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The Independent Jane
For all the love, romance and scandal in Jane Austen’s books, what they are really about is freedom and independence. Independence of thought and the freedom to choose.
Elizabeth’s refusal of Mr. Collins offer of marriage showed an independence seldom seen in heroines of the day. Her refusal of Mr.... | http://austenauthors.net/the-independent-jane | austenauthors.net | 2.75 | 0.97432 |
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2012 June 23
Explanation: As seen from Frösön island in northern Sweden the Sun did set a day after the summer solstice. From that location below th... | http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120623.html | apod.nasa.gov | 3.203125 | 0.899348 |
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Lauren Boulden's Story
Using Think-Alouds to Get Inside Langston Hughes' Head
Over my past few years of teaching, there have been multiple occasions where I have been stumped on how to present a particular concept to my students. I've always been a... | http://www.readwritethink.org/about/community-stories/using-think-alouds-inside-36.html | readwritethink.org | 3.5625 | 0.969573 |
King James II of England (who was also James VII of Scotland) inherited the throne in 1685 upon the death of his brother, Charles II. James II was unpopular because of his attempts to increase the power of the monarchy and restore the Catholic faith. Deposed in the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688-89, he fled to France. H... | http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/England/Stuart/JamesII.html | royalty.nu | 3.53125 | 0.960607 |
Newegg.com - A great place to buy computers, computer parts, electronics, software, accessories, and DVDs online. With great prices, fast shipping, and top-rated customer service - once you know, you Newegg.
If you are reading this message, Please click this link to reload this page.(Do not use your browser's "Refresh"... | http://www.newegg.com/Product/CategoryIntelligenceArticle.aspx?articleId=94 | newegg.com | 2.5625 | 0.925089 |
Throughout life there are many times when outside influences change or influence decision-making. The young child has inner motivation to learn and explore, but as he matures, finds outside sources to be a motivating force for development, as well. Along with being a beneficial influence, there are moments when peer pr... | http://www.funderstanding.com/category/child-development/brain-child-development/ | funderstanding.com | 3.8125 | 0.963305 |
Vol. 17 Issue 6
One-Legged (Single Limb) Stance Test
The One-Legged Stance Test (OLST)1,2 is a simple, easy and effective method to screen for balance impairments in the older adult population.
You may be asking yourself, "how can standing on one leg provide you with any information about balance, after all, we do not ... | http://physical-therapy.advanceweb.com/Article/One-Legged-Single-Limb-Stance-Test.aspx | physical-therapy.advanceweb.com | 3.078125 | 0.919898 |
Problems of Philosophy
Chapter 5 - Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description
After distinguishing two types of knowledge, knowledge of things and knowledge of truths, Russell devotes this fifth chapter to an elucidation of knowledge of things. He further distinguishes two types of knowledge of things, know... | http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/problems/section5.rhtml | sparknotes.com | 3.21875 | 0.963978 |
What are managed lanes?
Highway facilities or a set of lanes where operational strategies are proactively implemented and managed in response to changing conditions.
Transportation agencies are faced with growing challenges of congestion and a limited ability to expand freeway capacity due to construction costs, right-... | http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freewaymgmt/managed_lanes.htm | ops.fhwa.dot.gov | 2.546875 | 0.929332 |
EVEN a material 10 billion times as strong as steel has a breaking point. It seems neutron stars may shatter under extreme forces, explaining puzzling X-ray flares.
Neutron stars are dense remnants of stars gone supernova, packing the mass of the sun into a sphere the size of a city. Their cores may be fluid, but their... | http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328484.300-glimpse-elusive-matter-in-shattering-star.html | newscientist.com | 3.921875 | 0.930151 |
When he shot President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was 26 years old, and one of the nation’s most famous actors. (Charles DeForest Fredericks/National Portrait Gallery)
John Wilkes Booth, a Maryland native, spent the war performing in theatrical productions. But the conflict was never far from his mind. In a letter to h... | http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2012/02/assassination/308804/ | theatlantic.com | 3.8125 | 0.986341 |
General Chemistry/Periodicity and Electron Configurations
Blocks of the Periodic Table
The Periodic Table does more than just list the elements. The word periodic means that in each row, or period, there is a pattern of characteristics in the elements. This is because the elements are listed in part by their electron ... | http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/General_Chemistry/Periodicity_and_Electron_Configurations | en.wikibooks.org | 4.4375 | 0.917487 |
Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, takes her life following the defeat of her forces against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome.
Cleopatra, born in 69 B.C., was made Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt, upon the death of her father, Ptolemy XII, in 51 B.C. Her brother was made King ... | http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cleopatra-commits-suicide | history.com | 3.453125 | 0.97725 |
From Abracadabra to Zombies | View All
N'kisi & the N'kisi Project
N'kisi (pronounced ‘‘in-key-see’’) is a captive bred eight or nine-year-old hand raised African Grey Parrot whose owner, Aimée Morgana, thinks uses language. She doesn't think he just sounds out words. She thinks he communicates with her in language, wh... | http://www.skepdic.com/nkisi.html | skepdic.com | 2.546875 | 0.977373 |
Karuk Tribe: Learning from the First Californians for the Next California
Editor's Note: This is part of series, Facing the Climate Gap, which looks at grassroots efforts in California low-income communities of color to address climate change and promote climate justice.
This article was published in collaboration with... | http://www.resilience.org/stories/2012-10-19/karuk-tribe-learning-from-the-first-californians-for-the-next-california | resilience.org | 3.296875 | 0.945849 |
Started conversation May 4, 2004
It's incorrect to say that "gyratory system" is just the name for a roundabout that has got too big for its boots. In fact it's the original term which was soon displaced when they became common.
I'm not sure if the term "gyratory circus" was ever really used. There are a number of junc... | http://www.h2g2.com/approved_entry/A303346/conversation/view/F37910/T416799 | h2g2.com | 2.59375 | 0.944392 |
A nocturnal bird of prey.
(AM2: dp. 1,009 (f.); l. 18710; 1 b. 356; dr. 104; s. 14 k.; cpl. 78; a. 2 3; cl. Lapwing)
The first Owl (AM2) was laid down 25 October 1917 by the Todd Shipbuilding Corp., Brooklyn, N.Y.; launched 4 March 1918; sponsored by Miss Ruth R. Dodd; and commissioned 11 July 1918, Lt. (j.g.) Charles ... | http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/o5/owl-i.htm | history.navy.mil | 2.65625 | 0.964934 |
The Brazilian Supreme Court's recognition of same-sex unions in early May marks the latest victory for gay rights in Latin America. The Court's ruling grants equal legal rights to same-sex civil unions as those enjoyed by married heterosexuals, including retirement benefits, joint tax declarations, inheritance rights, ... | http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1281&Itemid=228 | truth-out.org | 3.5 | 0.945603 |
Mars is a cold desert world. It is half the diameter of Earth and has the same amount of dry land. Like Earth, Mars has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and weather, but its atmosphere is too thin for liquid water to exist for long on the surface. There are signs of ancient floods on Mars, but evidence for w... | http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mars&Display=Overview&System=Metric | solarsystem.nasa.gov | 3.5625 | 0.945198 |
SAINT ALEXANDER NEVSKY
Alexander Nevsky (1220-1263) was proclaimed Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church by Metropolite Macarius in 1547
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The main goal of Across Cultures is to celebrate Canadian cultural diversity by highlighting the extraordinary contributions that different communities have made to Canada, as well as the many challenges they have had to face, while acknowledging the less praiseworthy moments in Canadian history regardi... | http://www3.nfb.ca/acrosscultures/text.php?txt=abo | www3.nfb.ca | 2.671875 | 0.954063 |
Digital Audio Networking Demystified
The OSI model helps bring order to the chaos of various digital audio network options.
Credit: Randall Fung/Corbis
Networking has been a source of frustration and confusion for pro AV professionals for decades. Fortunately, the International Organization of Standardization, more com... | http://svconline.com/proav/audiovisual-equipment_digital-audio-networking-demystified/ | svconline.com | 3.375 | 0.936211 |
One of the great bits of repartee in The King’s Speech comes as the maverick Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue, is just getting to know His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the stammering Duke of York:
Logue: “Surely a prince’s brain knows what his mouth’s doing?” Bertie: “You’re obviously not well acquainted with... | http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/08/the-first-and-last-european/george-weigel | firstthings.com | 2.8125 | 0.974207 |
Variation is a term used in genetic science, and concerns the emergence of different varieties, or species. This genetic phenomenon causes individuals or groups within a given species to possess different features from others. For example, all human beings on Earth possess essentially the same genetic information. But ... | http://harunyahya.com/en/books/14789/The_Evolution_Impasse_II/chapter/4896 | harunyahya.com | 4.21875 | 0.957133 |
Doing u-substitution twice (second time with w) Example where we do substitution twice to get the integral into a reasonable form
Doing u-substitution twice (second time with w)
⇐ Use this menu to view and help create subtitles for this video in many different languages. You'll probably want to hide YouTube's captions ... | http://www.khanacademy.org/math/calculus/integral-calculus/u_substitution/v/doing-u-substitution-twice--second-time-with-w | khanacademy.org | 2.75 | 0.944163 |
After failing to win reelection to the Congress Morris moved to Philadelphia and resumed his law practice. A series of newspaper articles on finance secured him the post of assistant to Robert Morris (no relative) in handling the finances of the new government (1781-85). In this position he planned the U.S. decimal coi... | http://www.reference.com/browse/Gouverneur+Morris | reference.com | 2.8125 | 0.978672 |
Herbal In Italy
( Originally Published 1912 )
The Italian botanists of the Renaissance devoted them-selves chiefly to interpreting the works of the classical writers on Natural History, and to the identification of the plants to which they referred. This came about quite naturally, from the fact that the Mediterranean ... | http://www.oldandsold.com/articles31n/herbals-14.shtml | oldandsold.com | 2.5625 | 0.986529 |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, , at sacred-texts.com
Now the word of the Lord - , literally, "And, ..." This is the way in which the several inspired writers of the Old Testament mark that what it was given them to write was united onto those sacred books which God had given to others to write, and it formed wit... | http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/barnes/jon001.htm | sacred-texts.com | 3 | 0.98259 |
On September 19, the Cary Institute hosted a one-day conference on the impacts of tropical storms Irene and Lee on the Hudson River. Organized by the Hudson River Environmental Society, with leadership from Cary's Stuart Findlay, the forum examined how the river and estuary responded to the storms, which dropped an est... | http://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom/conferences?page=0%2525252C3%25252C2%252C2 | caryinstitute.org | 2.703125 | 0.907748 |
In our Torah portion this week, it is written that Jacob "came to a certain place and stayed there that night" (Gen. 28:11). The Hebrew text, however, indicates that Jacob did not just happen upon a random place, but rather that "he came to the place" -- vayifga bamakom (וַיִּפְגַּע בַּמָּקוֹם). The sages therefore won... | http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Parashah/Summaries/Vayetzei/Ladder/ladder.html | hebrew4christians.com | 3.046875 | 0.930064 |
- Historic Sites
History As A Cure
December 1956 | Volume 8, Issue 1
Not long ago two teen-age boys in New York City got into trouble with the law. The police laid hands on them as juvenile delinquents, and in due course the boys appeared in court. Judge J. Randall Creel, of Magistrates’ Court, faced the tough problem ... | http://www.americanheritage.com/content/history-cure | americanheritage.com | 3.234375 | 0.977983 |
Source: The Pennsylvania Center for the Book
Date: Summer 2010
Byline: Jim Byrne
The Philadelphia Lazaretto: A Most Unloved Institution
In mid-July 1800, the U.S.S. Ganges, on the U.S. Navy’s earliest warships, encountered two American schooners, the Phebe and the Prudent, while navigating the Straits of Florida. These... | http://www.ushistory.org/laz/news/pcbsummer10.htm | ushistory.org | 3.46875 | 0.964192 |
|Met proto-oncogene (hepatocyte growth factor receptor)|
Crystallographic structure of MET. PDB rendering based on 1r0p.
|External IDs||ChEMBL: GeneCards:|
|RNA expression pattern|
c-Met (MET or MNNG HOS Transforming gene) is a proto-oncogene that encodes a protein known as hepatocyte growth factor receptor (HGFR). The... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Met | en.wikipedia.org | 2.78125 | 0.734207 |
International Women’s Day (IWD) was founded in 1910 in order to confront the great inequalities women faced in the labor force and society as a whole. Unfortunately, one hundred years later, women still make up a majority of the world’s poor.
Women’s wages in the U.S. are only 76% of men’s, but the disparity of long-te... | http://socialistalternative.org/news/article16.php?id=1277 | socialistalternative.org | 4.03125 | 0.963525 |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
Developmental Psychology: Cognitive development · Development of the self · Emotional development · Language development · Moral development · Perceptual development · Personality development · ... | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Bayley_Scales_of_Infant_Development?oldid=110220 | psychology.wikia.com | 3.015625 | 0.792597 |
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
|President of the|
Historically, Landes was part of Gascony. It was one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from parts of the provinces of Guyenne and Gascony.
- Prefecture website (in French)
- Conseil Général website (i... | http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Landes | all-science-fair-projects.com | 2.703125 | 0.788577 |
Scripture always speaks with absolute authority. It is as authoritative when it instructs us as it is when it commands us. It is as true when it tells the future as it is when it records the past. Although it is not a textbook on science, wherever it intersects with scientific data, it speaks with the same authority as... | http://www.gty.org/resources/articles/A160/genesis-1-and-biblical-authority | gty.org | 2.671875 | 0.954125 |
Volume 15, Number 2—February 2009
Reemergence of Human and Animal Brucellosis, Bulgaria
Bulgaria had been free from brucellosis since 1958, but during 2005–2007, a reemergence of human and animal disease was recorded. The reemergence of this zoonosis in the country highlights the importance of maintaining an active sur... | http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/2/08-1025_article.htm | wwwnc.cdc.gov | 2.828125 | 0.946803 |
EARLY SPRING in the Lamar River Valley: several wolves chase elk while an interested grizzly bear awaits the outcome. Grizzlies can drive wolves off a kill; more often they scavenge after the wolves have eaten their fill. Image: DIANE HARGREAVES
Several scrawny cottonwood trees do not usually generate much excitement i... | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lessons-from-the-wolf | scientificamerican.com | 3.015625 | 0.92894 |
Darfur’s people are a complex mosaic of between 40 and 90 ethnic groups, some of ‘African’ origin (mostly settled farmers), some Arabs. All Darfurians are Muslim. The Arabs began arriving in the 14th century and established themselves as mainly nomadic cattle and camel herders. Peaceful coexistence has been the norm, w... | http://newint.org/features/2007/06/01/history/ | newint.org | 3.703125 | 0.961208 |
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on TwitterSedimentary rock covers 70% of the Earth. Erosion is constantly changing the face of the Earth. Weathering agents…wind, water, and ice…break rock into smaller pieces that flow down waterways until the settle to the bottom permanently. These sedi... | http://www.universetoday.com/38537/sedimentary-rock/ | universetoday.com | 4.125 | 0.957616 |
A patch is a piece of software designed to fix problems.
Hot patching is a mechanism of applying the patch to an application without requiring to shutdown or restart the system or the program concerned. This addresses the problems related to unavailability of service provided by the system or the program.
We came acros... | http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/116253/Hot-Patching-Made-Easy?PageFlow=FixedWidth | codeproject.com | 3.234375 | 0.841218 |
Communities in Kenya have adopted one another’s food preferences and recipes. With the exception of the Coast and Indian communities for whom food preparation is an elaborate process, nearly all other communities garnish their food by frying it. They also boil, bake in hot ashes and roast. Common foods include:
It is a... | http://softkenya.com/food/ | softkenya.com | 3.171875 | 0.944667 |
Copyright (c) Arvin S. Quist
INTRODUCTION TO CLASSIFICATION
THE NEED FOR CLASSIFICATION
A government is responsible for the survival of the nation and its people. To ensure that survival, a government must sometimes stringently control certain information that (1) gives the nation a significant advantage over adversari... | http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/quist/chap_1.html | fas.org | 3.4375 | 0.94447 |
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We should remember that... of the 6,000 stars [that] the average human eye could see in the entire sky, probably not more than thirty – or one-half of one percent – are less luminous than the Sun; that probably, of the 700-odd stars nearer than ten parsecs, at least 96% are less luminous than the S... | http://www.h2g2.com/approved_entry/A87768382 | h2g2.com | 3.578125 | 0.924929 |
In December 1992, Toutatis made a close approach to Earth. At the time, it was an average of about 4 million kilometers (2.5 million miles) from Earth. Images of Toutatis were acquired using radar carried out at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California's Mojave desert. For most of the work, a 400,0... | http://www.solarviews.com/eng/toutatis.htm | solarviews.com | 3.78125 | 0.940871 |
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Cyclopædia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States
GEORGIA, one of the thirteen original United States. Its territory was originally included in the charter of 1662-3 to the lords proprietors of the Carolinas, but was set apart by a royal charter of June 9, 1732, to a com... | http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy498.html | econlib.org | 3.640625 | 0.967282 |
Darryl D’Monte continues his reportage of the Climate Action Network International meet on in Bangkok where, he says, two NGOs put forward blueprints that could be templates on which the new climate treaty is based
Two NGOs -- the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and a consortium led by Greenpeace -- have put forward b... | http://infochangeindia.org/environment/news/greenhouse-development-rights-and-global-carbon-budgets.html | infochangeindia.org | 3.234375 | 0.950729 |
THREE-PHASE ROTATING FIELDS
The three-phase induction motor also operates on the principle of a rotating magnetic field. The following discussion shows how the stator windings can be connected to a three-phase ac input and have a resultant magnetic field that rotates.
Figure 4-4, views A-C show the individual windings ... | http://www.tpub.com/neets/book5/18b.htm | tpub.com | 3.625 | 0.937578 |
Coffee is an important crop and is crucial to the economy of many developing countries, generating around US$70 billion per year. There are 115 species in the Coffea genus, but only two, C. arabica and C. canephora, are commercially cultivated. Coffee plants are attacked by many pathogens and insect-pests, which affect... | http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/solr/reg?term=author%3A(%22Souza%2C+Djair+SL%22)&filterQuery=author_s%3ARocha%2C%5C+Thales%5C+L&sortby=score+desc | pubmedcentralcanada.ca | 2.890625 | 0.926353 |
CURRENT CZECH NAME: Ostroh
Ostroh Uhersky, Uhersky Ostroh, Ungarisch-Ostra, Ungarisch-Ostroh
LOCATION: Ostroh is a small
town in Moravia, located at 48.59 longitude and 17.23 latitude, 75 km E
of Brno, 9 km ENE of Bzenec (seeMap
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on your browser's "Back" button to return to this page).
HISTORY:... | http://www.jewishgen.org/AustriaCzech/TOWNS/ostroh.htm | jewishgen.org | 2.609375 | 0.843206 |
The latest weapon unleashed to battle California's growing energy demand comes in the form of free software. The State of California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program is responsible for the development of a free software package dubbed the Sensor Placement and Orientation Tool (SPOT). T... | http://ecmweb.com/content/see-spot-run | ecmweb.com | 2.5625 | 0.890742 |
What orbits the Earth at 17,500 miles per hour, is 360 feet wide, 260 feet long and has a crew of 3? It is the International Space Station, also known as the I.S.S. It is going to be finished in the year 2006. The countries that are putting it together are the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada, Brazil, Austria, Belg... | http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215468/international_space_station.htm | library.thinkquest.org | 3.109375 | 0.95787 |
The Handel and Haydn Society is a chorus and period instrument orchestra in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1815, it is one of the oldest performing arts organizations in the USA. Most widely known for its performances of George Frideric Handel's Messiah, the group gave its American premiere in 1818 and h... | http://bach-cantatas.com/Bio/H&HS.htm | bach-cantatas.com | 2.53125 | 0.9671 |
Autism and the Recovery Act
Service in the Field: National Health Service Corps (NHSC)
The NHSC is a network of primary health care professionals working in underserved communities across the country. To support their service, the Recovery Act allocated funding to the NHSC to provide more than 4,000 clinicians with fin... | http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/autismandrecovery.html | hhs.gov | 2.890625 | 0.947822 |
Dust off Morocco and fires in Portugal
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Saharan Desert dust (tan pixels) was spreading northwestward over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco on September 13, 2003. In this scene, the Canary Islands are visible in the lower left corner while the western tip of ... | http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=68524 | visibleearth.nasa.gov | 2.9375 | 0.923565 |
A group of researchers have developed a way to identify pirated movies by reducing the original to a signature genetic code. The system can match even videos that have been altered or had their colors changed to the source, an area where many video piracy mechanisms fall short.
Drs. Alex and Michael Bronstein and Profe... | http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/12/video-dna-signature-matching-may-help-track-down-pirates/ | arstechnica.com | 2.71875 | 0.962595 |
In De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, Tacitus describes and praises the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general. It covers briefly the people and geography of Britain, where Agricola was stationed.
- Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.
- Translation: ... | http://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus | en.m.wikiquote.org | 2.921875 | 0.930048 |
In 1929, the wild financial speculation of the Roaring Twenties came to a sudden halt in October when the stock market began to slide.
Banker's Committee Stops Panic of '29 Worries spread through the economic community about the passing of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Tariffs had always been a point of contention among... | http://www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?userid=guest@todayinah.co.uk&story=39750-Z | todayinah.co.uk | 3.765625 | 0.978055 |
- Definition of syncopation in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of syncopation. Pronunciation of syncopation. Translations of syncopation. syncopation synonyms, syncopation antonyms. Information about syncopation in the free online English. — “syncopation - definition of syncopation by the Free Online”,
- Also, if the mu... | http://wordsdomination.com/syncopation.html | wordsdomination.com | 3.40625 | 0.849244 |
Commemorations for Kiahk 15
This day marks the departure of St. Gregory, the Patriarch of the Armenians who was a martyr, without bloodshed (A Confessor). This saint, as it was mentioned on the 19th day of the Coptic month of Tute, was tortured by Tiridates, the Armenian king, in the year 272 A.D. for disobeying the ki... | http://www.copticchurch.net/classes/synex.php?id=105 | copticchurch.net | 3.078125 | 0.994643 |
- Historic Sites
The Winter Soldiers,
December 1973 | Volume 25, Issue 1
That was the end of the campaigning in 1776. Washington went into winter quarters and waited for a spring that would bring new hardships. Most of his soldiers went home, to be replaced by unpromising recruits. But now, for the rest of the war, the... | http://www.americanheritage.com/content/winter-soldiers?page=3 | americanheritage.com | 3.5 | 0.982872 |
|Paradise in Peril: Chilkoot's Brown Bears|
by Lincoln Larson
March 10, 2004
: The Chilkoot Brown Bear Project
I uttered the habitual salutation as I began the trek down from my isolated research cabin to the banks of Southeast Alaskaís Chilkoot River. Although I saw no evidence of recent bear activity through the ligh... | http://www.fieldtripearth.org/print-article.xml?id=963 | fieldtripearth.org | 2.515625 | 0.95188 |
Art. XXIX.—The Older Gravels of North Canterbury.
[Read before the New Zealand Institute, at Christchurch, 4th—8th February, 1919; received by Editor, 24th February, 1919; issued separately, 16th July, 1919.]
|General Description of the District where the Beds are best developed||269|
|Description of Typical Localities... | http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_51/rsnz_51_00_003620.html | rsnz.natlib.govt.nz | 2.59375 | 0.959841 |
The doctrine of purgatory is revealed through certain scriptural texts which speak of a burning fire – cf. 1 Cor 3:15, 1 Pet 1:7. Though there are certainly other passages of the Bible which can be drawn upon (e.g. Job praying for his dead children, the Judas Maccabeus praying for the dead), the Tradition of the Church... | http://newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com/2010/11/is-there-fire-in-purgatory.html?showComment=1309637710849 | newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com | 2.71875 | 0.935721 |
Part 2 - Those Who Are Unable to See the Fact of Creation
The theory of evolution is a philosophy and a conception of the world that produces false hypotheses, assumptions and imaginary scenarios in order to explain the existence and origin of life in terms of mere coincidences. the roots of this philosophy go back as ... | http://harunyahya.com/en/books/531/Allah_Is_Known_Through_Reason/chapter/100/Evolution_Deceit | harunyahya.com | 2.859375 | 0.960514 |
Words Are Powerful
Speech -- the ability to convey ideas and feelings through words -- is unique to human beings. It can be a tremendous blessing, but it's also ripe for abuse.
The words our children choose to use in expressing themselves help create their personal window on the world.
Positive forms of expression can ... | http://www.aish.com/f/p/48936067.html?s=rab | aish.com | 2.84375 | 0.959266 |
Gasoline prices have increased rapidly during the past several years, pushed up mainly by the sharply rising price of oil. A gallon of gasoline in the US rose from $1.50 in 2002 to $2 in 2004 to $2.50 in 2006 to over $4 at present. Gasoline prices almost trebled during these 6 years compared to very little change in no... | http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2008/07/should-us-taxes-on-gasoline-be-higher-becker.html | becker-posner-blog.com | 2.953125 | 0.963967 |
Like butterflies? Enjoy birds?
Garden with Vermont plants.
Native plants can help turn your yard into a wonderful wildlife preserve. They provide butterflies, birds and bees the habitat and food they need to survive and reproduce, in turn supporting other forms of wildlife that get energy directly from plants or by eat... | http://www.vtinvasives.org/plants/invasive-free-gardening/go-native | vtinvasives.org | 3.578125 | 0.940799 |
Take any point P inside an equilateral triangle. Draw PA, PB and PC
from P perpendicular to the sides of the triangle where A, B and C
are points on the sides. Prove that PA + PB + PC is a constant.
Can you decide whether two lines are perpendicular or not? Can you
do this without drawing them?
The centre of the larger... | http://nrich.maths.org/public/leg.php?code=81&cl=3&cldcmpid=5614 | nrich.maths.org | 3.796875 | 0.894135 |
Fuel cells and the electric motor are examples of highly-efficient, electric drive trains. Electric vehicles are expected to one day outstrip sales of combustion engines vehicles. Innovative technologies such as fuel cells, electric motors and electric vehicles will influence our future mobility. The market for electri... | http://www.innovations-report.com/reports/reports_list.php?show=19&page=5 | innovations-report.com | 3.25 | 0.921333 |
Many soldiers fighting in the First World War suffered from trench foot. This was an infection of the feet caused by cold, wet and insanitary conditions. In the trenches men stood for hours on end in waterlogged trenches without being able to remove wet socks or boots. The feet would gradually go numb and the skin woul... | http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWfoot.htm | spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk | 3.78125 | 0.991544 |
A large-scale screen in Drosophila cells has shown how RNA interference can provide insights into the pathways controlling cell morphology.
When thinking of genetic screens in Drosophila, the Nobel-prize-winning screens for embryonic developmental phenotypes spring to mind. Loss-of-function mutational analysis has prov... | http://jbiol.com/content/2/4/23?fmt_view=mobile | jbiol.com | 3.0625 | 0.953351 |
Animal bites and scratches, even when they are minor, can become infected and spread bacteria to other parts of the body. Whether the bite is from a family pet or an animal in the wild, scratches and bites can carry disease. Cat scratches, for example, even from a kitten can carry "cat scratch disease," a bacterial inf... | http://www.nyhq.org/diw/Content.asp?PageID=DIW000819 | nyhq.org | 3.890625 | 0.935265 |
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When astronauts return to the moon for long duration missions, they will need reliable sources of power. Solar energy will be plentiful for the 14 Earth-day- long lunar daytime, but what about the equally as long lunar night? NASA engineers are... | http://www.universetoday.com/17937/nasa-looks-at-fission-reactors-for-power-on-the-moon/ | universetoday.com | 3.75 | 0.923494 |
for National Geographic News
To swat a fly can be a lesson in futility. The insect darts from each swipe with uncanny precision, altering its course to zip off in nearly the opposite direction.
Precisely how a fly achieves its aerial acrobatics is more than a curiosity of annoyance for Michael Dickinson, a bioengineer ... | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0423_030423_flyflight.html | news.nationalgeographic.com | 3.8125 | 0.954792 |
- Digital Resources
Positive Health Information
Pattern number within this pattern set:74
Health information in the developed world exists in vast quantities, not only for the general public but also for health professionals. Much of this information depicts good health in terms of vigilance against the failings of our... | http://www.publicsphereproject.org/node/273 | publicsphereproject.org | 3.234375 | 0.940823 |
Eating and drinking
My partner is so restless now that he can’t seem to sit and finish a meal. But he’s happy to take a sandwich and eat it as he goes.
I used to get so upset when my sister ate with her fingers in company. I used to try to make her use her fork and for a while I didn’t invite anyone round. But then I t... | http://www.alzheimer-europe.org/FR%D0%B0%20%20%20%20%20%D0%B0%20%20%20%20%D0%B0/Living-with-dementia/Caring-for-someone-with-dementia/Daily-life/Eating-and-drinking | alzheimer-europe.org | 2.671875 | 0.959814 |
By Isaac Sever, Cypress Semiconductor
Stepper motors convert electrical energy into discrete mechanical rotation. They are ideally suited for many measurement and control applications where positional accuracy is important. Stepping motors have the following advantages:
- Full torque when rotation is stopped. This is i... | http://www.digikey.com/us/en/techzone/microcontroller/resources/articles/psoc-3-stepper-motor-control.html | digikey.com | 3.421875 | 0.875446 |
Pacific ecosystem: An ochre sea star makes a kelp forest home in Monterey Bay, California.
Image courtesy of Kip F. Evans
Ocean Literacy - Essential Principle 5
The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
Fundamental Concept 5a.
Ocean life ranges in size from the smallest virus to the largest animal th... | http://www.windows2universe.org/teacher_resources/main/frameworks/ol_ep5.html&lang=sp | windows2universe.org | 3.859375 | 0.89608 |
Friday Flyby May Trigger 'Asteroid-Quake' on Space Rock
The close flyby of Earth by asteroid 2012 DA14 on Friday (Feb. 15) could trigger a quake on the space rock, scientists say.
"We are going to be looking closely for evidence of seismic activity on 2014 DA14 as it passes by," Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary... | http://www.space.com/19793-asteroid-quake-earth-flyby-2012-da14.html | space.com | 2.859375 | 0.945975 |
: Grade-2 English Games
Sight Words is a simple vocabulary and memory exercise for kids. It is designed to introduce kids to some common dolch sight words. Early readers recognize sight words from having memorized them. In this exercise, kids will learn to recognize and recall dolch sight words by flipping the cards an... | http://www.turtlediary.com/grade-2-games/esl-efl-games/sight-words.html | turtlediary.com | 3.6875 | 0.961549 |
Last week a curious, free release popped up on Steam: Moonbase Alpha, a NASA-funded game where up to six players can team up in order to save a near-future Lunar base crippled by a meteor strike. The game is just the first release from NASA's Learning Technologies program, which aims to help raise interest in the space... | http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/07/nasa-funded-game-aims-to-make-science-more-appealing/ | arstechnica.com | 2.984375 | 0.966509 |
Ismaili Community: History
The Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, generally known as the Ismailis, belong to the Shia branch of Islam. The Shia form one of the two major branches of Islam, the Sunni being the other. The Ismailis live in over 25 different countries, mainly in Central and South Asia, Africa and the Middle East,... | http://iis.ac.uk/text_only.php?s=contentlink.asp%3Ftype%3Dcont.currentlang%26id%3D104448%26amp%3Bl%3Den | iis.ac.uk | 2.65625 | 0.953809 |
By A. M. Sullivan
CHAPTER IX. (continued)
From the Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland (1900)
It was to the rugged and desolate Hebrides that Columba turned his face when he accepted the terrible penance of Molaise. He bade farewell to his relatives, and, with a few monks who insisted on accompany him whithersoever he migh... | http://www.libraryireland.com/Atlas/IX-Columba-Iona.php | libraryireland.com | 2.6875 | 0.982328 |
Sudoku Puzzle #11
Education World's weekly Sudoku Puzzle
feature offers a perfect tool for building students' critical thinking skills. It can be used in class, assigned for homework, or offered as a challenge or reward activity. The best part of all: as students learn to complete the puzzles they will be building conf... | http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/sudoku/sudoku011.shtml | educationworld.com | 3.53125 | 0.906061 |
War: The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745
Date: 21st September 1745 (Old Style) (2nd October 1745 New Style). The dates in this page are given in the Old Style. To translate to the New Style (current dating system) add 11 days.
“The Highland Attack”
Place: South East of Edinburgh in Scotland
Combatants: The Highland Army of ... | http://britishbattles.com/battle_of_prestonpans.htm | britishbattles.com | 3.375 | 0.96203 |
This interactive resource gives students practice in identifying and working with the parts of speech to improve reading and writing skills. The CD is divided into six sections, each focusing on a different part of speech: nouns/pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions. Each section:
- Defin... | http://www.didax.com/shop/productdetails.cfm/SubjectID/3/TopicID/25/Sort/Item/Order/Asc/StartRow/1/ShowAll/Yes/ItemNo/211289.cfm | didax.com | 4.34375 | 0.907331 |
Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women was held on May 9, 1837. Approximately 200 women gathered in New York City to discuss their role in the American abolition movement. Mary S. Parker was the President of the gathering. Other prominent women went on to be vocal ... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Slavery_Convention_of_American_Women | en.wikipedia.org | 3.734375 | 0.964246 |
Humans are intimately connected with the physical environment, even though we have only been present for a fraction of the vast history of the Earth. We strive to understand how the Earth has evolved since its formation over 4 billion years ago and what types of processes have fostered these changes. Our knowledge of t... | http://www.geol.umd.edu/~piccoli/geol100-2006/100.htm | geol.umd.edu | 3.515625 | 0.943719 |
Researchers report some success in using a gene therapy technique to treat one form of congenital blindness. Two teams of scientists have used modified viruses injected into the eye to partially restore vision to people suffering from Leber congenital amaurosis, or LCA, a congenital illness that results in the degradat... | http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/05/02/2008/gene-therapy-for-blindness.html | sciencefriday.com | 3.34375 | 0.958751 |
SINCE evidence of the existence of the belief that the soul lives on is so indubitable, the question arises--what is its condition? In what state does the discarnate spirit find itself after final separation from the body? And first, as to what we may be allowed to call, for want of a better term, its physical conditio... | http://sacred-texts.com/sha/anim/anim14.htm | sacred-texts.com | 2.8125 | 0.940127 |
Both the Crusades in the late eleventh century and the harsh persecution of Jews by the Bohemian king Vratislav II led to the migration of Jews from Bohemia, Germany and Austria to Hungary, where they found refuge; some of them settled in Slovakia. Under a "Jewish law" enacted by the Hungarian king Kalman, Jews were pe... | http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Pinkas_Slovakia/Slo0XI.html | jewishgen.org | 3.953125 | 0.973634 |
- Consul (abbrev. cos.; Latin plural consules) was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire. The title was also used in other city states and also revived in modern states, notably in the First French Republic. — “Consul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”,
- Roman Cons... | http://wordsdomination.com/consuls.html | wordsdomination.com | 3.59375 | 0.875972 |
|Catechism of the Catholic Church|
IntraText - Text
IN THE AGE OF THE CHURCH
2623 On the day of Pentecost, the Spirit of the Promise was poured out on the disciples, gathered "together in one place."92 While awaiting the Spirit, "all these with one accord devoted themselves to prayer."93 The Spirit who teaches the Chur... | http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P95.HTM | vatican.va | 2.828125 | 0.958906 |
March 1996 – The United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the main government agency responsible for licensing U.K. embryo research, issues its first license for human embryonic stem cell research to the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Stem Cell Research.
February 1997 – Ian Wilmut and oth... | http://www.publicintegrity.org/2004/06/02/6426/international-cloning-timeline | publicintegrity.org | 2.875 | 0.920276 |
Start Your Visit WithHistorical Timelines
General Interest Maps
Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 17, 1899, to Neapolitan immigrants Gabriel and Teresa Caponi. Originally named Alphonse Caponi, his name was Americanized to "Al Capone."
In 1904, at the age of five, young Alphonse started his school ca... | http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1616.html | u-s-history.com | 3.3125 | 0.988057 |
How to grow a reader
Tips for turning a fledgling reader into a voracious one.
By Peg Tyre
Once your child has figured out how to decode words and can actually read in a sustained way, then a chunk of his schooling should be focused on helping him squeeze meaning and richness out of the experience. You may remember the... | http://www.greatschools.org/reading/7095-help-children-be-good-readers.gs | greatschools.org | 3.484375 | 0.964888 |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a method of therapy which blends features of two disciplines:
- Cognitive therapy aims to identify and alter cognitive distortions (warped or inaccu... | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Mindfulness-based_Cognitive_Therapy?oldid=52497 | psychology.wikia.com | 3.421875 | 0.946746 |
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