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3,000 solar cells were installed on the roof of the Prologis Concorde Distribution Center in Sterling in 2015
Source: Dominion Media Downloads, Prologis Rooftop Solar Installation
In Virginia, plans for generating electricity from the sun now rely upon photovoltaic cells.
Some early home-based solar projects used black... | <urn:uuid:43fef16e-b8ee-44b5-8758-2f218b04654a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://virginiaplaces.org/energy/solar.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320206.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623235306-20170624015306-00008.warc.gz | en | 0.922239 | 12,344 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Around the holidays, we love to do themed learning activities. Since Valentine’s Day is just a couple of weeks away, we created a Lots-of-Love Heart Sight Word Game today.
Sight words are the most frequently used words in the English language. Since these words are used so often, it is important for children to recogni... | <urn:uuid:5d7fe936-b98f-48b9-9f57-b2c98168f8ec> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://raisinglittlesuperheroes.com/heart-sight-word-game/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320323.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624184733-20170624204733-00088.warc.gz | en | 0.824766 | 561 | 2.875 | 3 |
My Mother and I recently signed up for the Millinery course at Stratford Off The Wall, the place where I took my Faux Food class this past September. Over the course of the week, we will learn how to make either fascinators or buckram or soft-form hats. As the two of us do all the costuming for Bygone, I thought I shou... | <urn:uuid:6ab21b3f-774a-4c7e-9788-1a583e5a612a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://bygonetheatre.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/a-brief-history-of-womens-hats-1900-1960/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320532.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625134002-20170625154002-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.979697 | 1,114 | 2.984375 | 3 |
History professor Bert de Vries has been investigating the ancient town of Umm el-Jimal for more than 40 years.
Now it’s an old stone house, but back in the day, it was the largest and most elaborate of the 150 stone houses built in the Byzantine era of Umm el-Jimal. Only partially intact, the house still has the arche... | <urn:uuid:43b9bb48-91d3-4f69-86cd-546fe68812c8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://calvin.edu/news/archive/preserving-and-presenting-in-umm-el-jimal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320695.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626083037-20170626103037-00248.warc.gz | en | 0.962217 | 1,340 | 3.046875 | 3 |
On a cold and windy day, the National Museum’s ‘Horse team’ were amongst thousands of people gathered to witness history in a paddock at ‘Willow Vale’, just outside of Yass, New South Wales. An initiative of the Yass Antique Farm Machinery Club Inc, ‘Woo back!’ hosted 28 horses and their humans to set a Guiness World R... | <urn:uuid:5a8baa52-d08a-42fb-adee-c2a56f8c58ca> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://pateblog.nma.gov.au/2014/05/06/ploughing-for-the-record/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320695.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626083037-20170626103037-00248.warc.gz | en | 0.970567 | 668 | 2.765625 | 3 |
One of the first nations to practice vernacular writing, Ireland has produced some of history's most remarkable authors. Notable literary artists from Dublin include Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); poet and author of the famed The Picture of Dorian Gray, Bram Stoker (1847-1912), creator of Dracula; Jonathan Swift (1667-1745),... | <urn:uuid:c9e07b2e-8ea1-4ac0-93d5-95c3730df249> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.ditii.com/google-books-visualize-the-influence-of-great-irish-authors-on-contemporary-dublin/46631/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320915.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627032130-20170627052130-00328.warc.gz | en | 0.939568 | 224 | 3.1875 | 3 |
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Guest Commentary: The Science of cell culture--Maintaining phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity
Continuous cell lines are most often derived from complex tumor tissues and generally reflect the heterogeneity of the original tumor. With the adoption of analytical methods that enable researchers ... | <urn:uuid:71ee558e-4dc8-4b6b-8525-ab2d6e25f0a1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://ddn-news.com/index.php?newsarticle=11141 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321938.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627221726-20170628001726-00408.warc.gz | en | 0.923657 | 1,922 | 2.546875 | 3 |
(1876–1959), British writer, primarily of boys’ adventure stories. Although he began with historical tales, such as A Lad of Grit (1909), a story set during the Restoration, Westerman went on to write mainly contemporary adventure stories, particularly about World War I. These include Rounding Up the Raider: A Naval St... | <urn:uuid:eeb536e8-b5dc-407a-bac3-d6f1d194bea1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803121844627 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321938.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627221726-20170628001726-00408.warc.gz | en | 0.948606 | 159 | 3.3125 | 3 |
In an attempt to educate you about how the Internet works, this blog post will serve as the first in a long line of posts to come titled "How the Internet Works". My aim is simple: educate readers how various aspects of the Internet work, why they are important and how you can utilize them for personal means. This week... | <urn:uuid:6c57f64f-5185-4ec4-af1a-e176230256bc> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.informit.com/blogs/blog.aspx?uk=How-the-Internet-Works-TCPIP-Trace-Routes-and-Hops | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321938.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627221726-20170628001726-00408.warc.gz | en | 0.933706 | 836 | 3.625 | 4 |
The amazing ancient city of Teotihuacan is located in Mexico, 40 km from Mexico City. The city is fraught with many unsolved mysteries, and often information about it is perceived as a theory. Let’s find out some reliable facts about Teotihuacan.
Teotihuacan was built in the 2nd century BC; in the 2nd century AD it bec... | <urn:uuid:2fb1e75f-0d98-4565-b203-87bf84edcabf> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://feel-planet.com/tag/mexico/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323721.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628171342-20170628191342-00488.warc.gz | en | 0.975754 | 1,186 | 3.625 | 4 |
by C. Wilson Anderson
Learning to read and spell English may seem very difficult because there don’t seem to be any consistent patterns or “rules.” But in English, there actually are several more phonics “rules” than are normally taught in school. With them, our language becomes more logical and much easier to master. ... | <urn:uuid:fec2677f-1531-4ce8-995b-b93465d35a57> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.rainbowreaders.com/materials/43-consistent-generalizations-of-the-english-language/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323970.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629121355-20170629141355-00568.warc.gz | en | 0.881323 | 3,807 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Starving cancer cells of a key amino acid slows down their ability to grow and multiply, according to new research co-ordinated by Dr Peter Szlosarek here at BCI. Dr Szlosarek announced the findings on October 28th at the World Conference on Lung Cancer in Sydney, Australia, and they are now published in the journal Ca... | <urn:uuid:e92c114f-4dbd-4a07-bed0-91a726fb3853> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://bci.qmul.ac.uk/news/in-the-press/item/qstarvingq-mesothelioma-a-new-treatment-approach-7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320338.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624203022-20170624223022-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.943472 | 1,370 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Math Scores Rise, Verbal Scores Stay Flat on SAT, ACT
An increase in the use of classroom technology and a nationwide focus on math course requirements are two likely reasons why average math scores rose this year on both the sat and the ACT, test experts said.
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What is the possible increased burden on the younger population to compensate for health care cost, lost income, housing needs with a lesser population contributing to Social Security due to the longevity of the aging population?
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Common misconceptions about the flu among people who work in child care settings.
Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2014-103, 2013 Nov; :1
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Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Today, 20 November, International Children’s day and the World Day of Prayer and Action for Children, and Youth in the World are celebrated around the world.
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Goos's father, Abraham Goos (1590-1643), is known for globes, land and sea maps. In the beginning Pieter was mainly working for Petrus Kaerius, C.J. Visscher, John Speed, Henricus Hondius and Johannes Janssonius. His first own work, De Lichtende Columne ofte Zee-Spiegel, was published in 1650. verscheen in 1650.
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During his transition from female to male, Bennett is taken under the wing of his musical hero, transgender folk singer Joe Stevens.
Marlon Riggs explores questions of "blackness" and black identity.
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To set up a new blog on a new webhost while the domain name still points to another website on another webhost, I needed to edit the host file on my Windows 10 desktop and Linux laptop. This allows me to view the new website online.
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The EPA GreenChill program had stores in 47 states as of August, 2009. It took three years to get those last three states, but they did it. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) GreenChill partnership now has 7,000 partner stores located in all 50 states.
From regional grocers like Stater Bros. in southern... | <urn:uuid:0871d5db-c930-44ba-ac66-153e1d461a81> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.contractingbusiness.com/refrigeration/epa-greenchill-now-50-states | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320995.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627050500-20170627070500-00608.warc.gz | en | 0.948584 | 281 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Souviens Toi : Remember!
The notice at the entrance
to the ruins of Oradour
This website describes the history, background and
events leading up to the Nazi war-crime of the attack upon the martyr
village of Oradour-sur-Glane. This atrocity was carried out on Saturday
10th June 1944 by soldiers of the Der Führer
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The vast majority (between 60% and 85%, depending on whose numbers you choose to beleive) of suicides and bona-fide suicide attempts, are caused by psychiatric problems. The psychiatric problems usually associated with suicide are affective system disorders and schizophrenia. The two common affective disorders are Seve... | <urn:uuid:0a0921c6-6523-47e2-933c-beaf162ff728> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://dmmoyle.com/sicauses.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320215.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624031945-20170624051945-00569.warc.gz | en | 0.963484 | 8,679 | 2.609375 | 3 |
RE provokes challenging questions about the ultimate meaning and purpose of life, beliefs about God, the self and the nature of reality, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human. It develops pupils’ knowledge and understanding of Christianity, other principal religions, other religious traditions and oth... | <urn:uuid:c16af731-97ce-4c69-a414-50238b8c2ee9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.debden.essex.sch.uk/re/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320215.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624031945-20170624051945-00569.warc.gz | en | 0.940466 | 269 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Abacavir-lamivudine-zidovudine is an antiviral medication. It is in a group of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) medicines called reverse transcriptase inhibitors. This medication helps keep the HIV virus from reproducing in the body.
This medication is used to treat HIV, which causes the acquired immunodeficiency syn... | <urn:uuid:20597b44-d56a-4964-b443-199ed6a8c953> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.prescription-drug-24.com/abacavir--lamivudine--and-zidovudine.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320215.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624031945-20170624051945-00569.warc.gz | en | 0.899675 | 2,478 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Now, we have two ways of interpreting this outcome: the fatalistic and the optimistic.
The fatalistic interpretationA fatalist will say that it is proof positive of the existence of talent, and that those who do not have this talent are doomed to failure at learning languages.
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The Blockade of the Utegetu Nebula was a conflict preceding the true start of the Swarm War. The Galactic Alliance, under the lead of Admiral Nek Bwua'tu, originally attempted to prevent the Killiks of the Colony to further expand towards Chiss space. Subsequently Alliance forces attempted to prevent the Dark Nest from... | <urn:uuid:0ed2b440-7dde-4e5a-87f7-367e7fde7a0e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Utegetu_Nebula | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320763.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626133830-20170626153830-00089.warc.gz | en | 0.943344 | 121 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Survivors of the thirty-six-year internal armed conflict have asked the Guatemalan government to comply with the peace accords signed in 1996 and approve a budget for reparations. Presenting a report evaluating the impact of the accords, survivors of the armed conflict requested “profound reforms” to combat poverty, ra... | <urn:uuid:7a98f1b8-13be-4168-b390-d08fb0a67d52> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://ghrcusa.wordpress.com/category/human-rights-analysis/justice-human-rights-analysis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320763.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626133830-20170626153830-00089.warc.gz | en | 0.96494 | 772 | 2.984375 | 3 |
President Barack Obama announced a series of climate change initiatives Wednesday aimed at guarding the electricity supply; improving local planning for flooding, coastal erosion and storm surges; and better predicting landslide risks as sea levels rise and storms and droughts intensify.
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How to Raise a Well-Mannered Child
- Donna Jones Author
- 2005 18 May
Want to raise a well-mannered child without ever nagging again? Become a proactive parent.
"Thank you for dinner, Mrs. Porter. It was delicious. May I be excused, please?"
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First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Ol... | <urn:uuid:9e571669-c3e7-447e-a8d7-69241c89b652> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/stab | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323807.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628222452-20170629002452-00329.warc.gz | en | 0.844236 | 519 | 3.421875 | 3 |
About the UTM coordinate system
The U.S. Army adopted the Universal Transverse Mercator projection and grid system in 1947 for designating rectangular coordinates on large-scale military maps. UTM is currently used by the United States and NATO armed forces. With the advent of inexpensive GPS receivers, many other map ... | <urn:uuid:ab64e1dd-7f3e-4e85-b07b-dbb37ce66344> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.cap-ny153.org/topographicmaps.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320057.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623114917-20170623134917-00048.warc.gz | en | 0.89868 | 2,905 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Tay-Sachs disease is a rare inherited disorder that results in slow destruction of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).
for searching the Internet and other reference sources
Hexosominidose A (Hex-A)
What Is Tay-Sachs Disease?
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Author(s): Mustafa Salam, Adel Hameed Majeed, Madhat Shakir
Published in: International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Volume/Issue: Volume. 6 - Issue. 01 , February - 2017
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As the saying goes, “the only thing that is constant is change.” While reading HG Wells Food of the Gods, about two scientists researching the growth process of living things, something occurred to me. The rate of human growth used in the book can be used as a reference for how people learn, process and adapt to new in... | <urn:uuid:31a747a3-ed77-4c39-af1f-041c305e50a9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://badsquare.wordpress.com/tag/food-of-the-gods/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320227.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624064634-20170624084634-00129.warc.gz | en | 0.92782 | 405 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The purple top is a variety of turnip (Brassica rapa). Turnips are biennial plants, which means that their life cycle takes two years. However, vegetable gardeners grow turnips as an annual, harvesting the root-like tubers at the end of the first growing season. With purple tops, the part of the tuber that grows below ... | <urn:uuid:88ac7410-a730-40f4-9348-8ab2dd5b457b> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://homeguides.sfgate.com/plant-purple-top-turnips-54225.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320386.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625013851-20170625033851-00209.warc.gz | en | 0.915385 | 572 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Mary Tape was definitely not your average stay-at home mom and broke the stereotype of the submissive, complacent Asia-American Lotus Blossom. After being orphaned in Shangahi and brought to the States by Missionaries, Tape settled in San Fransisco, becoming an accomplished photographer and painter. After marriage and ... | <urn:uuid:4e9c8da9-b778-42ab-9efb-7ce018ec81f6> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://aapcgroup11.blogspot.com/2009/11/mary-tape.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320582.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625203122-20170625223122-00289.warc.gz | en | 0.981 | 600 | 2.765625 | 3 |
ADD and ADHD are common problems for children and teens. Sometimes a child just has difficulty with their focus and concentration; that’s ADD. When the child also is hyperactive, that’s when it’s ADHD. Both of these are a result of a slightly slower development of the frontal cortex of the child’s brain, which normally... | <urn:uuid:8b0b2c91-e1ab-464e-80a0-d5e32112f494> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://beachcitycounseling.com/addadhd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320823.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626152050-20170626172050-00369.warc.gz | en | 0.969877 | 372 | 3.25 | 3 |
English Ivy is the most wide spread invasive plant in Stanley Park. When allowed into our wilds, it chokes out the native understory creating a mono-culture. Its ground cover displaces all annual greenery and prevents replacement trees from sprouting. It propagates primarily by being physically transported by vehicles,... | <urn:uuid:91b4b2df-3156-44dc-a31f-f7b14b511de6> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://stanleyparkinvasiveplants.com/ivy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320823.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626152050-20170626172050-00369.warc.gz | en | 0.958016 | 2,343 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Self defense or defense of another often comes up when violence erupts between two people. For example, suppose a person is charged with assault or battery but the other party struck the first blow, was attacking someone else, or made frightening and credible threats. The defendant is entitled to present evidence that ... | <urn:uuid:f8950a84-ddcd-46b9-9619-c19df7197efd> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/stand-your-ground-new-trends-self-defense-law.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320823.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626152050-20170626172050-00369.warc.gz | en | 0.969224 | 1,477 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Container cranes, also known as ship-to-shore cranes or handling gantry cranes, represent an assemblage of cranes used to load and unload intermodal containers (a container that can be reused for different purposes like transport or storage it is also called freight container, as it is used to move raw materials from o... | <urn:uuid:d7fad55f-f1fb-49ee-ba84-aaecadef7d0b> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.shipping-container-housing.com/container-cranes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320823.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626152050-20170626172050-00369.warc.gz | en | 0.94948 | 772 | 3.28125 | 3 |
This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organ... | <urn:uuid:bdad67d6-5893-47a3-af3e-00c58b8cf45f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520249929 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321309.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627101436-20170627121436-00449.warc.gz | en | 0.982026 | 4,616 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Lacking appendages, snakes have simple bodies that consist of a head, body and tail. Additionally, some snakes exhibit a narrowing immediately behind the head, which gives them a discernible neck as well. Some primitive snake lineages, such as boas and pythons, have retained their pelvic girdle. Inspecting the tail of ... | <urn:uuid:9b4c74b8-e3f4-415d-8c9f-464a2b96e6bb> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.reference.com/pets-animals/snakes-body-parts-e11da4c269abd5b6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321309.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627101436-20170627121436-00449.warc.gz | en | 0.964855 | 311 | 3.96875 | 4 |
Dr Albert A. Presto – Taking A Hard Look At Air Pollution So We Can All Breathe Easier
Research engineer Dr Albert Presto and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies use modern chemical analysis and computer modelling methods to try and understand pollution from our modern... | <urn:uuid:e2217816-ad34-4f7f-873e-cbcbe80b0f9f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://test.scientia.global/dr-albert-presto-taking-hard-look-air-pollution-can-breathe-easier/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322870.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628050821-20170628070821-00529.warc.gz | en | 0.935846 | 2,766 | 3.328125 | 3 |
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n. pl. dy·nas·ties
1. A succession of rulers from the same family or line.
2. A family or group that maintains power for several generations: a political dynasty controlling the state.
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When China rejects something because of its toxicity, we know that it must be quite bad. After all, they had no problem poisoning their own infants with melamine, and they apparently consider lead to be an essential nutrient for children. However, they recently rejected six tons of American cher... | <urn:uuid:4ddb8be2-a14c-4e20-b157-4e4c36ba11e9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://healthwyze.org/reports/420-even-the-chinese-declare-american-food-unfit-for-human-consumption | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319688.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622181155-20170622201155-00248.warc.gz | en | 0.960401 | 585 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Last week, the USDA announced that it would be renewing its efforts to help dairy farms reduce green house gas emissions and to increase sustainability of dairy production.
One specific focus of the federal effort is to get more farms to install anaerobic digesters. In Vermont, 12 dairy farms have installed these kinds... | <urn:uuid:fc6728aa-08ff-41d9-bb03-36f7cb1d5d51> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://globalcarbonco-op.com/articles/usda-pushes-anaerobic-digesters | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320063.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623133357-20170623153357-00329.warc.gz | en | 0.933973 | 166 | 2.796875 | 3 |
These commands control the clipping system. A clip is a snippet of
text separate from any document, which you can save to a file or insert
into a document. You can select text in a document and copy it to a
clip, optionally deleting it from your text. You can also load text
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ne can have... | <urn:uuid:d0d20d79-e822-4824-a129-c9b86d547174> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://ne.di.unimi.it/docs/Clip-Commands.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320063.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623133357-20170623153357-00329.warc.gz | en | 0.825453 | 169 | 3 | 3 |
We’re doing some maintenance work on our home, a 1904 brick foursquare in Denver (a “Denver Square”). Someone painted the brick years before we bought it, and it’s time for fresh paint. Preparation of the brick for repainting revealed that we needed much more repointing (tuckpointing) of the mortar joints than I had an... | <urn:uuid:fdd9466b-180e-443c-93f6-7c93b642da64> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://lizosullivanaia.com/2012/07/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320243.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624082900-20170624102900-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.964689 | 1,193 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The Electrical/Electronics Industry. A Brief History. Units of Measurement. Systems of Units. Significant Figures, Accuracy, and Rounding Off. Powers of Ten. Conversion between Levels of Powers of Ten. Conversion within and between Systems of Units. Symbols. Conversion Tables. Calculators.
2. Current and Voltage.
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Do you know (right off the top of your head) the simple SAS/GRAPH code you would use to create line graphs? ... If not, then this tutorial is for you!
A line plot is basically a scatter plot where the markers are connected. A line plot should only be used when the order of the markers is important – for example, when t... | <urn:uuid:8eddb3b3-7026-4b24-9681-a196bfca598c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/2013/08/28/a-beginners-tutorial-on-line-plots/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320593.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625221343-20170626001343-00569.warc.gz | en | 0.90182 | 232 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Keeping Oregon forests working
Oregon’s forestlands are some of the most productive in the world. The state’s mild climate, deep soils and abundant rainfall make it one of the best places to grow trees. A strong social climate helps support our forestlands as well.
As Oregonians, we enjoy:
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This amazing journey, carefully researched by journalist and author Winifred Conkling, brings the reader right into the period before the Civil War. Through first person slave narratives, abolitionist writings, and other historical documents, Conkling illustrates the antebellum South and the nation’s capital at this tu... | <urn:uuid:bb1c024d-0d8b-4ec7-a947-f6ab38a08664> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://sharonlkp.weebly.com/blog/archives/04-2015 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321426.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627134151-20170627154151-00009.warc.gz | en | 0.932619 | 289 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Chlamydomonas’ movements are controlled by light, and contain a light-sensitive protein called channelrhodopsin, which converts light into an electric current. Researchers hypothesised that light may also have the power to turn on and off electrochemical signalling from brain neurons. They selectively inserted light-se... | <urn:uuid:48d77e71-cc7a-4a5f-adf2-d91347d6b68a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://creativenesswithahmed.blogspot.com/2013/10/critical-tool-for-brain-research.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323588.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628083538-20170628103538-00089.warc.gz | en | 0.957563 | 115 | 3.375 | 3 |
Home / myDisaster
Get a Plan!
Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood or confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services, such as water, gas, electricity, or telephones were cut off? Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a dis... | <urn:uuid:7067b4d7-4dd8-439d-bae7-f7c45fd2f3d6> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.disastersrus.org/MyDisasters/index.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323588.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628083538-20170628103538-00089.warc.gz | en | 0.942618 | 226 | 2.90625 | 3 |
My network view of knowledge is simple: entities (broadly defined as well, anything: people, a chemical substance, information, etc) have attributes. When entities are connected to other entities, different attributes will be activated based on the structure of those connections and the nature of other entities that ar... | <urn:uuid:6f643e83-b78c-4568-addb-3d7239710aa8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://connectiv.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/rhizome-or-network-in-change11/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323588.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628083538-20170628103538-00089.warc.gz | en | 0.929072 | 698 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Today’s invention is a hot air balloon which can convert to a parachute if damaged in flight.
The balloon is made of several horizontal layers zipped together.
If damage occurs, the layers below the tear can be unzipped by pulling on one of a number of wires from the gondola (assuming that the tear hasn’t happened too ... | <urn:uuid:dcb4a22a-2ad3-4ccb-8d5a-1b7e2c73a0b8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://iotd.patrickandrews.com/2011/12/17/1815-bailoon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323588.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628083538-20170628103538-00089.warc.gz | en | 0.937674 | 120 | 3.25 | 3 |
Learning as Adults
Everyone learns differently. Some absorb information through hearing it, aural learners, some need to see things written down, visual learners, and most people need to practice, physically, what they want to learn. The old saying about tell someone and they will forget, show them and they will rememb... | <urn:uuid:03855ca0-b8ce-471b-85a4-722aa62be272> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://justcolleges.com/adult-continuing-education/learning-as-adults/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319902.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622201826-20170622221826-00528.warc.gz | en | 0.971381 | 791 | 3.078125 | 3 |
WWF requested for MRAG to undertake two studies to support their internal briefing and decision making. Both were focused on deep sea fishing. The first was an analysis of world deep sea fisheries, focusing on a description of the fleets and operations of deep-water fishing and the sustainability of the stocks. One of ... | <urn:uuid:a71967cb-9a7c-42be-838e-1d7add873fd2> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://mrag.co.uk/experience/studies-sustainability-deep-sea-fisheries-and-economics-eu-deep-water-trawling-fleet | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319902.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622201826-20170622221826-00528.warc.gz | en | 0.945442 | 262 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Missouri legislators recently passed a new law that would require all public schools in the state to provide dyslexia screening to students, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That's great news for children with dyslexia and their families in Missouri. But not all states require dyslexia screening in schools. In... | <urn:uuid:82a56d22-1344-46d7-bf6d-928b01abae6c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.mnn.com/family/family-activities/blogs/why-dont-all-states-require-dyslexia-screening-schools | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319902.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622201826-20170622221826-00528.warc.gz | en | 0.960567 | 537 | 3.3125 | 3 |
NASA's Fermi helps calculate number of stars in universe
BY STEPHEN CLARK
Posted: November 1, 2012
Astronomers have measured the background light from all the stars in the cosmos and inferred the number of stars created since the dawn of the universe, researchers announced Thursday.
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Written by tutor America N.
The first step in the process culminating in ATP synthesis by the mitochondria is glycolysis, or the anaerobic breakdown of glucose into pyruvate. Glycolysis is a 10-step process that takes place outside of the mitochondria, in the cell cytosol, and is catalyzed by a series of enzymes.
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When you think of King Kamehameha’s family life, specifically his wives, often the thoughts are limited to Kaʻahumanu and Keopuolani.
Kaʻahumanu was Kamehameha’s favorite wife. Born in Hana, Maui in about 1768, Kaʻahumanu’s siblings include Governor John Adams Kuakini of Hawaiʻi Island, Queen Kalakua Kaheiheimalie (ano... | <urn:uuid:33a540b7-7fbb-4a05-bfad-9c01d5d7bedc> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://imagesofoldhawaii.com/kamehamehas-wives/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320257.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624101204-20170624121204-00689.warc.gz | en | 0.971709 | 1,113 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Types of cephalic disorders
- Acephaly:- It is associated with the development of a parasitic twin on a normal foetus a neck area. The acephalic twin is not able to survive independently rather the circulation comes from the heart of normal fetus.
- Exencephaly:- It is an early stage of exencephaly and is found in embr... | <urn:uuid:115aa203-7212-4227-a4b1-452dd65495d4> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.unitedmedtour.com/treatment/disease/neurology/cephalic-disorders | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320257.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624101204-20170624121204-00689.warc.gz | en | 0.937879 | 427 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Researchers who studied 22,000 men over more than two decades have concluded that drinking alcohol is not associated with either the odds of having a stroke or the severity of stroke symptoms, Reuters reported Jan. 5.
Previous, smaller studies have suggested that moderate drinking may protect against stroke, but resear... | <urn:uuid:f831ccf2-1e01-4c39-a50c-2109c8bbec65> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://alcoholselfhelpnews.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/drinking-does-not-protect-against-stroke-after-all/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320257.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624101204-20170624121204-00689.warc.gz | en | 0.960177 | 229 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Biomedical visualization is the process of transforming medical data into user experience. It is a branch of bioinformatics with a specialization in the application of computer graphics software to scientific visualization of life sciences. This includes things such as the visualization of genomes, macromolecular prote... | <urn:uuid:5c69bbfa-2597-440b-a0ec-4e3cbe814752> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://biologicanimation.com/biomedical-visualization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320257.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624101204-20170624121204-00689.warc.gz | en | 0.905458 | 456 | 3 | 3 |
All cats deserve the best of care, but senior cats are in particular need of special attention for their health issues. As cats age, their health requirements change and they need our help to develop life “habits” that take these changes into consideration.
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Zika situation report
14 April 2016
Zika virus, Microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome
- From 1 January 2007 to 13 April 2016, Zika virus transmission was documented in a total of 64 countries and territories.
- Mosquito-borne transmission:
- 42 countries are experiencing a first outbreak of Zika virus since 2015, wi... | <urn:uuid:c7ff538c-9b2f-4dcf-b6b2-9947b275b573> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.who.int/emergencies/zika-virus/situation-report/14-april-2016/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320443.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625064745-20170625084745-00049.warc.gz | en | 0.918381 | 392 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Importance of Co-Curricular Activities
Looking at the list of various types of activities, the question will arise in your mind is how do these activities help us in achieving the objectives of education. Also what is the need and importance of these activities? Let us first discuss the advantages. Curricular activitie... | <urn:uuid:18a8ad4d-3bff-4171-806d-1b880aad58a1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://edchat.blogspot.com/2011/01/importance-and-scope-of-co-curricular.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320666.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626013946-20170626033946-00129.warc.gz | en | 0.959667 | 3,425 | 3.5 | 4 |
A Workshop for Parents
Parents of pre-adolescent girls have a difficult job to do. Our highest priority is our children, yet we know we have to give our daughters more freedom as they get older. We may be especially afraid to “let go” as daughters approach adolescence. We don’t like the over-sexualized ten-going-on-twe... | <urn:uuid:1171dd0f-56a3-474c-852e-ee4db868fd62> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.brikontheweb.org/girlsonthebrink/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320666.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626013946-20170626033946-00129.warc.gz | en | 0.959347 | 575 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Adding radishes, rocket or wasabi, a form of Japanese horseradish, can have the same effect.
But overcooking the broccoli can kill the vital enzyme it contains. Steaming it quickly for just two to four minutes is the best way to preserve its well-known health benefits, say US scientists.
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IT’S hard to imagine a garden without birds.
Plants and pots and patio furniture are all very well, but without the robin that comes hunting for worms after you’ve been digging or the blackbird that sings at the top of its voice, our gardens just wouldn’t be complete.
Garden birds might be a familiar sight, but over th... | <urn:uuid:3b131e46-2a06-4ce9-93a1-0129de7f6387> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.scotsman.com/news/gardens-watch-the-birdies-1-2748398 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320666.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626013946-20170626033946-00129.warc.gz | en | 0.965477 | 1,300 | 3.515625 | 4 |
We spend about a third of our life sleeping. Sleeping is a vital part of our life. We can improve the time we spend sleeping, ending the tossing and turning and improving our posture with changes to how we go to sleep and what we sleep on. How to sleep for better posture is a question many ask, especially after a “roug... | <urn:uuid:bca8710a-280a-424e-ba96-4a735f99805c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.health-local.com/articles/2892/how-to-sleep-for-better-posture | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320666.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626013946-20170626033946-00129.warc.gz | en | 0.956132 | 1,422 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree): by Caroline R
Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist who was born in 1797 and died on November 26, 1883. She was one of thirteen children, born in Swartekill, New York. She was born into slavery on the Hardenbergh estate, after her owner’s death her... | <urn:uuid:bd9a4e48-ea4f-4b22-87b0-aeeb1bb5a282> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://feminism-gender.blogspot.com/2008/02/sojourner-truth-isabella-baumfree-by.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320865.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626203042-20170626223042-00209.warc.gz | en | 0.98844 | 820 | 3.203125 | 3 |
The Pain Factor
Last year I told an acquaintance that at the age of 46, I had taken up running. The reply was, "Oh, that's awfully hard on your knees." At first I was taken aback. Yes, I knew if I didn't stretch, warm-up or wear properly fitted shoes, I might experience pain or an injury. But the person telling me this... | <urn:uuid:2a1e6f14-1c50-4d67-b3ff-c0638469f44e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://medicineinfo.awardspace.com/16329.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320865.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626203042-20170626223042-00209.warc.gz | en | 0.938607 | 1,084 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Drug Overdose Prevention and Education: What to look for in the case of an overdose
You’ve heard the stories. You have seen the pictures. You’ve shaken your head at yet another human being overdosing on drugs. From a spectator view, it is easy to sit on ivory towers and cast stones at those that fall to the cruelties o... | <urn:uuid:7836b318-ca0d-4d66-9988-e4b76b6cc2fc> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://brightfuturestreatment.com/drug-overdose-prevention-and-education/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320865.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626203042-20170626223042-00209.warc.gz | en | 0.920721 | 786 | 3.046875 | 3 |
There are several reasons speech recognition has required buttons to activate rather than voice activation. The main reason has been that buttons, although distracting and expensive, are quite reliable and responsive, even in noisy environments. The car is a challenging environment for speech recognizers and a voice ac... | <urn:uuid:9e11a854-6736-4762-9498-906a93bd9ff8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?piddl_msgorder=thrd&doc_id=1279159&page_number=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321458.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627152510-20170627172510-00289.warc.gz | en | 0.935402 | 781 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Saturday, September 1, 2012
The blackest of the walnuts
Species name: Juglans nigra
Common name: Black walnut
This tree was once incredibly rare in Canada, but now is starting to bounce back in population numbers due to the planting of ornamental specimens. The black walnut is native to the Carolinian Forest, which ext... | <urn:uuid:6d82983e-cf02-453e-ae10-8ca0afaea627> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://botanicalmusings.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-blackest-of-walnuts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323604.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628101910-20170628121910-00369.warc.gz | en | 0.97432 | 1,145 | 3.640625 | 4 |
The city of Eisenach in Thuringia has connections with the manufacture of motor cars that extend from the late 1890s to the present day. The Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach AG was established in 1896 by Heinrich Ehrhardt (1840-1928), who two years later produced the first car to be branded a ‘Wartburg’ taking its name from the... | <urn:uuid:39d39a2c-3b1d-45cc-b812-8ab1a9186beb> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.erih.net/i-want-to-go-there/site/show/automobile-welt-eisenach/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323604.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628101910-20170628121910-00369.warc.gz | en | 0.973508 | 419 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Church and Pop Culture, Lecture 6 Evangelism
Developing a Christian Worldview in a Pagan Nation
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(Licenses to use and distribute this course in other educational facilities are available.)
Obviously, there are problems and were problems with these norms. Black Americans, Catholics, and Jews were no... | <urn:uuid:ddbdf90c-5884-4937-bd90-e1494f497f4c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.scholarscorner.com/the-church-and-pop-culture-6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323870.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629051817-20170629071817-00449.warc.gz | en | 0.958082 | 2,347 | 2.65625 | 3 |
A Short History of Trinitarian Congregational Church
72 Elm Street, North Andover, Massachusetts
Since 1865, Trinitarian Congregational Church has been a landmark in North Andover. Its 145 foot steeple can be seen towering over the treetops as one travels south down Route 495.
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The difference between resignation and termination can be quite significant, especially when applying for another job. Understanding the differences between the two can make it easier for you to explain the reason why you left one place of employment to go to another, or why you are applying for a current job opening.
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The Virginia V documents a crucial phase in Seattle's maritime history. Built in 1922, when roads were frequently impassible, this propeller-driven wooden steamer immediately became one of the vessels that supported the commerce and communications of Puget Sound. For 16 years, it carried commuters and supplies between ... | <urn:uuid:d5929ee0-c501-427a-8831-34debe2c8b0d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.americanheritage.com/content/virginia-v?nid=21640 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320263.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624133941-20170624153941-00249.warc.gz | en | 0.971855 | 315 | 3.125 | 3 |
Duncan, Eric. “‘Make the Letters Big and Plain’ : A History of Black Education in North Carolina.” (Under the direction of Dr. Susanna Lee.)
This paper traces the history of black education in North Carolina from the antebellum era through Reconstruction. During the antebellum period, this paper examines how slaves, th... | <urn:uuid:60800093-af54-435d-b464-724d4164ef3c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://history.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2011/03/16/make-the-letters-big-and-plain-a-history-of-black-education-in-north-carolina/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320476.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625083108-20170625103108-00329.warc.gz | en | 0.900397 | 150 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Start with a folded sheet of paper. To make sure the pieces come out symmetrical and not in two pieces, I tell them to point the FOLD toward their BODY. They then write their names on the paper (if they have a shorter name with extra space, have them use their last initial too).
I then have them draw a contour line aro... | <urn:uuid:382992d8-6ee3-4f22-85f2-cf5942f72dba> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://ourartlately.blogspot.com/2011/05/name-aliens.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320669.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626032235-20170626052235-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.967766 | 186 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Open Access Honors Program Thesis
It is known that hibernating animals display a drastic reduction in metabolic rate, accompanied by reduced heart rate and rate of blood flow through vessels. Sluggish blood flow increases the risk for developing clots, yet it has been observed that hibernators conclusively display elon... | <urn:uuid:91f50ddb-6e95-472f-9226-81d40300bc2f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/166/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320669.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626032235-20170626052235-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.907318 | 425 | 2.625 | 3 |
|Codeforces Round #392 (Div. 2)|
Alexander is learning how to convert numbers from the decimal system to any other, however, he doesn't know English letters, so he writes any number only as a decimal number, it means that instead of the letter A he will write the number 10. Thus, by converting the number 475 from decim... | <urn:uuid:028ca807-e682-4466-addb-437c8c3d5590> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://codeforces.com/problemset/problem/758/D | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00489.warc.gz | en | 0.890949 | 290 | 3.96875 | 4 |
Bulbs. Sunset climate zones 7-9, 14-17: Early fall is the time to plant spring-blooming bulbs. Less common types start appearing in nurseries this month, including baboon flower (Babiana), corn lily (Ixia), grape hyacinth (Muscari), harlequin flower (Sparaxis), Homeria, ranunculus, Tritonia, and species tulips such as ... | <urn:uuid:5dcee702-c617-4c18-bb21-41a6731d3a10> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.sunset.com/garden/landscaping-design/northern-california | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00489.warc.gz | en | 0.857622 | 769 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Here are just a few reasons:
- The nation now dumps between 300 million and 400 million electronic items per year, and less than 20% of that e-waste is recycled.
- E-waste represents 2% of America’s trash in landfills, but it equals 70% of overall toxic waste. The extreme amount of lead in electronics alone causes dama... | <urn:uuid:df0cb36f-2bf6-452e-9f78-426544d0c618> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://electro-cycle.com/why-recycle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321497.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627170831-20170627190831-00569.warc.gz | en | 0.94393 | 257 | 3.875 | 4 |
I asked a Jewish colleague once who was the rightful ancient High Priestly line, Ezra or Joshua, son of Josedech. He said there was some debate on the matter. According to the Bible, Ezra and Nehemiah came late from Babylon to Jerusalem and deposed the families of Joshua and Zerubbabel.
Ezra had found that several of J... | <urn:uuid:44c9d537-f442-403a-875f-24e6ff844388> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://ldsdoctrine.blogspot.com/2017/06/ezra-and-rabbinical-system.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321497.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627170831-20170627190831-00569.warc.gz | en | 0.969251 | 358 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Cædmon (// or //) is the earliest English (Northumbrian) poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy (657–680) of St. Hilda (614–680), he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the ... | <urn:uuid:e9b84daf-3a83-4faa-95c5-f2c415a9344f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dmon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321497.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627170831-20170627190831-00569.warc.gz | en | 0.902048 | 7,516 | 2.875 | 3 |
This document INCLUDES all of the following:
-All printables needed to set up your own math workshop or math center rotations
-Instructions on how to set up your math workshop
-A picture of my Math Workshop Display Board
Choose four of the five included rotation categories to keep your math centers running smoothly:
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Pacific island land snail faunas are among the most threatened faunas in the world, having suffered a higher rate of extinction than any other major animal group. The Hawaiian land snails are among the most species-rich and most severely effected of these faunas, yet the current status of most of the Hawaiian species i... | <urn:uuid:224633bf-b7fe-42e2-b31c-894e5d6c66fc> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://opensi.si.edu/index.php/smithsonian/catalog/book/88 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320489.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625101427-20170625121427-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.918629 | 344 | 3.5 | 4 |
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Minerals ener the plant through the soil solution. SOme are passively carried along with the ater that is taken up. Plants can also selectively absorb minerals and accumulate them. This requires active transport across a cell membrane. If it were not for the Casparian strip of endodermis, roots would... | <urn:uuid:f0aad55a-3eb0-4d33-b85b-75ff80ddacbe> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1207881299 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320489.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625101427-20170625121427-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.959237 | 85 | 2.875 | 3 |
Plant Type, Taxonomy of American Sweetgum Trees
Plant taxonomy classifies American sweetgum trees as Liquidambar styraciflua. The type recommended in this article is Liquidambar styraciflua 'Rotundiloba,' a sterile, non-fruiting culitivar (that is, it does not produce the famous balls known as "gumballs" that serve as ... | <urn:uuid:873b1bac-fda9-456a-a78f-67bb8e83e37f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.thespruce.com/american-sweetgum-trees-non-fruiting-type-2132095 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320489.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625101427-20170625121427-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.942955 | 929 | 3.25 | 3 |
The Drachenfels is a mountain 321 metres (1,053 ft) in the Siebengebirge mountain range between Konigswinter and Bad Honnef in Germany.
The ruined castle atop the mountain, built between 1138 and 1167 by Archbishop Arnold I of Cologne bears the same name and was originally intended for the protection of the Cologne reg... | <urn:uuid:3cab40cc-c18c-4b28-9bca-da64ef471747> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://mypicturepostcards.blogspot.com/2013_07_22_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320679.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626050425-20170626070425-00689.warc.gz | en | 0.971418 | 300 | 3.21875 | 3 |
California, the leading agricultural state in the US, is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation in September that for the first time regulates heat-trapping gases from livestock operations and landfills. The legislation received strong opposition f... | <urn:uuid:7febfcec-7035-4a55-b709-7946260f7715> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.newsr.in/video/20161129/6151196/Cow-Methane-Targeted-By-Emissions-Legislation.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320679.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626050425-20170626070425-00689.warc.gz | en | 0.954969 | 91 | 2.859375 | 3 |
How to Trigger Anything from Anywhere with Just a Phone Call
Smartphones are crazy awesome. You can do your banking, track your children, find directions, and even pretend to have a mustache. The only thing that these personal supercomputers are missing is physical interaction with the environment.
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Flooding events are detrimental for most terrestrial plant species. The flooded environment severely restricts plant gas exchange due to the diffusion barrier presented by water and, compounding the restricted diffusion of O2 and CO2, are the low light conditions imposed by turbid floodwaters. The resulting effects on ... | <urn:uuid:b72903b2-f497-4a85-a001-7a9876b5a9f9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12148/full?globalMessage=0&systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+unavailable+on+Saturday+01st+July+from+03.00-09.00+EDT+and+on+Sunday+2nd+July+03.00-06.00+EDT+for+essential+maintenance.++Apologies+for+the+inconvenience | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321553.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627203405-20170627223405-00129.warc.gz | en | 0.917949 | 1,892 | 3.484375 | 3 |
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|Charles A. Eastman, Ohiyesa (Winner), Wahpeton Dakota (Eastern Woodland Sioux), 1858-1939. Physician, autobiographer, legend re-teller, essayist, lecturer.|
Charles Alexander Eastman is unique among Indian writers, whether storytellers or oral historians. He was raised traditionally, as a Woodl... | <urn:uuid:3eff65e0-4d1d-4935-80c4-aa88ec3bd22c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/authors/eastman.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323711.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628153051-20170628173051-00209.warc.gz | en | 0.982259 | 2,136 | 2.65625 | 3 |
January 6, 1875: Harriette Chick was born. “Dr. Dame Harriette Chick, DBE (6 January 1875 – 9 July 1977) was a notable British protein scientist and nutritionist. She developed the first relationship showing bacterial kill as a function of disinfectant concentration and contact time. Educated at Notting Hill & Ealing H... | <urn:uuid:987ef068-d1c6-4a88-906b-15f3784e605c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://thisdayinwaterhistory.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/january-6-1875-birth-of-harriette-chick/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323711.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628153051-20170628173051-00209.warc.gz | en | 0.955586 | 597 | 3.328125 | 3 |