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for the benefit of the community. Justice and Equality Sikhism regards God as the true king, the king of all kings, the one who dispenses justice through the law of karma, a retributive model and divine grace. The term for justice in the Sikh tradition is Niāyā It is related to the term dharam which in Sikhism connotes... | faith's first guru,of the nine Sikh gurus who succeeded him. The tenth guru, Gobind Singh (1666–1708), named the Sikh scripture Guru Granth Sahib as his successor, bringing to a close the line of human gurus and establishing the scripture as the 11th and last eternally living guru, a religious spiritual/life guide for ... |
Structural equivalence One says that two molecules (including polyatomic ions) A and B have the same structure if each atom of A can be paired with an atom of B of the same element, in a one-to-one way, so that for every bond in A there is a bond in B, of the same type, between corresponding atoms; and vice versa. This... | of a molecule can be defined mathematically as a permutation of the atoms that exchanges at least two atoms but does not change the molecule's structure. Two atoms then can be said to be structurally equivalent if there is a structural symmetry that takes one to the other. Thus, for example, all four hydrogen atoms of ... |
double bond. The simplest examples of cis-trans isomerism are the 1,2-disubstituted ethenes, like the dichloroethene (C2H2Cl2) isomers shown below. Molecule I is cis-1,2-dichloroethene and molecule II is trans-1,2-dichloroethene. Due to occasional ambiguity, IUPAC adopted a more rigorous system wherein the substituents... | known as optical isomers, are two stereoisomers that are related to each other by a reflection: they are mirror images of each other that are non-superposable. Human hands are a macroscopic analog of this. Every stereogenic center in one has the opposite configuration in the other. Two compounds that are enantiomers of... |
damage the Dartmoor national park." Crispin Gill wrote about her in his introduction to Dartmoor – A New Study published in 1970 as having "roused the conscience of a [vast] number of people" and he described her as an indefatigable worker with an enormous knowledge; he also referred to Henry Slesser's description of h... | onwards Sayer kept up a correspondence about the military roads that lead across the northern moor from Okehampton Camp. In 1966 she and her husband deliberately interrupted live-firing exercises on Dartmoor's Royal Marines firing range to inspect and photograph any damage done to a prehistoric stone row. In February 1... |
and Comedy Central, while the three-episode Imaginationland story arc was reissued straight-to-DVD as a full-length feature in 2008. Blu-ray releases started in 2008 with the release of season twelve. Subsequent seasons have been released in this format alongside the longer-running DVD releases. The first eleven season... | the few adults the boys consistently trusted. Hayes agreed to voice the character after being among Parker and Stone's ideal candidates, which also included Lou Rawls and Barry White. Hayes, who lived and hosted a radio show in New York during his tenure with South Park, recorded his dialogue on a digital audio tape wh... |
strength to the skin. Keratinocytes from the stratum corneum are eventually shed from the surface (desquamation). The epidermis contains no blood vessels, and cells in the deepest layers are nourished by diffusion from blood capillaries extending to the upper layers of the dermis. Basement membrane The epidermis and de... | provide a distinct attachment site for muscle fibers around the gland's body. The gland alveolus is a sac that is divided into three specific regions/layers. The outer layer or tunica fibrosa is composed of densely packed connective-tissue which connects with fibers from the spongy intermediate layer where elastic fibe... |
(1 mm). It comprises an important part of the electromagnetic radiation that reaches Earth. Scientists divide the infrared range into three types on the basis of wavelength: Infrared-A: 700 nm to 1,400 nm Infrared-B: 1,400 nm to 3,000 nm Infrared-C: 3,000 nm to 1 mm. Published tables Tables of direct solar radiation on... | absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, and along with UVC causes the photochemical reaction leading to the production of the ozone layer. It directly damages DNA and causes sunburn. In addition to this short-term effect it enhances skin ageing and significantly promotes the development of skin cancer, but is also required... |
mass lost on the asymptotic giant branch, but is approximately . After carbon burning is complete, the core of these stars reaches about and becomes hot enough for heavier elements to fuse. Before oxygen starts to fuse, neon begins to capture electrons which triggers neon burning. For a range of stars of approximately ... | Sun for a few days and 1011 times the luminosity of the Sun (roughly the luminosity of the Milky Way Galaxy) for a few seconds. However, the energy is consumed by the thermal expansion of the initially degenerate core and thus cannot be seen from outside the star. Due to the expansion of the core, the hydrogen fusion i... |
Boise in 1866 which provided passenger and freight service on the upper Snake for the Boise and Owyhee mines. By the 1870s, the OSN Company, owned by the Northern Pacific Railroad, was operating seven steamboats for transporting wheat and grain from the productive Palouse region along the Snake and Columbia to lower Co... | resides beneath Yellowstone National Park. The heat from the molten rock beneath the park domes the crust up to form the Yellowstone Plateau The Snake River Plain and the gap between the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range together formed a "moisture channel," opening the way for Pacific storms to travel more than inla... |
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added to the system required to pull two quarks apart would create a pair of new quarks that will pair up with the original ones. In QCD, this phenomenon is called color confinement; as a result only hadrons, not individual free quarks, can be observed. The failure of all experiments that have searched for free quarks ... | from the strong interaction within protons and neutrons also binds nuclei together. As such, the residual strong interaction obeys a distance-dependent behavior between nucleons that is quite different from that when it is acting to bind quarks within nucleons. Additionally, distinctions exist in the binding energies o... |
Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix. 1954 – The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis. 1967 – Dagen H in Sweden: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving... | on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64. 2001 – In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. 2004 – Beslan school siege results in over 330 fatalities, including 186 children. 2010 – After taking off from Dubai International Airport, UPS Airlines Flight 6 d... |
pianist and educator (d. 2006) 1928 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist and educator (d. 2005) 1929 – Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor 1929 – Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004) 1932 – Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer 1932 – Robert H. Dennard, American electrical ... | 2013) 1921 – Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (d. 2007) 1922 – Denys Wilkinson, English physicist and academic (d. 2016) 1923 – David Hamer, Australian captain and politician (d. 2002) 1923 – Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004) 1924 – Paul Dietzel, American football playe... |
amount of oats. For example, in 1936 Barclay Perkins Oatmeal Stout used only 0.5% oats. As the oatmeal stout was parti-gyled with their porter and standard stout, these two also contained the same proportion of oats. (Parti-gyle brewing involves blending the worts drawn from multiple mashes or sparges after the boil to... | dated 1677 found in the Egerton Manuscripts, referred to its strength. The name porter was first used in 1721 to describe a dark brown beer. Because of the huge popularity of porters, brewers made them in a variety of strengths. The stronger beers, typically 7% or 8% alcohol by volume (ABV), were called "stout porters"... |
into the master's kinship group and rise to prominent positions within society, even to the level of chief in some instances. However, stigma often remained attached and there could be strict separations between slave members of a kinship group and those related to the master. Slavery was practiced in many different fo... | time, and oftentimes two to three months. These wooden stocks were made in two types: lying-down or stand-up types. women were punished, even when pregnant. They were subjected to whippings: they had to lie "face down over a scooped-out piece of round [earth] to protect their bellies." Some masters reportedly whipped p... |
A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States." 1861 – Argentine Civil Wars: The State of Buenos Aires defeats the Argentine Confederation at the Battle of Pavón. 1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of... | 1928 – Roddy McDowall, English-American actor (d. 1998) 1929 – Sil Austin, American saxophonist (d. 2001) 1929 – David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley, Northern Irish air marshal and politician 1929 – Sir Stirling Moss, English racing driver and sportscaster (d. 2020) 1930 – David Huddleston, American actor (d. 2016) 1930... |
and little is known about the coordination conditions and trade-offs that may exist among the players. From a systems perspective, a complex network structure can be decomposed into individual component firms. Traditionally, companies in a supply network concentrate on the inputs and outputs of the processes, with litt... | points that are located in different markets. The procurement team assesses the quality brought by the suppliers, buys the goods, and distributes them to various regional markets. The procurement and sourcing at centralized places helped the company to consolidate the suppliers. The company has established four central... |
levels. There are many variations on lifts and these can include partner lifts, float patterns or other areas of unique, artistic choreography intended to exceptionally impress the judges and audience. Parts There are three parts to every lift in synchronised swimming: The top (or "flyer"), the base, and the pushers. S... | leg. Crane (or Fishtail): While holding a vertical body position, one leg remains vertical while the other is dropped parallel to the surface, making a 90-degree angle or "L" shape. More specifically, a crane position requires the 90-degree angle in the legs (even if the bottom leg is submerged), while a fishtail requi... |
the breaststroke. In 1873, John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions. Butterfly was developed in the 1930s, and was considered a variant of the breaststroke until accepted as a separate style in 1953. Butterfly is considered the hardest stroke by many people, but it is the most effecti... | the most effective for all-around toning and the building of muscles. It also burns the most calories and can be the second fastest stroke if practiced regularly. In non-competitive swimming, there are some swimming strokes including sidestroke. The sidestroke toward the end of the 19th century, this pattern was change... |
and screw. He discovered the principle of mechanical advantage in the lever. Archimedes' famous remark with regard to the lever: "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth," () expresses his realization that there was no limit to the amount of force amplification that could be achieved by using mechanical ... | screw, and describes their fabrication and uses. However the Greeks' understanding was limited to the statics of simple machines (the balance of forces), and did not include dynamics, the tradeoff between force and distance, or the concept of work. During the Renaissance the dynamics of the mechanical powers, as the si... |
computers were to be phased out" along with their Manual Air Defense Control Centers at the headquarters base: "9th [at] Geiger Field… 32d, Syracuse AFS… 35th, Dobbins AFB… 58th, Wright-Patterson AFB… 85th, Andrews AFB". The 26th SAGE Division (New York, Boston, Syracuse & Bangor SAGE sectors)--the 1st of the SAGE divi... | determine where to fly to perform an interception but were often unaware of their own exact location and unable to calculate an interception while also flying their aircraft. The solution was to send all of the radar information to a central control station where operators collated the reports into single tracks, and t... |
when G is an arbitrary semigroup, but this article will only deal with subgroups of groups. Subgroup tests Suppose that G is a group, and H is a subset of G. Then H is a subgroup of G if and only if H is nonempty and closed under products and inverses. (Closed under products means that for every a and b in H, the produ... | ⊆ B or B ⊆ A. A non-example: 2Z ∪ 3Z is not a subgroup of Z, because 2 and 3 are elements of this subset whose sum, 5, is not in the subset. Similarly, the union of the x-axis and the y-axis in R is not a subgroup of R. If S is a subset of G, then there exists a smallest subgroup containing S, namely the intersection o... |
See also 1 series (disambiguation) 3 series 5 series 7 series (disambiguation) A series (disambiguation) B series (disambiguation) C series (disambiguation) D series (disambiguation) E series (disambiguation) F series (disambiguation) G series (disambiguation) H series (disambiguation) I series (disambiguation) J serie... | Series (born 1951), English mathematician, daughter of George Series George Series (1920–1995), English physicist Arts, entertainment, and media Music Series, the ordered sets used in serialism including tone rows Harmonic series (music) Serialism, including the twelve-tone technique Types of series in arts, entertainm... |
for its workstation product line, and later re-adopted the cube logo for some workstation models. In November 2005, SGI announced that it had been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange because its common stock had fallen below the minimum share price for listing on the exchange. SGI's market capitalization dwindled... | Standard Template Library (STL) with many useful extensions in the MIT-like licensed SGI STL implementation. The extension keeps being carried by the direct descendant STLport and GNU's libstdc++. Acquisition of Alias, Wavefront, Cray and Intergraph In 1995, SGI purchased Alias Research, Kroyer Films, and Wavefront Tec... |
containing a particular element gives us , or = where is the number of blocks containing any given element. From these definitions follows the equation . It is a necessary condition for the existence of that and are integers. As with any block design, Fisher's inequality is true in Steiner systems. Given the parameters... | idempotent, commutative quasigroup. It has the additional property that ab = c implies bc = a and ca = b. Conversely, any (finite) quasigroup with these properties arises from a Steiner triple system. Commutative idempotent quasigroups satisfying this additional property are called Steiner quasigroups. Resolvable Stein... |
of Fiji at 17°S and thus passes directly over the islands each sidereal day. Sirius served as the body of a "Great Bird" constellation called Manu, with Canopus as the southern wingtip and Procyon the northern wingtip, which divided the Polynesian night sky into two hemispheres. Just as the appearance of Sirius in the ... | AD given in Ptolemy's Almagest. The bright stars Aldebaran, Arcturus and Sirius were noted to have moved significantly; Sirius had progressed about 30 arcminutes (about the diameter of the Moon) to the southwest. In 1868, Sirius became the first star to have its velocity measured, the beginning of the study of celestia... |
agreement with his own identification of the Ennoia with Athena. He tells us also that he gave barbaric names to the "principalities and powers," and that he was the beginning of the Gnostics. The Law, according to him, was not of God, but of "the sinister power." The same was the case with the prophets, and it was dea... | from the Apophasis Megale. Some believe that Hippolytus' account is of a later, more developed form of Simonianism, and that the original doctrines of the group were simpler, close to the account given by Justin Martyr and Irenaeus (this account however is also included in Hippolytus' work). Hippolytus says the free lo... |
businessman and politician 1954 – Jackie Ashley, English journalist 1954 – Lorely Burt, English politician 1954 – Don Wilson, American kickboxer and actor 1955 – Pat Mastelotto, American rock drummer 1956 – Johnnie Fingers, Irish keyboard player and songwriter 1957 – Kate Burton, Swiss-born British actress 1957 – Carol... | 1976 – Marty Holah, New Zealand rugby player 1976 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player 1976 – Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer 1976 – Matt Morgan, American wrestler 1976 – Reinder Nummerdor, Dutch volleyball player 1977 – Mike DiBiase, American wrestler 1977 – Caleb Ralph, New Zealand rugby player 1978 – Julia Go... |
Serbia is among the liberated cities. 1945 – The People's Republic of Korea is proclaimed, bringing an end to Japanese rule over Korea. 1948 – Chinese Civil War: Marshal Lin Biao, commander-in-chief of the Chinese communist Northeast Field Army, launched a massive offensive toward Jinzhou, Liaoshen Campaign has begun. ... | Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (d. 1883) 1829 – Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (d. 1880) 1829 – Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (d. 1900) 1830 – William Sprague, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1915) 1837 – Louis IV, ... |
educational institution at any level and covers all of the following: preschool (for toddlers), kindergarten, elementary school, middle school (also called intermediate school or junior high school, depending on specific age groups and geographic region), high school (or in some cases senior high school), college, univ... | Byzantine education system continued until the empire's collapse in 1453 AD. In Western Europe, a considerable number of cathedral schools were founded during the Early Middle Ages in order to teach future clergy and administrators, with the oldest still existing, and continuously operated, cathedral schools being The ... |
individual Sontarans resemble one another; however, their height, skin tone, facial features, vocal timbre and accent, hair, spacing of teeth and even number of fingers have varied from story to story, and sometimes within stories. When Luke Rattigan asks how they can tell each other apart in "The Sontaran Stratagem", ... | the Sontarans' as a trial run, only to be defeated by the Doctor while Dan and Karvanista take out the main fleet. Games The origins of the Sontarans have not been revealed in the television series. The Doctor Who role-playing game published by FASA claimed that they were all descended from the genetic stock of General... |
to skate. (Public opposition, in which businesses, governments, and property owners have banned skateboarding on properties under their jurisdiction or ownership, would progressively intensify over the following decades.) By 1992, only a small fraction of skateboarders continuing to take part in a highly technical vers... | a ten-day project that transformed a federal institution formerly off-limits to the skateboarding community into a platform for that community to show its relevance through shared cultural action in a cultural common space. By raising £790,000, the Long Live Southbank initiative managed in 2017 to curb the destruction ... |
of curves. Short track speed skating takes place on a smaller rink, normally the size of an ice hockey rink, on a 111.12 m oval track. Distances are shorter than in long-track racing, with the longest Olympic individual race being 1500 meters (the women's relay is 3000 meters and the men's relay 5000 meters). Event are... | were usually conducted pack-style, similar to the marathon races in the Netherlands, but the Olympic races were to be held over the four ISU-approved distances. The ISU approved the suggestion that the speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics should be held as pack-style races, and Americans won all four gold medals. ... |
– Italian Renaissance: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David. 1504 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built. 1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known a... | 1974 – Craig Rivet, Canadian ice hockey player 1975 – Akihiro Asai, Japanese race car driver 1975 – Joe Don Rooney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1975 – Idan Tal, Israeli footballer 1976 – Ro Khanna, American politician 1976 – Craig McMillan, New Zealand cricketer, coach, and sportscaster 1976 – Elvis Mihail... |
Red Square Black "Squares", a song by That Handsome Devil from A City Dressed in Dynamite Brands and enterprises Block, Inc. an American financial services and digital payments company, formerly known as Square Inc. Square (payment system), the payment system operated by Block, Inc. Square (video game company), Japanes... | as pitches or wickets, are positioned Square leg, a fielding position in cricket Square characters and boxes ■, □, ▪, ▫ (Geometric Shapes) ㅁ, ᆷ, ᄆ (Hangul letter "m") ロ (Ro (katakana)) 口 (Kangxi radical 30, "mouth") 囗 (Kangxi radical 31, "enclosure") , the symbol of the D'Alembert operator Other uses Square (astrologic... |
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company as the "Stereoscan" in 1965, which was delivered to DuPont. Principles and capacities The signals used by an SEM to produce an image result from interactions of the electron beam with atoms at various depths within the sample. Various types of signals are produced including secon... | of light when atoms excited by high-energy electrons return to their ground state, is analogous to UV-induced fluorescence, and some materials such as zinc sulfide and some fluorescent dyes, exhibit both phenomena. Over the last decades, cathodoluminescence was most commonly experienced as the light emission from the i... |
assassination of Meir Kahane at the New York Marriott East Side, one of the first Islamist terrorist attacks in the United States. The FBI subsequently finds documents linking the attack to al-Qaeda, making it the organization's first involvement in attacks in the United States. April 1991: Bin Laden moves to Sudan and... | Southern Watch. August 23, 1996: Bin Ladin issues a fatwa declaring war on the United States, which is published in the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi in London. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York open a criminal file on him under the charge of seditious conspiracy. Septembe... |
Solicitor General of the United States, stating the flight had been hijacked and the hijackers had knives and box cutters. Two of the passengers had been on the FBI's terrorist-alert list: Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. Al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi flew to Los Angeles in January 2000 and later took flying lesso... | and Nawaf al-Hazmi. Al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi flew to Los Angeles in January 2000 and later took flying lessons in San Diego, during which time they were allegedly assisted by Omar al-Bayoumi and Saudi diplomats Fahad al-Thumairy and Mussaed Ahmed al-Jarrah. United Airlines Flight 93: Shanksville, Pennsylvania Hija... |
by September 13 it had increased capacity 30% to deal with an influx of stranded plane passengers. President George W. Bush was transported to a secure location via Air Force One. Many incoming international flights were diverted to Atlantic Canada to avoid proximity to potential targets in the US and large cities in C... | Lexington Avenue Line, which was overcrowded before the attacks and at crush density until the BMT Broadway Line reopened. Wall Street was closed until September 21. The IND Eighth Avenue Line, which has a stub terminal serving the train under Five World Trade Center, was undamaged, but covered in soot. E trains were e... |
It is open to the public during all Cal Expo events including the California State Fair and on 9/11 Hermosa Beach 9/11 Memorial, Hermosa Beach, California Manhattan Beach 9/11 Memorial, Manhattan Beach, California 9/11 Memorial (Windermere, Florida) The Garden of Reflection 9-11 Memorial is located in Memorial Park in ... | features several exhibits about the attacks and at the center is a steel beam from the World Trade Center. Hero's Memorial, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Richland Township, Pennsylvania Appleton 9/11 Memorial, Appleton, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada The Texas State Cemetery has a memorial to the September ... |
similar terrorist plots. Changes in airport security Prior to September 11, 2001, airport screening was provided in the U.S. by private security companies contracted by the airline or airport. In November 2001, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was introduced to take over all of the security functions of... | weapons or explosives. In addition to standard metal detectors, many U.S. airports now employ full-body scanning machines, in which passengers are screened with millimeter wave technology to check for potential hidden weapons or explosives on their persons. Initially, early body scanners provoked quite a bit of controv... |
It handled 127,694 people before being phased out as universal screening processes were put in place. The "call-in" registrations began in December. It initially applied to nationals of five countries, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Sudan, who were required to register by December 16, 2002. On November 6, the United Stat... | President Bush also visited the Islamic Center of Washington and asked the public to view Arabs and Muslims living in the United States as American patriots. However, Islamophobia, or the fear of, hatred of, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general, still rose. A 1600 percent surge in incidents ... |
the children of firefighters, police officers and EMT's who were killed on 9/11 from every ticket sold from her Dream Within a Dream Tour in 2001 and 2002. Emergency supplies On Thursday and Friday, September 14–15 September 2001, various relief supplies for the World Trade Center relief effort were collected from the ... | weeks following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the vast bulk going to immediate survivors and victims' families. Government assistance On September 21, 2001, the Congress approved a bill to aid the airline industry and establish a federal fund for victims. The cost of the mostly open-ended fund reached $7 billion. Vic... |
epicenter of a bomb explosion. Numerous volunteers organized to form "bucket brigades", which passed 5-gallon buckets full of debris down a line to investigators, who sifted through the debris in search of evidence and human remains. Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of ... | after spending nearly 24 hours beneath of rubble. Their rescue was later portrayed in the Oliver Stone's film, World Trade Center. In total, twenty survivors were pulled out of the rubble. The final survivor, Port Authority secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan, was rescued 27 hours after the collapse of the North Tower. S... |
who joined the call had no familiarity with or responsibility for a hijack situation, had no access to decision makers, and had none of the information available to senior FAA officials by that time. We found no evidence that, at this critical time, during the morning of September 11, NORAD’s top commanders, in Florida... | improve situational awareness and organize a common response. Lower-level officials improvised—the FAA’s Boston Center bypassing the chain of command to contact NEADS. But the highest level Defense Department officials relied on the NMCC’s Air Threat Conference, in which FAA did not meaningfully participate. First resp... |
2001 that were related to the September 11 attacks. All times, except where otherwise noted, are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), or UTC−04:00. Monday, October 1, 2001 The official count of bodies found at the site of the World Trade Center is 344; 289 have been identified. The official missing count at the World Trade ... | Lennon and Yoko Ono, is held at Radio City Music Hall and simultaneously broadcast live on the TNT and WB networks. It had been scheduled before the attack to be taped September 20 and broadcast on October 9 to promote a non-violent world. Wednesday, October 3, 2001 The official missing count at the World Trade Center ... |
the Logan International Airport garage, containing flight training manuals in Arabic. According to CNN, FBI can neither confirm nor deny this. The men had been in a fight with a man shortly before take-off; this man later recalled the incident and called the police. Before 3:50 a.m.: The Jerusalem Post reports that Osa... | Time (EDT), or UTC−04:00. September 2001 Tuesday, September 11 CBS and CNN report that a van filled with explosives has been stopped on the George Washington Bridge.According to the report, the New Jersey police claimed there were enough explosives to destroy the entire bridge. The FBI denied the report. Wednesday, Sep... |
cryptography Selected Areas in Cryptography, an annual cryptography conference Symposium on Applied Computing, an annual conference Spatial Audio Coding or MPEG Surround Biology and medicine SAC (gene) Amniotic sac Anal sac or anal gland Bursa sac or bursa Chorion Dural sac, a structure of spinal cord Egg sac, the repr... | Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales Scottish Arbitration Centre Seoul Arts Center, South Korea Service d'Action Civique, a Gaullist organisation Singapore Accountancy Commission Societas Apostolatus Catholici, a Catholic religious congregation Soldiers of Aryan Culture, an American white supremacist prison gang... |
Air Force Base, Texas 1 July 1947: Castle Air Force Base, California 21 March 1949: Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas 1 May 1949: March Air Force Base, California 1 May 1949: Fairfield-Suisun AFB, California (later Travis Air Force Base) 1 November 1949: Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana 29 September 1950: Hunter Air F... | by Major Richard S. Heyser detected Soviet intermediate range ballistic missiles in Cuba. BRASS KNOB operations involving multiple U-2 aircraft were subsequently commenced at a forward operating location at McCoy AFB, Florida the same month. On the morning of 27 October, a SAC RB-47H of the 55th Strategic Reconnaissanc... |
(+ 1/3 1/4 -1/5 -1/3i 405/50+2/3i)) x ===> 509/60+1/3i ;; Check for exactness. (exact? x) ===> #t Example 2: Same arithmetic in an implementation that supports neither exact rational numbers nor complex numbers but does accept real numbers in rational notation. ;; Sum of four rational real numbers (define xr (+ 1/3 1/4... | analyzed by reading the text of the program unit without consideration of the contexts in which it may be called. This contrasts with dynamic scoping which was characteristic of early Lisp dialects, because of the processing costs associated with the primitive textual substitution methods used to implement lexical scop... |
important works was the two-volume publication in 1886, Phantasms of the Living, concerning telepathy and apparitions, co-authored by Gurney, Myers and Frank Podmore. This text, and subsequent research in this area, was received negatively by the scientific mainstream, though Gurney and Podmore provided a defense of th... | Kingdom. Its stated purpose is to understand events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal. It describes itself as the "first society to conduct organised scholarly research into human experiences that challenge contemporary scientific models." It does not, however, since its inception in 1882, hold ... |
4), Zeiss Zielsechs 6x, Zeiss Zielacht 8x and other telescopic sights by various manufacturers like the Ajack 4x, Hensoldt Dialytan 4x and Kahles Heliavier 4x with similar features employed on German sniper rifles. Several different mountings produced by various manufacturers were used for mounting aiming optics to the... | the effect increasing with wind speed or the distance of the shot. The slant of visible convections near the ground can be used to estimate crosswinds, and correct the point of aim. All adjustments for range, wind, and elevation can be performed by aiming off the target, called "holding over" or Kentucky windage. Alter... |
Philosophy Stoicism Stoic philosophy recognizes two types of signs: indicative and commemorative (also known as "suggestive" or "mnemonic" or "recollective"). Indicative signs allow people to grasp truths about entities that have not been experienced. The indicative sign does not "admit of being observed in conjunction... | across/ messages to the human mind through their pictorial representation. Types The word sign has a variety of meanings in English, including: Sun signs in astrology Sign or signing, in communication: communicating via hand gestures, such as in sign language. Gang signal Sign, in Tracking (hunting): also known as Spoo... |
are indicated by a 'hook' (ogonek) on ę or į. Central vowels may be written as one of these series, or as reduced vowels. As in the International Phonetic Alphabet, nasal vowels get a tilde (ã). A small circle below a letter is used to mark both the schwa (e̥, also ḁ etc. for other reduced vowels) and syllabic consonan... | lenis (p’, t’, etc.), which may be the source of the modern convention for ejectives in the IPA. However, when his sources made it clear that there was some activity in the throat, he transcribed them as emphatics. When transcribing consonant letters which are pronounced the same but are etymologically distinct, as in ... |
depicted as laying eggs There are usually 6 to 8 pups to a litter. Since the gouger is footed for hillsides, it cannot stand up on level ground. If by accident a gouger falls from a hill, it can easily be captured or starve to death. When a clockwise gouger meets a counter-clockwise gouger, they have to fight to the de... | as laying eggs There are usually 6 to 8 pups to a litter. Since the gouger is footed for hillsides, it cannot stand up on level ground. If by accident a gouger falls from a hill, it can easily be captured or starve to death. When a clockwise gouger meets a counter-clockwise gouger, they have to fight to the death since... |
shot kicked using the laces of the boot "On strike", a term used to refer to the striker in cricket Strike zone, a term used in baseball Arts, entertainment, and media Films Strike (1912 film), a lost Australian film Strike (1925 film), a silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein Strike! (1998 film), a ... | economy Culture strike, refusal of artists or art institutions (arts organizations, festivals etc.) to respectively produce and show art General strike, strike action by a critical mass of the total labor force in a city, region or country Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke f... |
only acceptable theology was one based on the twin pillars of Neo-scholasticism and the encyclicals of the recent popes. When this proved insufficient to stop new ideas such as the use of the historical-critical method in Bible studies or new historical studies that cast doubt on the standard narrative of Church histor... | the titles and competences of other departments of the Roman curia; made permanent the secretariates for the Promotion of Christian Unity, for Non-Christian Religions, and for Non-Believers. Documents of the Council Vatican II's teaching is contained in sixteen documents: four "constitutions" (documents of highest impo... |
the occupying powers tried to either discourage or entirely suppress Slovene. Following World War II, Slovenia became part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Slovene was one of the official languages of the federation. In the territory of Slovenia, it was commonly used in almost all areas of public life. ... | state. After the Carinthian Plebiscite of 1920, a less severe policy of Germanization took place in the Slovene-speaking areas of southern Carinthia which remained under Austrian administration. After the Anschluss of 1938, the use of Slovene was strictly forbidden in Carinthia, as well. This accelerated a process of l... |
Slovak, like every major Slavic language other than Bulgarian and Macedonian, does not have articles. The demonstrative pronoun (fem: , neuter: ) may be used in front of the noun in situations where definiteness must be made explicit. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns Slovak nouns are inflected for case and number. There are... | of "" is . Orthography Slovak uses the Latin script with small modifications that include the four diacritics (ˇ, ´, ¨, ˆ) placed above certain letters () The primary principle of Slovak spelling is the phonemic principle. The secondary principle is the morphological principle: forms derived from the same stem are writ... |
density of superclusters means that they, unlike clusters, expand with the Hubble expansion. The number of superclusters in the observable universe is estimated to be 10 million. Existence The existence of superclusters indicates that the galaxies in the Universe are not uniformly distributed; most of them are drawn to... | George Abell in his 1958 Abell catalogue of galaxy clusters. He called them "second-order clusters", or clusters of clusters. Superclusters form massive structures of galaxies, called "filaments", "supercluster complexes", "walls" or "sheets", that may span between several hundred million light-years to 10 billion ligh... |
for more than 1,500 years, used 'Itea' (which was possibly a species of willow) as a treatment for 'painful intestinal obstructions,' birth control, for 'those who spit blood,' to remove calluses and corns and, externally, as a 'warm pack for gout.' William Turner, in 1597, repeated this, saying that willow bark, 'bein... | levels of salicylic acid can enter the blood, requiring hemodialysis to avoid further complications. Production and chemical reactions Biosynthesis Salicylic acid is biosynthesized from the amino acid phenylalanine. In Arabidopsis thaliana, it can be synthesized via a phenylalanine-independent pathway. Industrial synth... |
+ A few months later in 1974, researchers including Glenn T. Seaborg, Carol Alonso and Albert Ghiorso at the University of California, Berkeley, and E. Kenneth Hulet from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, also synthesized the element by bombarding a californium-249 target with oxygen-18 ions, using equipment ... | firmly behind the name seaborgium for element 106, together with all the other American and German naming proposals for elements 104 to 109, approving these names for its journals in defiance of IUPAC. At first, IUPAC defended itself, with an American member of its committee writing: "Discoverers don't have a right to ... |
spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. 1971 – The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska. 1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockh... | Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti (d. 1947) 1883 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950) 1886 – Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1971) 1887 – Carlos Dávila, Chilean journalist and politician, President of Chile (d. 1955) 1888 – Antonio Ascari, It... |
Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet. 2012 – Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England. 2014 – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%. 2015 – Two security personnel, 17 ... | of Camden, English politician (d. 2018) 1929 – Teddi King, American singer (d. 1977) 1929 – Nancy Littlefield, American director and producer (d. 2007) 1930 – John Tolos, Greek-Canadian wrestler (d. 2009) 1931 – Julio Grondona, Argentinian businessman (d. 2014) 1932 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astron... |
Army has ever fought. 1944 – World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, which officially ended the Continuation War. 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. 1957 – Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear expl... | from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte. 1862 – American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price. 1863 – American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the ... |
producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (d. 1989) 1921 – Chico Hamilton, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (d. 2013) 1923 – Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer (d. 2014) 1923 – Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist, academic, and politician (d. 1992) 1924 – Gogi Grant, American singe... | 1976) 1934 – Takayuki Kubota, Japanese-American martial artist and actor 1934 – Sophia Loren, Italian actress 1934 – David Marquand, English academic and politician 1934 – Jeff Morris, American actor (d. 2004) 1934 – Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and activist (d. 2015) 1935 – David Pegg, English footbal... |
of and . The International Astronomical Union (IAU) adopted the three-letter abbreviation "Ser" for the constellation in 1922. Features Stars Head stars Marking the heart of the serpent is the constellation's brightest star, Alpha Serpentis. Traditionally called Unukalhai, is a red giant of spectral type K2III located ... | in the 1920s, he elected to depict the two separately. However, this posed the problem of how to disentangle the two constellations, with Deporte deciding to split Serpens into two areas—the head and the tail—separated by the continuous Ophiuchus. These two areas became known as Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda, caput b... |
associated with the group but may not be gravitationally bound. Because most of the galaxies in this group are actually weakly gravitationally bound, the group may also be described as a filament. It is considered to be at an early stage of evolution in which galaxies are still falling into the group along filamentary ... | this group. A few other galaxies at the periphery may be associated with the group but may not be gravitationally bound. Because most of the galaxies in this group are actually weakly gravitationally bound, the group may also be described as a filament. It is considered to be at an early stage of evolution in which gal... |
formalization of the struggles over taxation between the monarch and other elements of society (especially the nobility and the cities) gave rise to what is now called the Standestaat, or the state of Estates, characterized by parliaments in which key social groups negotiated with the king about legal and economic matt... | declined rapidly from the Late Middle Ages to Early Modern Era during a process of state formation. Other research has disputed whether such a decline took place. According to Hendrik Spruyt, the modern state is different from its predecessor polities in two main aspects: (1) Modern states have greater capacity to inte... |
food products, but stevia leaf and crude extracts do not have GRAS or Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for use in food. The European Union approved Stevia additives in 2011, while in Japan, stevia has been widely used as a sweetener for decades. The plant Stevia rebaudiana has been used for more than 1,500 y... | availability of Truvia, a consumer-brand Stevia sweetener containing erythritol and Rebiana, which the FDA permitted as a food additive in December 2008. Coca-Cola announced intentions to release stevia-sweetened beverages in late December 2008. From 2013 onwards, Coca-Cola Life, containing stevia as a sweetener, was l... |
for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other planets. Scientific investigation began shortly after the advent of radio in the early 1900s, and focused international efforts have been going on since the 1980s. In 2015, Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced a well-funded effort called Br... | (36-inch) telescope. The Harvard and Princeton telescopes will be "ganged" to track the same targets at the same time, with the intent being to detect the same signal in both locations as a means of reducing errors from detector noise. The Harvard-Smithsonian SETI group led by Professor Paul Horowitz built a dedicated ... |
lies near the ecliptic, which causes the Moon, and some of the planets to occasionally pass through it for brief periods of time. The constellation is the location of the field studied by the COSMOS project, undertaken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Sextans B is a fairly bright dwarf irregular galaxy at magnitude 6.6, ... | of the field studied by the COSMOS project, undertaken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Sextans B is a fairly bright dwarf irregular galaxy at magnitude 6.6, 4.3 million light-years from Earth. It is part of the Local Group of galaxies. CL J1001+0220 is as of 2016 the most distant-known galaxy cluster at redshift z=2.506... |
The flight was scheduled to depart at 08:10, but ended up departing 10 minutes late from Gate D26 at Dulles. The last normal radio communications from the aircraft to air traffic control occurred at 08:50:51. At 08:54, Flight 77 began to deviate from its normal, assigned flight path and turned south, and then hijackers... | five terrorist hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 as part of the September 11 attacks. Al-Hazmi had a relatively long history with al-Qaeda before being selected for the attacks. He obtained a tourist visa through the Visa Express program and arrived in the United States in June 2001 where he would settle in New ... |
Ōsumi were combined to eventually establish Kagoshima Prefecture. Satsuma was one of the main provinces that rose in opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate in the mid 19th century. Because of this, the oligarchy that came into power after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 had a strong representation from the Satsuma province... | 1871, with the abolition of feudal domains and the establishment of prefectures after the Meiji Restoration, the provinces of Satsuma and Ōsumi were combined to eventually establish Kagoshima Prefecture. Satsuma was one of the main provinces that rose in opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate in the mid 19th century. Bec... |
Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn), a symphony by Felix Mendelssohn known as the Scottish See also Scotch (disambiguation) Scotland (disambiguation) Scots (disambiguation) Scottian (disambiguation) Schottische Language and nationality disambiguation pages ca:Escocès | Scottish English Scottish national identity, the Scottish identity and common culture Scottish people, a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland Scots language, a West Germanic language spoken in lowland Scotland Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn), a symphony by Felix Mendelssohn known as the |
do exist based on different wavelengths, some well away from the distribution of the visible wavelengths of light, and these apparent magnitudes vary dramatically in the different systems. For example, Betelgeuse has the K-band (infrared) apparent magnitude of −4.05. Some stars, like Betelgeuse and Antares, are variabl... | −0.49 mag. Any exact order of the visual brightness of stars is not perfectly defined for four reasons: Stellar brightness is traditionally based on the apparent visual magnitude as perceived by the human eye, from the brightest stars of 1st magnitude to the faintest at 6th magnitude. Since the invention of the optical... |
distance to the Sun for objects at these distances is parallax, which measures how much stars appear to move against background objects over the course of Earth's orbit around the Sun. As a parsec (parallax-second) is defined by the distance of an object that would appear to move exactly one second of arc against backg... | to come within and another 7 within . This number is likely much higher, due to the sheer number of stars needed to be surveyed; a star approaching the Solar System 10 million years ago, moving at a typical Sun-relative 20–200 kilometers per second, would be 600–6,000 light-years from the Sun at present day, with milli... |
astronomers John Bevis and Francis Baily. Bright stars Ptolemy saw the constellation's brightest star Gamma Sagittae as marking the arrow's head, while Bayer saw Gamma, Eta, and Theta as depicting the arrow's shaft. Gamma Sagittae is a red giant of spectral type M0 III, and magnitude 3.47. It lies at a distance of from... | sixth labour) who had claws, beaks, and wings of iron, and who lived on human flesh in the marshes of Arcadia—denoted in the sky by the constellations Aquila the Eagle, Cygnus 'the Swan', and Lyra 'the Vulture'—and still lying between them, whence the title Herculea. Greek scholar Eratosthenes claimed it as the arrow w... |
Authors. The preface to the second volume of his History of the Saracens is dated from Cambridge Castle, where he lay a prisoner for debt. Ockley maintained that a knowledge of Oriental literature was essential to the proper study of theology, and in the preface to his first book, the Introductio ad linguas orientales ... | reputation; unfortunately Ockley took as his main authority a manuscript in the Bodleian of Al-Waqidi's Futúh al-Shám, which is rather historical romance than history. A translation of Leon Modena's History of the Present Jews throughout the World (1707). The Improvement of Human Reason, exhibited in the Life of Hai Eb... |
Management Systems. SCORM 2004 This is the current version. It is based on new standards for API and content object-to-runtime environment communication, with many ambiguities of previous versions resolved. Includes ability to specify adaptive sequencing of activities that use the content objects. Includes ability to s... | that was widely used. It is still widely used and is supported by most Learning Management Systems. SCORM 2004 This is the current version. It is based on new standards for API and content object-to-runtime environment communication, with many ambiguities of previous versions resolved. Includes ability to specify adapt... |
– "envoy") elected every four years by a universal ballot. The Sejm is presided over by a speaker called the "Marshal of the Sejm" (Marszałek Sejmu). In the Kingdom of Poland, the term "Sejm" referred to an entire two-chamber parliament, comprising the Chamber of Deputies (), the Senate and the King. It was thus a thre... | established, and from 1827, a unicameral provincial sejm existed in the Grand Duchy of Poznań. Poles were elected to and represented the majority in both of these legislatures; however, they were largely powerless institutions and exercised only very limited power. After numerous failures in securing legislative sovere... |
partner, usually an established multinational company, which provides capital for the smaller company in return for marketing rights, patent rights, or equity. Corporate partnerships have been used successfully in a large number of cases. Mobilizing savings for investment When people draw their savings and invest in sh... | is little consensus among scholars as to when corporate stock was first traded. Some see the key event as the Dutch East India Company's founding in 1602, while others point to earlier developments (Bruges, Antwerp in 1531 and in Lyon in 1548). The first book in history of securities exchange, the Confusion of Confusio... |
and the source of his authority. Shoghi Effendi, the head of the Baháʼí Faith in the first half of the 20th century, also noted that the term does not indicate that the station of Jesus is superior to other prophets and messengers that Baháʼís name Manifestation of God, including Buddha, Muhammad and Baha'u'llah among ... | Manifestations of God share the same intimate relationship with God and reflect the same light, the term Sonship can in a sense be attributable to all the Manifestations. Christianity In Christianity, the title "Son of God" refers to the status of Jesus as the divine son of God the Father. It derives from several uses ... |
(cuneiform), a cuneiform sign sa (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "protection" Sa (kana) (さ and サ), a Japanese kana Saa language, spoken in Vanuatu Sanskrit (ISO 639-1 code: sa), a historical Indo-Aryan language, the liturgical language of Hinduism sine anno, Latin term for "without year" used in bibliograp... | plant hormone Spontaneous abortion Sustained action, a longer-acting form of a medication Surface area Sense of agency Computing and telecommunications .sa, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saudi Arabia Security association in the IPsec networking protocol Selective availability, a mechanism for degrading ... |
maximum effect, and that Boniface had little reason to fear for his personal safety since the Frankish fortified settlement of Büraburg was nearby. According to Willibald, Boniface later had a church with an attached monastery built in Fritzlar, on the site of the previously built chapel, according to tradition. Bonifa... | is also a series of paintings there by Timothy Moore. There are quite a few churches dedicated to St. Boniface in the United Kingdom: Bunbury, Cheshire; Chandler's Ford and Southampton Hampshire; Adler Street, London; Papa Westray, Orkney; St Budeaux, Plymouth (now demolished); Bonchurch, Isle of Wight; Cullompton, Dev... |
of energy. Electronic data storage requires electrical power to store and retrieve data. Data storage in a digital, machine-readable medium is sometimes called digital data. Computer data storage is one of the core functions of a general-purpose computer. Electronic documents can be stored in much less space than paper... | article estimated that the year 2002 was the beginning of the digital age for information storage: an age in which more information is stored on digital storage devices than on analog storage devices. In 1986, approximately 1% of the world's capacity to store information was in digital format; this grew to 3% by 1993, ... |
June 2017 UK general election, where the Conservatives won 49% of seats but not an overall majority, so that non-mainstream parties could have significant influence, Gerry Adams announced for Sinn Féin that their elected MPs would continue the policy of not swearing allegiance to the Queen, as would be required for the... | Sinn Féin lost their numerical advantage in February 2022 following the resignation of Violet-Anne Wynne. In February 2021, in Dáil Éireann, the Tánaiste criticised the party for organising a commemoration for Edward O'Brien, an IRA volunteer who died in the 1996 Aldwych bus bombing. The commemoration was organised by ... |
the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) halt construction so the building would not interfere with television reception. On May 26, 1972, the Commission declined to take action on the grounds it did not have jurisdiction. On June 30, 1972, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the previous rulings by Lake and Cook Co... | Building and cost much less per unit area. The system would prove highly influential in skyscraper construction and has been used in most supertall buildings since, including the world's current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. To honor Khan's contributions, the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois commissio... |
as bishops and abbots, by a secular authority came to be considered simoniacal and this became a key issue during the Investiture Controversy. Etymology The term "simony" originates from the Biblical passages Acts 8:9,13,18–24: Thus, Simon's name came to be applied to the practice of selling church offices for money. C... | regular. No distinction seems to have been drawn between the sale of an immediate and of a reversionary interest. The innocent simoniace promotus was, apart from dispensation, liable to the same penalties as though he were guilty. Certain matters were simoniacal by the canon law but would not be regarded as such in Eng... |
politician 1946 – Louise Simonson, American author 1946 – Claudette Werleigh, Haitian Prime Minister 1947 – Lynn Anderson, American singer and actress (d. 2015) 1947 – Philippe Lavil, French singer and actor 1947 – Dick Roth, American swimmer 1948 – Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress 1... | Compiègne. 1087 – William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100. 1212 – The Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty. 1345 – Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns. 1371 – Serbian–Turkish wars: Ottoman Turks f... |
Khabur River and to the towns of the Medes. The king of the Assyrians then brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avah, Emath, and Sepharvaim to place in Samaria. Because God sent lions among them to kill them, the king of the Assyrians sent one of the priests from Bethel to teach the new settlers about God's ordinances.... | original Holy Place of the Israelites from the time that Joshua conquered Canaan and the tribes of Israel settled the land. The reference to Mount Gerizim derives from the biblical story of Moses ordering Joshua to take the Twelve Tribes of Israel to the mountains by Shechem (Nablus) and place half of the tribes, six i... |
cannon-like booms and shakes that are heard and felt in the surrounding area. They are known locally as the Seneca Guns, Lake Drums, or Lake Guns, and these types of phenomena are known elsewhere as skyquakes. The term Lake Guns originated in the short story "The Lake Gun" by James Fenimore Cooper in 1851. There is no ... | the state. It is promoted as being the lake trout capital of the world, and is host of the National Lake Trout Derby. Because of its depth and relative ease of access, the US Navy uses Seneca Lake to perform test and evaluation of equipment ranging from single element transducers to complex sonar arrays and systems. Th... |
the narrows, at the Camarinal Sill). The Strait is expected to close again as the African Plate moves northward relative to the Eurasian Plate, but on geological rather than human timescales. Biodiversity The Strait has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because of the hundreds of thous... | Gibraltar (a British overseas territory in the Iberian Peninsula), while on the southern side are Morocco and Ceuta (a Spanish autonomous city in northern Africa). Its boundaries were known in antiquity as the Pillars of Hercules. Due to its location, the Strait is commonly used for illegal immigration from Africa to E... |
the nature and function of expertise, proper distribution of cognitive labor and resources among individuals in the communities and the status of group reasoning and knowledge. In 1987, the philosophical journal ‘’Synthese‘’ published a special issue on social epistemology which included two authors that have since tak... | Merton in a 1972 article in the American Journal of Sociology and then by Steven Shapin in 1979. However, it was not until the 1980s that the current sense of “social epistemology” began to emerge. The rise of social epistemology In the 1980s, there was a powerful growth of interest amongst philosophers in topics such ... |
on sound cards that unfavorably mentioned the Gravis Ultrasound, Computer Gaming World stated in January 1994 that, "The de facto standard in the gaming world is Sound Blaster compatibility ... It would have been unfair to have recommended anything else." The magazine that year stated that Wing Commander II was "Probab... | or generated digital signal data into an analog format. The output signal is connected to an amplifier, headphones, or external device using standard interconnects, such as a TRS phone connector. A common external connector is the microphone connector. Input through a microphone connector can be used, for example, by s... |
scalar field, a function of position with values in a set of colors or substances; as a vector field; or as a more general function on the object.) The group of isometries of space induces a group action on objects in it, and the symmetry group Sym(X) consists of those isometries which map X to itself (as well as mappi... | line in the first direction. Three dimensions Up to conjugacy the set of three-dimensional point groups consists of 7 infinite series, and 7 other individual groups. In crystallography, only those point groups are considered which preserve some crystal lattice (so their rotations may only have order 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6). ... |
might seem incongruous, as in: "It is not an actor pretending to be Reagan or Thatcher, it is, in grotesque form, the person themself." — Ian Hislop (1984); quoted in Fowler's Regional preferences The Canadian government recommends themselves as the reflexive form of singular they for use in Canadian federal legislativ... | acceptable until at least the 1960s, though some uses of he were later criticized as being awkward or silly, for instance when referring to: indeterminate persons of both sexes: "the ideal that every boy and girl should be so equipped that he shall not be handicapped in his struggle for social progress ..." — C. C. Fri... |
as the capabilities to launch, service, and retrieve satellites. The report also created three classes of a future reusable shuttle: Class I would have a reusable orbiter mounted on expendable boosters, Class II would use multiple expendable rocket engines and a single propellant tank (stage-and-a-half), and Class III ... | was Space Shuttle-specific software that provided control through all phases of flight. During ascent, maneuvering, reentry, and landing, the four PASS GPCs functioned identically to produce quadruple redundancy and would error check their results. In case of a software error that would cause erroneous reports from the... |
Cloud cover inhibits optical sensing of surface reflectance, which has led to other methods for estimating ground conditions underneath clouds. For hydrological models, it is important to have continuous information about the snow cover. Passive microwave sensors are especially valuable for temporal and spatial continu... | types, descriptions of snow crystals as they metamorphose and melt, the development of hoar frost in the snow pack and the formation of ice therein. Each such layer of a snowpack differs from the adjacent layers by one or more characteristics that describe its microstructure or density, which together define the snow t... |
the 1980s led directly to Symbolics' success during the decade. Symbolics computers were widely believed to be the best platform available for developing AI software. The LM-2 used a Symbolics-branded version of the complex space-cadet keyboard, while later models used a simplified version (at right), known simply as t... | implemented on custom integrated circuits, reducing the five cards of the original processor design to two, at a large manufacturing cost savings and with performance slightly better than the old design. The 3650, first of the G machines, as they were known within the company, was housed in a cabinet derived from the 3... |
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