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• History of Chemistry - chemistry.

  even better distillation apparatus than the Arabs had made and to condense the more volatile products of distillation. Among the important products obtained in thisway were alcohol and the mineral acids: nitric, aqua regia (a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric), sulfuric, and hydrochloric. Many new reactions could be carried outusing these powerful reagents. Word of the Chinese discovery of nitrates and the manufacture of gunpowder also came to the West through the Arabs. The Chinese atfirst use...

• United States House of Representatives.

  Because of the high cost of elections and the short two-year term of office, members of the House campaign almost constantly. They spend much of their time raisingcampaign funds, and they frequently return to their districts to keep in touch with voters. Because the elections are so frequent, House members tend to pay closeattention to how their votes in Congress will be seen in the short term. House members tend to come from wealthier family backgrounds than average Americans. Few working class...

• Philadelphia (city, Pennsylvania) - geography.

  national trend of migration from eastern cities to the warmer climate of the Sun Belt. Whereas in 1950 Philadelphia contained more than 2 million people and ranked as the third largest city in America, the city's population plunged to 1,517,550 by 2000.In 2006, the city's population was estimated at 1,448,394. While the city proper was decreasing in population, the metropolitan area centered on Philadelphia grew. In 2006 the region had 6.2 million inhabitants. Philadelphiaranked as the nation’s...

• Madrid - geography.

  stores and offices on the first one or two levels. While many people rent their apartments, most own them and participate in cooperatives that maintain the building.Because living spaces are small by American standards, madrileños do most of their socializing in the streets, bars, restaurants, and parks of their neighborhoods. Onlya few very wealthy areas north of the city have single family houses with gardens and yards similar to those in American suburbs. Many of the newest neighborhoodsare c...

• Heart.

  situation. A Cardiac Cycle Although the right and left halves of the heart are separate, they both contract in unison, producing a single heartbeat. The sequence of events from the beginning ofone heartbeat to the beginning of the next is called the cardiac cycle. The cardiac cycle has two phases: diastole, when the heart’s chambers are relaxed, and systole,when the chambers contract to move blood. During the systolic phase, the atria contract first, followed by contraction of the ventricles. T...

• South Korea - country.

  forest habitat, and overhunting. The Siberian tiger has not been sighted in the wild in South Korea since the 1920s; the Asiatic black bear can still be found in someremote mountain areas. Several species of deer are indigenous to the peninsula, including the roe deer, water deer, and Siberian musk deer. The musk deer, which hasbeen overhunted for its musk glands, is legally protected as a threatened species. Smaller mammals indigenous to the peninsula include the wild boar, red fox, badger,rabb...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: BOETHIUS AND PHILOPONUS

  presided over the codification of Roman Law. His generals also conquered, for a while, substantial portions of theformer Western Empire. Philoponus, as a Christian based in Alexandria, was unperturbed by the closure of the paganschools in Athens, and could look with satisfaction on the downfall of their foremost scholar, the Aristoteliancommentator Simplicius. For it was as a radical critic of Aristotle that Philoponus made his name, and Simplicius washis most distinguished con¬temporary...

• Ash'ariyya and Mu'tazila

  Wasil bin 'Ata' said that such a person was neither a believer nor an unbeliever, but occupied an intermediateposition. Hasan was displeased and remarked, 'He has withdrawn from us ( i'tazila 'anna )', at which Wasil withdrew from his circle and began to propagate his own teaching. The historicity of this story has been questioned on theground that there are several variants: according to one version the person who withdrew was Wasil's associate'Amr ibn 'Ubayd (d. AH 141/AD 761), and accor...

• Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered this address on March 4, 1933.

  such discipline no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective. We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline, becauseit makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good. This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation witha unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife. With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated...

• L'immigration chinoise

  Departure from China The vast majority of Chinese immigrants at first had the intention of only staying in America temporarily. Because the chances to earn more money were by far better in America than in China, these migrants often remained considerably longer than they had at first planned. Arrival in the United States : culture shock The entry of the Chinese into the U.S. was legal and even had a formal judicial basis in 1868 with the signing of the Burlingame Treaty between the Unit...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: AL-R-Z/ AND AL-F-R-B/

  cultural particularities. Political philosophy includes consideration of the relations between philosophy and religion,which for al-F&r&b( meant the defence of philosophy. A number of his works fit into this class. The Enumeration ofthe Sciences surveys the encyclopaedia of scientific knowledge which the Arabs have built up through theirphilology, their translations from the Greek and their own creative work: grammar and linguistics, logic, mathematics(in the broad sense of the quadrivium...

• Coleridge's poem: Frost at midnight

  – the singing redbreast suggests springtime while his hue transfers by implication to the apples on the tree to figure the ripeness of autumn. – The frost remembers the winter season > Appreciation of Nature "This populous village !" (l.11) exclamation = admiration, enthusiasm Third verse paragraph : a real ode to nature = sort of a lyricism veil upon that part of the text - 55-60 => natural elements "mountains, clouds,lakes, shores" = accumulatio...

• Commentaire the great expectations

  take on an adult point of view on his own deed. It seems that he is now older and looking back on past events : “ So I called myself Pip” (l.2); it shows that the story is retrospective. When looking on this former events, his behaviour is often characterized by adjectives linked to childhood, and which seems here derogatory : “infant tongue” (l.1), “childish conclusion” (l.10). Finally, one can easily notice that the story is not narrated by a young boy, but...

• Louis Battles Schmeling.

  overpowered, Schmeling managed only to land three lackluster blows. “It was no fight,” wrote a New York Daily News reporter. “It was a slaughter, so one-sided and ending so abruptly, expert and customer alike felt cheated of thrills.” To the endless delight of most Americans, this time it was Schmeling who could not leave the ring under his own power. Louis's savage body blows literally brokeSchmeling's back in two places. Schmeling's performance was so disastrous that his handlers disable...

• Vocabulaire lexico

  have a better tomorrow you can’t win them all you have to accept something with resignation ça peut pas toujours aller comme on veut things can only get better the situation is certain to improve ça ne peut que s’améliorer that’s life you have to accept things as they are you win some you lose some you’ve got nothing to lose used to encourage someone to do something by telling them they can only gain something tu n’as rien à perdre his bark is worse than his bite...

• Heros and legend

  ‘Relax, Anna,’ he said to her—your dadhad this deep baritone, see, and this British accent.” My grandfathertucks his chin into his neck at this point, to capture the full effect.“ ‘Relax, Anna,’ he said. ‘I only wanted to teach the chap a lessonabout the proper care of other people’s property!’ ”Gramps would start to laugh again until he started to cough,and Toot would mutter under her breath thats he supposed it was a good thing that my father had realized that dropping the pipe had ju...

• Reptiles.

  to find mates. A male turtle may stroke a female’s face with his front limbs. Most female reptiles make nests and lay eggs. A few lizards and snakes give birth to live young. All baby reptiles can live on their own as soon as they hatch. But most baby reptiles do not live morethan a few months. Birds, snakes, and mammals eat them. Sharks hunt baby sea turtles. Reptiles can live a long time if they don’t get eaten. Some tortoises may live up to 150 years. Alligatorscan live more than 70 years. Sm...

• Citations diverses

  playground ? When protection meant wearing a helmet ? When the worst things you could get from boys were cookies ? Dad's shoulders were the highest place on earth, and your mom ran the fastest. The only drug you knew of was cough medicine. The most pain you felt was when you scraped your knees. Goodbyes were only until tomorrow. We couldn't even wait to grow up... If you want to know what the after-life feels life, then put a parachute, go up to plane, shoot a good amount of heroin int...

• Cyprus Facts and Figures.

  Total 78.2 years (2008 estimate) Female 80.7 years (2008 estimate) Male 75.8 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 7 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 30 people (2006) Population per hospital bed 227 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 98 percent (2005 estimate) Female 96.9 percent (2005 estimate) Male 99.1 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 6.4 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of co...

• Cnidarians - biology.

  small, inconspicuous polyps. Polyps reproduce asexually to form a medusa—saucer-like structures bud off the polyp and swim away as new medusae. C Cubozoa The medusa phase dominates in animals in the Cubozoan class. Cubozoan medusae are commonly called box jellies because they have a cube shape with a singletentacle or group of tentacles hanging from each corner at the mouth end of the animal. The Cubozoan polyp is small and inconspicuous and an entire polyp transformsinto a medusa in a type of...

• Don Juan de Molière

  The hypocrisy of others: What is hypocrisy in general? A hypocrite is a man who intentionally appears to be what he is not in reality. What does it mean for a virtuous man to be a hypocrite? It means that the love that this man is supposed to have for the beautiful and the good isn’t the sole or prime motive of his “virtuous” actions. The virtue of most men is the result of their fear or cowardice. It is not truly virtue. Are fear and cowardice motives able to make a man virtuous? No....

• Mazeroski's Home Run Wins the Series.

  Capitalizing on a break of their own the Yankees tied the score in the top of the ninth inning. With one run in and one out, smart baserunning by Mantle robbedPittsburgh of a double play and allowed pinch-runner Gil McDougald to score. The bottom of the ninth brought the Forbes faithful to its feet and Mazeroski to the plate. A steady but not spectacular hitter, the 24-year-old West Virginian hadearned more of a reputation for his sparkling fielding. Years later a noted statistician gave Maz...

• Bob Feller's Opening Day No-Hitter.

  After third baseman Ken Keltner flied out, catcher Rollie Hemsley swatted a triple that scored Heath. When the White Sox came up in the bottom of the fourth, Fellerset them down in order. By the end of the eighth inning, he had retired 15 consecutive batters. With the Indians clinging to a 1-0 lead, Feller faced the meat of Chicago's lineup in the bottom of the ninth inning. He opened the stanza by easily retiring centerfielder Mike Kreevich and left fielder Moose Solters. Next up was shorts...

• The Four-Minute Mile.

  The nervous runners false-started once before setting off cleanly. As planned, Chris Brasher led Bannister through the first half-mile. After a half lap (200 meters),Bannister called out to his teammate: “Faster! Faster!” Accelerating, the runners sped through the first quarter-mile in 57.5 seconds-ahead of pace. At 600 meters,Stampfl shouted from the infield: “Relax! Relax!” Running smoothly behind Brasher, Bannister reached the half-mile mark in 1 min 58.2 sec. Chataway sprinted into the l...

• The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin

  “The Dream of An Hour”, it is described as a dream to describe something unrealistic and unreachable. Women were not allowed to think for themselves or have an opinion of their own, they had to have the same opinions as their husbands or fathers, at the time. It took her husband dying for her to feel free, it was the only way, back then, for a woman to be free, as women were always financially dependent on men, a woman goes from being dependant on her father to being dependant on her husband, sh...

• Magic in the 1980 NBA Finals.

  Abdul-Jabbar racked up 33 points and 14 rebounds as the Lakers won game one in Los Angeles, 109-102. Erving responded in game two with 23 points, 7 assists,and 5 blocked shots as the 76ers evened the series with a 107-104 victory. The series flipped back to Philadelphia. The Lakers won game three, 111-101, and the76ers triumphed in the fourth contest, 105-102. Abdul-Jabbar poured in 40 points in game five, a 108-103 Lakers win that put Los Angeles ahead in the series, 3-2,needing only one win in...

• Rice Wins MVP.

  him, but not to the point that the Bengals could cover him with one defender, which they tried to do for several plays. “Because of the sprained ankle, Jerry Rice wasoperating on nerve,” Bill Walsh, the 49ers' head coach, said in the press conference after the game, according to the New York Times. ” He said he felt great. But I knew he [didn't]. But they could simply not stay with him man for man.” When the Bengals chose to double-cover Rice, Montana hit Craig and, finally, Taylor. After t...

• Johnson Knocks Out Jeffries.

  Through the fight's first three rounds the boxers—picking, jabbing, and feigning—proceeded slowly. Even at this cautious pace Johnson scored several shatteringblows, smiling or laughing several times during the early rounds. By the fourth round Johnson was in control, and he continued to batter Jeffries for ten more rounds. In the 15th, Johnson knocked down Jeffries with a left. Theformer champion rose groggily to his feet only to be met by another left from Johnson to the jaw. This punch pr...

• Brazil Wins Third World Cup In Soccer.

  Playing their fifth consecutive game at Guadalajara's Jalisco Stadium, the Brazilians faced Uruguay in the semifinals on June 17. Uruguay struck first, capitalizingon a blunder by goalie Felix (Miéli Venerand Felix). Brazil equalized just before the half when midfielder Clodoaldo (Tavares Santana Clodoaldo) took a pass fromTostao and drove it home. It was all Brazil in the second half. Pelé constructed two late-game scores within 13 minutes, feeding Jairzinho and then Rivelino. The 3-1victory av...

• Map - geography.

  Relief MapRelief maps are three-dimensional models of the terrain in an area; on them, color and scale are used to indicate geographicalfeatures rather than simply to delineate political boundaries. Because of this feature, relief maps are extensively used in engineeringand the military. This map shows portions of Alaska and northwestern Canada.United States Geological Survey Among the most important of the special-purpose maps are hydrographic and aviation charts. Hydrographic charts are used f...

• Charlottetown - Geography.

  Royalty. In 1864 Charlottetown was the site of the Charlottetown Conference, a meeting between representatives of most of the British North American colonies to discussConfederation. The meeting was a success, and led eventually to the establishment of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. Charlottetown was incorporated in 1855, with a population of 6500. On July 16, 1866, the city experienced its worst of several fires. “The Great Fire” broke out in an oldbuilding near the waterfront. It was thought...

• Roman Art and Architecture - history.

  house, records office, and basilica. Imperial Forum, RomeThe Roman Forum was founded at the beginning of the Roman republic (around 500 bc), and it continued to develop into the late 2ndcentury ad. Among the ruins seen here are the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (since converted into a church, background, left),the foundations of the Basilica Julia (foreground, center), and the three remaining columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux(background, right).Donadoni/Bruce Coleman, Inc. The basili...

• Periodic Law - chemistry.

  VI QUANTUM THEORY With the development of the quantum theory and its application to atomic structure by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and other scientists, most of the detailedfeatures of the periodic table have found a ready explanation. Every electron is characterized by four quantum numbers that designate its orbital motion in space. Bymeans of the selection rules governing these quantum numbers and the exclusion principle of Wolfgang Pauli, which states that two electrons in the same ato...

• Babe Ruth.

  earned. But Ruth’s boyish exuberance, compassion for hospitalized children, and personal warmth and generosity endeared him to most people. During the 1926 World Seriesagainst the St. Louis Cardinals, Ruth received word that one of his fans, a boy named Johnny Sylvester, was hospitalized and extremely ill. Ruth wrote the boy atelegram and promised to hit a home run for him in that day’s game. Ruth made good on his promise with not only one, but three homers. And even at the height offame and for...

• Alexander Mackenzie.

  depression continued, manufacturers and farmers began to think a protective tariff might bring relief. The finance minister seemed ready to agree, but during a visit toScotland in the summer of 1875, Mackenzie declared that the principles of free trade were “the principles of civilization.” When he returned to Canada, there was nomention of a higher tariff in the budget of 1876. Personal characteristics also influenced Mackenzie's failure. As minister of public works he spent up to 14 hours a da...

• Alexander Mackenzie - Canadian History.

  depression continued, manufacturers and farmers began to think a protective tariff might bring relief. The finance minister seemed ready to agree, but during a visit toScotland in the summer of 1875, Mackenzie declared that the principles of free trade were “the principles of civilization.” When he returned to Canada, there was nomention of a higher tariff in the budget of 1876. Personal characteristics also influenced Mackenzie's failure. As minister of public works he spent up to 14 hours a da...

• Alexander Mackenzie - Canadian History.

  depression continued, manufacturers and farmers began to think a protective tariff might bring relief. The finance minister seemed ready to agree, but during a visit toScotland in the summer of 1875, Mackenzie declared that the principles of free trade were “the principles of civilization.” When he returned to Canada, there was nomention of a higher tariff in the budget of 1876. Personal characteristics also influenced Mackenzie's failure. As minister of public works he spent up to 14 hours a da...

• Salmon (fish) - biology.

  alarm and become one of the most important conservation issues in the Pacific Northwest. Less than 2 percent of the wild salmon population of the Columbia River Basin(including parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and British Columbia) remains and only one individual sockeye salmon returned to the Snake Riverin Idaho in 1994. Coho salmon in the Snake River have been declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as have 106 other salmon populations on the WestCoast. Man...

• Martin Luther I INTRODUCTION Martin Luther (1483-1546), German theologian and religious reformer, who

  VI THEOLOGY Luther was not a systematic theologian, but his work was subtle, complex, and immensely influential. It was inspired by his careful study of the New Testament, but itwas also influenced in important respects by the great 4th-century theologian Saint Augustine. A Law and Gospel Luther maintained that God interacts with human beings in two ways—through the law and through the Gospel. The law represents God’s demands—as expressed, for example, in the Ten Commandments and the golden r...

• Martin Luther.

  VI THEOLOGY Luther was not a systematic theologian, but his work was subtle, complex, and immensely influential. It was inspired by his careful study of the New Testament, but itwas also influenced in important respects by the great 4th-century theologian Saint Augustine. A Law and Gospel Luther maintained that God interacts with human beings in two ways—through the law and through the Gospel. The law represents God’s demands—as expressed, for example, in the Ten Commandments and the golden r...

• Word & Image A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry ISSN: 0266-6286 (Print) 1943-2178 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.

  Reception and interference: reading Jean Molinet's rebus-poems ADRIAN ARMSTRONG Northern French culture in the late Middle Ages is marked not only by a proliferation of visual images, but also by the knowledge which these images convey, velY often in the form of figurative discourse. Traditional coded or symbolic visual fornls include heraldly, where tinctures and charges often accumulate particular connotations, and typological staine...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: The Trojan War - anthology.

  As in a dream. Dimly I could descryThe stern black-bearded kings, with wolfish eyes,Waiting to see me die. 'The tall masts quivered as they lay afloat,The temples and the people and the shore;One drew a sharp knife through my tender throatSlowly,—and—nothing more.' The wind now proving fair the fleet made sail and brought the forces to the coast of Troy. The Trojans came to oppose their landing, and at the first onset Protesilaus[mythological king of Phylace, in Thessaly] fell by the hand of...

• Andorra - country.

  For 715 years Andorra was ruled jointly by Spanish and French co-princes—respectively the Bishop of Urgel and, in modern times, the president of France. Under thisarrangement, which granted Andorra a limited form of autonomy, responsibility for domestic affairs was delegated to an elected general counsel ( Consell General de las Valls ). Judicial matters, foreign affairs, and defense remained under the control of the co-princes. In March 1993 Andorrans voted to end this semifeudal system ( see...

• Kangaroo - biology.

  ungulates, they have evolved multi-chambered stomachs containing bacteria that can break down plant cell walls and release the nutritious cell contents. V SOCIAL ORGANIZATION Kangaroo social life is poorly understood, as few species have been studied in detail. Small species, such as potoroos, bettongs, and musky rat-kangaroos, tend to besolitary and widely dispersed, with a male's territory encompassing those of several females. The animals come together briefly for mating, and mother and offs...

• Édouard Manet I INTRODUCTION Manet: Tradition and Innovation French impressionist painter Édouard Manet shocked art audiences in Paris with Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass; 1863, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), which depicts a nude woman at a woodland picnic.

  Le Déjeuner sur l’herbeLe Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) by Édouard Manet was painted in 1863. When it was first displayed, therough brushwork and undefined areas of color were as distressing to the public as the nude woman who was neither aclassical goddess nor a symbol in an allegory. Manet claimed that the real subject of the painting was light, and it was thatphilosophy that gave birth to impressionism.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York After his father died in 1862, Manet...

• I understood him.

  HAPPINESS, HAPPINESS   INTERVIEWER. Canyoudescribe theevents ofthat morning? TOMOYASU. Ileft home withmydaughter, Masako.Shewas onher way towork. Iwas going tosee afriend. Anair-raid warning wasissued. Itold Masako Iwas going home. Shesaid, "I'mgoing tothe office." Idid chores andwaited forthe warning tobe lifted. I folded thebedding. Irearranged thecloset. Icleaned thewindows withawet rag. There wasaflash. Myfirst thought was that itwas theflash from acamera. Thatsounds soridiculous now.Itpierc...

• Checks and Balances.

  no political interest has enough power to prevail over the others. In 1997 and early 1998, for example, the Senate refused to take action on many of President BillClinton’s appointments of new federal court judges. Although the Senate’s power to approve or reject federal court nominees is one of the key checks on presidentialauthority, the dispute between Clinton and the Senate meant that there were not enough federal judges to handle the court’s workload. But the system of checks andbalance was...

• Jung and Pauli: A Meeting of Rare Minds

  JUNG AND PAU\bI A Meeting \bf Rare Minds BY BEVERLEY ZABR\bSK\bE Readers of the Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jungare more familiar with Wolfgang Pauli’s unconscious than with his waking life and achievement. Through Jung’s Psych\bl\bgy and Alchemy—an exposition of “the problem of individuation” and “normal development . . . in a highly intelligent person”—depth psychologists have known the Nobel laureate’s dreams, not his professional genius. Meanwhile, the scientists who continue Pauli’s pur- sui...

• Affirmative Action.

  hiring, purchasing, and other government business. In 1998 Washington State voters passed Initiative 200, a measure that banned affirmative action in state and localgovernment hiring, contracting, and education. Around the same time, federal courts began considering lawsuits from white students denied admission to state universities with affirmative action programs. In somecases, the courts have invalidated such programs on the grounds that they promote reverse racial discrimination. For example...

• Republic of the Congo - country.

  rate of 50 CFA francs equal to 1 French franc was in force from 1948 to 1994, when the CFA franc was devalued by 50 percent. The leading commercial banks are theBanque Internationale du Congo and the Union Congolaise de Banques. E Foreign Trade In 2000 imports cost $930 million and exports earned $2.09 billion. The Congo engages in considerable trade with the nearby countries of Cameroon, the CentralAfrican Republic, and Gabon, with which it is joined in the Customs and Economic Union of Centra...