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Dear America: So Far From Home. She appeared in Season 2 of Robson Arms. Bertram was a high school teacher; in addition, she also taught young actors at Biz Studio in Vancouver. Bertram is married with a husband and two children. Awards Bertram has won two Gemini Awards for "Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Pr... | children. Awards Bertram has won two Gemini Awards for "Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series" for Ready or Not in 1995 and for "Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series" for Ready or Not in 1998. She has also been nominated for two Gemini Awards for "Best Performance in a Child... |
is an American retired professional bodybuilder and actor. As a bodybuilder, Ferrigno won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles, and appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron. As an actor, he is best known for his title role in the CBS television series The Incredible Hulk a... | Ferrigno was cast as the Hulk in The Incredible Hulk. Despite the fact that they were rarely on camera together, Ferrigno and Bill Bixby – who played the Hulk's "normal" alter ego – became friends; Ferrigno has described Bixby as a "mentor" and "father figure" who took him under his wing. Ferrigno also singles out the ... |
tsars of Russia. Imperialism In Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) Lenin's economic analyses indicated that capitalism would transform into a global financial system, by which industrialised countries exported financial capital to their colonies and so realise the exploitation of labour of the natives ... | proposed that socialist revolutions in underdeveloped countries would go further towards dismantling feudal régimes and establish socialist democracies that would not pass through a capitalist stage of development and government. Hence, revolutionary workers should politically ally with peasant political organisations,... |
was, until the establishment of the Bronze Star Medal in 1944, the only decoration below the Silver Star which could be awarded for combat valor, and the only decoration below the Distinguished Service Medal which could be awarded for meritorious noncombat service. After World War II After the establishment of the Bron... | with senior leadership/command positions or other senior positions of significant responsibility. The performance must have been such as to merit recognition of key individuals for service rendered in a clearly exceptional manner. Performance of duties normal to the grade, branch, specialty, or assignment, and experien... |
detect an even wider variety of suspicious constructs. These include "warnings about syntax errors, uses of undeclared variables, calls to deprecated functions, spacing and formatting conventions, misuse of scope, implicit fallthrough in switch statements, missing license headers, [and]...dangerous language features". ... | functions, lint-like tools have also advanced their capabilities. For example, Gimpel's PC-Lint, introduced in 1985 and used to analyze C++ source code, is still for sale. Overview The analysis performed by lint-like tools can also be performed by an optimizing compiler, which aims to generate faster code. In his origi... |
articles on battles. They may be organized alphabetically, by era, by conflict, by participants or location, or by death toll. See :Category:Battles for a complete list of articles on battles. Alphabetical list List of battles (alphabetical) Chronological By era List of battles before 301 List of battles 301–1300 List ... | since 2001 By conflict Viking Invasions (793–1066) Crusades (1096–1291) Mongol Conquests (1205–1312) Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) Italian Wars (1494-1559) Seven Years' War (1756–1763) American Revolutionary War (1775–1782) Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815) American Civil War (1861–1865) World War I (1914–1918) World War II... |
from the maternal blood supply. Because the newborn fish are large compared to the fry of oviparous fish, which are those that lay eggs, newborn fish of livebearers are easier to feed than the fry of egg-laying species, such as characins and cichlids. This makes them much easier to raise, and for this reason, aquarists... | species, such as characins and cichlids. This makes them much easier to raise, and for this reason, aquarists often recommend them for beginning fish breeder hobbyists. The larger size of livebearer fry makes them far less vulnerable to predation, as the parents often eat fry if hungry. With sufficient cover in the way... |
Livia, on the Palatine. Archaeologists came across the 15-meter-deep cavity while working to restore the decaying palace. On 20 November 2007, the first set of photos were released showing the vault of the grotto which is encrusted with colourful mosaics, pumice stones and seashells. The center of the ceiling features ... | suckled them until they were rescued by the shepherd Faustulus. Luperci, the priests of Faunus, celebrated certain ceremonies of the Lupercalia at the cave, from the earliest days of the City until at least 494 AD. Modern discovery In January 2007, Italian archaeologist Irene Iacopi announced that she had probably foun... |
unsatisfied with it, and directed a second video which paid tribute to tourmates like Primus, Deftones and Korn, who appeared in the video. Borland stated in an interview that George Michael, the writer of the song, hated the cover and "hates us for doing it". Significant Other (1999–2000) Following the radio success o... | Method Man. The song was originally titled "Shut the Fuck Up", but was retitled "N 2 Gether Now" for marketing purposes. Durst also recorded with Eminem, but the collaboration, "Turn Me Loose", was left off the album. The album also featured guest appearances by Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland, Korn's Jonathan... |
Well-developed travertine-processing industry, especially in the Ausoni-Tiburtina area (Tivoli and Guidonia Montecelio quarries). ca. 70% of the national sanitary ceramics comes from Civita Castellana industrial district and Gaeta textile (Valle del Liri). In the district the production relationships are mostly of the ... | east, Campania to the south, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. The region is mainly flat, with small mountainous areas in the most eastern and southern districts. The coast of Lazio is mainly composed of sandy beaches, punctuated by the headlands of Circeo (541 m) and Gaeta (171 m). The Pontine Islands, which are par... |
to Los Alamos, New Mexico. Los Alamos may also refer to: Establishments Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, the war-time laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Los Alamos | Museum Los Alamos Ranch School, boys' school Geographic Locations Los Alamos, California Los Álamos, Chile Los Alamos, New Mexico Los Alamos County, New Mexico Cañada de los Alamos, New Mexico Media Los Alamos, a novel by Joseph Kanon Los Alamos, a book |
villain, his "sinister" features overshadowing his acting skills. After suffering serious injuries in a car crash, Van Cleef had begun to lose interest in his declining career by the time Sergio Leone gave him a major role in For a Few Dollars More. The film made him a box-office draw, especially in Europe. Youth Van C... | he played one of the two villains in an episode of The Adventures of Champion the Wonder Horse. In 1958, he was cast as Ed Murdock, a rodeo performer trying to reclaim the title in the event at Madison Square Garden in New York City, on Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Van Cleef played different characters on four e... |
high school education. He also began reading omnivorously, focusing, above all, on 19th-century Italian poets such as Giosuè Carducci and Arturo Graf. He then started writing his first poems and fell in love with his cousin Lina. During this period, the first signs of serious differences arose between Luigi and his fat... | such as La Critica and La Tavola Rotonda in which he published, in 1895, the first part of the Dialoghi tra Il Gran Me e Il Piccolo Me. In 1897 he accepted an offer to teach Italian at the Istituto Superiore di Magistero di Roma, and in the magazine Marzocco he published several more pages of the Dialoghi. In 1898, wit... |
denominations venerate him as Saint Luke the Evangelist and as a patron saint of artists, physicians, bachelors, surgeons, students and butchers; his feast day is 18 October. Life Many scholars believe that Luke was a Greek physician who lived in the Greek city of Antioch in Ancient Syria, although some other scholars ... | been, for many, the final nail in Luke the historian's coffin." Robert M. Grant has noted that although Luke saw himself within the historical tradition, his work contains a number of statistical improbabilities, such as the sizable crowd addressed by Peter in Acts 4:4. He has also noted chronological difficulties wher... |
five miles northeast of Gillsburg, Mississippi. Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines, along with backup singer Cassie Gaines (Steve's older sister), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray were killed on impact. Other band members (Collins, Rossington, Wilkeson, Powell, Pyle... | local concerts, and opening for several national acts. Pat Armstrong, a Jacksonville native and partner in Macon, Georgia-based Hustlers Inc. with Phil Walden's younger brother, Alan Walden, became the band's managers. Armstrong left Hustlers shortly thereafter to start his own agency. Walden stayed with the band until... |
searching, variants are spelled completely, and listed in most likely chronology. Superscripts indicate: Latinized form of the Greek-derived name. Latinized form of the Asian-derived name via Greek. Altered Latinized form of the Greek-derived name. Cities and towns in Austria Cities and towns in Belgium Cities and town... | and listed in most likely chronology. Superscripts indicate: Latinized form of the Greek-derived name. Latinized form of the Asian-derived name via Greek. Altered Latinized form of the Greek-derived name. Cities and towns in Austria Cities and towns in Belgium Cities and towns in the Czech Republic Cities and towns in ... |
a famous dispute erupted between Ferrari and his contemporary Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, involving the solution to cubic equations. Widespread stories that Tartaglia devoted the rest of his life to ruining Ferrari's teacher and erstwhile master Cardano, however, appear to be fabricated. Mathematical historians now cred... | him mathematics. Ferrari aided Cardano on his solutions for quadratic equations and cubic equations, and was mainly responsible for the solution of quartic equations that Cardano published. While still in his teens, Ferrari was able to obtain a prestigious teaching post in Rome after Cardano resigned from it and recomm... |
but it can also be seen in a number of genetic disorders. Though incurable and progressive, a number of treatments can improve symptoms. Tissues with lymphedema are at high risk of infection because the lymphatic system has been compromised. While there is no cure, treatment may improve outcomes. This commonly include ... | or right lymphatic duct, which drain into the blood circulation. Diagnosis Diagnosis is generally based on signs and symptoms, with testing used to rule out other potential causes. An accurate diagnosis and staging may help with management. A swollen limb can result from different conditions that require different trea... |
Later Samuel Ampzing (with the help of Petrus Scriverius) repeated the story in Lavre-Kranz Voor Lavrens Koster Van Haerlem, Eerste Vinder vande Boek-Druckerye (1628) with illustrations of the invention. According to Junius, sometime in the 1420s, Coster was in the Haarlemmerhout carving letters from bark for the amuse... | who also served in the admiralty of Amsterdam, Pieter van der Camer (1666-1747), who commissioned his own commemorative medal to celebrate 50 years in the service of the vroedschap of Haarlem in 1743, Jan van Dyck, and Cornelis Ascanius van Sypesteyn (1694-1744), who himself was a collector of medals and who lived at B... |
of Cambridge) Range Rover '6×6' Fire Appliance (conversion by Carmichael and Sons of Worcester) for RAF airfield use 130 Defender ambulance 'Llama' prototypes for 101 replacement Models developed for the Australian Army Land Rover Perentie 4×4 and 6×6 Engines During the history of the Land Rover many different engines ... | Discovery Sport is the successor to the brands Freelander model, which was Europe's best selling 4x4 for five years in a row, after its market introduction in 1997. Models Historic Series I, II, IIA and III Freelander (sold in some markets as LR2) Current Defender Discovery Discovery Sport Range Rover Range Rover Sport... |
additive. INS numbers generally correspond to E numbers for the same compound, e.g. INS 102, Tartrazine, is also E102. INS numbers are not unique and, in fact, one number may be assigned to a group of similar compounds. List of INS numbers Except where stated, the list of INS numbers and associated food additives is ba... | and New Zealand do not use a prefix letter when listing additives in the ingredients. An additive that appears in the INS does not automatically have a corresponding E number. INS numbers are assigned by the committee to identify each food additive. INS numbers generally correspond to E numbers for the same compound, e... |
concentration or infinite dilution, this results in the following relation: Derivation Consider a binary electrolyte AB which dissociates reversibly into A+ and B− ions. Ostwald noted that the law of mass action can be applied to such systems as dissociating electrolytes. The equilibrium state is represented by the equ... | dissociation of a weak electrolyte. The law takes the form Where the square brackets denote concentration, and is the total concentration of electrolyte. Using , where is the molar conductivity at concentration c and is the limiting value of molar conductivity extrapolated to zero concentration or infinite dilution, th... |
Panera is a contemporary art institution. The Museu d'Art Jaume Morera displays art from the 20th and 21st centuries (as well as artwork by its namesake). The city has a number of small municipal galleries, such as the Sala Municipal d'Exposicions de Sant Joan and the Sala Manel Garcia Sarramona. There are also several... | growth, it met a massive migration of Andalusians who helped the town undergo a relative demographic growth. Nowadays it is home to immigrants of 146 different nationalities. During 2007 Lleida was the year's Capital of Catalan Culture. Climate Lleida has a temperate semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk). Winters are mild and... |
and "that", and was replaced by le, which means "the". As the principal city of Maine, Le Mans was the stage for struggles in the eleventh century between the counts of Anjou and the dukes of Normandy. When the Normans had control of Maine, William the Conqueror successfully invaded England and established an occupatio... | the French crown. It was subsequently invaded by England during the Hundred Years' War. Industrialization took place in the 19th century which saw the development of railway and motor vehicle production as well as textiles and tobacco manufacture. Wilbur Wright began official public demonstrations of the airplane he ha... |
Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. She has won two Hugo Awards for Best Series, in 2017 for the Vorkosigan Saga and in 2018 for the World of the Five Gods series. The Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 36th SFWA Grand Master in 2019. The bulk of Bujold's works comprises three separate book series: the V... | famous father is reflected in the same experience that her characters (Miles, Fiametta) have of growing up in the shadow of a "Great Man". Having observed this tendency in both genders, she wonders why it is always called "great man's son syndrome", and never "great man's daughter's syndrome." Her brother, an engineer ... |
the presence of fat and by cooking. Lycopene dietary supplements (in oil) may be more efficiently absorbed than lycopene from food. Lycopene is not an essential nutrient for humans, but is commonly found in the diet mainly from dishes prepared from tomatoes. The median and 99th percentile of dietary lycopene intake hav... | chlorine bleach. The bleach oxidizes the lycopene, thus allowing the now-polarized product to dissolve. Diet Consumption by humans Absorption of lycopene requires that it be combined with bile salts and fat to form micelles. Intestinal absorption of lycopene is enhanced by the presence of fat and by cooking. Lycopene d... |
It was in the possession of the counts of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Landeck, whose arms, differenced by an escutcheon of the Imperial eagle, served as the arms of Landau until 1955 . The town was granted a charter in 1274 by King Rudolf I of Germany, who declared the town a Free Imperial Town in 1291; nevertheless Prince-Bish... | Rudolf I of Germany, who declared the town a Free Imperial Town in 1291; nevertheless Prince-Bishop Emich of Speyer, a major landowner in the district, seized the town in 1324. The town did not regain its ancient rights until 1511 from Maximilian I. An Augustinian monastery was founded in 1276. After the Peace of Westp... |
with despair and hope, and was everything one could have wished her to have been" in a performance "not to be missed and never to be forgotten", with her "grace and authority" that was "perhaps more than Garbo...born for Anna Christie:--Or more properly, Anna Christie was born for her." In 1980, Brian De Palma, who dir... | three episodes of the popular American series, Sex and the City. She was amused by the offer, and said that it was one of the few programs she regularly watched, but she turned it down. Later that year, Steven Soderbergh wrote a role in the movie Ocean's 12 especially for her, but she also turned that down. During 2006... |
a pun on Sputnik, or referred to her as Curly. Her true pedigree is unknown, although it is generally accepted that she was part husky or other Nordic breed, and possibly part terrier. NASA refers to Laika as a "part-Samoyed terrier." A Russian magazine described her temperament as phlegmatic, saying that she did not q... | caused by a failure of the central R-7 sustainer to separate from the payload. The true cause and time of her death were not made public until 2002; instead, it was widely reported that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six or, as the Soviet government initially claimed, she was euthanised prior to oxygen depleti... |
music evokes clichéd images of "revolutionary heroes" who are "male chauvinists too inexperienced to know better". Released on March 3, 1986, the album had a 72-week run on the Billboard 200 album charts and earned the band its first gold certification. The album debuted on March 29, 1986, at number 128 and peaked at n... | David Bowie song "Ziggy Stardust". "Orion" is a multipart instrumental highlighting Burton's bass playing. It opens with a fade-in bass section, heavily processed to resemble an orchestra. It continues with mid-tempo riffing, followed by a bass riff at half-tempo. The tempo accelerates during the latter part, and ends ... |
summarized the album as "ultimate thrash, destruction and total blur" that reminded him of the speed and power of Kill 'Em All. Music journalist Martin Popoff observed that Ride the Lightning offered "sophistication and brutality in equal measure" and was seen as something new at the time of its release. Discussing the... | studio album. Journalist Joel McIver called the song a "moshpit anthem" due to its epic lyrical themes and dramatic atmosphere. "Creeping Death" was released as a single with a B-side titled Garage Days Revisited made up of covers of Diamond Head's "Am I Evil?" and Blitzkrieg's "Blitzkrieg". "The Call of Ktulu", tentat... |
Metallica. Metallica's Wherever We May Roam Tour also overlapped with Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion Tour. Hetfield suffered second and third degree burns to his arms, face, hands, and legs on August 8, 1992, during a Montreal show in the co-headlining Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour. The tour included pyrotechn... | the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The follow-up single, "Don't Tread on Me", was released promotionally and peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks singles chart. "The Unforgiven" was a Top 40 hit; it peaked in... |
full version of the track was released on the single "The Memory Remains" as "The Outlaw Torn (Unencumbered by Manufacturing Restrictions Version)", with a running time of 10:48. An explanation on the single's back cover stated: Load was Metallica's first album on which all tracks were down-tuned to E♭ tuning. Hammett ... | also felt that the change to E♭ was a bonus, as it was easier to perform string bends in the riffs. The Australian CD release of Load includes a bonus interview CD that is unavailable elsewhere. 10 songs from the album have been played live including "King Nothing", "Until It Sleeps", "Ain't My Bitch", "Bleeding Me", "... |
front of Garage Days Re-Revisited was modified with headshots of Metallica in 1998 and the track list written on tracing paper. Reception Rolling Stone (12/10/98, print edition, p. 122) – 4 Stars (out of 5) – "Gloriously hard as the album is, you can't miss Metallica's good natured side coming through." Entertainment W... | of sync with the right channel for a second. This error does not exist on the original EP release, nor the remastered EP edition. "Am I Evil?" and "Blitzkrieg" were originally released in November 1984 as B-sides contained on the "Creeping Death" single. They were later included as bonus tracks on the 1988 Elektra re-i... |
(an abbreviation of Symphony and Metallica) is a live album by American heavy metal band Metallica, with the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Kamen. It was recorded on April 21 and 22, 1999, at The Berkeley Community Theatre. This is the final Metallica album to feature bassist Jason Newsted. Album informati... | conducted the orchestral background tracks for "Nothing Else Matters", met the band at the 1992 Grammy award show for the first time, and after hearing the "Elevator version" of the song, suggested the band perform with a whole orchestra; the band, however, did not take him up on the offer until seven years later. Lars... |
release, Metallica embarked on the Kill 'Em All for One tour with Raven. In February 1984, Metallica supported Venom on the Seven Dates of Hell tour, during which the bands performed in front of 7,000 people at the Aardschok Festival in Zwolle, Netherlands. 1984–1986: Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and Burton's... | would want them to carry on, and with the Burton family's blessings the band sought a replacement. Roughly 40 people, including Hammett's childhood friend, Les Claypool of Primus, Troy Gregory of Prong, and Jason Newsted, formerly of Flotsam and Jetsam, auditioned for the band. Newsted learned Metallica's entire set li... |
mural began to be used at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1906, Dr. Atl issued a manifesto calling for the development of a monumental public art movement in Mexico; he named it in Spanish pintura mural (English: wall painting). In ancient Roman times, a mural crown was given to the fighter who was first to scale... | classed as murals, large scale printed media are often referred to as such. Advertising murals were traditionally painted onto buildings and shops by sign-writers, later as large scale poster billboards. Significance Murals are important in that they bring art into the public sphere. Due to the size, cost, and work inv... |
or price controls, the unit price for a particular good is the price at which the quantity demanded by consumers equals the quantity supplied by producers. This price results in a stable economic equilibrium. Prices and quantities have been described as the most directly observable attributes of goods produced and exch... | ch.2). Opportunity cost Opportunity cost is closely related to the idea of time constraints. One can do only one thing at a time, which means that, inevitably, one is always giving up other things. The opportunity cost of any activity is the value of the next-best alternative thing one may have done instead. Opportunit... |
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money written by John Maynard Keynes. When the Great Depression struck, classical economists had difficulty in explaining how goods could go unsold and workers could be left unemployed. In classical theory, prices and wages would drop until the market cleared, and all goods an... | price level and level of real output given the equilibrium in aggregate demand and aggregate supply. The aggregate demand curve's downward slope means that more output is demanded at lower price levels. The downward slope is the result of three effects: the Pigou or real balance effect, which states that as real prices... |
epitomize the virtuous but fiery girl next door. Even at private parties, people instinctively stood up when Pickford entered a room; she and her husband were often referred to as "Hollywood royalty". Their international reputations were broad. Foreign heads of state and dignitaries who visited the White House often as... | and later introduced her to D. W. Griffith, who launched La Badie's career. In January 1910, Pickford traveled with a Biograph crew to Los Angeles. Many other film companies wintered on the West Coast, escaping the weak light and short days that hampered winter shooting in the East. Pickford added to her 1909 Biographs... |
married in 1879 in Tingwick, Quebec and moved the same year to Richmond, Quebec where Sinnott was hired as a laborer. By 1883, when Sennett's brother George was born, Sinnott was working as an innkeeper, a position he held for many years. Sennett's parents had all their children and raised their family in Richmond, the... | did not survive the Great Depression. His partnership with Paramount lasted only one year and he was forced into bankruptcy in November 1933. On January 12, 1934, Sennett was injured in an automobile accident that killed blackface performer Charles Mack in Mesa, Arizona. His last work, in 1935, was as a producer-direct... |
However, the MPPC also established a monopoly on all aspects of filmmaking. Eastman Kodak, which owned the patent on raw film stock, was a member of the trust and thus agreed to sell stock only to other members. Likewise, the trust's control of patents on motion picture cameras ensured that only MPPC studios were able ... | distributor (George Kleine) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak. The MPPC ended the domination of foreign films on US screens, standardized the manner in which films were distributed and exhibited within the US, and improved the quality of US motion pictures by internal competition. But it also di... |
be changed freely by the collision-finding algorithm. An example MD5 collision, with the two messages differing in 6 bits, is: d131dd02c5e6eec4 693d9a0698aff95c 2fcab5712467eab 4004583eb8fb7f89 55ad340609f4b302 83e48883251415a 085125e8f7cdc99f d91dbd280373c5b d8823e3156348f5b ae6dacd436c919c6 dd53e2487da03fd 02396306d2... | d8823e3156348f5b ae6dacd436c919c6 dd53e2487da03fd 02396306d248cda0 e99f33420f577ee8 ce54b6708080d1e c69821bcb6a88393 96f965b6ff72a70 d131dd02c5e6eec4 693d9a0698aff95c 2fcab5712467eab 4004583eb8fb7f89 55ad340609f4b302 83e48883251415a 085125e8f7cdc99f d91dbd280373c5b d8823e3156348f5b ae6dacd436c919c6 dd53e2487da03fd 0239... |
It can be played in various rule formats, which fall into two categories: constructed and limited. Limited formats involve players building a deck spontaneously out of a pool of random cards with a minimum deck size of 40 cards; in constructed formats, players create decks from cards they own, usually with a minimum of... | of the "play for ante" mechanics in all formal formats, all such cards with this feature are banned. During the COVID-19 pandemic which drew more players to the online Magic games and generated volumes of data of popular deck constructions, Wizards was able to track popular combinations more quickly than in a purely pa... |
which were developed mainly for the need of surveying and architecture. A fundamental innovation was the elaboration of proofs by ancient Greeks: it is not sufficient to verify by measurement that, say, two lengths are equal. Such a property must be proved by abstract reasoning from previously proven results (theorems)... | gave rise to a dramatic increase in the number of mathematics areas and their fields of applications; a witness of this is the Mathematics Subject Classification, which lists more than sixty first-level areas of mathematics. Areas of mathematics Before the Renaissance, mathematics was divided into two main areas: arith... |
large harbor tug serving from 1965 to 2004 SS Manhattan (1931), a luxury liner SS Manhattan (1962), a tanker constructed to pass the Northwest Passage USS Manhattan (1863), a Union Navy ship in service until 1902 Music Manhattan Records, a record label The Manhattans, an R&B group from the 1970s and 80s Manhattan (Art ... | Manhattan (1979 film), a film by Woody Allen Manhattan (1924 film), a film starring Richard Dix Manhattan (TV series), a 2014–2016 series "Manhattan" (Once Upon a Time), a 2013 episode of Once Upon a Time Manhattan, a fictional town in Manhattan, AZ Schools Manhattan Christian College, Manhattan, Kansas Manhattan High ... |
Europe, losing control of sections of the Muslim lands. Umayyad descendants took over Al-Andalus (or Muslim Spain), the Aghlabids controlled North Africa, and the Tulunids became rulers of Egypt. By the middle of the 8th century, new trading patterns were emerging in the Mediterranean. Franks traded timber, furs, sword... | of this period and into the Late Middle Ages. The Late Middle Ages was marked by difficulties and calamities including famine, plague, and war, which significantly diminished the population of Europe; between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed about a third of Europeans. Controversy, heresy, and the Western Schism w... |
For the case of unimodal distributions, one can achieve a sharper bound on the distance between the median and the mean: . A similar relation holds between the median and the mode: Jensen's inequality for medians Jensen's inequality states that for any random variable X with a finite expectation E[X] and for any convex... | If the data set has an even number of observations, there is no distinct middle value and the median is usually defined to be the arithmetic mean of the two middle values. For example, this data set of 8 numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 has a median value of 4.5, that is . (In more technical terms, this interprets the me... |
forwards from the pelvis. These are not found in any modern placental, but they are found in marsupials, monotremes, other nontherian mammals and Ukhaatherium, an early Cretaceous animal in the eutherian order Asioryctitheria. This also applies to the multituberculates. They are apparently an ancestral feature, which s... | mammals, the cohort called placentals, have a placenta, which enables the feeding of the fetus during gestation. Most mammals are intelligent, with some possessing large brains, self-awareness, and tool use. Mammals can communicate and vocalize in several ways, including the production of ultrasound, scent-marking, ala... |
in the context of evolutionary theory. Charles Darwin speculated that music may have held an adaptive advantage and functioned as a protolanguage, a view which has spawned several competing theories of music evolution. An alternate view sees music as a by-product of linguistic evolution; a type of "auditory cheesecake"... | through the manipulation of pitch (such as inflection, vibrato, slides etc.), volume (dynamics, accent, tremolo etc.), duration (tempo fluctuations, rhythmic changes, changing note duration such as with legato and staccato, etc.), timbre (e.g. changing vocal timbre from a light to a resonant voice) and sometimes even t... |
mode, a software configuration where text input is processed outside of an application Immediate mode (computer graphics), a graphic library where commands produce direct rendering on the display Data types in some programming languages (e.g., EL/1) Block cipher mode of operation, in cryptography Modes (Unix), permissi... | meaning "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may refer to: Language Grammatical mode or grammatical mood, a category of verbal inflections that expresses an attitude of mind Imperative mood Subjunctive mood Rhetorical modes, a category of discourse Narrative mode, the type of method voice and point of ... |
the architectural design of a burrow is a genetic trait. Types of animals known as mice The most common mice are murines, in the same clade as common rats. They are murids, along with gerbils and other close relatives. order Dasyuromorphia marsupial mice, smaller species of Dasyuridae order Rodentia suborder Castorimor... | trait. Types of animals known as mice The most common mice are murines, in the same clade as common rats. They are murids, along with gerbils and other close relatives. order Dasyuromorphia marsupial mice, smaller species of Dasyuridae order Rodentia suborder Castorimorpha family Heteromyidae Kangaroo mouse, genus Micr... |
then the components of the second system were added back to the main user system, without ever having shut it down. Multics supported multiple CPUs; it was one of the earliest multiprocessor systems. Multics was the first major operating system to be designed as a secure system from the outset. Despite this, early vers... | control lists on every file provide flexible information sharing, but complete privacy when needed. Multics has a number of standard mechanisms to allow engineers to analyze the performance of the system, as well as a number of adaptive performance optimization mechanisms. Novel ideas Multics implements a single-level ... |
choice of subject matter as well as subversive parody to heighten class consciousness and promote Marxist ideas. Situationist film maker Guy Debord, author of The Society of the Spectacle, began his film In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni with a radical critique of the spectator who goes to the cinema to forget abo... | girum imus nocte et consumimur igni with a radical critique of the spectator who goes to the cinema to forget about their dispossessed daily life. Situationist film makers produced a number of important films, where the only contribution by the situationist film cooperative was the sound-track. In Can dialectics break ... |
France United States Monterey Accelerated Research System, a cabled-based ocean observatory in Monterey Bay, California Mars, California, a populated place Mars Bluff, South Carolina, an unincorporated community Outingdale, California, formerly called Mars, a populated place Le Mars, Iowa, a city in and the county seat... | Closer to Mars "Mars", a song by Soulfly from Prophecy Video gaming Project Mars, codename for the Sega 32X add-on video game console Memory Array Redcode Simulator, the environment for the competitive programming game Core War Military MARS (missile), air to ground missile built by Israel Military Industries Mars Auto... |
stand alone. For instance, the Latin root reg- (‘king’) must always be suffixed with a case marker: rex (reg-s), reg-is, reg-i, etc. For a language like Latin, a root can be defined as the main lexical morpheme of a word. Example English words have the following morphological analyses. "Unbreakable" is composed of thre... | from an adjective (happy) to a noun (happiness). In the word unkind, un- functions as a derivational morpheme since it inverts the meaning of the root morpheme (word) kind. Generally, morphemes that affix (i.e., affixes) to a root morpheme (word) are bound morphemes. Inflectional bound morphemes Inflectional morphemes ... |
Nina Blackwood moved on to pursue new roles in television. Martha Quinn's contract was not renewed in late 1986 and she departed the network. She was brought back in early 1989 and stayed until 1992. Downtown Julie Brown was hired as the first new VJ as a replacement. In mid-1987, Alan Hunter and Mark Goodman ceased be... | that I’ve always learned at MTV is we have no problem owning our mistakes, quickly correcting them and trying to do the right thing and always follow where the audience is going." Before 1983, Michael Jackson also struggled for MTV airtime. To resolve the struggle and finally "break the color barrier", the president of... |
typically small animals with elongated bodies, short legs, short, round ears, and thick fur. Most mustelids are solitary, nocturnal animals, and are active year-round. With the exception of the sea otter, they have anal scent glands that produce a strong-smelling secretion the animals use for sexual signaling and marki... | into eight subfamilies in 22 genera: Subfamily Taxidiinae Genus Taxidea American badger, T. taxus Subfamily Mellivorinae Genus Mellivora Honey badger, M. capensis Subfamily Melinae Genus Arctonyx Northern hog badger, A. albogularis Greater hog badger, A. collaris Sumatran hog badger, A. hoevenii Genus Meles Japanese ba... |
Aspen Hill, Hyattsville/Langley Park, Glenmont/Wheaton, Bladensburg, Riverdale Park, Gaithersburg, as well as Highlandtown and Greektown in East Baltimore. Salvadorans are the largest Hispanic group in Maryland. Other Hispanic groups with significant populations in the state include Mexicans and Puerto Ricans and Hondu... | parties); obtained closed voting booths to prevent party workers from "assisting" voters; initiated primary elections to keep party bosses from selecting candidates; and had candidates listed without party symbols, which discouraged the illiterate from participating. These measures worked against ill-educated whites an... |
in the United States. The Grand Rapids metropolitan area in Western Michigan is the state's fastest-growing metro area, with more than 1.3 million residents . Metro Detroit receives more than 15 million visitors each year. Michigan has many popular tourist destinations, including areas such as Frankenmuth in The Thumb,... | 50% of the population resides there) and the eleventh largest in the United States. The Grand Rapids metropolitan area in Western Michigan is the state's fastest-growing metro area, with more than 1.3 million residents . Metro Detroit receives more than 15 million visitors each year. Michigan has many popular tourist d... |
their original findings, across additional data sets. A 2010 study by three economists (Arindrajit Dube of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, William Lester of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Michael Reich of the University of California, Berkeley), compared adjacent counties in different sta... | stop the exploitation of workers in sweatshops, by employers who were thought to have unfair bargaining power over them. Over time, minimum wages came to be seen as a way to help lower-income families. Modern national laws enforcing compulsory union membership which prescribed minimum wages for their members were first... |
or striped mullet, Mugil cephalus, important food fish species in the family Mugilidae. Goatfish, or "red mullets", of the family Mullidae; in particular, red mullets of the genus Mullus Malagasy mountain mullet, Acentrogobius therezieni, a species of fish in the family Gobiidae endemic to Madagascar Pearl mullet, Chal... | Wisconsin Other Mullet, a type of star in heraldry Mullet (film), a 2001 Australian film The Mullets (TV series), a UPN sitcom Mullets (comic strip), a short-lived comic strip by Rick Stromoski and Steve McGarry A person born in Arundel due to the presence of the Mullet fish in the local river Norman Mullet, the chief ... |
"'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries./Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger" (1.3.6–7). This has been thought to allude to the Tiger, a ship that returned to England 27 June 1606 after a disastrous voyage in which many of the crew were killed by pirates. A few lines later the witch speaks of the... | as the profession still calls it. It is forbidden to quote from it backstage as this could cause the current play to collapse and have to be replaced, causing possible unemployment. Several methods exist to dispel the curse, depending on the actor. One, attributed to Michael York, is to immediately leave the building t... |
known as "straight edge," "is not a set of rules; I'm not telling you what to do. All I'm saying is there are three things, that are like so important to the whole world that I don't happen to find much importance in, whether it's fucking, or whether it's playing golf, because of that, I feel... I can't keep up... (ful... | In March 1984, six months after the band broke up, the EPs Minor Threat and In My Eyes were compiled together and re-released as the Minor Threat album. The Complete Discography archival compilation would follow in 1989, with the additional release of First Demo Tape in 2003. Two previously unreleased songs were featur... |
which is physical. The existence of mental events has been used by philosophers as an argument against physicalism. For example, in his 1974 paper What Is it Like to Be a Bat?, Thomas Nagel argues that physicalist theories of mind cannot explain an organism's subjective experience because they cannot account for its me... | physical are the very same property which cause any event(s). This view is known as substance monism. An opposing view is substance dualism, which claims that the mental and physical are fundamentally different and can exist independently. A third approach is Donald Davidson's anomalous monism. The Philosophy of Action... |
practical monopolies: gas supply, water supply, roads, canals, and railways. In his Social Economics, Friedrich von Wieser demonstrated his view of the postal service as a natural monopoly: "In the face of [such] single-unit administration, the principle of competition becomes utterly abortive. The parallel network of ... | are three forms of price discrimination. First degree price discrimination charges each consumer the maximum price the consumer is willing to pay. Second degree price discrimination involves quantity discounts. Third degree price discrimination involves grouping consumers according to willingness to pay as measured by ... |
profoundly. A 1949 report noted the lack of "any great slackening in the pace of life at the Institute" to match the return to peacetime, remembering the "academic tranquility of the prewar years", though acknowledging the significant contributions of military research to the increased emphasis on graduate education an... | was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934. Still, as late as 1949, the Lewis Committee lamented in its report on the state of education at MIT that "the Institute is widely conceived as basically a vocational school", a "partly unjustified" perception the committee sought to change. The report com... |
product group is a "collection of similar products". The fact that there are "many firms" means that each firm has a small market share. This gives each MC firm the freedom to set prices without engaging in strategic decision making regarding the prices of other firms (no mutual independence) and each firm's actions ha... | not have perfect information (Imperfect Information) Product differentiation MC firms sell products that have real or perceived non-price differences. Examples of these differences could include physical aspects of the product, location from which it sells the product or intangible aspects of the product, among others.... |
induction would correspond to a log-n-step loop. Because of that, proofs using prefix induction are "more feasibly constructive" than proofs using predecessor induction. Predecessor induction can trivially simulate prefix induction on the same statement. Prefix induction can simulate predecessor induction, but only at ... | of the following: Showing that the statement holds when . Showing that if the statement holds for an arbitrary number , then the same statement also holds for . This can be used, for example, to show that for . In this way, one can prove that some statement holds for all , or even for all . This form of mathematical in... |
Matrix (magazine), published by the Association for Women in Communications The Matrix, a 1994 novel by Denis MacEoin as Jonathan Aycliffe Matrix, a journal on printing published by Whittington Press Music Matrix (band), an American jazz-fusion ensemble Matrix (musician), a British producer and DJ Matrix (music), an el... | a eukaryotic organism's cells Matrix (chemical analysis), the non-analyte components of a sample Matrix (geology), the fine-grained material in which larger objects are embedded Hair matrix, produces hair Nail matrix, part of the nail in anatomy Arts and entertainment Fictional entities Matrix (comics), two comic book ... |
we suppose?" David Letterman said, "I'm always amazed at what people will fall for. We see this every ten or twelve years, an attempt at this, and I guess from that standpoint I don't quite understand why everybody's falling over backwards over the guy." Celebrity, cancellation, and bankruptcy The success of the show m... | talk show host and actor who pioneered the "trash TV" format in the late-1980s on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show. Early life Downey's parents were in show business; his father, Morton Downey, was a popular singer, and his mother, Barbara Bennett, was a stage and film actress and singer and dancer. Downey did no... |
Winner of 1 Grand Slam title → 2009 U.S. Open champion • 2009 Tour finals finalist • 2016 Olympics silver medalist • ranking in 2018 |- |||1999||–|| Australia|| || 18 || 2020 US Open quarterfinalist • ranking in 2019 |- |||1950||–|| Australia|| || 17 || 1974 Australian Open finalist • ranking in 1977 |- |||1981||–|| Un... | || 12 || 1999 French Open semifinalist • ranking in 2004 |- |||1950||–|| Czechoslovakia|| || 25 || Ranking in 1974 |- |||1902||1997|| Great Britain|| || || 1931 French Championships semifinalist |- |||1998||–|| France|| || 25 || Ranking in 2021 |- |||1919||1945|| United States|| 1966 || || Winner of 1 Grand Slam title ... |
itself, is not always clear: philosophical problems may be tamed by the advance of a discipline, and the conduct of a discipline may be swayed by philosophical reflection". that between philosophy and empirical science. Some argue that philosophy is distinct from science in that its questions cannot be answered empiric... | philosophy Anti-philosophies Philosophy and assertion Philosophy and exposition Philosophy and style Philosophy as literature Literature as philosophy Philosophical beauty Philosophy as science Philosophy and related fields and activities Philosophy and argument Philosophy and wisdom Philosophy and metaphilosophy Philo... |
Artist models built in the early 1920s under the supervision of Gibson acoustician Lloyd Loar. Original Loar-signed instruments are sought after and extremely valuable. Other makers from the Loar period and earlier include Lyon and Healy, Vega and Larson Brothers. Pressed archtops The ideal for archtops has been solid ... | made mandolin-basses. The relatively rare eight-string mandobass, or "tremolo-bass", also exists, with double courses like the rest of the mandolin family, and is tuned either G1–D2–A2–E3, two octaves lower than the mandolin, or C1–G1–D2–A2, two octaves below the mandola. Variations Bowlback Bowlback mandolins (also kn... |
of microphotonics relies on Fresnel reflection to guide the light. If the photons reside mainly in the higher index material, the confinement is due to total internal reflection. If the confinement is due many distributed Fresnel reflections, the device is termed a photonic crystal. There are many different types of ge... | confinement is due to total internal reflection. If the confinement is due many distributed Fresnel reflections, the device is termed a photonic crystal. There are many different types of geometries used in microphotonics including optical waveguides, optical microcavities, and Arrayed waveguide gratings. Photonic crys... |
on products such as the Lisa and Macintosh (eventually settled in court in Microsoft's favor in 1993). On PCs, Windows is still the most popular operating system in all countries. However, in 2014, Microsoft admitted losing the majority of the overall operating system market to Android, because of the massive growth in... | Passport services, a "compatibility mode" to help provide backwards compatibility with software designed for previous versions of Windows, and Remote Assistance functionality. At retail, Windows XP was now marketed in two main editions: the "Home" edition was targeted towards consumers, while the "Professional" edition... |
in enslaved and free African American communities. Enslaved and free black root workers created mojo bags and placed Bible verses, petition papers, roots, herbs, animal parts, graveyard dirt, and other ingredients to conjure a negative or positive effect. They used either Christian or Islamic prayers to spirituality ch... | similar to the mojo bags in Hoodoo. In addition, archeologists in New York discovered continued West-Central African burial practices in a section of Lower Manhattan, New York City which is now the location of the African Burial Ground National Monument. Historians and archeologists found Kongo related artifacts at the... |
was finally asked to give up the "music" column. Among the fans of the column was Harry Shearer, who would later become a voice on The Simpsons. Life in Hell became popular almost immediately. In November 1984, Deborah Caplan, Groening's then-girlfriend and co-worker at the Reader, offered to publish "Love is Hell", a ... | in Hell as well as work by Lynda Barry and John Callahan, but would eventually only syndicate Life in Hell. At the end of its run, Life in Hell was carried in 250 weekly newspapers and has been anthologized in a series of books, including School is Hell, Childhood is Hell, The Big Book of Hell, and The Huge Book of Hel... |
identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of consciousness and the relationship between mind and matter, between substance and attribute, and between potentiality and actuality. The word "metaphysics" comes from two Greek words that, together, lit... | such as the logical positivists, and many scientists, reject the metaphysical realism as meaningless and unverifiable. Others reply that this criticism also applies to any type of knowledge, including hard science, which claims to describe anything other than the contents of human perception, and thus that the world of... |
hardships that followed. United States "Shuttle gap" Under the Bush administration, the Constellation program included plans for retiring the Space Shuttle program and replacing it with the capability for spaceflight beyond low Earth orbit. In the 2011 United States federal budget, the Obama administration canceled Con... | to pilot a spaceplane, the North American X-15, on 17 July 1962 (White) or 19 July 1963 (Walker). 18 March 1965 Alexei Leonov was first to walk in space. 15 December 1965 Walter M. Schirra and Tom Stafford were first to perform a space rendezvous, piloting their Gemini 6A spacecraft to achieve station-keeping one foot ... |
to produce it today. It was named after Dmitri Mendeleev, father of the periodic table of the chemical elements. Using available microgram quantities of the isotope einsteinium-253, over a million mendelevium atoms may be produced each hour. The chemistry of mendelevium is typical for the late actinides, with a prepond... | mass 256 and to decay by electron capture to fermium-256 with a half-life of 1.5 h. Being the first of the second hundred of the chemical elements, it was decided that the element would be named "mendelevium" after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, father of the periodic table. Because this discovery came during th... |
consequence of P and P → Q in some logical system. Justification via truth table The validity of modus ponens in classical two-valued logic can be clearly demonstrated by use of a truth table. In instances of modus ponens we assume as premises that p → q is true and p is true. Only one line of the truth table—the first... | ponens in classical two-valued logic can be clearly demonstrated by use of a truth table. In instances of modus ponens we assume as premises that p → q is true and p is true. Only one line of the truth table—the first—satisfies these two conditions (p and p → q). On this line, q is also true. Therefore, whenever p → q ... |
a conclusion: If P, then Q. Not Q. Therefore, not P. The first premise is a conditional ("if-then") claim, such as P implies Q. The second premise is an assertion that Q, the consequent of the conditional claim, is not the case. From these two premises it can be logically concluded that P, the antecedent of the conditi... | line—which satisfies these two conditions. In this line, p is false. Therefore, in every instance in which p → q is true and q is false, p must also be false. Formal proof Via disjunctive syllogism Via reductio ad absurdum Via contraposition Correspondence to other mathematical frameworks Probability calculus Modus tol... |
wrote many works on applied mathematics. Because of a political dispute, the Christian community in Alexandria punished her, presuming she was involved, by stripping her naked and scraping off her skin with clamshells (some say roofing tiles). Science and mathematics in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages followed... | 507 BC) established the Pythagorean School, whose doctrine it was that mathematics ruled the universe and whose motto was "All is number". It was the Pythagoreans who coined the term "mathematics", and with whom the study of mathematics for its own sake begins. The first woman mathematician recorded by history was Hypa... |
and thread-based microfluidics. Disadvantages to open systems include susceptibility to evaporation, contamination, and limited flow rate. Continuous-flow microfluidics Continuous flow microfluidics rely on the control of a steady state liquid flow through narrow channels or porous media predominantly by accelerating o... | in fluids. Particle detection of small fluid-borne particles down to about 1 μm in diameter is typically done using a Coulter counter, in which electrical signals are generated when a weakly-conducting fluid such as in saline water is passed through a small (~100 μm diameter) pore, so that an electrical signal is gener... |
prime, then ) is a perfect number. In the 18th century, Leonhard Euler proved that, conversely, all even perfect numbers have this form. This is known as the Euclid–Euler theorem. It is unknown whether there are any odd perfect numbers. History Mersenne primes take their name from the 17th-century French scholar Marin ... | next one, , was found by the computer a little less than two hours later. Three more — , , and — were found by the same program in the next several months. was the first discovered titanic prime, was the first discovered gigantic prime, and was the first megaprime to be discovered, being a prime with at least 1,000,000... |
in Utah born from now-defunct Magcorp. Pidgeon process China is almost completely reliant on the silicothermic Pidgeon process (the reduction of the oxide at high temperatures with silicon, often provided by a ferrosilicon alloy in which the iron is but a spectator in the reactions) to obtain the metal. The process can... | by electrolysis of magnesium salts obtained from brine, and is used primarily as a component in aluminium-magnesium alloys, sometimes called magnalium or magnelium. Magnesium is less dense than aluminium, and the alloy is prized for its combination of lightness and strength. This element is the eleventh most abundant e... |
primitive document management system intended for law firms in 1969, and helped invent IBM GML later that same year. GML was first publicly disclosed in 1973. In 1975, Goldfarb moved from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Silicon Valley and became a product planner at the IBM Almaden Research Center. There, he convinced IBM'... | do too much and to be too flexible. For example, SGML made end tags (or start-tags, or even both) optional in certain contexts, because its developers thought markup would be done manually by overworked support staff who would appreciate saving keystrokes. HTML In 1989, computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a me... |
semiotics and sociology Meaning (semiotics), the distribution of signs in sign relations Meaning (existential), the meaning of life in contemporary existentialism Arts and entertainment Meanings (album), a 2004 album by Gad Elbaz "Meaning" (House), a 2006 episode of the TV series House Meaning (music), the philosophica... | (album), a 2004 album by Gad Elbaz "Meaning" (House), a 2006 episode of the TV series House Meaning (music), the philosophical question of meaning in relation to music "The Meaning", a song on Discipline (Janet Jackson album) (2008) The Meaning (album), a 2011 album by Layzie Bone See also Hermeneutics, the theory of t... |
denies that there are moral truths, error theory entails moral nihilism and, thus, moral skepticism; however, neither moral nihilism nor moral skepticism conversely entail error theory. Non-cognitivist theories Non-cognitivist theories hold that ethical sentences are neither true nor false because they do not express g... | naturalists in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as part of their argument that normativity is a non-excisable aspect of language and that there is no way of analyzing thick moral concepts into a purely descriptive element attached to a thin moral evaluation, thus undermining any fundamental division between facts... |
department, France Montesquieu, Tarn-et-Garonne, commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, France | in the Lot-et-Garonne department, France Montesquieu, Tarn-et-Garonne, commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne |
of irrigation that allowed them to build a farming community in the desert. From 1849 to 1852, the Mormons greatly expanded their missionary efforts, establishing several missions in Europe, Latin America, and the South Pacific. Converts were expected to "gather" to Zion, and during Young's presidency (1847–77) over se... | the central doctrinal issues that defined Mormonism in the 19th century was the practice of plural marriage, a form of religious polygamy. From 1852 until 1904, when the LDS Church banned the practice, many Mormons who had followed Brigham Young to the Utah Territory openly practiced polygamy. Mormons dedicate signific... |
the Panama Canal in 1914, which reduced reliance on transcontinental railways for trade, as well as a decrease in immigration due to the outbreak of the First World War. Over 18,000 Manitoba residents enlisted in the first year of the war; by the end of the war, 14 Manitobans had received the Victoria Cross. During the... | Manitoba, and eventually raised over C$65 million. Winnipeg was inundated during the 1950 Red River Flood and had to be partially evacuated. In that year, the Red River reached its highest level since 1861 and flooded most of the Red River Valley. The damage caused by the flood led then-Premier Duff Roblin to advocate ... |
(many shield volcanoes are much larger in size and mass), including a massif with eleven peaks over . Due to active tectonic uplifting, Mount Logan is still rising in height (approximately 0.35 mm per year). Before 1992, the exact elevation of Mount Logan was unknown and measurements ranged from . In May 1992, a GSC ex... | in North America after Denali. The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mount Logan is located within Kluane National Park Reserve in southwestern Yukon, less than north of the Yukon–Alaska border. Mount Logan is the source of the ... |
or simple kernel of authentic individuality, but rather, it is "...the bifurcation of the simple; it is the doubling which sets up opposition, and then again the negation of this indifferent diversity and of its anti-thesis" (Preface, para. 18). The Hegelian subject's modus operandi is therefore cutting, splitting and ... | his Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit that a subject is constituted by "the process of reflectively mediating itself with itself." Hegel begins his definition of the subject at a standpoint derived from Aristotelian physics: "the unmoved which is also self-moving" (Preface, para. 22). That is, what is not moved by... |
workers as pejorative, despite the word being used by strikers themselves. Herman and Chomsky (1988) proposed a propaganda model hypothesizing systematic biases of U.S. media from structural economic causes. They hypothesize media ownership by corporations, funding from advertising, the use of official sources, efforts... | in 2014, media communication researcher Jim A. Kuypers published a 40-year longitudinal, aggregate study of the political beliefs and actions of American journalists. In every single category, for instance, social, economic, unions, health care, and foreign policy, he found that nationwide, print and broadcast journali... |
Abd ar-Rahman al-Nasai, Abu Dawood, Ibn Majah, Malik ibn Anas, al-Daraqutni. Some Western academics cautiously view the hadith collections as accurate historical sources. Scholars such as Madelung do not reject the narrations which have been compiled in later periods, but judge them in the context of history and on the... | and figures. Muslim scholars on the other hand typically place a greater emphasis on the hadith literature instead of the biographical literature, since hadiths maintain a traditional chain of transmission (isnad); the lack of such a chain for the biographical literature makes it unverifiable in their eyes. Pre-Islamic... |
stations now also provide voice identification. Warships, including those of the U.S. Navy, have long used signal lamps to exchange messages in Morse code. Modern use continues, in part, as a way to communicate while maintaining radio silence. Automatic Transmitter Identification System (ATIS) uses Morse code to identi... | Morse, therefore developed an early forerunner to the modern International Morse code. The Morse system for telegraphy, which was first used in about 1844, was designed to make indentations on a paper tape when electric currents were received. Morse's original telegraph receiver used a mechanical clockwork to move a pa... |
of events over time on a map Brain mapping, the techniques used to study the brain Data mapping, data element mappings between two distinct data models Gene mapping, the assignment of DNA fragments to chromosomes Mind mapping, the drawing of ideas and the relations among them Projection mapping, the projection of video... | over time on a map Brain mapping, the techniques used to study the brain Data mapping, data element mappings between two distinct data models Gene mapping, the assignment of DNA fragments to chromosomes Mind mapping, the drawing of ideas and the relations among them Projection mapping, the projection of videos on the s... |
the United States), Duprisal 30, Ulipristal 30, and UPRIS. The antiprogestin mifepristone (also known as RU-486) is available in five countries as a low-dose or mid-dose emergency contraceptive tablet, effective up to 120 hours after intercourse. Low-dose mifepristone ECPs are available by prescription in Armenia, Russ... | and pharmacists continue to affect emergency-contraception access, particularly for adolescents." EC and sexual assault Beginning in the 1960s, women who had been sexually assaulted were offered DES. Currently, the standard of care is to offer ulipristal or prompt placement of a copper IUD which is the most effective f... |
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