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Frederick E.R. Johnson, became an attorney and a Chief Justice of the country, serving 1929–1933. Johnson became politically active. He was appointed as Secretary of State by President Edward James Roye, an African-American who had emigrated to Liberia the year before independence in 1847. In 1884 Johnson was nominated... | born in Monrovia in the colony. His parents were Elijah Johnson, one of the original African-American settlers who founded the colony at Cape Mesurado, and his second wife Rachel Wright (b. 1798), another early settler. Johnson was educated in the colony at Alexander High School and later taught at Liberia College, wit... |
destruction of the Temple. The Romaniotes traditionally gave to a child a mystical document known as an "aleph". This hand-painted "birth and circumcision certificate" was created by a family member and then handed down. The aleph was written in mystical codes for the purpose of warding off the wiles of Lillith, Adam's... | made up 10% of the city's population. The forced resettlement, though not intended as an anti-Jewish measure, was perceived as an "expulsion" by the Jews. Nevertheless, the Romaniotes would remain the most influential Jewish community in the Empire for decades to come, determining the Chief Rabbis of the towns and the ... |
to return home to suppress it. By July 245 BC, the Seleucids had recaptured Mesopotamia. The Egyptian revolt is significant as the first of a series of native Egyptian uprisings which would trouble Egypt for the next century. One reason for this revolt was the heavy tax-burdens placed on the people of Egypt by Ptolemy ... | federation of Greek city-states in the Peloponnese that were united by their opposition to Macedon. From 243 BC, Ptolemy III was the nominal leader (hegemon) and military commander of the League and supplied them with a yearly payment. After 240 BC, Ptolemy also forged an alliance with the Aetolian League in northwest ... |
Psalm 84—with the mastic plant. The word bakha appears to be derived from the Hebrew word for crying or weeping, and is thought to refer to the "tears" of resin secreted by the mastic plant, along with a sad weeping noise which occurs when the plant is walked on and branches are broken. The Valley of Baca is thought to... | (to chew), in Greek: μαστιχάω verb mastichein ("to gnash the teeth", the English word completely from the Latin masticate) or massein ("to chew"). Within the European Union, mastic production in Chios is granted protected designation of origin and protected geographical indication names. Although the tree is native to ... |
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parallel harmony presentation Acts of the Apostles#Outline Events of Revelation External links Great Stories of the Bible - an index of bible stories in the Christian Bible (Old Testament | and from the Christian New Testament. List of Hebrew Bible events List of New Testament pericopes Gospel harmony#A parallel harmony presentation Acts of the Apostles#Outline Events of Revelation External links Great Stories |
and Ezekiel, but there were also many other unknown authors. All of the stories in the Hebrew Bible are from before the birth of Jesus. This includes the beginning of the earth story in Genesis and other stories about the Jews interacting with God through prophets. The New Testament is the story of Jesus, along with th... | words from God. Stories in the Bible also help to show examples of how Christians should live their lives on a day to day manner. Any story that a person can learn a lesson from is called a parable, and the Bible is full of them. Authors Although some believe that it is God's direct word in the Bible, humans actually p... |
the World. In his final letter to the Scouts, Baden-Powell wrote: I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have a happy life too. I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness does not come from being rich, nor merely being successful in your career, nor by self-i... | Tunbridge Wells and was given a scholarship to Charterhouse, a prestigious public school named after the ancient Carthusian monastery buildings it occupied in the City of London. However while he was a pupil there, the school moved out to new purpose-built premises in the countryside near Godalming in Surrey. He played... |
century BC, but John Van Seters thinks this unlikely. Goshen in Egypt According to the Joseph narrative in the Book of Genesis, the sons of Jacob (Israel) who were living in Hebron, experienced a severe famine that lasted for seven years. Word was that Egypt was the only kingdom able to supply food, and thus the sons o... | Joseph and those of his generation, the following generations of Israelites had become populous in number. The Egyptians feared potential integration or takeover, so they enslaved the Israelites. Four hundred thirty years later, to the day, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, from Goshen (Ramesses) to Succoth, the f... |
addition law for an additive category is internal to that category. To define the addition law, we will use the convention that for a biproduct, pk will denote the projection morphisms, and ik will denote the injection morphisms. For each object , we define the: the diagonal morphism by ; the codiagonal morphism by . T... | that . We remark that for a biproduct we have . Using this, we can represent any morphism as a matrix. Matrix representation of morphisms Given objects and in an additive category, we can represent morphisms as -by- matrices where Using that , it follows that addition and composition of matrices obey the usual rules fo... |
are careful about what we do and wouldn't use nudity or some of our flashier tactics if we didn't know they worked." PETA also used nudity in its "Veggie Love" ad which it prepared for the Super Bowl, only to have it banned by the network. PETA's work has drawn the ire of some feminists who argue that the organization ... | and became the first animal-testing case to be appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which upheld a Louisiana State Court ruling that denied PETA's request for custody of the monkeys. Pacheco had taken a job in May 1981 inside a primate research laboratory at the institute, intending to gain firsthand experience... |
a keep and the city walls. The walls enclosed the city south of the castle and included three gates to the east, south, and north called the Irish or Caldew Gate, the English or Botcher Gate, and the Scotch or Ricker Gate respectively. The names of the gates exist in road names in Carlisle today. Carlisle Cathedral was... | John of Fordun, Carlisle existed before the arrival of the Romans in Britain and was one of the strongest British towns at the time. In the time of the emperor Nero, it was said to have burned down. The Roman settlement was named Luguvalium, based on a native name that has been reconstructed as Brittonic *Luguwaljon, "... |
Vacaville. These prisons are also located fairly close to Travis Air Force Base. See also List of California state prisons References Law enforcement in the San Francisco Bay Area Prisons | State Prison, Solano () These two prisons are located together at the base of several hills on the outskirts of Vacaville. These prisons are also |
precipitation in one month was in January 1916. The most precipitation in 24 hours was on February 27, 1940. Snowfall is rare in Vacaville, but light measurable amounts have occurred, including in January 1907 and in December 1988. Demographics 2020 According to the 2020 United States Census, Vacaville had a population... | were made up of individuals, and 6.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.24. The median age was 34 years, and the age distribution of the population was rather spread out: 27.0% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 35.4% f... |
her client, veteran leading lady Gertrude Lawrence. Holtzmann realized that Landon's book would provide an ideal vehicle and contacted Rodgers and Hammerstein, who were initially reluctant but agreed to write the musical. The pair initially sought Rex Harrison to play the supporting part of the King, a role he had play... | Opera production, Michael Kermoyan played the King opposite Constance Towers for three weeks in May 1968. Darian again played Lady Thiang. For all of these 1960s productions, Robbins' choreography was reproduced by Yuriko, who had played the role of Eliza in the original Broadway production and reprised the role in the... |
the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District (FSUSD). Universities and colleges nearby: the California Maritime Academy (CSU), UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Sacramento State, CSU East Bay, Sonoma State, St. Mary's College, University of Phoenix and Brandman University. The main campus of Solano Community College is located in... | 7.1% of families were below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 12.1% of those under the age of 18 and 5.2% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. Climate Fairfield has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Summers have hot afternoons with cool nights with a lengthy dry period, ... |
acres of his land for the construction of a railroad depot following the completion of the tracks and subsequent relocation of Silveyville to the now-Dixon area. However, when the first rail shipment of merchandise arrived from San Francisco in 1872, it was mistakenly addressed to "Dixon"—a name that has been used sinc... | Dixon is located at (38.449108, -121.826872). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it (1.36%) is water. Demographics 2010 The 2010 United States Census reported that Dixon had a population of 18,351. The population density was 2,587.7 people per squ... |
Police Chief John P. Miller Fire Chief Brad Lopez Economy Top employers According to Winters' 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: Demographics 2010 At the 2010 census Winters had a population of 6,624. The population density was 2,255.2 people per square mile (870.7/km). The r... | City Manager — John Donlevy Police Chief John P. Miller Fire Chief Brad Lopez Economy Top employers According to Winters' 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: Demographics 2010 At the 2010 census Winters had a population of 6,624. The population density was 2,255.2 people per s... |
Vallejo sits on the northeastern shore of San Pablo Bay, north of San Francisco, the northwestern shore of the Carquinez Strait and the southern end of the Napa River, south of Napa. Vallejo is home to the California Maritime Academy, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park, the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and th... | and the largest in Solano County. The city is named after Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the famed Californio general and statesman. He was a leading proponent of California's statehood and one of the first members of the California State Senate. The neighboring city of Benicia is named for his wife, Francisca Benicia ... |
Larkin, and Comandante General by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, on land sold to them by General Vallejo in December 1846. It was named for the General's wife, Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo, a member of the Carrillo family of California, a prominent Californio dynasty. The General intended that the city be named "Fr... | quarterly art classes for adults and kids. It is located in the Benicia Arsenal at 991 Tyler Street, Suite 114. Gallery hours are Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-5:00 PM during exhibitions; gallery admission is free to the public. Arts in the Park Arts in the Park is an annual summer art celebration held in Benicia City Park. B... |
street below. Built on the site of the historic Montgomery Block, it has a structural height of and has 48 floors of retail and office space. Construction began in 1969 and finished in 1972, and was overseen by San Francisco–based contractor Dinwiddie Construction, now Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company. Transamer... | Transamerica CEO John (Jack) R. Beckett, with the claim that he wished to allow light in the street below. Built on the site of the historic Montgomery Block, it has a structural height of and has 48 floors of retail and office space. Construction began in 1969 and finished in 1972, and was overseen by San Francisco–ba... |
Level playing field Libertarian Party of Florida Lietuvos plaukimo federacija, Lithuanian Swimming Federation Liga Panameña de Fútbol, a professional football league in Panama Liga Profesional de Fútbol, a professional football league in Argentina Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal, a professional football league governing b... | lpf" Low-pass filter, type of signal filter in acoustics Low-power field, in microscopic examination, a wide field of view due to a low level of magnification Nissan Stadium (formerly LP Field), a stadium in Nashville, Tennessee; home of the Tennessee Titans Pim Fortuyn List, |
machinery, Fairfield Geotechnologies, a geophysical company based in Houston Fairfield Greenwich Group, an investment firm Fairfield Sentry Fund, part of the Fairfield Greenwich Group Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, a shipbuilder in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland Fairfield Manufacturing, now part of Dana Inco... | County, New Jersey Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey Fairfield, Monmouth County, New Jersey Fairfield, New York Fairfield, Hyde County, North Carolina Fairfield, North Dakota Fairfield, Ohio Fairfield County, Ohio Fairfield, Oklahoma Fairfield, Pennsylvania Fairfield, South Carolina, the death place of Abrah... |
caused by chemical reactions, electrical energy, subatomic motions or stress on a crystal. This distinguishes luminescence from incandescence, which is light emitted by a substance as a result of heating. Historically, radioactivity was thought of as a form of "radio-luminescence", although it is today considered to be... | from the blackbody emission expected at the temperature in question. Crystalloluminescence, produced during crystallization Electroluminescence, a result of an electric current passed through a substance Cathodoluminescence, a result of a luminescent material being struck by electrons Mechanoluminescence, a result of a... |
charged with framing a charter that would establish a council-administrator form-of-government. The city's second charter commission spent eight months researching the charters of various Ohio communities. A referendum was held on June 5, 1979, in which the issue was approved by a vote of 1,423 to 1,265. The council-ad... | previous failed attempt to incorporate Symmes and Deerfield townships as a city. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. The Butler County line serves as Fairfield's southern corporate boundary with a small portion of the City extending into ... |
quantum mechanically forbidden, meaning that it happens much more slowly than other transitions. The result is a slow process of radiative transition back to the singlet state, sometimes lasting minutes or hours. This is the basis for "glow in the dark" substances. Photoluminescence is an important technique for measur... | respectively. The linear absorption spectrum of such a structure shows the exciton resonances of the first (e1h1) and the second quantum well subbands (e2, h2), as well as the absorption from the corresponding continuum states and from the barrier. Photoexcitation In general, three different excitation conditions are d... |
it be hard, will sparkle when broken or scraped in the dark." The scientist Robert Boyle also reported on some of his work on triboluminescence in 1663. In the late 1790s, sugar production began to produce more refined sugar crystals. These crystals were formed into a large solid cone for transport and sale. This solid... | surface of osseous and soft tissues, at chewing food, at friction in joints of vertebrae, during sexual intercourse, and during blood circulation. Water jet abrasive cutting of ceramics (e.g. tiles) creates a yellow/orange glow at the point of impact of very high speed flow. Opening an envelope sealed with polymer glue... |
to the next or previous integer. The transition probabilities depend only on the current position, not on the manner in which the position was reached. For example, the transition probabilities from 5 to 4 and 5 to 6 are both 0.5, and all other transition probabilities from 5 are 0. These probabilities are independent ... | law of large numbers to hold. In his first paper on Markov chains, published in 1906, Markov showed that under certain conditions the average outcomes of the Markov chain would converge to a fixed vector of values, so proving a weak law of large numbers without the independence assumption, which had been commonly regar... |
cutting plan may yield a better value, a different plan may yield diamonds that will sell sooner, providing an earlier return on the investment. Cleaving or sawing Cleaving is the separation of a piece of diamond rough into separate pieces, to be finished as separate gems. During the planning stage, diamond manufacture... | the stone. Maximizing value The process of maximizing the value of finished diamonds, from a rough diamond into a polished gemstone, is both an art and a science. The choice of cut is influenced by many factors. Market factors include the exponential increase in value of diamonds as weight increases, referred to as wei... |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. George Peppard, perhaps most famous for his role on the hit eighties series "The A-Team", directed and starred in a well-received 1992 touring production of the play. Susan Clarke played opposite. The play's Broadway revival in March 1999 starred Laurence Fishburne as He... | Eleanor, their second son Henry having recently died. Richard is handsome, graceful and impressive and has been a famous soldier since his middle teens. War is his profession and he is good at it. He is easily the strongest and toughest of the three sons/princes. Richard and Philip II have been sexually involved prior ... |
angles were crucial, and liquid crystal displays were not well developed. In 1992, Timex introduced its Indiglo EL display on some watches. Recently, blue-, red-, and green-emitting thin film electroluminescent materials that offer the potential for long life and full-color electroluminescent displays have been develop... | for long life and full-color electroluminescent displays have been developed. In either case, the EL material must be enclosed between two electrodes and at least one electrode must be transparent to allow the escape of the produced light. Glass coated with indium tin oxide is commonly used as the front (transparent) e... |
radiation). Photovoltaic effect — Production of a voltage by light exposure. Piezoelectric effect — Ability of certain crystals to generate a voltage in response to applied mechanical stress. Plasma — Plasma occur when gas is heated to very high temperatures and it disassociates into positive and negative charges. Prox... | attributed to electrohydrodynamics (EHD) or sometimes electro-fluid-dynamics, a counterpart to the well-known magneto-hydrodynamics. Bioelectrogenesis — The generation of electricity by living organisms. Capacitive coupling — Transfer of energy within an electrical network or between distant networks by means of displa... |
run on a winding and thus must be wound daily, but some run for several days and a few have 192-hour mainsprings and are wound weekly. Automatic watches A self-winding or automatic watch is one that rewinds the mainspring of a mechanical movement by the natural motions of the wearer's body. The first self-winding mecha... | displays were superseded by liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which used less battery power and were much more convenient in use, with the display always visible and eliminating the need to push a button before seeing the time. Only in darkness would a button needed to be pressed to illuminate the display with a tiny lig... |
or photoconductor). The most common application of photoresistors is as photodetectors, i.e. devices that measure light intensity. Photoresistors are not the only type of photodetector—other types include charge-coupled devices (CCDs), photodiodes and phototransistors—but they are among the most common. Some photodetec... | a material becomes more electrically conductive due to the absorption of electromagnetic radiation such as visible light, ultraviolet light, infrared light, or gamma radiation. When light is absorbed by a material such as a semiconductor, the number of free electrons and holes increases, resulting in increased electric... |
in four World Cups from 1958 to 1970, and in 2002 was chosen on the FIFA Dream Team of the history of World Cups. In 1994, he was chosen for the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team, and in 1998 was chosen as a member of the World Team of the 20th Century. According to FIFA, Yashin saved over 150 penalty kicks in professional ... | professional football – more than any other goalkeeper. He also kept over 270 clean sheets in his career, winning a gold medal at the 1956 Olympic football tournament, and the 1960 European Championships. In 1963, Yashin received the Ballon d'Or, the only goalkeeper ever to receive the award. He was additionally named ... |
cubic zirconia, the material forms its own "crucible" from its cooler outer layers. The term "skull" refers to these outer layers forming a shell enclosing the molten volume. Zirconium oxide powder is heated then gradually allowed to cool. Heating is accomplished by radio frequency induction using a coil wrapped around... | is accomplished by radio frequency induction using a coil wrapped around the apparatus. The outside of the device is water-cooled in order to keep the radio frequency coil from melting and also to cool the outside of the zirconium oxide and thus maintain the shape of the zirconium powder. Since zirconium oxide in its s... |
provide more accuracy. Early GPS observations required several hours of observations by a static receiver to reach survey accuracy requirements. Recent improvements to both satellites and receivers allow Real Time Kinematic (RTK) surveying. RTK surveys get high-accuracy measurements by using a fixed base station and a ... | showing exact locations. Modern era Abel Foullon described a plane table in 1551, but it is thought that the instrument was in use earlier as his description is of a developed instrument. Gunter's chain was introduced in 1620 by English mathematician Edmund Gunter. It enabled plots of land to be accurately surveyed and... |
dreams content With what our sires have won; The blood a hero sire hath spent Still nerves a hero son. Chorus Usage BBC Proms The Proms began in 1895; in 1901 Elgar's newly composed 'Pomp and Circumstance' March No. 1 was introduced as an orchestral piece (a year before the words were written), conducted by Henry Wood ... | in 2007, it is still tradition for the team to use "Land of Hope and Glory" as their walk-out theme. Football Supporters of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (the team Elgar supported) sing a version of the song with the lyrics changed to 'We will follow the Wanderers over land, sea, and water.' Their local rivals ... |
is a small, cheap eatery – either an American diner or coffee shop, or a British or Irish cafe – typically specializing in fried foods and/or home-cooked meals. The term greasy spoon has been used in the United States since at least the 1920s and is used throughout each of the four constituent parts of the United Kingd... | café, which may mean "coffeehouse" or "bar"). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term greasy spoon originated in the United States and is now used in various English-speaking countries. In The Republic of Ireland, the term is almost exclusively used in parts of County Donegal (chiefly East Donegal and Inis... |
and neural crests. The third anterior-most pair of ribs is in contact with the extension of the labyrinth and the posterior with the swim bladder. The function is poorly understood, but this structure is presumed to take part in the transmission of vibrations from the swim bladder to the labyrinth and in the perception... | Carpworld and Total Carp, and informative carp angling web sites, such as "Carpfisching UK". In the United States, carp are also classified as a rough fish, as well as a damaging naturalized exotic species, but with sporting qualities. Carp have long suffered from a poor reputation in the United States as undesirable f... |
the snare drum, a shattering chord in A Minor, briefly played by horns, and followed by a final cadence. March No. 3 in C minor Dedication March No. 3 was completed in November 1904 and published in 1905. It was dedicated "To my friend Ivor Atkins". It was first performed on 8 March 1905, in the Queen's Hall, London, c... | with conquest, and the voice of myriads. proclaiming the "shows of things" (Maine's quotation marks): the naïve assumption that the splendid show of military pageantry—"Pomp"—has no connection with the drabness and terror—"Circumstance"—of actual warfare. The first four marches were all written before the events of Wor... |
and running from a FAT disk volume, does not have the aforementioned disadvantages of when it comes to simply sharing data on a FAT disk volume between Linux and other operating systems such as Windows. Its data structures are the same as those used by Windows for VFAT long filenames, and it does not require running a ... | Its data structures are the same as those used by Windows for VFAT long filenames, and it does not require running a synchronization utility in order to prevent Windows and Linux data structures from becoming disjointed. For this reason, it is the most appropriate of Linux's FAT filesystem drivers to use in the majorit... |
a combined total of $50 million in Google, they applied pressure on Page to step down as CEO so that a more experienced leader could build a "world-class management team." Page eventually became amenable to the idea after meeting with other technology CEOs, including Steve Jobs and Intel's Andrew Grove. Eric Schmidt, w... | BackRub, the Web comprised an estimated 10 million documents, with an untold number of links between them. The computing resources required to crawl such a beast were well beyond the usual bounds of a student project. Unaware of exactly what he was getting into, Page began building out his crawler. The idea's complexit... |
is the 7th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $118 billion. Brin immigrated to the United States with his family from the Soviet Union at the age of six. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Maryland, College Park, following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studyin... | to process the queries. In August 1996, the initial version of Google was made available on the Stanford Web site. By early 1997, the BackRub page described the state as follows: Some Rough Statistics (from August 29, 1996) Total indexable HTML urls: 75.2306 Million Total content downloaded: 207.022 gigabytes ... BackR... |
The 9th Congress The 9th Party Congress in May 1976 can be viewed as a midpoint in the development of SED policy and programs. Most of the social and economic goals announced at the 8th Congress had been reached; however, the absence of a definitive statement on further efforts to improve the working and living conditi... | Walter Ulbricht: he was succeeded by Erich Honecker. In the political hierarchy of the German Democratic Republic members of the Central Committee ranked above government ministers. In July 1950, at the third Party Conference, the SED's Central Committee was elected on the Soviet model, which at this time employed a si... |
From there he hosted shows such as Choose Up Sides, Dough Re Mi, and the daytime version of Tic Tac Dough. On radio, Rayburn became one of the many hosts of the NBC program Monitor in 1961 and remained with the show until 1973. In an uncredited role (he reportedly did not want his name to appear), Rayburn played a TV i... | to Laugh-In. Goodson-Todman revived Match Game in 1973 for CBS, this time as a California-based game show. Rayburn returned as host and introduced a new format in which two contestants tried to match the responses of six celebrities. Writer Dick DeBartolo, a veteran of the original show, created funnier and often risqu... |
single spawn. Although carp typically spawn in the spring, in response to rising water temperatures and rainfall, carp can spawn multiple times in a season. In commercial operations, spawning is often stimulated using a process called hypophysation, where lyophilized pituitary extract is injected into the fish. The pit... | Okanagan Valley in 1912, as was their rapid growth in population. Carp are currently distributed in the lower Columbia (Arrow Lakes), lower Kootenay, Kettle (Christina Lake), and throughout the Okanagan system. In 2020 scientists demonstrated that a small proportion of fertilized common carp eggs ingested by waterfowl ... |
a contestant failed to win any money in either audience match, Rayburn read a question similar to those in the main game. The contestant earned $100 per celebrity matched, for a maximum of $600. Head-to-Head Match A contestant who won money in the audience match then had the opportunity to win an additional 10 times th... | to a statement were secretly shown to the contestants (e.g., "_, New Jersey", with the choices of "Atlantic City", "Hoboken", "Newark" and "Trenton"). They each chose one by number. Then, as was the case in Match Game PM, the host polled the celebrities for verbal responses, and the first panelist to give an answer sel... |
drove her species into near extinction over a century earlier. She returned once more in the second episode of the third season, "Evolution", in which she explains she has many children, and later in the season in "Booby Trap" where she reveals that she finds the heads of bald men attractive. She once again comes face ... | the other recurring character's appearances in the series. In "Imaginary Friend", Guinan discusses the nearby nebula with Data in Ten-Forward. In the following episode, "I, Borg", Guinan objects to the presence of the Borg known as Hugh on the Enterprise-D. Further revelations of Guinan's backstory are made in the seas... |
O'Donnell filled in as substitute announcers for Roddy on different occasions. The show is known for the "Whammy", a red cartoon creature with a high-pitched, raspy voice. Landing on any Whammy space caused the contestant to go bankrupt and start over from $0, accompanied by an animation that showed the Whammy taking t... | took one spin on a modified board that showed only cash values and directional squares (no Whammies, prizes, or cash amounts with additional spins were present). The value landed on, multiplied by the total number of spins earned by the three contestants in the second question round, was then awarded to the home player... |
welfare, such as at Bond's wedding in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, when he assures Bond that he is available if Bond ever requires his help. Q has also assisted Bond in a more active role in his missions in Octopussy, remaining to aid Bond in person even after another ally is killed, and Licence to Kill saw him tra... | different character. Beginning in Guy Hamilton's Goldfinger and in each film thereafter Major Boothroyd is most often referred to as Q; however, in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) he is referred to once again as Major Boothroyd in dialogue. In most films in which Q appears, he is restricted to a "behind the scenes" involve... |
each other. History The term "stigmergy" was introduced by French biologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in 1959 to refer to termite behavior. He defined it as: "Stimulation of workers by the performance they have achieved." It is derived from the Greek words στίγμα stigma "mark, sign" and ἔργον ergon "work, action", and capture... | in the environment receive positive fitness benefits, reinforcing the likelihood of these behaviors becoming fixed within a population over time. Stigmergy is a form of self-organization. It produces complex, seemingly intelligent structures, without need for any planning, control, or even direct communication between ... |
After six weeks, this was self-published in August 1974 as Empire of the Petal Throne and play commenced forthwith, including such occasional members as Dave Arneson – who singled out Barker and Tékumel as being his favorite Dungeon Master and roleplaying game, respectively – from early days. Once Gary Gygax's attentio... | Sinisterra, the latter of which contained his review of, and content from, Jack Vance relating to his recently published book, The Dying Earth. Also at this time, Barker corresponded with other authors who contributed to those same publications, including Lin Carter in whose writings and linguistic experiments he took ... |
Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America in 1934 and 1935. Publishing until 1937, she died in 1941 of pulmonary tuberculosis. Political activities Ridge did not join any political party, but was active in radical causes. She protested against the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927, and was among those ar... | creativity. Ridge published 61 poems from 1908 to 1937 in such leading magazines as Poetry, New Republic, The Saturday Review of Literature and Mother Earth. She was a contributing editor to The New Masses. She wrote and published four more books of poetry through 1935, and single poems into 1937. Her collections inclu... |
straight knock-out format, when Skol Lager began its sponsorship. The Co-operative Insurance company sponsored the League Cup for 12 seasons, until the 2010–11 competition. It has since been sponsored by the Scottish Government, under the name of the Scottish Communities League Cup. The Scottish Challenge Cup was creat... | From its foundation in 1890 until the breakaway Scottish Premier League (SPL) was formed in 1998, the SFL was the top level of football in Scotland. After 1998, the SFL represented levels 2 to 4 of the Scottish football league system. In June 2013, the SFL merged with the SPL to form the Scottish Professional Football ... |
Woburn Square, as well as several properties outside Bloomsbury, with many of the university's colleges and institutes occupying their own estates across London: Clare Market, The Aldwych, where the London School of Economics and Political Science and part of King's College London are based The North and East Wings of ... | allocated money to the colleges, to funding the colleges directly and them paying a contribution to the university. There was also a tendency in the late 20th century for smaller colleges to be amalgamated into larger "super-colleges". Some of the larger colleges (most notably UCL, King's College, LSE and Imperial) per... |
In 2021, Nabiximols was approved for medical use in Ukraine. Pharmacology Mechanism of action The actions of Delta-9-THC result from its partial agonist activity at the cannabinoid receptor CB1 (Ki = 40.7 nM), located mainly in the central nervous system, and the CB2 receptor (Ki = 36 nM), mainly expressed in cells of ... | other cannabinoids that contain a phenol group, possess mild antioxidant activity sufficient to protect neurons against oxidative stress, such as that produced by glutamate-induced excitotoxicity. THC targets receptors in a manner far less selective than endocannabinoid molecules released during retrograde signaling, a... |
and forced the Germans into local withdrawals to reserve lines in February before the scheduled retirement by about in Operation Alberich to the (Hindenburg Line) in March 1917. Debate continues over the necessity, significance and effect of the battle. Strategic developments Allied war strategy for 1916 was decided at... | were ordered from France to the Eastern Front on 9 June and the spoiling attack on the Somme was abandoned. Only four more divisions were sent to the Somme front before the Anglo-French offensive began, bringing the total to divisions. Falkenhayn, and then Hindenburg and Ludendorff, were forced to send divisions to Rus... |
VIPs as the ceremony dictates. Religious ceremonies, such as blessing the ship or the singing of traditional hymns or songs may also occur. Once a ship has been commissioned its final step toward becoming an active unit of the navy it serves is to report to its home port and officially load or accept any remaining equi... | begin when the ship is floated out of its dry dock (or more rarely, moved by a vehicle to the sea from its construction hangar, as was the case with the submarine ), at which time the initial crew for a ship (usually a skeleton crew composed of yard workers and naval personnel; in the modern era of increasingly complex... |
the monarch of the seas—Poseidon in Greek mythology, Neptune in Roman mythology. Ship launching participants in ancient Greece wreathed their heads with olive branches, drank wine to honor the gods, and poured water on the new vessel as a symbol of blessing. Shrines were carried on board Greek and Roman ships, and this... | breaking a coconut on the bow of the vessel, which is sometimes followed by a small Puja. Japan Japanese ship launchings incorporate silver axes which are thought to bring good luck and scare away evil. Japanese shipbuilders traditionally order the crafting of a special axe for each new vessel; and after the launching ... |
of a pendulum. A mechanical phenomenon is a physical phenomenon associated with the equilibrium or motion of objects. Some examples are Newton's cradle, engines, and double pendulums. Sociology Group phenomena concern the behavior of a particular group of individual entities, usually organisms and most especially peopl... | reality-inputs (ontology) yet not in the sense of applying wise imagination (a-la Albert Einstein, to partial success). Thus, the term phenomenon refers to any incident deserving of inquiry and investigation, especially processes and events which are particularly unusual or of distinctive importance. Science In scienti... |
14 September, and its octave on 21 September. Background and history The Sudarium shows signs of advanced deterioration, with dark flecks that are symmetrically arranged but form no image, unlike the markings on the Shroud of Turin. The face cloth is mentioned as having been present in the empty tomb in . Outside of th... | small chapel housing it was built specifically for the cloth by King Alfonso II of Asturias in AD 840; the Arca Santa is an elaborate reliquary chest with a Romanesque metal frontal for the storage of the Sudarium and other relics. The Sudarium is displayed to the public three times a year: Good Friday, the Feast of th... |
experimental set up for uniformly quantifying the surface triboelectrification of general materials. Cause Although the part 'tribo-' comes from the Greek for "rubbing", τρίβω (τριβή: friction), the two materials only need to come into contact for electrons to be exchanged. After coming into contact, a chemical bond is... | with a simple sum respecting signs giving the total charge. The electrostatic attraction of the charged plastic pen to neutral uncharged pieces of paper (for example) is due to temporary charge separation (electric polarisation or dipole moment) of electric charges within the paper (or perhaps alignments of permanent m... |
executed at Colossae, Phrygia (now Turkey). Parysatis cannot forgive Tissaphernes for the rough treatment he has handed out to her favourite son, the late Cyrus. After spending the winter in organizing a cavalry force, Agesilaus II, the King of Sparta, makes a successful incursion into Lydia in the spring. Tithraustes ... | with Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos (with the backing of Persia) against Sparta. The Spartans prepare to send out an army against this new alliance, and order Agesilaus to return to Greece. Agesilaus sets out for Sparta with his troops, crossing the Hellespont and marching west through Thrace. The Spartans arrange f... |
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light passing through the crystal will be composed of another combination of light paths and polarizations, each with their own color. The light passing through the mineral will therefore have different colors when it is viewed from different angles, making the stone seem to be of different colors. Tetragonal, trigonal... | identify the possible crystalline structure of a gemstone or mineral and therefore help to classify it. Minerals that are otherwise very similar often have very different pleochroic color schemes. In such cases, a thin section of the mineral is used and examined under polarized transmitted light with a petrographic mic... |
in the air disturbed by the one ahead was not ideal. While the external engine pods of other airships allowed the thrust lines to be staggered, placing all four engine rooms on each side of the ship along the lower keel resulted in Akrons propellers all being in line. This was to prove problematical in service, inducin... | appear that the designers were aware that running the propellers in the air disturbed by the one ahead was not ideal. While the external engine pods of other airships allowed the thrust lines to be staggered, placing all four engine rooms on each side of the ship along the lower keel resulted in Akrons propellers all b... |
years until the current Airdrie Library building was erected in 1925. Conditions in the town did not really improve until well after the Second World War but in 1949 the Boots pharmaceutical company and Banner Textiles Ltd were attracted to the town (between them employing 1200). With this impetus, new companies began ... | reservoirs. These include: Airdrie & District Angling Club based at Hillend Loch, one of Scotland's top trout fishing locations. The Lilly Loch, run by Clarkston Angling Club. Roughrigg Reservoir, run by Roughrigg Angling Association. Athletics Airdrie Harriers, North Lanarkshire's largest athletics club. Football The ... |
important part of the economy during the Song Dynasty (960–1279). In 1150, the Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi noted that cardamom was being imported to Aden, in Yemen, from India and China. Later, in the 16th century, the Portuguese became involved in the trade, when it conquered the west coast of India, but the in... | demand since the 1980s, principally from China, for both A. villosum and A. tsao-ko, has been met by farmers living at higher altitudes in localized areas of China, Laos, and Vietnam, people typically isolated from many other markets. History Cardamom production began in ancient times, and has been referred to in ancie... |
a different flavour. Unlike green cardamom, this spice is rarely used in sweet dishes. Its smoky flavour and aroma derive from traditional methods of drying over open flames. Species At least two distinct species of black cardamom occur: Amomum subulatum (also known as Nepal cardamom) and Amomum tsao-ko. The pods of A.... | Characteristics The pods are used as a spice, in a similar manner to the green Indian cardamom pods, but with a different flavour. Unlike green cardamom, this spice is rarely used in sweet dishes. Its smoky flavour and aroma derive from traditional methods of drying over open flames. Species At least two distinct speci... |
Communist lawyer named Boris Max. In the long hours, Max and Bigger spend talking, Bigger starts understanding his relationships with his family and with the world. He acknowledges his fury, his need for a future, and his wish for a meaningful life. He reconsiders his attitudes about white people, whether they are aggr... | qualifying the book might later need, it made impossible a repetition of the old lies ... [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear, and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture." The novel's treatment of Bigger and his motivations is an example of literary naturali... |
up in 1986, Black Flag briefly reunited in 2003 and again in 2013. Black Flag's sound mixed the raw simplicity of the Ramones with atonal guitar solos and frequent tempo shifts. The lyrics were written mostly by Ginn, and like other punk rock bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Black Flag voiced an anti-authoritar... | and had "throw[n] cups of water in their face." She also claimed he had told his daughters "you're hot" and "whistled at them," and told them "they are getting fat and need to lose weight and that their diets will have to be more strenuous." Ex-Black Flag member Ron Reyes later submitted an affidavit to the court suppo... |
for commentary. In 1994, Ron Kotulak won a Pulitzer for explanatory journalism, while R. Bruce Dold won it for editorial writing. In 1998, reporter Paul Salopek won a Pulitzer for explanatory writing, and in 1999, architecture critic Blair Kamin won it for criticism. In September 1981, baseball writer Jerome Holtzman w... | West Coast results although written before East Coast election returns were available. Pulitzer Prizes Colonel McCormick prevented the Tribune for years from participating in the Pulitzer Prize competition. But it has won 25 of the awards over the years, including many for editorial writing. The Tribune won its first p... |
in 1987. She was subsequently associate and managing editor of Meridian magazine until 2008, after which she continued writing for it and also for Nauvoo Times. She died on December 14, 2015. Publications Kidd wrote and co-wrote with her husband several non-fiction books of practical advice geared toward fellow members... | a speculative science fiction novel co-written by both Kidd and Orson Scott Card. The novel is narrated by a scientist who takes the name of real scientist James Lovelock. The novel examines the Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Lovelock, who is a genetically-enhanced capuchin monkey. Lovelock the monkey is assigned ... |
Ballot Initiative). He runs back to the X-Men and threatens to quit and go back to Canada. However, he remains with the X-Men throughout several missions, including confrontations with Norman Osborn's Dark X-Men and a rescue mission to retrieve Illyana Rasputin after she is banished to Limbo during the events of Second... | brother?" Northstar's apparent lack of interest in women was implied to be due to his obsessive drive to win as a ski champion, and writer Bill Mantlo's later attempt to reveal that Northstar had AIDS was squelched. In Alpha Flight #106 (1992), writer Scott Lobdell was finally given permission to have Northstar state, ... |
5,000 individuals by 2014. The African buffalo population declined between 1976 and 1996 due to poaching, but increased to 28,524 individuals by 2008. The black rhinoceros population was reduced to about 10 individuals in the 1980s due to poaching. Less than 50 individuals survive today, mainly in areas that are less l... | together with Maasai Mara National Reserve. More than 3,000 lions live in this ecosystem. The population density of the African leopard is estimated at 5.41 individuals per in the dry season. African bush elephant herds recovered from a population low in the 1980s caused by poaching, and numbered over 5,000 individuals... |
a napkin covering the character's head in season 1, episode 2. Legal status Ortolan hunting was banned in France in 1999, but the law was poorly enforced and it is thought that up to 50,000 ortolans were illegally killed each year during the autumn migration: mostly birds from breeding grounds in Finland and the Baltic... | (Emberiza caesia). Description The ortolan bunting is in length and has a wing-span of . In appearance and habits it much resembles its relative the yellowhammer, but lacks the bright colouring of that species; the ortolan's head, for instance, is greenish-grey, instead of a bright yellow. The song of the male ortolan ... |
unincorporated community Oceania London, Kiribati Space 8837 London, an asteroid People and fictional characters London (name), people and a fictional character with either the surname or the given name Arts, entertainment and media Film London (1926 film), a British silent film London, a 1994 film by Patrick Keiller L... | by Eric Coates (1886-1957) Groups and labels London (heavy metal band), American band London (punk band), British band London Records, a British label Albums London (Apologies, I Have None album), 2012 London (Jesus Jones album), 2001 London, by Streetband 1978 London, by Chava Alberstein 1989 London, by Greater Than O... |
larger than main memory is sometimes thought impossible because some DOM parsers do not allow it. However, it is no less possible than sorting a dataset larger than main memory using disk space as memory to sidestep this limitation. Drawbacks The event-driven model of SAX is useful for XML parsing, but it does have cer... | document sequentially, issuing parsing events while making a single pass through the input stream. Definition Unlike DOM, there is no formal specification for SAX. The Java implementation of SAX is considered to be normative. SAX processes documents state-independently, in contrast to DOM which is used for state-depend... |
England Oxford (UK Parliament constituency), the historic Parliamentary constituency of the city Oxford Canal, a canal from Coventry to Oxford, England Oxford Castle, England Oxford East (UK Parliament constituency), a modern Parliamentary constituency of the city Oxford West and Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency), ... | Oxford Ragwort, (Senecio squalidus) a plant Oxford sheep, or Oxford Down, a breed of sheep originating in England Language Oxford comma, the serial comma Oxford English, a formal style of English Oxford "-er", a type of slang Religion Oxford Group, a 20th-century religious movement which became Moral Re-Armament Oxford... |
provision of health care services, resource generation, financing, and stewardship. Other dimensions for the evaluation of health systems include quality, efficiency, acceptability, and equity. They have also been described in the United States as "the five C's": Cost, Coverage, Consistency, Complexity, and Chronic Ill... | tuberculosis and malaria in 94 countries. Payment models In most countries, wage costs for healthcare practitioners are estimated to represent between 65% and 80% of renewable health system expenditures. There are three ways to pay medical practitioners: fee for service, capitation, and salary. There has been growing i... |
2011 album by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi Rome (Rome album), Rome Wood's eponymous debut album Rome (Josh Pyke album), 2020 Television Rome (TV series), 2005 historical drama television series Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire, 2008 television documentary series Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media Rome, Wisc... | regal period following the founding of Rome The Roman Republic (509–27 BC), the era of expansion under republican government The Roman Empire (27 BC–AD 395), the era of autocratic rule by emperors The Western Roman Empire (AD 395–476), the western division of the late Empire until its fall Arts, entertainment, and medi... |
Airforce had a base here from which they launched bombers on Baghdad. Khamis Mushait was known by that name since the 1760s, it has been named after the market that used to be held on every Thursday of the week which is “Khamis” and it has been referred to Mushait Ibn Salem the head of Shahran tribe and the guardian of... | Army and Air Force engineers in the 1960s and 70s and has F-15 service facilities. During the Gulf War in 1991, the US Airforce had a base here from which they launched bombers on Baghdad. Khamis Mushait was known by that name since the 1760s, it has been named after the market that used to be held on every Thursday of... |
exception is DVI-A—have pins that pass digital video signals. These come in two varieties: single link and dual link. Single link DVI employs a single 165 MHz transmitter that supports resolutions up to 1920 × 1200 at 60 Hz. Dual link DVI adds six pins, at the center of the connector, for a second transmitter increasin... | Including 8b/10b overhead, the maximum data rate is 9.90 Gbit/s @ 165 MHz. With the 8b/10b overhead subtracted, the maximum data rate is 7.92 Gbit/s. Pixels per clock cycle: 1 (single link at 24 bits or less per pixel, and dual link at between 25 and 48 bits inclusively per pixel) or 2 (dual link at 24 bits or less per... |
of individual protection, which was also extended to include barding of the mount. The limitations of armour have always been weight and bulk, and its consequent effects on mobility as well as human and animal endurance. By the 18th and 19th centuries, personal armour had been largely discarded, until the re-introducti... | tactical functions, generally based on the application of military technology, which has led to one or more of the tactical functions being dominant for a period of time, usually accompanied by the dominance of an associated fighting arm deployed on the battlefield, such as infantry, artillery, cavalry or tanks. Tactic... |
Retired: (Russia: 1991–1993, USSR: 1972-1991); converted to a theme park (later hotel) in China (Russia: 1991–1993, USSR: 1975-1991); converted to a theme park in China (Russia: 1991–1993, USSR: 1978-1991); scrapped (Russia: 1991–1995, USSR: 1982-1991); modified, rebuilt and sold to India, renamed Never completed: Vary... | BU 1951–1952 Japan Active: – Commissioned in 2015. Announced in December 2018 to be redesignated and converted into multi-purpose destroyer to carry F-35 aircraft – Commissioned in 2017. Announced in December 2018 to be redesignated and converted into multi-purpose destroyer to carry F-35 aircraft Retired: (1921) – use... |
arrival at Orléans It was on the very day of the Battle of the Herrings that a young French peasant girl, Joan of Arc, was meeting with Robert de Baudricourt, the Dauphinois captain of Vaucouleurs, trying to explain to the skeptical captain her divinely-ordained mission to rescue the Dauphin Charles and deliver him to ... | A group of nobles and bourgeois from the city went to Philip to try to make him persuade the Duke of Bedford to lift the siege so that Orléans could surrender to Burgundy instead. The specific terms of the offer made are outlined in the letter by a contemporary merchant. Burgundy would be able to appoint the city's gov... |
was expanded from 38,000 for the World Cup by building end stands. Organising committee chairman Holger Bergérus mortgaged his house to pay for this. The new Malmö Stadion was built for the World Cup, replacing the 1896 Malmö Stadion at a new site. The Idrottsparken had 4,709 seats added for the World Cup. The Social D... | results of the draw where the qualified teams were divided into four groups. Seeding was geographical rather than by team strength, with each group containing one western European team, one eastern European team, one of the four British teams that had qualified, and one from the Americas. List of qualified teams The fo... |
pro-chancellors for up to three, unless the University Court determines otherwise, but the vice-chancellor and pro-vice-chancellors have no term limits. The vice-chancellor is supported by a deputy vice-chancellor. Responsibility for running the university is held at an executive level by the vice-chancellor, but the c... | of Bristol's buildings date to its pre-charter days when it was University College Bristol. These buildings were designed by Charles Hansom, and suffered being built in stages due to financial pressure. The first large scale building project the University of Bristol undertook on gaining a charter was the Wills Memoria... |
Heavyweight Champion of the World" to his European title. The white heavyweight title bout sported a purse worth 9,000 pounds sterling (equivalent to approximately $ in today's funds). Carpentier was also a referee during the early stages of his career, supervising a number of fights including the world title bout betw... | supervising a number of fights including the world title bout between Jack Johnson and Frank Moran in June 1914. Carpentier was a French Air Force aviator during World War I and was awarded two of the highest French military honors, the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille Militaire. This served to heighten his already exc... |
system Renmin University of China, Beijing Road User Charges (RUC), taxes payable in New Zealand Roskilde University or Roskilde Universitetscenter Royal Ulster Constabulary, the police force in Northern | Royal Ulster Constabulary, the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001 Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee, for US healthcare pricing Ruc may refer to: Chut language in Vietnam, also |
object, magnetically coupled to the first coil, acts as the receiver. See also Radio-frequency identification (RFID) Radio antenna Electromagnetic radiation Electromagnetic induction Induction plasma technology List of electronics topics List of radiation topics Transformer External articles Budyansky, A. and A. Zykov,... | Conference Record - Abstracts., 1995 Page(s):146 IBM Research Division, T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598. Maurizio Vignati and Livio Giuliani "Radiofrequency Exposure Near High-voltage Lines". Tenforde, T. S., and W. T. Kaune, "Interaction of extremely low frequency electric and magnetic |
in the Troubles between the 1960s and the 1990s. Due to the threat from the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who saw the RUC as enforcing British rule, the force was heavily armed and militarised. Officers routinely carried submachine guns and assault rifles, travelled in armoured vehicles, and were based in he... | which produced a report in 1972. James Callaghan, Home Secretary in 1969, called on Brigadier John Hunt (Lord Hunt) to assess, advise and report on the policing situation. He was assisted in this task by Sir Robert Mark, who later became Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, and Sir James Robertson, then-Chi... |
Coleoptera, with more than 2,000 described species, many of which are light-emitting. They are soft-bodied beetles commonly called fireflies, glowworms, or lightning bugs for their conspicuous production of light, mainly during twilight, to attract mates. Light production in the Lampyridae originated as an honest warni... | of their males and often highly regressed. The most commonly known fireflies are nocturnal, although numerous species are diurnal and usually not luminescent; however, some species that remain in shadowy areas may produce light. Most fireflies are distasteful to vertebrate predators, as they contain the steroid pyrones... |
OPENSTEP system. A version that worked with Microsoft OLE was also available called D'OLE, allowing distributed code written using PDO on any platform to be presented on Microsoft systems as if they were local OLE objects. PDO was one of a number of distributed object systems created in the early 1990s, a design model ... | and minicomputers for their processing and data storage. Microsoft was evolving OLE into the Component Object Model (COM) and a similar distributed version called DCOM, IBM had their System Object Model (SOM/DSOM), Sun Microsystems was promoting their Distributed Objects Everywhere, and there were a host of smaller pla... |
(which typically used Roman capitals or gothic script). Mercator first applied the italic script to the globe of Gemma Frisius and thereafter to all his works, with ever-increasing elegance. The title page of this work is an illustration of the decorative style he developed. In 1542, the thirty-year-old must have been ... | the church authorities because of his humanist outlook and his break from Aristotelian views of the world: his own views of geography were based on investigation and observation. Mercator must have been impressed by Monachus, his map collection and the famous globe that he had prepared for Jean Carondelet, the principa... |
systems support a variety of cloning, ex nihilo object creation is not as prominent. In class-based languages, a new instance is constructed through a class's constructor function, a special function that reserves a block of memory for the object's members (properties and methods) and returns a reference to that block.... | class and instance in class-based object-oriented languages, the relationship between the prototype and its offshoots does not require that the child object have a memory or structural similarity to the prototype beyond this link. As such, the child object can continue to be modified and amended over time without rearr... |
studied the people and kept a journal of her experiences. In September 1891, Peary's men and dog sled teams pushed inland onto the ice sheet to lay caches of supplies. They did not go farther than from Red Cliff. In 1891, Peary shattered his leg in a shipyard accident but it healed by February 1892. By April 1892, he m... | he returned with the greeting, "I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world," much to Peary's chagrin. On April 7, 1909, Peary's group started their return journey, reaching Cape Columbia on April 23, and the Roosevelt on April 26. MacMillan and the doctor's party had reached the ship earlier, on March 21, Bor... |
is a list of bends. A bend is a knot used to join two lengths of rope. The sheet bend is the classic bend. A study of 8 different bends using climbing rope found that the butterfly bend was strongest. Misuse of reef knot | mistakenly tied as a bend. When used as a bend rather than a binding knot, the reef knot will capsize under sufficient tension. For this reason, the reef knot is insecure as a bend and as such is not listed as one. Types of bends See also List of knot terminology Binding knot Rope splicing Whipping knot References Bibl... |
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