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strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold. The emphasis is on various moralizing tales about heroes and rulers, athletes and wise men; reports a... | his possessions by way of ransom. If however it has already saved its life by self-castration and is again pursued, then it stands up and reveals that it offers no ground for their eager pursuit, and releases the hunters from all further exertions, for they esteem its flesh less. Often however Beavers with testicles in... |
set among the stars as Ursa Major ("the Great Bear"). She was the bear-mother of the Arcadians, through her son Arcas by Zeus. The fourth Galilean moon of Jupiter and a main belt asteroid are named after Callisto. Myth As a follower of Artemis, Callisto, who Hesiod said was the daughter of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, took... | was hunting, she was set among the stars as Ursa Major ("the Great Bear"). She was the bear-mother of the Arcadians, through her son Arcas by Zeus. The fourth Galilean moon of Jupiter and a main belt asteroid are named after Callisto. Myth As a follower of Artemis, Callisto, who Hesiod said was the daughter of Lycaon, ... |
they survive travel very well, but they were usually not sweet enough to be considered cookies by modern standards. Cookies appear to have their origins in 7th century AD Persia, shortly after the use of sugar became relatively common in the region. They spread to Europe through the Muslim conquest of Spain. By the 14t... | Reception Leah Ettman from Nutrition Action has criticized the high calorie count and fat content of supersized cookies, which are extra large cookies; she cites the Panera Kitchen Sink Cookie, a supersized chocolate chip cookie, which measures 5 1/2 inches in diameter and has 800 calories. For busy people who eat brea... |
script via an HTTP POST request, they are passed to the script's standard input. The script can then read these environment variables or data from standard input and adapt to the Web browser's request. Example The following Perl program shows all the environment variables passed by the Web server: #!/usr/bin/env perl =... | collection – files that can be sent to Web browsers connected to this server. For example, if the Web server has the domain name example.com, and its document collection is stored at /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ in the local file system, then the Web server will respond to a request for http://example.com/index.html by se... |
also enable new settlers to buy land from those Native Americans who wished to sell. The US government set up the Dawes Commission to manage the land allotment policy; it registered members of the tribe and made allocations of lands. Beginning in 1894, the Dawes Commission was established to register Choctaw and other ... | better, ended tribal governments. In addition, it proposed the end of communal, tribal lands. Continuing the struggle over land and assimilation, the US proposed the end to the tribal lands held in common, and allotment of lands to tribal members in severalty (individually). The US declared land in excess of the regist... |
pickle bean, orca bean or yin yang bean Places Calypso Deep, the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea Calypso, an area and a cave in Gozo, Malta Calypso, North Carolina, a town in the United States Ships French submarine Calypso HMS Calypso, the name of a number of British Royal Navy ships MS The Calypso, a cruise sh... | refer to: Books "Calypso" (Ulysses episode), an episode in James Joyce's novel Ulysses Calypso (book), 2018 essay collection by David Sedaris Calypso (comics), Marvel Comics character Calypso, Camp Half-Blood Chronicles Companies and brands Calypso (camera), an underwater camera — a precursor to the Nikonos camera Caly... |
affinity in attempts to explain how heat is evolved during combustion reactions. The term affinity has been used figuratively since c. 1600 in discussions of structural relationships in chemistry, philology, etc., and reference to "natural attraction" is from 1616. "Chemical affinity", historically, has referred to the... | representation of substances on a table. The first-ever affinity table, which was based on displacement reactions, was published in 1718 by the French chemist Étienne François Geoffroy. Geoffroy's name is best known in connection with these tables of "affinities" (tables des rapports), which were first presented to the... |
comets with high orbital inclinations and small perihelion distances is generally to reduce the perihelion distance to very small values. Hale–Bopp has about a 15% chance of eventually becoming a sungrazing comet through this process. Scientific results Comet Hale–Bopp was observed intensively by astronomers during its... | long as the Great Comet of 1811, the previous record holder. Accordingly, Hale–Bopp was dubbed the great comet of 1997. Discovery The comet was discovered independently on July 23, 1995, by two observers, Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, both in the United States. Hale had spent many hundreds of hours searching for comets wi... |
from the public or from other people affected by it. In a political sense, conspiracy refers to a group of people united in the goal of usurping, altering or overthrowing an established political power. Depending on the circumstances, a conspiracy may also be a crime, or a civil wrong. The term generally implies wrongd... | groups and to the disadvantage of certain other groups, though possibly unethical, is not a conspiracy if participants in the practice are not carrying it forward for the purpose of perpetuating this advantage. On the other hand, if the intent of carrying out a conspiracy exists, then there is a conspiracy even if the ... |
as it is not always dust and heat, but winter nights here are very cold too, usually below freezing points. Khes and pattu are also manufactured with wool or cotton. Khes is a form of blanket with a field of black white and pattu has a white ground base. Cholistan is now selling the wool for it brings maximum profit. T... | livelihood opportunities aside from livestock farming are available in the region. Agricultural farming away from the irrigated regions in Lower Cholistan are unavailable due to the lack of steady water-supply. Camels in particular are prized in Cholistan for their meat and milk, use as transportation, and for entertai... |
tribute from the East Anglian King Edmund, the Great Army moved north, seizing York, chief city of the Northumbrians. The Great Army defeated an attack on York by the two rivals for the Northumbrian throne, Osberht and Ælla, who had put aside their differences in the face of a common enemy. Both would-be kings were kil... | East Anglia. The following year, having obtained tribute from the East Anglian King Edmund, the Great Army moved north, seizing York, chief city of the Northumbrians. The Great Army defeated an attack on York by the two rivals for the Northumbrian throne, Osberht and Ælla, who had put aside their differences in the fac... |
that he had not received the amount of territory that was his due as the eldest son. Annoyed that Constans had received Thrace and Macedonia after the death of Dalmatius, Constantine demanded that Constans hand over the African provinces, to which he agreed in order to maintain a fragile peace. Soon, however, they bega... | to his death in a failed invasion of Italy in 340. Career The eldest son of Constantine the Great and Fausta, Constantine II was born in Arles in February 316 and raised as a Christian. Caesar On 1 March 317, he was made Caesar. In 323, at the age of seven, he took part in his father's campaign against the Sarmatians. ... |
858) was the first of the family recorded as a king, but as king of the Picts. This change of title, from king of the Picts to king of Alba, is part of a broader transformation of Pictland and the origins of the Kingdom of Alba are traced to Constantine's lifetime. His reign, like those of his predecessors, was dominat... | after 789 and perhaps, if Constantín was a kinsman of Óengus I of the Picts (Óengus son of Fergus), from around 730. The dominance of Fortriu came to an end in 839 with a defeat by Viking armies reported by the Annals of Ulster in which King Uen of Fortriu and his brother Bran, Constantín's nephews, together with the k... |
of the Constantinian dynasty. His reputation flourished during the lifetime of his children and for centuries after his reign. The medieval church held him up as a paragon of virtue, while secular rulers invoked him as a prototype, a point of reference and the symbol of imperial legitimacy and identity. Beginning with ... | Britain, Gaul, and Spain, and he commanded one of the largest Roman armies which was stationed along the important Rhine frontier. He remained in Britain after his promotion to emperor, driving back the tribes of the Picts and securing his control in the northwestern dioceses. He completed the reconstruction of militar... |
that it can be referenced between languages and tools, making it easy to work with code written in a language the developer is not using. The Common Language Specification (CLS) The CLI should conform with the set of base rules to which any language targeting, since that language should interoperate with other CLS-comp... | of default .NET installations. However, the conformance clause of the CLI allows for extending the supported profile by adding new methods and types to classes, as well as deriving from new namespaces. But it does not allow for adding new members to interfaces. This means that the features of the CLI can be used and ex... |
Zealand in 1930, India in 1932, and Pakistan in 1952. However, international cricket continued to be played as bilateral Test matches over three, four or five days. In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day. Starting in 1962 with a four-t... | in 1999. The number of nations playing Test cricket increased gradually over time, with the addition of West Indies in 1928, New Zealand in 1930, India in 1932, and Pakistan in 1952. However, international cricket continued to be played as bilateral Test matches over three, four or five days. In the early 1960s, Englis... |
in Ottawa, by Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, but reminiscent of the excursions to Chequers or Dorneywood in the days of the Prime Ministers' Conferences. Only the head of the delegation and their spouse and one additional person attend the retreats. The additional person may be of any capacity (personal, poli... | Gleneagles Agreement in 1977, the Lusaka Declaration in 1979, the Langkawi Declaration in 1989, the Millbrook Programme in 1995, the Aso Rock Declaration in 2003, and the Colombo Declaration on Sustainable, Inclusive and Equitable Development in 2013. The 'fringe' of civil society organisations, including the Commonwea... |
to Shen Dao. It originally consisted of ten volumes and forty-two chapters, of which all but seven chapters have been lost. |- |Heguanzi | |- |Gongsun longzi | |- |Guiguzi | |- |The Lüshi Chunqiu |An encyclopedic of ancient classics edited by Lü Buwei. |- |Shizi |Attributed to Shi Jiao |- !Mythology ! |- |The Classic o... | |- | The Methods of the Sima (司馬法) (Sima Fa) |Attributed to Sima Rangju. |- | Wei Liaozi (尉繚子) |Attributed to Wei Liao. |- | The Three Strategies of Huang Shigong (黃石公三略) |Attributed to Jiang Ziya. |- | The Thirty-Six Stratagems | Recently recovered. |- !Legalism ! |- | Guanzi |Attributed to Guan Zhong. |- |Deng Xizi |... |
The inbound call centre is a new and increasingly popular service for many types of healthcare facilities, including large hospitals. Inbound call centres can be outsourced or managed in-house. These healthcare call centres are designed to help streamline communications, enhance patient retention and satisfaction, redu... | more supervisor stations. It can be independently operated or networked with additional centers, often linked to a corporate computer network, including mainframes, microcomputer/servers and LANs. Increasingly, the voice and data pathways into the center are linked through a set of new technologies called computer tele... |
who instructed him to keep careful records of his observations. Messier's first documented observation was that of the Mercury transit of 6 May 1753, followed by his observations journals at Cluny Hotel and at the French Navy observatories. In 1764, Messier was made a fellow of the Royal Society; in 1769, he was electe... | in the area of the sky Messier could observe, from the north celestial pole to a declination of about −35.7° . They are not organized scientifically by object type, or by location. The first version of Messier's catalogue contained 45 objects and was published in 1774 in the journal of the French Academy of Sciences in... |
civilization where bodies were buried in wooden coffins. The urn burials and the "grave skeletons" were nearly contemporaneous. Reddish pottery, painted in black with antelopes, peacocks etc., sun or star motifs, with different surface treatments to the earlier period. Expansion of settlements into the east. Rice becam... | absorbed the Cemetery H people and gave rise to the Painted Grey Ware culture (to 1400 BC). Together with the Gandhara grave culture and the Ochre Coloured Pottery culture, the Cemetery H culture is considered by some scholars as a factor in the formation of the Vedic civilization. Features The distinguishing features ... |
little success and its aims were not supported by the United States. Organicism and nations Gini was a proponent of organicism and saw nations as organic in nature. Gini shared the view held by Oswald Spengler that populations go through a cycle of birth, growth, and decay. Gini claimed that nations at a primitive leve... | Statistical, Demographic and Actuarial Sciences. Under fascism In 1926, he was appointed President of the Central Institute of Statistics in Rome. This he organised as a single centre for Italian statistical services. He was a close intimate of Mussolini throughout the 20s. He resigned from his position within the inst... |
caused along the length of the crankshaft by the cylinders farthest from the output end acting on the torsional elasticity of the metal. History Crank mechanism Han China The earliest hand-operated cranks appeared in China during the Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 AD). They were used for silk-reeling, hemp-spinning, for the a... | to the 120 degree spacing of the crankshaft. The same engine, however, can be made to provide evenly spaced power pulses by using a crankshaft with an individual crank throw for each cylinder, spaced so that the pistons are actually phased 120° apart, as in the GM 3800 engine. While most production V8 engines use four ... |
of the Naval Staff (disambiguation), in several countries Former Taiwanese navy ship prefix Education Cicero-North Syracuse High School, New York, US City of Norwich School, England Computation and Neural Systems, a Caltech program Organisations Canadian Nuclear Society Congress of Neurological Surgeons US Corporation ... | Clinical nurse specialist Coagulase-negative staphylococcus Connectedness to nature scale Conserved non-coding sequence of DNA Crigler–Najjar syndrome Crystallography and NMR system, a software library Color Naming System CNS (DNS server), Caching Name Server, a DNS server software product Military CNS (chemical weapon... |
allowing for administration of certain pharmaceuticals and drugs. Brain At the anterior end of the spinal cord lies the brain. The brain makes up the largest portion of the CNS. It is often the main structure referred to when speaking of the nervous system in general. The brain is the major functional unit of the CNS. ... | also be seen macroscopically on brain tissue. The white matter consists of axons and oligodendrocytes, while the gray matter consists of neurons and unmyelinated fibers. Both tissues include a number of glial cells (although the white matter contains more), which are often referred to as supporting cells of the CNS. Di... |
number of organelles (such as mitochondria, ribosomes), and grows in size. In G1 phase, a cell has three options. To continue cell cycle and enter S phase Stop cell cycle and enter G0 phase for undergoing differentiation. Become arrested in G1 phase hence it may enter G0 phase or re-enter cell cycle. The deciding point... | approximately 10% of the cell cycle. Because cytokinesis usually occurs in conjunction with mitosis, "mitosis" is often used interchangeably with "M phase". However, there are many cells where mitosis and cytokinesis occur separately, forming single cells with multiple nuclei in a process called endoreplication. This o... |
tree in computer science Philosophy Cartesian anxiety, a hope that studying the world will give us unchangeable knowledge of ourselves and the world Cartesian circle, a potential mistake in reasoning Cartesian doubt, a form of methodical skepticism as a basis for philosophical rigor Cartesian dualism, the philosophy of... | of graphs, a binary operation on graphs Cartesian tree, a binary tree in computer science Philosophy Cartesian anxiety, a hope that studying the world will give us unchangeable knowledge of ourselves and the world Cartesian circle, a potential mistake in reasoning Cartesian doubt, a form of methodical skepticism as a b... |
each other. In a neutral position, the hands do not impart any force other than the touch of the follower's hands in the leader's. In swing dances, tension and compression may be maintained for a significant period of time. In other dances, such as Latin, tension and compression may be used as indications of upcoming m... | momentum. During compression connection, the dancers are pushing towards each other. In a neutral position, the hands do not impart any force other than the touch of the follower's hands in the leader's. In swing dances, tension and compression may be maintained for a significant period of time. In other dances, such a... |
ethnographers into two: Siwa and Buda. The Siwa caste was subdivided into five: Kemenuh, Keniten, Mas, Manuba and Petapan. This classification was to accommodate the observed marriage between higher-caste Brahmana men with lower-caste women. The other castes were similarly further sub-classified by 19th-century and ear... | witnessed caste-related violence. In 2005, government recorded approximately 110,000 cases of reported violent acts, including rape and murder, against Dalits. For 2012, the government recorded 651 murders, 3,855 injuries, 1,576 rapes, 490 kidnappings, and 214 cases of arson. The socio-economic limitations of the caste... |
and how people first came to inhabit it Creationism, the belief that the universe was created in specific divine acts and the social movement affiliated with it Genesis creation narrative, the biblical account of creation Creation Ministries International, a Christian apologetics organization Creation Festival, two ann... | (1945) Creation Records, a record label created in 1983 by Alan McGee Other uses in entertainment Creation (2009 film), by Jon Amiel about the life of Charles Darwin Creation (unfinished film), a 1931 film that inspired King Kong Creation (novel), a 1981 novel by Gore Vidal Creation (Dragonlance), creation of Krynn, a ... |
compilers met the specifications. This process was later adopted by the US Department of Defense while defining Ada. Overview Coral 66 is a general-purpose programming language based on ALGOL 60, with some features from Coral 64, JOVIAL, and Fortran. It includes structured record types (as in Pascal) and supports the p... | by the US Department of Defense while defining Ada. Overview Coral 66 is a general-purpose programming language based on ALGOL 60, with some features from Coral 64, JOVIAL, and Fortran. It includes structured record types (as in Pascal) and supports the packing of data into limited storage (also as in Pascal). Like Edi... |
usages have lapsed, or been usurped ("Hounslow Heath" for teeth, was replaced by "Hampsteads" from the heath of the same name, stating ). In some cases, false etymologies exist. For example, the term "barney" has been used to mean an altercation or fight since the late nineteenth century, although without a clear deriv... | in the mid-19th century in the East End of London, with several sources suggesting some time in the 1840s. The Flash Dictionary of unknown authorship, published in 1921 by Smeeton (48mo), contains a few rhymes. John Camden Hotten's 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words likewise states that it originat... |
the climate, other factors such as the high occurrence of parasites, diseases and the very low nutritional value of the native forage were problems. Formation of the breed The European breed used in the formation of Canchim cattle was Charolais. In 1922 the Ministry of Agriculture imported Charolais cattle to the State... | last century, were extensively crossbred with herds of native cattle. The Indian breed, well known for its ability to survive in the tropics, adapted quickly to Brazil, and soon populated large areas, considerably improving Brazilian beef cattle breeding. Zebu cattle were however found to be inferior to the European br... |
post-Stalin years, when Malenkov chaired Politburo meetings, Khrushchev as First Secretary signed all Central Committee documents into force. From 1954 until 1958, Khrushchev chaired the Politburo as First Secretary, but in 1958 he dismissed and succeeded Nikolai Bulganin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. During... | be called Marxism–Leninism. Stalin's position as General Secretary became the top executive position within the party, giving Stalin significant authority over party and state policy. By the end of the 1920s, diplomatic relations with western countries were deteriorating to the point that there was a growing fear of an... |
Yesus Lutheran Church, however, has taken a stand that marriage is inherently between a man and a woman, and has formally broken fellowship with the ELCA, a doctrinal stand that has cost the Ethiopian church ELCA financial support. Conservative position Some mainline Protestant denominations, such as the African Method... | it the oldest LGBT-affirming Apostolic Pentecostal denomination in existence. Another such organization is the Affirming Pentecostal Church International, currently the largest affirming Pentecostal organization, with churches in the US, UK, Central and South America, Europe and Africa. LGBT-affirming denominations reg... |
the Sahel. They include 150 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, southern Chad, the Central African Republic, and northern Cameroon. The most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa, a lingua franca of much of inland Eastern West Africa. Composition Newman (1977) classified the languages into the fo... | Bauchi and part of the Polci cluster. West Chadic. Two branches, which include (A) the Hausa, Ron, Bole, and Angas languages; and (B) the Bade, Warji, and Zaar languages. Biu–Mandara (Central Chadic). Three branches, which include (A) the Bura, Kamwe, and Bata languages, among other groups; (B) the Buduma and Musgu lan... |
languages A number of extinct populations have been proposed to have spoken Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic branch. Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst (2000) proposed that the peoples of the Kerma Culture – which inhabited the Nile Valley in present-day Sudan immediately before the arrival of the first Nubian speakers – spo... | the north in Egypt and the Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As of 2012, the Cushitic languages with over one million speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, Saho, and Sidama. Official status The Cushitic languages with the greatest number of total speakers are Oromo (37 million), Somal... |
several years, depending on the size and complexity of the bankruptcy. The Bankruptcy Code accomplishes this objective through the use of a bankruptcy plan. The debtor in possession typically has the first opportunity to propose a plan during the period of exclusivity. This period allows the debtor 120 days from the da... | must be approved by the bankruptcy court. Once the disclosure statement is approved, the plan proponent will solicit votes from the classes of creditors. Solicitation is the process by which creditors vote on the proposed confirmation plan. This process can be complicated if creditors fail or refuse to vote. In which c... |
theory), a generalization of the preceding conjugations to roots of a polynomial of any degree Conjugate transpose, the complex conjugate of the transpose of a matrix Harmonic conjugate in complex analysis Conjugate (graph theory), an alternative term for a line graph, i.e. a graph representing the edge adjacencies of ... | square root in an expression Conjugate element (field theory), a generalization of the preceding conjugations to roots of a polynomial of any degree Conjugate transpose, the complex conjugate of the transpose of a matrix Harmonic conjugate in complex analysis Conjugate (graph theory), an alternative term for a line gra... |
part of the disputants – as implied by Benford's law of controversy, which only talks about lack of information ("passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available"). For example, in analyses of the political controversy over anthropogenic climate change, which is exceptionally virulent in t... | Thus, for example, controversies in physics would be limited to subject areas where experiments cannot be carried out yet, whereas controversies would be inherent to politics, where communities must frequently decide on courses of action based on insufficient information. Psychological bases Controversies are frequentl... |
arms length |- |style="background: bgcolor=lightblue | Centromere position|style="background: bgcolor=lightblue | Arms length ratio |style="background: bgcolor=lightblue | Sign|style="background: bgcolor=lightblue| Description |- |Medial sensu stricto |1.0 – 1.6 |M |Metacentric |- |Medial region |1.7 |m |Metacentric |-... | exists between the human and great ape genomes, with a reduction of two acrocentric chromosomes in the great apes to one metacentric chromosome in humans (see aneuploidy and the human chromosome 2). Many diseases from the result of unbalanced translocations more frequently involve acrocentric chromosomes than other non... |
(Gozo), a citadel in Gozo, Malta Short name of Castellón de la Plana, a city in the Valencian Community, Spain Other Roman Catholic Diocese of Castello, a former diocese based in Venice Castello (surname) Castello cheeses See also Città di Castello, a town in Umbria, Italy Castell (disambiguation) Castella (disambiguat... | Florence Castello, Hong Kong, a private housing estate in Hong Kong A locality in the town of Monteggio in Switzerland Cittadella (Gozo), a citadel in Gozo, Malta Short name of Castellón de la Plana, |
an everyone wins situation in a number | a number of places: Zero-sum |
protocol) client applications distributed and supported since 1996 by GlobalSCAPE, who later bought the rights to the software. Both a Windows-based or Mac-based interface were made for both home and professional use. CuteFTP is used to transfer files between computers and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers to publis... | publish web pages, download digital images, music, multi-media files and software, and transfer files of any size or type between home and office. Since 1999, CuteFTP Pro and CuteFTP Mac Pro have also been available alongside CuteFTP Home with free trial periods. It was originally developed by Alex |
a reset button on them. It is possible to trigger a soft reset by jumping to the CPU reset routine at $FCE2 (64738). A few programs use this as an "exit" feature, although it does not clear memory. The KERNAL ROM went through three separate revisions, mostly designed to fix bugs. The initial version is only found on 32... | Services of Vienna, Virginia, which in October 1991 changed its name to America Online and continued to operate its AOL service for the IBM PC compatible and Apple Macintosh. Q-Link was a modified version of the PlayNET system, which Control Video Corporation (CVC, later renamed Quantum Computer Services) licensed. Onl... |
may be physical, such as roads or land masses, or may be abstract, such as toponyms or political boundaries. Represent the terrain of the mapped object on flat media. This is the concern of map projections. Eliminate characteristics of the mapped object that are not relevant to the map's purpose. This is the concern of... | In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map (Universalis Cosmographia) bearing the first use of the name "America". Portuguese cartographer Diego Ribero was the author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527). Italian cartographer Battista Agnese... |
consuming other organisms Consumption (economics), the purchasing of newly produced goods for current use also defined as the | for current use also defined as the consuming of products Consumption function, an economic formula Consumption (sociology) of resources, associated with social class, identity, |
be derived. Plant cardenolides Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley): convallotoxin Antiaris toxicaria (upas tree): antiarin Strophanthus kombe (Strophanthus vine): ouabain (g-strophanthin) and other strophanthins Digitalis lanata and Digitalis purpurea (Woolly and purple foxglove): digoxin, digitoxin Nerium oleande... | have a diverse range of biochemical effects regarding cardiac cell function and have also been suggested for use in cancer treatment. Classification General structure The general structure of a cardiac glycoside consists of a steroid molecule attached to a sugar (glycoside) and an R group. The steroid nucleus consists ... |
Mariana Islands Palau Palmyra Atoll Panama (Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty turned Panama into a protectorate, protectorate until post-WW2) Panama Canal Zone (1903–1979) Philippines (1898–1946) Puerto Rico Quita Sueño Bank (1869–1981) Roncador Bank (1856–1981) Ryukyu Islands (1945-1972) Shanghai International Settlement (1863... | to serve on a more domestic level. The result was a technologic, economic, and class-based gender gap that widened over time. Within a colony, the presence of extractive colonial institutions in a given area has been found have effects on the modern day economic development, institutions and infrastructure of these are... |
New York City, last operated in 1973 by Amtrak Colonial (Amtrak train), an Amtrak train that ran between Newport News, Virginia and Boston from 1976 to 1992, and between Richmond, Virginia and New York City from 1997 to 1999 Other uses Inmobiliaria Colonial, a Spanish corporation, which includes companies in the domain... | a Pennsylvania Railroad run between Washington, DC and New York City, last operated in 1973 by Amtrak Colonial (Amtrak train), an Amtrak train that ran between Newport News, Virginia and Boston from 1976 to 1992, and between Richmond, Virginia and New York City from 1997 to 1999 Other uses Inmobiliaria Colonial, a Span... |
who supposedly came from Tunisia and settled in Casablanca with his wife Lalla al-Baiḍā' ( White Lady). The villagers of Mediouna would reportedly provision themselves at "Dar al-Baiḍā" ( House of the White). In fact, rising above the ruins of Anfa, it appears there was a tall white-washed structure, as the Portuguese ... | collateral for loans given by France, that the French holding company La Compagnie Marocaine would develop the port of Casablanca, and that a French-and-Spanish-trained police force would be assembled to patrol the port. To build the port's breakwater, narrow-gauge track was laid in June 1907 for a small Decauville loc... |
than one. The latter shapes include not only the traditional †-shaped cross (the ), but also the T-shaped cross (the or tau cross), which the descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross indicate as the normal form in use at that time, and the X-shaped cross (the crux decussata or saltire). The Greek equivalent of ... | contemporary Tertullian rejects the accusation that Christians are crucis religiosi (i.e. "adorers of the gibbet"), and returns the accusation by likening the worship of pagan idols to the worship of poles or stakes. In his book De Corona, written in 204, Tertullian tells how it was already a tradition for Christians t... |
attached , but sometimes even the counting can become ambiguous. Coordination numbers are normally between two and nine, but large numbers of ligands are not uncommon for the lanthanides and actinides. The number of bonds depends on the size, charge, and electron configuration of the metal ion and the ligands. Metal io... | aid of electronic spectroscopy; also known as UV-Vis. For simple compounds with high symmetry, the d–d transitions can be assigned using Tanabe–Sugano diagrams. These assignments are gaining increased support with computational chemistry. Colors of lanthanide complexes Superficially lanthanide complexes are similar to ... |
in 1976. Dozens of companies were introducing game systems that year after Atari's successful Pong console. Nearly all of these new games were based on General Instrument's "Pong-on-a-chip". General Instrument had underestimated demand, and there were severe shortages. Coleco had been one of the first to place an order... | the war the company was larger and had branched out into new and used shoe machinery, hat cleaning equipment and even marble shoeshine stands. By the early 1950s, and thanks to Maurice Greenberg's son, Leonard Greenberg, the company had diversified further and was making leather lacing and leathercraft kits. In 1954, a... |
system to play Atari 2600 cartridges. A later module converts ColecoVision into the Coleco Adam home computer. ColecoVision was discontinued in 1985 when Coleco withdrew from the video game market. History Coleco entered the video game market in 1976 during the dedicated-game home console period with their line of Tels... | the dedicated-game home console period with their line of Telstar consoles. When that market became oversaturated over the next few years, the company nearly went bankrupt, but found a successful product through handheld electronic games, with products that beat out those of the current market leader, Mattel. The compa... |
Dot Eaters entry on the history of Telstar and Coleco The COLECO Story by Ralph H. Baer Feature titled "THE MOST BIZARRE CONSOLE FLOPS IN GAMING HISTORY" by ADAM JAMES at SVG.com Coleco consoles Dedicated consoles First-generation video game consoles Monochrome video game consoles 1970s toys 1976 in video gaming Produc... | Starting with Coleco Telstar Pong clone based video game console on General Instrument's AY-3-8500 chip in 1976, there were 14 consoles released in the Coleco Telstar series. About one million units of the first model called Coleco Telstar were sold. The large product lineup and the impending fading out of the |
of conventional warfare is to weaken or destroy the opponent's military, which negates its ability to engage in conventional warfare. In forcing capitulation, however, one or both sides may eventually resort to unconventional warfare tactics. History Formation of the state The state was first advocated by Plato, then f... | criminal activities and stripped of legitimacy. This war paradigm reflected the view of most of the modernized world at the beginning of the 21st century, as verified by examination of the conventional armies of the time: large, high maintenance, technologically advanced armies designed to compete against similarly des... |
to his cause, despite neglect by his faction and harassment by its enemies, started the use of the term. Chauvinism has extended from its original use to include fanatical devotion and undue partiality to any group or cause to which one belongs, especially when such partisanship includes prejudice against or hostility ... | by his faction and harassment by its enemies, started the use of the term. Chauvinism has extended from its original use to include fanatical devotion and undue partiality to any group or cause to which one belongs, especially when such partisanship includes prejudice against or hostility toward outsiders or rival grou... |
It is of interest in synthetic biology and is also a common subject in science fiction. The element silicon has been much discussed as a hypothetical alternative to carbon. Silicon is in the same group as carbon on the periodic table and, like carbon, it is tetravalent. Hypothetical alternatives to water include ammoni... | to a large number of permutations of possible reaction paths including acid–base chemistry, H+ cations, OH− anions, hydrogen bonding, van der Waals bonding, dipole–dipole and other polar interactions, aqueous solvent cages, and hydrolysis. This complexity offers a large number of pathways for evolution to produce life,... |
for the basic patterns of life and culture." "Creation myths tell us how things began. All cultures have creation myths; they are our primary myths, the first stage in what might be called the psychic life of the species. As cultures, we identify ourselves through the collective dreams we call creation myths, or cosmog... | myth definitions from modern references: A "symbolic narrative of the beginning of the world as understood in a particular tradition and community. Creation myths are of central importance for the valuation of the world, for the orientation of humans in the universe, and for the basic patterns of life and culture." "Cr... |
the homes of the laity, spreading down from the top of society as these became cheap enough for the average person to afford. Most towns had a large crucifix erected as a monument, or some other shrine at the crossroads of the town. Building on the ancient custom, many Catholics, Lutherans and Anglicans hang a crucifix... | cross, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the corpus (Latin for "body"). The crucifix is a principal symbol for many groups of Christians, and one of the most common forms of the Crucifixion in the arts. It is especially important in the Latin Ri... |
Earth or in the Solar System, are not privileged observers of the universe. Named for Copernican heliocentrism, it is a working assumption that arises from a modified cosmological extension of Copernicus's argument of a moving Earth. Origin and implications Hermann Bondi named the principle after Copernicus in the mid-... | given point. These two conditions make up the cosmological principle. In practice, astronomers observe that the universe has heterogeneous or non-uniform structures up to the scale of galactic superclusters, filaments and great voids. It becomes more and more homogeneous and isotropic when observed on larger and larger... |
(Somalian cavefish) Placogobio Platypharodon Pogobrama Poropuntius Probarbus Procypris Prolabeo Prolabeops Pseudaspius Ptychobarbus Puntioplites Rasborichthys Rohtee (Vatani rohtee) Rohteichthys Sanagia Sawbwa (Sawbwa barb) Scaphiodonichthys Scaphognathops Scardinius (rudds) Schismatorhynchos Schizocypris (snowtrouts) ... | or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest vertebrate animal family in general with about 3,000 species, of which only 1,270 remain extant, divided into about 370 genera. Cyprinids range from... |
reduced RNase H activity suited for transcription of longer RNAs. The AMV reverse transcriptase from the avian myeloblastosis virus may also be used for RNA templates with strong secondary structures (i.e. high melting temperature). cDNA is commonly generated from mRNA for gene expression analyses such as RT-qPCR and R... | the recipient cell. In molecular biology, cDNA is also generated to analyze transcriptomic profiles in bulk tissue, single cells, or single nuclei in assays such as microarrays and RNA-seq. cDNA is also produced naturally by retroviruses (such as HIV-1, HIV-2, simian immunodeficiency virus, etc.) and then integrated in... |
particularly popular as a first-generation wireless data solution for telemetry devices (machine to machine communications) and for public safety mobile data terminals. In 2004, major carriers in the United States announced plans to shut down CDPD service. In July 2005, the AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless CDPD netw... | as 1xRTT, EV-DO, and UMTS/HSPA. Developed in the early 1990s, CDPD was large on the horizon as a future technology. However, it had difficulty competing against existing slower but less expensive Mobitex and DataTac systems, and never quite gained widespread acceptance before newer, faster standards such as GPRS became... |
by Gérard de Nerval Chimaira, a 2001 novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi Chimera (Barth novel) (1972) Chimera (CrossGen), a 2003 comic book mini series Chimaera (novel), a 2004 novel by Ian Irvine Chimera (novel series), a Japanese novel series by Baku Yumemakura Chimera (short story), a short story by Lee Youngdo Chimer... | EP by Girugamesh Songs "Chimeres I, II and III", 2007 compositions by Fred Momotenko "Chimera", a song by Duncan Sheik from a version of Daylight "Chimaera", a 1992 song by Bad Religion from Generator "Chimera", a 1999 song by the Tea Party from Triptych "Chimeras", a track by Tim Hecker from Harmony in Ultraviolet "Ch... |
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority is an example. In a wider sense, most companies in the UK are created under statute since the Companies Act 1985 specifies how a company may be created by a member of the public, but these companies are not called 'statutory corporations'. Often, in American legal and business... | China) these bodies are described as "creatures of statute" to inform readers of their origins and format although the national governments that created them may not term them as creatures of statute. Australia also uses the term "creature of statute" to describe some governmental bodies. The importance of a corporate ... |
Committees, are published by the BIPM. Mission The secretariat is based in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, France. In 1999 the CIPM has established the CIPM Arrangement de reconnaissance mutuelle (Mutual Recognition Arrangement, MRA) which serves as the framework for the mutual acceptance of national measurement standards... | and the supreme authority for all actions; Comité international des poids et mesures (CIPM), consisting of selected scientists and metrologists, which prepares and executes the decisions of the CGPM and is responsible for the supervision of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; a permanent laboratory and se... |
Its most prominent themes are existential ennui, loneliness, and the inability to escape one's past. Cowboy Bebop was dubbed into English by Animaze and ZRO Limit Productions, and was originally licensed in North America by Bandai Entertainment (and is now licensed by Funimation) and in Britain by Beez Entertainment (n... | portrayed as someone who had lost his expectations for the future, having lost the woman he loved, and so was in a near-constant lethargy. Spike's artificial eye was included as Watanabe wanted his characters to have flaws. He was originally going to be given an eyepatch, but this decision was vetoed by producers. Jet ... |
fifth book returns to the subject of faith. Clement argues that truth, justice, and goodness can be seen only by the mind, not the eye; faith is a way of accessing the unseeable. He stresses that knowledge of God can only be achieved through faith once one's moral faults have been corrected. This parallels Clement's ea... | from a state of ignorance, not from intention. The Christian is a "laborer in God's vineyard", responsible both for one's own path to salvation and that of one's neighbor. The work ends with an extended passage against the contemporary divisions and heresies within the church. Other works Besides the great trilogy, Cle... |
generic" (cf. gnomic aspect). Also following Lyons, Ann Banfield writes, "In order for the statement on which Descartes's argument depends to represent certain knowledge,… its tense must be a true present—in English, a progressive,… not as 'I think' but as 'I am thinking, in conformity with the general translation of t... | thank Andreas Colvius (a friend of Descartes's mentor, Isaac Beeckman) for drawing his attention to Augustine: I am obliged to you for drawing my attention to the passage of St Augustine relevant to my I am thinking, therefore I exist. I went today to the library of this town to read it, and I do indeed find that he do... |
through in their persistence despite the obstacles. These stories found popularity not only among young children but adults as well. Despite the fact that Barks had done little traveling his adventure stories often had the duck clan globe-trotting to the most remote or spectacular of places. This allowed Barks to indul... | cruel bumps and bruises of everyday life with the nephews often acting as a Greek chorus commenting on the unfolding disasters Donald wrought upon himself. Yet while seemingly defeatist in tone, the humanity of the characters shines through in their persistence despite the obstacles. These stories found popularity not ... |
goes back to a proposal in 1832 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss to base a system of absolute units on the three fundamental units of length, mass and time. Gauss chose the units of millimetre, milligram and second. In 1873, a committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, includin... | and the magnetic field H in a medium other than vacuum, we need to also define the constants ε0 and μ0, which are the vacuum permittivity and permeability, respectively. Then we have (generally) and , where P and M are polarization density and magnetization vectors. The units of P and M are usually so chosen that the f... |
his work De Jesu Christo servatore (1578), who rejected the idea of "vicarious satisfaction." According to Socinus, Jesus' death offers us a perfect example of self-sacrificial dedication to God." Other theories are the "embracement theory" and the "shared atonement" theory. Early Christologies (1st century) Early noti... | from what would otherwise be the consequences of sin. The earliest Christian writings gave several titles to Jesus, such as Son of Man, Son of God, Messiah, and Kyrios, which were all derived from the Hebrew scriptures. These terms centered around two opposing themes, namely "Jesus as a preexistent figure who becomes h... |
must, as soon as practicable initiate a conference between the parties to plan for the rest of the discovery process and then the parties should submit a proposed discovery plan to the judge within 14 days after the conference. In many U.S. jurisdictions, a complaint submitted to a court must be accompanied by a Case I... | often associated with misdemeanor criminal charges presented by the prosecutor without the grand jury process. In most U.S. jurisdictions, the charging instrument presented to and authorized by a grand jury is referred to as an indictment. United States Virtually every U.S. state has some forms available on the web for... |
distinction, since it was the second university founded in Central Europe, after the Charles University in Prague. Politics and Expansion Casimir demonstrated competence in foreign diplomacy and managed to double the size of the kingdom. He neutralized the relations with potential enemies in the West and the North, and... | a peasant whose house had been demolished by his own mistress, after she had ordered it to be pulled down because it disturbed her enjoyment of the beautiful landscape. His popularity with the peasants helped to rebuild the country, as part of the reconstruction program was funded by a land tax paid by the lower social... |
measured in bits), using the most efficient algorithm, and the space complexity of a problem equal to the volume of the memory used by the algorithm (e.g., cells of the tape) that it takes to solve an instance of the problem as a function of the size of the input (usually measured in bits), using the most efficient alg... | complexity as time of computation is smaller when multitape Turing machines are used than when Turing machines with one tape are used. Random Access Machines allow one to even more decrease time complexity (Greenlaw and Hoover 1998: 226), while inductive Turing machines can decrease even the complexity class of a funct... |
5 rules in Holy Living (1650), including abstaining from marrying "so long as she is with child by her former husband" and "within the year of mourning". Celibacy In the Roman Catholic Church, celibacy is vowed or promised as one of the evangelical counsels by the persons of the consecrated life. Furthermore, in 306, t... | meet a penalty. Multiplied for him is the punishment on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein humiliated -Except for those who repent, believe and do righteous work. For them Allah will replace their evil deeds with good. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful." (25:68-70) In a list of commendable deeds ... |
Yakov Zel'dovich in the early 1960s, and independently predicted by Robert Dicke at the same time. The first published recognition of the CMB radiation as a detectable phenomenon appeared in a brief paper by Soviet astrophysicists A. G. Doroshkevich and Igor Novikov, in the spring of 1964. In 1964, David Todd Wilkinson... | peaks give important information about the nature of the primordial density perturbations. There are two fundamental types of density perturbations called adiabatic and isocurvature. A general density perturbation is a mixture of both, and different theories that purport to explain the primordial density perturbation s... |
foreign legal systems, even where no explicit comparison is undertaken. The importance of comparative law has increased enormously in the present age of internationalism, economic globalization, and democratization. History The origins of modern Comparative Law can be traced back to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1667 in... | 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Louisiana, various South American states such as Brazil, Quebec, Saint Lucia, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon German group Scandinavian group, comprising the l... |
current working directory in operating systems continuous delivery, a software development design practice continuous deployment, a software development design practice collision detection, CSMA/CD Mathematics cd (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions Other uses in science and technology Cadmium or Cd,... | business and organizations Certificate of deposit, a bank account in the United States with a fixed maturity date České dráhy or ČD, a railway operator of the Czech Republic Commander of the Order of Distinction, a rank in the Jamaican Orders of Societies of Honour Places Central District, Seattle, a district in Seattl... |
for example, might be metaphorically said to "exist in cyberspace". According to this interpretation, events taking place on the Internet are not happening in the locations where participants or servers are physically located, but "in cyberspace". The philosopher Michel Foucault used the term heterotopias, to describe ... | the "real world". Cyber-Geography The “Geography of Notopia” (Papadimitriou, 2006) theorizes about the complex interplay of cyber-cultures and the geographical space. This interplay has several philosophical and psychological facets (Papadimitriou, 2009). A New Communication Model The technological convergence of the m... |
fertile tidal marshes surrounding the southeastern and northeastern reaches of the Bay of Fundy being populated by French immigrants who called themselves Acadien. The Acadians eventually built small settlements throughout what is today mainland Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as well as Île-Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Is... | of Canada. The inland climate of New Brunswick is in stark contrast during winter, resembling more continental areas. Summers are somewhat tempered by the marine influence throughout the provinces, but due to the southerly parallels still remain similar to more continental areas further west. Yarmouth in Nova Scotia ha... |
more furious, eventually resorting to violence against the Christians. They plotted to flush the Christians out at night by running through the streets claiming that the Church of Alexander was on fire. When Christians responded to what they were led to believe was the burning down of their church, "the Jews immediatel... | portion of its population." Because of this, the feud between Cyril and Orestes intensified, and both men wrote to the emperor regarding the situation. Eventually, Cyril attempted to reach out to Orestes through several peace overtures, including attempted mediation and, when that failed, showed him the Gospels, which ... |
"to inscribe for baptism is to write one's name in the register of the elect in heaven". Eschatology Oded Irshai observed that Cyril lived in a time of intense apocalyptic expectation, when Christians were eager to find apocalyptic meaning in every historical event or natural disaster. Cyril spent a good part of his ep... | sin and Jesus’ sacrificing himself to save us from our sins. Also, the burial and Resurrection which occurred three days later proving the divinity of Jesus Christ and the loving nature of the Father. Cyril was very adamant about the fact that Jesus went to his death with full knowledge and willingness. Not only did he... |
by some of the American Jewish community as a way to adapt to American life, re-inventing the festival in "the language of individualism and personal conscience derived from both Protestantism and the Enlightenment". The reason for the Hanukkah lights is not for the "lighting of the house within", but rather for the "i... | eaten to commemorate the importance of oil during the celebration of Hanukkah. Some also have a custom of eating dairy products to remember Judith and how she overcame Holofernes by feeding him cheese, which made him thirsty, and giving him wine to drink. When Holofernes became very drunk, Judith cut off his head. Kind... |
society viewing wives as the chattel of husbands. The descriptions of the Bible suggest that she would be expected to perform tasks such as spinning, sewing, weaving, manufacture of clothing, fetching of water, baking of bread, and animal husbandry. However, wives were usually looked after with care, and bigamous men w... | the biblically ordained relationship between husband and wife. These views range from Christian egalitarianism that interprets the New Testament as teaching complete equality of authority and responsibility between the man and woman in marriage, all the way to Patriarchy that calls for a "return to complete patriarchy"... |
invisible by explicitly declaring fully abstract classes that represent the interfaces of the class. Some languages feature other accessibility schemes: Instance vs. class accessibility: Ruby supports instance-private and instance-protected access specifiers in lieu of class-private and class-protected, respectively. T... | designated as private or protected. Path-based: Java supports restricting access to a member within a Java package, which is the logical path of the file. However, it is a common practice when extending a Java framework to implement classes in the same package as a framework class in order to access protected members. ... |
of New Zealand Canterbury Plains Canterbury Bight, a stretch of coastline United Kingdom Canterbury (UK Parliament constituency) City of Canterbury, the local government district in Kent Province of Canterbury, one of two ecclesiastical provinces which constitute the Church of England Diocese of Canterbury, a Church of... | 1983 album by Diamond Head Canterbury (band), an English alternative rock band Ships Canterbury (ship), the ship which transported William Penn and James Logan from England to Philadelphia in 1699 HMS Canterbury, several ships of the British Royal Navy HMNZS Canterbury (F421), a decommissioned New Zealand Navy frigate ... |
between red, orange, yellow, and green. (Orange and yellow are different combinations of red and green light.) Colors in this range, which appear very different to a normal viewer, appear to a dichromat to be the same or a similar color. The terms protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia come from Greek, and respective... | first (prot-), second (deuter-), or third (trit-) [cone]". Anomalous trichromacy is the least serious type of color deficiency. People with protanomaly, deuteranomaly, or tritanomaly are trichromats, but the color matches they make differ from the normal. They are called anomalous trichromats. In order to match a given... |
dongles is to use them for accessing web-based content such as cloud software or Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). In addition, a USB dongle can be configured to lock or unlock a computer. Trusted platform modules (TPMs) secure devices by integrating cryptographic capabilities onto access devices, through the use of mic... | content such as cloud software or Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). In addition, a USB dongle can be configured to lock or unlock a computer. Trusted platform modules (TPMs) secure devices by integrating cryptographic capabilities onto access devices, through the use of microprocessors, or so-called computers-on-a-chip.... |
from Flex was shown in the Barbican's exhibition Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now curated by Martin Kemp, Marina Wallace and Joanne Bernstein. alongside other pieces by Bacon, Klimt, Rembrandt, Rodin and Picasso. Short films In 2005, Cunningham released the short film Rubber Johnny as a DVD accompanied by a b... | Artist/Curator Paul Murnaghan, In 2007, an excerpt from Flex was shown in the Barbican's exhibition Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now curated by Martin Kemp, Marina Wallace and Joanne Bernstein. alongside other pieces by Bacon, Klimt, Rembrandt, Rodin and Picasso. Short films In 2005, Cunningham released the s... |
and fought against the Lapiths. Origin of the myth The most common theory holds that the idea of centaurs came from the first reaction of a non-riding culture, as in the Minoan Aegean world, to nomads who were mounted on horses. The theory suggests that such riders would appear as half-man, half-animal. Bernal Díaz del... | wedding and was killed by Peleus. Isoples, killed by Heracles when he tried to steal the wine of Pholus. Latreus, fought against the Lapiths at Pirithous' wedding and was killed by Caeneus. Lycabas, attended Pirithous' wedding, fought against the Lapiths and fled. Lycidas, fought against the Lapiths at Pirithous' weddi... |
regulation allows the bacterium to 'remember' chemical concentrations from the recent past, a few seconds, and compare them to those it is currently experiencing, thus 'know' whether it is traveling up or down a gradient. that bacteria have to chemical gradients, other mechanisms are involved in increasing the absolute... | receptor activation results in autophosphorylation in the histidine kinase, CheA, at a single highly conserved histidine residue. CheA, in turn, transfers phosphoryl groups to conserved aspartate residues in the response regulators CheB and CheY; CheA is a histidine kinase and it does not actively transfer the phosphor... |
10,994 (2%) in ethnic groups other than white. Of the 2% in non-white ethnic groups: 3,717 (34%) belonged to mixed ethnic groups 3,336 (30%) were Asian or Asian British 1,076 (10%) were black or black British 1,826 (17%) were of Chinese ethnic groups 1,039 (9%) were of other ethnic groups. Religion In the 2001 Census, ... | against the English populace was enough to end all future resistance. Examples were made of major landowners such as Earl Edwin of Mercia, their properties confiscated and redistributed amongst Norman barons. The earldom was sufficiently independent from the kingdom of England that the 13th-century Magna Carta did not ... |
the concept of a county town pre-dates the establishment of these councils. The concept of a county town is ill-defined and unofficial. Some counties have their administrative bodies located elsewhere. For example, Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire, but the county council is located in Preston. Some county tow... | the county town of each county. However, the concept of a county town pre-dates the establishment of these councils. The concept of a county town is ill-defined and unofficial. Some counties have their administrative bodies located elsewhere. For example, Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire, but the county counc... |
Act 1982 which is in force in Britain is in English only, but the version of the Act in force in Canada is bilingual, English and French. In addition to enacting the Constitution Act, 1982, the Canada Act 1982 provides that no further British acts of Parliament will apply to Canada as part of its law, finalizing Canada... | the legislatures affected by the amendment (section 43). In the case of an amendment that affects the federal government only, the amendment does not need the approval of the provinces (section 44). The same applies to amendments affecting the provincial government alone (section 45). Sources of the constitution Canada... |
fabric emerges in Europe during the 19th century. Earlier work identified as crochet was commonly made by nålebinding, a different looped yarn technique. The first known published instructions for crochet explicitly using that term to describe the craft in its present sense appeared in the Dutch magazine Penélopé in 18... | which can be used to make tassels, fringe, and many other items; a pom-pom circle, used to make pom-poms; a tape measure and a gauge measure, both used for measuring crocheted work and counting stitches; a row counter; and occasionally plastic rings, which are used for special projects. In recent years, yarn selections... |
one winding, insulated electrically from each other. When there are two or more windings around a common magnetic axis, the windings are said to be inductively coupled or magnetically coupled. A time-varying current through one winding will create a time-varying magnetic field that passes through the other winding, whi... | coil - a coil used to demagnetize parts Voice coil - a coil used in a moving-coil loudspeaker, suspended between the poles of a magnet. When the audio signal is passed through the coil, it vibrates, moving the attached speaker cone to create sound waves. The reverse is used in a dynamic microphone, where sound vibratio... |
the encouragement of his Protestant advisers, James summoned the English Parliament in 1624 to request subsidies for a war. Charles and Buckingham supported the impeachment of the Lord Treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, who opposed war on grounds of cost and quickly fell in much the same manner Bacon h... | November, capturing Brentford on the way while simultaneously continuing to negotiate with civic and parliamentary delegations. At Turnham Green on the outskirts of London, the royalist army met resistance from the city militia, and faced with a numerically superior force, Charles ordered a retreat. He overwintered in ... |
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