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removal of fibroids and even retained products of conception. It allows direct visualization of the inside of the uterus and may allow targeted sampling and removal of tissue inside the uterus. Procedure Depending on the anticipated duration and difficulty expected with the procedure, as well as the clinical indication... | surgical abortion only when manual vacuum aspiration with a suction curette is unavailable. For patients who have recently given birth, a D&C may be indicated to remove retained placental tissue that does not pass spontaneously or for postpartum hemorrhage. Non-pregnant patients D&Cs for non-pregnant patients are commo... |
"The Doctor Falls" and "Twice Upon a Time". In 2020’s “Fugitive of the Judoon”, Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor meets Jo Martin's incarnation of the Doctor, subsequently known as the Fugitive Doctor. They met, albeit briefly, in “The Timeless Children” later that year and "Once Upon Time" in 2021. Revelations ... | dates to reprise the role of their specific Doctor. In 1973's The Three Doctors, William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton returned alongside Jon Pertwee. For 1983's The Five Doctors, Troughton and Pertwee returned to star with Peter Davison, and Tom Baker appeared in previously unseen footage from the uncompleted Shada s... |
Parmenides on the grounds that motion was an observable fact. Therefore, they asserted, there must be a void. This idea survived in a refined version as Newton's theory of absolute space, which met the logical requirements of attributing reality to not-being. Einstein's theory of relativity provided a new answer to Par... | The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes, "This theologically motivated view does not seem to claim much historical evidence, however". Democritus, along with Leucippus and Epicurus, proposed the earliest views on the shapes and connectivity of atoms. They reasoned that the solidness of the material corresponded t... |
to players of different ability levels. Most disc golf courses are built in more natural and less manicured environments than golf and require minimal maintenance. Professional course designers consider safety a critical factor in course design, and are careful to minimize the danger of being hit by a flying disc while... | DGA was to manufacture discs and targets and to formalize the game for disc golf. The first disc golf target was Ed's pole hole design which basically consisted of a pole sticking out of the ground. The First Disc Golf Basket In 1977, Headrick and his son Ken developed the modern basket catch for disc golf, US Patent 4... |
in the numeral. That is, the decimal system is a positional numeral system. Decimal fractions Decimal fractions (sometimes called decimal numbers, especially in contexts involving explicit fractions) are the rational numbers that may be expressed as a fraction whose denominator is a power of ten. For example, the decim... | by a decimal separator (usually "." or "," as in or ). Decimal may also refer specifically to the digits after the decimal separator, such as in " is the approximation of to two decimals". Zero-digits after a decimal separator serve the purpose of signifying the precision of a value. The numbers that may be represented... |
Tyrtaeus' five books of martial verse survive. His is the earliest mention of the three Dorian tribes: Pamphyli, Hylleis, Dymanes. He also says: For Cronus' Son Himself, Zeus the husband of fair-crowned Hera, hath given this city to the children of Heracles, with whom we came into the wide isle of Pelops from windy Eri... | War, "Hellas was still engaged in removing and settling." Some 60 years after the Trojan War the Boeotians were driven out of Arne by the Thessalians into Boeotia and 20 years later "the Dorians and the Heraclids became masters of the Peloponnese." So the lines were drawn between the Dorians and the Aeolians (here Boeo... |
that at the time of the Declaration only male property owners held these rights. The deputies in the National Assembly believed that only those who held tangible interests in the nation could make informed political decisions. This distinction directly affects articles 6, 12, 14, and 15 of the Declaration of the Rights... | public force: this force is thus instituted for the advantage of all and not for the particular utility of those in whom it is trusted. Article XIII – For the maintenance of the public force and for the expenditures of administration, a common contribution is indispensable; it must be equally distributed to all the cit... |
adopted. In an interview from 1999, Ritchie clarified that he saw Linux and BSD operating systems as a continuation of the basis of the Unix operating system, and as derivatives of Unix: In the same interview, he stated that he viewed both Unix and Linux as "the continuation of ideas that were started by Ken and me and... | programming language which, according to the citation for the medal, "led to enormous advances in computer hardware, software, and networking systems and stimulated growth of an entire industry, thereby enhancing American leadership in the Information Age". In 2005, the Industrial Research Institute awarded Ritchie its... |
of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. 1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. 1838 – Great Trek: Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu im... | dancer 1961 – Jon Tenney, American actor and director 1962 – Maruschka Detmers, Dutch-French actress 1962 – William Perry, American football player and wrestler 1963 – Benjamin Bratt, American actor and producer 1963 – Cathy Johnston-Forbes, American golfer 1963 – James Mangold, American director, producer, and screenw... |
in April 1976. No new revelatory sections have been added since 1981. The LDS Church's 1981 edition contains two "Official Declarations" at the book's conclusion. The 1890 Official Declaration 1 ended the church-authorized practice of plural marriage, and the 1978 Official Declaration 2 announces the opening of priesth... | Smith and Williams, two of the Presiding Elders on the committee, were absent, but Cowdery and Rigdon were present. The church membership at the time had not yet seen the Doctrine and Covenants manuscript as it had been compiled and revised solely by the committee; however, various church members who were familiar with... |
reach 90–100M by 2025. According to Jean Ziegler (United Nations Special Reporter on the Right to Food, 2000 – Mar 2008), mortality due to malnutrition accounted for 58% of the total mortality rate in 2006. Ziegler says worldwide approximately 62M people died from all causes and of those deaths more than 36M died of hu... | around the world in the 21st century, a World Health Organization report warned. Many leading developed world causes of death can be postponed by diet and physical activity, but the accelerating incidence of disease with age still imposes limits on human longevity. The evolutionary cause of aging is, at best, only just... |
no longer distinguished in many dialects of English. Speakers who exhibit the father–bother merger no longer distinguish (𐐪) and (𐐱), and so both "father" and "bother" would be written with 𐐪: as 𐑁𐐪𐑄𐐲𐑉 and 𐐺𐐪𐑄𐐲𐑉 as opposed to 𐑁𐐪𐑄𐐲𐑉 and 𐐺𐐱𐑄𐐲𐑉. For those with the cot–caught merger, (𐐫) and (𐐱) ar... | expensive and even the most devout Mormons could not be convinced to purchase and study the Deseret edition books over the books in the traditional orthography. In the winter of 1870, just one year after their publication, advertisements for the Deseret alphabet books were quietly removed from the Deseret News. Contemp... |
from, or related to the country of Denmark A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity Danish language, a North Germanic language used mostly in Denmark and Northern Germany Danish cuisine Danish culture Da... | Germany Danish cuisine Danish culture Danish pastry, often simply called a "Danish" Danish tongue or Old Norse, the parent language of all North Germanic languages A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe Danish (name), a male given name and surname See also Dane (disambiguation) |
Swedish that use trilled . Only very few, middle-aged or elderly, speakers of Jutlandic retain a frontal which is then usually realised as a flapped or approximant . Prosody Danish is characterized by a prosodic feature called (lit. "thrust"). This is a form of laryngealization or creaky voice. Some sources have descri... | SVO word order and a complex syntax. Some traits typical of Germanic languages persist in Danish, such as the distinction between irregularly inflected strong stems inflected through ablaut or umlaut (i.e. changing the vowel of the stem, as in the pairs ("takes/took") and ("foot/feet")) and weak stems inflected through... |
Buffalo Springfield Again (1967) "Broken Arrow" – 6:13 Performed by Buffalo Springfield; appears on the album Buffalo Springfield Again "Expecting to Fly" – 3:44 Appears on the album Buffalo Springfield Again but no band member other than Neil Young appears on the track. "Sugar Mountain" – 5:43 Recorded live in concert... | at No. 43 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, and was certified platinum by the RIAA in 1986. History Compiled by Young himself, with his hand-written liner notes about each track, Decade represents almost every album from his career and various affiliations through 1977 with the exception of 4 Way Street and Time F... |
Cretan cult which was eventually carried to the Eleusinian Mysteries in Classical Greece. In a clay statuette from Gazi, the Minoan poppy goddess wears the seed capsules, sources of nourishment and narcosis, in her diadem. According to Kerényi, "It seems probable that the Great Mother Goddess who bore the names Rhea an... | Misme took her in and offered her a cup of water with pennyroyal and barley groats in it, for it was a hot day. Demeter, in her thirst, swallowed the drink clumsily. Witnessing that, Misme's son Ascalabus laughed and mocked her and asked her if she would like a deep jar of that drink. Demeter then poured her drink over... |
followed by several more. The tapes circulated through the tape trader world, quickly establishing the band's name. With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact the emerging Florida death metal scene. The fast minor-key riffs and solos were complemented with fast drumming, creatin... | Post Mortem. Growing popularity By 1989, many bands had been signed by eager record labels wanting to cash in on the subgenre, including Florida's Obituary, Morbid Angel and Deicide. This collective of death metal bands hailing from Florida are often labeled as "Florida death metal". Morbid Angel pushed the genre's lim... |
is, for instance, the completely medieval Spanish of the Poema de mio Cid, a kind of Spanish that is as different from Cervantes' language as Middle English is from Modern English. The Old Castilian language was also used to show the higher class that came with being a knight errant. In Don Quixote, there are basically... | come to occupy a canonical space as one of the foundations of modern literature. Summary Cervantes wrote that the first chapters were taken from "the archives of La Mancha", and the rest were translated from an Arabic text by the Moorish author Cide Hamete Benengeli. This metafictional trick appears to give a greater c... |
Dylan (born 1941), American singer and songwriter Dylan (1973 album), a 1973 album by Bob Dylan Dylan (2007 album), a 2007 compilation album by Bob Dylan Dylan (play), a 1964 play by Sidney Michaels Technology and engineering Dylan (programming language), a language with Lisp-like semantics and | Bob Dylan Dylan (2007 album), a 2007 compilation album by Bob Dylan Dylan (play), a 1964 play by Sidney Michaels Technology and engineering Dylan (programming language), a language with Lisp-like semantics and ALGOL-like syntax Dylan, a RAID storage system by Quantel Honda Dylan, a high-end 125cc Honda scooter in Vietn... |
Louise Arensberg. The New Yorkers, though not particularly organized, called their activities Dada, but they did not issue manifestos. They issued challenges to art and culture through publications such as The Blind Man, Rongwrong, and New York Dada in which they criticized the traditionalist basis for museum art. New ... | through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. The creations of Duchamp, Picabia, Man Ray, and others between 1915 and 1917 eluded the term Dada at the time, and "New York Dada" came to be seen as a post facto invention of Duchamp. At the outset of the 1920s the term Dada flouri... |
part of a contest to replace the semi-official logo that had been used. The winner of the contest received an @debian.org email address, and a set of Debian 2.1 install CDs for the architecture of their choice. There has been no official statement from the Debian project on the logo's meaning, but at the time of the lo... | dpkg to graphical front-ends like Synaptic. The recommended standard for administering packages on a Debian system is the apt toolset. dpkg provides the low-level infrastructure for package management. The dpkg database contains the list of installed software on the current system. The dpkg command tool does not know a... |
later given the name "Walden College", revealed to be in Connecticut (the same state as Yale), and depicted as devolving into a third-rate institution under the weight of grade inflation, slipping academic standards, and the end of tenure, issues that Trudeau has consistently revisited since the original characters gra... | corroborator, adding that Trudeau had donated the $10,000 to the USO anyway. April 2004: On April 21, after nearly 34 years, readers finally saw B.D.'s head without some sort of helmet. In the same strip, it was revealed that he had lost a leg in the Iraq War. Later that month, the 23rd, after awakening and discovering... |
sets of polyhedral dice started around the end of the 1960s when non-cubical dice became popular among players of wargames, and since have been employed extensively in role-playing games and trading card games. Dice using both the numerals 6 and 9, which are reciprocally symmetric through rotation, typically distinguis... | with flat two-sided throwsticks which indicated the number of squares a player could move, and thus functioned as a form of dice. Senet was played before 3000 BC and up to the 2nd century AD. Bone dice from Skara Brae, Scotland have been dated to 3100–2400 BC. Excavations from graves at Mohenjo-daro, an Indus Valley ci... |
not considered violations; evidence seized in this manner has been permitted in many criminal trials. In the United States this has been affirmed by numerous courts including and up to the Supreme Court, in the decision California v. Greenwood. The doctrine is not as well established in regards to civil litigation. Com... | people do this out of necessity due to poverty, others do it for ideological reasons or professionally and systematically for profit. Etymology The term "dumpster diving" emerged in the 1980s, combining "diving" with "dumpster", a large commercial trash bin. The term "Dumpster" itself comes from the Dempster Dumpster, ... |
memory fell, new types of synthesizers emerged, offering a variety of novel sound synthesis options. The Korg Oasys was one such example, packaging multiple digital synthesizers into a single unit. Digital synthesizers can now be completely emulated in software ("softsynth"), and run on conventional PC hardware. Such s... | FM synthesis and, although it was incapable of the sampling synthesis of the Fairlight CMI, its price was around $2,000, putting it within range of a much larger number of musicians. The DX-7 was also known for its "key scaling" method to avoid distortion and for its recognizably bright tonality that was partly due to ... |
music, such as human speech and sounds found in both natural and industrial environments . The problem of defining music is further complicated by the influence of culture in music cognition. The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines music as "the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of... | composer Edgard Varèse in reference to his own musical aesthetic. Varèse's concept of music as "organized sound" fits into his vision of "sound as living matter" and of "musical space as open rather than bounded". He conceived the elements of his music in terms of "sound-masses", likening their organization to the natu... |
typically cooler than in downtown. At the airport, monthly mean temperatures range from in January to in July. The highest temperature ever recorded in Dayton was on July 22, 1901, and the coldest was on February 13 during the Great Blizzard of 1899. On average, there are 14 days of + highs and 4.5 nights of sub- lows ... | Tech Town, a development project to attract technology-based firms and revitalize the downtown area. Tech Town is home to the world's first RFID business incubator. The University of Dayton–led Institute for Development & Commercialization of Sensor Technologies (IDCAST) at TechTown is a center for remote sensing and s... |
many other internal diodes. Avalanche diodes These are diodes that conduct in the reverse direction when the reverse bias voltage exceeds the breakdown voltage. These are electrically very similar to Zener diodes (and are often mistakenly called Zener diodes), but break down by a different mechanism: the avalanche effe... | the plate, so no current can pass from the plate to the cathode. Semiconductor diodes Point-contact diodes Point-contact diodes were developed starting in the 1930s, out of the early crystal detector technology, and are now generally used in the 3 to 30 gigahertz range. Point-contact diodes use a small diameter metal w... |
of Drexel University. Founded in 1812, the Academy of Natural Sciences is America's oldest natural history museum and is a world leader in biodiversity and environmental research. Drexel University Sacramento On January 5, 2009, Drexel University opened the Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento, California. Eventua... | program typically has a total of 18 months of co-op with up to three different companies. The majority of co-ops are paid, averaging $18,720 per 6-month period, however this figure changes with major. About one third of Drexel graduates are offered full-time positions by their co-op employers right after graduation. Re... |
the seashore, he took a piece of iron and notched it on the edge, and thus invented the saw. He put two pieces of iron together, connecting them at one end with a rivet, and sharpening the other ends, and made a pair of compasses. Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he attempted to murder him b... | the face of a bull. King Minos ordered the Minotaur to be imprisoned and guarded in the Labyrinth built by Daedalus for that purpose. In the story of the Labyrinth as told by the Hellenes, the Athenian hero Theseus is challenged to kill the Minotaur, finding his way back out with the help of Ariadne's thread. It is Dae... |
George Vancouver gave it the name "Deception" because it had misled him into thinking Whidbey Island was a peninsula. The "deception" was heightened due to Whidbey's failure to find the strait at first. In May 1792, Vancouver was anchored near the southern end of Whidbey Island. He sent Joseph Whidbey to explore the wa... | commute between Fidalgo and Whidbey islands. Currents Deception Pass is a dramatic seascape where the tidal flow and whirlpools beneath the twin bridges connecting Fidalgo Island to Whidbey Island move quickly. During ebb and flood tide current speed reaches about , flowing in opposite directions between ebb and flood.... |
pips in a double-n set is found by: i.e. the number of tiles multiplied by the maximum pip-count (n) e.g. a 6-6 set has (7 x 8) / 2 = 56/2 = 28 tiles, the average number of pips per tile is 6 (range is from 0 to 12), giving a total pip count of 6 x 28 = 168 This formula can be simplified a little bit when is made equal... | a score may be determined by counting the pips in the losing players' hands. In scoring games, the scoring is different and happens mostly during game play, making it the principal objective. A popular version played predominantly in Singapore, referenced as Hector's Rules, allows for playing double tiles on opponents'... |
electrostatic interactions, hydrophobic and van der Waals forces. Affinities can also be affected by high concentrations of other macromolecules, which causes macromolecular crowding. The formation of a ligand-protein complex LP can be described by a two-state process L + P <=> LP the corresponding dissociation constan... | the mass conservation principle: To track the concentration of the complex [AB], one substitutes the concentration of the free molecules ([A] or [B]), of the respective conservation equations, by the definition of the dissociation constant, This yields the concentration of the complex related to the concentration of ei... |
L, and M – these form a 3-dimensional vector space. This is not the only valid choice of base dimensions, but it is the one most commonly used. For example, one might choose force, length and mass as the base dimensions (as some have done), with associated dimensions F, L, M; this corresponds to a different basis, and ... | an infinite power series with dimensionless coefficients. All powers of x must have the same dimension for the terms to be commensurable. But if x is not dimensionless, then the different powers of x will have different, incommensurable dimensions. However, power functions including root functions may have a dimensiona... |
Christmas. 1915 – The National Protection War breaks out against the Empire of China, as military leaders Cai E and Tang Jiyao proclaim the independence of Yunnan and begin a campaign to restore the Republic. 1927 – B. R. Ambedkar and his followers burn copies of the Manusmriti in Mahad, Maharashtra, to protest its tre... | proclaim the independence of Yunnan and begin a campaign to restore the Republic. 1927 – B. R. Ambedkar and his followers burn copies of the Manusmriti in Mahad, Maharashtra, to protest its treatment of Dalit people. 1932 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people. 1941 – Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, a... |
by the CMTT and ETSI, along with research by Italian broadcaster RAI, developed a DCT video codec that broadcast SDTV at 34Mbit/s and near-studio-quality HDTV at about 70140 Mbit/s. RAI demonstrated this with a 1990 FIFA World Cup broadcast in March 1990. An American company, General Instrument, also demonstrated the f... | monitoring, and allocated bandwidth DTV images have some picture defects that are not present on analog television or motion picture cinema, because of present-day limitations of bit rate and compression algorithms such as MPEG-2. This defect is sometimes referred to as "mosquito noise". Because of the way the human vi... |
consolidate his power, and sent his brother Edward Bruce to claim the Kingdom of Ireland in 1315 with an army landed in Ulster the previous year with the help of Gaelic lords from the Isles. Edward Bruce died in 1318 without achieving success, but the Scots campaigns in Ireland and in northern England were intended to ... | proclaimed the independence of the kingdom from England. By 1314 only Edinburgh, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Roxburgh, and Stirling remained in English hands. In June 1314 the Battle of Bannockburn had secured Robert Bruce's position as King of Scots; Stirling, the Central Belt, and much of Lothian came under Robert's control ... |
information that the sender and receiver of the digital communication must both possess, in advance, in order for the communication to be successful. Languages are generally arbitrary and specify the meaning to be assigned to particular symbol sequences, the allowed range of values, methods to be used for synchronizati... | insertion/deletion errors in which an extra incorrect symbol is inserted into or deleted from a digital message. Uncorrected errors in digital communications have an unpredictable and generally large impact on the information content of the communication. Copying: Because of the inevitable presence of noise, making man... |
the premises (due to its "top-down logic") Natural deduction, an approach to proof theory that attempts to provide a formal model of logical reasoning as it does not "naturally" occur Logical thinking Taxation Tax deduction, variable tax dollars subtracted from gross income Itemized deduction, eligible expense that ind... | generality than the premises (due to its "top-down logic") Natural deduction, an approach to proof theory that attempts to provide a formal model of logical reasoning as it does not "naturally" |
as well as the "demons that bring famine" and "such as cause storm and earthquake". According to some aggadic stories, demons were under the dominion of a king or chief, usually Asmodai. Kabbalah In Kabbalah, demons are regarded a necessary part of the divine emanation in the material world and a byproduct of human sin... | writings, appear in the canonical Book of Giants. The Watchers came into existence after the demons were chained up in the sky by Living Spirit. Later, outwitted by Third Messenger, they fall to earth, there they had intercourse with human women and beget the monstrous Nephilim. Thereupon they establish a tyrannical ru... |
in a meta-stable state; when the first domino is toppled, the energy transferred by the fall is greater than the energy needed to knock over the following domino, and so on. The domino effect is exploited in Rube Goldberg machines. Appearances in media Domino Day – world record attempt for the highest number of topplin... | The term domino effect is used both to imply that an event is inevitable or highly likely (as it has already started to happen), and conversely to imply that an event is impossible or highly unlikely (the one domino left standing). Demonstration of the effect The domino effect can easily be visualized by placing a row ... |
range. Diffusion pumps cannot discharge directly into the atmosphere, so a mechanical forepump is typically used to maintain an outlet pressure around . The oil diffusion pump is operated with an oil of low vapor pressure. The high speed jet is generated by boiling the fluid and directing the vapor through a jet assemb... | used elemental mercury as the working fluid. After its invention, the design was quickly commercialized by Leybold. It was then improved by Irving Langmuir and W. Crawford. Cecil Reginald Burch discovered the possibility of using silicone oil in 1928. Oil diffusion pumps An oil diffusion pump is used to achieve higher ... |
The most well-known of these patterns consists of regular broken chords, with the lowest note sounding first, then the highest, then the middle and then the highest again, with the pattern repeated. Today, Alberti is regarded as a minor composer, and his works are played or recorded only irregularly. However, the Alber... | bass (Mozart's Piano Sonata, K 545): In his own lifetime, Alberti was known as a singer, and often used to accompany himself on the harpsichord. In 1736, he served as a page for Pietro Andrea Cappello, the Venetian ambassador to Spain. While at the Spanish court, the famous castrato singer Farinelli heard him sing. Far... |
the Les Brown Band) had six other top ten hits on the Billboard chart: "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time", Tain't Me", "Till The End of Time", "You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)", "The Whole World is Singing My Song", and "I Got the Sun in the Mornin. Les Brown said, "As a singer Doris belongs ... | 10th movie to be in the Top 10 at the box office. Day played the title role in the thriller/noir Julie (also 1956) with Louis Jourdan. After three successive dramatic films, Day returned to her musical/comedic roots in The Pajama Game (1957) with John Raitt. The film was based on the Broadway play of the same name. She... |
may be fitted to a vacuum pump. The components are connected by ground glass joints (gray). Fractional distillation For many cases, the boiling points of the components in the mixture will be sufficiently close that Raoult's law must be taken into consideration. Therefore, fractional distillation must be used in order ... | industrial-scale fractionating columns, but the principles are the same. Examples of laboratory-scale fractionating columns (in increasing efficiency) include Air condenser Vigreux column (usually laboratory scale only) Packed column (packed with glass beads, metal pieces, or other chemically inert material) Spinning b... |
influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory, the calculus of variations, commutative algebra, algebraic number theory, the foundations of geometry, spectral theory of operators and its appl... | of Königsberg as a Privatdozent (senior lecturer) from 1886 to 1895. In 1895, as a result of intervention on his behalf by Felix Klein, he obtained the position of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Göttingen. During the Klein and Hilbert years, Göttingen became the preeminent institution in the mathematical... |
if they would have a termination if their fetus tested positive, 23–33% said yes, when high-risk pregnant women were asked, 46–86% said yes, and when women who screened positive are asked, 89–97% say yes. After birth The diagnosis can often be suspected based on the child's physical appearance at birth. An analysis of ... | 10 weeks gestational age. Abortion rates About 92% of pregnancies in Europe with a diagnosis of Down syndrome are terminated. As a result, there is almost no one with Down's in Iceland and Denmark, where screening is commonplace. In the United States, the termination rate after diagnosis is around 75%, but varies from ... |
a full diagnostic assessment to determine the extent and nature of the disorder. Some tests can be administered by a teacher or computer; others require specialized training and are given by psychologists. Some test results indicate how to carry out teaching strategies. Because a variety of different cognitive, behavio... | word retrieval or naming things is also associated with dyslexia. People with dyslexia are commonly poor spellers, a feature sometimes called dysorthographia or dysgraphia, which depends on the skill of orthographic coding. Problems persist into adolescence and adulthood and may include difficulties with summarizing st... |
theologian and jurist who laid the foundations for international law Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584–1647), sovereign prince of Orange and stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders & Overijssel from 1625 to 1647 Philippus Baldaeus (1632–1671), minister in Jaffna Diederik Durven (1676–1740), Governor-Ge... | opened the store to check a sample of the powder and a huge explosion followed. Luckily, many citizens were away, visiting a market in Schiedam or a fair in The Hague. Today, the explosion is primarily remembered for killing Rembrandt's most promising pupil, Carel Fabritius, and destroying almost all of his works. Delf... |
argues that there is a statistical correlation between trends in recreational drug use and trends in AIDS cases. He argues that the epidemic of AIDS cases in the 1980s corresponds to a supposed epidemic of recreational drug use in the United States and Europe during the same time frame. These claims are not supported b... | AIDS. Duesberg has also argued that nitrite inhalants were the cause of the epidemic of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) in gay men. However, this argument has been described as an example of the fallacy of a statistical confounding effect; it is now known that a herpesvirus, potentiated by HIV, is responsible for AIDS-associated K... |
Damn Small Linux, a very small Linux distribution Danish Sign Language Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China Definitive software library Design Science License, a copyleft license for intellectual property Diagnostic Systems Laboratories, a company now part of Beckman-Coulter Dictionary of the Scots Langu... | the People's Republic of China Definitive software library Design Science License, a copyleft license for intellectual property Diagnostic Systems Laboratories, a company now part of Beckman-Coulter Dictionary of the Scots Language Domain-specific language, a specialized computer language Digital subscriber line, a dev... |
after they fell into a deep, flooded sinkhole and drowned. Other mass-death sites have been discovered subsequently. Those, along with multiple trackways, suggest that gregarious behavior was common in many early dinosaur species. Trackways of hundreds or even thousands of herbivores indicate that duck-billed (hadrosau... | birds, especially the enantiornithines. While some early bird-like species may have already been arboreal as well (including dromaeosaurids) such as Microraptor) most non-avialan dinosaurs seem to have relied on land-based locomotion. A good understanding of how dinosaurs moved on the ground is key to models of dinosau... |
which can be detected only by sensitive laboratory instruments, but a superconductor acts as a strong diamagnet because it repels a magnetic field entirely from its interior. Diamagnetism was first discovered when Anton Brugmans observed in 1778 that bismuth was repelled by magnetic fields. In 1845, Michael Faraday dem... | and always makes a weak contribution to the material's response to a magnetic field. However, other forms of magnetism (such as ferromagnetism or paramagnetism) are so much stronger that, when multiple different forms of magnetism are present in a material, the diamagnetic contribution is usually negligible. Substances... |
lordship of the noted soldier Georg von Frundsberg). He was obliged to surrender Mindelheim in 1714 by the Treaty of Utrecht, which returned it to Bavaria. He tried to obtain Nellenburg in Austria in exchange, which at that time was only a county ('Landgrafschaft'), but this failed, partially because Austrian law did n... | the duke's eldest son's eldest son's eldest son (not necessarily the eldest great-grandson) the title Lord Spencer of Wormleighton (not to be confused with Earl Spencer). The title of Earl of Marlborough, created for John Churchill in 1689, had previously been created for James Ley, in 1626, becoming extinct in 1679. F... |
the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela). 1835 – The second Great Fire of New York destroys of New York City's Financial District. 1837 – A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards. 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. ... | coach 1973 – Eddie Fisher, American drummer 1973 – Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower 1973 – Rian Johnson, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1973 – Paula Radcliffe, English runner 1973 – Hasan Vural, German-Turkish footballer 1974 – Charl Langeveldt, South African cricketer 1974 – Sarah Paulson, ... |
more quickly while using fewer parts. Scheutzian calculation engine Inspired by Babbage's difference engine in 1834, Per Georg Scheutz built several experimental models. In 1837 his son Edward proposed to construct a working model in metal, and in 1840 finished the calculating part, capable of calculating series with 5... | machine is able to store one decimal number in each column. The machine can only add the value of a column n + 1 to column n to produce the new value of n. Column N can only store a constant, column 1 displays (and possibly prints) the value of the calculation on the current iteration. The engine is programmed by setti... |
a gift by Freyr's servant Skírnir in the wooing of Gerðr, which is described in the poem Skírnismál. In popular culture Draupnir is represented as a card in the Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game. It has an effect that mimics the multiplication ability of the mythological version. If it is destroyed by another card's effect, y... | sealing his lips shut with wire. The ring was placed by Odin on the funeral pyre of his son Baldr: Odin laid upon the pyre the gold ring called Draupnir; this quality attended it: that every ninth night there fell from it eight gold rings of equal weight. (from the Gylfaginning). The ring was subsequently retrieved by ... |
ball with . For regions in more topologically complicated than this, the latter statement might be false (see Poincaré lemma). The degree of failure of the truth of the statement, measured by the homology of the chain complex serves as a nice quantification of the complicatedness of the underlying region . These are th... | vector potential and the terms by , and the source density by the circulation density . This "decomposition theorem" is a by-product of the stationary case of electrodynamics. It is a special case of the more general Helmholtz decomposition, which works in dimensions greater than three as well. In arbitrary dimensions ... |
– Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992) 1913 – Ray Meyer, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006) 1916 – Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American trade union leader and academic (d. 2008) 1916 – Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1973) 1917 – Ossi... | and politician 1955 – Bogusław Mamiński, Polish runner 1957 – Jonathan Cainer, English astrologer and author (d. 2016) 1958 – Geordie Walker, English guitarist 1958 – Julia Wolfe, American composer and educator 1960 – Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist and academic 1960 – Naoko Yamano, Japanese singer, guitarist and c... |
function of the set associated to the decision problem. If this function is computable then the associated decision problem is decidable. However, this reduction is more liberal than the standard reduction used in computational complexity (sometimes called polynomial-time many-one reduction); for example, the complexit... | x and y, what is x divided by y?". A function problem consists of a partial function f; the informal "problem" is to compute the values of f on the inputs for which it is defined. Every function problem can be turned into a decision problem; the decision problem is just the graph of the associated function. (The graph ... |
other forms of information. These are most commonly used to map human-friendly domain names to the numerical IP addresses computers need to locate services and devices using the underlying network protocols, but have been extended over time to perform many other functions as well. The Domain Name System has been an ess... | answer, the resolver will send the request to one or more designated DNS servers. In the case of most home users, the Internet service provider to which the machine connects will usually supply this DNS server: such a user will either have configured that server's address manually or allowed DHCP to set it; however, wh... |
Leno was higher than Letterman on that poll three times during the same period, in 1998, 2007, and 2008. Hosting the Academy Awards On March 27, 1995, Letterman hosted the 67th Academy Awards ceremony. Critics blasted what they deemed his poor performance, noting that his irreverent style undermined the traditional imp... | decline in the Late Shows ratings. Letterman recycled the apparent debacle into a long-running gag. On his first show after the Oscars, he joked, "Looking back, I had no idea that thing was being televised." He lampooned his stint two years later, during Billy Crystal's opening Oscar skit, which also parodied the plane... |
Soul of the Game (1996), as the baseball player Satchel Paige. In 1998 Lindo co-starred as African-American explorer Matthew Henson, in the TV film Glory & Honor, directed by Kevin Hooks. It portrayed Henson's nearly 20-year partnership with Commander Robert Peary in Arctic exploration and their effort to find the Geog... | TV series The Chicago Code (2011), as Winter on the series Believe (2014), and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight (2017–2021). Early life Delroy Lindo was born in 1952 in Lewisham, south-east London, the son of Jamaican parents. His mother had immigrated to the UK in 1951 from Jamaica to work as a nurse, and his fathe... |
a Place", with series co-stars Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. He joined friend Martin Milner in a 1962 episode of Route 66 as the character Kamo in the episode "One Tiger to a Hill." Janssen starred in four television series of his own: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957–1960), a CBS/Four Star hit series that also ... | Fame located on the 7700 block of Hollywood Boulevard. Selected filmography It's a Pleasure (1945) as Davey / boy referee (uncredited) Swamp Fire (1946) as Emile's Eldest Son (uncredited) No Room for the Groom (1952) as Soldier (scenes deleted) Francis Goes to West Point (1952) as Cpl. Thomas Untamed Frontier (1952) as... |
seem", dókēsis "apparition, phantom") is the heterodox doctrine that the phenomenon of Jesus, his historical and bodily existence, and above all the human form of Jesus, was mere semblance without any true reality. Broadly it is taken as the belief that Jesus only seemed to be human, and that his human form was an illu... | was a separate entity who entered Jesus' body in the form of a dove at his baptism, empowered him to perform miracles, and abandoned him upon his death on the cross. Christology and theological implications Docetism's origin within Christianity is obscure. Ernst Käsemann controversially defined the Christology of the G... |
minted: they represented weight measures used for commodities (e.g. grain) as well as metals like silver or gold. The New Testament mentions both didrachma and, by implication, tetradrachma in context of the Temple tax. Luke's Gospel includes a parable told by Jesus of a woman with 10 drachmae, who lost one and searche... | in 2001 (at the rate of 340.75 drachmae to the euro). The euro did not begin circulating until 2001 but the exchange rate was fixed on 19 June 2000, with legal introduction of the euro taking place in January 2002. It was also a small unit of weight. Ancient drachma The name drachma is derived from the verb (, "(I) gra... |
as a unit of account, and the name was applied to later Roman coins in a way that is not understood. The Arabs who conquered large parts of the land that once belonged to the Eastern Roman Empire issued their own gold dinar. The lasting legacy of the denarius can be seen in the use of "d" as the abbreviation for the Br... | quadriga, or four-horse chariot, on the reverse,. This, with a two-horse chariot or biga which was used as a reverse type for some early denarii, was the prototype for the most common designs used on Roman silver coins for a number of years. Rome overhauled its coinage shortly before 211 BC, and introduced the denarius... |
his nephews of the Della Rovere and Riario families. Within months of his election, he had made Giuliano della Rovere (the future pope Julius II) and Pietro Riario both cardinals and bishops; four other nephews were also made cardinals. He made Giovanni Della Rovere, who was not a priest, prefect of Rome, and arranged ... | dukes of Urbino. Sixtus claimed descent from a noble Della Rovere family, the counts of Vinovo in Piemonte, and adopted their coat-of-arms. Guidobaldo da Montefeltro adopted Francesco Maria I della Rovere, his sister's child and nephew of Pope Julius II. Guidobaldo I, who was heirless, called Francesco Maria at his cou... |
protagonist, or adding visually beautiful or intriguing shots. Films should create order from disorder in search of the objective. Books In 1986, Mamet published “Writing in Restaurants” a collection of essays. In 1990, Mamet published The Hero Pony, a 55-page collection of poetry. He has also published a series of sho... | been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post, drawing satirical cartoons with themes including political strife in Israel. In a 2008 essay at The Village Voice titled "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'" he revealed that he had gradually rejected so-called political correctness and progressivism and embrac... |
Gabriel Duvall, American jurist and politician (d. 1844) 1778 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850) 1792 – William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849) 1803 – Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (d. 1829) 1805 – Richard Hanson, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of South Australia (d. 1876) 18... | (d. 1604) 1586 – Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670) 1592 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (d. 1676) 1601–1900 1608 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1670) 1637 – Edmund Andros, English courtier and politician, 4th Colo... |
Eva Joly, Norwegian-French judge and politician 1943 – Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, South Korean cardinal 1944 – Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor, director, and producer 1945 – Serge Chapleau, Canadian cartoonist 1945 – Moshe Katsav, Iranian-Israeli educator and politician, 8th President of Israel 1946 – José Carreras, Spanish teno... | four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it. 1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO. 1955 – E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery bus boycott. 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugu... |
of the Confederate States of America unanimously elect Jefferson Davis as President and Alexander H. Stephens as Vice President. 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from inter... | are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi. 1971 – The PNS Ghazi, a Pakistan Navy submarine, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971. 1971 – During a concert of Frank Zappa and The Moth... |
1st President of India (d. 1963) 1884 – Walther Stampfli, Swiss lawyer and politician, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1965) 1886 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978) 1887 – Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Japanese general and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Jap... | Shipler, American journalist and author 1943 – J. Philippe Rushton, English-Canadian psychologist and academic (d. 2012) 1943 – Joseph Franklin Ada, Guamanian lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Guam 1944 – Ralph McTell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1944 – Craig Raine, English poet, author, and playwright... |
Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d. 1991) 1929 – Dan Jenkins, American journalist and author (d. 2019) 1929 – Leon Litwack, American historian and author (d. 2021) 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014) 1930 – David Piper, English race car driver 1931 – Nigel Calder, Englis... | academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950) 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and illustrator (d. 1969) 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, American historian and author (d. 1987) 1894 – Warren William, American actor (d. 1948) 1895 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (d. 1967) 1897 – Ivan Bagramyan, Russian general (d. 1982) 1897 – Rew... |
Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott. 1958 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union. 1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire... | Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, Japanese priest, 1st Bishop of Naha (d. 2014) 1921 – Vernon McGarity, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013) 1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Russian ice hockey player, footballer, and manager (d. 1979) 1923 – Dick Shawn, American actor (d. 1987) 1923 – Stansfield Turner, American admir... |
of Cephalonia. 1601–1900 1737 – The Marathas defeat the combined forces of the Mughal Empire, Rajputs of Jaipur, Nizam of Hyderabad, Nawab of Awadh and Nawab of Bengal in the Battle of Bhopal. 1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook. 1800 – The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise fails to... | I. 1871 – The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt. 1901–present 1906 – Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech. 1913 – The Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan results in the deaths of 73 Christmas party participants (including 59 childr... |
heavy international scrutiny. 2006 – 2006 Hengchun earthquakes. 2012 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou. 2015 – During the December 2015 North American storm complex, a Tornado Outbreak occurs in the DFW Metroplex, with the most notable tornadoes being an EF2, EF3... | – Gray Davis, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of California 1944 – William Ayers, American academic and activist 1945 – John Walsh, American television host, producer, and activist, created America's Most Wanted 1946 – Alan Frumin, American lawyer and politician 1946 – Tiit Rosenberg, Estonian h... |
that 0 and 1 are algebraic numbers and, moreover, if and are algebraic numbers, then so are , , and, if is nonzero, . The real algebraic numbers also have the property, which goes beyond being a subfield of the reals, that for each positive integer and each real algebraic number , all of the th roots of that are real n... | number that can be uniquely specified by its description. The description may be expressed as a construction or as a formula of a formal language. For example, the positive square root of 2, , can be defined as the unique positive solution to the equation , and it can be constructed with a compass and straightedge. Dif... |
secured his stay in Peru with the Capitulation on 6 July 1529. During Pizarro's continued exploration of Incan territory, he and his men succeeded in defeating the Inca army under Emperor Atahualpa during the Battle of Cajamarca in 1532. De Almagro joined Pizarro soon afterward, bringing more men and arms. After Peru f... | of Pizarro. He took Ana Martínez, an indigenous woman, as a common-law wife. In this period, his first son, El Mozo, was born to them. Conquest of Peru By 1524 an association of conquest regarding South America was formalized among Almagro, Pizarro and Luque. By the beginning of August 1524, they had received the requi... |
academic terms, see Divinity (academic discipline), or Divine (Anglican). Usages Divinity as a quality has two distinct usages: Divine force or power - powers or forces that are universal, or transcend human capacities Divinity applied to mortals - qualities of individuals who are considered to have some special access... | such distinction; gods and other beings of transcendent power often have complex, ignoble, or even irrational motivations for their acts. Note that while the terms demon and demonic are used in monotheistic faiths as antonyms to divine, they are in fact derived from the Greek word daimón (δαίμων), which itself translat... |
image in the focal plane, the same f-number on any focal length lens will give the same depth of field. This is evident from the DOF equation by noting that the ratio u/f is constant for constant image size. For example, if the focal length is doubled, the subject distance is also doubled to keep the subject image size... | to maintain the field of view, the change in focal length will counter the decrease of DOF from the smaller sensor and increase the depth of field (also by the crop factor). Effect of lens aperture For a given subject framing and camera position, the DOF is controlled by the lens aperture diameter, which is usually spe... |
that he is the origin of the interpretation of Dumnonii as "deep valley dwellers" from his understanding of the Welsh of his time. John Rhys later theorized that the tribal name was derived from the name of a goddess, Domnu, probably meaning "the goddess of the deep". The proto-Celtic root *dubno- or *dumno- meaning "t... | along the western Atlantic seaboard. Settlements Isca Dumnoniorum The Latin name for Exeter is Isca Dumnoniorum ("Water of the Dumnonii"). This oppidum (a Latin term meaning an important town) on the banks of I River Exe certainly existed prior to the foundation of the Roman city in about AD 50. Isca is derived from th... |
UN's International Court of Justice ruled in an advisory opinion in Kosovo that "International law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence", though the state from which the territory wishes to secede may regard the declaration as rebellion, which may lead to a war of independence or a constitutional set... | larger state. In 2010, the UN's International Court of Justice ruled in an advisory opinion in Kosovo that "International law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence", though the state from which the territory wishes to secede may regard the declaration as rebellion, which may lead to a war of independe... |
with a fully established European Drag Racing Championship, in cooperation (and rules compliance) with NHRA. The major European drag strips include Santa Pod Raceway in Podington, England; Alastaro Circuit, Finland; Mantorp Park, Sweden; Gardermoen Raceway, Norway and the Hockenheimring in Germany. There is a somewhat ... | for aspiring youngsters, Junior Dragster, which typically uses an eighth-mile track, also favored by VW racers. In 1997, the FIA (cars) and UEM (bikes) began sanctioning drag racing in Europe with a fully established European Drag Racing Championship, in cooperation (and rules compliance) with NHRA. The major European ... |
exhibit an immense and nearly insatiable appetite, as shown in the encounter of Aran and Asmund, sword brothers who made an oath that, if one should die, the other would sit vigil with him for three days inside the burial mound. When Aran died, Asmund brought his own possessions into the barrow—banners, armor, hawk, ho... | nearly insatiable appetite, as shown in the encounter of Aran and Asmund, sword brothers who made an oath that, if one should die, the other would sit vigil with him for three days inside the burial mound. When Aran died, Asmund brought his own possessions into the barrow—banners, armor, hawk, hound, and horse—then set... |
plus or minus a possible leap second in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and occasionally plus or minus an hour in those locations that change from or to daylight saving time. Day can be defined as each of the twenty-four-hour periods, reckoned from one midnight to the next, into which a week, month, or year is divide... | 2,700 years). The length of a day circa 620 million years ago has been estimated from rhythmites (alternating layers in sandstone) as having been about 21.9 hours. In order to keep the civil day aligned with the apparent movement of the Sun, a day according to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) can include a negative or ... |
refer to both a database and the DBMS used to manipulate it. Outside the world of professional information technology, the term database is often used to refer to any collection of related data (such as a spreadsheet or a card index) as size and usage requirements typically necessitate use of a database management syst... | and functionality and can have involved thousands of human years of development effort through their lifetime. Early multi-user DBMS typically only allowed for the application to reside on the same computer with access via terminals or terminal emulation software. The client–server architecture was a development where ... |
zero dipole of CO2 implies that the two C=O bond dipole moments cancel so that the molecule must be linear. For H2O the O−H bond moments do not cancel because the molecule is bent. For ozone (O3) which is also a bent molecule, the bond dipole moments are not zero even though the O−O bonds are between similar atoms. Thi... | on the dipole moment as defined above. A point (electric) dipole is the limit obtained by letting the separation tend to 0 while keeping the dipole moment fixed. The field of a point dipole has a particularly simple form, and the order-1 term in the multipole expansion is precisely the point dipole field. Although ther... |
collective motion of stars System dynamics, the study of the behavior of complex systems Thermodynamics, the study of the relationships between heat and mechanical energy Vehicle dynamics Brands and enterprises Dynamic (record label), an Italian record label in Genoa Arrow Dynamics, roller coaster designer Boston Dynam... | on the molecular level Langevin dynamics, a mathematical model for stochastic dynamics Orbital dynamics, the study of the motion of rockets and spacecraft Quantum chromodynamics, a theory of the strong interaction (color force) Quantum electrodynamics, a description of how matter and light interact Relativistic dynamic... |
brewing parlance, a keg is different from a cask. A cask has a tap hole near the edge of the top, and a spile hole on the side used for conditioning the unfiltered and unpasteurised beer. A keg has a single opening in the centre of the top to which a flow pipe is attached. Kegs are artificially pressurised after fermen... | Kingdom in 1936, with Watney's experimental pasteurised beer Red Barrel. Though this method of serving beer did not take hold in the UK until the late 1950s, it did become the favored method in the rest of Europe, where it is known by such terms as en pression. The carbonation method of serving beer subsequently spread... |
Music Director (band), an Irish rock band Director (Avant album) (2006) Director (Yonatan Gat album) Occupations and positions Arts and design Animation director Artistic director Creative director Design director Film director Music director Music video director Sports director Television director Theatre director Pos... | director Positions in other fields Director (business), a senior level management position Director (colonial), head of chartered company's colonial administration in a territory Director (education), head of a university or other educational body Company director Cruise director Executive director Finance director or ... |
classes of antidepressants can be tried. Response rates to the first antidepressant administered range from 50 to 75%, and it can take at least six to eight weeks from the start of medication to improvement. Antidepressant medication treatment is usually continued for 16 to 20 weeks after remission, to minimize the cha... | continued for at least six months to reduce the risk of relapse, and that SSRIs are better tolerated than tricyclic antidepressants. American Psychiatric Association treatment guidelines recommend that initial treatment should be individually tailored based on factors including severity of symptoms, co-existing disorde... |
appearance of Diana beside Apollo [the brother of Artemis] in the first lectisternium at Rome" in 399 BCE. The process of identification between the two goddesses probably began when artists who were commissioned to create new cult statues for Diana's temples outside Nemi were struck by the similar attributes between D... | Artemis did not involve the bath at all. Worship in the classical period Diana was an ancient goddess common to all Latin tribes. Therefore, many sanctuaries were dedicated to her in the lands inhabited by Latins. Her primary sanctuary was a woodland grove overlooking Lake Nemi, a body of water also known as "Diana's M... |
first event in the Mexican Drug War. 2007 – Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations. 2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. 2009 – Finn... | in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet. 1931 – Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland. ... |
Shore's The Silence of the Lambs for Red Dragon, Brad Fiedel's music for the Terminator franchise for Terminator Salvation, Robert Cobert's original television series music for Dark Shadows, and Alan Silvestri's work on The Avengers for the sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron. Notable exceptions are Tim Burton's Batman, Pla... | instruments unique for the group, including an aluminum gamelan, the 'Schlitz celeste' made from tuned beer cans, and a "junkyard orchestra" built from car parts and trash cans. The Mystic Knights performed on the street and in nightclubs throughout Los Angeles until Richard left in 1979 to pursue filmmaking. As a send... |
on V, then the quotient stack [V/G] has dimension m − n. Krull dimension The Krull dimension of a commutative ring is the maximal length of chains of prime ideals in it, a chain of length n being a sequence of prime ideals related by inclusion. It is strongly related to the dimension of an algebraic variety, because of... | space , the Lebesgue covering dimension of is defined to be the smallest integer n for which the following holds: any open cover has an open refinement (a second open cover in which each element is a subset of an element in the first cover) such that no point is included in more than elements. In this case dim . For a ... |
(2019 film), a film by Kim Ki-duk The Dissolve, a web magazine property of Pitchfork, covering movies Dissolve (band), collaborative | collaborative musical project between experimental guitarists Chris Heaphy and Roy Montgomery "Dissolve", a song by Absofacto "Dissolve", a song by Daniel Johns from the album Talk "Dissolve", a song by Hundred |
a more apt word would be "uncial". Uncial is a derivation of the Latin word uncia, meaning "one-twelfth", and also the base-twelve analogue of the Latin word decima, meaning "one-tenth". Mathematician and mental calculator Alexander Craig Aitken was an outspoken advocate of duodecimal: In media In "Little Twelvetoes", ... | to 12 with the thumb acting as a pointer, touching each finger bone in turn. A traditional finger counting system still in use in many regions of Asia works in this way and could help to explain the occurrence of numeral systems based on 12 and 60 besides those based on 10, 20, and 5. In this system, the one (usually r... |
David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818March 22, 1892) was an American surgeon. Biography Agnew was born on November 24, 1818, Nobleville, Pennsylvania (present-day Christiana). His parents were Robert Agnew and Agnes Noble. Agnew grew up as a Christian. He was surrounded by a family of doctors and had always known he was... | a physician. As a young boy, he had a sharp sense of humor and was very intelligent. He was educated at Jefferson College, and at Delaware College in Newark, Delaware. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine on April 6, 1838. He returned to Nobleville to help his father in his clinic. He wor... |
a recreational pastime. Competitors possess many of the same characteristics as gymnasts and dancers, including strength, flexibility, kinaesthetic judgment and air awareness. Some professional divers were originally gymnasts or dancers as both the sports have similar characteristics to diving. Dmitri Sautin holds the ... | angular momentum remains constant throughout the dive, but since angular momentum = rotational velocity × moment of inertia, and the moment of inertia is larger when the body has an increased radius, the speed of rotation may be increased by moving the body into a compact shape, and reduced by opening out into a straig... |
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