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Guadeloupe, in the West Indies about 300 mi (483 km) southeast of Puerto Rico, was explored by Columbus in 1493. It consists of the twin islands of Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre and five dependencies—Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, La Désirade, St. Barthélemy, and the northern three-fifths of St. Martin. The volcano Soufriè... | 3.569236 |
(AP) Many Brazilians cast their country as racial democracy where people of different groups long have intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population. But you need only turn on the TV, open the newspaper or stroll down the street to see clear evidence of segregation.
In Brazil, whites are at the top of the so... | 3.182988 |
As 2012 nears its end, one thing stands out as the major theme in human evolution research this year: Our hominid ancestors were more diverse than scientists had ever imagined. Over the past 12 months, researchers have found clues indicating that throughout most of hominids’ seven-million-year history, numerous species... | 3.487757 |
The Bible indicates that Adam and Eve's first son, Cain, slew his younger brother Abel because of jealousy over the acceptance of his brother's offering over his own. Immediately after being banished to the east in the land of Nod, Cain found a wife and raised a family and founded a "city" called Enoch. If Cain was the... | 3.140486 |
The Stockholm Syndrome
when they receive good from whence they expected evil, feel the more indebted
to their benefactor.”
“Men, when they receive good from whence they expected evil, feel the more indebted to their benefactor.” – Machiavelli
What is the Stockholm syndrome?
How did the expression Stockholm syndrome ori... | 3.028836 |
By the early 1920s, AT&T engineers recognized that the open wire and cable in use at the time would be unable to carry the high frequencies needed for the broadband systems of the future. So Espenschied and Affel developed a new kind of wire system that could transmit a continuous range of high frequencies over long di... | 4.224452 |
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 18:30 in Earth & Climate
WUDA, China, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a 300 million-year-old tropical forest was preserved in ash, Pompeii-like, when a volcano erupted in what is today northern China.
- Penn researcher helps discover and characterize a 300-million-year-old forestMon, ... | 2.942971 |
The Geologic Timescale
Part of the Geology For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Geologists organize the 4.6 billion years of earth's history into sections based on important changes seen in the geologic record. The largest intervals are eons, with each eon composed of many millions of years. Within the eons are eras, which begin an... | 3.957505 |
Good, clean and fair
Three words: good, clean and fair. What do they mean?
In the context of Slow Food, they underpin everything that the movement stands for, namely food that’s GOOD, in other words food that is fresh, in season, and locally grown; CLEAN, is food that is produced and consumed in a way that does not har... | 3.582004 |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
Egotism means that you think the world revolves around you, and that you believe you are more important then you really are.
Egotism is the opposite of humility.
Egotism is not to be confused wi... | 3.144436 |
New Jersey is called the crossroads of the American Revolution, because it held a key geographical position at the center of the new nation, and the armies were in or crossing it throughout the war. It was heavily involved in the fighting, due to the troop movements through the state, and its key geographic position be... | 3.716499 |
Organized music lessons appear to benefit children’s IQ and academic performance–and the longer the instruction continues, the larger the effect. Music lessons may boost IQ and grades through technologically advanced online guitar lessons websites.
Leading researchers say the recent study builds on work published in 20... | 3.2673 |
When evaluating the tangent function, to find values of the tangent function at different angles, we first identify the reference angle formed by the terminal side and the x-axis. Then, we find the tangent of this reference angle and, based on which quadrant the terminal side is in, decide if tangent is positive or neg... | 4.238175 |
Engligh 2.2 Analyse specified aspect(s) of studied visual or oral text(s), supported by evidence
- Use exemplars or examples of student work as a model for your own answers.
- Make sure the writing is your own. You may not use or repeat material from exemplars or samples, or work written by other students.
- View or li... | 3.673508 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having the shape of the Greek letter lambda.
- adj. Anatomy Relating to the deeply serrated suture in the skull between the parietal bones and the occipital bone.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the shape of the Greek capital lambda... | 3.393375 |
About the Study
| How Does this Affect You?
You've certainly heard of antioxidants. They are a favorite term of health marketers everywhere, toted as a powerful element with numerous health benefits. Antioxidants are believed to protect our cells from damage by blocking harmful free radicals. These antioxidants are abu... | 3.038646 |
FRIDAY, Jan. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Many of the greatest pieces
of music sound highly complex but can be reduced to simple patterns
by the brain, a new study shows.
The brain does this in much the same way that "lossless" music
compression formats reduce audio files to a smaller size -- by
removing redundant data and i... | 3.407062 |
On this day in 1945, Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance. For most of us, the Pledge was part of the daily school ritual. But today, schools across the country either modify the Pledge to remove “potentially offensive” words or ban the recitation all together.
Instead of writing about the Pledge, I ... | 3.062922 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express sorrow, regret, grief, compassion, or apprehension of danger or evil.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An exclamation expressive of sorrow, grief, pity, concern, or apprehension of evil: in old writers sometimes followed ... | 3.108237 |
|Home > Facts > Folate|
...folate masks vitamin B12 deficiency allowing prog
...folate and potassium, as well as fibre. Meat, fis
...folate (folic acid); excess blood loss from menst
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
...folate, vitamins such as B12, A, and E), and prot
...folate reductase; an en... | 3.513931 |
Pub. date: 2006 | Online Pub. Date: September 15, 2007 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412952453 | Print ISBN: 9780761930297 | Online ISBN: 9781412952453 | Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia
Neandertals made their appearance midway through the 19th century, at a critical moment in intellectual history, when ol... | 4.285666 |
Leach’s Storm Petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa
Leach’s storm petrel is silent at sea, but it makes a high-pitched purring sound, interrupted by sharp whistles, in and near its nest. Unlike Wilson’s storm petrel, this species breeds in the Northern Hemisphere. It migrates southward in late summer, roaming throughout the nor... | 3.100732 |
includes daily Core French
Parents can enroll their children in the English Program or the French
Immersion Program. The English Program is exclusively in English and
includes a Core French component. French Immersion provides a balance
of English and French instruction.
In Rainbow Schools, Core French is offered daily... | 3.138192 |
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
A microscope (Greek: micron = small and scopos = aim) is an instrument for viewing objects that are too small to be seen by the naked or unaided eye. The science of investigating small objects using such an instrument is called microscopy, and the term microscopic means minute or very ... | 3.593557 |
Common Expressions for ReportViewer Reports
Some expressions are commonly used in reports. These include expressions to change the appearance of data in a report, calculate totals, and change properties of report items. This topic describes some expressions that can be used for common tasks within a report.
Many expres... | 3.019661 |
Oshakati, the capital of Oshana Region in north-central Namibia, was widely flooded during the annual rainy season that takes places each year in southern Africa. The city sits in a flat area of meandering, ephemeral stream channels and salt pans that fill with water when Namibia’s northern neighbor, Angola, experience... | 3.32503 |
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Moles, or nevi, are very common. Moles are areas of the skin where there are more cells called melanocytes. Melanocytes are the cells in the body that produce pigment, or color. Moles can be many colors including skin-tone, pink, tan, brown and very dark brown to black. Moles can be raised or flat. Moles can ... | 3.417237 |
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She ... | 3.133138 |
If asked about Andrew Jackson, most of us would vaguely remember snippets from history classes of good and bad about the seventh president. He was "Old Hickory" in the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beating the British, and he expanded the idea of democracy. But his policy on Indians was directly responsible for the genoc... | 3.455421 |
Dental emergencies are common in children and it can refer to pain, bleeding and other kinds of trauma to kid’s teeth. A serious dental emergency can be caused by falls, accidents and fights resulting in a knocked out, broken, chipped or cracked teeth. Milder to severe forms of dental emergencies include dental pain, s... | 3.430683 |
How do we find the balance in managing natural resources to meet the needs of both people and nature?
With the 9 billion people expected on this planet by 2050, food production will have to keep up—while at the same time we need to make food better available to people, particularly to the poor. In order to make the bes... | 3.453428 |
Essay Format – Rules That Can Make or Break Your Essay!Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Follow This Essay Format to Achieve Maximum Readability
Everyone writes essays. Every Tom, Dick and Harry writes essays on something or the other since childhood. But do we know how to define an essay? Well, it is nothing but a short p... | 3.042941 |
Change comes hard to Western water policy. The Prior Appropriation Doctrine, interstate compacts, groundwater law, the "law of the river" -- all of these seem set in stone in the minds of the region's policymakers. Of course, the West's rivers aren't bound by such a static existence. Indeed, they are changing in fundam... | 3.095599 |
|abamp the cgs unit of current in the electromagnetic system; the constant current that, when flowing through two parallel straight infinitely long conductors 1 centimetre apart, will produce a force between them of 2 dynes per centimetre: equivalent to 10 amperes|
|a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.|
|an arran... | 3.145367 |
By Pure Matters
Your bones are constantly changing. Old bone continuously breaks down and is replaced by new. When you're young, your body makes bone fast enough to replace what's lost. This helps you reach your peak bone mass, the point at which your bones are strongest.
At about age 30 (if you're a woman; later, if y... | 3.21438 |
World's leggiest millipede put under microscope
The anatomical secrets of the world's leggiest creature, a millipede with 750 legs, have been revealed by scientists.
The species, called Illacme plenipes, was first seen 80 years ago but was recently rediscovered in California.
Now researchers have found that as well as ... | 3.401943 |
Field Trip Planner
Activities for Students
From the History Center
Contact Us: firstname.lastname@example.org
Many historical sites, including Civil War sites, will provide field trip guidelines and procedures to help you during the field trip planning process. The following general guidelines will also help you plan a... | 3.468377 |
Mukat and his people lived in one big house. Animals were human then. They were all very happy here. Moon taught the people many games and they loved her very much. Every morning she took her people far away to the water, and here they played all day long, returning to Mukat’s house late in the evening.
She taught them... | 3.455593 |
July 29, 1999 LEXINGTON, KY (July 26, 1999) - Spinal cord injuries result from damage to cells during the weeks following the injury as well as at the time of the trauma. In the August issue of Nature Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine researchers report the discovery of the molecular signals that lea... | 3.045957 |
RIM-8 Talos was a long-range high-altitude cruise missile designed to give the fleet stand-off protection against enemy aircraft and the ability to attack distant surface targets. It could attack aircraft, missiles, ships, radar installations and other shore facilities with either conventional or nuclear warheads. Talo... | 3.402326 |
A frame check sequence (FCS) refers to the extra checksum characters added to a frame in a communication protocol for error detection and correction. A checksum is a form of Redundancy check, a simple way to protect the integrity of data by detecting errors in data that are sent through space ( Telecommunications In Co... | 3.314307 |
Interactive whiteboards are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. These tools are also cost effective. The Internet has tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students. Here is a list of 20 interactive whiteboard resources and activities guaranteed to stimulate learning... | 3.246975 |
Wabi-sabi (侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The phrase comes from the two words wabi and sabi. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete". It is a concept derived from the Buddhist assert... | 2.924469 |
A study in 1985 “On the Brain of a Scientist: Albert Einstein” found that Einstein’s brain was actually not significantly different from others. As an Organization Development blogger put it:
===> what made Einstein different was his mind. <===
His thinking and passion for learning were the basis of his genius. His bra... | 3.087199 |
The Digital Legal Landscape in South America: Government Transparency and Access to Information
Teresa M. Miguel
Yale Law School - Lillian Goldman Law Library
June 16, 2011
The governments of ten South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela) vary... | 3.054414 |
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