It may be that in the near or distant future facts will be brought to light which will prove beyond a doubt that the United States had emissaries in Nova Scotia in 1888 who were paid for their services in Yankee gold.
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6 Feb 2015:
The PLOS ONE Staff
The taxonomy of the Late Jurassic pterodactyloid pterosaur Pterodactylus scolopaciceps Meyer, 1860 from the Solnhofen Limestone Formation of Bavaria, Germany is reviewed. Its nomenclatural history is long and complex, having been synonymised with both P. kochi (Wagner, 1837), and P. antiq... | <urn:uuid:e87afecf-b03d-43b6-bdc9-505fa357ef9d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0110646 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.846226 | 17,997 | 2.75 | 3 |
World's largest spitting cobra discovered in East Africa13/07/2007 00:00:00
December 2007. A new giant species of spitting cobra, about 2.6 metres long and with enough venom to kill up to 20 people in one bite, has been discovered in Kenya.
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Building physical endurance takes time, patience and determination. Here are a few tips on how to get started.
Before You Exercise
1Consult with your physician or physical therapist before starting a new exercise routine.
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Facts About Italy
Fun Facts About Italy. Bet You Didn't Know!
Fun Facts About Italy. Bet You Didn't Know!
story/rome-history.asp" target="_blank">Rome was founded in 753 BC.
Here are some interesting facts that you might not know about Italy, its people, and its history:
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Automakers Eye Weight Reductions to Meet Fuel Economy Goals
October 25, 2012 9:45 AM
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Hydroforming and new welding methods help reduce vehicle weight
New CAFE standards
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The Diabetes and Cancer Link
What you need to know.
One more thing to add to the "forewarned is forearmed" list: researchers have found several connections between diabetes and cancer.
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A PORTFOLIO OF PORTRAITS
Millions and millions of people have treaded upon this country and each one has shaped this country according to his actions and beliefs. It is hard to recollect all the contributors to the making of the new India that is now prevailing, instead let us see a few examples from myriad fields.
MAH... | <urn:uuid:145752b0-f1ba-4f57-a88f-f7e3867c37ff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.indianmirror.com/makers/mak1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985221 | 6,083 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Amman is the capital and largest city of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Amman is the country's political, cultural and commercial centre and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Amman is a regional hub in communications, transportation, medical tourism, education, and investment. Jordan is in... | <urn:uuid:62f8de34-3c05-47b1-ba10-80fa2dbf9b99> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.xpatulator.com/cost-of-living-review/Jordan-Amman_106.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944118 | 765 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Diabetes is set to become the next big health crisis in America.
A new study published in the the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Journal predicts that 40 percent of Americans born between the years 2000 and 2011 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. That is more than double the number in the population born in th... | <urn:uuid:f9c591fe-d37c-4396-8abc-103c784c9bcc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/postings/2014/08/081814_diabetes.epidemic.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955586 | 578 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Salads and nutrients
Salads can be a good way to get your daily nutrients. Salads can be a good way to increase your daily intake of fiber, too. However, not all salads are healthy or nutritious. It depends on what is in the salad.
Prepare salads with colorful vegetables. If you have plenty of fresh vegetables in the s... | <urn:uuid:a720842c-e19d-45d6-8108-3343684dfd9d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://ufhealth.org/salads-and-nutrients | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.809595 | 278 | 2.875 | 3 |
Petrarch's Rough Neighborhood
Taken with the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), this image shows part of the impact basin Petrarch, named for the 14th century Italian scholar, poet, and "Father of Humanism" Francesco Petrarca. Much of the surface near Petrarch is unusually rough and textured. The Mariner 10 team informally dub... | <urn:uuid:cb4636aa-3dd3-4448-b1f3-78a1c7a0a821> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/multimedia/messenger_orbit_image20110913_1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94239 | 159 | 3 | 3 |
How To Learn By Making Mistakes
When does doing something wrong actually make things better?
When does doing something wrong actually make things better? Scientific American reports that new research supports the idea that challenging tests, and pretesting (taking tests without studying) can help students better learn ... | <urn:uuid:5a56b1a7-a5dd-4035-a9ea-d34b8b18d2e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.psfk.com/2010/02/how-to-learn-by-making-mistakes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949762 | 246 | 3.59375 | 4 |
National Climate Emergency Rally Melbourne June 2009
From Greenlivingpedia, a wiki on green living, building and energy
National Climate Emergency rallies were held across Australia on Saturday June 13, 2009.
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The economy has gotten a lot of Americans down, but some are still giving a thumbs up -- a green thumb, that is.
Vegetable gardens are popping up across the country around homes of Americans looking for an economical way to eat healthy. Even the first family got in on the act. Last week Michelle Obama broke ground on a... | <urn:uuid:f57efbb1-edd7-4119-99c5-248fd4a1adce> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=7177985&page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963849 | 737 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Port forwarding opens certain ports on your home or small business network, usually blocked from access by your router, to the Internet. Opening specific ports can allow games, servers, BitTorrent clients, and other applications to work through the usual security of your router that otherwise does not permit connection... | <urn:uuid:e97fe7e4-318d-4ea4-b2ba-633e3670f9ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wikihow.com/Set-Up-Port-Forwarding-on-a-Router | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00168-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.861768 | 2,220 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Teacher Education and Training
At the World Education Forum in 2000, the international community defined the global Education for All (EFA) agenda as relating to six areas. Three quantifiable goals were set for 2015: halving the number of illiterates, universal primary education and gender equality, the latter two bein... | <urn:uuid:60a6410c-bb47-415c-a8b0-c82110b012c2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.unesco.org/new/en/newdelhi/areas-of-action/education/teacher-education-and-training/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915694 | 425 | 3.09375 | 3 |
NASA gives us this newly released image of Europa created from images taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1997 and 1998.
Click the image to get a good look at the amazing terrain!
The following caption from JPL/NASA:
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In this video, This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook and composting specialist Ann McGovern show how to transform kitchen scraps and yard waste into highly prized compost.
1. Make a composting bin by driving four steel stakes into the ground, and then encircling the stakes with welded-wire fencing.
2. Fill the... | <urn:uuid:2750f056-25d1-4b8b-8b9f-6e4c8484c869> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/video/0,,20812592,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935474 | 306 | 2.6875 | 3 |
One of the most powerful aspects of Linux concerns its open method of starting and stopping the operating system, where it loads specified programs using their particular configurations, permits you to change those configurations to control the boot process, and shuts down in a graceful and organized way.
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Overview of Structural Racism
Structural racism includes the aspects of our history and culture that have allowed the privilege associated with 'whiteness' and the disadvantage of 'color' to endure and adapt over time. A discussion of structural racism points out the ways in which public policies and institutional prac... | <urn:uuid:909dd2c8-b24e-4979-9918-3719d1221c12> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://secure40.securewebsession.com/racialequity.site.aplus.net/ci-issues-sr.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890677 | 349 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Eight hours after the attacks, Donald Rumsfeld
, then U.S. Secretary of Defense, declares "The Pentagon is functioning."
At 8:32 a.m., Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials were notified Flight 11 had been hijacked and they in turn notified the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). NORAD scrambled... | <urn:uuid:263736a5-4f80-42ec-90b2-f46ce2c1218e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://sites.google.com/site/the911disaster/links | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957645 | 5,485 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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How Better Dairy Farm Management Increases Your Conception Rates
October 7th, 2015
A herd's fertility is possibly the single most important factor in dairy farm herd management that needs to be constantly tracked and analyzed. Poor herd fertility is a complex issue, with several factors influencing it, inc... | <urn:uuid:606ee978-ca55-41d0-9f7e-154acec01e16> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.afimilk.com/afiblog/how-better-dairy-farm-management-increases-your-conception-rates | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937271 | 1,056 | 2.875 | 3 |
This stereoscopic image pair is a perspective view that shows the western part of the city of Pasadena, California, looking north toward the San Gabriel Mountains. Portions of the cities of Altadena and La Canada Flintridge are also shown. The cluster of large buildings left of center, at the base of the mountains, is ... | <urn:uuid:d799ab78-dc72-47b5-b020-acc9f0a7074d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02737 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88563 | 571 | 3.484375 | 3 |
PSC Brown Bags
will resume fall 2016
Review originally in Contemporary Sociology 37, 5. Reproduced with permission of the reviewer.
Family formation processes have changed dramatically in recent decades. Increases in cohabitation, non-marital parenting, and family disruption, in conjunction with changing gender roles, ... | <urn:uuid:563fd951-3e70-419a-ac93-c42bf71ee5a1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/books/marriage_and_cohabitation/review-sassler.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950159 | 1,147 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Believe me when I tell you this is a constant struggle. It's one that I probably fail at a good portion of the time. I had some success with this particular one, and hence, I'm putting it here. Plus, I regularly help children focus on the small successes, those that build up to larger ones, so why not afford myself the... | <urn:uuid:a214ca79-4da8-4f5a-8fef-68d57eb78838> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://skirted.blogspot.com/2011/02/adapting-and-balancing-projects.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973253 | 495 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The Workhouse often evokes the grim Victorian world of Oliver Twist, but its story is a fascinating mix of social history, politics, economics and architecture. This site is dedicated to the workhouse — its buildings, inmates, staff and administrators, light its poets... Learn More >
Up to 1834
In 1732, the second edit... | <urn:uuid:c9f82f6e-4462-4350-b7bc-52e984a37461> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://iowhospitals.org.uk/workhouse.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965525 | 3,188 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Cervical Spine Problems: Disk
The spine has three natural curves. The cervical curve is located in the neck. It forms the top part of the spine. For this reason, it is also called the cervical spine. This sheet tells you more about the parts of the cervical spine and damaged disks. This is a common problem that can aff... | <urn:uuid:cbcddafa-1e09-4830-ab32-2ccb729f189e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fairview.org/HealthLibrary/Article/84755 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948603 | 408 | 3.375 | 3 |
Synthetic-speech researchers at IBM have been tackling a much tougher challenge: making computers say anything a live person could say, and in a voice that sounds natural. (Hear a sample by clicking here.) For example, we've developed systems that can "read" a breaking news story or a bunch of e-mail messages aloud ove... | <urn:uuid:3fdb95a7-4bdb-4f23-971e-3705591628e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/making-computers-talk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958676 | 2,538 | 3.609375 | 4 |
The climate-denial blog-and-twitosphere -- also known as the "Denyosphere" -- is abuzz with the news: Greenpeace admits live on the BBC that it lied about arctic melting.
That's not true, it's being promoted by the handful of global warming skeptics still standing, and we're hitting back. You can help us by tweeting, b... | <urn:uuid:2dc54350-abbd-46c2-a6bd-c2889dfa7e9e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/greenpeace-admits-bbc-got-it-wrong-about-arct/blog/10361/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970522 | 848 | 2.703125 | 3 |
This ‘tactile helmet’, developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield, could provide vital information to firefighters operating in hard conditions and could give important clues about their surroundings.
Inspired by research into tactile sensing in rodents
The helmet was Invented by a team of researchers at t... | <urn:uuid:328d6936-dbf0-4dfb-b9ae-fac09009f7cf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://fashionlab.3ds.com/sensory-helmet-helps-firefighters-navigate-in-the-dark/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967038 | 560 | 3.578125 | 4 |
New Projects - Fresh from the Labs
We've covered Tor in LJ before (see Kyle Rankin's “Browse the Web without a Trace”, January 2008), but that was some time ago, and this subject seems to be more timely with each passing day. Also, with Tor being at only 0.2.x status, it still qualifies as software in development, so I... | <urn:uuid:74de9781-12be-4a44-a32e-4c4a30cef184> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10705 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923944 | 1,692 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Arika Okrent explores the rise and fall of Volapük – a universal language created in the late 19th century by a German priest called Johann Schleyer.
Johann Schleyer was a German priest whose irrational passion for umlauts may have been his undoing. During one sleepless night in 1879, he felt a Divine presence telling ... | <urn:uuid:31be3415-5fa8-4c42-b846-7a8a325821a5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/10/17/truth-beauty-and-volapuk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956614 | 1,853 | 3.4375 | 3 |
17 August 2012
An upcoming lecture will explore how the technology of ancient Greece, Rome and the medieval Arab world was employed to construct replicas of life.
Dr Alan Dorin, a senior lecturer in Monash University’s Faculty of Information Technology, will discuss the way technology was used to build ‘living sculptur... | <urn:uuid:c3a20e72-621e-47ec-894a-e63a634af3c8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.monash.edu.au/news/show/technology-alive-and-well-in-the-ancient-world | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945878 | 432 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Difficult Choices, 1942
During the first half of 1942,
several routes to a bomb via uranium
continued to be explored.
At Columbia University, Harold Urey
worked on the gaseous
diffusion and centrifuge
systems for isotope separation
the codenamed SAM (Substitute or Special Alloy Metals) Laboratory. At
Berkeley, Ernest L... | <urn:uuid:4d07c8d5-c807-4d76-9d66-b3414782225a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.osti.gov/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942/more_uranium.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91527 | 1,123 | 3.34375 | 3 |
This guest post is by professor Peter Barrett, executive producer, and Suze Keith, marketing advisor for Thin Ice.
Scientists can tell human stories about climate change, and a group of us have been working on just that for the last few years. We’ve produced a film — Thin Ice – the inside story of climate change — whic... | <urn:uuid:9f40b910-1ae7-479e-b5a7-aef7527b9670> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hot-topic.co.nz/thin-ice-what-polar-science-is-telling-us-about-climate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951621 | 598 | 3.03125 | 3 |
The History of Washington
Seattle Daily Times, 27 Apr 1912, page 2
With the indorsement of a number of North Pacific Mariners, Freeman W. Brown, 80 years old, a pioneer Tacoman, will send his plans for an unsinkable lifeboat to Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the Senate committee now investigating the Titanic ... | <urn:uuid:4ee9003e-262a-468e-94b1-d015636290d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~larry7912/Bio/freeman-w-brown.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975728 | 1,874 | 3.03125 | 3 |
The technology of combining a number of optical wavelengths and then transmitting the same through a single fibre is called wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). Conceptually, the technology is similar to that of frequency division multiplexing (FDM) used in analogue transmission. Dense wavelength division multiplexi... | <urn:uuid:6ce62220-451b-4b41-9ac2-025678c183f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://seminarprojects.com/Thread-dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing-download-full-seminar-report | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914829 | 3,958 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Lettuce is one of the easier crops to grow, and can easily be started from seeds. Lettuce seeds are very small therefore you have to be careful when you break open the seed package. Sometimes the outer seed packer will then have a small inner seed package, as the seeds would get lost in the larger display package that ... | <urn:uuid:55e3bed2-54c5-458a-9ea6-214afd8b5f81> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ohmygarden.com/how-to-grow-lettuce-from-seed.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955735 | 713 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Mapping the disease
Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) is a transmissible cancer which is passed from devil to devil through close contact. The live tumour cells aren’t rejected by the animal’s immune system because the devil’s immune system doesn’t recognise these cells as foreign.
DFTD has been confirmed in devil pop... | <urn:uuid:aa0130e5-592f-4d7a-88df-fde2dbb77970> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/tasdevil.nsf/Mapping-the-disease/A140AACCA1B1F6B0CA2576CB0011BD2C | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970591 | 614 | 3.375 | 3 |
The Role of Health Care in the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa: Evidence From Kenya
November 3, 2006
Stuart Brody of the University of Paisley in Scotland and Eva Deuchert of the University of Freiburg in Germany analyzed data from the 2003 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey of 1,620 pregnant women who did not report bei... | <urn:uuid:46bbe001-c27e-4665-bb48-3857ce598318> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thebody.com/content/art38664.html?nxtprv | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00037-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938357 | 335 | 2.640625 | 3 |
An international research team, including biologists from NOAA Fisheries Service, has reported in an online scientific journal that it had failed to find a single Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji, during a six-week survey in China. The scientists fear the marine mammal is now extinct due to fishing and commercial develo... | <urn:uuid:afd667db-8a91-4f16-83ad-618f5ca359a2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/nnmf-sfr091107.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00145-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952 | 936 | 3.140625 | 3 |
THE KNOWLEDGE TOOLBOX
How to start a Walking School Bus
By Rathiha Egbert
Are you fed up with chaotic congestion around your child’s school? Do you feel frustrated
when you and your child are forced to dodge traffic and suck in exhaust fumes at the school’s
Then it’s time to park your gas-guzzler and get on board the w... | <urn:uuid:4fe6d138-e9ac-4c71-91b7-539954e90133> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/mj06/indepth/knowledgetoolbox.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924442 | 579 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Issue Date: January 26, 2009
With the discovery of an elusive band of infrared emissions spectra in Venus' atmosphere, astronomers now have a tool to monitor key species associated with "nightglow" in planetary environments.
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In late November, 2013 the second-named winter storm of the 2013-2014 season moved across the United States, bringing a mix of snow, rain, ice and wind from California to Maine. According to the Weather Channel, roughly 58 million Americans were affected by either snow or ice from the Desert Southwest to northern New E... | <urn:uuid:84f68fd1-515e-4d64-bb78-5a6364b16661> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2013-12-05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960772 | 594 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Fox spirits arrived in Japan in the late seventh century. Although
the first signs of their arrival were modest, they flourished, and
soon were one of the staples of Japanese folklore. They even did
what their Chinese sisters failed to do: They were accepted as part
of the official religion. Today, statues of the rice-... | <urn:uuid:47ac38e4-317b-4094-ae84-7354a5ac8dd3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://academia.issendai.com/fox-japanese.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.820877 | 2,440 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Water quality is quickly becoming one of the most pressing planet-wide environmental concerns of the 21st century. Life depends on it, and yet access to clean water is growing increasingly difficult. The New York Times, in a five-part series titled “Toxic Waters” outlined many of the problems: from over-flowing and agi... | <urn:uuid:6a597bf2-e4f0-4abd-a6fd-a3371e5bbf63> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.slvec.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960375 | 1,402 | 3.15625 | 3 |
A Canadian-led team of scientists has discovered a fossil bonanza in southern British Columbia that sheds new light on the world-famous Burgess Shale site 40 kilometres to the north — and introduces a previously unknown predator from the dawning era of animal life.
The discovery near Stanley Glacier in Kootenay Nationa... | <urn:uuid:c8559230-b7f4-4b20-b128-5f28a2e16ee3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Scientists+find+fossil+bonanza+southern/3460773/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953308 | 824 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Reef Check divers teach the value of reef ecosystems
Learning to dive could be the greatest decision one could make; by attaching a scuba set to breathe underwater you are open to the many possibilities that the ocean has to offer, and in turn, you could help conserve the magnificent species of life that live amongst t... | <urn:uuid:78d9ec70-6d5d-428b-8f10-a38868fef102> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.supergreenme.com/go-green-environment-eco:Reef-Check-divers-teach-the-value-of-reef-ecosystems | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950257 | 926 | 3.21875 | 3 |
A physics student and dentistry professor might not have found what they were looking for, but what they did uncover could kick start changes in how teeth are repaired.
Since late August, fourth-year physics student Nicole Nagy has been working alongside Assem Hedayat, an assistant professor of dental materials. The tw... | <urn:uuid:52c1e086-36c5-490a-9917-d643d6708dc3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://words.usask.ca/news/2013/12/11/research-result-could-change-tooth-repair/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963873 | 926 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Tanning & Sun Exposure
Some people think having a tan gives them a "healthy glow." But a tan really shows that the skin is trying to protect itself from sun damage. Sun damage can lead to premature aging (wrinkles!), eye damage, and skin cancer. Even "indoor tanning" is not without risk.
Tanning beds and lamps can expo... | <urn:uuid:9c517f5d-5184-4f09-8f83-39a8289ab56f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pamf.org/teen/health/skin/sun.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945333 | 1,020 | 3.078125 | 3 |
You can tell a lot about a person by their choice of football boot. The choice has never been bigger either - sports shop walls are adorned with neon rainbows, space age technology we mortals may never truly understand and moulded studs that make it possible to stay above land during a wet Scottish Sunday league match.... | <urn:uuid:67f2fd35-b6b4-4d4a-971e-5786882b199a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/players/mesut-ozil/12110964/Mesut-Ozil-is-laceless-A-short-history-of-the-football-boot.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973245 | 2,435 | 2.5625 | 3 |
| Blue Marsh Lake is a 1,150-acre impoundment constructed from 1974 to 1979 by the US Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) on Tulpehocken
Creek in western Berks County. The lake is located approximately 6 miles northwest of the City of Reading and is partially
bordered by State Route 183. As an ACOE impoundment the primary f... | <urn:uuid:8b3c7f71-93ba-4d81-9b0d-02315db382e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fish.state.pa.us/images/fisheries/afm/2008/6x07_24bluemarsh.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947497 | 772 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The Butter Dairy
This, if pursued on the same farm with the cheese dairy, and at different seasons of the year, may be carried on in the lower parts of the same building. But as it is usually a distinct branch of business, when prosecuted as the chief object on a farm, it should have accommodations of its own kind, whi... | <urn:uuid:8ca47059-71b2-4838-91c6-daf6e2dba8bd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scarystories.ca/GhostStory/The-Butter-Dairy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960185 | 2,351 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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Maintenance & Operations Article Use Policy
Restroom odors can create major problems for housekeeping managers. Many institutional and commercial facilities carry out the ba... | <urn:uuid:458cd6f0-5704-4ffa-a3ca-a10717a84b5e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.facilitiesnet.com/maintenanceoperations/article/Restroom-Remedies-Keeping-Odors-Under-Control--1733 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928523 | 1,322 | 2.9375 | 3 |
On Friday, March 7, 2014 12:04:09 AM UTC-6, swtch...@gmail.com wrote: > That's a very good point, thank you. > > The theorem does not guarantee a pattern or an algorithm. > > Only that there are 4 colors that exist to fill the map. > > Then what are the approaches or methods that are used to > > actually prove the theo... | <urn:uuid:78f44110-d10e-4b23-899d-ed136f04daf1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=9407049 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93821 | 393 | 2.859375 | 3 |
This text was copied from Wikipedia on 24 June 2016 at 3:24PM.
|Catherine of Valois|
|Queen consort of England|
|Tenure||2 June 1420 – 31 August 1422|
|Coronation||23 February 1421|
|Born||(1401-10-27)27 October 1401
|Died||3 January 1437(1437-01-03) (aged 35)
|Burial||Westminster Abbey, London|
|Spouse||Henry V of Eng... | <urn:uuid:ecff244e-a53f-4dc5-a8db-db88e69f3c6d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/13353/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964883 | 2,458 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Project: Water Quality in Washington State
Contact Name: Lisa Page (email@example.com)
School: Southridge High School
Date Completed: Winter 2003
Details: Five students sat at a long table and went through a PowerPoint show on water quality in Washington state. They included information on laws that affect water qualit... | <urn:uuid:11dc98ea-2c64-45ff-972c-bef58c8b8dfd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://whs.wsd.wednet.edu/Faculty/Young/YNHC/Map%20Sites/kennewick__page.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954586 | 131 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Grandma's Notes on Parenting is a simple, easy to read book for parents on how to become a positive role model so their children will become responsible adults. Brenda combines her personal experiences with extensive research to challenge parents and grandparents to take a good look at their parenting methods and give ... | <urn:uuid:a29c5fcb-4241-4f6e-865d-cab3b26d23f9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.blurb.ca/b/4481623-grandma-s-notes-on-parenting | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960533 | 227 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Nowadays, the very phrase "biblical archeology" is regarded by some scholars as an oxymoron. For an archeologist to sink a shovel-blade in the soil of the Holy Land with the specific goal of validating the events and personalities described in the Bible, the argument goes, is both anti-historical and anti-scientific. T... | <urn:uuid:96509cb1-f11c-46c4-aa13-1c5e2d8f0bb9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jan/06/local/me-9147 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96455 | 1,025 | 3 | 3 |
Succulents are plants with thick, fleshy leaves and stems that specialize in water storage. More than 60 plant families are considered succulents. There are a variety of forms and sizes of these plants, including cacti. In mild or arid conditions, succulents can grow outdoors, otherwise they are commonly found as house... | <urn:uuid:91b0083b-3277-44cb-921b-3a12f01a5314> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/88396-common-names-succulent-plants.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 | 0.728449 | 790 | 3.265625 | 3 |
- 26 May 2016
- From the section Africa
A breakaway, semi-desert territory on the coast of the Gulf of Aden, Somaliland declared independence after the overthrow of Somali military dictator Siad Barre in 1991.
The move followed a secessionist struggle during which Siad Barre's forces pursued rebel guerrillas in the ter... | <urn:uuid:d7eaa35f-e503-433a-81da-c6657d242c31> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14115069 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936589 | 657 | 3.140625 | 3 |
FROM: History of the Morgan Family, A Merchant in Dderw (Thurrow) of Llandaff, Family History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
With his brother, James and John, he sailed from Bristol on the ship "Mary" and arrived at Boston in April 1636. They liv... | <urn:uuid:df31d347-b216-4f26-b27c-d16db7ceca73> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ritaren.tripod.com/miles.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985861 | 964 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Imagine this: your diabetic child has just gotten up, had a blood test, received the morning's insulin shot and eaten breakfast. Then, without warning, the child throws up breakfast. She also says that she felt bad when she woke up. What do you do?
Managing sick days is not as hard as it might seem. Here are a few guid... | <urn:uuid:d005369b-1d10-4aba-b5ff-afc5853866e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/d_0n_900.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944335 | 392 | 2.984375 | 3 |
A monkeypox victim in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Dr. Robert Shongo / DRC Ministry…)
It was 30 years ago this year that the last smallpox vaccination was given worldwide, after the disease had officially been declared eradicated. But the elimination of smallpox vaccinations has, ironically, led to the emerge... | <urn:uuid:4c2cf7d0-b95c-479c-83b1-a2cedd2079bd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/30/news/la-heb-monkeypox-20100839 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972155 | 719 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Finance History: Electronic Money Transfers
About the prospect of electronic money transfers written at at time when banks, accounts, and credit cards were processed through paper work.
ELECTRONIC MONEY TRANSFER:
A FUTURE REALITY?
Cash payments have been replaced by credit cards and payment by check. However, the paper... | <urn:uuid:06db82aa-7898-421d-97f9-ef0bb5de681a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.trivia-library.com/a/finance-history-electronic-money-transfers.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942677 | 720 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Making beads of polymer clay can be a very simple or very complex process. If something has a hole going all the way through it that can be used for stringing,it can be either a pendant (meaning that it hangs down from the top) or a bead.
Beads can be round, tubular, shaped like river rocks, shaped like lentils, bicone... | <urn:uuid:204b8de0-c794-4f85-8a41-2ccd4c5b8d86> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.polyclay.com/polymer-clay/beads/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945234 | 1,374 | 2.515625 | 3 |
A standard die has the numbers 1, 2 and 3 are opposite 6, 5 and 4 respectively so that opposite faces add to 7? If you make standard dice by writing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on blank cubes you will find. . . .
Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour ... | <urn:uuid:c7638f7e-bff7-4413-bcfc-cc9a66746160> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nrich.maths.org/public/leg.php?code=-68&cl=3&cldcmpid=1210 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939964 | 1,883 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Tutorial Chapter 2: What are the basic elements of the research code of ethics?
In reaction to experiments conducted by the Nazis during World War II, the Nuremberg Code was issued by the Nazi War Crimes Tribunal in 1947. This was the first internationally recognized code of research ethics. It stressed the importance ... | <urn:uuid:06a67d81-5063-421f-ba4f-d12d93a14af5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nyu.edu/ucaihs/tutorial/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943584 | 334 | 3.765625 | 4 |
Mordants are indispensible in histological microtechnique. Our most common staining methods would not be possible without them, the H&E is a good example. Despite their importance there is sometimes some confusion as to what mordants are, or are not. The term is often applied to agents that are, in fact, not true morda... | <urn:uuid:6643e91d-115e-442d-b8ba-041f3e454f07> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://stainsfile.info/StainsFile/theory/mordant.htm | 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 | 0.942762 | 1,340 | 3.515625 | 4 |
1. Exploring Your Own Culture.
As you will discover, working with people who stutter and their families involves much more than simply working on the aspects of speaking. Whether you work with a young child or an adult, you will need to consider the beliefs and attitudes towards stuttering, and towards communication in... | <urn:uuid:a13edcc1-096a-4a96-8857-77311d853e21> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/teaching/syllabi/osborne2006/exploringculture.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929597 | 961 | 3.046875 | 3 |
The sins of the father. The traumas and memories, too.
Researchers have found evidence that we (well, mice) really can pass life experience down through the generations. A study this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience is one more data point in the field of “transgenerational epigenetic inheritance” -- marrying the... | <urn:uuid:78f2a1ae-cde9-4767-8782-cebdb39abee7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/anxious-parents-kids_n_4378875.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961832 | 512 | 2.6875 | 3 |
In the simple game below you start with a sequence of numbers. Taking turns you
and your computer place either plus or minus sign between any two successive numbers.
When all empty spaces have been filled, the arithmetic expression is evaluated. You
win if the result is odd. If the result is even, your computer is the ... | <urn:uuid:6d6bfe0c-3a33-46bf-be06-df1f8c5cf10f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ctkmathgamesforkids.com/Games/pm.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877572 | 148 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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